MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by basilgohar | 2025-06-26 01:55:34+00:00
I feel like this is mostly proofless assertion. I'm aware what you hint at is happening, but the conclusions you arrive at are far from proven or even reasonable at this stage.

For what it's worth, I think AI for code will arrive at a place like how other coding tools sit – hinting, intellisense, linting, maybe even static or dynamic analysis, but I doubt NOT using AI will be a critical asset to productivity.

Someone else in the thread already mentioned it's a bit of an amplifier. If you're good, it can make you better, but if you're bad it just spreads your poor skills like a robot vacuum spreads animal waste.
by 0x38B | 2025-06-26 01:56:43+00:00
Side note, Niri is a fantastic WM. When I saw the Phoronix article on HN talking about the addition of overview mode and more, I finally took the plunge and spent an afternoon converting over from Sway.¹ Anecdotally, I've seen less hangups on Niri around fullscreen games and floating windows, perhaps thanks to X11 running in xwayland-satellite.

1: the hardest part was finding a bar that supported i3status-rs; not a fan of GTK bars that eat up CPU. I settled on i3bar-river.
by dansmyers | 2025-06-26 01:56:48+00:00
To learn a folk style you really need a mentor that can connect you to the oral tradition. Rather than scales and technical exercises, focus on learning rhythm and complete pieces. If there is a flamenco dance school in your area, see if they offer guitar lessons and the opportunity to accompany dancers.

Always remember: The notes are not necessarily the most important thing.

That said, there's a lot of overlap between flamenco and traditional classical guitar, so learning classical pieces (particularly by Spanish composers) will help build your fingerstyle technique. Solo Guitar Playing by Frederick Noad was the book I used for classical practice when I was younger.

Also check out pseudo-flamenco pieces that have been recorded by rock and country guitarists, like "Mood for a Day" and "Malagueña", and smooth flamenco crossover artists like Ottmar Liebert and Jesse Cook. You might find these too diluted from "real" flamenco, but they can be another entry point for building up your playing.
by briHass | 2025-06-26 01:56:56+00:00
And, you can couple all that with Microsoft 365 to enable cloud-first for everything that makes sense. Cloud Active Directory (a.k.a. Entra), Intune and Autopilot for devices that can be shipped directly from Dell and provisioned/set up through a M365 sign in by the end-user. IT never even has to be in the same zipcode as the new laptop or ever remotely connect to it to perform maintenance tasks.

Cloud AD also works seamlessly with on-prem AD, allowing things like online, self-service password reset for the domain, and in the reverse direction to use TPM-backed certificates/WebAuthn for securing web apps or anything behind MS-linked SSO. Of course, it also integrates tightly with Azure, so you can do RBAC for any VM/service in Azure, since they automatically get service identities in your AD.

That level of integration is so far above anything else on the market that it isn't even a discussion.
by kragen | 2025-06-26 01:57:45+00:00
Your comment seems very far from relevant; possibly you posted it in the wrong thread? Either that, or you're stringing words together with no regard for what they mean.

Those complexities may be relevant to other drugs, but not specifically to insulin, which is the case we're discussing here. Nobody needs to recoup their research investment for figuring out how to make insulin cheaply, and insulin prices are extremely far from "the point of maximum efficiency/optimization", which would be where drug companies were charging barely enough to cover the cost of production. Insulin is not regulated as a supplement, it cannot be administered as a pill, it is not sold in gas stations, and no cases of sawdust or raccoon repellent contamination have been reported in insulin.

All that's happening with insulin is that there's an oligopoly that's colluding to extract monopoly profits, which they can do precisely because regulation prevents biology students from hacking together insulin-producing yeasts over the weekend and selling the insulin to whoever is willing to risk it. That same regulation is what prevents Harbor Freight from importing insulin by the case from any of the dozens of other countries where it costs a tenth of what it costs in the US.

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskChina/comments/1j9zf2u/chinese_i... says of China, "I checked and found that rapid-acting insulin is $4 per bottle, long-acting insulin is $10 per bottle, and other brands of insulin cost between $5 and $8." So why does it cost US$100 per bottle in the US? You'd think you could make a big profit importing Chinese insulin, no? But regulations make it difficult to import that insulin from China, so difficult that incumbents can extract US$100 per bottle in monopoly rents.
by const_cast | 2025-06-26 01:57:46+00:00
This is practically unavoidable because of how economies work. People want to live near jobs, and jobs want to be near people. So we get congregations of people (urbanism).

It's not like these tech companies actually want to be in a high COL area paying out big fat salaries and paying exorbitant rent on their "campus" nobody cares for. But they want the talent, so they play ball.
by sysmax | 2025-06-26 01:58:24+00:00
I wish people would make distinction regarding the size/scope of the AI-generated parts. Like with video copyright laws, where a 5-second clip from a copyrighted movie is usually considered fair use and not frowned upon.

Because for projects like QEMU, current AI models can actually do mind-boggling stuff. You can give it a PDF describing an instruction set, and it will generate you wrapper classes for emulating particular instructions. Then you can give it one class like this and a few paragraphs from the datasheet, and it will spit out unit tests checking that your class works as the CPU vendor describes.

Like, you can get from 0% to 100% test coverage several orders of magnitude faster than doing it by hand. Or refactoring, where you want to add support for a particular memory virtualization trick, and you need to update 100 instruction classes based on straight-forward, but not 100% formal rule. A human developer would be pulling their hairs out, while an LLM will do it faster than you can get a coffee.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-06-26 01:58:41+00:00
I was thinking that as I was getting ready to sell my house. I'm not a particularly materialistic person to start with, but there are hardly any physical objects in my home that I value that much besides (a) some photo albums/pictures and yearbooks - and for newer generations these are mostly digital I guess, (b) my violin and (c) my espresso machine and grinder. I guess you could throw my cellphone in there as well - easy to replace but would be a PITA, like losing my wallet. It'd be a pain to replace all my furniture and other stuff but I certainly don't feel any attachment to those things.
by teaearlgraycold | 2025-06-26 01:59:56+00:00
I actually really like the compound hair loss solution they sell. I was already using ketoconazole after talking to my doctor and buying minoxidil over the counter. Getting something with finasteride as well consolidated and simplified things.

And I know full well I’m paying more than I should. One of these days I’ll look for a cheaper alternative.
by genocidicbunny | 2025-06-26 02:00:22+00:00
It works the same way that health insurance works -- most people don't need all that much care, and when time-consuming care is needed, it is often pushed to the specialists rather than the generalist. Your $50/mo payment might not seem like much, but if all you're doing is a bi-monthly checkin with them over the phone, you're really paying more like $100/visit for a 15-30 minute visit.

A lot of these 'concierge medicine' services are set up to deal with mostly people who don't need all that much medical care, beyond relatively brisk access to the doctor in a few rare circumstances. Since they also don't really do much in terms of specialty care, they tend to have fewer Px who need extensive personal care.
by elendee | 2025-06-26 02:00:43+00:00
Workspaces allow you to give Chrome permission for read / write access to given folders. You just set it once per project and then Chrome remembers.

Basically, you can press "ctrl S" for save, straight from the dev console. In FF, you have to manually designate the save location each time. It may seem like a small thing, but it's an entirely different workflow.

For frameworks that don't use plain stylesheets, it may not be useful.
by 827a | 2025-06-26 02:00:52+00:00
Agreed. The number of times the article specifically calls out "shady Chinese knockoffs" is honestly, actually, racism. If there's evidence that Hims' drugs are harmful: Present it. The article doesn't. I know tons of people who have used Hims and companies like it, for a variety of things. I'm aware of no specific or general problems anyone has had with their medication.
by fathomdeez | 2025-06-26 02:01:21+00:00
I also ran into this trying to upgrade my company's auth strategy. The hardest part of auth is convincing people that... it's not actually as hard or dangerous as they think it is. It was an uphill and ultimately unsuccessful battle of mine. People can't even divorce JWTs as simple, verifiable json data blobs from the entirety of the OAuth2 spec. You see it on HN, with hundreds of circular comment threads and I've seen it in real life.
by classichasclass | 2025-06-26 02:02:39+00:00
I think there is a big problem with antibiotic overuse in food animals, certainly. Although they can be useful for growth, large livestock farms are environments where drug-resistant infections can spread easily. I try to buy antibiotic-free meats as a rule but that doesn't really stop the damage caused by the meat companies that don't care about it.

As far as human antibiotic use, the flip side are the colleagues who will tell me that they did a thorough workup on a patient, found no indication for antibiotics, told the patient so to the best of their ability, and got dinged on the insurer's survey or castigated on doctor rating sites. I'm of course only hearing the provider's side of the story, but nobody likes to be told no, even when it's the right answer. (Also insert opioids, stimulants and benzodiazepines into this conversation.)
by spartanatreyu | 2025-06-26 02:02:42+00:00
You can be sure that gamers are going to install SteamOS onto their desktops once it supports more kinds of hardware.

Yes gamers could install Bazzite right now, but those that are open to switching away from Windows aren't going to if they don't have a large company that can fund the support focused primarily on the issues that gamers are going to experience.
by OptionOfT | 2025-06-26 02:03:10+00:00
Same here. You throw a question in a channel. Someone responds in 1 minute with a code example that either you had laying around, or would take > 5 minutes to write.

The code example was AI generated. I couldn't find a single line of code anywhere in any codebase. 0 examples on GitHub.

And of course it didn't work.

But, it sent me on a wild goose because I trusted this person to give me a valuable insight. It pisses me off so much.
by echelon | 2025-06-26 02:03:49+00:00
Qemu can make the choice to stay in the "stone age" if they want. Contributors who prefer AI assistance can spend their time elsewhere.

It might actually be prudent for some (perhaps many foundational) OSS projects to reject AI until the full legal case law precedent has been established. If they begin taking contributions and we find out later that courts find this is in violation of some third party's copyright (as shocking as that outcome may seem), that puts these projects in jeopardy. And they certainly do not have the funding or bandwidth to avoid litigation. Or to handle a complete rollback to pre-AI background states.
by colechristensen | 2025-06-26 02:04:07+00:00
People keep asking me if AI is going to take my job and recent experience shows that it very much is not. AI is great for being mostly correct and then giving someone without enough context a mostly correct way to shoot themselves in the foot.

AI further encourages the problem in DevOps/Systems Engineering/SRE where someone comes to you and says "hey can you do this for me" having come up with the solution instead of giving you the problem "hey can you help me accomplish this"... AI gives them solutions which is more steps away to detangle into what really needs to be done.

AI has knowledge, but it doesn't have taste. Especially when it doesn't have all of the context a person with experience, it just has bad taste in solutions or just the absence of taste but with the additional problem that it makes it much easier for people to do things.

Permissions on what people have access to read and permission to change is now going to have to be more restricted because not only are we dealing with folks who have limited experience with permissions, now we have them empowered by AI to do more things which are less advisable.
by allenu | 2025-06-26 02:07:32+00:00
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. If something takes a bit of work to join, it'll naturally attract only people who are invested in improving the community. I imagine new communities that get popular need cool people to get it started and keep the fire going. Not many people will know about it and it may be small, so there's a nice natural filter where only dedicated members self-select into the community.

Once it grows and offers more value, it becomes more visible and it spreads in awareness, so more people know about it, but then it's just as likely to attract low-quality members who don't really care about maintaining it. It's much easier to take for granted because it's just there and doesn't take effort to keep going, at least to a new member.

I think this is one of the things that I dislike about meetup.com. It's too easy to sign up for something and then not show up. It's a third party service, so you don't ever need to interact with a human being. If someone invited you to an event, it's a bit harder to bail on it, but if you just clicked a button to say you were going to go, it doesn't feel so bad to never show up. I think communities need an effort to maintain and a "member" putting in the work makes them more attached to the community. Showing up regularly is a kind of ritual, and over time, you become a true member of the community.
by qualeed | 2025-06-26 02:08:05+00:00
>They didn't find a school that would teach them about crime, right?

The difference between the bad guys and good guys isn't what they've learned. It's how the use what they've learned.

Any cybersec course worth its price tag is going to teach you all about penetration testing, exploits, etc. It's pretty hard to come up with a good defense if you don't learn about how the attacks work.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-06-26 02:09:04+00:00
They should have taken care of this when they brought us back into Japan after the flight was canceled (they didn’t catch it when the re admitted her into Japan and the visa was invalidated on her way out since it was single entry, and the flight was to the states so most passengers were visa waiver). And anyways, they were so apologetic that I didn’t really doubt that the Delta Japanese ground crew would just take care of it.

The really sad story is that the flight was canceled a second time after that drama, and we were really feeling a lot of emotions over that debacle. Suffice it to say we’ve sworn off delta for awhile.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-06-26 02:09:36+00:00
If you originally meant that "almost all real numbers are normal numbers without a finite representation," then I have no disagreement with you. I'd read your comment as saying that "[normal numbers] don't have a finite representation", which clearly has several counterexamples (Champernowne's constant & co.). I apologize if that was a misinterpretation.
by rpdillon | 2025-06-26 02:09:50+00:00
It was only legal because they did it this way.

> Ultimately, Judge William Alsup ruled that this destructive scanning operation qualified as fair use—but only because Anthropic had legally purchased the books first, destroyed each print copy after scanning, and kept the digital files internally rather than distributing them. The judge compared the process to "conserv[ing] space" through format conversion and found it transformative.

Very laws that the publishing industry has lobbied so heavily to make so strict are the reasons for this behavior.
by XorNot | 2025-06-26 02:10:04+00:00
A reasonable conclusion about this would simply be that the developers are saying "we're not merging anything which you can't explain".

Which is entirely reasonable. The trend of people say, on HN saying "I asked an LLM and this is what it said..." is infuriating.

It's just an upfront declaration that if your answer to something is "it's what Claude thinks" then it's not getting merged.
by const_cast | 2025-06-26 02:10:31+00:00
Wayland is significantly more polished than X on my experience on new hardware. Everything, literally everything, works and looks better. X, in comparison, seems almost plagued with a thin layer of jank over the whole thing.

X has been on life support for decades now, with new capabilities just bolted on without a care in the world. But the actual system works quite inconsistently, and some things will, presumably, never work.
by WalterBright | 2025-06-26 02:11:20+00:00
Googling "crime down in seattle due to lower reporting rates" results in:

"While crime rates in Seattle have recently shown a decrease, some reports suggest this may be partially attributed to a decline in reporting rather than a genuine reduction in criminal activity. Specifically, some authorities have noted that crimes against businesses, in particular, are frequently not reported."

"The police chief specifically mentioned that a 10% drop in property crime might not be entirely accurate because many business-related crimes go unreported."
by emporas | 2025-06-26 02:11:27+00:00
They could do that, but a regular gomboc would be totally fine. There are no rules for spaceships that their corners cannot be rounded.

Maybe exoskeletons for turtles could be more useful. Turtles with their short legs, require the bottom of their shell to be totally flat, and a gomboc has no flat surface. Vehicles that drive on slopes could benefit from that as well.
by teeray | 2025-06-26 02:13:54+00:00
It’s like the seemingly-confusing gates passing through customs that say “nothing to declare” when you’ve already made your declarations. Walking through that gate is a conscious act that places culpability on you, so you can’t simply say “oh, I forgot” or something.

The thinking here is probably similar: if AI-generated code becomes poisonous and is detected in a project, the DCO could allow shedding liability onto the contributor that said it wasn’t AI-generated.
by panarky | 2025-06-26 02:15:50+00:00
I love a good counter-intuitive anecdote as much as anybody, but I think you'll need to back up this assertion with some evidence.

The expenses associated with owning a car in the city are prohibitive for lower-income residents. These costs extend beyond car payments and the highest insurance rates in the nation to include congestion charges, tolls and exorbitant parking fees, which can run hundreds of dollars per month.
by pretoriusdre | 2025-06-26 02:15:52+00:00
AI generated code is generally pretty good and incredibly fast.

Seeing this new phenomenon must be difficult for those people who have spent a long time perfecting their craft. Essentially, they might feel that their skillsets are being undermined. It would be especially hard for people who associate a lot of their self-identity with their job.

Being a purist is noble, but I think that this stance is foolish. Essentially, people who chose not to use AI code tools will be overtaken by the people who do. That's the unfortunate reality.
by lenerdenator | 2025-06-26 02:15:53+00:00
When SteamOS and Ganoo/L00nockz become first-class gaming citizens, that's when I'm building a gaming PC for the first time since 2012.

I'm a Mac guy now mainly because of my job and I like UNIX-y stuff now, but of course, gaming is even more lacking than Linux.

We're so close. Once AAA releases and GPU drivers get there, it's over the cliff, and I could see that being in the next five years.
by briHass | 2025-06-26 02:15:55+00:00
This is why Azure now uses a unique hash appended to the hostname by default (can be changed if desired.) You can't attack a dangling CNAME subdomain record if it points to a hashed-appended hostname, and Azure allows you to control the uniqueness either globally/tenant/region so you can have common names in that tenant/region if you wish.
by smugma | 2025-06-26 02:16:05+00:00
1. The site is called folklore.org. You’re sort of saying the site is true to its name.

2. It’s a direct recollection from someone who was there, not an unnamed “my cousin’s best friend” or literal folklore that is passed down by oral tradition. Andy knew Bill and was there. There is no clear motivation to tell a fictional story when there were so many real ones.

3. The specifics line up very well with what we know about Bill Atkinson and some his wizardry needed to make the Mac work.

Given this, it’s much easier to assume that your assertion is what is made up.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-26 02:16:41+00:00
Really? I wanted to try Cialis, primarily for my enlarged prostrate but also for the erection effects. I asked my primary care doctor, that was a $20 copayment, I fill it my local pharmacy and it costs about a $5 copayment for a month’s supply. It’s a big practice where I might have to wait a long time if I want to see the head doctor but if I don’t care who I see I can usually get in pretty quick and they do a good job of keeping notes so care is well coordinated.

Some of it is that there’s a general breakdown in trust that makes a lot of people think that somebody who shot a healthcare executive is a hero, or that there is little outrage that a lunatic like RFK jr is in charge of HHS. I mean, there are legitimate reasons to think institutions are illegitimate but I think there’s something self-perpetuating about distrust, people find meaning in it. It reminds me of the 1980s and 1990s when there were all the stories right out of Rambo that there were still POW in Vietnam and you’d see those black flags everywhere because it wasn’t patriotic enough to fly an American flag.
by GMoromisato | 2025-06-26 02:17:16+00:00
I worked this table out with ChatGPT (with all the caveats that implies):

https://gridwhale.com/program.hexm?id=GCJ5TL7Z&file=GCJ5TL7Z...

Basically, nothing short of antimatter rockets will get you a self-contained interstellar ship.

Ion propulsion, even with nuclear reactors, can't get you enough speed.

Fission-fragment reactors can get you up to 1% lightspeed, but that's still 400 years to Alpha Centauri--I'm not sure I would trust a generation ship to last that long. Advanced fusion might cut that down to 100 years. Antimatter can reach 20% lightspeed, which means 20 years to Alpha Centauri.

ChatGPT kept asking to design a laser sail (external power source) to avoid the tyranny of the rocket equation, but I just don't think that can scale to crewed travel.