MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JohnFen | 2025-07-22 21:08:37+00:00
> maybe not everyone would use it correctly

Guaranteed that not everyone will use it correctly. People already commonly don't use it correctly for less sensitive things. I didn't mean to say it's not useful at all.

The issue is going to be that many people will take what it has to say as authoritative and just follow the advice. Sometimes that advice will be actively harmful. I'm not sure how people are going to be able to tell when the advice should be ignored or not, which, in my view, makes it too risky to use for this purpose -- especially if it's right more often than it's wrong.
by chao- | 2025-07-22 21:08:38+00:00
Adding some data points to the sibling comments:

Linux Mint 22 (X11 + Cinnamon)

Firefox 139.0.4

Integrated Graphics (AMD Ryzen 7 5800U)

At 1440p 60Hz monitor, every test that listed FPS showed 60fps, and all others looked the same level of smoothness as Chrome.
by crazygringo | 2025-07-22 21:08:42+00:00
First, I think there's a typo. It should be:

> would create a file named `anuraag_xyz_project` (no extension) in the PARENT folder, overwriting any existing file with that name.

But that's how Linux works. It's because mv is both for moving and renaming. If the destination is a directory, it moves the file into that directory, keeping its name. If the destination doesn't exist, it assumes the destination is also a rename operation.

And yes, it's atrocious design by today's standards. Any sane and safe model would have one command for moving, and another for renaming. Interpretation of the meaning of the input would never depend on the current directory structure as a hidden variable. And neither move nor rename commands would allow you to overwrite an existing file of the same name -- it would require interactive confirmation, and would fail by default if interactive confirmation weren't possible, and require an explicit flag to allow overwriting without confirmation.

But I guess people don't seem to care? I've never come across an "mv command considered harmful" essay. Maybe it's time for somebody to write one...
by msephton | 2025-07-22 21:09:01+00:00
I'm just a user who still has to manipulate CSV from time to time.

I've struggled to find a decent CSV editor for macOS. There's Modern CSV but it feels very far from a native experience. Some time ago I tried Easy CSV Editor, according to files in my iCloud Drive, but I did not stick with it for some reason.

SmoothCSV can best be described as "VSCode for CSV", allowing quick loading of huge files, complex transforms, tons of tools with a quick command palette, and even SQL querying of the data!

It's apparently been in development in one form or another for 15 years, and it shows. I just sent the developer some coffee money, because an app of this quality being free is almost a crime.
by TYPE_FASTER | 2025-07-22 21:09:07+00:00
There a couple different ways of learning calculus. I was lucky enough to have a high school calculus teacher that introduced us to calculus by showing us how it worked. Buoyed by that experience, I took math for math majors as a college freshman. I spent the semester being either extremely enlightened or completely lost. I ended up re-taking the second semester of calculus, but I took calculus for engineers instead of math majors. Not super enlightening, but enough to understand what to do when prompted for a derivative or integral.

Honestly, I think a big part of the difference is simply how concepts are communicated. Richard Feynman really was that good at explaining physics concepts using every day examples.

It's also not always obvious when you need to stop and go into detail, and when a general grasp of a concept will be enough.
by Joeboy | 2025-07-22 21:09:53+00:00
This is tangential to your tangent, but in The Decline of Western Civilization Pt. II there's an interview during which he cheerfully and obliviously fails to competently make himself breakfast. I think that might've marked the start of his charming, bumbling, cuddly reality-TV star era. And that scene was at least partly faked in the edit by director Penelope Spheeris.
by mittensc | 2025-07-22 21:09:54+00:00
I would say the opposite. It's a great idea. It's one layer to missile defense.

Cruise missiles can be destroyed via existing ground/sea defenses. Patriots have proven they can intercept anything non-ballistic and there are likely better capabilities not revealed yet.

The US is also very far away for effective cruise missles. (and has a lot of allies nations in the way)

Nuclear weapons sent as sattelites to be de-orbited sound novel, although they can be tracked easily and disabled covertly. (Russia has 'stolen' a US sattelite in the past without much repercussions)

Kessler syndrome might be a net win if you are at the point of nuclear war, at which point, without ballistic missiles any country will not stand much against US conventional power.

So... there aren't many drawbacks to the plan, the only thing I'm curious is if we don't already have that capability covertly via starlink... shouldn't be hard to take over those and guide them into ballistic missiles...
by humbleferret | 2025-07-22 21:10:42+00:00
I think some of the sources like the Reviews.org survey, JAMA analysis and Sleep Medicine study have flaws and are largely correlational, not causal. The Reviews.org data is self reported, not peer reviewed or randomised, and probably has sampling bias. JAMA's analysis is observational, so it doesn't prove causation. The Sleep Medicine study uses a tiny sample, short duration, and likely has self selection bias.

Regardless, we all sense that excessive smartphone use ties to lower mood and higher depression risks. There's already an influx of people experimenting with timers, dumbphones, or just switching their phone off, but app builders will keep chasing our attention no matter what. It's their core business. As the patchy research (in both quantity and quality) shows, real change won't come until we as a society dig deeper into the problem.

key points that stood out to me:

- Smartphones are built to addict via dopamine from notifications and scrolling. Americans check theirs 144 times a day on average. Strong links to anxiety, depression, poor sleep, and weaker focus.

- Short breaks (24 hours to a week) can boost focus and mood. Limiting non work screen time to under two hours daily correlates with lower depression.
by germinalphrase | 2025-07-22 21:10:48+00:00
The Polestar 2/EX40 probably have the most mature software of that lineup. Not without issues (and certainly underpowered pre-‘24), but relatively stable by comparison.

I don’t understand the logic of having each Polestar model running a unique software stack rather than progressively improving one system across all models - but must be a downstream impact of the fractured Geely badges.
by kolanos | 2025-07-22 21:11:15+00:00
A bit baffled by all the "Why not just use CSS?" comments here.

Did we forget how much of a pain CSS still is?

For example, I recently made a UI with a series of numbered steps. To the left of each step is a number with a circle around it as a highlight.

The CSS I came up with looked like this:

.step-number { align-items: center; background-color: #0074cc; border-radius: 50%; color: white; display: flex; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; height: 24px; justify-content: center; line-height: 24px; margin-right: 10px; width: 24px; }

Did it produce a circle? Of course not. It produced a squished egg shape.

What did I have to do? I had to add "min-width: 24px;" to the class. Why? Hell if I know. "width: 24px;" should've done the job.

Bootstrap (and now Tailwind) exist for a reason: CSS still sucks.
by matthewfcarlson | 2025-07-22 21:11:29+00:00
I was recently shopping for a new car and looked at Volvo. We've had a Model Y for a few years now and when the Volvo salesperson proudly showed us how the truck height could be set by holding the button, I asked "is that a global setting or does it remember where it is when you set the height?"

The salesperson looked at me like I was crazy and confirmed it was global (the Y remembers what the proper height is at various locations using the GPS). It's frustrating to me that Teslas have fit and finish issues (though they get better) and there are some parts of it that I think are made cheaply (paint for example), but the software on the Tesla is miles ahead of anything else.
by maxglute | 2025-07-22 21:11:52+00:00
PRC going to roll out their prompt global strike sooner than later. Conversation of CONUS vulnerability is slowly being acknowledged in wonk circles. A few more PRC FOB tests and the notion that PRC can conventionally strike CONUS (eventually at scale) is going to unavoidably manifest in mainstream American discourse. Likely spectacularly unhinged considering how Americans handled a balloon. Reality is even of GD is technically DOA and strategically destabilizing, it will serve as US MIC exceptionalism to calm Americans as long as it's not tested and Trump will be the guy credited with the president with the foresight to protect/"shield" CONUS. PRC being able to hit strategic energy nodes, data centres, carriers parked in dry docks, b21s in shelters, F35 manufacturing lines, finance infra... basically uproot CONUS serenity that underpins US power (both soft/hard) etc etc is going to be unavoidable, and the only rhetorical salve for that is Golden Dome wank as long as peace holds. There's also the very marginal chance that it will work. There's probably much better offensive capabilities US can hedge with using $$$$$ GD money, but ultimately not being hit is what allows constituents to sleep at night.
by asdff | 2025-07-22 21:12:16+00:00
I see it as a tragedy of the commons sort of situation coupled with a sleep walk over a cliff. There are plenty of cases where certain things have culled their featureset or offer less than what a previous offering did. Unfortunately most people don't evaluate options based on technical merits, but more subconcious emotional response. If their friends all left myspace with its ability to customize your page to your liking for facebook with its prescribed profile pages, that is what people do even though it is objectively a lesser offering. The idea that more people are using AI therefore does not say to me that AI is truly a better option than what was around before. To me it just suggests it became meme status through marketing and got the sleepwalkers hooked. And case in point, you have most people on this corner of the internet where people are more inclined to evaluate technical merits having low opinions of the state of AI.

The way marketing works is you will always see technology develop towards commercializable technology vs just genuinely good ideas. There is no great lobby out there pushing for technical blogs for example, despite their high signal to noise ratio and utility. That is done solely from the goodness of the authors heart for the most part, a cost to them in website maintenance not a profit center. You do see AI companies lobbying every government on earth right now, on the other hand, because they are working hard to entrench their tooling into the mindshare of as many people they can. It is pretty dystopian how the incentives are so aligned towards a few people who are cracking the deals. Even on the microscale they align like this: you see people on HN complain their employer bought them a copilot license they don't use because of the problems with it, but no doubt whoever secured that contract for the business probably looks great in front of the shareholders who are more concerned with keeping up with the Joneses than if the tool actually works as it is pitched. Seems we are far more concerned with the next quarter than the next ten years.
Ask HN: A Reddit UI where all writing is done by an AI?
by amichail | 2025-07-22 21:12:24+00:00
Whenever you submit a post or comment, the AI adds it to its recent context for consideration.

It decides which posts to show, writes titles for them, and generates a summary of each discussion based on the submitted comments.

It can still provide references to the actual submissions and comments, but you'd need to click on those references to see them.

Do you think this would make a compelling Reddit mode?
by genewitch | 2025-07-22 21:12:50+00:00
so "neun. vier. punkt. sieben. drei."

doesn't mean 94 . 73 (or 94,73)? i considered using "dot". I'd have to listen to a german numbers station that uses a splitter like "point" or "dot"

what i'm asking is if you have an ip address like 4.2.2.2 how would you read that over the phone, in german?

also i made a lot of edits to fix issues during the edit window to the two versions i posted
by indoordin0saur | 2025-07-22 21:13:45+00:00
Title is a little click-baity but I fully agree with the sentiment. Just minutes ago I had this experience where a #TODO marked out some extremely rare edge case to handle but one that I have never seen actually occur in the 2 years since I put it in there. Still it will be useful to others (and future me) when I look back at the code and wonder why something wasn't handled.

I also agree with users that sometimes these should just be comments. Really depends on your environment and since I work on a team of 2 who maintain my portion of the codebase I stick with using TODOs in this way (seomtimes).
by SecretDreams | 2025-07-22 21:14:45+00:00
The two main Achilles Heels of Hyundai/Kia are their ICE Engines and their EV ICCUs. Google reliability for both and proceed accordingly. They're good about replacing/fixing both issues when they come up, and normally have extended warranties, but they are critical components too and long lead times to fix.

Outside of those issues, which don't happen on all vehicles, I view the brand as pretty rock solid. I'm impressed by how quickly they iterate, their styling, and their NVH attributes. Their pricing has crept up a bit, but still not terrible.
by JohnFen | 2025-07-22 21:15:06+00:00
I largely agree with this perspective, but my main niggle is:

> There is a middle ground of people, such as myself and Freddie deBoer, who believe AI will lead to improvements in some respects of life, but will not liberate people from work or anything grandiose like that. Nor will AI bring about the end of humanity either.

This summary includes "will lead to improvements in some respects of life", which I suspect will be true, but omits "will lead to degradations in some respects of life", which I think is equally true and equally important.

I suspect that, on the whole, it will lead to reduction in the quality of life for most people, much like so many other tech developments over the last 2 or 3 decades have done.
by grumpymouse | 2025-07-22 21:15:50+00:00
As a user, I feel like talking to them is pointless because nothing we agree to is actually agreed until a human agrees it. The chatbot promising me a refund doesn’t mean I’m going to get a refund. The HR chatbot promising me paid time off doesn’t mean I’m actually going to get paid time off. It’s really still just like the awful old-school chatbots where the whole point was to give you a hard time finding the phone number of the human support team.
by wongarsu | 2025-07-22 21:15:52+00:00
md takes multiple partitions to make a virtual device you can put a file system on, with striping and traditional RAID levels

unRaid takes multiple partitions, dedicates one or two of them to parity, and hands the other partitions through. You can handle those normally, putting different file systems on different partitions in the same array and treating them as completely separate file systems that happen to be protected by the same parity drives

This enables you to easily mix drives of different sizes (as long as the parity drives are at least as large as the largest data partition), add, remove or upgrade drives with relative ease, and means that every read operation only goes to one drive, and writes to that drive plus the parity drives. Depending on how you organize your files you can have drives that are basically never on, while in an md array every drive is used for basically every read or write.

The disadvantages are that you lose out on the performance advantages of a RAID, and that the raid only really protects against losing entire disks. You can't easily repair single blocks the way a zfs RAID could. Also you have a number of file systems you have to balance (which unRaid helps you with, but I don't know how much of that is in this module)
by genewitch | 2025-07-22 21:16:10+00:00
hey i should also apologize. I am really trying to not be so nit-picky. You had the idea and executed it in less than 1kb. I really meant to just kinda educate about numbers stations in general and i know it came off in a way that was unintentional.

and i used copilot because i am not a programmer, i just wanted to see if it was, in fact, possible to add noise and fix the way the numbers were read in 1kb. and i kept your code essentially the same, only adding stuff to split the numbers up closer to how they sound on RF.

so, sorry!
by Aachen | 2025-07-22 21:17:03+00:00
Note that they're also one of the only ones who can unilaterally choose to preinstall this on a majority of devices around the world. Of course I agree that it's good that they do it, for free and all, but to put it in perspective it's either each government for themselves or one of the two global superpowers that have devices with accelerometers and constant internet connectivity on every square kilometer of this oblate spheroid
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-07-22 21:17:10+00:00
It feels unpleasant to me to respond to you because I feel that you aren't really interested in answering my questions or fielding a different point of view as much as you are just interested in stating your own point of view repeatedly with emotion. If you are not interested in responding to me in good faith I would feel better if we stopped the thread here.

To help me steelman your argument, you want to scope this discussion to CEOs that produce AI assisted products consumed by billions of users? To me that sounds like only the biggest of big techs, like Meta maybe? (Shopify for example has roughly 5M DAUs last I checked.) Again if you aren't interested in entertaining my point of view, this can absolutely be the last post in this thread.
by meowface | 2025-07-22 21:17:14+00:00
That is tricky. I think some propaganda has no effect while some propaganda is so impactful that it is the sole cause of some major, major things. I know you said "generally" but I think that doesn't present the full picture.

The Russian state's hack and leak of Podesta's emails caused Pizzagate and QAnon. Russian propagandists also fanned the flames of both. It's not quite clear if this was a propaganda victory (it could be that it was propaganda from other sources commenting on the hacked emails which bears almost all responsibility for Pizzagate and what followed) or simply an offensive cybercapabilities victory, but this is an example of the complex chains of actions which can affect societal opinions and attitudes.

I am skeptical random LLM nonsense from Russian farms is shifting sentiment. But I think it's prudent to remain open to the possibility that the aggregate effect of all propaganda, intelligence, and interference efforts by the Russian state in the past decade could have created the impetus for several significant things which otherwise would likely not have occurred.

Another example: the old Russian KGB propaganda about America inventing AIDS as a bioweapon was extremely effective and damaging: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Denver

More recent Russian propaganda about America running a bioweapon lab in Ukraine has been quite effective and is still believed by many.
by bsder | 2025-07-22 21:17:35+00:00
> The open secret to EV ownership is to buy after the lease.

How do you dig into this responsibly?

I really don't want to be buying a new car right now as the ICE ones all seem to be expensive trash but the EVs are changing so quickly that it isn't worth it.

My Chevy Volt is beginning to show its age, but you will pry it from my cold, dead hands at this point.
by indoordin0saur | 2025-07-22 21:17:43+00:00
Jira really seems to have degraded as it has become increasingly bloated. I grit my teeth every time I hear platform ops say "hey, that deployment ticket last week... we noticed you didn't fill out the x, and z fields and also didn't create a follow-up ticket for future deployment to prod with the correct link to the implementation ticket"
by gwern | 2025-07-22 21:17:58+00:00
It's an open question how far this will transfer. Given the local basin/optima approach, and the incestuous nature of AI outputs + training, it's entirely possible that you could start to see 'lineages' of AIs (often undeclared, eg based on abusing APIs for distillation, and maybe unknown even to the creating entity if people/AI inside it are lying or hustling) where there is a lot of acausal coordination going on due to this.

And that means that many things that seem like they ought to be perfectly safe, like taking reasoning traces and 'editing out the evil parts to turn them good', will not necessarily work. (Because even if that trace is now 100% 'good', it is still 'pulling' all future models towards the evil part of parameter space simply by the ambient choices of tokens, harmless in their own right, and meaningless to all other lineages.)
by nomel | 2025-07-22 21:18:15+00:00
Note that the context here is specifically one off scripts.

> Also, what are your plans for migration when you'll need to move from one os version to another?

None of my one off python code is OS dependent. But, none of my professional production code is either, because it's rare to have OS specific python code (unless you're building your own libraries), so this concern is very confusing to me. But, to make sure I can reproduce my one off environment, I periodically pip freeze a requirements.txt.
by fxtentacle | 2025-07-22 21:18:39+00:00
It looks like you're selling your own control board PCB design as part of the kit. I'm guessing that it doesn't have Wifi by itself, so that would make it an unintentional radiator under FCC rules. How did you deal with EMI testing and certification? Can you recommend any services or labs? Would you be willing to share how much it cost? I'm asking because I am considering publicly selling prototypes of my 3D sound hardware, but the regulatory stuff has so far prevented me from doing it.
by indit | 2025-07-22 21:19:00+00:00
> many countries highly dependent on tourism remain very poor. Jamaica, Bali, the Maldives, and Fiji are globally recognizable, name-brand destinations that are as or even more dependent on tourism than Southern Europe. All four are also unenviably poor by European standards, despite having small or even tiny populations to share in the incoming tourism money.

The post makes some valid points; however, Bali is not a country but a province of Indonesia with a population exceeding 4.5 million. Additionally, its economy is diversified beyond tourism.
by magicalist | 2025-07-22 21:19:09+00:00
OK yeah, I feel dumb now, as that's fairly obvious as you write it :D I think the current folder claim just broke my brain, but I believe you're right about what they meant (or what ChatGPT meant when it wrote that part).

But at least mv has some protection for the next step (which I didn't quote), move with a wildcard. When there are multiple sources, mv always requires an existing directory destination, presumably to prevent this very scenario (collapsing them all to a single file, making all but the last unrecoverable).