MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by grvdrm | 2025-07-17 13:05:52+00:00
This reminds me of the broader right tool for the job approach.

Collaborative sharing is great, really. I enjoy it. I use it as much as I can.

But there are many moments when it is best (in numerous ways) for me to just make a spreadsheet. Or a Word doc. Or whatever.

Why? Well it might be muscle memory. Or it's just easier. I'm quite familiar with the way Word formats and indents text. Many other wiki/collaborative doc tools do it some other way, and that means I have to learn that other way. Such an ask is often counterproductive to the task at hand. Replicate this chain of thought for your tool of choice.

Also, sending a file often provides the highest probability that they (receiver) can OPEN it. That's key. I was using a Notion board with a client, saving us all of back-and-forth and send/receive, and guess what: the company blocked Notion. Unblocking will take forever.

But I know my client can open my Word and Excel files. And yes, these are risks!
by graemep | 2025-07-17 13:05:57+00:00
They are not legally adults.

* They are restricted in what jobs they do, and are supposed to be either in education or doing apprenticeships or similar

* They cannot drive until they are 17

* They cannot purchase alcohol, knives and many other things

* They cannot get married

* They cannot get tattoos

Its very much that they think it will favour them. I think it might very well not do so - while they will net vote for Labour its not by a huge margin and its changing. I wonder whether the government are overly influenced by the huge margin they enjoy with privileged people in that age group - i.e. the ones they meet.
by TimTheTinker | 2025-07-17 13:06:40+00:00
The naive people in decision-making positions often don't realize the risks involved in their behavior until they or someone near to them gets hurt -- in this case scammed or sued.

We used to have a lot of people like this running businesses in the US before roughly 2012, but white (and black) hat hacking began spreading quickly and made generally short work of the problem.
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-17 13:06:45+00:00
> If Intel does everything TSMC & NV do, then they should have something like 83000+36000~120000 employees?

TSMC is a fab, not a chip designer. And NV makes GPUs and small scale SoCs like the ones in the Nintendo Switch and automotive (IIRC the Tegra SoC that powered the Switch 1 literally was an automotive chip that they repurposed).

That's quite the difference from what Intel makes: CPUs that power a lot of the world's compute capacity for laptops, PCs and servers, wireless chips (Bluetooh+WiFi), their own GPU line...
by grvdrm | 2025-07-17 13:07:06+00:00
> Sure emailing a copy isn't ideal, but it does have the advantage of saying "Here is a set of ideas that I've decided is complete" As opposed to "Watch my stream of consciousness and decide whether it's done or in mid-edit and act on it."

I agree with your concept but I wish more people treated email like rather than as a stream of consciousness or a series of one-line exchanges that would be better off as chats (in some situations, anyways)
by EPendragon | 2025-07-17 13:08:27+00:00
I kind of agree. The rules for safety should be simple, straightforward, and protect you in the "edge cases", i.e. following while not paying 100% of attention, protect you with a malicious actor in mind aka reckless driver, etc. Ideally, in a system like that it should be a difficult and intentional behavior if one wanted to break the rules rather than to follow them.
by coldpie | 2025-07-17 13:08:28+00:00
> Even if was a small % of the Apple lineup, the iPhone mini was one the best selling smartphones all brands considered

Correct. To back this up a little bit with numbers, the iPhone 13 Mini all by itself sold about the half of the rate of the entire Google Pixel lineup. I bet lots of phone manufacturers would love to have half the sales of Google's premier Android phone. I also switched from Android to iPhone solely because of the 13 Mini form factor (I prefer Android, but I prefer a human-hand-sized phone even more).

Source:

Google shipped about 10 million Pixel phones in a year https://9to5google.com/2024/02/22/pixel-2023/

iPhone Mini accounted for about 3% of iPhone sales https://9to5mac.com/2022/04/21/cirp-iphone-13-best-selling-l...

iPhones sell about 200 million units per year https://www.demandsage.com/iphone-user-statistics/

200 million * 0.03 = 6 million iPhone Minis per year
by sam_goody | 2025-07-17 13:08:32+00:00
There was an interview with some U.S. army rep. that was pretty famous a few years back. He said that even if hackers broke in to the U.S. systems they wouldn't achieve anything due to how old, convoluted and buggy the systems were - even we who have full access can barely get anything to work!!

Of course, that was said purposefully, and may not reflect the truth at all.

But still, the thought that that is security for some (and I am sure it is for someone, somewhere) is kind of an extension of security by obscurity that is scary.
by anonymous_sorry | 2025-07-17 13:08:37+00:00
When I enter the polling booth, I never expect to effect the result, whether my coalition has a chance of winning or not. That is, I do not expect a candidate in any constituency I am voting in to win by exactly one vote (or tie and thereby have a 50:50 chance of winning by drawing lots). I think such an occurrence is exceedingly unlikely.

A rational anaylsis would therefore conclude I'm wasting my time and energy even just walking to the polling station, let alone keeping up with political developments through the intervening months and years. As you say, in a hyper-rational world turnout would be way lower - whether it would oscillate and overcorrect as you suggest, or reach a stable equilibrium, I'm not sure.

But whatever my motivation for voting and trying to stay informed, I do not believe it is primarily rational. It's probably some mixture of duty, diversionary entertainment, and ritual. If lowering the voting age to 16 could help inculcate that sense of duty and better establish that ritual, that would be a pretty convincing reason to do it in my opinion.
by 0x5FC3 | 2025-07-17 13:08:44+00:00
User facing tech and marketing practices at banks are the worst. Every Indian bank login form I've ever had to use is

- hostile to password managers.

- You cannot copy paste passwords.

- Client side password hashing

- Stupid requirements like the password cannot have more than 15 characters and even have a whitelist of character sets! (Looking at you HDFC)

- And of course, run of the mill spam

They are all stuck in the early 2000s.
by lozf | 2025-07-17 13:09:03+00:00
> GNU Screen window with CTRL-A + Shift-H to log all output to logfile

tmux users can use it's `capture-pane` command, either before or after the fact if history is set big enough. There are several helpful flags worth researching.

e.g. `tmux capture-pane -pS - > ~/tmux.log` in a shell to save the history of that pane, or just `prefix+: capture-pane ...` from within tmux
by JKCalhoun | 2025-07-17 13:09:49+00:00
Comanche Elementary was the experimental school. It is still there, but is not the same round building that I remember.

I did find a number of articles about it at Newspapers.com. Around 1971 and 1972 there were a few good articles about the architecture and "Open Classrooms", "Team Teaching", etc. (Kansas City Star, of course.)
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-17 13:10:21+00:00
Pure financials can more than explain this, if you have a family and want space for them. Let's do some napkin math, from a quick Google search it's 150$ round trip, so 3000$ a month assuming 20 work days (maybe even less with frequent-flyer status, cashbacks and rewards).

For a 4 bedroom house, Zillow gives me around 7-8k a month in rent for SF and around 4k for SJ, so you'll at least break even and have a better quality of life for your family even if you won't see them much during the week.

Anyway: The fact that a simple adequate house for a family runs at 4k in the US is ... maddening. 1500 sqft is around 140 m², a comparable house in Berlin (one of Germany's hottest markets!) runs ~2500€. How one is supposed to live in the US when not on a typical techbro salary, I have no idea how y'all even manage that.
by armedgorilla | 2025-07-17 13:10:39+00:00
For both workflow languages, they are both better for building a singular reproducible workflow that can be published with an academic paper. For us, I'm looking for a workflow language that can treat the pipeline as a testable, deployable piece of software. I find that with Nextflow, scientists fall into bad patterns of mixing in the pipeline logic (eg if this sample type, then process it this way) interspersed with the bioinformatics model (eg use these bowtie2 parameters) throughout the pipeline which makes it more difficult to maintain as our platform evolves. Their K8s integration is lacking for both of them and they work much better an academic-style clusters.

YAML does leave a lot to be desired, but it also forces a degree of simplicity in architecting the pipeline because to do otherwise is too cumbersome. I really liked WDL as a language when I used to use that--seemed to have a nice balance of readability and simplicity. I believe Dyno created a python SDK for the Argo YAML syntax, and I need to look into that more.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-17 13:11:01+00:00
Been there done that got the decree and everything. You’re right, I don’t understand your musings as not once has anyone ever asked to see proof of my divorce. Some forms that ask about marital status might have a divorced option, but not all. It does not affect my credit. It does not affect job interviews. I really just have no way to relate to what you’re saying as it has never happened to me, nor have I ever heard anyone else complain about needing to provide this certificate. You are literally the first person. That’s such an outlier that I have to question its legitimacy.
by rollcat | 2025-07-17 13:11:08+00:00
Here's my shot:

- curl sees that the standard output is a tty, consults $TERM, termcap, etc

- curl crafts an "Accept:" header, format to be specified

- server sees Accept and responds with appropriately encoded response; e.g. for text/plain it would just output preformatted text

As this is currently NOT a common use case (mostly fun toys, biggest use case is Github printing out a pride flag), the exact content type can be easily iterated on to standardise it.

For example, the most common cases (TERM=xterm or xterm-256color) could be specified in the standard and treated as abbreviations for the complete description of capabilities. The server can have those common cases built-in, but it should also be free to ignore any capabilities it doesn't understand and send out a conservative response. All of these smarts could be a part of a library or framework.

I made this up on the spot, it's not hard, because the entire stack is adequately layered. So just don't break those layers, m'kay?
by knome | 2025-07-17 13:11:10+00:00
>The modern workforce shouldn't be flinging copies to each other. A copy is outdated the moment it is downloaded. A copy has no protection against illicit reading. A copy can never be revoked.

A copy is always available. A copy is naturally a versioned checkpoint. Having a single author regularly publish an authoritative copy means people always receive a version that is ready and that has been deliberately published rather than something a half dozen authors are in the middle of live editing. It means you can compare versions to see changes.

>And git! Don't get me started on git! The best minds of a generation stuck in a paradigm of downloading files to their local machine, making changes, then ~emailing~ /git pushing/ them up to be approved? Madness!

There is no central server in git. It's often used that way, yes, but git itself is a wholly decentralized database that propagates changes via diffs, with each person controlling what they do or do not allow into their personal graph node. Approvals are important to keep mistakes, errors and general slop out. A request to pull indicating readiness, and code reviews to guarantee it. Working in files is reasonable, as these are the assets that the compilers will be working with. Forcing compilers to download each individual compilation unit from a tagged central database because you're ideologically opposed to the concept of files is more than a bit ridiculous.

The idea of exclusively collaborating via editing using online editors or webdav shards or whatever with no local copies probably sounds great if you don't care about being able to work when there's no network, or using custom tooling, or doing anything that isn't custom built into your IDE, or to build and test without requiring an entire architecture of overly complex per-dev environments constantly being remotely rebuilt on some overburdened and expensive centralized platform.

Thin clients increase control at the expense of user experience.

It sounds awful to me.
by icedchai | 2025-07-17 13:11:38+00:00
It's not the end of the world, but it's annoying. I used to work at a place that had a huge monorepo with tons of dependencies. Poetry would sit there grinding away for 4 or 5 minutes. With smaller projects, I agree it's not much of an issue. But, uv has other cool features and it's super snappy!
by FrankWilhoit | 2025-07-17 13:11:54+00:00
This is only one special case of the fact that distributed systems are a security antipattern. The solution lies in the direction of specializing information for roles. But that, in turn, involves two things that are effectively impossible: (1) defining roles, which involves analyzing business processes, which involves stepping on people's toes and making people look bad; (2) breaking the database-architecture pattern of overloading all of the stages of the lifecycle of a business object onto one type.
by I_am_tiberius | 2025-07-17 13:12:09+00:00
I am not saying copyright laws or my frozen crypto account are woke. The link is the method: In all the cases, being called out for saying something politically slightly incorrect, the youtube handheld thing case in Italy, and my Bitcoin funds in Austria => people are punished before any wrongdoing is proven. Different issues, same "guilty first, check later" mindset.
by petesergeant | 2025-07-17 13:12:10+00:00
I’m an AI enthusiast, and it’s not clear to me that selling inference to a prop model is a winning business model, which is what Anthropic and OpenAI are doing. The open models are good enough today for many things, and are likely to only get better. Feels like inference is a commodity, and not clear how much money there is in it.

I would love to know how much of the inference I pay for is being paid for by VC cash: I suspect a lot of it.
by jsnell | 2025-07-17 13:12:14+00:00
You're in the EU, right? In that case these features have been off by default for years (I posted a link to the 2021 documentation showing that, but I'm 95% sure it was already the case pre-Covid). If you've been using these features for years, it kind of suggests you'd already consented to exactly this level of data use before, and just forgot about it.

What's the documentation link?
by dreamcompiler | 2025-07-17 13:13:14+00:00
Facebook does value your privacy, because it's a commodity they can sell for a high price.

Sort of like that Twilight Zone episode. The aliens come and convince us they are here to serve man. "Here, if you don't believe us look at our book called 'To Serve Man.'"

Finally one of the humans translates it and discovers it's a cookbook.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Z...
by pjc50 | 2025-07-17 13:13:15+00:00
It was a huge mess; basically the only people properly backing it were the Lib Dems, Labour were not out there in favor of it and in any case the media (overwhelmingly Tory) were against it. Just as with Brexit. The UK is basically not to be trusted with referendums.

The weird thing is how many different election systems are in use in the UK depending on what the politics of each devolved assembly is "supposed to be".
by coldpie | 2025-07-17 13:13:22+00:00
I actually had a brief email conversation with the folks running the project in the OP. Basically they said they can't get a reasonable-quality screen in that size. No one makes it. They would have to spin up a whole new manufacturing line for a quality, small screen and the cost on that is insane. The screens on the small phones you're talking about are very low quality.
by Applejinx | 2025-07-17 13:13:35+00:00
I have three within my range of vision if I lean a bit and look into another room, and only one gets used. And that's because I compile audio plugins to release VST2 on the Pi as a platform (compiling on a Pi 400) relying on Reaper as a host DAW.

I'm not doing audio work on the Pi, though, just supporting the platform for those (?) who do (?).

I would love to come up with cool things to do with Arduinos etc: I hacked high sample rate support into Eurorack modules that ran on Teensy, and then the Teensy that had the raw audio output pin which supported this use, hit end of life so those modules cannot be replaced now, and what I have is all I'll ever have.

The world of tiny computers is lovely but doesn't always stay accessible. For instance, I never got into hardware synth making that much, but these days all the oscillator chips etc. you'd want to hack with require robotic installation: they're too tiny for someone who grew up on DIP.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-07-17 13:13:51+00:00
Out of these 30 services, ~8 are useful on a daily basis, some from time to time,e and the rest is either forgotten or tests.

What I meant I that I do not have the kind of setup a lot of people show: a DC-grade self, with a U2 switch etc. I have an old server, my ISP box, a UPS, a switch and maybe something else I forgot. But since the server runs both Home Assistant and Pi-hole, it is critically important.

OTOH this criticality allows me not to invest too much in monitoring: I have family and friends yelling immediately when something is down :)
by roflcopter69 | 2025-07-17 13:14:10+00:00
Yup. The frustrating thing is that I already read tons of material on how to "hold it right", for example [Agentic Engineering in Action with Mitchell Hashimoto](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyQ4ZTS5dGw) and other stuff, but in my personal experience it just does not work. Maybe the things I want to work on are too niche? But to be fair, that example from Mitchell Hashimoto is working with zig, which is for LLM standards very niche so I dunno man.

Really, someone, just show me how you vibecode that seemlingly simple feature https://github.com/JaneySprings/DotRush/issues/89 without having some deep knowledge of the codebase. As of now, I don't believe this works.
by xienze | 2025-07-17 13:14:23+00:00
> Now LLMs are stealing everyone's data, claiming be "fair use", getting away scot free, while irrelevant YouTubers are facing threats to be jailed over nothing whatsoever.

I’d like to point out that for decades the argument pro-piracy folks made was that you can’t “steal” software since it still remains. It’s only fair to apply that same standard to AI companies who are simply scraping data...
by indiantinker | 2025-07-17 13:14:50+00:00
Beginner here, I sort for agree. I think these tools are good to make a few good demos and quickly sketch something but you hit the ceiling soon where every other thing you do needs more work. There a lot of tutorials online plus the promise of AI automation as the next "get rich quick" thing.

I am curious what is a good tool to build agents these days? I am checking out mastra, someone at the cafe told me about Inngest.. wondering what would you use?
by anonfordays | 2025-07-17 13:15:21+00:00
>Ah, so not blocked. Thanks for confirming.

A killfile is blocking, thanks for confirming.

>No, that is not correct, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44565662.

No, I was correct, you are wrong: https://wng.org/articles/the-high-cost-of-negligence-1617309...

>Please stop lying for once.

Hilarious projection considering you just got caught lying to protect a pedophile, one of your own:

After she reported her brother’s abuse to police in 2010, naval investigators questioned Jeremy, who was stationed overseas. He admitted everything. In a statement to naval lawyers, Jeremy detailed the abuse of his sisters and admitted to inappropriately touching his third sister and two other non-family members when he was a teenager.

He started abusing children when he was 11, and continued into his teenage years.

So, now that you've been caught repeating false theories to defend a pedophile, I wonder if you'll admit you were lying, or if you'll continue to support and defend a pedophile. The choice is yours.

>Ideally also stop "investigating" preteens on the internet that you have no relation with.

Again, we're not "investigating" his preteen victims. Stop inverting victim and perpetrator, that's a classic groomer tactic. The state did all the investigation for us.

>If you have no idea what you are even saying, just shut up instead of stalking preteens.

Again, is the LLM broken, or are you confusing victim and rapist because of poor reading comprehension? He was taking and abusing into his teenage years.

>Or do you prefer coming up with new excuses why you have a vested interest in preteens?

Translation: "You shouldn't care about children anyway, let groomers and rapists take advantage of them because it's woke to do so."

>By "investigating" preteens

You're obsessing over preteens. Bicha, is that you?

>it looks more like you want to expand your bar from Nazi bar to Nazi

Not a Nazi bar, all well behaving adults are welcome.

>Interested-in-Preteens Bar.

We care about the safety of children as all well adjusted non-groomer adults should. Insane that you're just admitting that you're a pedo bar and are defending pedophiles on the internet. Enjoy groomer pedo community! Thanks for taking your mask off!
by _heimdall | 2025-07-17 13:15:25+00:00
But you can't study the effects directly. Economic system are complex, any changes made are impossible to isolate and any changes in economic indicators have to be assumed to be related to the changes made.

I argue that economic research is entirely based on modelling because the research results produced always depend on modelling and either don't include any type of control group or use a controlled study so small that the odds it accurately reflects the entire economy are low.

The first I think is self explanatory, for the second I'd point to studies of UBI that are done on small populations within a larger economy that doesn't have a UBI. The results of the small group are effectively meaningless because that group has a comparative advantage against the rest of the economy, and those studies are never able to create a bubble in which the UBI population is entirely cut off from the real economy while still mimicking well enough all other systems, industries, and motivations of the real economy.
by t43562 | 2025-07-17 13:15:36+00:00
David Perigo, ESA’s chemical propulsion engineer and the programme’s technical lead, explains: “The INVICTUS programme will prove the suitability of a hydrogen-fuelled precooled air-breathing propulsion system for horizontal take-off and hypersonic flight. It will provide an invaluable opportunity to test the complete engine flow path, from intake to afterburner, at full scale in an integrated aircraft.” INVICTUS – Europe’s new hypersonic test platform INVICTUS – Europe’s new hypersonic test platform

The precooler system, building on technology developed through ESA's SABRE study, was designed by UK-based Reaction Engines Ltd and funded through ESA’s GSTP in its initial stages.

i.e. Skylon reborn.