MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rewgs | 2025-07-05 17:13:20+00:00
Frankly, if you store important data on an experimental file system and don’t have backups, you deserve to lose it.

And I have to imagine that those that are technical enough to not only use Linux, but use an experimental non-default file system, and those that don’t have backups of their data, is a vanishingly small group.

So no, I actually disagree —- it’s not part of the job.

So again we arrive at the same place: this data recovery tool is not worth the drama.

It’s a feature, not a bug fix, and an incredibly unimportant one at that _at this stage of development_. If bcachefs weren’t experimental and were widely used, it would be a different story —- I’d probably be in favor of bending the rules to get it in there faster. But that just isn’t where we are right now.
by tom_m | 2025-07-05 17:13:40+00:00
Basically...but, no, I mean they have some features that provide UX around prompting an LLM and then taking the output and using it to edit files for you. It's a "quality of life" or productivity tool.

It's useful and has SOME value. Just not enough unfortunately.

This is history repeating itself. How could a company that raised so much money possibly compete with another that has the same ... arguably better ... product for less? Marketing budget? Hype? First to market? Sure. Absolutely. All those things do fade though.

We've seen this movie before. Remember Sublime Text? Remember what happened when Atom and VS Code came along? Fortunately Sublime Text didn't over raise (if they raised anything at all, I can't remember). Point is, people catch on and save money if they can. So they will do the same with Cursor.

Use open source editors that have the same features...better ones even. I'll argue that Roo Code is much much better than Cursor. I even like Windsurf better to be honest, but I wouldn't pay for either. I'll support open-source and save my money to pay the LLM.

Cursor is about to go the way of Sublime Text or Notepad++. Might keep some cult following, but it's market share will drop off a cliff.

It's ok. Their investors don't care! This was all to get people to use LLMs more. Their investors are fine with the sacrifice. That's all it ever was.
by Zambyte | 2025-07-05 17:14:49+00:00
Art is good or bad if it expresses what the artist wants it to express or not. It is not strictly a matter of quality / fidelity. It is terribly difficult to produce good art through the common chat interface used to create art with AI. Tools that allow iterative refinement like ComfyUI are far more capable for allowing people to create art with AI, but they are also far more capable at producing something that is low quality.
by ckcheng | 2025-07-05 17:14:56+00:00
So you’re saying Apple IAP as merchant of record forcing use of Apple Pay is ok (?) but Apple App Store forcing use of Apple IAP as the only merchant of record is not?

(You were clarifying the difference between these things elsewhere so hoping you could clarify this, thanks.)

(And I want to see more Costco v Apple comparisons!)
by dagmx | 2025-07-05 17:16:40+00:00
Nobody here has actually answered you.

The Find My network is well documented, starting with https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/security/sec6cbc80fd0/...

But essentially each device says where they saw an unknown device via Bluetooth. This gets aggregated into just knowing a device is in the area, but nobody (including Apple) can know what it is other than the owner of the account.

There’s no risk to privacy unless you consider the knowledge of the mere existence of some Bluetooth capable device as being a privacy issue.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-07-05 17:16:57+00:00
Ehh, IME companies are hesitant because it's not a free parameter. All of your internal processes are built on top of how people communicate, so you can't change it without changing the entirety of how work gets done. People routinely hire experts for external comms, manager training, etc. because those are easier to adjust in isolation.
by rolandog | 2025-07-05 17:16:58+00:00
Early 40's and just made a switch from ChemEng to DevOps 4 years ago, after having been nerd-sniped into the field constantly while I wore "multiple hats" at Former Employer's (scope creep applies to job functions as well, huh?).

I've been meaning to do a write-up or something, but there's never a right time. I'd write more, but I'm at a festival r/n. Hit me up if you want some (hopefully useful tips).
by FireBeyond | 2025-07-05 17:17:14+00:00
Critical care paramedic here. The answer is "both".

AEDs are a key factor in ensuring patient survival until we can get them to the cath lab and get them ballooned.

"High quality compressions, early access to defibrillation". For every minute you do not have an effective pulse, your chance of survival goes down about 10%.

Airway management takes a distant back seat. Most meds we give are only mildly, or questionably effective.

But being able to defibrillate a dysrhythmia early is the key to getting the heart working itself - chest compressions are the best we have, but still. It takes us minutes of compressions to get to a suitable arterial pressure for effective perfusion, but ten seconds or less to lose it.

AEDs won't improve volume and arterial flow, but it'll give you a fighting chance of getting to the lab. Compressions alone are not going to do that - they will just preserve tissue.
by nh2 | 2025-07-05 17:18:07+00:00
I just discovered this:

A GUI that automatically changes the real monitor brightness based on presets you can configure (e.g. time of day or direction of the sun), or even just queries the current brightness of your exact location from the Internet to set the brightness.

This is in contrast to `xrandr --brightness` which doesn't actually change the monitor's backlight brightness, it just "changes the colour" to simulate brightness.

I like to work in a bright room but at night the monitors are way too bright, and the constant manual adjustment is annoying with shitty monitor touch buttons.

Needs ddcutil-service; for Ubuntu there's a handy PPA here: https://gitlab.com/w8jcik/ddcutil-service.deb#ppa-latest

If somebody makes a nixpkgs package for these, ping me and I will be reviewer and co-maintainer.
by GMoromisato | 2025-07-05 17:18:11+00:00
I'd love to know more about BYOC. Does that apply to the raw data (e.g., the database lives inside the enterprise) or the entire application stack (e.g., the enterprise is effectively self-hosting the cloud).

It seems like you'd need the latter to truly be immune to cloud-vendor problems. [But I may not understand how it works.]
by weatherlite | 2025-07-05 17:18:53+00:00
> Being truly low status isn't much fun.

What is truly low status though ? I'd say it is quite rare. Most people are average. Truly low status I guess would be to be homeless or be so disfigured you cannot find a mate - something of that sort. I think many average or even above average people who are not low status want to have more status and that's their real issue - the unmet desire for more power, not being actually low status.
by richk449 | 2025-07-05 17:18:55+00:00
> If they would expect to achieve AGI soon, their behaviour would be completely different. Why bother developing chatbots or doing sales, when you will be operating AGI in a few short years?

What if chatbots and user interactions ARE the path to AGI? Two reasons they could be: (1) Reinforcement learning in AI has proven to be very powerful. Humans get to GI through learning too - they aren’t born with much intelligence. Interactions between AI and humans may be the fastest way to get to AGI. (2) The classic Silicon Valley startup model is to push to customers as soon as possible (MVP). You don’t develop the perfect solution in isolation, and then deploy it once it is polished. You get users to try it and give feedback as soon as you have something they can try.

I don’t have any special insight into AI or AGI, but I don’t think OpenAI selling useful and profitable products is proof that there won’t be AI.
by ben_w | 2025-07-05 17:20:55+00:00
That sounds like what I've heard is the foundation mythos of the modern state of Israel.

Most of the rest of the world, as far as I can tell, thinks that the modern state of Israel happened because of the general international reaction to the horrors of the holocaust, as written into international law and things like UN Resolution 181 splitting the British Mandate for Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states, plus an extraterritorial "Special International Regime" for the city of Jerusalem and its surroundings.

Irregardless of this, if all you consider is realpolitik and see the world through the eyes of just a defence policy, consider that the modern state of Israel is not, despite its impressive military and intelligence services, a completely independent modern power. Consider that it is, by the choices made by its current government, making it difficult for other developed nations to continue to supply weapons or military assistance. For the moment, the strong European defence exporting nations recognise that Iran is a big threat to them, so are begrudgingly still giving military assistance to Israel. But it is begrudgingly, because of their domestic electorate's horror at what is being done to Palestine and the Palestinians.

That leaves the USA. Israel is fortunate that there is a large contingent of Jewish voters in the USA (who, obviously, are very strongly supporters of Israel). The USA will not be a superpower forever. Does China care if Iran gets a nuke? Will China decide that its foreign policy is one of "Great Powers have a sphere of influence, and ours includes Iran", and therefore stop the USA from bombing Iran to slow down the Iranian nuclear program?

These things are why it matters to look good in the eyes of the world.

What "looks good" means is a constantly changing thing as it depends on the personalities of all the other leaders (sometimes it's "look strong", other times it's "speak softly and carry a big stick" etc.), but right now what the government of Israel is doing reduces the support of some the nations it needs support from.

> Also, well, they could instead just be kept in, separated by gender, until they age out of terrorism, as a worse (too expensive), but still acceptable solution.

Kept in what? The rest of that sentence makes it seem like a way to prevent reproduction, which turns this from "Crimes Against Humanity under Article 7(1)(d)" into "Genocide under Article 6(c) and (d)":

Article 6 Genocide For the purpose of this Statute, “genocide” means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-07-05 17:21:50+00:00
There are two reasons:

1. The Seagull sold in Europe is not the same as the Seagull sold in China.

2. The EV market is much less competitive in the EU than in China. BYD can sell its cars at a much higher price in the EU, so it does.

Point 2 undermines the EU's claims about Chinese dumping. If Chinese companies were dumping EVs in Europe, they would be charging a lower price in Europe, not a higher price.
by richk449 | 2025-07-05 17:22:08+00:00
> if these tools are close to having super-human intelligence, and they make humans so much more productive, why aren't we seeing improvements at a much faster rate than we are now? Why aren't inherent problems like hallucination already solved, or at least less of an issue? Surely the smartest researchers and engineers money can buy would be dogfooding, no?

Hallucination does seem to be much less of an issue now. I hardly even hear about it - like it just faded away.

As far as I can tell smart engineers are using AI tools, particularly people doing coding, but even non-coding roles.

The criticism feels about three years out of date.
by palmotea | 2025-07-05 17:22:16+00:00
>> “Autopilot appears to automatically disengage a fraction of a second before the impact as the crash becomes inevitable,”

> This is probably core to their legal strategy. No matter how much data the cars collect they can always safely destroy most because this allows them to pretend the autonomous driving systems weren’t involved in the crash.

Like, what judge would get fooled by that? It's dumb software engineer thinking.
by samwillis | 2025-07-05 17:22:43+00:00
There is now a great annual Local-first Software conference in Berlin (https://www.localfirstconf.com/) organised by Ink and Switch, and it's spawned a spin out Sync Conf this November in SF (https://syncconf.dev/)

There was a great panel discussion this year from a number of the co-authors of the the paper linked, discussing what is Local-first software in the context of dev tools and what they have learnt since the original paper. It's very much worth watching: https://youtu.be/86NmEerklTs?si=Kodd7kD39337CTbf

The community are very much settling on "Sync" being a component of local first, but applicable so much wider. Along with local first software being a characteristic of end user software, with dev tools - such as sync engines - being an enabling tool but not "local first" in as much themselves.

The full set of talks from the last couple of years are online here: https://youtube.com/@localfirstconf?si=uHHi5Tsy60ewhQTQ

It's an exciting time for the local-first / sync engine community, we've been working on tools that enable realtime collaborative and async collaborative experiences, and now with the onset of AI the market for this is exploring. Every AI app is inherently multi user collaborative with the agents as actors within the system. This requires the tech that the sync engine community has been working on.
by bigyabai | 2025-07-05 17:22:43+00:00
"Local first" is neither equivalent to privacy protection or public software good. Many businesses sell local-first software that still contains remote backdoors[0] you cannot control. And it most certainly doesn't ensure "public software good" when there is zero obligation to improve the upstream or empower users to seek alternatives.

I would sooner trust a GPL-licensed remote software program than store a kilobyte of personally identifying information in a proprietary "local first" system.

[0] https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/06/apple-governments-surve...
by tossandthrow | 2025-07-05 17:23:10+00:00
Ofcause.

Fundamentally there are reasons why we don't allow companies to funnel all operational profits into capital assets without them paying taxes.

An analogy would be a company that used all their profits to extract gold from the ground such that they get the labor worth of gold out. In doing so they would effeciently dodge paying taxes of their profits.

Now back to your comment: you portray it is as only good that this law was changes . And in doing so you leave out these details that essentially leads to instantiating laws like these.
by b112 | 2025-07-05 17:24:57+00:00
The selection bias, is discounting the endless conspiracies exposed daily.

People go to jail, are caught out, fired, relationships break up, governments fall, because conspiracies of even a few people fall apart. It's a regular thing.

You're mentioning some things, of which some were known during the time. The FBI had reports of the 9/11 hijackers, Bill Cosby was known by many but the women were paid off with cash or jobs (until they rightfully went public), and things such as the CIA and the Manhattan project are laced with highly patriotic people, and the death penalty or life in jail, along with people sequestered and watched by immense security.

Secrets are very difficult to keep.

The things you think of were enormously unusual in that they were kept.

They were the exception to the rule.
by johnisgood | 2025-07-05 17:24:59+00:00
Someone is going on a witch-hunt. Most of my comments under this submission are flagged, including this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44464177.

Crazy. They have gotten quite a lot of upvotes, for the record, but feel free to flag ALL of my comments.

I wonder what is so wrong about asking if I cannot chuckle anymore, so wrong that it warrants it to be flagged.

>> chuckles (written by me)

> jesus christ, you’re not light yagami—please stay on /g/ (written by some individual)

However, is not flagged. It would be hilarious if it was not so sad.
by anthk | 2025-07-05 17:25:37+00:00
Also, install chicken as the scheme interpreter, but do the classical SICP.

After you got it installed, run:

chicken-install srfi-203 chicken-install srfi-216

then, edit a text file called ~/.csirc with the contents:

(import scheme) (import (srfi 203)) (import (srfi 216))
by thenthenthen | 2025-07-05 17:26:05+00:00
Sure, why you ask?

Edit: sorry, asking questions is humans greatest power I think. Thanks for asking! Yes I have generated some images. They were not really useful in production or even proposals (to illustrate creative ideas to partners). The only use I have seen is a very modernist take, using the imagery to critique its very existence.

‘Computer vision’-like tasks are also interesting. I spend months on a CV problem that traditional tools could not solve. AI tools seem to do a little bit better at first but on ‘real’ data the false positives are kinda wild.

Regardless, playing realtime generated gta like game in my browser obviously blows my mind: https://demo.dynamicslab.ai/chaos

To what end tho?
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by luma | 2025-07-05 17:26:32+00:00
Journals charge high prices for access to their content, and then charge the people who create that content high prices with claims they're spending a lot of time and effort in the review process.

I find it pretty hard to fault these submissions in any way - journal publishers have been lining their own pockets at everyone's expense and these claims show pretty clearly that they aren't worth their cut.
by seadan83 | 2025-07-05 17:26:35+00:00
Was it actually Van Halen?

> As lead singer David Lee Roth explained in a 2012 interview, the bowl of M&Ms was an indicator of whether the concert promoter had actually read the band's complicated contract. [1]

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/van-halen-brown-m-ms-contrac...
by nlewycky | 2025-07-05 17:26:38+00:00
Gecode won the minizinc challenges from inception of the challenge in 2008 until 2012, but these days or-tools wins gold every year 2013 to 2024, and in 2024 swept gold in all categories.

Why is gecode interesting? Why use it over or-tools?

https://www.minizinc.org/challenge/
by irusensei | 2025-07-05 17:26:42+00:00
An evil maid is not on my threat level. I'm more worried about a burglar getting into my house and stealing my stuff and my data with it. It's a 1l PC with more than 10TBs of data so it fits in a small bag.

I start with normal full disk encryption and enrolling my secure boot keys into the device (no vendor or MS keys) then I use systemd-cryptenroll to add a TPM2 key slot into the LUKS device. Automatic unlock won't happen if you disable secure boot or try to boot anything other than my signed binaries (since I've opted to not include the Microsoft keys).

systemd-cryptenroll has a bunch of stricter security levels you can chose (PCRs). Have a look at their documentation.
by ezschemi | 2025-07-05 17:27:05+00:00
Yes, it is a cheaply built wooden house, as is typical in Southern California, from the 70s. The backside of the house is directly at the back alley, where the trash bins and through traffic are (see [1] for an example). The NAS is maybe 4m away from the trash bins.

[1] https://images.app.goo.gl/uviWh9B293bpE1i97
by AndyKelley | 2025-07-05 17:27:30+00:00
I'm not aware of any such effort. The only thing of relevance I have to share on the topic is the new Legalize pass which can ease the job of contributing a backend, because it restricts the subset of AIR instructions that a backend must lower based on a set of features the backend opts into. For example, it can scalarize all the vectors so the backend does not have to be vector-aware.
by marviel | 2025-07-05 17:27:43+00:00
there is now I suppose! ;)

Yeah it isn't a panacea but it has afforded me less frustration than the alternative of jumping straight in.

> Since what I've been working on is just a mash-up of other people's ideas

Totally, I find most work I do, if I'm honest, is in this bucket. LLMs are pretty good at "filling in the gaps" between two ideas like this
by niuzeta | 2025-07-05 17:29:55+00:00
Absolutely. As I get more and more senior, I found myself prefacing a lot of questions with "let me ask some stupid questions" to ask some broad questions or context of the meeting. It can be something seemingly obvious, what's important is it somehow breaks the barrier for others to ask questions. I used to say "I'm going to play my 'new guy' card one more time" when I'm new at a company, but this seems to work more generically, and tends to work in the team's benefit.
by toast0 | 2025-07-05 17:30:37+00:00
> Copper 10gig is power hungry and demands good cabling.

Power hungry yes, good cabling maybe?

I run 10G-Base-T on two Cat5e runs in my house that were installed circa 2001. I wasn't sure it would work, but it works fine. The spec is for 100 meter cable in dense conduit. Most home environments with twisted pair in the wall don't have runs that long or very dense cabling runs, so 10g can often work. Cat3 runs probably not worth trying at 10G, but I've run 1G over a small section of cat3 because that's what was underground already.

I don't do much that really needs 10G, but I do have a 1G symmetric connection and I can put my NAT on a single 10G physical connection and also put my backup NAT router in a different location with only one cable run there... thr NAT routers also do NAS and backup duty, so I can have a little bit of physical separation between them plus I can reboot one at a time without losing NAT.

Economical consumer oriented 10g is coming soon, lots of announcements recently and reasonableish products on aliexpress. All of my current 10G NICs are used enterprise stuff, and the switches are used high end (fairly loud) SMB. I'm looking forward to getting a few more ports in the not too distant future.
by lxgr | 2025-07-05 17:31:04+00:00
No, I’m not trying to argue that at all! I consider forced in-app purchases very problematic.

I’m just saying these are structurally very different scenarios and I don’t think they can be used as an analogy.

The core issue is that in the case of Costco, there’s only two immediate actors: Costco and its customers. For Apple in-app purchases, there’s three: Apple, app vendors, and Apple users. The argument is leveraging that Apple is unfairly monetizing its captive user base through app vendors.

Now Costco is also leveraging its captive user base, but they are doing so against card issuers, which can be seen as somewhat affiliated with cardholders (and thus by extension Costco consumers) – because they pay them kickbacks in exchange for preferring using one card over the other!

Both fascinating case studies in economics, but structurally distinct.