MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by spacemadness | 2025-06-26 16:01:49+00:00
I’ve found engineers, those that care about front end design anyway, to be better UX designers than supposed UX designers. Which makes sense as you’re integrating the design into an overall system and need to understand the implications in a deep way. Most UX designers can’t seem to think past the screen in front of them or even visualize anything but the narrow happy path. Unfortunately we’re training new engineers into this stupid corporate hierarchy where all decision making is taken away from engineers. I had to push junior engineers to speak up when they saw something as every signal to them is to stay on your lane.
by fwip | 2025-06-26 16:02:11+00:00
Sometimes after it flails for a while, but I think it's on the right path, I'll rewind the context to just before it started trying to solve the problem (but keep the code changes). And I'll tell it "I got this other guy to attempt what we just talked about, but it still has some problems."

Snipping out the flailing in this way seems to help.
by hedgehog | 2025-06-26 16:03:08+00:00
An accurate emulator with clean codebase is a good starting point onto which to add patches/shortcuts. I've looked through the Basilisk patching code, it's not really complicated, and there are a handful of partial Toolbox reimplementations including the bits in Basilisk, Executor (author is in the comments here), MACE, etc. It would be some work to port but mostly direct translation of the code & adding test infrastructure.
by mooreds | 2025-06-26 16:03:14+00:00
I'm in the auth space.

It's usually best to verify JWTs using an asymmetric keypair, that way the BetterAuth node can sign the JWT, and your servers can use something like JWKS to get the public key.

Lessens where the secret key needs to be.

The exception is if:

* you control all the nodes and are confident in the security of all of them now and going forward AND * speed is critical (using HMAC to sign JWTs is faster) AND * you've benchmarked and signing speed is a significant portion of response time
by brk | 2025-06-26 16:03:24+00:00
Yes, but on a limited budget solar may not always be the best option to some kind of energy independence. It really depends on what you are trying to solve for. Solar alone won't carry loads at night, the panels are generally not portable, they won't produce much output in the middle of a storm, etc.

As an example, during one of the hurricanes that came through FL last year we lost power shortly after the storm hit. I had a smallish leak with water coming in, it was entirely manageable with a wetvac, running off my generator. But solar panels would have been producing zero output at the same time. Even a large battery bank would have been sufficient.

IME, Solar is something where there is often a case where the minimum investment to get a truly worthwhile system is higher than other things like generators, or recently even battery banks. People often overlook all the situations where solar won't produce any output. I look at solar as more of a second-tier energy independence solution than a first-tier. And it worth nothing this is speaking primarily for applications in North America that have generally stable power. If you're in a remote area with no reliable power infrastructure then the parameters are way different.
by big_alfredo | 2025-06-26 16:03:37+00:00
Interesting, In zsh I experienced the exact behavior you described and setting input_delay to 10 completely resolved it. To be fair, when testing my PS1 was simply '%m$ '.

I just benchmarked 'starship prompt' and when in a directory managed by git, it can take well over 10ms. I imagine with a more advanced configuration it would take even longer. urxvt must be doing something special.
by roryirvine | 2025-06-26 16:04:23+00:00
Digging into it further, it looks like there's a mix - backported bugfixes, Apple-specific fixes, and security issues which may or may not have been fixed by upstream long ago.

Some of it almost certainly would be useful upstream (eg. the clang warnings, and any unfixed security issues), and some might warrant being reimplemented in a different way (those Apple-specific ifdefs in the middle of platform-independent code blocks). But that's not ever going to happen, because of the way Apple jumbles it all together.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-06-26 16:04:25+00:00
I have installed 200kw+ worth of rooftop (Florida) and ground mount (NorCal) resi systems (primarily Enphase, but I'm familiar with the operating requirements of other inverters), and am currently riding shotgun for a ~200MW solar PV project in the Midwest. If you share more details (general location, utility, and energy cost schedule [static, seasonal]), I am happy to provide some guidance.
by conartist6 | 2025-06-26 16:04:35+00:00
And here it is again. "More productive"

But this doesn't mean that the model/human combo is more effective at serving the needs of users! It means "producing more code."

There are no LLMs shipping changesets that delete 2000 lines of code -- that's how you know "making engineers more productive" is a way of talking about how much code is being created...
by cloverich | 2025-06-26 16:04:41+00:00
Something helping me lately is focusing on practical habits and training myself to view thoughts as an outcome of my habits and physical well being, rather than (only) the opposite. In practice simple things like going to bed at a consistent early time, making my bed, shaving and getting properly dressed (on wfh days where its of no consequence otherwise). Exercise, etc. Most important, by far, had been to not view that list of things as all or nothing. Tiniest step helps, even eg cleaning just a couple dishes, single piece of trash, etc. Its helped me see all or nothing thinking as the main enemy, and these little actions as the greatest weapon against it.

The more days I tackle the little things, the more empowered i feel. And the more I notice, now even on days where only half the list of those basic wellbeing hygiene things get done, I still feel tremendously better. Different. And the less need I feel to treat those chores as the goal and lore as a simple means to living a simple good life, and enjoying the good moments. I see the interplay of physically taking care of yourself and others, incremental progress and good habits, and a more balance outlook on life all toed together and all part of a healthier and happier mindset.

Tldr when I start to slip and spend less time diagnosing and more time finding something, anything, small to change course, and am surprised at the ripple effect is (now) has.
by foxyv | 2025-06-26 16:04:56+00:00
While economical in the sense of a personal budget, airplanes are not nearly as economical as high speed rail in general.

Subsidies and externalities kind of muddy the water when it comes to ticket prices. While it is generally cheaper to fly, this is because you are not paying for the damage your flight is causing to the city around it. Noise, pollution, damage to property, and disruption of the quiet enjoyment of those around you.

Shinkansen is a for profit business that acts as an engine to turn worthless rural land into extremely valuable land. Air travel does the opposite. Property values around airports are extremely low. Every plane rattling people's windows and dropping a plume of unburnt fuel and exhaust on people's heads damages the area under it.
by elzbardico | 2025-06-26 16:05:42+00:00
Funny thing is the structured output in the last example.

``` { "reasoning": "`cfg` can be nil on line 42; dereferenced without check on line 47", "finding": "Possible nil‑pointer dereference", "confidence": 0.81 } ```

You know the confidence value is completely bogus, don't you?
by duskwuff | 2025-06-26 16:06:17+00:00
> Am I misunderstanding this, or is this the source code to Apple System 7.1?

More or less, yes. It only encompasses the system (i.e. not applications like the Finder) and isn't entirely complete, but it's still a great window into the world of Apple pre-OS X.

> There seems to have been a mailing list about this codebase from 02018 to 02021: https://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/cdg5/

This mailing list was for a set of projects which focused on taking this code dump (among other things) and making it compile, ideally to reproduce released binaries.

https://github.com/elliotnunn/cdg5
by skydhash | 2025-06-26 16:06:40+00:00
> My point is that a pre-compiled binary is extremely more convenient for everyone involved in the delivery pipeline* including the end-user. Especially for delivering updates.*

The easiest is running "sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade" and have my whole system updated. Instead of writing some script to get it done from some github's releases page and hoping that it's not hijacked.

Having a sensible project is what make it easy down the line (including not depending on gnu libc if not needed as some people uses musl). And I believe it's easy to setup a repository if your code is proprietary (Just need to support the most likely distribution, like ubuntu, fedora, suse's tumbleweed,...)
by mooreds | 2025-06-26 16:07:10+00:00
I mean, it depends on your use case (and I say this as a cognito competitor).

There are times when Cognito makes a ton of sense (I wrote about some of them here[0]). There are other times when it doesn't.

What I keep wondering and asking is "why doesn't AWS invest more in Cognito?"[1]

0: https://fusionauth.io/blog/how-to-migrate-from-cognito#when-...

1: https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/trends-in-ciam
by toomuchtodo | 2025-06-26 16:07:34+00:00
Very similar to Salesforce shoving AI into Slack and raising prices with no option to not buy it. They’re attempting to force growth that is not forthcoming.

https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/pricing-update-2025/

AI returns still a long way from justifying investment mania - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44389144 - June 2025

(this is not to say AI has no value, but that there is a disconnect between the value prop narrative and the value discovery in progress through experimentation)
by NortySpock | 2025-06-26 16:08:25+00:00
> Go to church (I'm serious, even if you are an atheist).

A few cities have a humanist group called "Oasis"; I used to go and it was basically exactly the same structure as church, except the "sermon" would be a guest speaker talking about a topic that interests them. But still, music, community moment, pass the donation plate, coffee, gossip...

https://www.houstonoasis.org/

Some Oasis groups post a podcast if you want to listen-in.

And of course there's also Unitarian Universalist groups...

Or just find an open-minded place of worship and start attending.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-06-26 16:08:37+00:00
Thanks. Good solution.

I was thinking in terms of finding all subgraph isomorphisms. But this definitely is O(N) if all you need is one solution.

But then I thought about it even further and this reduces to sliding window problem. In this case you still need to travel to each node in the window to see if there’s a match.

So it cannot be that you traverse each node once. Not if you want to find all possible subgraph isomorphisms.

Imagine a string that is a fractal of substrings:

rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

And the other one:

rrrrrrr

Right? The sliding window for rrrrrrr will be 7 in length and you need to traverse that entire window every time you move it. So by that fact alone every node is traversed at least 7 times.
by WorldMaker | 2025-06-26 16:09:08+00:00
Also, most games are still 32-bit EXEs, so on most PCs today they are running not just in the Win32 subsystem, but the WOW64 subsystem (Windows-on-Windows 64) the compatibility layer of running 32-bit Windows applications on top of 64-bit Windows and its Win32 subsystem (it's still called Win32 on 64-bit, an unfortunate naming bug from massive compatibility break differences between Win16 and Win32 that didn't exist in the 64-bit transition, 64-bit didn't get a new API subsystem, it just upgraded the existing one, mostly).
by pjdesno | 2025-06-26 16:10:04+00:00
This paper argues that electronic locks played a large role: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41284-024-00452-2

I would bet that the pervasive use of electronic records has something to do with it, too. According to this 1979 report from the Nat'l Assoc. of Attorneys General, in the 70s there were a lot of paths to retitling a stolen vehicle back then, which along with the the rise of chop shops and easier export of stolen cars, supported a large stolen-car economy: https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/59904NCJRS.pdf
by whatevsmate | 2025-06-26 16:10:32+00:00
Neat, I plan to check this out.

I really want an AI to jam with on a canvas rather than to just have it generate the final results.

I have been hoping someone would pick up on the time series forecasting innovations in the LLM space, combine them with data from e.g. the Google quick draw dataset, and turn that into a real-time “painting partner” experience, kind of like chatting with an LLM through brush strokes.
by good8675309 | 2025-06-26 16:10:39+00:00
To rebuild public trust in vaccines, we should require an annually updated git-style log that documents every ingredient in each vaccine, clearly showing what has changed year to year and allowing full transparency back to the very beginning. This should be accessible to the patient before accepting the vaccine. Additionally, combined vaccine cocktails should be discontinued, each vaccine ought to be offered individually so that people can make informed decisions about each one separately.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-26 16:10:52+00:00
The 1990s were a lost decade for reusable space flight because instead of chasing incremental improvements to the Space Shuttle (an orbiter with reusable tiles that could be turned around in days, not months) or something like the Falcoln 9 or the fly-back version of Saturn V that O'Neill's students drew in 1979, it was all about SSTO.

SSTO is just marginally possible, if it is possible you need exotic materials and engines and you're never going to get a good payload fraction and adding wings, horizontal takeoff, horizontal landing and such just makes it worse. The one good thing about it is that you get closer to "aircraft-like operations" because in principle you can inspect it, refill it, and relaunch it -- whereas something like the STS or Falcoln 9 or Starship will require stacking up multiple parts for each launch.

My guess is aerospikes are making a comeback though because of interest in hypersonic weapons system. I could also see them being useful for the second stage of something like Starship which mostly operates at high altitudes but has to land at low altitudes. There are a lot of other technical problems, like the thermal management system, which really have to be solved before worrying about that optimization.
by lq9AJ8yrfs | 2025-06-26 16:11:11+00:00
Ibuprofen is possibly worse than that, it seems that it may interfere with sex hormones. [1]

This 2017 study I found in 30s of searching is seemingly underpowered at n=30 or so, but the (preliminary) implication is awful enough that I won't give my boys ibuprofen at all. Out of abundance of caution.

They can have naproxen or acetaminophen instead -- we keep those out of reach and teach our children not to touch them without adults.

Perhaps there is some more recent research?

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1715035115
by mbreese | 2025-06-26 16:11:13+00:00
It's not perfect... For example, I don't think there is an easy way to use Apptainer containers w/ VS Code. But it's there if you want to play with it.

I was only partially aware of it as I tend to use Colima more than Lima, but have started to move towards Lima more in general.

That said, I still stick to Docker-style containers personally as they are more widely supported (e.g. VS Code). However, I also work a lot in HPC, so migrating workflows cross-platform to Apptainer containers is a goal of mine.
by joacon | 2025-06-26 16:11:41+00:00
I have created one app called Connective, where people can create and join events near them. It's available on both, Play Store and App Store.

Maybe is not the best, and I'm still working to improve it and add new functionalities. The major problem now is we don't have much users, so there is few content.

Feel free to use it and if you have any questions/suggestion, please let me know.

Best regards
by dghlsakjg | 2025-06-26 16:11:54+00:00
Overdoses declined in the US, as well, where there are no limits on quantity, but there has been a campaign to educate and create better labeling practices for medication containing acetaminophen.

I think it's important to recognize that overdoses can be intentional or unintentional, and it isn't clear which ones will be affected by the policy of limiting purchase quantity per transaction.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5676300/
by haswell | 2025-06-26 16:12:25+00:00
> Work is not life!

People say this, and I understand the sentiment behind it, but this is not true. Work is a large % of most people's lives, and to pretend it is not is to deny the reality of many people's existence.

Most people aspire to work less, myself included, and it's absolutely true that many of the best things in life happen outside of work, but I think it's a bit problematic to pretend people are automatons who can compartmentalize their work and home life. Most brains don't work this way, aspirations notwithstanding.

> Seriously, go outside more! There's a HUGE world outside of a cubicle. Expand your horizons. The rewards will vastly outsize any job satisfaction.

I've been on sabbatical for 3+ years now.

Getting outside more, traveling, spending time not working is exactly why I personally spent a lot of time preparing to leave my last job before I did. I wanted to feel free and unencumbered, and making sure I left things in a good place was an important part of doing that.

There are a lot of assumptions packed into your comment that don't align with my personal reality or lived experience, and many of the things you're describing are not mutually exclusive.

Diagnosing people with mental illness given the limited information available seems like a pretty questionable position to take as well. If caring about the people I built relationships with and investing time to make their lives easier on my way out the door is mental illness, then yes, I'm mentally ill.
by naikrovek | 2025-06-26 16:12:34+00:00
Why doesn’t the OS simply provide this by default? I’ve never understood that.

Process isolation should be the default. You should be able to opt out of certain parts of it as required by your application.

This should not be something you add on top of the OS, nor should it be something that configures existing OS functionality for you. Isolation should be the default.

Only MacOS does anything like this out of the box, that I’m aware of, and I’m not sure that it is granular enough for my liking as it is today. I often see apps asking for full disk access or local network access and deny them, because they don’t need those things, they maybe need a subset of it, but I can’t allow a subset of “full disk access” or “local network access” if the application is running as myself.
by tharmas | 2025-06-26 16:12:47+00:00
The problem is what the rich do with their money: namely asset purchases. Todays rich don't invest in production only asset accumulation. All those years of ZIRP has just resulted in the rich buying up property, hence the high house prices.

Tax the rent-seeking-asset-accumulation rich. Don't tax the rich that invest in production. And tax the banks heavily for loans for asset buying. Encourage the banks to loan for investment in production.
by QuercusMax | 2025-06-26 16:13:18+00:00
In Oregon we have the Community Solar program, which I've heard good things about - rather than building your own rooftop solar, you invest in a solar farm subscription as part of your electric bill, and receive credits for power produced. I haven't signed up for it yet personally but I've heard good reports from some other folks.

https://www.oregoncsp.org/
by iandanforth | 2025-06-26 16:13:31+00:00
Alright, having tried this with Japanese I can say it's frustrating. As a near complete beginner the tutor kept speaking in Japanese even when I said "sorry I don't understand" repeatedly and then when I asked it to start in English and then gradually transition to Japanese it lasted all of one sentence in English before switching back. I can totally see how this would be useful conversation practice if you've progressed that far, but I'd love to have something for even earlier beginners. Also since many of the models you use are natively multi modal this could readily integrate visual media for discussion and grounding.

Also, for the transcription it would be great to get pure romanji to start with!
by hylaride | 2025-06-26 16:13:32+00:00
> Immigration suppresses wages. Which suppresses native born childmaking, which fuels more government charity, erm, welfare, which dampens productivity, which erodes civil liberties.

Japan and Korea have almost no immigration and abysmally low birth rates. Your arguments don't really hold water. Having children is actually more of a burden on the state, as those kids need schools, (in most western countries publicly funded) healthcare, etc. Taking in a healthy immigrant at 20 is better almost all round from a purely economic point of view.

And immigration doesn't suppress wages any more or less than having tons of kids would over the long term. A person "taking" a job is still a taking a person whether they were born or immigrated. This is ignoring the fact that more people over time enlarge the economy and opportunity in it. Would the United States be a better country today if it didn't accept the mass immigration from Italy, Ireland, and Eastern Europe between 1850-1914 and had 1/4 the population?
by serjester | 2025-06-26 16:13:51+00:00
Cool stuff! Probably one of the less popular languages, but I noticed that the transcription with Russian is often quite poor.

Part of me loves this—no judgement, endless convenience, cheap. But another part mourns, sensing it strips away the grit, the stumbles, the soul of language learning. The kind that only comes from fumbling through conversations with another human.

When I was learning Spanish, I used italki extensively and found having a live Columbian tutor invaluable and very affordable for most Westerners. It would genuinely make me sad if those excellent tutors start losing work to this kind of AI.
by SparkyMcUnicorn | 2025-06-26 16:14:09+00:00
I've found that giving agents an "opt out" works pretty well.

For structured outputs, making fields optional isn't usually enough. Providing an additional field for it to dump some output, along with a description for how/when it should be used, covers several issues around this problem.

I'm not claiming this would solve the specific issues discussed in the post. Just a potentially helpful tip for others out there.
by almosthere | 2025-06-26 16:14:19+00:00
After covid they changed who will go to jail for what because they decided overcrowding with covid was killing inmates. I think it was the right thing to do at the time.

However since 2021ish crime has been skyrocketing. It's definitely time to figure out the next steps. I want to live in a peaceful, safe society. It makes sense to separate those that can't help but destroy the peace.

It has also been stated that something like 90% of crime is performed by a very small percentage of people and most of it is just the same person over and over and over. Those people must be separated from society.