MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by layer8 | 2025-06-21 19:50:43+00:00
I disagree that it is well-understood in the way you describe. I agree that there are two distinct concepts: 1. Programs that can be run as a CLI command, often without further user interaction (but consider cases like rm -i, which are quite common), and 2. programs that expose their functionality by providing their own interactive CLI.

In the case of 1, the program’s argument syntax can be referred to as the program’s “command-line interface”. But the abbreviation “CLI” usually means the interactive interface as in 2.

The latter is analogous to the notion of how TUI programs provide their own interactive interface. When making the distinction between CLI and TUI, it’s the latter that is meant, i.e. is it a line-oriented or screen-oriented user interface.

Saying “CLI editor” doesn’t imply that the editor commands are necessarily invoked as non-interactive shell commands, as opposed to the editor providing a CLI of its own.

Technically, every program can serve as a “CLI command”, since you can invoke it with arguments. However, “command line” is generally understood to mean the user interface where the user types commands, as opposed to non-interactive program invocation. When invoking a program with arguments from another program with exec or similar, you don’t call that a CLI.
by woodruffw | 2025-06-21 19:51:05+00:00
> but i suppose that swapping out PGP for something entirely different should technically be possible.

That would probably be good, but email is still a terrible substrate for secure messaging. Clear metadata is security poison; you want as little of it revealed to participant servers as possible.

> they did develop a peer to peer protocol with forward security for real-time messages that sidesteps SMTP entirely.

That’s great, but in that case: what’s the value proposition relative to Signal or even Matrix?
by belorn | 2025-06-21 19:51:29+00:00
My anecdotal experience as a diver in Sweden that do a few ocean clean days per year, and who have operated during the periods of before, during and after a plastic bag ban, my experience has been that the ban worked greatly in reducing bags and plastic eating tools to a very major degree. Before the ban we saw plastic garbage practically every single dive, and the days we were cleaning we picked up bags of it by the end of the day. In contrast, plastic garbage is now thankfully rather rare to see, maybe once every 10th dive, and the effect has continued after the ban was lifted (so far). On cleaning days we might get like a few items in total. Plastic is no longer a major thing we pick up, and focus is instead on e-scooters and cans of laughing gas. In the couple ocean clean up events we have found more scooters than plastic bags.

I have seen a few canvas bags, but they don't seem to last long under the water.
by 1shooner | 2025-06-21 19:51:38+00:00
>some APAC conspiracy

This is not a binary of either NWO conspiracy or paranoid antisemitism . AIPAC is a lobby, just like many other lobbies. They boast on their website[1] that they've paid $53M to politicians. Just like any other lobby, the electorate has a right and responsibility to judge whether the influence it has bought is in their best interests.

1. https://www.aipacpac.org/home
by Aurornis | 2025-06-21 19:51:52+00:00
In the case of niche, power user focused products like this I think it’s actually reasonable to assume the target audience should know what a compositor is.

For projects like this that come with some assembly required, having a light filter on your funnel can actually be beneficial. Cast too wide of a net and you collect a lot of people who aren’t qualified to use the product but expect a lot of support anyway.
by sksjvsla | 2025-06-21 19:51:53+00:00
Nice observation.

I took for granted that Hetzner and OVHcloud would be prone to failures due to their bad rep, not my own experience, so I wanted to be able to direct traffic to one if the other was down.

Doing load balancing ourselves in either of the two clouds gave rise to some chicken and egg situations now that we were assuming that one of them could be down (again not my lived experience).

Doing this externally was deliberate and picking something with a better rep than Hetzner and OVHcloud was obvious in that case.
by SllX | 2025-06-21 19:52:04+00:00
We’re only talking about today, bruh. There’s no sense worrying about a tomorrow that may never come, but I’m willing to bet that 10 years from now we still have the strongest military in and around The Hague and even beyond, very very few would ever be willing to threaten war with us to back up the ICC.

Now, 20 years from now? 30 years from now? 50? Who knows.
by kgwxd | 2025-06-21 19:52:13+00:00
i'll never wear them but i'm sure they'll have wireless conn for a keyboard, mouse, and other sane inputs, just like phones. for me the worst part of touchscreen is having to hold the device like a fancy glass egg (on a sane device i'd look up how to spell the word for that) no matter what i'm doing out of fear the wrong thing will happen if i don't. at least a plain monitor strapped to my face doesn't have that concern.
by charlie0 | 2025-06-21 19:52:28+00:00
I used to pay Nebula precisely because they had premium original content, however they let in a lot of other creators to widen the (see the tyranny of the marginal user) type of content. I've since canceled my subscription because it's gotten bloated with too much lower quality content.

The whole point of Nebula is NOT to become another YT, it's meant to be curated source of media.
by frosted-flakes | 2025-06-21 19:52:30+00:00
People adapt though. I don't hear complaints about shopping bags anymore (except for American visitors), the way I still do about paper straws. Plastic bags at checkouts were only banned where I live a couple of years ago, and most people have learned to keep a few reusable bags in the car, and generally to plan better.

I actually worked in a hardware store for a while, and after the old supply of plastic bags ran out it was common practice for customers to either bring their own bags, carry stuff out in their hands, or use one of the hundreds of small cardboard boxes or trays that were set aside on receiving day when the shelves were stocked.
by libraryofbabel | 2025-06-21 19:52:51+00:00
I love how this article cuts right through a lot of bad trite explanations for literary fiction’s decline that have been pushed by its adherents (“the internet made people stupid”) to really try and analyze the supply side and demand side factors of why not many people buy contemporary literary fiction anymore.

His point that people still read challenging literary fiction, just by dead people, also seems an important one (see HN’s recent discussions of reading Ulysses) and rather damning for contemporary literary novelists. So is the point that many good writers who wanted to actually earn a living that way ended up writing for prestige TV in the 2000s instead.

I do wish he’d discussed more why Sally Rooney seems to be the exception, in terms of commercial success. What is it about her books that’s different?

Finally, he seems to draw a pretty hard boundary between literary and “genre” fiction that I’m not sure always exists. Ursula Le Guin is a good counterexample here.
by zzzeek | 2025-06-21 19:52:54+00:00
the "law", OK well here's "law", TikTok was supposed to be banned from the US about six months ago and SCOTUS even upheld it. Arrests are supposed to be made with agents that identify themselves and even if it's a nice day out read those crusty old "miranda rights" - we now watch videos all day long of masked, unidentified men jumping out of cars with no license plates and disappearing US citizens. Or tackling US Senators to the ground and detaining them for verbally interrupting a federal employee who reports to the Senate for oversight. You know, normal stuff.

None of these "laws" seem to matter at all so it will be quite trivial to make a datacenter get written off as a nature center or whatever this "law" permits
by antisol | 2025-06-21 19:53:10+00:00
> And how are you going to find that gas station (which may not be exactly on the road you are driving on) if there is no sign advertising for it?

Well, actually, in all serious travel I do, I tend to know exactly where I'm going to stop for fuel before I ever set off. It's programmed into my gps as part of my route. And I'm going to find it using my gps software.

If I'm doing a less-serious trip somewhere and I don't pre-plan my stops, the way I find places to stop for fuel is I drive along on my route, and if I need fuel, when I see a "gas" station, I stop there. Again, no billboards needed.

> You can tell me you can (snip) program it on your navigation app. Not only it is not the most convenient,

I find it super convenient. Much much more convenient than running out of fuel or not knowing if I have enough to make it to a particular place.

> how do you think that gas station ended up on that map? Most likely the business paid for that, making it an ad.

Well, that's debatable. It's a listing for an amenity of a certain type (fuel station) on openstreetmap. To be in the "Fuel" category that shows up on my gps software, you'll need to sell fuel (or your entry will get edited and you'll show up in a different category). In much the same way as a sign saying "public toilet, this way" isn't an ad.

But the debate about the blurry lines of "what is an ad?" is beside the point: have you noticed how that pattern of: "I want a thing, I search for it, I find it, and then I'm not looking for it anymore" holds true here? And also how no obnoxious billboards were involved?

Even if it is an "ad", it's in an appropriate place - on openstreetmap, in the "fuel" category, and searchable by gps coordinates. I can toggle whether I want things in the 'fuel' category to be visible in my gps software very easily - I can turn that "ad" off with exactly 2 button presses if it bugs me. It's not a huge obnoxious billboard blocking my view of the countryside, lit up with 10000W of lights at night time.
by tguvot | 2025-06-21 19:53:41+00:00
russia used cluster bombs (or actually rockets) from day 1 on population centers https://news.sky.com/video/ukraine-crisis-cluster-munition-d...

ukraine uses them only at front to attack troops

it's geneva convention. not convention on cluster munition

According to Article 51(5)(b), an attack is disproportionate, and thus indiscriminate, if it “may be expected to cause incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians, damage to civilian objects, or a combination thereof, which would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated.”11 Certain kinds of cluster munition attacks tend to tip the scale toward being disproportionate. Strikes in or near populated areas are particularly problematic because when combatants and civilians commingle, civilian casualties are difficult to avoid. Based on research in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia, Human Rights Watch believes that when non-precision guided submunitions are used in any type of populated area, there should be a strong, if rebuttable, presumption under the proportionality test that an attack is indiscriminate. In other words, a cluster munition strike on a populated area should be considered indiscriminate under the law, unless the military, which should bear the burden of proof, could show the military advantage of a particular strike outweighed the civilian harm.

Cluster munition strikes also have the potential to be indiscriminate because the weapons cannot be precisely targeted. Article 51(4)(b) prohibits attacks “which employ a method or means of combat which cannot be directed at a specific military objective.”12
by yoavm | 2025-06-21 19:53:53+00:00
> because Israel bought Trump

I don't think the US ever had a president who cared less about Israel than Trump. The few times Trump has been on the Israel side seem to be only because Israel was "winning" some conflict, and Trump just prefers being on the winning side. He doesn't seem to care (or understand) the slightest whether Jews have a state, whether they can defend themselves, etc.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-21 19:54:25+00:00
I can understand how people like fishing [1] but... Fishing minigames? I like Japanese games a lot but not the finishing minigames. One of the many things I found tone deaf about Horizon Worlds was that the starter world asked you to pick a game genre you like and when I picked RPG it put me in.... a fishing minigame.

[1] though my favorite time doing it was catching smelt on the docks on the back side of the barrier island at Hampton Beach with my grandparents and bringing back enough to fill the freezer
by aforwardslash | 2025-06-21 19:56:56+00:00
Still, things fail. A-tier clouds also fail, and you may still have to design for it. Rule of thumb, if you are capable of rolling out your own version, you'll be far more competent planning for & handling downtime, and will often have full ownership of the solution.

Also, any company with strict uptime requirements will have proper risk analysis in place, outlining the costs of the chosen strategy in case of downtime; these decisions require proper TCO evaluation and risk analysis, they aren't made in a vacuum.
by ajkjk | 2025-06-21 19:57:22+00:00
Well, you won't find anyone who disagrees with you here. No such morality is being discussed.

The job of a system of morality is to synthesize all the things we want to happen / want to prevent happening into a way of making decisions. One such thing is piles of dead bodies. Another is one's natural moral instincts, like their need to take care of their family, or the feeling of responsibility to invest time and energy into improving their future or their community or repairing justice or helping people who need help, or to attend to their needs for art and meaning and fun and love and respect. A coherent moral system synthesizes these all and figures out how much priority to allocate to each thing in a way that is reasonable and productive.

Any system of morality that takes one of these criteria and discards the rest of them is not a system of morality at all, in the very literal sense that nobody will do it. Most people won't sell out one of their moral impulses for the others, and EA/rationalism feels like it asks them too, since it asks them to place zero value in a lot of things that they inherently place moral value in, and so they find it creepy and weird. (It doesn't ask that explicitly; it asks it by omission. By never considering any other morality and being incapable of considering them, because they are not easily quantifiable/made logical, it asks you to accept a framework that sets you up to ignore most of your needs.)

My angle here is that I'm trying to describe what I believe is already happening. I'm not advocating it; it's already there, like a law of physics.
by boomskats | 2025-06-21 19:57:47+00:00
I really don't understand why all the lazy complaints about how the 'purchase a hyprland premium subscription' page doesn't provide an exhaustive explanation of what Hyprland is are top of this comments section. The homepage, at https://hypr.land, does that pretty well.

As for the move by the hyprland maintainers to go down this freemiumesque route (which I assume is why this link was actually posted and is top of HN), all I'll say is that Niri[0] is absolutely fantastic, and I expect it's about to get even more popular.

[0]: https://github.com/yalter/niri
by tanaros | 2025-06-21 19:58:06+00:00
> Trump won the majority vote in an election that brought out a huge amount of voters compared to previous elections, and Republicans won every other government body.

For the curious, based on [1], turnout in 2024 was 63.1% of the voting eligible population, compared to 65.3% in 2020, 59.2% in 2016, and 58.0% in 2012.

[1] https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/voter-turnou...
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-21 19:58:11+00:00
> AIPAC is a lobby, just like many other lobbies

Sure. One among many. They’re influential, but not deterministic.

> that they've paid $53M to politicians

No, they don’t. They’re reporting campaign donations.

There is a tendency, when we disagree with an election, to tally up the donations made to the other side while ignoring all the times the best-funded candidate got trounced. (Jeb!) The influence of money in politics is one of sharply-diminishing returns. It is invaluable for name recognition. It doesn’t swing people on fundamental issues.

Israel has had unique sway in America because for most of its history it has been uniquely popular. Partly because of our Jewish diaspora. Partly because they were a reliable ally. And partly because they give us a lot of money. But two out of three of those factors also apply to the Gulf states, and we tend to be a bit less deferential to them because they’re just not as popular.
by em-bee | 2025-06-21 19:59:11+00:00
connecting to default server, which is what 99.9% of users are going to do.

not quite. the default server feature is only a year old. while deltachat itself goes back to at least 2017, so the majority of users will not be on that default server now, and it would be possible to offer a randomized selection to prevent one default server from dominating.
by fendale | 2025-06-21 19:59:40+00:00
Are you saying that on IOS 18 if you enable developer mode then each time you forgot the network it gets a new Mac? But without developer mode it does not get a new Mac each time you forget it? The Apple docs linked elsewhere in this thread suggest it only gets a new Mac once per 24 hours when you forget the network normally. I’m going on a long boat trip in the next week where this trick might work for me if so!
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-06-21 20:01:01+00:00
>I agree with the article in that the mechanics of the game weren't ideal. Personally as someone that LOVES 4x and has spent _way_ too much time playing them, I think the format is fundamentally flawed and cannot be saved (e.g. expanding is too overpowered, games become too dull to close out - given the win was effectively gained hundreds of turns ago, AI being too costly to implement and difficult to balance). IMHO the best 4x game that will come out at some point in the future won't actually follow the 4x format.

Yeah, your decisions are very important in the early game (because that's what determines the speed at which your snowball grows), but as your faction grows, your individual decisions become more and more meaningless and monotonous.

One possible approach is to have the player's role gradually shift somehow, from micromanagement to providing overall strategic direction.

OP states:

>Meanwhile the automation functions are undermined by being abjectly stupid more often than not. Your governor will happily continue researching string theory while his rioting citizens are burning the place down around his ears. You can try to fine-tune his instructions, but there comes a point when you realize that it’s easier just to do everything yourself.

I wonder if turning it into a programming game could help address this problem? Then again, I'd be tempted to re-use my "code" across various playthroughs. Probably most players would go to the wiki to copy some "code" which is known to perform quite well.
by ajkjk | 2025-06-21 20:01:03+00:00
you've latched on to some academic sense of the term but I understood exactly what the person you're replying to meant. They mean: are these people you would respect and trust to be in charge of things? What would they do? And a lot of people's vibe-check says it's a big unknown question mark, or worse, which is not something you can put faith in.
by cjs_ac | 2025-06-21 20:01:14+00:00
The Earl of Sandwich was not a naval officer; the First Lord of the Admiralty was the chair of the Board of Admiralty, which was a committee formed to undertake the duties of the office of Lord High Admiral. The Board of Admiralty had responsibility for the administration of the Royal Navy. Operational command was (and remains) the responsibility of the Sea Lords; the most senior serving officer of the Royal Navy is the First Sea Lord.
by mindslight | 2025-06-21 20:01:28+00:00
There are different levels of destruction/collapse to be picking up the pieces from. I sure hope we aren't leaving the common law property record behind, just for what that would say about how much was destroyed.

Likewise to the point where things have gotten so polarized that people are literally slitting each others throats for their politics. I know Faceboot is a hell of a drug and all, but I'm still hopeful the need for justice can be contained to the elites. Like we're all better off if that one guy down the street that has kept his de facto Death to America sign up long after the inauguration can just die of old age.
by satvikpendem | 2025-06-21 20:02:30+00:00
I read a few books the other day, The Million-dollar, One-person Business and Company of One. They both discuss how with the advances of code (to build a product with), the infrastructure to host them (with AWS so that you don't need to build data centers), and the network of people to sell to (the Internet in general, and more specifically social media, both organic and ads-based), the likelihood of running a large multi-million-dollar company all by yourself greatly increases in a way it has never done in the history of humanity before.

They were written before the advent of ChatGPT and LLMs in general, especially coding related ones, so the ceiling must be even greater now, and this is doubly true for technical founders, for LLMs aren't perfect and if your vibed code eventually breaks, you'll need to know how to fix it. But yes, in the future with agents doing work on your behalf, maybe your own work becomes less and less too.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-06-21 20:03:09+00:00
This is easy to accomplish.

> I fondly remember GNOME 2 days. It was the best Linux experience I've ever had.

You can just use MATE, which is just GNOME 2 forked and continued.

> KDE with infinite number of settings that put me into depression the moment I open their control panel

Okay, then don't do that. KDE's defaults are fine. The fact that options exist is not harmful to you.

> or those weird tiled WMs which I have zero interest in, because I almost never split my screen, all my windows are maximised 99% of time.

You can use i3/sway with

workspace_layout tabbed

and have all your windows maximized unless you explicitly force them to do something else.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-06-21 20:03:26+00:00
>My wishlist for a proper civ successor is a game that takes you from a single village to a globe-spanning superpower, not on a single map with a single handful of opponents, but starting as a village with village-sized opponents which you will conquer or co-opt, expanding the scope of the game, the map and creating new opponents matched to your progress as you progress through the eras.

In principle this could be achieved through the agar.io approach. Spawn the map with 100s of small fish. Small fish either swallow or get swallowed, and increasingly over time, you get fewer and fewer, bigger and bigger fish.
by Quarrelsome | 2025-06-21 20:03:37+00:00
sure but that's a consequence of US firms having that capital. Ultimately all investors and owners want an exit, if not as a strategy, eventually as a retirement plan. It's just that US firms buying you out is the most likely exit in this world.

But the point remains that the EU also innovates. So to suggest that it doesn't and its reliance on US tech is somehow its own fault for not trying, is missing the detail.