MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nomilk | 2025-07-21 21:26:04+00:00
I wouldn't expect the AI to see the output of the human running code line by line, but simply that when AI generates code, it places it in the script pane (just how cursor typically edits file(s) to place its generated code in the right places within those files).

For quick and dirty EDA in R, the appropriate place is probably just going to be the bottom of the current script. For example here [0] Rao gives the requested code; rather than being presented with Run/Cancel options, I'd prefer an 'Accept' button that places the code at the end of the current script in the script pane so it can be read by the human and run a line at a time (to verify that it works each step of the way)

[0] https://imgur.com/a/8x4Ykdt
by keeda | 2025-07-21 21:26:24+00:00
Matter of personal preference I suppose. I don't mind standing, the crowds were manageable, and in a decade+ of getting around in the NY/NJ public transit system I only ever recall a handful of "weirdos" and they always kept to themselves.

On the other hand, I still have nightmares of being stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic cursing the circumstances that forced me to take a car instead of public transit. I didn't even have a car the last 5 years I lived there, saved a decent amount in parking fees too.
by rckt | 2025-07-21 21:26:33+00:00
It’s not the Bolt issue. It’s the market-cares-too-much-about-profits-fuck-you issue.

I’ve never had troubles using Bolt. But I had similar to TS’ issues with other services, including Uber.

Business doesn’t care neither about drivers nor about riders. Everyone tries their best to survive. And most people just wouldn’t care to struggle through support bots. Proper support service is a unicorn nowadays.
by YurgenJurgensen | 2025-07-21 21:26:57+00:00
The fact that you had to jump to such an extreme misinterpretation of my point to attempt to refute it shows just how right I am. I said ‘any business’, not ‘any number of businesses simultaneously’. Your counterpoint is as ridiculous as saying a man with a loaded gun in a crowded bar isn’t dangerous because he has fewer bullets in his magazine than there are people in the bar. Economic warfare always operates on defeat in detail.

Okay, since you stated it as a fact: Citation needed. Show me Visa’s statement to the effect that they have no agenda, because all of their actions suggest otherwise.
by scarecrowbob | 2025-07-21 21:27:09+00:00
Last winter (my first) was cold, but I still hadn't built the little solar setup and was living in a 9x9 shack with a diesel heater.

By the end of the winter I had renovated a 24x24 room into my music studio, which is mostly heated with firewood that I collect as part of my wildfire mitigation or (kind of expensive) an externally vented propane all heater.

By the end of the winter it was much easier to stay warm. Hopefully I'll have a septic, cistern, and tiny house setup by the time it geet cold again.

The solar equipment was super easy to install and I think it will be cheaper than grid power in the 10-year time frame.
by y7r4m | 2025-07-21 21:27:11+00:00
It would be awesome if we were able to get more things besides vapes (and apparently some flashlights; I assume there are many niches where they are common) to use 18650 or even 21700 li-ion cells. I see most people I know buy AAs by the pallet and go through them regularly for their controllers, led lights, kids toys, etc.. and few I believe bother to dispose of them correctly.

Also, repeating your sentiment, for all the tech gadgets.. bluetooth speakers, I'm looking at you.. why not have replaceable batteries for those? There have to be enough vapers now that the knowledge of this type of battery as distinct from the old alkaline ones has passed into mainstream consciousness. This would be a huge selling feature for me.

The reasons I see are that it is because the rechargable li-ion are more dangerous and a fire hazard, but is this really true? As with most anything that can carry a risk if misused, I can find a few dozen instances where a vape battery went awry, but surely the benefits outweigh the concerns?

Edit: I do understand the irony of saying this on a post about when they do go boom.
by ofalkaed | 2025-07-21 21:27:12+00:00
Avoiding the trails can generally explained in fairly simple ways; trail lets in more sunlight so ground near the trail is drier, soil of trails are often heavily compacted which means very dry and hard with very wet and soft on either side from rain water run off, trails funnel air flow down them which affects the moisture levels in the air and soil, etc. The thing here is their knack for growing out of sight of the trail, which is not just a distance thing, many mushrooms are far from inconspicuous and can be seen from a good distance but seem to be able to find those places where they won't be noticed even when growing near a trail.

So you look at a particular mushroom's requirements for fruiting and look to see how those are met by the place they are growing and try and try to figure out why they fruited in just that spot but not 5 feet over offers the exact same conditions other than that spot 5 feet over being more visible from the trail. On the larger well traveled trails it is fairly easy to find possible explanations, that spot which is not visible from the trail is often the spot protected from how the trail affects airflow/sunlight but things get less clear on the small less traveled trails which have a minimal affect on the local environment.

You can generally explain away everything with simple biological responses but often it requires quite a few and their all being informed by the others, not just acting in isolation, and at that point it starts looking like some level of intelligence. I am always amazed by the number and variety of mushrooms you find once you leave the trail and you don't even have to go far, 5 or 10 feet is often all it takes.

Unlikely I will ever do any sort of field study, I am perfectly content with just watching them grow and not having all the answers.
by sholladay | 2025-07-21 21:27:16+00:00
The author might not be aware of this, but DNA databases from companies like 23andMe are already being used for mass surveillance and police work. They don’t need the entire gene sequence, they already have enough to identify you and invade your privacy more than you might think, especially in combination with other data and the data of other people.

The Golden State Killer was caught because a distant relative submitted a DNA sample to one of these services. Thus, when the police submitted a DNA test report from the unknown killer to GEDmatch, it came back with some useful hits, which they were able to narrow down to just one person.

Maybe you support the outcome in that particular case, but what happens when it’s your sibling that committed a crime, or they are a political dissident, or they practice the “wrong” religion?

And remember that your DNA is one of the few pieces of personal information that is permanent and cannot be changed.

https://www.science.org/content/article/we-will-find-you-dna...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_James_DeAngelo
by jonhohle | 2025-07-21 21:27:48+00:00
I had a Powercore III Sense 10K (I think), which doesn’t appear on that list, swell on me recently. It’s one of my newer batteries and I bought from Anker trusting their reputation and past purchases. I purchased their Soundcore earbuds, which failed to charge after a few weeks. I don’t think I have any cables from them anymore as they’ve all failed as quickly (or more quickly) than less expensive options.

My current perspective, recall or not, is their quality is no different from the alphabet soup companies selling identical looking (and possibly identical) items.

It seems like the overheating issue is “not thier fault,” but part of being a trusted brand isn’t just recalling but vetting suppliers and the components they receive.
by bangaladore | 2025-07-21 21:27:48+00:00
It's understandable, but it doesn't excuse how poorly everything actually works and how confusing it is to use and administrate.

To some extent I think Microsoft is largely in the business of building solutions for problems that don't exist.

Most orgs are probably perfectly fine with a document management system + desktop word application and then a commercial NAS for bulk storage / backups.
by tolien | 2025-07-21 21:27:53+00:00
I wasn't saying the context I gave was an exhaustive list, I was suggesting that having Googled her name and maybe skimmed a couple of news articles, you might need to do some more reading before forming too much of an opinion.

> She didn't throw rocks, she didn't set things on fire, she didn't stab anyone -- it was her speech that got her a multi-year jail term.

Your contention seems to be that incitement shouldn't be an offence?

That's at odds with legal systems all over the world, including the US, where Brandenburg v Ohio [0] holds that if inflammatory speech is "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action" that is an exception to the First Amendment and can be prosecuted, which seems to be at odds with "regardless of whether there were riots ongoing or not".

The original point of my first post in this thread was that lumping together arrests for stalking, incitement to violence and other forms of harassment to produce a big scary number makes the argument seem utterly dishonest. The fact that so many "free speech proponents" fixate on one example when, if the stated number is true, there should be thousands of examples every year is a good demonstration of that.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio
by dizlexic | 2025-07-21 21:29:00+00:00
From what I've seen in my industry? To pass all the liability to Microsoft.

"If something happens, we used enterprise grade industry standard software. We did our due diligence."

This outlook is basically why we can't innovate anymore.

I had to recently sit through a meeting where our CTO quoted all the "blogs" he's been reading as a way to slap down my suggestion for an in-house project.

It's all about CYA.
by nottorp | 2025-07-21 21:29:14+00:00
When I had an iPhone XS i could never understand how to predictably do a normal touch or a 3d touch, or where exactly the OS has different actions for one vs the other.

And I play games [1] using just my macbook pro's trackpad...

[1] For example, Minecraft works perfectly without a mouse. So does Path of Exile. First person shooters ofc don't.
by johannes1234321 | 2025-07-21 21:29:30+00:00
> from almost all prior reactors (they are tokamaks)

Tokamak and Stllerator are about equally old, 1953 vs 1954, while both types where for a period developed in secrecy behind either side of the iron curtain till end of the 1960ies where collaboration started.

IPP was founded in 1960 (by, among others, my dad) and focussed on Stllerator since then (while collaborating in JET and ITER around their tokamak projects)
by AbstractPlay | 2025-07-21 21:29:36+00:00
> I am very clear that this is a conversation with a Claude impersonation of Graham Priest, not Graham Priest himself.

Only after you make the upfront claim, in bold letters, in words you chose: "A Conversation with Graham Priest About Abstraction Logic". You did not choose to title your blog post "A Conversation About Abstraction Logic With Claude Representing Graham Priest" which is the more honest title for your blog post, except that it's clear that Claude was not capable of representing Priest since "the real Graham Priest says that it doesn't really sound like his voice." You chose to title your blog post "A Conversation with Graham Priest About Abstraction Logic". Obviously this line gives the impression that you had an actual conversation with the actual Graham Priest. You must have recognized that the wording you chose is false and deceptive. Are you hoping that attaching Priest's name gives your work more gravitas or encourages more sales of your book?

> I don't see what is unethical about that.

You see nothing unethical about prompting an LLM to take on someone's persona and then presenting the resulting conversation in a blog post with a title which gives the initial impression that you had an actual conversation with the actual person?

Be clear about where you stand on this at least so that any university or elsewhere that might have any interest in offering a job for you to continue your work in abstraction logic might know where you stand on misrepresenting professional academics.

> Who is "we"?

The general public to which you are presenting your work and advertising your book.

> I don't even know who you are, AbstractPlay.

I'm a member of the general public to which you are presenting your work and advertising your book.

> The article exists because I personally find it interesting, and I actually learnt something through it. If somebody else finds it interesting, great. If you don't, too bad.

Okay, but you're presenting this pseudo-conversation on the website through which you are presenting your work and advertising your book to the general public. Presenting it there gives the impression that this pseudo-conversation is meant to support your work, not that it's some tangential, self-satisfying curiosity appropriate for a personal blog.

It would be far more interesting if you posted actual conversations you actually have with actual academics actually commenting on your work instead of this fantasy world of LLM regurgitation that you expect us to believe is ultimately intended to only be interesting and enlightening to you.
by tristor | 2025-07-21 21:30:09+00:00
I think it's odd to devalue the time of someone who is helping you achieve more. That's definitely not a charitable way to treat people, nor is it the way I think about secretaries and assistants, regardless of their gender. While rank and file employees are no longer entitled to assistants, there are still thousands of people across corporate america in these roles and they are in many ways the most critical people to getting things done in many companies, and I have the utmost respect for them.
by latchkey | 2025-07-21 21:30:17+00:00
If you have funds in a wallet and it is blacklisted, then those funds are locked forever because they can see where the funds move and continue to lock any new wallets they move to. One could argue that's actually kind of a neat feature of a blockchain, in being so public.

Interesting, it goes a bit further than I had kept up with. CENTRE seems disbanded. But given this is all crypto, it is full of backroom deals... one can be sure that Circle and Coinbase are tightly coupled.

https://www.ledgerinsights.com/coinbase-and-ripple-vie-for-u...
by preetigoel | 2025-07-21 21:30:30+00:00
I built this because I often needed to turn images into PDFs for forms or convert HEIC files into standard formats. Most apps I tried were bloated, required signups, or uploaded files to the cloud. I just wanted something lightweight, private, and fast.

So I made an app that works fully offline, supports all image formats, and lets you convert to JPG, PNG, or PDF in seconds. No login. No server upload. Just tap and go.

Would love feedback from the community. It’s live on the App Store now.

If you try it, let me know what you think and what I can improve.
by philippemnoel | 2025-07-21 21:30:47+00:00
The value prop for customers vs Elasticsearch are:

- ACID w/ JOINs

- Real-time indexing under UPDATE-heavy workloads. Instacart wrote about this, they had to move away from Elasticsearch during COVID because of this problem: https://tech.instacart.com/how-instacart-built-a-modern-sear...

Beyond these two benefits, then the added benefits are:

- Infrastructure simplification (no need for ETL)

- Lower costs

Speaking the wire protocol is nice, but it's not worth much.
by npinsker | 2025-07-21 21:31:04+00:00
It's not even close to the same game as Dota. Limiting the hero (and item) pool so drastically locks off many strategies and counters. It's a bit hard to explain if you haven't played, but full Dota has many more tools and much more creativity than the reduced version on display. The behavior does not evidently "scale up", in the same way that the current SotA of AI art and writing won't evidently replace top-level humans.

I'd never say it's impossible, but the job wasn't finished yet.
by AceJohnny2 | 2025-07-21 21:31:09+00:00
You're paying for websites by viewing their ads. You're paying with unsubstantial things like attention (and bandwidth), which through Google and other Ad providers gets converted to cash for the website.

Google Contributor offered you to pay cash directly, instead of attention. The website owner gets some of that cash, same as they would if you were shown an ad.
by hopelite | 2025-07-21 21:31:11+00:00
I am rather disappointed that on this kind of forum you lack systems thinking skills. You appear to lack a fundamental understanding of what a constitution is and is not and what "treaties" are. Treaties do not a Constitution make, my coping friend.

This is not meant to be an insult or a competition either, it is a caution that you are being conned and scammed if you think that the EU has anything to do with democracy, let alone the will of the people. And no, America and its people are under equal attack as the EU, even if by somewhat different methods and schemes due to the nature of our system. The very nature of self-determination is under direct assault behind the smoke and mirrors you are refusing or are unable to look past/through.

I am happy to inform you that it is always so surprising to me that you types are so quick to make excuses for and rationalize your own subversion and control over your own lives and government, your own freedom. The parliament does not make laws, only votes on it, the commission president is not exactly voted on democratically either since all those that propose them and also vote on them are also several steps removed from the voters by various means in various nations.

Take Germany and many other states (which is really what you are willingly and inexplicably relegating and subjugating yourself to), the party politics system so totally dominates you, that even the heads of state and the heads of the parties are so far removed from the citizens that even at that level it is not even really democratic, let alone at the EU commission president appointment and approval level. It's basically a Neo-aristocratic system by different methods you have not caught onto quite yet. It has never dawned on you that it is odd that somehow so many children of politicians and aristocrats somehow managed to get into the EU parliament and commission and bureaucracy? That's just a coincidence? Any representatives of the Common (as the brits still blatantly call it) are basically ineffective on a good day. The only logical conclusion a logical and rational, objective person would have to come to is that it is really all just a con job.

You do know what a con job means right? It comes from confidence trick, tricking you into having confidence into something like investing or buying something or believing you have a say in the system of the EU that dominates your life when you don't. It's just you pushing buttons that are not connected to anything!
by aspenmayer | 2025-07-21 21:32:15+00:00
Where in my comment is a personal attack? I’m saying what I think and what I feel. I’m not saying what you are or aren’t.

> > I think you have major issues with relating to other people if you’re throwing around words like idiot while expecting us to take you seriously. You’re being honest right now, and it makes me think your views are un-American, and it makes me think that you don’t understand the Constitution at all. It makes me feel that we do not have shared values or common cause. I don’t know why you think that this kind of thinking is what the US needs more of, especially to get “back on track” whatever that might mean.

> > I will not allow you to limit my franchise or that of any other citizen, so help me. Your comment is bad and you should feel bad.

> We'll see.

I’m pretty sure that we have enough information to determine that your comment was and still is bad.
by socalgal2 | 2025-07-21 21:32:18+00:00
I'm just going to throw this out there but maybe, just maybe, this is all about local culture?

Certain cultures have apparently have different attitudes on customer service and taking advantage of people. In Japan, many times, cab drivers have shut off the meter early because they made a mistake in their navigation and felt guilty for both the time lost and the extra cost if they'd left the meter on.

Conversely, cab drivers in Rome, Turkey, Thailand have a much worse reputation,
by fduran | 2025-07-21 21:33:02+00:00
Good food for thought but the article assumes how currently DevOps and Dev teams (and there's also an Ops team?) operate and there's a lot of different ways in how "DevOps" is done at different organizations.

Take any combination of dev, platform engineering, devops, SRE, ops teams (existing or not) and combine with different responsibilities and how they work together and there's a company out there using that model.

Heck, we don't even have a common understanding of what a "DevOps" team does https://docs.sadservers.com/blog/what-the-f-is-devops/
by alephnerd | 2025-07-21 21:33:23+00:00
Giving OP the benefit of the doubt, there were issues with how the Windows kernel had little guardrails and restrictions.

That said, that was the EU's fault, as the EU in 2009 forced Microsoft to fully expose their OS internals to outside vendors during an anti-trust settlement, and with little ability to enforce vendor standards:

""Microsoft shall make available to interested undertakings Interoperability Information that enables non-Microsoft server Software Products to interoperate with Windows Server Operating System on an equal footing with other Microsoft Server Software Products.

"Microsoft shall ensure on an ongoing basis and in a Timely Manner that the APIs in the Windows Client PC Operating System and the Windows Server Operating System that are called on by Microsoft Security Software Products are documented and available for use by third-party security software products that run on the Windows Client PC Operating System and/or the Windows Server Operating System.

These APIs will be documented on the Microsoft Developer Network, unless open publication would create security risks. In such circumstances, Microsoft will provide third-party security vendors with access to such APIs pursuant to a royalty-free license and on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms." [0]

This meant that by offering Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft needs to give similar access to the underlying kernel to competing vendors like CRWD and S1.

[0] - https://news.microsoft.com/download/archived/presskits/eu-ms...
by NalNezumi | 2025-07-21 21:33:33+00:00
I think we are in agreement though.

You can do both: work hard for a while, enjoy life for a while. Compounding interest is real, it's only limited if you're in a rush to "retire early".

I'd rather find a job I like, that doesn't break me, and enjoy my life and passion(sometimes coincide with work), up until actual retirement age. Most people (in tech) that aim to retire early usually end up working after retirement anyway, just on their own condition.

Enjoying "life" is also a skill. I've been surrounded by workaholics and many of them had to essentially learn that later. (myself included)