MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pdimitar | 2025-06-21 19:02:33+00:00
Well money is always the rub. And many people, once they become better off, become stingy and paranoid and don't want to reinvest -- which I completely understand, especially if they didn't have rich parents and trust fund(s) and had to grind their boots off to get where they are. If I ever make it I know I am absolutely joining that exact group. I owe the world nothing -- definitely not after decades of abuse and zero appreciation.

> it's pretty much impossible to start from scratch (without deep, patient pockets).

Well, I was not referring to myself here, FWIW. I ain't ever going below $10k a month (not to mention that for any meaningful life plans $18k - $25k a month is much more strategically desirable) but I was somewhat referring to many certain techies here on HN who (1) have the talents and tech skills and (2) are very well-off and could work for charity wages for 5+ years without a problem (think $3k - $5k a month).

I am just very sad that these people, who are in a 10x better position than I ever was for 23+ years of career, did not group up and did not create the next-gen lab experience, the likes of which we haven't seen since the days of UNIX. :/

As for the rest of the world, the owning class are quite fine with what they already have -- they know tech currently is not 100% reliable but they are never making 5x the investment for what they see as a 10% improvement (which is exactly the part where they are wrong -- but these people can't think beyond 2-3 quarters ahead anyway).
by Quarrelsome | 2025-06-21 19:02:53+00:00
I think we can point to Trump as a particular outlier, who in his first term green lit the capital move from Tel Aviv to Jeruselum, burning considerable political captial among Israel's detractors, in exchange for..... absolutely nothing (seemingly). As well as his general rhetoric (like his comments on Gaza) being considerably out of keeping with most of the Presidents before him.
by faxmeyourcode | 2025-06-21 19:03:04+00:00
I've been trying (albeit not very hard) to build an accessibility library and toolset that can be exposed via mcp server. I think it has the potential to be much more ergonomic for generalized computer-use agents than stuff like playwright or the classic screenshot approach. Low latency computer use is another thing that I'd like to solve.

The issue is mac and windows accessibility APIs are opaque and I have no idea what I'm doing so I'm forced to vibe code it all which is not turning out too well... :-)

I suffer from mild carpal tunnel so I want to build a really low latency computer use agent that can do anything on my computer without me having to learn the talon voice syntax or some other traditional accessibility software like mac dictation.
by ivan_gammel | 2025-06-21 19:03:25+00:00
If I understand it right, those NDAs work as non-competes if “confidential” is defined as restricted just on the basis of some relationship to the business, which is pretty weird attack of legalese on common sense. Let’s say I used some relatively simple chain of thought to derive X about my job at Z. The fact that Z uses or does X is probably confidential, and that’s ok. This would be how I understood a broad definition. But what kind of reasoning would conclude that X is confidential per se, preventing me to use or do X elsewhere, effectively making doing my job impossible? It just doesn’t make sense.
by esseph | 2025-06-21 19:03:30+00:00
5.5 million a year, ackshually, and that information looks dated from back in 2008.

https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/InterimCommittee/REL/Documen...

Red Rock gets over 3 million visitors a year by itself.

https://www.blm.gov/visit/red-rock-canyon-national-conservat...

Do you have evidence it is not?
by beej71 | 2025-06-21 19:03:56+00:00
In general you can do anything on the land that doesn't impede other people's ability to also do anything on general on the land. Permanent houses or crops would impede other members of the public who also own the land.

I'm curious why you exempted national parks and not national forest when the latter allows for even more use.

Personally, I use my public lands all the time, visiting several times a week and camping frequently. There's a 30K-acre chunk of national forest nearby we sold to a private corporation over a decade ago and now that's all cut off. They're just sitting on it. Used to be hunters and foragers and mountain bikers and motorcyclists and horses... Now all off limits. And what did we get in exchange?
by jll29 | 2025-06-21 19:04:12+00:00
> it’s a very subtle question exactly where you cross the line that comes with an obligation to credit others

What he means is there are clusters that systematically avoid citing the true origins of important concepts related to computational learning, and prefer to only cite their own "cluster members", a phenomenon that in scientometrics is known as a citation cartel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_cartel
by scoofy | 2025-06-21 19:04:39+00:00
We are throwing them away. "Reusable" is a term of art. We're not talking about the actually reusable canvas-like bags. We're talking about heavy sheets of plastic.

The situation is complicated, and nobody wants to have an honest conversation about it.

The reason why the switch to heavier bags is important is mainly to stop them from blowing away in the wind when people litter, where they end up in the water system. I don't think anyone really has any serious concerns about the density of plastic that ends up in our landfills, ideally, never to be seen again. The idea that plastic is bad, without concern for whether or not it ends up in a landfill, I think is misplaced concern. There are some decomposition GHG concerns, but again, those are insignificant compared to something as common as just driving ever day. Here we must remember that recycling plastic is generally a bad idea altogether if we care about GHGs.

The only people that seem to be pushing back against the bans are people with sudden and politically surprising (fake) environmental concerns because they are annoyed that they have to pay 10¢-25¢ for a bag (and absurdly trivial amount), and having to ask for one, instead of getting them for free without asking. This also has the effect of making paper bags competitive with plastic.

The entire debate is between most people on this issue seems to be people who either don't understand what it's about or don't actually care. Virtue signalling on the left or fake concern on the right.
by serial_dev | 2025-06-21 19:05:04+00:00
Not only that, they now sell all kinds of vegetables in plastic. I would like to buy 3-4 "loose“ carrots for a meal, I cannot.

I can only buy a 1 kg bag of carrot and it's plastic. One kilogram of carrot is a huge amount for my dietary habits, and I need to throw away usually half of the carrot. Now multiply it by about ten for the different vegetables.
by rconti | 2025-06-21 19:05:17+00:00
Yeah, I find it pretty silly, too. There used to be extended range fuel tank options on some vehicles, but they've largely gone away. I believe some tests are done with x% of fuel on board, so of course a larger tank will mean a greater curb weight, lower fuel economy, etc. Ultimately I think it's more about an unintended side effect of regulation than it is about true market forces.

On the other hand, we have to assume the average fuel tank load is <50%, so a larger tank truly DOES end up resulting in a heavier vehicle and lower fuel economy on average. We'd all get better mileage if we ran tiny fuel tanks and fueled our cars every day.
by tguvot | 2025-06-21 19:05:25+00:00
Tulsi Gabbard now says Iran could produce nuclear weapon 'within weeks'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c056zqn6vvyo

and you ignored rest of things that i wrote

bonus: iran found to be in violation of npt https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/25/06/gov2025-38.pd...
by zzyzxd | 2025-06-21 19:05:30+00:00
The article is unnecessarily long only to brag about "a service we didn't use went down so it didn't affect us". If I want to be picky, their architecture is also not perfect:

- Their alerts were not durable. The outage took out the alert system so humans were just eyeballing dashboards during the outage. What if your critical system went down along with that alert system, in the middle of night?

- The cloud marketplace service was affected by cloudflare outage and there's nothiing they could do.

- Tiered stroage was down, disk usage went above normal level. But there's no anomaly detection and no alerts. It survived because t0 storage was massively over provisioned.

- They took pride in using industry well-known designs like cell-based architecture, redundancy, multi-az...ChatGPT would be able to give me a better list

And I don't get whey they had to roast Crowdstrike at the end. I mean, the Crowdstrike incident was really amateur stuff, like, the absolute lowest bar I can think of.
by culebron21 | 2025-06-21 19:05:45+00:00
I'm surprised nobody in the comments mentioned Norton Commander, and its editor. It was mostly enough for file editing. And navigating folders in DOS with NC was very convenient, that at the time you didn't even understand why people needed windows.

Today, it has successors: Midnight Commander (TUI on Linux), FAR Manager (TUI for Windows), Windows Commander (graphical UI, Windows).

Although MC is good tool, I notice something rubs me the wrong way in it, and I rarely use it -- probably, it's the conflict of focuses between a panel and the shell. E.g. you typed something, then tried to move to another folder, hit enter -> MC decides you run the command, hides the panels, lets the system yell at you "no such executable".
by joshstrange | 2025-06-21 19:06:10+00:00
Great term, I never put it into words but I feel this deeply. I rarely go back and forth more than 2-3 times with an LLM before ejecting to a new conversation. I’ve just been burned so much by old context informing the conversation later to my detriment. As soon as it gets something wrong I know the “rot” has set in and I need to start over (bringing over the best parts).

But, OpenAI and friends should let me purge my questions and, more importantly, the LLM response from the chat. More often than not, it’s poisoning itself with bad ideas, flip-flopping, etc. I hate having to pick up and move to a new chat but if I don’t the conversation will only go downhill.
by beeflet | 2025-06-21 19:06:12+00:00
>Oh you like phones? Well our phone companies require us to directly or indirectly create proxy wars in this region in order to acquire the raw materials necessary.

I think that is the will of the masses.

I've got this fairphone in my pocket that has a replaceable cobalt-free battery and a replaceable OS for a reasonable price. But people by-and-large don't want fairphones, they want iphones.

The third worlders fighting over cobalt don't want peace, they want wealth for themselves.

People don't want niche third parties and alternative stuff, they want to be part of a larger cultural group.

Captialism is based on individual voluntarism, and the problems you describe are not caused by manufactured sentiment but a lack thereof. The problems are caused by the distributed actions of a silent majority, as opposed to some greater rational plan.
by omnimus | 2025-06-21 19:07:44+00:00
That's fair critique. Their website uses third parties to work and some of the services they shouldn't use. Others they probably have to use.

But you are implying that this makes the app itself broken. I don't think this is proof that the app itself is not respecting privacy like their legal documents say.

I won't fight for them. I've never even been on their website. But this is classic situation where someone else is in charge of website and marketing. I wouldn't be surprised if slapping google analytics on a website was standard for every other "privacy focused" marketing product.
by vidarh | 2025-06-21 19:07:50+00:00
We're talking about any random court, however, but the ICC.

It does not have a history of "slapping any label on any suitably vilified candidate".

Put another way: The US has a history of deciding it is allowed to start actual wars to overthrow the kind of people committing the kind of crimes that gets you targeted by the ICJ.

The US just wants its own people to not be subjected to what it has a long history of imposing on others.
by woodruffw | 2025-06-21 19:08:40+00:00
I don’t think the title is clickbait. You’re fixating on just one example in the post, but the others demonstrate a clear pattern: there are footguns in Go’s various parsers, including forms of malleability or flexibility that enable parser differentials.

This isn’t intended to be a ding against Go; it’s a universal problem across programming languages (otherwise there’d be no differentials at all). But they’re worth noting, and I think the post amply demonstrates their security relevance.
by Quarrelsome | 2025-06-21 19:09:08+00:00
some people suggest he was working for Mossad creating a web of blackmail for them to exploit, in order to further strengthen the lobbying, as well as spread out into other industries and nations. You can see there are claims even on his wiki page about the links.

> White House official" reported that Alexander Acosta, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida who had handled Epstein's criminal case in 2008, had stated to interviewers of President Donald Trump's first transition team: "I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to 'leave it alone'", and that Epstein was "above his pay grade"[0][1]

[0] https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epsteins-sick-story-pl...

[1] https://observer.com/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-spy-intelligenc...
by freedomben | 2025-06-21 19:09:10+00:00
Yep. I live in Idaho and finding places to enjoy is already painful. You can drive through gorgeous canyons and see nothing but private property no trespassing signs everywhere, with not a single page to get out and hike. I'm sure it's great for the private owners, but it sucks for all the rest of us, and it's not like some startup is going to come produce a bunch more land...
by catlikesshrimp | 2025-06-21 19:09:36+00:00
that doesn't work for every package. Some packages aren't authorized to be disabled this way, i.e. you can't disable them this way. * Some packages can technically be disabled this way, but they cause unrelated issues like the phone wasting processing resources, even overheating the device; or bootloops. * Less relevant, but the package is disabled, but removed. The system can still reenable it, reinstall it, or upgrade it. * Edit: I can't find a way to format this. It shows as a text block.
by rconti | 2025-06-21 19:09:54+00:00
Right, but in particularly heavy snowfall, it's not hard to imagine snow encasing the chassis. Once the snow forms a barrier around the body, the exhaust has nowhere to go. Or if the pipe gets blocked (which is a bit harder to imagine, since there's heat coming out of there), and there are exhaust leaks, the exhaust is directed up through the chassis. It doesn't have to be a perfect seal to raise the CO level!

I was recently stuck in a 3 hour backup in sub-freezing temps in moderate snowfall, and it was nice to be able to leave the engine running for heat. In the winter, we have a contingency where it's possible to be stuck in your vehicle overnight in heavy snowfall, and my plan was always to wake up every couple of hours to ensure the snow was clear of the car.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/local/3-young-women-found-dead-in...
by jcyriac | 2025-06-21 19:10:40+00:00
https://devopsagents.co/?utm_source=HNupworkn8n&utm_medium=c... is an agentic system we built to help developers do devops work.

The agents take your cloud creds and setup what you want in cloud.

The site shows few more demos like setting up ELK and Prometheus, grafana stack.
by ddtaylor | 2025-06-21 19:11:41+00:00
Some creators do a better job and anyone is free to whitelist those creators. There are a few creators I have whitelisted, but to be honest, they don't run "better" ads than other creators. Sure, some make them more "digestible" by making them jokes, but even a content creator I support a ton is still just running your basic Squarespace ads. Creators do the best they can to map the available sponsorships to their audience, but the fact remains that the lions share of sponsorships available are for services we are not interested in and advertising has stopped being an effective way to lure audiences.
by Flundstrom2 | 2025-06-21 19:11:57+00:00
As a developer in the EU, I don't find the EU regulations burdensome. They mostly represent current best practices such as "don't electrocute or (for PCBs, plastics and metals) poison the customer", "make sure your products don't break within a couple of years", "don't hardcode 'admin' and 'password'", "provide security updates as needed" etc.

Sure, it do put a burden on solo developers to know and be able to prove they follow the applicable CE regulations, but that is equally hard independent of where in the world you're located.

Sourcing components from an EU country, or at least requiring the components to fulfill the RoHS directive, using led-free soldering gets you a very long way towards CE compliance, as well as designing for USB-C and using external AC/DC adapters to power the product.
by hd4 | 2025-06-21 19:11:58+00:00
I've been using hyprland for about 6 months now, it's undeniably performant, buttery-smooth even but there are still a lot of paper cuts there - I have a feeling this will piss quite a few people off given the temperament in the Linux community for subscription-based software; also feel like it's not really the smartest thing to do if good alternatives already exist for what you're building (sway is not far off in quality)

Had to chuckle at the idea of hyprland support because the few times I had issues prior to this (with getting a nonstandard setup to work) I got made fun of on the discord which goes with the general vibe of getting support on discord so I wasn't mad at all, and eventually figured it out. The wiki does need a lot of work because I followed it and installing the recommended terminal emulator (kitty) was what caused a lot of hair pulling. Ghostty works far better.
by heavyset_go | 2025-06-21 19:12:06+00:00
> Which are you leaning towards to and why?

Heavily sandboxed SimpleX that's firewalled to block any non-Tor traffic. Chose this one because it allows for offline message sending/receiving, despite privacy implications, and because it has clients people will actually use.

Cwtch doesn't let you send messages when the recipient is offline by virtue of how it works, which is more secure, but inconvenient.

When evaluating Cwtch, I think I read somewhere it might send identifying metadata to your recipient, or something similar, but I might just be making that up. I'll have to look up what I was reading.

> > identify that and when a user is using SimpleX.

> Does this apply to Cwtch?

With Cwtch you're running two hidden services, one on either end of the chat, and that happens over Tor with no middleman service, so no. A passive network observer can tell when you're connecting to Tor, but you can attempt to obfuscate that with transports.
by freedomben | 2025-06-21 19:12:15+00:00
I'm strongly against this change, but saying that federal land belongs to us is also wrong. The vast majority of it is closed off to public access, and what they do allow us to use is almost always full months in advance and packed with people. Some of my favorite spots are now closed for various reasons and they will jack you up for trespassing worse than a private owner could. I'm a huge advocate of zero impact (or leave no trace) use, and it's very true that many people will trash stuff, but it's definitely not my land whatsoever.

We should be expanding public access, not selling it off
by throw0101c | 2025-06-21 19:12:19+00:00
> […] I see no reason why we shouldn't exploit their generosity to meet our climate goals as quickly as possible.

Because your own industrial base atrophies is one reason:

> Democratic countries’ economies are mainly set up as free market economies with redistribution, because this is what maximizes living standards in peacetime. In a free market economy, if a foreign country wants to sell you cheap cars, you let them do it, and you allocate your own productive resources to something more profitable instead. If China is willing to sell you brand-new electric vehicles for $10,000, why should you turn them down? Just make B2B SaaS and advertising platforms and chat apps, sell them for a high profit margin, and drive a Chinese car.

> Except then a war comes, and suddenly you find that B2B SaaS and advertising platforms and chat apps aren’t very useful for defending your freedoms. Oops! The right time to worry about manufacturing would have been years before the war, except you weren’t able to anticipate and prepare for the future. Manufacturing doesn’t just support war — in a very real way, it’s a war in and of itself.

* https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/manufacturing-is-a-war-now

That's (partly) what did-in Japan and Germany in during WW2: they couldn't produce enough to actually run a war. Even the just the UK was out-producing Germany in many measures (e.g., aircraft).

The Big 3 completely retooled for war in very short order. If things go hot again you want factory capacity available for retooling to be possible.

A society just has to be willing to pay for that capacity instead of deciding that they want the cheapest widget made somewhere else.

Given the use of drones in Russia-Ukraine, what is the drone-making capacity of the US versus some other countries?
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-06-21 19:13:22+00:00
Cue a long list of people who will say "I would pay for Premium except X Y and Z".

The fact is free YouTube is only possible with ads, and potentially only with the extremely detested ads we're talking about here. The other major UGC video platform (Twitch) is not profitable.

Broadcast TV and even cable or fixed content library streaming is A LOT cheaper to run than something like YouTube. I don't mean purely machine-wise, I also mean in terms of salaries, and those do matter to keep the service up and running, not to mention growing
by bcantrill | 2025-06-21 19:13:42+00:00
Thanks for the kind words (I think?), and you're right that I don't use LLMs to write. (I do use them to read near-final drafts -- the most substantive result in this case was the deletion of a paragraph.) As for the substance abuse allegations: sorry to be boring, but just coffee and Diet Coke, I'm afraid.
by gausswho | 2025-06-21 19:13:50+00:00
I'm a big fan of Hyprland and have made a Fedora Atomic based setup using it across multple devices. I migrated from a few years of using Manjaro Sway. It feels streamlined and I really like how clean the configuration is - keeping multiple machines operating the same is mostly just syncing .config/hypr

This reminds me that I've been meaning to donate, but this page feels... unfinished? The links don't work and there's no explanation of what you get from premium.
by jordanpg | 2025-06-21 19:14:06+00:00
I'm a lawyer. I write 10s of pages of text every day. "Reading through it once yourself" is obviously an imperfect solution. See, e.g., Poisson statistics. It's also slow and I bill in 6-minute increments. There is significant value in a grammar tool that protects confidentiality and is more effective than my wetware.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-06-21 19:14:35+00:00
What an excellent service.

Interesting future. I'm not sure who else is big WebAssembly Rust Dioxus users. But neat bold way forward for their webmail client plans!

> We'll be building a Single Page Application (SPA) using Rust and the Dioxus framework. Dioxus is quite distinct from more popular frameworks like React, meaning many necessary UI components still don't exist. Consequently, we'll likely spend considerable time contributing directly to the Dioxus ecosystem, expanding available components and features.