MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Scramblejams | 2025-07-23 17:39:47+00:00
Can you tell me why NamePolicy=keep doesn't do the trick?

Looking myself for options to keep a Debian bare metal server I admin from going deaf and mute the next time I upgrade it... It still uses an /etc/network/interfaces file that configures a bridge for VMs to use, and the bridge_ports parameter requires an interface name which, when I upgraded to Bookworm, changed.

At this rate maybe I'll write a script that runs on boot and fixes up that file with whatever interface it finds, then restarts the network.
by jandrese | 2025-07-23 17:39:49+00:00
The difference is size and cost. Missiles are large and expensive so ships can carry only a handful of them, and anti-missile defenses are designed based on that assumption. Drones defeat anti-missile defenses by coming in huge swarms that skim the waterline. The drones are also small because they have a relatively small warhead compared to anti-ship missiles.

It's the difference between needing to stop a dozen or so MIG-17 sized hypersonic missiles vs. hundreds of oversized quadcopters that move relatively slowly but chaotically.
by lacop | 2025-07-23 17:40:00+00:00
Somewhat related, I'm running into a gRPC latency issue in https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/issues/8436

If request payload exceeds certain size the response latency goes from network RTT to double that, or triple.

Definitely something wrong with either TCP or HTTP/2 windowing as it doesn't send the full request without getting ACK from server first. But none of the gRPC windowing config options nor linux tcp_wmem/rmem settings work. Sending one byte request every few hundred milliseconds fixes it by keeping the gRPC channel / TCP connection active. Nagle / slow start is disabled.
by anon7000 | 2025-07-23 17:41:23+00:00
I mean, good AI tab completion feels like a super power. Zed’s is not that good. It’s slow and normally not at all what I want. In cursor, it’s at least 80% of the time jumping to the next thing I was going to do anyways. (Example: I add a function call, and tab recommend jumping to the top of the file, importing the function from the right spot, and then jumping back to the call site. Example2: I change a function signature and update one call site. It then correctly auto-completes the 5 other call sites to match the new format.)
by int_19h | 2025-07-23 17:41:50+00:00
Trading and markets are not the problem. Unbounded accumulation of capital is. Capitalism is actually anti-free-trade and anti-free-markets because it creates a positive feedback loop where the more capital you have, the more economic rent you can extract from others, which can then be used to grow the capital. At the end of that loop is a degenerate market dominated by a single monopoly or a few oligopolies, not free in any meaningful sense.

Therefore, if society wants free trade and free markets, it needs to prevent this. And the easiest way to do so is by making unbounded capital accumulation impossible, by refusing to acknowledge it as legitimate property right past a certain point, and thus withholding society's protections for it. It doesn't mean that all property rights are gone.
by akomtu | 2025-07-23 17:42:43+00:00
Governments are a lot like abusive parents: they see people as difficult kids that must be managed. They believe that what they do helps them become good adults, but in reality they just love to control and abuse people. Rejecting this abusive parenting or simply setting personal boundaries makes them really angry and suspicious, and get you labelled a criminal. In the future, when thought-reading brain implants will be a thing, you will be labelled a criminal for not having one, for hiding your thoughts or even for refusing to have your thoughts managed by that device.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-07-23 17:42:45+00:00
As long as you understand the scaffolding and its implications, I think this is fine. Using AI for scaffolding has been the key thing for me. If I have some obscure idea I want to build up using Django, I braindump to the model what I want to build, and it spits out models, and what not.

Course, then there's lovable, which spits out the front-end I describe, which it is very impressively good at. I just want a starting point, then I get going, if I get stuck I'll ask clarifying questions. For side projects where I have limited time, LLMs are perfect for me.
by duxup | 2025-07-23 17:42:58+00:00
I think a lot of these policy makers straight up do not know that AI as it stands now is just some fancy math with words.

At the same time I'm sure plenty of them love the idea that they have a black box they can tell someone to manipulate and then declare "if the black box says so it's the truth and nobody can argue / see inside the box".
by gessha | 2025-07-23 17:43:52+00:00
In the US, I’ve seen enough problems on VW cars that I won’t make the same conclusion.

US driving culture-wise, I’ve seen Audi and Mercedes drivers adopt the same brain-dead behaviors BMW drivers have that I wouldn’t want to be associated with them either.

If I were to buy a new car today, it would be a Toyota or a Honda, maybe a Hyundai.
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-23 17:44:27+00:00
Whoever's forcing it to be written (which I agree is in large part the people) the people doing the writing care very deeply about city revenue and are experts in tweaking the minutia to get their pound of flesh for the city or at least reserve their right to collect it.

Like I said, maybe I'm jaded, but that's what every big city I've ever known would do.

If this was just about the problem RVs they could've easily exempted commercial trucks or put a 12 (enough to reset your logbook) or heck, 8 or 10 (a full day of work) limit on it. Yet they didn't do either of those and went with a time limit.

This seems very clearly crafted to not exempt commercial vehicle drivers who are sleeping off their logbook and/or people who are driving commercial trucks to places where they will use the contents of those trucks for their business purposes.
by gsaslis | 2025-07-23 17:45:47+00:00
It should!

And yet, that's technically not CI.

The whole point we started using automation servers as an integration point was to avoid the "it works on my machine" drama. (Have watched at least 5 seasons of it - they were all painful!).

+1 on running the test harness locally though (where feasible) before triggering the CI server.
by anon7000 | 2025-07-23 17:45:56+00:00
It’s tough to have “human flourishing” (which they mention as a goal) when things like health insurance are in such a shit situation. AI could help health insurance deny more claims, for sure. That’s not human flourishing though. (And my biggest gripe with capitalism is that at a certain late stage in many sectors, human flourishing is completely at odds with making profit.)
by wat10000 | 2025-07-23 17:46:02+00:00
There is no way a net worth of over four hundred billion Earth dollars is not "rich." Yeah, net worth and liquidity aren't exactly equivalent, but your statement on that has exactly zero relevance here.

As far as intelligence goes, there are certainly ways to become rich without it. But Musk didn't do it any of those ways as far as I can tell.

I totally get why people would say he misleads people and his stated wealth is inflated as a result. He has enormously overpromised and underdelivered, no doubt about that.

But I can't understand saying that is the only element of his success. Forget about his blather for a second. Tesla has sold millions of cars. SpaceX has done hundreds of successful orbital launches. You can't fake that.

Is he entirely responsible for those successes? Of course not. Could Tesla and SpaceX have achieved those things if the only thing Musk brought to the table was a relatively paltry amount of money? I really don't see how. You're telling me that this guy founded rocket company with $90 million that two decades later accounts for more than half of all orbital launches on the planet, and he's a talentless hack and only succeeds because he's willing to lie and his fans are too stupid? That doesn't add up.
by owenversteeg | 2025-07-23 17:46:16+00:00
I’m not sure exactly what argument you’re making here, but if you want the sticker price to double when the tariffs equal the import price then you need one of three things: 1) imports directly to consumer, 2) every cost must be in direct proportion to the imported cost, 3) someone must end up with astronomical margins.

1) makes up a tiny fraction of trade. Case 2 is obviously unrealistic. I will lay out a simple example for case 3: WidgetCo sells a widget in partnership with MarkCo for marketing, InsCo for insurance and JungleCo for warehousing and shipping.

Widget costs $10 in China and shipping to the US warehouse is $2. Marketing is $8: 3/4 fixed costs and 1/4 commission based. Shipping from US warehouse to the customer is $6, warehousing costs are $2, and insurance is $1. All the company’s other internal expenses are 15% of imported widget cost plus $1.50/widget totaling $3 per widget. That totals $32/widget and they sell for $33, a 3.0% net margin or $1 net profit per widget.

Now, let’s imagine that tariffs have just increased from 0% to 100%. Shipping and warehousing are fixed costs. Being generous to your point, let’s say marketing commissions and insurance are calculated on the imported price (which is unusual.) That brings the new cost to $46.5, with a retail price of $47.95. That’s a 45% increase, nowhere near doubling. If you want the price to double, you will end up with astronomical margins. InsCo’s margins remain the same, but WidgetCo now takes $8 per widget, of which $2.05 is additional pure profit. Net margin is now 7.3%: (1.45+2.05 or $3.50 per widget.) 2.35x the net margin in a competitive industry? You’re toast, buddy. But it’s far worse for MarkCo and JungleCo. Both MarkCo and JungleCo are now raking in $16 for work they used to do for $8. If their net margin was 10% before, now it is 55%.

Now, it’s worth pointing out that the numbers in this example are quite generous to your point. In reality, most products are not sold for three times their Chinese factory cost, and many products have (legitimate or not) processing steps in other countries, or steps which could be easily relocated to other countries, which is of course what happened with the first Trump tariffs.
by singhrac | 2025-07-23 17:46:17+00:00
I think we don’t talk enough about tab completion model quality. Recently Copilot’s model got a lot better (probably trying to catch up to Cursor) but I feel like there’s still so much room here (and I assume Zeds is worse from your description).

Smart context / big context is a really interesting question, I’m kind of surprised Google isn’t building here given how much effort they’ve put into big context (they have Jules and Gemini CLI but no tab completion UX).

On further thought I think one of the big 3 (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic) should partner (ideally not buy) with Zed to get a foothold.
by subscribed | 2025-07-23 17:46:21+00:00
I looked it up (as in spent a last few weeks going through the forum and PRs) and when they say "slander", it's backed up.

When they say other projects are insecure, this is for example because of the claims /e/OS based on the utterly insecure hardware and two major versions of AOSP, unpatched, is touting itself as a leading project in the privacy landscape.

I don't think they talk down any security - related project and I've never seen the generalised "they talk down on (...) open-source projects in general" - this is what I would myself call slander, because tbh it's dogs bollocks.

"Slander" or "attack" is said when there are baseless accusations (like above about attacking, quote, "any and every security-- and privacy-related project") because they don't have outlets or big money behind them which would simply state the facts and call out the accusations.

If you have examples of theese words "thrown" without basis (ie without sustained prior attacks on GOS), I'm sure every interested person would like to see it. If you wanted to show the examples of the innumerable privacy- or security-related projects that are _attacked_ by GOS, please share examples.

There are multiple so-called privacy and security related projects which are known for the sustained and baseless bad messages, and these don't get a pass, because it's clear it's intentional and in the bad faith.

Valuable projects and services are promoted and recommended based on merit and not favours (eg: they can argue based on facts why installing apps from accrescent or Google play store is generally safer than from the F-droid).

They don't hate the "custom ROM", they explain why it's a misnomer - and you using it here after saying they hate it (and either not knowing or not caring why it's wrong) is clearly an act in the bad faith :)

I struggle to see an attempt in the factual reporting in your post. The only thing I could connect over is their attitude in certain situations, but..... the rest of your post is just.... incorrect?
by otterley | 2025-07-23 17:47:53+00:00
> First, we checked the number of TCP connections using lsof -i TCP:2137 and found that only a single TCP connection was used regardless of in-flight count.

It's head-of-line blocking. When requests are serialized, the queue will grow as long as the time to service a request is longer than the interval between arriving requests. Queue growth is bad if sufficient capacity exists to service requests in parallel.
by bccdee | 2025-07-23 17:48:17+00:00
I've never had a system crash from a lightning strike, fault-tolerant or otherwise. I have had systems crash from null pointer errors though, and fault-tolerance did nothing to fix that except turn a crash into a crashloop.

I have the same attitude toward overly permissive type systems that I do toward the lack of memory safety in C: People sometimes say, "if you do it right then it isn't a problem," but since it objectively IS a problem in practice, I would rather use the tool that eliminates that problem entirely than deal with the clean-up when someone inevitably "does it wrong."
by balder1991 | 2025-07-23 17:48:32+00:00
Yeah, I don’t understand how people feel confident with that at all.

Whenever I dive into a programming language I don’t know, I realize the amount of stuff I need to get used to before I feel confident reviewing code in it.

Also supposedly language barriers are smaller than ever, yet WhatsApp is killing its desktop app on Windows in favor of using the Web-based version.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-07-23 17:48:57+00:00
I think a big part of the problem is that if you allow large, semipermanent encampments or groups of RVs, you eventually end up with huge mounds of trash. Some of it is supposedly from other people dumping trash, but some of it is absolutely from residents hoarding, and it makes the footprint balloon out of control into sidewalks, streets, parks, and any other flat bit of space, until the area becomes pretty unusable for anyone not living there. Which makes a hands off approach politically untenable.
Ask HN: Tool that turns your voice notes into narrated slide videos?
by samehsbs | 2025-07-23 17:49:13+00:00
I'm building a tool that turns short voice memos (or bullet-point notes) into slide-based narrated videos, like a lightweight presentation with your voice and synced visuals.

How it works:

* Upload a voice memo (3–5 min) * It gets transcribed and broken into 5–7 slides (title + bullets) * Use your voice or a generated narration * Slides automatically sync to the timing of the narration * You get a shareable MP4 video (optionally: a PPTX + audio export)

It's meant for people who want to turn rough ideas into clear, presentable videos, without needing editing tools or design skills.

Use cases:

* Teachers turning lectures into explainers * Founders sending async updates * Coaches or consultants sharing insights * Podcasters making quick visual highlights

Would love your thoughts:

* Would you use something like this? * What use case comes to mind for you? * Does this solve a real workflow problem?

Happy to share a rough demo or create a sample from your voice note. Thanks for reading!
by Buttons840 | 2025-07-23 17:49:23+00:00
Most of your arguments are not applicable for the simple reason that 99% of people would not have a wealth tax under my proposal.

I suggested a wealth tax only on the top 1%. (Or on the top 0.1% might work better, the specific number isn't the main point.)

The top 1% didn't get there through average stock returns, so the stock arguments are not applicable. Most stock participants would not have a wealth tax.

One of the major themes of this entire thread is that retirement age will have to be raised, with some even saying that any retirement at all is unusual and unsustainable. So do please tell me more about market economics and their wealth creation. Why are we regressing in our market economy? What does it mean when the things that happen in a successful market economy aren't happening?

As for Elon. Even with my proposed wealth tax, he would still be the world richest man. Especially if he continues to run successful businesses. A wealth tax doesn't immediately erase all the wealth of those it applies to.
by nzach | 2025-07-23 17:50:03+00:00
> It can show you good idiomatic code in small snippets.

That's not really true for things that are changing a lot. I got a terrible experience last time I've tried to use Zig, for example. The code it generated was an amalgamation between two or three different versions.

And I've even got this same style of problem in golang where sometimes the LLM generates a for loop in the "old style" (pre go 1.22).

In the end LLMs are a great tool if you know what needs to be done, otherwise it will trip you up.
by cmiles74 | 2025-07-23 17:50:21+00:00
I think this is a fundamentally different pursuit. The intellectual part was figuring out where the transistors would go, that's the part that took the thinking. Letting a machine do it just let's you test quicker and move onto the next step. Although, of course, if you only solder your transistors by hand once a year you aren't likely to be very good at it. ;-)

People say the same thing about code but there's been a big conflation between "writing code" and "thinking about the problem". Way too often people are trying to get AI to "think about the problem" instead of simply writing the code.

For me, personally, the writing the code part goes pretty quick. I'm not convinced that's my bottleneck.
by danman114 | 2025-07-23 17:50:53+00:00
Hi! I recently tried to get into Elixir as an antidote to an acute javascript-fatigue...

To my surprise this there isn't really a good mobile story to build mobile apps for both Android and iOS with it, although it looks like it could be a great option for quick turnaround mobile apps with a web- or native frontend...

I know that there is something being worked on, eg. LiveView native: https://native.live/ , but that seems to target two entirely different frontend frameworks, one for each platform...

I started using capacitor as a wrapper for a HTML frontend, but I think I might potentially run into trouble when I'd try to move into production builds...

I think there's some space for research and maybe some nice starter packs / tutorials there... Because I think it is a big and pretty relevant market for browser-based apps, which Elixir seems to be very well suited to!

I'm grateful for any additional pointers, peace out! :)
by dinfinity | 2025-07-23 17:50:58+00:00
I personally would like to be able to choose specifically for a male driver. I trust them more.

I'm being facetious of course, but it does highlight how bad sex discrimination is.

The problem with sex discrimination here is that it is a very crude workaround for a fundamental problem, namely not being safe with some Uber drivers. I'd like to point out at this point that as a dude (especially a scrawny one) you can also get murdered or (sexually) harassed by an Uber driver (male or female). This workaround does nothing for those cases. The fundamental problem will probably simply be properly solved with driverless taxis.
by exe34 | 2025-07-23 17:51:03+00:00
> Can you get out of the house and socialize even when endless media and parasocial relationships are just a screen away?

The problem is when the junk food is cheaper/more easily available. There are plenty of people I could spend all day with and enjoy it. They are busy living life. The people who have time for me are usually the ones I feel drained after talking to. So I prefer to stay away from them.
by landonxjames | 2025-07-23 17:52:01+00:00
I have used Jco quite a bit (and contributed a few times) to build out simple utilities binding Rust code to JS [1][2]. I think it is great and the Component Model is the most exciting step towards real useful polyglot libraries I have seen in years. I wish it were better publicized, but I understand keeping things lowkey until it is more fleshed out (the async and stream support coming in Preview 3 are the real missing pieces for my usecases).

[1] https://github.com/awslabs/aws-wasm-checksums [2] https://github.com/landonxjames/aws-sdk-wasi-example
by dkersten | 2025-07-23 17:53:06+00:00
I went slightly differently:

I used Zed for about a year and a half exclusively, without using any AI features, and then switched to cursor to try AI features out. When Zed released its agent mode, I switched back to Zed.

I absolutely agree that Cursor’s tab completion is far superior to Zeds. The difference is night and day. Cursor’s really is that good. But the Zed agent mode works very well for me and Zed is, IMHO just so much better than an editor. I really hate having to use vscode or a vscode-based editor after using Zed so much (I used vscode exclusively before switching to Zed). And that’s enough for me to give up on the superior tab completion.

I hope Zed eventually improve theirs to a similar experience to cursor, but regardless, I love Zed.
by jajko | 2025-07-23 17:53:19+00:00
The pain of having an attractive wife or female partner. Some guys are so aggressive a-holes that more decent women end up shying away from men in general.

Imagine being hit easily 10-50x a day, every effin' day. Work, street, public transport, online, everywhere. Guys really think inviting pretty ladies 'for a coffee' aint something they heard 100x that week already.

Dated one such lady, the trauma and trust issues were real. Either they get spolied for attention or get traumatized. Everybody loses.