MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by crgwbr | 2025-06-21 22:19:54+00:00
Honestly the same is true for human devs. As frustrating as strict linting can be for newer devs, it’s way less frustrating than having all the same issues pointed out in code review. That’s interesting because I’ve been finding that all sorts of stuff that’s good for AI is actually good for humans too, linting, fast easy to run tests, standardized code layouts, etc. Humans just have more ability to adapt to oddities at the moment, which leads to slack.
by throw310822 | 2025-06-21 22:20:11+00:00
Because the chances of them benefitting randomly but consistently on all fronts (money, territorial gains, diplomatic protection, political protection- see anti BDS laws-, military protection) and for decades is abysmally low. The only rational explanation is that all these actions' ultimate goal is to benefit Israel.

(It's also perfectly rational that this is denied and alternative explanations are offered, because nobody would openly agree to be hijacked in favour of a separate entity).
by vbezhenar | 2025-06-21 22:20:25+00:00
Typewriters are not connected to the outer world. If you would use your Macbook as a typewriter, typing documents and copying them PDFs over USB flash stick, it wouldn't be obsolete in 5 years. Although it wouldn't survive 100 years for sure, but I'd expect an average computer to survive 15-25 years.

Computers, especially computers connected to the Internet, are too specific entities, so analogies often are faulty. Gadgets become obsolete not because Apple is evil, but because world is changing too fast. New websites are too heavy for old CPUs. Software evolves too fast, so it costs quite a bit to keep old hardware drivers up-to-date. Malware risks are real, so the option of not updating is unsafe.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-06-21 22:21:38+00:00
I think the metrics are incomplete, if they suggest nothing but upside. Clearly, if people who used to drive wanted to take the subway and now take it, they could have done it before. So their quality of life must necessarily be lower, as they cannot use their preferred method of travel. And nevermind commutes. There are other activities that can be done with cars, such as moving your family around or shopping, that are objectively harder if you take the subway. Some people are probably paying more for groceries and other staples just because the cost of driving to a store is now higher.

I also bet that people who live in the city are paying more to leave the city for recreation or visiting family, or whatever. Once you leave the city you NEED a car, and you need a car to carry luggage too. So their quality of life is reduced in this way too. I doubt that the cost of upkeep for a car is higher than renting a car for a few days a month.
by tptacek | 2025-06-21 22:21:57+00:00
For what it's worth, a noncompete that makes it effectively impossible for you to apply your profession anywhere for your entire career is unlikely to be enforceable in any state in the country.

Companies that are serious about noncompetes for professionals (rather than hourly shift workers) generally do garden leave. I'd take a noncompete for a garden leave company seriously, and would maybe roll my eyes at a broad noncompete from a random tech firm.

(Don't sign anything you're not comfortable with.)
by yusina | 2025-06-21 22:22:16+00:00
I have sympathies for this argument, though it boils down to trust. Even if you roll your own client, you still need to trust some things outside of your control, be it your build environment, your phone, whatever. But most people will use somebody else's client, so need to trust whoever built that one. Or whoever supposedly audited it. The Signal authors just play that role here. Their business model is fundamentally different that that of Google or Meta, which is a main source of trust people are putting into it. Offloading the exposure to a minimum (just the client which is open source) is another. Yes there are ways around all that for an attacker, but in the end it's a game of likelihood. A journalist or dissident fearing for their life may have a different conclusion than mom and dad who want to coordinate a birthday party without big tech reading those messages and selling them to ad companies. It's good to err on the side of caution, but acting like I am the former while in reality I'm closer to the latter user type is in the end just theatre.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-06-21 22:22:43+00:00
CORBA (or D-Bus) was needed in the X11 days, precisely because X11 didn't really provide a better solution. Wayland does. See https://wayland.freedesktop.org/docs/html/ch04.html#sect-Pro...:

> The Wayland protocol is an asynchronous object oriented protocol. All requests are method invocations on some object.

Anything D-Bus can do, Wayland can do. (Except systemd integration, but that says more about systemd than about Wayland.)
by woodruffw | 2025-06-21 22:22:59+00:00
> Blocking email or gmail is much closer to a nationwide internet blackout than blocking signal or tor.

Yes; the point was not that they’re the same, but that regimes that do the former tend to also do the latter. Moreover, we shouldn’t do insecure things because regimes block the secure things; that’s what the regime wants you to do. The answer might not be Signal if Signal is insufficiently decentralized, but it certainly isn’t email.

> for most nations, an active connection to imap.gmail.com leaks little other than how actively the user uses gmail

This alone is a significantly larger amount of metadata than schemes like Signal leak. But it also isn’t true: a country that controls its internet infrastructure can almost certainly pull much more metadata from plaintext IMAP/SMTP than just access times and addresses. And this isn’t hypothetical: STS is not widely adopted in the email ecosystem, so plaintext downgrades are pervasive.
by slt2021 | 2025-06-21 22:23:01+00:00
don't you think that if there was some form of systematic extermination system, there should have been more than 161 people involved in it??????

this basic contradiction basically tells you that it was all bogus, either there was no systematic extermination, or there was not enough people brought to justice for their crimes.

How many people do you think are required to do anything systematic on the territory spanning from France to Belarus ?

161 people is probably the headcount of my local DMV office.

also, the fact that mainstream western history over-indexes on the plight of one ethnic group (6 mln dead), and completely ignores the deaths of Soviets (27 mln dead) or China (20 mln) pretty much seals this whole thing as bogus politicized process.

Typical eurocentric history rewriting, while simultaneously white-washing the crimes of the same white europeans

I am not even mentioning genocide of civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki via nuclear bombs and genocide of civilians in Dresden: all three cities were basically civilian with no large military armies in there. Mostly women elderly and kids died
by MPSFounder | 2025-06-21 22:23:29+00:00
I disagree.

1. Jimmy Carter mentioned in his biography that Obama asked him not to speak at the DNC because he acknowledged Palestinians deserved a right to live peacefully in one of his speeches. I revisited that speech, and it was by all accounts tame. He explicitly mentioned Obama's Jewish chief of Staff describing AIPAC as opposing this, and Carter was denied a speech at the DNC for this very reason (including his support for a two state solutions, which the American jewry by all accounts opposes through their actions, despite their rhetoric). A US President was shunned from US elections because he was slightly critical of Israel. Let that sink in. 2. Nixon describing AIPAC influence and Pelosi describing how the US capitol could burn while ensuring Israel thrives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53x_zrkJwDs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEpPk1BBFP8

The point of the above is American sitting Presidents or influential politicians describe the pressure they face of subjugating US interests to Israel's because America's economy is dominated by Jews and Evangelicals, who believe Israel must survive at all costs (including to the detriment of American interests). I understand how religiosity can lead to undermining America in favor of Israel. I cannot comprehend how Americans can defend this in good faith. Being America first is incompatible with the conduct of Israel, including its founding, for it is a colonial apartheid state that was founded on the murder and dislocation of families. I think it is difficult for most of us to imagine that the victims of a Holocaust, an abominable crime, can in turn be filled with so much hatred that they resort to the very crimes they were the victims of. I believe we went into Iraq and we fund Israel because powerful forces in these United States wish for us to do their dirty work, including when this work harms American interests, and most importantly, the values most of us hold dear: that every human being has the right to life, liberty and the security of his person.
by sandworm101 | 2025-06-21 22:24:53+00:00
Be careful about using AOI cpu coolers for other purposes. They are enclosed units subject to evaporation and air infiltration. Fluid levels will drop over time and refilling is difficult. Also, be wary of orientation. You want to make sure that the inevitable bubbles are not repeatedly drawn into the pump. So you want to position the radiator with the in/our ports lower, giving a low-turbulence chamber towards the top of the radiator for bubbles to accumulate.

Opinions differ, but 800+watts through a 2-fan radiator, in an already hot environment, is likely not enough. If this was an 800-watt CPU I would be going with either some wickedly powerful fans or 2x as much radiator.
by paxys | 2025-06-21 22:25:29+00:00
Weird comparison.

Yes some typewriters from a century ago are still working, because their owners have put in the time and money to keep them working. They arent magic machines. They need parts to be replaced, cleaning, lubrication, obscure ribbons, gears, keys.

Similarly there are plenty of computers from the 50s and 60s still working, for the same reason.
by v5v3 | 2025-06-21 22:26:08+00:00
In UK it's called gardening leave. A period when you are still employed but not at work and can't join another company without agreement.

Uk law generally is that non compete clause is ok, if the length of time is reasonable. But you can't stop a person with a trade from applying that trade unreasonably.

Most tend to be 3-6 months.

Normally it's to stop a person leaving from stealing clients.
by anyfoo | 2025-06-21 22:27:46+00:00
I’m one of the people that don’t “get” Balatro. I do get how to play it (to a certain level at least), and I’ve certainly been drawn to a bunch of rogue-like games, some of which I still play (Into the Breach for example), but Balatro is just… too distilled for me, to a point where it’s almost absurd.

It’s literally “number go up”, there’s barely any “fluff”, and that bugs me for a reason.

In that regard, it reminds me of cookie clicker, although it distills different aspects. That, too, I stopped playing pretty quickly. I saw coworkers who would play it all the time in the background, and that kind of put me off. Almost philosophically.

Balatro has more “game” than Cookie Clicker, but I’m still slightly repelled by its relatively direct “number go up” aspect. (“Repelled” is a bit of a strong and rude word, but I couldn’t think of anything better right now. I don’t hate Balatro.)
by lisper | 2025-06-21 22:27:51+00:00
> You seemingly consider one measurement and expect to see Born rule

Huh??? No, of course not. The Born rule is about probabilities. It cannot manifest in a single measurement.

> classical behavior emerges by tracing, mathematically, not as a physical process?

No. The mathematical description of classical outcomes emerges by tracing, which is to say, by discarding information. The physical interpretation of that is left open.

> In MWI classical behavior emerges as a physical process

That's right. MWI commits to a physical interpretation of the math. But there is no scientific or philosophical justification for this, and in fact, when you dig into the details all kinds of problems emerge that are swept under the rug by its proponents. Nonetheless, many MWI proponents insist that it is the One True Interpretation, including some who really ought to know better.

> each observer naturally observes their branch from inside, and it looks isolated from other branches.

Yes, I know. But this doesn't solve the problem. In order to get a mathematical description of me I have to trace the wave function in my preferred basis, which is to say, I have to throw out all of the other branches. And this is not just a computational hack. It's mathematically necessary. Discarding information is the only way to get classical, irreversible processes (like measurement) out of the unitary dynamics of the wave function. So a reasonable interpretation of the math is that I exist only if parallel universes don't. And I'm pretty sure I exist.

I'm not telling you this because I expect you to accept it, merely to show you that the MWI is not self-evidently the One True Interpretation.
by stephen_g | 2025-06-21 22:28:37+00:00
Hopefully it’s better for individual strings, but I’ve heard a few native speakers of other languages (who also can speak English) complaining about websites now serving up AI-translated versions of articles by default. They are better than Google Translate of old, but apparently still bad enough that they’d much rather just be served the English original…

I guess similar to my experience with the AI voice translation YouTube has, I’ve felt similar - I’d rather listen to the original voice but with translated subtitles than a fake voice.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-06-21 22:29:51+00:00
Exactly. I wouldn't use it for bulk translations. This was literally, 4 words.

What was useful, was that I could explain exactly what the context was, in both a technical and usability context, and it understood it enough to provide appropriate translations.

UPDATE: I went and verified it. The translation was absolutely perfect. Not sure what this means for translation services, but it certainly saved me several hundred dollars, and several days, just to add one label prompt to a free app.
by woodruffw | 2025-06-21 22:30:09+00:00
I don’t understand how asking for things that are bog-standard is somehow counter-productive. I think the really counter-productive thing here is flogging the dead horse of encrypted email; ordinary people deserve better than that.

> Not even signal has that, and they are above and beyond for a mass consumer product

What parts of this do you think are missing from Signal? Signal has had PFS for as long as it’s been called Signal, and has famously minuscule metadata on users.
by coderatlarge | 2025-06-21 22:31:01+00:00
social media shaming has worked in a few high profile companies like openai recently. especially when founders are still around and feel some personal culpability when their company’s values are on display.

but i think your broader societal point stands though. especially with horrible language in vendor contracts that people click through because who has time for that garbage. i hope llms will help people push back in somewhat more concerted and systematic fashion.
by I_Can_Fix_YT | 2025-06-21 22:31:14+00:00
If you use Firefox Nightly (mobile) then you can:

1. Fully block ads with uBlock Origin

2. Block in-video sponsorships with Sponsorblock

3. Block all shorts permanently with Hide Youtube-Shorts

These 3 extensions fix your issues. There is also an extension to bring back downvotes. I do not use it but I think it is widespread enough to be useful as spam detection.

This also allows you to listen to videos with your screen turned off and gives you the option to have the video playing in a tiny screen so you can watch it while doing other things on your phone.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-21 22:31:39+00:00
Tacitus isn't the only interpretation of the Germanic gods. He is thought to refer to Thor as Hercules, but there are other references where a Jupiter is mentioned. There is a Roman complaint that the Germanic peoples see Mercury as the father of Jupiter when it should be the other way around.

And while it's possible, it would be extremely surprising for Odin to be a new addition to the Germanic pantheon when we find him attested under that name in the 5th/6th century. He's in charge of the whole thing! The norm is for gods - all gods - to have very deep roots. Where we can prove that a god is novel, we can also often show that it's a borrowing of a foreign god with deeper roots (e.g. Adonis < Tammuz) or that it is an explicit deification of a human (e.g. if you go to the temple of the city god in Shanghai, there's an informative plaque explaining that the city god was posthumously appointed to the position by an emperor of the Yuan dynasty).

I do understand that after cassava or maize was introduced somewhere in Africa, anthropologists documented a new goddess associated with the crop. Innovation exists. But pantheons are very conservative overall. "Several centuries" is not an amount of time where we expect to see pantheonic turnover.
by altairprime | 2025-06-21 22:31:48+00:00
The subhead makes a specific misstatement:

> Startups used to brag about valuations and venture capital. Now AI is making revenue per employee the new holy grail.

The corrected form is:

> Startups used to brag about valuations and venture capital. Now AI is making rate of revenue growth per employee the new holy grail.

Specifically, as with all growth capitalism, it is long-term irrelevant how much revenue each employee generates. The factor that is being measured is how much each employee increases the rate of growth of revenue. If a business is growing revenue at +5% YoY, then a worker that can increase that rate by 20% (to +6% YoY) is worth keeping; a worker that can only increase revenue by 5% contributed +0% YoY after the initial boost and will be replaced by automation, AI, etc. (This is also why tech won’t invest in technical debt: it may lower expenses, but those one-time efficiencies are typically irrelevant when increasing the rate of growth of income results in far more income than the costs of the debt.)
by Arainach | 2025-06-21 22:31:55+00:00
>Once you have tried coding agents, and figured out how to be effective with them, you will never want to go back

Bullshit. I absolutely want to go back. I am so exhausted of having to code review bullshit, of executives who think AI is magic based on bullshit, of junior devs thinks they're incredible because of bullshit proofread by hours of senior eng work - the same juniors who will never grow into seniors due to overreliance on bullshit.

I ABSOLUTELY want to go back.
by aforwardslash | 2025-06-21 22:32:09+00:00
Not only in the US; without going into too much detail, many countries in south America and Africa have strong business connections with the US, and it is quite common to see the ever-abusive dumb dumb US contract templates being used in those countries, even when local law differs significantly. Usually, the posture is "we can do whatever you want and you keep your mouth shut, or else we'll sue you for everything". I loathe organizations with these kind of contracts.
by luke5441 | 2025-06-21 22:32:12+00:00
Having probably signed such a contract, how do I find out if it is enforcable? Probably talk to a lawyer, but how do you find one that gives you a straight, but correct, answer to such a complex topic. For me it is even more complex since I'm a fake employee (contractor) in another country working for a US company.

The answer to those questions might be really unsatisfying in practice, since it breaks down to a cost calculation by the sueing company (if the company leadership is rational). So in case you get sued you have to fight defensively and bleed them enough so they give up or something.
by tptacek | 2025-06-21 22:32:29+00:00
No. Unless your messenger is at pains to make sure people don't use it in life-or-death situations (for instance: because they're being targeted by ICE, or the law enforcement and security apparatus of their country), the exact opposite thing is true.

These kinds of message board discussions invariably pose a dilemma: "send messages in plaintext using normal email, or use whatever secure messaging tool is available regardless of its strength". That's false. People always have a third option: not sending the message electronically. Most of us here have messages they wouldn't send even with their most trusted messaging tools; people who are at serious risk from message interception have much more dangerous messages than that.

Recommending that at-risk people use weak secure messaging as a "better than nothing" step towards real secure messaging isn't just bad advice. It's malpractice.
by sandworm101 | 2025-06-21 22:34:45+00:00
An 800w LED is not as perfect a point source. They are loosing lots of light that isn't focusable. See how in the comparison picture that there is insane light bleed out the side from the LED projector. The older projector benefits from a hundred years of optimization of how to focus a lightbulb into an image. The LED rig is starting from scratch with a source that isn't meant for focus onto an image.
by thejakin | 2025-06-21 22:35:19+00:00
Mikeals little brother here...

It's been amazing to see everyone's experiences with Mikeal, and it hurts so bad to have lost him so early. I've always looked up to Mikeal in every way, and entry level tech as I am, it keeps amazing me how much he truly had an impact on the way we build and do so many things.

It's been a really hard time knowing I can't ever reach out for wisdom, insight or just a brotherly talk about our families.

I couldn't be happier to have had the opportunities to film TacoConf while on a double bike with Max, or bring my wife and kid to film NodeConf at Walker Creek ranch. Memories I'll never forget, but also saddened I never got more over the years. I always felt like I wasn't up to snuff to do anything tech, and always dreamed of the chance to work with him. Knowing I never will hurts harder than anything I've experienced, but knowing that everything I work on now involves his fingerprint is inspiring.

I love you bro..
by mproud | 2025-06-21 22:37:53+00:00
This was obviously satirical, with its tongue-and-cheek tone, name-bombing Ken, and the fact that seemingly escapes the blogger here it was typed on a typewriter!

Apple was an upstart company in its day, the anti-IBM, creative, expressive, rebellious. The memo may have been driving a point, but it was mostly just going for a laugh.