MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tonyedgecombe | 2025-07-01 06:51:17+00:00
>Yes. Poorer people buy things made overseas that requires a lot of shipping, and are lower quality that require more frequent replacement. They tend to have more children. They usually have more polluting energy sources. And there are many orders of magnitude more of them than rich people.

A few cheap gadgets are dwarfed by a flight to Bali, new SUV or large house.

Aircraft emissions are 3% of the global total, for the US it is much higher (~9%)[1] and for the richest 10% it is higher again.

You can't get away from the fact that emissions are going to be reasonably well correlated with spending [2] and the poor don't spend very much.

>Everyone needs to contribute.

If we get a real handle on our carbon emissions then the lives of the poor will improve.

[1] https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/transportation-sector-emiss...

[2] https://climatefactchecks.org/worlds-richest-10-linked-to-tw...
by Izkata | 2025-07-01 06:52:42+00:00
We had one of those, except it was two loops and a python "in" on a list, so actually O(n^3). Changing the "in" to be on a set brought it from around two hours to around five minutes. And the best part is related to the topic at hand: This was a small postprocessing function, and other more experienced developers had tried to speed up the overall process but assumed the slowness was earlier in the process instead of in this function, and after failing they assumed it couldn't be sped up further. They never bothered to check which part of the process was actually slow.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-07-01 06:53:44+00:00
Oh hey I wasn't aware of that lawsuit and (IMO) that's really good news. My only real concern with steam as a platform was the off-platform pricing clause.

I figured it was likely unenforceable if a studio simply released a "steam edition" or whatever artificial version differentiation, but at the same time they can always refuse to do business with you for any reason (or no reason even). So at that point the clause feels like them making a blatant threat.
by jackdoe | 2025-07-01 06:56:49+00:00
Reminds me that Don Quixote is a different book every 10 years you read it.

I have watched the dragon speech multiple times, and it makes me feel like you should put everything in what you are doing, as everything is your magnum opus. I have huge respect for artists and artisans that work like that. It is really difficult, and often not economically viable, but there are people that just `see` something and they want it to exist.

I often think about the dragon speech, when I am doing the same 'pick up 10 things' quest in World of Warcraft that I have been doing since 2005. Thousands of times.. I have picked up hundreds of thousands of things :) and I wonder, what game would WoW be had he succeeded.
by _1tem | 2025-07-01 06:58:07+00:00
Yes, I abandoned Cursor recently and went back to Claude Code. Two main reasons: 1. The “plan mode” for Claude makes it execute complex tasks much more reliably. It automatically keeps track of todos and completes them. With Cursor I’m constantly fighting with it. 2. I can now use my IDE of choice (JetBrains) rather than a poor fork of VS Code. 3. Daily usage limits now included in the monthly $20/month Claude Pro plan seems to be enough for my daily needs. No extra costs.
by globular-toast | 2025-07-01 06:58:20+00:00
The trouble is if you just retrofit aircon with no other changes you actually increase the outside temperature, possibly by more than 2 degrees[0].

This has worried me since I was a child. If everyone has AC it's a race to the bottom as it gets warmer and warmer, AC has to work harder, using more and more energy etc. You end up with hellhole cities where you can't be outside at all. It's simply not sustainable. We have to do other things like having green spaces, less tarmac, shutters on windows etc.

[0] https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/08/30/fact-check-is-air-...
by CecileAbescat | 2025-07-01 06:58:37+00:00
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by Certhas | 2025-07-01 06:59:49+00:00
When studying physics, people eventually learn about Fourier transform, and they learn about quantum mechanics, where the Fourier transform switches between describing things in terms of position and of momentum. And amazingly the harmonic oscillator is the same in position and momentum space! So maybe there are other creatures that perceive in momentum space! Everything is relative!

Except that's of course superficial nonsense. Position space isn't an accident of evolution, one of many possible encodings of spatial data. It's an extremely special encoding: The physical laws are local in position and space. What happens on the moon does not impact what happens when I eat breakfast much. But points arbitrarily far in momentum space do interact. Locality of action is a very very deep physical principle, and it's absolutely central to our ability to reason about the world at all. To break it apart into independent pieces.

So I strongly reject your example. It makes no sense to present the pictures of a video game in Fourier space. Its highly unnatural for very profound reasons. Our difficulty stems entirely from the fact that our vision system is built for interpreting a world with local rules and laws.

I also see no reason that an AI could successfully transfer between the two representations easily. If you start from scratch it could train on the Fourier space data, but that's more akin to using different eyes, rather than transfer.
by sanat | 2025-07-01 07:00:53+00:00
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by Dylan16807 | 2025-07-01 07:01:01+00:00
> They will classify the data as necessary for business purposes and collect it under a different name.

Laws are powerful enough to stop that.

> wiretaps

I said 99%, not 100%.

> any third party in range of the WiFi network can likely do the same thing passively

But they won't do it in bulk without a lot of motivation (like profit).
by mpnsk1 | 2025-07-01 07:02:28+00:00
What I like about this approach is that it goes back to looking at what your problems actually are. A lot of self help and social media sells you virtues in the form of solutions looking for a problem. It makes people go around with hammers of virtue seeing everything as a viceful nail they can hammer down. And of course they see the nail in other people first.
by kikokikokiko | 2025-07-01 07:03:02+00:00
It's the same in portuguese. The last few months, for every brazilian video I need to play a guessing game and decide, based on the ridiculously "translated" english title, if I really want to watch it. Since I use Firefox on Android to consume Youtube, I need to open the video and then switch to Desktop mode to be able to change the audio track to the original pt-BR. There's no such option on Youtube mobile. I have lost count how many videos I decided the hassle wasn't worth it. Great job YouTube team, you're screwing your metrics in order to provide a horrible feature multilingual users never asked for.
by ciju | 2025-07-01 07:04:54+00:00
Ya, the product is built on double-entry. In case you are interested: https://finbodhi.com/docs/understanding-double-entry

On multiple currency, we have support for it as a commodity. We are planning to make it easier, in future. There is support for split transactions. So, transactions with more than one currency will work by associating them with accounts in different currency.
by Traubenfuchs | 2025-07-01 07:06:20+00:00
We recently got Claude Code and there is a very strong push to use it.

I recently did for the first time. Spent 15 minutes writing a long prompt to implement a ticket. A repeated pattern of code, 5 classes + config per topic that deeply interact with each other and it did the job perfectly.

It convinced me that the current code monkey jobs, which are >90%, >95%? of software engineering jobs, will disappear within 10 years.

We‘ll only need senior/staff/architect level code reviewers and prompt engineers.

When the last generation that manually wrote code dies out, all people will do is prompting.

Just like assembler became a niche, just like C became a niche, high level languages will become a niche.

If you still don‘t believe, you haven‘t tried the advanced tools that can modify a whole project, are too incompetent to properly prompt or indeed work in one of the rare, arcane frontier- state-of-the-art niches where AI can‘t help.
by nottorp | 2025-07-01 07:08:54+00:00
It really depends.

If all you do is run games and discord on your home PC memory consumption won't matter.

If you have multiple uses or work from home ... Discord expanding to 4 G to display the meme channel with all those cat photos will be annoying to say the least.

Case in point, I stopped running Discord on my laptop. Still run it on a desktop to keep in touch with some people, but it's not my default goto for any communication.

Also, just because most users don't know better, it doesn't mean that Electron apps aren't basically disrespecting the user's resources and passing needless costs to them. Especially if you have hundreds of million users the extra cost they pay dwarfs whatever you the app developer would have paid for a working native application.
by cyphax | 2025-07-01 07:09:14+00:00
I work at a small web company (.net based, Netherlands) and we're just experimenting with it. We have a paid copilot subscription, but nothing about it is mandatory in any way. But this place is conservative in the sense that self hosting is the norm and cloud services like Azure or even github (we self host Gitea) are not, other than MS 365 for Teams and e-mail.
by colordrops | 2025-07-01 07:10:53+00:00
> Since these are non-deterministic machines, I fail to see any reliable heuristic that is fundamentally indistinguishable than "trying and seeing" with prompts

There are many sciences involving non-determinism that still have laws and patterns, e.g. biology and maybe psychology. It's not all or nothing.

Also, LLMs are deterministic, just not predictable. The non-determinism is injected by providers.

Anyway is there an essential difference between prompt engineering and context engineering? They seem like two names for the same thing.
by nandomrumber | 2025-07-01 07:11:19+00:00
Tangentially related, re hoarders and death traps, have you come across the story of the Collyer brothers?

Homer Lusk Collyer (November 6, 1881 – March 21, 1947) and Langley Wakeman Collyer (October 3, 1885 – c. March 9, 1947), known as the Collyer brothers,[1] were two American brothers who became infamous for their bizarre natures and compulsive hoarding. The two lived in seclusion in their Harlem brownstone at 2078 Fifth Avenue (at the corner of 128th Street) in New York City where they obsessively collected books, furniture, musical instruments, and myriad other items, with booby traps set up in corridors and doorways to crush intruders. Both died in their home in March 1947 and were found (Homer on March 21, Langley on April 8) surrounded by more than 140 tons (127,000 kg) of collected items that they had amassed over several decades.

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The responding officer initially had a difficult time getting into the house. There was no doorbell or telephone and the doors were locked; and though the basement windows were broken, they were protected by iron grillwork.[20] An emergency squad of seven men eventually had no choice but to begin pulling out all of the junk that was blocking their way and throw it out onto the street below. The brownstone's foyer was packed solid by a wall of old newspapers, folding beds and chairs, half a sewing machine, boxes, parts of a wine press, and numerous other pieces of junk. A patrolman finally broke in through a window into a second-story bedroom. Behind this window lay, among other things, more packages and newspaper bundles, empty cardboard boxes lashed together with rope, the frame of a baby carriage, a rake, and old umbrellas tied together. After five hours of digging, Homer Collyer's body was found in an alcove surrounded by filled boxes and newspapers that were piled to the ceiling.
by amelius | 2025-07-01 07:11:25+00:00
If you pay for a product and it is tied to a vendor, then you should be able to completely break all ties with that vendor and switch to a different service provider, and still be able to use the product as advertised.

Otherwise you don't own the product.

This basic premise doesn't hold for Apple products.

And by the way, I think consumer rights are more important than rights of companies to do whatever they want.
by lrvick | 2025-07-01 07:11:32+00:00
I detest Apple and would happily switch to a timeline where they never existed.

That said, I do not think this is the way to fight them. Just do not make apps for iPhone, or pass the 30% Apple tax to the Apple fanboys. They enjoy being submissive to walled garden overlords and paying for the privilege, so give them what they want.

These are perfectly valid options. Create value for more open ecosystems if you want to hurt the closed ones.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-07-01 07:11:42+00:00
And we may get an ugly transitory period where a lot of programs go from being clearly hand made with some degree of care and some fine details that show the developer's craftsmanship, to awful prefab and brutalist software that feels inhuman, mass-produced, and nothing is really fit for the job but still shipped because it kind of works well enough.

People go to museums to admire old hand-carved furniture and travel to cities to admire the architecture of centuries past made with hand-chiseled blocks. While power tools do let people make things of equal quality faster, they're instead generally used to make things of worse quality much, much faster and the field has gone from being a craft to simply being an assembly line job. As bad as software is today, we're likely to hit even deeper lows and people will miss the days where Electron apps are good compared to what's yet to come.

There's already been one step in this direction with the Cambrian extinction of 90s/early 2000s software. People still talk about how soulful Winamp/old Windows Media Player/ZSNES/etc were.
by hacb | 2025-07-01 07:11:49+00:00
We're among the companies that decided to be "AI-first" - whatever that means. They are spending huge amount of money and effort to deploy AI tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, etc.

I'm kinda worried about how the massive usage of AI coding tool will affect the understanding of large codebases and complex systems, but to be totally honest I'm really impressed by Claude Code and how it can write Terraform/Helm/Ruby based on the company's idioms (and I'm talking about a repository with 250k+ lines of HCL!).
by javascriptpy | 2025-07-01 07:11:57+00:00
The following is a year 2,065 Bed Time Story featuring a childhood lesson of being adaptable: "Near the end of the 2020s those who rejected AI out of misunderstanding were left behind; those who embraced it grew wealthy and powerful. Meanwhile, the anti-adopters lived miserably, consumed by resentment, blaming everyone and everything for their plight except themselves and their own failure to adapt."
by ciju | 2025-07-01 07:12:36+00:00
Thanks @vintagedate, unfortunately, the things you asked are not done yet :)

The app is a PWA website (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_app). Eventually, we would be able to build other clients (e.g mobile/native app) with the synched db, but not in near future. The data is stored in sqlite in browser which is synched with other devices. With backup to local filesystem, and soon dropbox.

The app supports multiple devices, but ui for mobile has not been our priority. We hope to fix it soon, at least for data entry.

And bank linking, again, we don't support. This is partly limitation of FinBodhi being webapp.

As and when we have support for things you are looking for, we will write to you (via newsletter :)

Thanks for catching the typo, and the feedback.
by aitechtutorials | 2025-07-01 07:12:39+00:00
I made a full walkthrough on setting up Google’s Gemini CLI, including advanced use with MCP (Modular Command Plugins) like taskmaster-ai and context7. The video covers installation, .gemini/settings.json configuration, troubleshooting common errors, and how to integrate external AI tools for expanded functionality.

It’s aimed at developers and tinkerers who want to work directly with AI from the terminal.

I’d appreciate any feedback or suggestions to improve the setup process!
by fc417fc802 | 2025-07-01 07:12:41+00:00
> developers would instead choose to distribute via the alternate means instead of the App Store

Would they? I imagine they would distribute via all available, at different price points. At least that's what I would do. Why would I want to forgo access to customers who prefer every last detail to be handled via Apple's infrastructure?

That said, if there were actually a dichotomy between "force developers to distribute via my preferred means" and "permit developers to choose whether or not to use my platform of choice" the former seems obviously immoral and the latter obviously the correct course of action. Why should you get to dictate how developers must do things? That's simply valuing your own preference over everyone else's (both developers and users) right to choose.
by stavros | 2025-07-01 07:12:46+00:00
Does it? Claude Code is the product that works the least well for me, mainly because of its tendency to go off and do tons of stuff. I've found LLMs are at their best when they produce few enough lines of code that I can review and iterate, not when they go off and invent the world.

For that reason, I mainly use Aider and Cursor (the latter mostly in the "give me five lines" comment mode).
by philsnow | 2025-07-01 07:13:19+00:00
What's poor about it, the numbers in the example? Think of them as inner/outer instead of "1" and "2". Without this kind of break statement, what do you do when you want to exit the outer loop, something like this probably:

local stop = false for i = 1, 10 do -- outer loop if stop then break end for j = 1, 5 do -- inner loop break -- to break from inner loop stop = true; break -- to break from outer loop end end

So this new feature fits with the general theme of pluto being a very-sugared lua.
by isaacremuant | 2025-07-01 07:13:20+00:00
If you speak more than one language, which most non native language speakers do, you absolutely don't want your automatic translations. Hell, I don't want automatic translations even for languages I don't speak. If you want to allow me to have automatic subtitles go right ahead but forcing me to listen in one language is just absurd.

It also destroys language learning opportunities.

Google being anti user, probably so some director can boost AI numbers is pretty typical though.
by jolmg | 2025-07-01 07:14:44+00:00
> This shit would end tomorrow if they had to start delivering modems with 1 inch high letters that said "THIS DEVICE WILL TRACK YOUR LOCATION WITHIN YOUR HOME AND SHARE THAT DATA WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE",

I have the urge to laugh at this, but maybe I'm just too cynical. Pretty sure we still live in an age where most people would let go of principles like privacy for a bit of convenience.
by albertgoeswoof | 2025-07-01 07:18:04+00:00
> Every single "email startup" is just building UI on top of existing infrastructure. They're not building actual email servers - they're building apps that connect to real email infrastructure.

This is something that shocked me when I built https://mailpace.com I just assumed that everyone doing email ran their own smtp servers. Turns out YC and others are funding wrappers on aws ses left right and center!
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by lordnacho | 2025-07-01 07:18:53+00:00
Yes, and we even hired a guy to do it. He's a young fellow who has been using every AI tool under the sun, seemingly forever. Also well connected in the space. He comes up with various suggestions about how to use all the tools.

I'm certainly seeing the benefits. A lot of tasks are faster with AI. Even some quite fiddly bits of log-diving and finding subtle bugs can be done by AI, which would have taken me considerably longer.

I'm still finding that overall architecture needs to be done by me, though. Once you make the task big enough, AI goes off the rails and makes some really odd stuff.
by hacb | 2025-07-01 07:19:25+00:00
In our case, we have strong security guidance about which MCP to use and how; otherwise we're free to use the coding AI tool of our choice (Claude Code, Cursor, ...). There's not KPI about LLM usage _yet_, but I feel it coming soon.

There are also many workshops about how to build with AI etc, so it's slowly becoming part of everyone's work
by jl39842 | 2025-07-01 07:20:23+00:00
This sounds great! My partner and I also spend a lot of time just scrolling around the Swiss hiking maps looking for potential routes. I had an idea for better filters (e.g. roundtrip hikes with >1000m elevation <2h by transit) and got as far as displaying hiking and transit data. Are you looking for testers? :)
by frocodillo | 2025-07-01 07:21:28+00:00
No one’s being forced, but we’re encouraged to explore and experiment with AI tools. And not just for writing code. It's a quite firm belief in the company as a whole that the winners in the 'AI age' will be the companies that are able to utilize AI tools improve their internal workflows and become more productive. So we get to try out lots of different things, and we make sure to share our learnings with each other.