MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ViscountPenguin | 2025-07-04 01:13:08+00:00
I don't know if you're multilingual, but some concepts are just legitimately easier to express in some languages; and the different grammatical structures that languages have can be useful for emphasising certain things, or to express subtle relationships between concepts.

I'm not a particularly fluent speaker of Japanese and Russian, but I still find it helpful to drop into them sometimes when speaking with someone who understands them.
by ranger_danger | 2025-07-04 01:13:54+00:00
> In layperson’s terms, ZKP makes it possible for people to prove that something about them is true without exchanging any other data. So, for example, a person visiting a website can verifiably prove he or she is over 18, without sharing anything else at all.

But how does it prove that the request is actually made by a person and not a bot? Surely that part is technically impossible right now?
by Quarrel | 2025-07-04 01:14:34+00:00
Many successful American tech founders and entrepreneurs don't have strong religious or spiritual beliefs. Both are true.

I think finding self-motivation in life is important, particularly for entrepreneurs, but there are many sources.

I've never thought the SV / San Fran scene was particularly religious. I'd have guessed religion was under-represented there compared to the rest of the US.
by lemming | 2025-07-04 01:15:20+00:00
Can anyone explain the economics of Anthropic's Max plan pricing to me? I have friends on the $100/month plan using well over $800 of tokens per month with Claude Code (according to ccusage). I certainly don't use Claude Code as much if I'm not on a flat rate plan, the cost spirals out of control very quickly. I understand that a subscription makes for more predictable revenue and that there will be people on the Max plan not using Claude Code 24/7, but the delta between what the API costs and what using the Max plan with Claude Code costs just seems too great for that to be an explanation. I don't think that user/mindshare capture can fully explain it either, Code is free and the cost of switching to something else if pricing later changes is just too low. I don't get it.
by jeffgranola77 | 2025-07-04 01:17:41+00:00
Let’s keep offshoring everything, dismantle the domestic workforce, and then act shocked when the middle class disappears and nobody can afford the products we’re building abroad! Maybe one day India will be able to afford the products we’re building for them!!!!

Almost forgot India is the fastest growing economy, built entirely on taking advantage of ours. Don’t worry it will totally work out!!!
by alwillis | 2025-07-04 01:17:56+00:00
Sounds like a prompting/context problem, not a problem with the model.

First, use Claude's plan mode, which generates a step-by-step plan that you have to approve. One tip I've seen mentioned in videos by developers: plan mode is where you want to increase to "ultrathink" or use Opus.

Once the plan is developed, you can use Sonnet to execute the plan. If you do proper planning, you won't need to worry about Claude skipping things.
by dan-robertson | 2025-07-04 01:19:33+00:00
I don’t think ‘closer to thing’ is a legitimate goal to spend enormous amounts of public money on. (I’m more ambivalent about private funding except for the contamination problem)

I’m not aware of any serious research questions about the solar system which could be answered sooner or more cost effectively by sending people to investigate (except for questions about eg how well primates survive in various extraterrestrial situations, which are only interesting insofar as there are legitimate reasons to put primates in such situations).
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-07-04 01:19:49+00:00
> Do you have a proposed solution other than decades worth of court dates? It doesn’t really seem like the other side has a good faith solution to the problem other than just letting them all stay here forever.

I think we are at a point where we should accept that there will be decades of court dates. The real alternative is that anyone can be taken away because there would be no process for even a multi-generation born citizen to challenge the arrest. The real deterrent for it happening to such a citizen is reporting and publicity, which is increasingly seeming like it can be thwarted by a population that is primed to strip the humanity of those they disagree with.

The way this is being handled, the timeline where we just let those 10 million stay in the country and avoid similar things in the future seems very appealing indeed. Two wrongs don’t make a right, as the saying goes.
by bad_boomerang | 2025-07-04 01:19:53+00:00
the context of my employment is actually just intentional noise to avoid doxxing myself. Lets assume that actually I am a full time employee with a very senior role for the sake of argument. Each particular change is minor but taken together they become problematic. Especially the idea that SOLID practices could be avoided under the fear that the product becomes "easier to crack".

I mention keys because of suggestions that encryping things in a stand alone, fully offline product achieves anything, given those values will have to be unencrypted on the device that the attacker controls, in order for the values to be useable, thereby rendering it somewhat/entirely pointless.

> More to your question, if you need to sell this to execs, you need to talk in terms of dollars. How much is this change going to cost? How much will it make or save them? What are the risks to the business if it isn't done? The more abstract or hypothetical the risk or financials, the less likely they are to buy what you're selling.

This is a good argument and is something I want to touch upon. The issue is that the fear is much like how the RIAA and MPAA reacted to the advent of the internet. As we saw then, the person with the fear can invent their own numbers, given its all off-book so its not measurable. I can certainly focus on aspects of the dev cost but I fear it might be challenging to wrap it all up in a convincing fashion when put up against an unmeasurable fear.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-07-04 01:21:21+00:00
No, I was making a larger point: there shouldn't be any such thing as a "foreign language." We're all members of the same species. (Yes, even Americans.) Technology like this is what will realize that ideal.

If cultures around the world had all grown up alongside each other, speaking the same language, and someone came along and said, "That's no good, every nation and every ethnic group should speak a different language," we wouldn't rush to embrace that point of view, would we? Who would benefit from such a policy? Certainly not you and me.
by const_cast | 2025-07-04 01:23:25+00:00
Lately it feels like the entire US economy is just scamming people. Everyone is disrupting the con-artist space by devising new and innovative ways to trick their own customers.

Every single website is filled to the brim with dark patterns. There's more spam these days than real content online. Even reputable companies are lying about their products. Reviews are faker than ever and nobody seems to care. Hell, even when I turn on the TV half of the products featured are very obviously scams.
by godelski | 2025-07-04 01:23:28+00:00
People often assume noise is normal and IID but it usually isn't. It's s fine approximation but isn't the same thing, which is what the parent is discussing.

Here's an example that might help you intuit why this is true.

Let's suppose you have a digital camera and walk towards a radiation source and then away. Each radioactive particle that hits the CCD causes it to over saturate, creating visible noise in the image. The noise it introduces is random (Poisson) but your movement isn't.

Now think about how noise is introduced. There's a lot of ways actually, but I'm sure this thought exercise will reveal to you how some cause noise across frames to be dependent. Maybe as a first thought, think about from sitting on a shelf degrading.
by nisa | 2025-07-04 01:25:30+00:00
This (ragebaity/ai?) post kind of mixes things up. Kubernetes is fine I think but almost everything around it and the whole consulting business is the problem. You can build a single binary, use a single layer oci container and run it with a single config map with memory quota on 30 machines just fine.

Take a look at the early borg papers what problem does it solves. Helm is just insane but you can use jsonnet that is modelled after Google's internal system.

Only use the minimal subset and have an application that is actually build to work fine in that subset.
by trhway | 2025-07-04 01:25:51+00:00
>(iii) ships moving at ~15 knots are water pumps themselves, overcoming the limitation of high energy demand in AWL

i think there is a flaw in that logic.

Btw, if doing it on ships is that great, why not build(repurpose) large [old] ships/barges by making them solar and/or wind powered and set them just to follow tradewinds and/or to just loiter in the tropical belt, mostly [semi]autonomously.
by ranger_danger | 2025-07-04 01:26:55+00:00
> the SE is in the phone, but could be a yubikey or something else

Just like with passkeys or MFA, the "something else" could be purely software though, right? And hence automated?

For example I can run Windows 11 in a virtual machine on Linux, using softu2f to emulate TPM 2.0, and Windows does not know the difference.
by alisonatwork | 2025-07-04 01:29:31+00:00
To me the core purpose of code review is clear - knowledge sharing. If the only person who knows about a particular change is the person who wrote it, then you have a critical point of failure. If there is an issue in a subsystem whose owner is away or who has moved on, that issue is likely to take much longer to resolve if the person on the case is looking at the code for the very first time.

An AI maximalist might say that code review is no longer necessary because in the case that there is an issue in a subsystem nobody is familiar with, you can simply ask the AI to read that source code and come back with a report of where the bug is and a proposal of how to fix it. And, since code review is useless anyway, might as well take the human out of the loop entirely - just have AI immediately commit the change and push it to production and iterate if or when another issue emerges.

This is the dream of autonomous, self-managing systems! Of course this dream is decades old at this point, and despite developing ever more complex systems it turns out that we were never quite able to do away with humans altogether. Thus, code review still appears to be useful. But it's only useful if everybody goes into it with the mindset that the goal is knowledge sharing. If the outcome of a review is not that everyone comes out of it with a good understanding of the purpose and function of the code being committed, then imo it was a waste of time.
by mdaniel | 2025-07-04 01:29:48+00:00
> Python is a ... typesafe language.

You're funny

> is laughably more difficult to get running on Linux or OSX than Python).

$(dotnet publish) <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/sing...> is the way they solve that problem in modern .net

And, unlike the scripting language you mentioned, most of the languages on the CLR actually are statically typed
by usef- | 2025-07-04 01:29:58+00:00
I think a lot of it is that tmux had friendler, sane defaults and clearer command design (eg. status bar out of the box). And, I suspect, people not already knowing screen.

The latter reason is why Helix is slow in doing similar to vim, I think, despite being far more consistently designed and saner defaults. Everyone knows vim exists.

I've still never switched from screen, personally, though I'm only a light user.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-07-04 01:30:16+00:00
In general, green-washing never truly confesses the scale of the problem. The data driven conclusion is exhausting every mine on every landmass would only buy another 5 to 7 years at most. Geoengineering is currently mostly BS idealism.

The planet will be fine again in 30 thousand years or so, after the current population of psychotic primates go extinct. It is ultimately a self-correcting problem regardless of what humans collectively choose to do. =3
by eru | 2025-07-04 01:31:55+00:00
To expand on what I was trying to say:

Yes, you can run with disposable brands. It's a perfectly viable business strategy in many cases.

However: if you do that you are missing out on the benefits of building a good reputation. Even in the cases, where your product _is_ actually good.

So another perfectly valid business strategy is to build a longer lasting brand. Like Apple has done. (Or countless other companies.)

In most markets we see both kinds of strategies at play. As a customer, you can usually decide which kind of strategy you give your money to.
by wizardnh | 2025-07-04 01:32:13+00:00
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by const_cast | 2025-07-04 01:33:06+00:00
> And I'll ask why they didn't just ask for help. They weren't comfortable asking for help. They were only ok stating the problem when asked specifically for status.

This is a real thing but it should only be temporary. If your culture is good and amendable to this sort of thing, then the IC should learn fairly quickly that they need to ask for help.

This behavior in ICs is, believe it or not, trained. I'm sure they've worked somewhere before or with a different manager in the past who would get annoyed at them asking for help. So they've tuned their behavior to that.
by refactor_master | 2025-07-04 01:35:18+00:00
> Docker is essentially a sandwich of disk images where you can shove absolutely anything, and then these images get executed by running whatever legacy software you’ve crammed in there, regardless of how horrific or inconsistent it might be, with zero behavioral controls.

Is this a problem with Docker, or a problem with people who use Docker? Without much controversy I feel this argument could be made about literally any abstract entity in society from `get_foo` to national institutions. Abstractions seem to be a necessary evil in corporative societies.

Also, the article is way too short and meatless to provoke any real thoughts, and comes across as "If you don't already know what Kubernetes is, just know that it's bad". I don't see how that's going to sway anyone's opinion on anything.
by alwillis | 2025-07-04 01:35:31+00:00
After reading many of the comments in this thread, I suspect many (not all) issues come from lack of planning and poor prompting.

For anything moderately complex, use Claude's plan mode; you get to approve the plan before turning it loose. The planning phase is where you want to use a more sophisticated model or use extended thinking mode.

Once you have a great plan, you can use a less sophisticated model to execute it.

Even if you're a great programmer, you may suck at prompting. There's an art and a science to prompting; perhaps learn about it? [1]

Don't forget; in addition to telling Claude or any other model what to do, you can also tell them what not to do in the CLAUDE.md or equivalent file.

[1]: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-...
by kevinsync | 2025-07-04 01:38:19+00:00
Ok, very cool. But I want Netflix to explain it related to Seinfeld, which at 10-12 feet looks fine, but up close looks insane. Blocky MJPEG + grain filter??

It's not like we're on Pentium II processors anymore -- I can filter just about anything with ShaderGlass [0] on a shitty computer (and some of the CRT shaders like crt-hyllian-curvature are brilliant, especially on old shows like NewsRadio that only exist on DVD) .. and I'm shocked that Netflix doesn't just have this built into their Apple TV app or whatever. I'm shocked PLEX doesn't have it! (that I know of)

I made a comment on a different post about imagining a world where local AI/LLM/whatever does some favorable processing for you, by you, on your device, of web content, to enhance your experience. I really believe media (streamers all the way down to open source devs) need to begin to incorporate whatever's out there that reduces friction and increases joy. It's all out there already! The heavy lifting has been done! Just make Family Matters look like how it looked when I was locking in on a Friday night for TGIF LOL

[0] https://github.com/mausimus/ShaderGlass
by Uehreka | 2025-07-04 01:39:12+00:00
The “Unpopular Opinion framing” is such a wonderful cheat code. You get to seem like an independent thinker for free, your argument gets bonus moral superiority points, and if anyone points out that your argument is actually very popular you get to claim it’s all a joke and mock them for taking you seriously (even though you actually mean what you’re saying).
by Dig1t | 2025-07-04 01:39:22+00:00
>just let those 10 million stay in the country and avoid similar things in the future

But this is what I’m getting at, this is not the first time this has happened, it’s been happening with millions of people for generations now. Heck Reagan pardoned millions back in the 1980’s. So how long are we supposed to keep saying “okay you guys can stay but let’s do better in the future”? After so many decades it is obvious that nothing is going to change without some kind of drastic political change, which is basically why Trump was elected.

But just looking at the system from a Birds Eye view: it’s easy in, difficult out. All it takes is one president to not enforce the law and the law is basically moot. Just seems disingenuous the people saying deporting people is horrible yet offering no solutions other than to just let them all stay here forever. We are well past the point where saying we’ll do better in the future is an argument that anyone will accept.

Why is there nobody suggesting a law to expedite or fast track the “due process”? That at least seems like a moderate approach.
by tiltowait | 2025-07-04 01:42:54+00:00
TFA is actually the first time I've seen the peasant railgun interpretation that actually causes damage. Other conversations I've seen all concluded it wouldn't do any damage, which made it even funnier depending on your point of view.

Two of my favorite bits of D&D (3.5) logic:

* Mounting a horse is a free action. Therefore, much like the peasant railgun, you could set up saddle highways: a post every five feet, with a saddle on top. Then, you mount and dismount between cities as one gigantic free action, allowing instantaneous travel.

* Per the rules governing object visibility at distance, the moon was invisible.

* Arguably, once you started drowning, you could not stop drowning, even if removed from water.
by GMoromisato | 2025-07-04 01:42:56+00:00
I can't prove that neolithic hunters sorted themselves into cultures based on the pointy rock they preferred, but I wouldn't doubt it.

I'm old enough to remember the Mac vs. PC cultural divide, with the ubiquitous ads of the hip/cool "I'm a Mac" dude teasing the corporate "I'm a PC" guy.

And before that there was the stereotype of the young, fast-and-loose, self-taught PC programmer battling against the stodgy mainframe empire of IBM.

With a little bit of searching I found plenty of examples of cultural divides centered on tools:

1920s-1950s: Stanley vs. Craftsman

1900s-1940s: Yankee vs. Generic

1910s-1930s: Atlas vs. Independent

1800s-1900s: American vs. British Toolmaking

My point--if there is one--is that this is not a new phenomenon that emerged from notetaking software. This is likely a deep feature of human nature.
by refurb | 2025-07-04 01:44:04+00:00
This is a very disingenuous question for a number of reasons.

- Whether unlawful presence is a civil or criminal law, countries should control who enters the country.

- Masked police seem like a reasonable response to doxxing of police officers? It’s not like the identity of these police aren’t know to the legal system and lawyers of the accused.

- Calling immigration detention “concentration camps” makes no sense. It’s just meaningless rhetoric as detention bears no resemblance to actual concentration camps.

- Most importantly, the US enforcing its own immigrations laws does not make it an outlier - it was an outlier when it ignored its own immigration laws. Every other country I’ve visited rather strictly enforces its immigration laws including speedy deportation of any encountered who doesn’t have permission to be in the country. If anything the headlines should be “US joins rest of world in enforcing its own immigration laws”
by moralestapia | 2025-07-04 01:44:46+00:00
Good idea and I do not diminish their creativity, findings and methods.

The reason why this and many other CO2 sequestration techniques don't work to solve the carbon pollution problem is that they always measure "gains" on a very narrow context, irl the inputs to the system incur some carbon emissions as well.

If you account for (just off the top my head):

* Grinding the limestone down to dust

* Limestone transport from whenever is sourced to the ships

* Extra weight of limestone on the ship (they say 12 TEU for a 10k container ship, small but not insignificant)

* Any difference in propulsion efficiency due to this change in the fluid dynamics that has to be compensated by ... burning more fuel (but this one could actually be negligible)

You might be emitting much more carbon than the one your system was designed to absorb.

You cannot beat the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

Smaht[1] people have been trained to quickly and loudly dismiss perpetual motion machines, but also buy the whole "revert carbon emissions" scam which is proven impossible by the exact same principles.

Btw, this is an accurate litmus test to see if someone actually understands what's going on or if its just another smaht guy parroting back what xi's been told to.

1: smaht. smart in appearance but actually dumb
by Escapado | 2025-07-04 01:44:51+00:00
I have to second this. I study Japanese myself and the entire way the Japanese communicate is reflected so deeply in the language. There is so so much nuance to pretty much every sentence they speak and there are certain grammar points that carry more meaning in three syllables than what can be expressed in English or German in a full sentence. And ok turn this way of communicating shapes their culture too I believe. If I were to translate a German conversation into Japanese, even if I did so idiomatically it would most likely come off as a rude exchange, because of all the unapologetic directness in the source language.
by lambdasquirrel | 2025-07-04 01:45:00+00:00
The problem with this thesis is that there’s no other easy way to make microservices composed of different language stacks work well together, even if they are distributed-first. What happens when you jump from Elixir to Scala actors? It can’t easily be said that k8s is just an assembler of garbage.

Ultimately, the AI content is much like so much of content in this internet age: really good at convincing people who lack the background to call BS, but easily disproved by anyone with basic background.