MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ZeroConcerns | 2025-06-15 16:56:17+00:00
While interesting, the failure to distinguish between cooperative and unmodified programs here sort-of weakens the comparison.

I mean, the OpenBSD APIs are great and all, but most developers are not going to be aware of these, nor deploying to a platform that supports these in the first place.

And yes, kernel-mode supervisors, when available, suffer from inscrutable configurations, so it's clear a middle ground would be nice (especially one that also applies to the W-environment), but it's not clear anyone is particularly invested in this?
by like_any_other | 2025-06-15 16:57:17+00:00
> Does that say Camus had his phone seized?

I'm confused where this question is coming from. Do cases have to be exactly the same to draw parallels?

> It seems unlikely to me that a journalist who'd written flattering things about the AFD would be treated so badly trying to visit Germany?

Germany is a bad example, as they're deporting and planning to even revoke citizenship based on speech:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/14/germany-orders-depo...

https://theintercept.com/2025/03/31/germany-gaza-protesters-...

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-could-withdraw-citizenship-due...
by ivanbalepin | 2025-06-15 16:57:18+00:00
same here, i dread CSS because it has to look good visually, not regress, work on a ton of devices and is very time-consuming to get right. But every time i tried Cursor with different models it produces CSS code that is just really bad. And the CSS hacks it knows somehow just don't add up to a good solution. Maybe it'll catch up, but so far the result has been worse than mine, so - still coding manually.
by crazygringo | 2025-06-15 16:57:45+00:00
Yes and no.

Clearly there is a need to give different volumes to different apps, so you can have quiet background music while a timer app is louder, or Zoom is louder.

Ideally there would be an OS-level mixer to independently set the volume of each app. I believe Windows has this, Mac definitely doesn't. And for convenience, an app's local volume control would exist, but set it at the OS mixer level, so you don't have them competing with each other.

But without this, an app does have to have local volume controls.

Also, it's important to be able to set gain as well, i.e. turn the volume "above 100%". For those YouTube videos that for some reason are only 5% as loud as other videos. Even better is if you can set the gain per-video so that it won't be absurdly loud and clipping when you move on to the next video.

Bonus points if an OS or media player ever gives the option of a dynamic compressor, so you can actually listen to those amateur podcasts where one speaker's microphone is 10x quieter than another's. Or listen to the quiet parts of classical music recordings even in the presence of background noise.
by bitlax | 2025-06-15 16:57:54+00:00
I don't think OP is asking whether we should give up looking for advances in astrophysics. OP is asking "why did we add all of these freaking popups and theme tweaks? They're distracting me from using my computer to make advances in astrophysics!"

I'd say try Linux.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8T5pyGiTPdE
by ninetyninenine | 2025-06-15 16:57:55+00:00
The experiment looked to be the other way around. If you introduced new microbiota from patients with SAD this caused SAD in mice.

So introducing new microbiota won’t solve the problem. The theory that needs to be tested is that we know microbiota can switch SAD on, but does removal of said microbiota turn it off? It needs to be an antibiotic cleansing. It can even be DIY. People can try this on themselves. I think the unknown factor here though is whether or not a persons diet is introducing the SAD causing microbiota.
by pxc | 2025-06-15 16:58:02+00:00
> It’s human nature to think of familiar things from our youth as the height of achievement. That was the time of the best music, the best movies, the best culture, the best sports, the best everything. No matter if you were born in 1950 or 1990.

Is it? I think there's a common tendency to "stop exploring" cultural artifacts very deeply as we age, but not everyone shares this trait. Some people continue to value novelty in those areas well into old age.

For my part, treasured artifacts of my youth don't impede my ability to appreciate new things. And indeed, I think many videogames I loved dearly have aged poorly.
by seadan83 | 2025-06-15 16:58:20+00:00
Is it early days of exponential growth? The growth of AI to beat humans in chess and then Go took a long time. Appears to be step function growth. LLMs have limitations and can't double their growth for much longer. I'd argue they never did double, just a step function with a slow linear growth since.

The crowd claiming exponential growth have been at it for not quite a decade now. I have trouble separating fact from CEOs of AI companies shilling to attract that VC money. VCs desperately want to solve the expensive software engineer problem, you don't get that cash by claiming AI will be 3% better YoY
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by PSBigBig | 2025-06-15 16:58:23+00:00
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by hollowturtle | 2025-06-15 16:58:55+00:00
Am I a skeptic/fool if I think every claim made these CEOs is just bs and they're just over exaggerating to let their product/self image look like real game changer? Like I still don't see any white collar job lost except for companies pretending AI will do the work as an execuse to do massive lay offs. Plus over the history every game changer technology enabled more jobs than before, I don't get the fomo they're injecting into society causing all this anciety just for selfish returns. IMO We should keep Amodei accountable in five years if no jobs are lost but more are created
by burnt-resistor | 2025-06-15 16:58:58+00:00
steep and rbs don't work so well and are the wrong approach. sorbet is also the wrong approach but it works better. The Python 2 -> 3 way would've been a better way to do it but Matz chose an unwise way (separate files) that doomed it combined with a failure to type all the things and make it work. Oh, and very few Ruby gems are cryptographically signed and so most code is mostly untrustworthy. Making important things optional makes them unused and essentially worthless.
by LanceH | 2025-06-15 16:59:44+00:00
I was working with Go a lot as something complementary to Ruby/Rails. I have ended up with so much Ruby work. Either maintenance of large successful efforts from years ago, new development for those same companies, or new development from the people who have experienced great success with Ruby on Rails. I can't seem to get away from it, and that's just fine.

At this point, I putting together teams and getting new developers into Ruby on Rails. I'm also seeing companies move back to full stack RoR after the luster of React has worn off. Also, modern RoR can get you so far now with a fraction of the dual framework headaches of a RoR backend/JS frontend.
by im3w1l | 2025-06-15 16:59:55+00:00
I feel like we have some miscommunication. I'm referring to this list of axioms: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/PeanosAxioms.html

And I asked myself what happens if we do away with axiom number 5?

As for the nonstandard integers, I think that's a different thing.

There also is apparently already a concept in math named the supernatural numbers (aka Steinitz numbers) but those were not the ones I meant either.
by eadmund | 2025-06-15 17:00:19+00:00
That brings back memories! As does running the desktop from one’s .xinitrc:

panel & background-properties --init & keyboard-properties --init & mouse-properties --init & fvwm2 -f .fvwm2rc.gnome

Honestly, I think that there was a lot to love about that straightforward, discoverable way of doing things.
by vessenes | 2025-06-15 17:00:24+00:00
I have a little metaverse experience, and they do relate. If you think of Zuck as a meta strategist, and expand out to where he seems to believe things will be in 20 years, a couple things seem obvious:

* mediated (AR/XR) environments are almost certainly going to be much more popular / used than today, likely in some new device form factors

* Demand for 3D type content and audio and text content will therefore be rising dramatically

Perhaps the least realistic part of Ready Player One was the infinite AAA content floating around; pre gen-AI it was like you’d need 3/4 of the worlds population making digital assets for the other 1/4.

Gen AI changes this, a lot. Avatars, agents, all those are deemed likely to be more compelling as video / imagery gets super cheap to generate as text and audio are now.

The bitter lesson of the AR/XR space is that — hardware is hard. I think it’s a mistake to scoff at something both Apple and Zuck are pouring billions into a priori — even if the markets don’t seem to be working out as expected right now.

I’m writing this on ipadOS beta 26, and the interface tells me that Apple is committing to visionOS type interactions over the next 10 years; the design iconography from the AVP is everywhere now.

Upshot - generative environments, agents and etc. seem likely to me to be big someday — companies with major AR/VR hardware divisions and more data than us don’t seem to be giving up on the space. Practically speaking, a lot of people really want to be able to ‘live’ at least part of the time in a generative reality that they connect to emotionally. I think we’ll see a lot more of it.

All that said, just like there are AI hype waves, and now one that looks like it ‘stuck’, metaverse has these periods. Still an open question if / when one will stick. But I think it’s likely to in the long term.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-06-15 17:00:27+00:00
India became independent in 1947 inheriting from the Raj great infrastructure and a working administrative system. That was one year before the proclamation of the CRP at a time where China decided to somehow destroy itself with idiotic agrarian reforms.

Now take a look at India and China nowadays. Maybe some hard questions need to be asked regarding what India did in the past 70 years. Colonial history is an easy excuse to brandish. Does it truly help? I’m unconvinced.
by hdjrudni | 2025-06-15 17:00:42+00:00
I'm interested in this for an upcoming project, but complexity of setup doesn't seem like a great way to compare these projects. What I need to know is (a) can I run completely untrusted code in these sandboxes? (b) Which let me disable network access, file system access, and limit CPU and RAM usage? i.e. feature set.

The set up might be a pain in the butt, but I'm assuming I only have to do it once and then I can stuff arbitrary programs into it.
by burakemir | 2025-06-15 17:00:45+00:00
Enjoyed this, but looking at these from manager decision scenario is of course going to bias towards the more subjective.

For a different scenario, imagine you operate a large distributed system and have been paged at 3 am because there is a problem. Besides taking steps to contain the fallout, you want to quickly locate the error and take steps to prevent this stuff from ever happening again.

Unlike a hiring decision, you want to propose measures such that a large number of people get to agree that the state of affairs will improve. It is a truism that we don't want software to fail, so considering expectations may not necessarily help here, and rationality would suggest to strive to achieve an "objective" improvement - and one that does not make the system harder to understand or invite new, different failures.

So all in all, I enjoyed this advocacy of Tellman's perspective, but it does not always seem appropriate to apply it and more meta than the others.
by anthony_d | 2025-06-15 17:01:42+00:00
I just started looking but I can’t find any supporting evidence for this story. The part where someone says “we both know why you’re here” just sounded like a cheesy movie line. The journalist mentioned that while being detained he met a woman who was on day 4 of detention… what exactly are the logistics of how they were handling detention?

It all just sounded so implausible. It reads like someone trying to spin a story to convince others of what they already wanted to believe, or maybe that kid in grade school who tells stories he read or saw, but swaps himself for the main character.

Why should I believe this person more than any random internet crank?
by amendegree | 2025-06-15 17:01:49+00:00
Sure add US to the list, makes your case even worse. The US is party to many more trade and arms treaties than any other country on earth and has the largest stockpile of weapons.

SA is Saudi Arabia.

Regardless I've soundly disproven your theory that treaties lower weapon stockpiles, No one disagrees that war will cause people to increase the arms spending, that’s a given. But it’s also pretty clear that treaties do not necessarily lead to less arms spending. Especially when one of the parties to the treaty is a theocratic dictatorship who has called for the total annihilation and destruction of all western society. Even while Iran was technically agreeing to follow the treaty it was still funding hezb, hamas and propping up Syria, none of those things speak to a country that is interested in peaceful coexistence with it’s regional neighbors. Additionally, SA (Saudi Arabia) expressed strong interest in developing a nuclear program simply because of Iran’s. So allowing Iran to have any sort of nuclear program directly contributes to more nuclear proliferation.
by dismalaf | 2025-06-15 17:02:07+00:00
Thiel and Karp have both said in various places that western civilization is worth saving and that it's better that we develop this power than enemies of the West, and I'm not going to lie, I'm inclined to agree with them.

Do you really think Putin, Xi and Khamenei are better stewards of the world than the West?

The West's introspective nature is good and all, but sometimes we unwittingly forget that there is actual evil in the world, and it's much worse than saying mean things on Twitter, or putting facts above feelings.

Students in Iran literally die protesting the regime, meanwhile students here who live a life of luxury and don't know what actual oppression is "protest"/simp for the Iranians (or one of their various proxies)...
by quonn | 2025-06-15 17:02:18+00:00
I think you severely underestimate what the 8 billion human beings on this planet can and will do. They are not like horses at all. They will not allow themselves to be ruled by, like, 10 billionaires operating an AI and furthermore if all work vanishes then we will find other things to do. Just ask a beach bum or a monk or children in school or athletes or students or an artist or the filthy rich. There _are_ ways to spend your time.

You can‘t just judge humans in terms of economic value given the fact that the economy is something that those humans made for themselves. It‘s not like there can be an „economy“ without humankind.

The only problem is the current state where perhaps _some_ work disappears, creating serious problems for those holding those jobs.

As for being creative, we had GPT2 more than 5 years ago and it did produce stories.

And the current AI is nothing like a human being in terms of the quality of the output. Not even close. It‘s laughable and to me it seems like ChatGPT specifically is getting worse and worse and they put more and more lipstick on the pig by making it appear more submissive and producing more emojis.
by ffsm8 | 2025-06-15 17:02:29+00:00
You seem to have the same opinion as kbos87 then, because given your higher productivity, do you honestly think there will not be less job openings from your employer going forward?

What you just said as a rebuttal was pretty much his point, you just didn't internalize what the productivity gains mean at the macro level, only looking at the select few that will continue to have a job
by zdw | 2025-06-15 17:03:43+00:00
You can also buy these with a passthrough, which is useful for older systems that balk at higher resolution monitors.

I have a 2011 era AMD FX8350 system where the onboard 880G northbridge+video chipset doesn't output video over HDMI correctly with a 4k display. Hooking up one of these inline to tell it to send a 1080p image works great, which the monitor does a 2x integer upscale to 4k.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-15 17:03:59+00:00
> You accuse them of some crime, skip the "prove they did it" part, and then put them somewhere where they can never contact anyone ever again.

And then the US courts tell you that you can't actually do that.

> The DOJ has refused to comply with some orders (lawful orders!) and the administration has doubled-down when they've made mistakes.

Yeah, they're schmucks. They make some argument where the plane is already outside of the US and claim that's outside the court's jurisdiction, and then some appellate court has to decide if that argument is BS or not.

But here's the thing that doesn't happen in Nazi Germany: If the appellate court decides that argument is BS, those government officials can be subject to criminal penalties. Especially if they continue to do it even after the court has ruled against them.

> Trump has even joked about having the power to bring back people from El Salvador, but choosing not to use that power.

That one's actually a hard problem. One of the things that is pretty clear is that US courts don't have jurisdiction over El Salvador. So what happens if the person is already there and El Salvador is refusing to release them? Does Trump actually have the power to bring them back? Are the US courts going to order the US to send Marines into a foreign country to extricate this person? What are they even supposed to do at that point?
by refulgentis | 2025-06-15 17:04:36+00:00
> Your remark about "you seem to assume I claimed something else, like, cd doesn't exist on windows" is absurd at best and verges on bad faith that I'm not even going to engage with it.

You seem very upset, at least, I'm not used to people being this aggressive on HN, and I've been here for 15 years. I apologize for my contribution to that, if not my sole responsibility for it.

I remain fascinated by your process, I never have heard bad faith invoked when someone points at their actual words.

Generally, it is rare someone invokes "bad faith" when someone else's thoughts don't match their expectations.

I just...can't lie to you. I can't claim I thought it wouldn't work on Windows. I thought the opposite! That the sequence had 0% chance of working on not-Windows, and a 70% chance of working on Windows.

>> Are you 100% sure those commands will work? > Again, my claim isn't that the project works 100%, or even that it's not AI generated,

Oh! I'm referring to the commands, not the project :) The project can output "APRIL FOOLS!", as far as I care for this exercise.

> it's that your critique makes little sense either.

Oh, interesting - happy to hear more beyond that I must have meant pip/Python aren't available on Windows. If that's your sole issue, well, more power to you :) I do want to avoid lying to you just to avoid an aggressive conversation, you may not be even meaning to be aggressive. With the principle of "don't lie", I can't say I had something else in my head that matches your understanding so far, I presume something like "They are UNIX commands follows by Windows commands" [and thus this won't work on Windows]

> claiming "pip" and "python" are "UNIX commands"

Do you think I thought pip/Python wasn't on Windows? Sorry, no - in fact that's what I was using on Windows this week! (well, porting Python code to Dart) I just was 70% sure the commands as written would not work on Windows, and I suppose there's an implication I'm 100% sure they wouldn't work on not-Windows given the .bat file. Beyond that, nada.

>> separately, you misunderstand the quote re: glass houses

> No, I agree that you don't have to be 100% correct to accuse people of posting dumb stuff, but you shouldn't be posting dumb stuff either.

Intriguing, as always: "Did you write this with AI?" followed by a kind inquiry into the meaning of that, followed by "people in glass shouldn't throw stones" meant "you said something wrong when you said something else is wrong, but its cool, that's fine" - "shouldn't" seems to bely that interpretation, but I'm sure I have it wrong.

P.s. all the best, my friend. :)
by gruez | 2025-06-15 17:05:07+00:00
>And yes, it's immoral to become a cop

Absolute wild take. Do you think every police department in the US oppresses minorities and infringes on civil rights or something?

>just as it was immoral to become a european camp guard in the forties

Even for the Allies? Given the prior sentence, I can't tell whether you're trying to allude to Nazi concentration camp guards, or actually think all camp guards are immoral.
by avidiax | 2025-06-15 17:05:09+00:00
One caveat of these dummy plugs is that they don't do HDCP. They handle the typical use case of forcing a specific resolution output for headless machines rather well, but fail for the use case that you need to run something that expects HDCP.

This seems a good place to ask: does anyone know of a good solution like this HDMI dummy plug, but that negotiates HDCP? I need to test video streaming apps that require HDCP to play at full resolution, but it is inconvenient to have a full TV for every test.

The one solution I've found is an HDMI multiviewer, which seems to negotiate HDCP to each port individually.