MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jones1618 | 2025-07-23 19:10:06+00:00
Two suggestions:

1) Your site is very wordy. It comes across a lot more "tell" than "show." How about _showing_ QR code links, _showing_ form/survey links, _showing_ analytics, _showing_ the difference between regular links and mobile deep-links, etc.? I should be able to see at-a-glance your features and then click to read details as needed.

2) I couldn't find where you address how short links might not be well-received in some places. Certain social media sites and corporate email filters will reject short links. Maybe put that in your FAQ.
by zzo38computer | 2025-07-23 19:10:20+00:00
> The tab completion is very annoying when you’re trying to type.

I think it is annoying if it completes it by itself, but tab completion can be helpful if you have to push the tab key (or whatever other key is mapped to autocompletion) to make the completion to work (although I don't need LLM to do tab completion).
by shermantanktop | 2025-07-23 19:10:51+00:00
"Unreasonably deep" is a relative term. Certainly deeper than I care to go. But sure, it could be unreasonably deeper.

Every time I have used animation my approach has been to treat it as frosting to be used sparingly. As such I would be much more attracted to simple/supported modes (that someone else will be interested in keeping functional) than I would be to obsessing over physics realism. But I am also a UI caveman with no taste, so there's that.
by DrillShopper | 2025-07-23 19:11:14+00:00
Look at the British Post Office scandal - "the computer is always right".

Say what you will about a human, but unless you're a religious zealot or blind you generally don't believe the leader to be infallible. But through the magic of silicon you can shut people up more effectively.

This makes computers an accelerator of the problem, and therefore warrants caution any time their output may be relied upon for life and death decisions.
by fragmede | 2025-07-23 19:11:16+00:00
We seem to be talking past one another for some reason. The bar is "is not living in a tent". It means living in a place that isn't a tent. We can rathole into how that wants to be defined exactly, and pick that apart, but that doesn't seems all that interesting to me but if you'd like to propose something we can iterate on specific wording as to what constitutes "living in a tent".

Still, the California building code 709b discusses sleeping and alludeds so a definition for bedroom, so going in that direction, in order to be not living in a tent, a person would need to have their own access to a legal bedroom, as defined by the building code. There is a $20k fine if people are sleeping in, eg, the twitter offices, which was not zoned for that.
by oofbey | 2025-07-23 19:11:31+00:00
The TIOBE index says Perl is currently the #11 most popular programming language (up from #30 a year ago). ref: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

Now, I don't actually believe this, because that puts Perl way ahead of Rust (currently at #18). So the big thing I'm taking away from this little research post is that I no longer trust the Tiobe index. Too bad - it felt pretty reliable for a long time.
by taude | 2025-07-23 19:13:22+00:00
Yeup, this exactly. If they're going to be allowed to use claude-code/copilot day to day, how well they review the ai-generated code is going to be huge signal, as well as they could explain what happened. Also, if they're jsut blind vibe-coding something, without creating a nice quick spec for the LLM, that would also be a signal. Also, makes for very easy follow on questions during the interview.
by ilikecakeandpie | 2025-07-23 19:14:37+00:00
> Idk I used to look at em to remind myself/ground me of what I am

You doing ok? I embrace my cosmic insignificance for sure but it's more freeing to me that I don't have to measure myself by anyone's standards (within reason) except my own and those who I love vs to remind myself that I'm just going to be less than a blip in the timeline.
by thmsths | 2025-07-23 19:15:11+00:00
Pretty much this. You are basically put in a situation where information is extremely limited/unreliable and have to use something akin to a greedy algorithm to make decisions. And of course things are setup so that complying is the best choice at every single step, save for the last one. By the time death is obvious, it is far too late to resist and accepting your fate is now your best option.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-07-23 19:15:44+00:00
Right. To add to this, it's said that ISIS was particularly infamous for staging mock executions of high-propaganda-value prisoners.

For instance, they'd take a prisoner out, film the prologue to an execution video, unsheathe a knife or rack a shotgun, and then... they wouldn't perform the execution itself. "It's just for show," they'd tell their target, as they return him to his cell. Then, one day, after calmly filming yet another prologue, they'd swiftly and gruesomely execute their prisoner, who had been lulled into a certain docility and wasn't expecting them to actually go through with it.
by 1123581321 | 2025-07-23 19:16:26+00:00
In the mass murders, by the time the Einsatzgruppen had you facing the pit, they had already moved you through a long cordon where you were beaten or shot for doing anything but running forward. Before that, you were shot for making any move towards self-preservation in your ghetto. Before that, you were selected and shot or worked to death if you looked strong enough to be a problem. At each of these steps the survivors thought they might have experienced the worst that would happen. This problem cannot be solved by wishing harder to be brave.
by ben_w | 2025-07-23 19:16:36+00:00
> and will thus be the first to usher in a new era of an arms race where everyone loses except those who are at the very top and can take advantage of the losers.

Unless the AI is stupid, in which case the leader pushes the button and finds that either the AI hallucinates a solution that plain doesn't work, and/or turns out to be acting according to a completely different set of moral values than they wanted, values which can be the straw-est of straw men versions of either your own or you opponent's policies that nobody would ever actually expect to meet in a real political takeover scenario.
by swyx | 2025-07-23 19:17:05+00:00
her suggestions

- Operate from a place of genuine curiosity

- Assume you’re always auditioning for a bigger role

- Give before you take

- Air your weirdness

- Host events

- A period of lostness is a part of it

i think some novel points (host events is good, i agree) but also the rest of this is fuzzy and unorganized. you can spend a lot of effort accumulating microlucks but not get anywhere and burn out completely and early.

my version: https://swyx.io/create-luck

basically classic advice is do more x talk more about what you do = surface area

can improve that by pursuing authentic curiosity as TFA suggests

but then i add in an element of strategic thinking - go to where luck is more likely to occur.
by autoexec | 2025-07-23 19:17:30+00:00
the answer is despair generally. To fight, people need hope.

When you're unarmed and surrounded by 15 men with guns who tell you that you're going to be executed you know that you're going to die. Sure you could maybe attack one of them and injure them before they shoot you, but what will that accomplish?

Some people would rather morn the fact that they'll never see their loved ones again or spend those short moments in prayer or reflection. Especially in cases where acts of horrific violence aren't in their nature.
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by fxtentacle | 2025-07-23 19:17:40+00:00
For my next product, I'm planning to set up a blog-like website (using hugo to make static pages that load fast). But I'd like for people to be able to enter their email somewhere so that I can easily notify them when there's another article.

I despise those services that spam everything with their own domain or click-jack your links. Instead, I feel like this should either let me manually email my contact list, or it should use my domain, my DKIM keys, etc.

I use mailgun for system emails. So is there any good newsletter service that has static-page forms and integrates with mailgun?
by tlamponi | 2025-07-23 19:18:09+00:00
Kill? no, definitively not. But 1) not adding a lot of extra and 2) applying the Pareto principle here are a huge difference. I.e. making the essential parts approachable enough to get one started while not being blocked too much by upfront (steep) learning curve, while not blocking one later by limiting one to just the predefined path.

> Anything touching SDN or clustered storage, in any ecosystem, will need dedicated in-house experts that know networking, storage, Linux and how Proxmox (or Kubernetes) approaches those domains.

There are widely different level of expertise needed though, and the setups that often are managed by admins with not in-depth expertise in clustering or SDN can still get things done with Proxmox VE, and if they are out of idea we got our enterprise support and naturally also the very active and friendly community forum to help.

> Unless you are just using Proxmox for small VM labs, in which case it ought to be compared with libvirt and standalone QEMU.

Yeah, I really do not get that point, you basically invalidate 95% of Proxmox VE's feature set because it might not be fully leveraged by a specific user group and because there are some different solutions that also allow one to do similar things. That would also invalidate Kubernetes, it's not completely unpopular in small labs either after all.

To be honest, to me, it feels a bit to me like a justification attempt for the initial post in this chain here that brushed off Proxmox VE as just some small UI/UX wrapper around QEMU/KVM and all the Real Work™ being done by others, possibly because you never actually used it, but I might read it the wrong way, and I'm certainly not offended in any way, just find it a bit odd.
by abraae | 2025-07-23 19:18:27+00:00
I'm going to tell my 12 year old that when he leaves education he wants something like this on his personal web site:

"CARA (Capstans Are Really Awesome) is my latest quadrupedal robot, following ZEUS, ARES, and TOPS. Built over the course of a year, CARA is easily my most dynamic and well-designed quadruped yet."
by leptons | 2025-07-23 19:18:51+00:00
A synthesizer is just as useless as a violin without someone to play it.

You could hook both of those things up to servos and make a machine do it, but it's the notes being played that are where creativity comes in.

I've liked some AI generated music, and it even fooled me for a little while but only up to a point, because after a few minutes it just feels very "canned". I doubt that will change, because most good music is based on human emotion and experience, something an "AI" is not likely to understand in our lifetimes.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-07-23 19:19:02+00:00
Yep. I did the same thing. Went through the usual dance of trying out gnome, hit the extension breakage(there's been many of them over the years I can't even tell you which one it was) and I moved to KDE. They changed a whole bunch of crap in one of the releases and everything moved around... Oh and latte dock broke. A bunch of other crap broke every now and then as well. Mind you this was all before they both moved to wayland.

I moved to XFCE soon after and it's great. I found a random plugin with last commit 7 years ago and it works Just Fine today. I set up my desktop 3y ago and it works the exact same way today. I know all the screens I use by heart. It's great.

Although I must say, I'm a sucker for animations and background blur and wobbly windows especially. Loved KDE for that.

I wish I could have XFCE's stability + animations. Ah well.
by gameman144 | 2025-07-23 19:19:33+00:00
> Still, at that point there is nothing worse than doing what you’re told for the last ninety seconds of your life and making things easy for the death squad

This line was the point that invalidated the thesis for me. There are tons of things that are worse than accepting your death.

Maybe fighting back will cause harm to others. Maybe you will be tortured as punishment. Maybe you are in such pain that you want death altogether.

Death is obviously never a good option, but it doesn't take much imagination to think of far worse ones.
by Rebelgecko | 2025-07-23 19:19:34+00:00
If you're gonna ad hominem, IMO it makes more sense to attack Mr. Friedman directly, or at least the Planetary Society as an organization.

Wrt the actual content, IMO it's a predictable side effect of missions that come with these sorts of unfunded followups, especially when funding is at the whim of a different congress. If China wanted to do the ultimate power play, they could just scoop these up as part of their sample return mission.
by xnorswap | 2025-07-23 19:19:58+00:00
I note that you picked two hard sciences as markers of respect, "neuroscientists and microbiologists", not social sciences.

Secondly my point I'm trying to make, is that these aren't "intelligent discussions" nor "serious discussion".

Shunning swathes of social science, often treating their conclusions as either illegitimate ( if they go counter to their preferred narrative ), or as obvious ( if they aren't ).

It's demeaning to "just ask questions" as if they hadn't been considered by the experts of the field.
by scott_w | 2025-07-23 19:20:25+00:00
This was my thought. It wasn’t really a group of young, strong, healthy men, ready and armed to fight. It was a group of malnourished, exhausted, depressed shells of humans.

I wonder if anyone asking why has ever been so hungry that moving is an effort. Have they ever been injured so badly, or fallen so ill, that just lying down and dying feels preferable to taking one more step.

Trying to resist under those circumstances would be unthinkable. Quite literally! These systems are setup to instil exactly this behaviour!
by int_19h | 2025-07-23 19:20:39+00:00
It's a lottery that largely depends on what exact hardware you have.

I have one machine that I can't even install Linux on because no Linux installer or live CD will even boot on it. No idea why, and I don't want to spend a lot of time and effort figuring that out given that it's my dedicated gaming box, a "PC console" basically.

OTOH I have a laptop that I specifically purchased to run Linux on it. Which it does, and all devices work just fine. The only catch is that battery life when browsing is about 20-30% less, and, as far as I can tell, this is entirely due to Linux browsers disabling video hardware acceleration by default on most configs. If I enable it, things get much better for the battery, but at the cost of an occasional browser crash.
by marcosdumay | 2025-07-23 19:20:56+00:00
My practice in writing assembly is so lost by now that it's not much different than if I never learned it. Yet, it's not really a problem.

What is different about LLM-created code is that compilers work. Reliably and universally. I can just outsource the job of writing the assembly to them and don't need to think about it again. (That is, unless you are in one of those niches that require hyper-optimized software. Compilers can't reliably give you that last 2x speed-up.)

LLMs by their turn will never be reliable. Their entire goal is opposite to reliability. IMO, the losses are still way higher than the gains, and it's questionable if this is an architectural premise that will never change.
by moate | 2025-07-23 19:21:02+00:00
There's also some bit of (ironically) survivor bias going on here: Most of the people sitting in front of the ditch didn't leave the country. They didn't join up with the resistance. They didn't try to escape 3 weeks prior. This isn't even getting into the Jungian "death drive" where, at a certain point, you'd rather just die than keep trying to struggle.

Some people make bad, illogical choices when the stakes are extremely low, and some do the same when it's life or death. The human mind is a wonder of inefficient perfection.
by ge96 | 2025-07-23 19:21:07+00:00
I'm alright, I'm distracted in life by debt/trying to meet a partner.

But I can get the overview effect looking at the stars/unplug from the system I know I sound like a crackpot. System being the 9-5 standard life, I want to not have a job/be retired I guess (although I would do what I want to do full time eg. work on robotics hobby).

I mostly mean hard to empathize when the pain is not in your face like watching combat footage of what's happening in Ukraine. People shooting themselves in the head instead of waiting for the grenade to drop from the drone and mangle them. Other stuff to watch Cartel videos just brutal stuff damn, separates animal from civilization/higher mind when you experience trauma like that.

I might just be jaded from reading the news everyday time to go back into the sand.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-23 19:21:20+00:00
It has Ubuntu Linux, I installed a Plex server on it and have a Plex pass subscription for it. I also have one of these

https://www.silicondust.com/hdhomerun/

I have Plex clients for Windows, Mac, Linux, XBOX ONE, PS4 and iOS. I can watch TV and movies on my server or Live TV through the HDHomeRun, or have Plex work as a DVR. I listen to music on my phone with the Plexamp client when I am at work or travelling on foot or in my car. My only complaint is that some files don't play by default on the PS4 and I have to manually tell it to re-encode.

I tried Jellyfin and never got it to really work right. Plex is a consumer electronics-type experience and the Plex Pass is totally worth it.
by chankstein38 | 2025-07-23 19:21:48+00:00
This reads like every single self-help book ever. "Grow and cultivate your network (and make sure you're genuine), dress for the job you want (or act like the job you want), other generic stuff about networking."

I don't know, I don't see an inherent issue with this, I think there's value in some things said here but I don't see a lot of value in "going out and meeting more than 1-2 people per week" or whatever. It feels like one of those things you read and get excited about then have no way to act because "Oh yeah let me just go meet people! At ... walmart maybe?"
by ofalkaed | 2025-07-23 19:22:16+00:00
No, not even civilians need to do that. Ultimately the only time you have to is when there is documentation of your being in the a foreign country and if there is no documentation you probably don't want to draw attention to yourself. This is why so many people where able to go to and from Cuba when it was technically illegal, US and Cuba agreed to not document/stamp the passports of private citizens.
by murukesh_s | 2025-07-23 19:22:41+00:00
>the stuff it produces is shit

Not everyone has that opinion. I am not talking about non programmers jumping on the bandwagon but real technologists using it in real world programming [1].

> our brain goes into "watching TV mode"

How many people would have thought the same when calculator came? We can either think like - oh this tool is making kids dumb or you can think like the new tool can make them faster and efficient.

[1] https://antirez.com/news/154
by massysett | 2025-07-23 19:23:31+00:00
The checklist doesn't have to be perfect. Just continually improve it.

I keep several checklists - some I use several times a week, others every few months or so. If I notice something needs to be added to the checklist or removed, I do so.

It's always better to start with an imperfect checklist vs not having any checklist at all. With no checklist, you start from scratch every single time. Not starting from scratch allows you to focus on marginal improvements with each use.
by chankstein38 | 2025-07-23 19:23:33+00:00
This is my struggle. I'm intensely curious but have no prior super successes in my lineage so I still feel like I've only gotten so far and feel like I'm kind of stuck because I can't leave the job that pays my bills. I also wish I naturally wanted to broadly share my curious deep-dives but I can't find a format that wouldn't take away from the enjoyment of pursuing them.
by bhickey | 2025-07-23 19:23:58+00:00
The simple answer is: they didn't.

In Rwanda the killing apparatus was set in motion so quickly that people didn't have time to react and offer organized resistance to their neighbors. Only in Bisesero was there meaningful fighting.

In Chile enemies of the state were rounded up in the days following the coup and tortured to death.

In Argentina people were disappeared.

In Spain there were arrests, assassinations and reprisal killings.

At Katyn, how were the Poles to know they'd be shot one by one?

At Beslan, the attackers preemptively shot anyone perceived as a threat.
by vouaobrasil | 2025-07-23 19:24:08+00:00
If there were no video chatting, people would have more incentive to meet in person or not move away as much. Although a small proportion of people will have video chatting over nothing, the GENERAL trend will be more distance between people, even if in SOME cases it means less distance and more meaningful communication.

That's the key also: a small subset of people who benefit in the short-term does not mean that the technology doesn't move things in a worse direction in the long term. After all, the introduction of new technologies like video chatting sometimes just solves problems created by older technologies, possibly leading to a situation of decreasing LOCAL maxima, each of which seems like it is an improvement because it is, after all, a local maximum.
by godelski | 2025-07-23 19:24:39+00:00
> they're under the impression that I'm seeking to undermine their intelligence

No, we're under the impression you aren't reading our comments. Or only reading the parts that you want and ignoring the rest, even if it was the main point of the comment in the first place.

Take our conversation. What did I say[0]? I said you can't explain everything by the increasing die size. And added information that scaling is a non-trivial technological challenge than your previous comments suggest.

How do you respond? You ignore the second part, which is actually the most important part. Provide die sizes and transistor accounts to prove your point that it is 'essentially increasing die size'. So I did the math. I agree, 75% is "most" but my comment was, again, about how that 25% is non-trivial. So how do you respond? You again focus on the first part and ignore the second.

I don't feel like you're calling me dumb or undermining my intelligence or something. I feel like I'm talking to someone who only bothers to read half of what I say and questioning myself for why I'm even bothering to respond. So I don't know, I still feel like you're going to reinterpret this as my intelligence being insulted when I really couldn't care less. My real name isn't attached, I really don't care if you think I'm dumb. I'll refer you to my prior comment. You can figure out which one...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44628241
by hazelweakly | 2025-07-23 19:24:51+00:00
Indeed it is! In fact I actually had something like Kiro almost perfectly in mind when I wrote the article (but didn’t know AWS was working on it at the time).

I was very happy to see AWS release Kiro. It was quite validating to me seeing them release it and follow up with discussions on how this methodology of integrating AI with software development was effective for them
by whilenot-dev | 2025-07-23 19:25:09+00:00
======= Prosecutor: You still have AI tasks running in the background but AI_Disable is set to true?

Defendent: But Disable_AI just means disabling the use of the output! ====

==== Prosecutor: You still have AI tasks running in the background, but AI_Enable is FALSE?

Defendent: Uh.... ====

...it cuts both ways, sorry.
by ToDougie | 2025-07-23 19:25:12+00:00
Reminds me of my orientation week before freshman year. They separated us by race and then told every group what special resources they had on campus and all the additional support they would receive. My group had none of these advantages bestowed upon us. At the time I found it bizarre and jarring because I had been trained to think that what I was experiencing was a "good" thing. This was almost 20 years ago.