MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pseudocomposer | 2025-06-29 14:02:08+00:00
Have fun! Note that it is GPL-licensed. Also, note that the "main" branch is for a very old Dart/Flutter version (but it does correspond to what's in the App Store and on the site today).

I've been working on a separate branch, which finally builds (there were 1100+ errors), but I'm still working through iOS/macOS build things for it before merging it to main. (I've sadly had to abandon the Android build, because Google Play was a comparative pain, and FluidSynth upstream kept breaking the Android build I set up for them. But I'm reviving the project for iOS, macOS, and web at least.)

Here's the branch: https://github.com/JonLatane/BeatFlutter/tree/update-to-late...
by sinuhe69 | 2025-06-29 14:02:08+00:00
I don’t know but my limited personal experience has been totally different. Not only learn my children their primary languages faster, they also learn other languages more quickly. I don’t know if that affects their IQ but I don’t see math or science as a much different language.

Of course, speaking a language is only part of the bigger puzzle: staying curious and immersing yourself in the cultures and thoughts of people from diverse backgrounds is IMO even more important and beneficial. While translation is excellent and very convenient today due to the globalization, I’d say it's very hard to understand the people of a particular culture if you don’t understand what they natively and rawly say on various social media platforms. Mainstream media and news paper don’t necessarily reflect these sentiments and predispositions. In fact, they may even hide these “small voices” very well. So, there are clear benefits to using many languages.
by somidscr21 | 2025-06-29 14:02:45+00:00
I've found that using my v4 only network from my ISP and macOS can do v6 only without requiring a DNS server like you have been doing. I don't remember the details now, but after some digging a few years ago I realized macOS will happily work like that as long as it has a v6 address. I can put a ULA address on my host, and it's good to go. Granted this relies on users knowing how to do that. or depending on the VPN application to get to the v6 only network, you may be able to script adding a ULA (any kind even made up). You don't want to leave it wIth a made up ULA because that could screw things up if the user moves to a v6 capable network.
by matty22 | 2025-06-29 14:02:58+00:00
I work for one of those “evil” email software companies. Part of our business is external marketing and the much larger part of our business is internal employee communications. For over 15 years we kept track of the number of people who used HTML emails and the number of people who opted for plain text emails. It was something in the realm of 0.1% of all mail recipients had opted for plain text. That was in 2015. Today, that number would probably be even lower. So we stopped offering multipart emails entirely because the cost/benefit analysis doesn’t add up.

HTML emails aren’t sent only because that’s what the senders want. They are sent because that’s what the recipients want.
by bglazer | 2025-06-29 14:03:03+00:00
I keep hearing the “the killing would end if Hamas would just release the hostages”. But the Israelis keep offering ceasefire terms that include full release of hostages but no permanent cessation of hostilities, only 60 days and not even temporary full withdrawal from Gaza.

Why do you think the Israelis want to keep their tanks in Gaza even after all the hostages come back? Why won’t they offer a full and permanent ceasefire? I think this hostage justification is just Israelis buying time so they can keep on doing what they actually always wanted, full ethnic cleansing of Gaza.
by vbezhenar | 2025-06-29 14:03:42+00:00
It's up to them and Israeli to decide, I guess. Not wanting to help is not the same as killing. If some stranger comes to your home, you're not obliged to let him in and it won't be kill, even if he died afterwards. World is cruel and nobody obliged to nobody, especially at population levels. It's much easier to help single person, of course, but accommodating millions is another matter.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-29 14:04:04+00:00
Casus belli incorporates legitimacy of war. Hamas had it, Israel had it. America did not in Iraq; Russia doesn’t in Ukraine.

> If you cannot conduct war against a guerilla force without murdering hundreds of thousands, destroying every piece of peaceful infrastructure, and blockading aid - then the truth is it’s wrong to conduct that war

If that force is conducting operations in your borders and against your citizens it’s no longer that clear cut. (This goes both ways in this case.)

Both Hamas and Israel have grounds for war. Both of them have conducted it badly. But in both cases, it’s not easy to see how they could have managed it that much better. (Well, actually, for Palestine it is. They should be suing for peace and handing over their hostages. Neither side looks smart when it takes innocent hostages.)
by gruez | 2025-06-29 14:04:26+00:00
>TL;DR: it can be argued that the existence of sidewalks is a concession that roads are only for cars, where previously they were for everyone, including pedestrians.

Unless you're defining "roads" to mean "not sidewalks", then almost by definition the statement "roads are only for cars" is false, because sidewalks are part of roads, reserved for pedestrians, and therefore roads aren't only for cars. The fact that there are reserved lanes for a particular type of traffic doesn't imply there was some sort of "concession that roads are only for" some other type of traffic, any more than bus lanes, HOV lanes, or bike lanes imply that pedestrians are getting pushed out.
by ajross | 2025-06-29 14:04:48+00:00
Most non-Apple rust users get it via a Linux distro's package manager, or by building from source. And after installation cargo is, if not Debian-quality, reasonably secure vs. attack (sub-linux but better than npm, basically).

While there are surely exceptions, that nonsense about "just run this unauthenticated script URL" is something unique the the Mac experience. And it's horrifying.
by johnklos | 2025-06-29 14:05:37+00:00
When you want to use a public address over a tunnel, IPv6 makes things easier. Instead of setting up a tunnel to a specific IPv4, deleting your default route, adding that deleted route as the other endpoint's IPv4 route, then adding the tunnel's other end's IPv4 as a default route, you can just connect to the tunnel endpoint via IPv6, and all the IPv4 is configured just in the tunnel.

I use this often because IPv6 on phone networks is invariably the same as the author's - native IPv6 plus carrier grade NAT IPv4, and most NAT implementations suck (they time out, for instance).

I haven't tried with WireGuard(r) yet, but I will soon (using NetBSD's clean reimplentation). With tinc [1] though, it's a piece of cake.

[1] https://www.tinc-vpn.org
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-06-29 14:06:08+00:00
Vaccines are a bit of a different can of worms in that first generally, they’re well-studied and the risks are reasonably well known, and second the impact isn’t solely personal — you’re trading off in most cases a small risk for the betterment of society — maintaining herd immunity, reducing capacity for spreading, etc depending on vaccine. The lives of many others can be negatively impacted, in some cases fatally, by one’s personal choice to not partake. There’s a certain amount of social responsibility involved.

Psychoactives and homeopathy have plenty of capacity to be harmful and aren’t necessarily anywhere near as well studied, but at least their effects are more bounded to the individual. (This does not however justify pushing them blindly.)
by bitwize | 2025-06-29 14:06:27+00:00
Don't worry too much about it. Women are nearly as easily impressed by a full-grown dog.

Building a loving bond with a dog still takes work and energy. It's just that, genetically and instinctually they have a communication advantage: they can read humans better and emote to humans in more obvious ways than cats (having even evolved special muscles around the eyes to do so!). It's not like earning a dog's respect and love is inherently trivial. It's just that most people haven't moved past the "he's plotting to murder me" type assumptions about cats.
by BearOso | 2025-06-29 14:07:17+00:00
Read the discussion. They plan to remove those libraries, too. Their current automated build system apparently requires they build i686 for every x86-64 package. They don't want to spend the effort to adjust the build system to just build a selection of i686 packages. They plan to drop the whole architecture.

It seems like these developers have tunnel vision. It's like when pulseaudio came about and the whole focus was streaming Bluetooth audio. It took over the system audio and broke everything else (games, coincidentally). They know this will break some things they don't personally use, and they don't care.
by therealpygon | 2025-06-29 14:07:53+00:00
What you took away from that was that “next-gen” was the problem?

Buzzwords can still be technically accurate and you seem to be ignoring that when it keeps being confronted. “But it is” doesn’t matter when it comes to “but it sounds like”.

Let me give you an example; if I was walk into a store, do you think I want to talk to the person who talks about the “bidirectional optoelectromechanical document transcription and reproduction apparatus implementing discrete photonic acquisition and microdeposition techniques for bidimensional substrate encoding”, or do I want to talk to the person who will sell me a “photocopier”?
by Spooky23 | 2025-06-29 14:08:19+00:00
You’re an outlier. Apple has arguably the best lifecycle in the personal computing space in all of its categories.

They support most devices for 5-7 years, and have a strong incentive to do so as there is a pipeline of used devices into developing markets and their branding and segmentation means their devices have strong resale value.

With your old android, you’re either running an open source stack of some sort, which is out of the reach of most users, or operating on an ancient os that Google or your carrier (or both) has long abandoned that leaves you vulnerable to a variety of issues.
by bediger4000 | 2025-06-29 14:08:28+00:00
I'm very glad people with a soap box are catching up to dark patterns like this. Perhaps "deliberately dropped customer service calls" will become common knowledge, and become scorned, so that service reps can point out this kind of immoral behavior if and when management imposes it. Won't make any difference, but at least line managers will be uncomfortable for a minute.
by geoctl | 2025-06-29 14:08:30+00:00
Thank you for your insightful feedback. I completely understand the criticism because Octelium is conciously designed to be many things at the same time. As mentioned in the other replies, Octelium is a unified/generic zero trust access platform that can fit in many human-to-workload and workload-to-workload use cases (the docs contain various examples in detail) that's why it might be confusing for newcomers. The initial commit came out of nowhere because I've been working on this project since early 2020 actually and decided to start with a clean public repo when I publicly released the code a month ago, after nearly 9000 manual commits over the past 5 years. I simply could not verify that I could have potentially leaked private info esepcially in early commits and the project itself almost entirely changed over the past 5 years from a simple remote access WireGuard VPN to what it is today in terms of architecture, features and complexity.
by donatj | 2025-06-29 14:08:30+00:00
I was going to suggest just going back to it's original name of LiveScript but it looks like that was subsumed by a language from the creator of CoffeeScript. How rude.

Early in my career, in the early 2000's I was tasked with modernizing a massive site that had many <script type="application/livescript"> tags throughout. I still don't fully understand, was it released to the public under this name at some point?

My googling just now indicates there may have been just a single public beta of Netscape that called it that. How strange.
by daveguy | 2025-06-29 14:08:55+00:00
Humans who know how to play chess do not play illegal chess moves. Humans can learn chess in an afternoon and never make an illegal move again. The rules are pretty simple, and they are rules that every LLM has seen dozens of not hundreds of times in their training data. They still play illegal moves because they are not learning anything except how to simulate conversation.

Another algorithmic learning breakthrough, on the order of perceptrons, deep learning, transformers, etc is necessary to get anywhere near AGI.
by eru | 2025-06-29 14:09:22+00:00
> But please consider that the problem is slightly (i.e. a lot) more complicated than you think. Economics is a very very hard discipline [...]

Yes, and that's why I am saying that it's far from an obvious conclusion that making rich people worse off is a good thing for poor people.

And once you admit that this ain't trivial, you can look at topics like deadweight losses or tax incidence.

Different tax and redistribution system have different effects. It's not just 'more tax = more revenue to redistribute'.

For example, I actually think you can drive overall tax rates (eg as percentage of GDP) a lot higher than they are today in most countries without harming the economy, _if_ you switch to something as efficient as land value taxes for the vast majority of your government revenue (and lower other taxes). Property taxes are a second best approximation.

In contrast, capital gains taxes and income taxes are less efficient. Tariffs are even worse (by a large margin!), even if they could theoretically raise some revenue. Stamp duties or other taxes on transactions are also pretty bad. And silly things like price controls just hurt the economy without raising any revenue at all.

But that's all vastly simplified. As you suggest, there's lots of theory and practice you can investigate for the actual effects. They might also differ in different times and places.

> There have been countless books written on the topic of inequality by people smarter than you or me, so it's highly it's all so simple as your dismissive "just do X" line imagines it to be.

That's why I'm saying exactly the opposite: I'm arguing against the naive 'just tax the rich'.
by archi42 | 2025-06-29 14:12:08+00:00
I can't run it right now: My AM4 desktop has a broken Linux dual boot since some Microsoft update seems to have nuked something important a few months ago, and my pure Linux Intel machine sits at 1.2 load with services I can't stop.

If I get around to fixing my dual boot machine, I'll try to remember running the benchmark and dropping you some results by mail.
by tim333 | 2025-06-29 14:12:35+00:00
I kind of figure people will work on things that don't really need doing like putting on music festivals etc. while the robots will do the essential work like grow food and take out the trash. Maybe I'm being optimistic. Although I have lived places where things worked a bit like that like when I was in South Africa a while ago with the blacks doing the less desirable jobs usually. So maybe like that but with robots?
by lpapez | 2025-06-29 14:12:40+00:00
Using such tricks might seem like a cute way for malware to make analysis difficult, but often times calling these obscure system APIs can be detected statically, and you bet that it will flagged as suspicious by AV software. If the malware binary is not obfuscated to hide such calls, I'd even call them "counterproductive" for the malware authors!

The legit programs interested in these APIs are almost always binaries signed by well known (and trusted) CAs - making it sensible for the analysis to report sus behavior.

I worked as a junior in this field, and one of my tasks was to implement regex pattern matching to detect usages of similar APIs. Surprisingly effective at catching low hanging fruit distributed en masse.
by eru | 2025-06-29 14:12:58+00:00
Stock ownership isn't protected from taxation: there's capital gains tax to be paid (in many countries).

> We should stop conflating what a company generates as a consequence of their activity with the glorified gambling of the stock market.

Well, that might be a valid point for some people, but it's pointless for Zuckerberg or Bezos or Bill Gates or even Musk: those guys have been mostly holding their companies' stocks for ages. They don't buy and sell all the time. No 'glorified gambling the stock market' there.

In any case, I brought up stock ownership as a concrete example of wealth that doesn't just site 'idle' in a vault somewhere. It's a claim on a productive enterprise that is only worth something because it serves customers and employs people etc.
by cubefox | 2025-06-29 14:13:14+00:00
One point the article doesn't make explicit: The exponential decrease in transistor size (≈Moore's law) was historically only valuable because it also caused

1) exponentially decreasing cost per transistor and

2) exponentially decreasing power consumption per transistor.

However, in recent years 1) has generally weakened. At some point, the price per transistor will no longer decrease for smaller process nodes, and even start to increase. Then making smaller transistors could only be justified for power constrained chips that benefit from 2). But even this has only limited value.

So at some point, producing chips with smaller transistors will no longer make economic sense, even if transistor size could technically still be decreased at a similar rate as in the past.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-06-29 14:13:23+00:00
I think the future of compute will look much like today!

Given the power and ubiquity of smart phones, most people don't need any other computer in their personal life. What can be done locally on a smart phone seems like it will be more constrained by battery life and physical size than anything else, and there will continue to be a mix of things that can run on-device and other more compute-hungry functions run in the cloud. I don't see smartphones being replaced or augmented by other devices like smart glasses - people want one device that does it all, and not one they wear on their face.

The same is somewhat true for business use too, especially if compute-heavy AI use becomes more widespread - some functions local and the heavy work done in AI-ready datacenters. I'm mildly surprised that there hasn't already been a greater shift away from local compute to things like Chromebooks (ubiquitous in schools) since it has so many benefits (cost, ease of management, reduced need to upgrade), but maybe it will still come if the need to rely on datacenter compute increases.

Even if we imagine futuristic power-sipping neuromorphic chips, I don't see that changing things very much other that increasing the scope of what can be done locally on a power budget.
by timcookapple | 2025-06-29 14:13:44+00:00
We're seeing more companies deploy AI agents that generate and execute code in production environments. But I'm curious about the security and governance challenges this creates.

For those running AI-generated code in production:

What's your biggest security concern? (prompt injection, unintended data access, compliance issues?)

How do you currently handle security scanning and approval workflows?

Have you had any close calls or incidents?

What tools/processes do you wish existed?

I'm researching this space and would love to hear about real-world experiences. There seems to be a gap between traditional SAST tools and the unique risks of AI-generated code.

If you're interested in sharing more detailed thoughts, I put together a quick survey: https://buildpad.io/research/EGt1KzK
by worldsayshi | 2025-06-29 14:14:02+00:00
> Usually requires a capable and dedicated person to run

This makes me think that there's some friction to this that could be alleviated. Like having more of and more diverse third places.

I used to be part of a number of theatre groups. Those groups did often have dedicated and capable singular people that made it work. But other times it was more of a group effort. Often the most dedicated people arose to the occasion once the context was there, because they had a bit more intrinsic motivation for what we did than others. And in some of the cases we got a lot of help from various institutions for admin and getting a place to practice, which certainly lowered the friction.
by thenobsta | 2025-06-29 14:14:03+00:00
I was talking with a friend who is a camp counselor for a small summer camp the other day and they said that 4 of the 35 or so kids at the camp left because they couldn’t be away from their devices.

This power intermittent reinforcement in the on-ramp of addiction is scary powerful.

Do we have any ways to innoculate ourselves and the future generations against it?

The author poses changing the game which is support. I guess the trendy “dopamine fast” is a tool against this or weekly screen free time. Maybe more education on intermittent reinforcement or a D.A.R.E-like program for apps (a this one is a little tongue-in-cheek, but not really).
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-06-29 14:14:22+00:00
Europe's high self image is based on a shell game.

Step 1: Commit horrific atrocities. Step 2: Declare that you are now a new country (with the same people), so you stop counting the atrocities against yourself.

See how it works? Germany tried to genocide half the population of Earth, the US stops them and builds a bunch of bases in Germany so they don't try that again, and now that is evidence of US abuse and aggression. It's not THAT Germany anymore, the one that did the crimes and has to be occupied to make sure they don't try to stuff every brown child on earth into a brick oven, it's Germany, the great country that is totally innocent. It's not the GB that kept half of the world's population under it's thumb to brutally extract resources and become rich, it's GB the cute country with the Queen. All the crimes have to be ignored and don't count anymore because you have free healthcare (or something).

Anyway, you completely miss the point. When the Gestapo was stuffing people into ovens, they were also running Joy Divisions. Guess what kind of guys were signing up to run these bases? In a real civilization these are the kinds of guys who show up in police statistics as serial killers.