MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alessivs | 2025-06-10 14:25:40+00:00
Ultima games incorporate archaic language constructs in their dialogues and texts, but they are fictionalized rather than historically informed. I call it "langfic" (as in "fanfic"). The French edition of U7 is also notorious for featuring old vocabulary, but does so mixing up constructs from different eras and reforms. While the effort on the English edition is much more convincing, I wouldn't bank on it as a reference of its use; instead, I would turn to more scholarly sources that examine Early Modern English in depth.
by freeone3000 | 2025-06-10 14:25:50+00:00
Shorter is better here — it means you’re able to take the deduction up-front. The issue is that salaries should not be included as part of a capital asset, as this precludes any other deduction for the same salary. You don’t do this for accountants or lawyers, even at a software firm, but you now have to for your developers. It makes a particular role of employee more expensive!

It’s this absurdity I’m upset about. Six year vs five year is weird but meaningless. Internal software not being sold can be a capital asset, or at least I can point to examples of it (MSFT Hyper-V, ex). But the valuation process is both arbitrary in both directions, and discourages companies from hiring software developers as a policy effect.
by johnQdeveloper | 2025-06-10 14:26:01+00:00
> I can understand having the military in the streets, when the news is full of people waving foreign flags while torching vehicles in the streets.

Yes but the news (in the US) is a fully for profit organizations most of which are owned by the right-wing folks. (i.e. Much of the newspapers, CNN, Fox News are run by boards that are right-leaning)

They are intentionally pushing a narrative that the family I have in the area believes is simply a very small number of incidents that are nowhere near as bad as what is presented.

> This does not look like the military being deployed on Americans, rather it looks like the military being deployed on rioters. Whether those rioters are Americans or illegal immigrants really doesn't matter for the purposes of reestablishing order.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/poss...

I suggest you stop looking at this through the lens of an Israeli and do some research on the US system of laws :)

Deploying the military "on rioters" and whether they are "Americans or illegals" is actually quite important. Using the military as a police force is illegal and the only real open legal question is if using it against "invaders" who are not here legally is technically allowed.

You are acting like these people are Hamas, when in reality, they are nowhere close to even 5% as dangerous.
by nikolayasdf123 | 2025-06-10 14:26:13+00:00
of course. it is not there yet. same happens for me. AIs do not get full project view nor dynamics of classes, behavior, domains... probably that is soon coming

for me it works well for small scope, isolated sub system or trivial code. unit tests, "given this example: A -> B, complete C -> ?" style transformation of classes (e.g. repositories, caches, etc.)
by bobbylarrybobby | 2025-06-10 14:26:19+00:00
Probably not possible without a major hit to battery life to keep Face ID/front camera on persistently. I agree it would be insanely cool though. Someone actually put together a demo (in 2019!) where the UI chrome correctly reflects the device’s orientation relative to the ambient light here: https://youtu.be/TIUMgiQ7rQs
by brookst | 2025-06-10 14:26:35+00:00
Do you also take personal responsibility for your company’s hiring practices, investment strategy, and marketing content? None of that would exist without you.

I think anyone would agree that there’s a level of flagrantly where individuals should feel culpability and make the right choices (“write software to prescribe poison to groups we don’t like”).

But something like this? Two apps establishing a comms channel? How many millions of times does this get done per year with no ill intent or effect? Is every engineer supposed to demand to know l of the use cases, and cross reference to other projects they’re not working on?

At some point it’s only fair to say that individuals should exercise their conscience when they have enough information, but it is not incumbent on every engineer to demand justification for every project. That’s where the decision makers who do have the time, resources, and chatter to know better should be taking at least legal responsibility.
by jitl | 2025-06-10 14:27:29+00:00
Browser/webview have had iOS 7+ style blur for a while now, but won’t have an answer to emulating Liquid Glass shaders for a while.

EDIT: although perhaps this will allow emulation in webview if performance isn’t abysmal https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Reference/E...
by MarkusQ | 2025-06-10 14:27:53+00:00
That's because research had already become "look up the answer somebody else found" years ago. If you want to force they to do real research, ask them things no AI knows because no one knows. Ask them to find the exact center of the classroom. Or how many peas the cafeteria throws away each year, on average. Or any of a thousand other questions that no one knows the answer to.
by pixl97 | 2025-06-10 14:28:04+00:00
Thug: a violent, aggressive person, especially one who is a criminal

The problem here is you've taken the last part as the whole.

There were plenty of thugs as you say that have no social inhibition and get imprisoned. But there are numerous others that got along well enough and covered for each other they kept themselves away from punishment. There were cruel bullies in my school while committing vicious acts had enough of a following they could depend on them to blame the victims as the entity that started the fight. This type of person is well suited for the thin blue line.
by AngryData | 2025-06-10 14:28:23+00:00
Sometimes I feel like the only person that is not impressed or fascinated with this silly light ball. Making a spherical steel building gets a "meh" reaction from me, and installing a bunch of LEDs on it does not impressive me in the slightest.

It gets enough attention that I feel like I gotta be missing something, but every time I read something about it or see something they are doing with it I fail to find any reason to be impressed or care. I feel like if I lived somewhere near it it would quickly become a massive eyesore, like a giant animated billboard.
by bluGill | 2025-06-10 14:28:40+00:00
Hunting is also a high risk activity - you sometimes don't get anything. Thus some ancient tribes would choose to pick the raspberries - which is to say abort the hunt to bring the women and children to pick with them. Others would turn back to get the women and children and then go on with the hunt. Still others would just go on with their hunt without telling anyone.
by hk1337 | 2025-06-10 14:29:19+00:00
> Pair programming is also not suitable for all cases

I think this is true but pair programming can work for most circumstances.

The times where it doesn't work is usually because one or both parties are not all-in with the process. Either someone is skeptical about pair programming and thinks it never works or they're trying to enforce a strict interpretation of pair programming.
by throwaway894345 | 2025-06-10 14:29:20+00:00
For the most part, the protestors are peaceful, not rioters, and there are plenty of scenes of police and national guard being marshaled against them. In one clip, a couple dozen police officers opened fire on a kid with a skateboard. In another, they open fire on a journalist giving a live report. In another, they're beating back protestors holding signs.

And "reestablishing order" is an obvious farce, because the Trump administration was deliberately provoking this conflict by sending in masked agents to abduct people and at least in one instance, running over a protestor. The administration has been consistently escalating the conflict, which is not something you do to "reestablish order", but it is absolutely a tactic of 20th century authoritarians to acquire emergency powers which they then use to prevent elections, jail political opponents, etc.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-06-10 14:29:30+00:00
> If it was about states rights they wouldn't support sending in the military.

I'm not in support of administration or MAGA.

But, to be pedantic, you can be for states' rights, but against states overstepping Federal powers.

Immigration is, currently, a Federal power.

Who is and is not a citizen is not a state's decision.

Just because you're in favor of state's rights (I am), does not mean you think every single issue should be a state's issue.

Maybe you'd like each state to fund their own SS and Medicare. But that's not how it is. And it's unlikely to ever happen.
by barrell | 2025-06-10 14:29:41+00:00
I find the search pretty poor on Apple Maps, but I’ve traveled the world using only Apple Maps and I’ve gotten around fine in quite remote areas.

The only reason I ever use google maps is to search somewhere and copy paste the address into Apple Maps.

Can’t speak towards Japan or Taiwan specifically but it’s been fine in extremely rural Africa, India, Brazil, Indonesia, Bosnia, Australia, etc. Much better than Google Maps in most of Western Europe and America these days.
by keiferski | 2025-06-10 14:30:41+00:00
The opponent part could use one extra point: reduce your opponent’s options to the range you want them to have, not to none at all.

From Sun Tzu, and put into practice frequently by the Mongols:

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mohi

Finally, the demoralized soldiers decided to flee. They tried to escape through a gap left open on purpose by the Mongols, and almost all of them were slaughtered.
by jmward01 | 2025-06-10 14:30:53+00:00
China is pushing so much power production via renewables that the idea of 'free' power is becoming more and more of a reality. I don't think using this for fuel makes a lot of sense but we use oil for a lot of things other than fuels. With enough investment in renewables to create huge amounts of excess power we can potentially use this to replace a lot of the non fuel uses of oil. Factories in the desert that produce their own raw materials from the air using the solar and wind right next to them is the dream here.
by sleepybrett | 2025-06-10 14:30:53+00:00
they were peacefully protesting, then the cops showed up and escalated the situation. Then there were small amounts of disorder. Then the media does what it does, the rightwing media goes for hyperbole (it's a third word situation, the city is on fire, etc) the leftwing parrots what the cops say 'riots' (two waymos on fire is not a riot, it's a protest with agitators, arrest the agitators, no collection of thousands of people with their blood up is ever going to be perfect. How many fights outside of any stadium after any football game). Then it has spiraled from there. Deploying active duty military into a US city to quell 'riots' won't do anything but get people killed.

During CHAZ/CHOP in seattle, I lived across town, if I didn't watch the news I wouldn't have known anything was happening. My GF lived within two blocks of the 'zone', it didn't effect her one bit. In fact it was a bit of a party atmosphere in the area with all the painting of street murals and all. Eventually some kids decided to agitate the situation by stealing a car (i think that's what the final determination was) and tear assing all over (like literally off roading into the park in and around occupied tents). This riled up the 2nd amendment types who declared themselves the CHOP/CHAZ police and they shot the kids. It was tragic and it sullied the whole situation.

To watch the national news you would have thought that all of seattle was on literal fire and there were roving gangs all over the city. Don't trust the broadcast media narrative of these situations.
by spiderfarmer | 2025-06-10 14:30:55+00:00
Not everyone will critically assess the validity of the government's claims. When the press repeats such statements without scrutiny or fact-checking, it does real harm. Many people will uncritically echo what the government says, simply because they already support them.

A statement like "The government is scrambling to justify an unnecessary escalation, driven solely by a president who has praised violent authoritarian leaders, by labeling it an 'insurrection.' When asked for evidence, officials mocked reporters and threatened to exclude them from future briefings." offers verifiable context and reflects the serious threat posed by a leader who appears intent on pushing the country toward chaos.
by beyondHelp | 2025-06-10 14:31:18+00:00
Nah, Everything has beginning and end and USA and others are very much near their end. You can't build anything new without destroying old. It is painful to live in "interesting times", but it is part of natural processes when corruption eats away society that is falling apart only this time it is very global.

The signs are there, that this is global situation before WW1 or WW2 - status quo has to change, balance of power has to change - USA does not want to start to implement any of those changes and those who are way smarter than me think that USA should stay away from epicenter of anything and join for the spoils only part.
by HillRat | 2025-06-10 14:31:36+00:00
It looks like the military being deployed on rioters

Leaving aside the equivalence of "protesting" with "rioting," the United States has robust Constitutional, common-law and statutory guardrails against the use of the military domestically. The US military cannot, absent an insurrection in which regular legal order cannot be maintained, be deployed against US residents. The use of the military in the past has been limited to what were deemed by federal and state officials full insurrections (e.g., the Whiskey Rebellion), or, in the civil rights era, in response to governors affirmatively refusing to enforce the law regarding an end to segregation and the integration of public institutions. In this case we have state and local officials explicitly stating that the factual predicates of an insurrection aren't being satisfied (the protests cover a few square blocks in a metropolitan area that by itself is larger than Lebanon or Kosovo, in a state larger than Japan or Sweden). While courts traditionally give deference to executive determinations of this sort, they aren't beyond judicial review, and this is (I would argue) clearly pretextual.

What we're seeing here, conversely, is an attempt to sidestep this clear principle through not-particularly-clever tricks and semantic gamesmanship; for example, mobilizing Marines to "protect federal property," but then DHS officially asking DOD to give active duty forces arrest power. This is clearly unconstitutional and illegal, but, as with much we've seen recently, the hope appears to be that if you change the facts on the ground quickly enough, the clear illegality of the actions can be ignored.

In addition, the federalization of a state National Guard against the will of the state is unprecedented; I don't know of any previous example of this happening. In the American system, even though the National Guard is a vestige of the old state militias, it's clear that the states are at least assumed to have plenary authority over their own forces absent an invasion or insurrection.
by sltr | 2025-06-10 14:31:46+00:00
> to ask a clarifying question

I think one shortfall of LLMs is their reluctance to ask clarifying questions. From my own post [1]:

> LLMs are poor communicators, so you have to make up the difference. Unlike a talented direct report, LLMs don't yet seem generally able to ask the question-behind-the-question or to infer a larger context behind a prompt, or even ask for clarification.

[1] https://www.slater.dev/dev-skills-for-the-llm-era/
by umvi | 2025-06-10 14:32:02+00:00
Not true in my experience. Just because a doctor has gone to medical school doesn't mean they are good at debugging/troubleshooting. I've had many doctors try to diagnose my chronic issues with guesswork and hunches instead of methodically eliminating possibilities with tests. I had to switch doctors many times to find one good enough to diagnose my condition (LADA aka type 1.5 diabetes). I actually asked the first doctor if it could be LADA and he said "nah, I don't think so", so then I asked if we could test for it to rule it out and again he declined and confidently encouraged me to exercise more and eat fewer carbs.
by piva00 | 2025-06-10 14:32:04+00:00
I don't know anything else apart from finding communities and mobilising with similar-minded people, there's power in numbers.

At the same time it feels pretty hopeless, even more when I noticed downvotes coming to my comment right after the day rose in the USA without any rebuttal, you're among people who actually support this and do not realise the path it's verging towards.
by mingus88 | 2025-06-10 14:33:22+00:00
That’s it though. The iPhone set the paradigm for nearly 20 years. And up to that point nobody knew it was coming.

It’s been done and every tech company wants to find the next game changing thing.

I’m kinda rooting for Apple on this one. Give me a smarter smart phone that doesn’t sell out my privacy.

If they can do that and whatever AR or VR or whatever ends up finally being usable perhaps it will be built with user privacy back in mind. As it is I’m not getting anywhere near a Meta or a Google or an Amazon reality device
by insane_dreamer | 2025-06-10 14:33:23+00:00
One thing I don't quite understand is how vaccines have become such a left-right political issue. Is this because of the COVID vaccine mandate? But that was started under Trump and continued under Biden, so really both parties were involved in that. What did I miss?

I also find it odd that in their reporting the media lumps all vaccines together, as either "safe" or "unsafe". I would trust a vaccine that's been around for decades giving us time to evaluate any long term effects, such as MMR for example, over a newly created one, about which we can only speculate as to the long-term effects.
by hk1337 | 2025-06-10 14:33:27+00:00
> Say goodbye to webdriver compatibility nightmares

That's cool but Chrome is the only browser I have had these issues with. We have a cron process that uses selenium, initially with Chrome, and every time there was a chrome browser update we had to update the web driver. I switched it to Firefox and haven't had to update the web driver since.

I like the async portion of this but this seems like MechanicalSoup?

*EDIT* MechanicalSoup doesn't necessarily have async, AFAIK.
by tialaramex | 2025-06-10 14:33:46+00:00
> In most parliamentary democracies, the Prime Minister is much more powerful than the US President. This is particularly the case since the PM is PM by virtue of his party having the legislative majority.

This is a grave misunderstanding. A legislative majority isn't a static historical fact like Trump's electoral majority, it's dynamic - those are identifiable people not just a statistic.

Liz Truss was the UK's Prime Minister for less than two months. What changed in two months? Probably most of the idiots who actually voted for her didn't change their minds, but that doesn't matter, her fellow Tory MPs feared the worst from the outset and were proven correct. If she hadn't left she'd have been kicked out, she's known to have actually asked if there's some way she can cling on and been told basically "No" because there isn't.

Ultimately, if they can't get rid of her any other way, her backbench only needs to affirm a simple motion, "That This House Has No Confidence In His Majesty's Government" and it's all over. It would never come to that, but that's the backstop.
by mustache_kimono | 2025-06-10 14:33:50+00:00
> Taking a more active role, though, and saying "this is how I want you to respond to that motion" will shortcut a lot of that research time.

Taken literally however "this is how I want you to respond to that motion" could be wildly reckless. I think your discussion above amounts to equivocation on the word "strategy". It's fine to set business "strategy". Telling an attorney what should literally be in his response to a motion, ignores all his/her knowledge about motion practice, the law, and evidence which will be relevant to the question. Like -- this is a 12(b)(6) motion, not a motion for summary judgment. We are questioning the sufficiency of the claim on the page, not whether there are genuine issues of material fact.

Business strategy is "don't spend gobs of money on this motion" not "file what I tell you."
by wirybeige | 2025-06-10 14:33:56+00:00
I'm well aware of this issue. I don't expect windows to look the same to each other. I like that the title bar can have other content in it other than just the app name and the close button.

For that reason alone I avoid Qt apps, as almost none draw their own title bar. Qt apps aren't even consistent among themselves in theming/style, for example the only apps that look in place on KDE are specifically made with KDE in mind.

I don't understand where the "consistency" obsession comes from, all these apps use different tool kits and will look different regardless.
by nstj | 2025-06-10 14:34:27+00:00
> The problem there is twofold. One is that so-called on-device AI hasn’t yet proved to be a major selling point for products such as PCs and smartphones. The other is that Apple’s lack of its own cloud-based AI capabilities leaves the $3 trillion company still in need of powerful allies. The company struck a deal with OpenAI last year to effectively back up its own AI capabilities, and analysts have widely been expecting similar partnerships involving other major AI services, including Google’s Gemini.
by throwaway894345 | 2025-06-10 14:34:29+00:00
> Clearly if these people torching the cars are waving foreign flags, they are a foreign enemy and thus the military is appropriate, no?

No. Torching cars is already a crime and the city and state were already restoring order. The kind of flag waved while a car is torched does not change the calculus. Critically, a US citizen does not cease to be a US citizen because they waved a foreign flag; we have free speech in the United States, and flag-waving is protected by the first amendment.

Also worth noting that none of this would have happened if the regime didn't deliberately provoke it in the first place.
by jstimpfle | 2025-06-10 14:34:33+00:00
> In Landshut for example, there's a car sharing association,

Driving like at least 20 times alone would have cost me what, maybe 1000 bucks? Ignoring all the other trouble that makes it less spontaneous.

Also, those cars specifically aren't the right size to transport furniture in the first place. I also can't wear them down like my own car.

> a move is like what, a once in a decade event?

Depends, but there are other situations where you want to move things.

> A car is hundreds of euros a month (the cost of the car itself / depreciation, maintenance, fuel, replacement parts, insurance, rent for a garage plus of course the fuel). It's an incredible waste of money to own a car if all you're realistically using it is once a year for a trip to Italy and once a year to haul some furniture.

Our car is a relatively cheap one, probably 150-200 euros a month all in (about 50 Euros/month for fuel, 50 Euros/month insurance and taxes, about 3500 Euros for buying and maintenance in 3.5 years, you can expect the average cost of ownership here to go down if we hold it for another couple years). Apart from commute (2x/week), we use it 1-2x per week on average. Plus, we can use it for holidays and other trips.

For the basic person-transport needs we could probably use Car Sharing cars if we need it less than 5 times per month (we need it more), but it would be less ergonomic.