MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by KennyBlanken | 2025-07-13 17:47:45+00:00
> Neuromancer and The Matrix is from the perspective of the outsiders.

The primary difference being that in the latter, it's an allegory about being trans, written by two trans women who had not yet come out. Which makes the most superficial interpretation of the movie's themes by toxic masculine types all the more hilarious...

It's buried enough to have kept Hollywood's morality police from killing it and if memory serves they never discussed this with Reeves until well after. There still had to be concessions; I believe Switch's character was originally more androgynous or outright trans, not just a butch woman with a male partner.

> Japan never really did counter-culture as mainstream as the US does.

...what? Bosozoku (for example) has its roots in WW2 veterans who struggled to integrate back into society. Japanese manga and anime is waaaaaay more diverse and counterculture. Christ, can you imagine a comic book and cartoon in the mid/late 80's about a character who repeatedly switches genders both by accident and on purpose?
by nobodyandproud | 2025-07-13 17:48:28+00:00
It’s about incentives.

Direct impact: Outsourcing breeds a culture of unverified and verified-just-once remote work.

Indirect impact: Outsourcing is a cost-driven effort where after a certain level of competence, the bottom-line is the only measurable metric that matters so it’s a race to the bottom with patchwork efforts to “fix” issues like OP.

Making domestic options cost-equivalent with punitive outcomes for hiring NK workers.
by ByteAtATime | 2025-07-13 17:48:42+00:00
Fair point! I've actually thought about that before; I've tried to be extremely clear in the project's README with a disclaimer that this is a non-commercial hobby project and is not affiliated with the official Raycast team in any way.

The name is just for identification, as the project's goal is to be a compatible, open-source alternative for the Linux community, a platform they don't currently serve.

That being said, I'll definitely keep it in mind. Thanks for bringing it up!
by xp84 | 2025-07-13 17:48:48+00:00
I actually agree with this. One would just need Apple, Google, and Microsoft to buy into this and listing a legitimate site on the registry would be adopted as fast as universal HTTPS was. Keeping pubescent kids from mainly learning about sexuality through the lens of often-disturbing porn is a worthwhile goal.

Still need a solution to age-verify without tracking though, or else people would think of it as something to be turned off immediately since Reddit and X would obviously not be on the registry since they host tremendous amounts of porn.

I don't think that's an intractable problem at all, and I think as technologists we should be putting our efforts into building the most trustworthy system for that instead of just campaigning for nothing to change because it's "the parents' problem." Easy for us to say: We're all either not parents, or we're the type who are equipped to properly filter access to the Internet for our young kids. In reality, the single mom of 3 working 12 hours a day is not equipped to "just" set up a proxy server or figure out how to install internet filtering software on the Amazon Fire tablet she got her 8-year-old to watch Spider-Man.
by tialaramex | 2025-07-13 17:48:58+00:00
Yeah, I was alive but I wasn't yet working in this discipline. Still though I think Gibson's work is exactly the kind of thing Lem deplores about that period of US Science Fiction. The practitioners have no idea what they're talking about, so even if they are "What if?" stories - which is the whole point of SF - their answers to the question are no better than a random man on the street. Instead of the standard good SF "Automobile => Traffic Jam" or the extraordinary "Automobile => Teenage fumblings in your dad's borrowed car" you get nonsense like Johnny Mnemonic.

I strongly prefer very hard SF, so I was never Gibson's target audience anyway, but I find it just completely misses me, I might as well be reading a bodice ripper or special forces yarn.
by kstrauser | 2025-07-13 17:49:11+00:00
On a Mac, opening the launcher means pressing cmd-space at any time, getting a popup text entry field, typing "1+2", seeing the answer, and hitting esc to dismiss it. That's the entire workflow for operating a calculator, launching an app, searching Google, locating a file, or whatever. I challenge you to do that operation with a separate app more (or even as) efficiently.

There are good tools for doing each of those things separately. A good launcher that allows you to do any of them with such trivial overhead is a huge time saver.
by layer8 | 2025-07-13 17:49:50+00:00
The precise semantics usually aren’t that well specified, and debugging is difficult when something goes wrong. Annotation-based frameworks are generally more difficult to reason about than libraries you only call in to. One reason is that with frameworks you don’t know very well which parts of the framework code are all involved in calling your code, whereas with libraries the answer usually is “the parts you call in to”.

Spring has more “synergy” in a sense than using a bunch of separate libraries, but because of that it’s also a big ball of mud that your code sits on top of, but isn’t on top of it in the sense of being in control.
by gavinhoward | 2025-07-13 17:49:57+00:00
> It has been mentioned that it’s possible that the default for debug builds is that every single function is compiled as an async function. I.e. there is canonically only one function color.

But then, for those that choose to only use blocking I/O or green threads, they still pay the penalty of async merely existing.

> That’s a really bad take. It’s not much different from what they did to make allocators explicit.

I mean, Zig explicit allocators are really the same thing is Go interfaces, just dressed up as an innovative feature by a specific use case. This is what I mean by "appearing" innovative: they are taking old and tested ideas and presenting them in new ways to make them appear new.

Also, Zig could have had explicit allocators without needing to pass them to every function [1].

> They’ve moved away from designing in a bunch of fancy syntax that locks users into one particular concurrency model, and gone for a more explicit and boring design which puts power in the hands of the user.

Except that if every function is made async, they have actually removed from users the power to choose to not use async.

[1]: https://jai.community/t/context/163
by pazimzadeh | 2025-07-13 17:50:11+00:00
it's the opposite. no doctor or insurance is going to change their policy based on a single result, you wait until a few separate groups have replicated the results. In the scientific community there is a reward (being cited) for pointing out that someone else's finding was wrong. The more important the initial finding, the more citations (and attention) you will get if you're the first one to correct the record. There's also a reward for building on an initial finding and going further, but you can only do that if the original finding stands. So one way or another the truth will come out.

Publishing a pre-print is only valuable if your result hold long term. You're just stating that you did it first.
by tehsolution | 2025-07-13 17:52:04+00:00
The solution to police state is more policing?

What about less? Take away guns and reach of the cops and politicians?

Accountability by making 900k cops across all levels of government stripped of power and made normal people? Same for the 600k politicians coast to coast. Screw their story mode mental illness.

Make everyone busy generalizing logistics process to serve biology and stop with story mode hustling memes about fiat (vacuous proclamations) valuations using jargon from the 1800s?

Roughly 1.5 million pols and cops have 10s of millions wrapped around their finger. With urbanization the best part is a bunch of them live just a few miles from any given large urban area full of people being screwed by them.

The time for demanding meager reforms from 60+ year olds who have no skin in our future is long gone.

Skip the guns and go the route of making everyone a normie civil servant and no one has leverage https://aeon.co/essays/game-theory-s-cure-for-corruption-mak...

Except the low level gossipy kind like “so n so cheated”. Statistical analysis of death trends suggest we kill each other on Main Street over such gossip at the same rate humans did centuries ago. It’s those moments of nation state fueled atrocity and imperialism when human death spikes. Seem clear in the streets most adults just don’t go on murderous rampage.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-07-13 17:52:06+00:00
So it all boils down to that you want a utopian communistic market where you decide what generation gets added and then averages the costs. Shafting the consumers but hiding it behind a large average.

I already told you. This does not work when the consumers can generate their own electricity through distributed renewables and storage. With distributed electricity generation the market fundamentally becomes marginal cost.

Please do tell me, how will you nuclear plant achieve a "near 100% capacity" factor in a grid where rooftop solar alone can meet 107% of grid demand. All utility scale renewables are forced off the grid. Let alone expensive thermal plants.

https://reneweconomy.com.au/rooftop-solar-meets-107-5-pct-of...

Said grid was supplied by 100% renewables (excluding a tiny sliver of fossil gas from the ancillary market for grid services) most of the past week. Averaging 82% renewables. In mid winter.

https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/sa1/?range=7d&...

This is what you are up against. Tell me why this grid should build a nuclear plant.

Why should these electrolyzers buy your $190/MWh nuclear electricity when they can buy renewables producing zero marginal cost electricity? You still end up only making money on 10-15% of the time leading to the same calculation, you just don't get paid most of the day instead and are considering if you should shut down your nuclear plant to prevent fuel burn and wear and tear compared to what a thermal cycle costs.

> A marginal cost market looking just at KWh isn't stable: in that market, no one pays for grid stability, 99th percentile events, etc. If you're going to pay for things like stability, production at night, guaranteed power for industrial loads, etc: the picture is more nuanced.

Which is why we have ancillary services? Your problem is that you don't know that nuclear power generally doesn't participate in the ancillary markets. It produces too much when no one wants it and too little when it would be needed.

Nuclear power is fundamentally unfit for our modern grids.
by Kinrany | 2025-07-13 17:52:20+00:00
The First Opium War is the best example I could find: a small expeditionary force ran circles around a peer country's army for more than a year and crippled it thanks to total naval superiority and qualitatively better artillery and rifles.

The conquest of Aztecs is another example: Spain annihilated a country with twice the population. Though they cheated with bioweapons of course.
by colinmorelli | 2025-07-13 17:52:26+00:00
This, similar to your other comment, is unrelated to my comment.

This is about determining if AI can be a equivalent or better (defined as: achieving equal or better clinical outcomes) therapist than a human. That is a question that can be studied and answered.

Whether artificial intelligence accurately models human intelligence, or whether an airplane is "smarter" than a bird, are entirely separate questions that can perhaps serve to explain _why/how_ the AI can (or can't) achieve better results than the thing we're comparing against, but not whether it does or does not. Those questions are perhaps unanswerable based on today's knowledge. But they're not prerequisites.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-07-13 17:53:04+00:00
You ignore safety features unless you have already experienced disaster? Do you wear a seat belt? Run all commands as root?

The history of computing says that everything is a porous security boundary just waiting for a motivated individual to attack it. Defense in layers, especially in the wild west of AI where everybody is playing move fast and break things at breakneck speed.
by sangeeth96 | 2025-07-13 17:53:14+00:00
That shouldn't matter. They might even have a Linux version in the works, given they are doing Windows now. They are within their rights to ask you to get rid of it. You also seem to be using their brand assets like the logo. I get your intention and love what you were able to accomplish but if you intend for this to grow, you are better off doing this now.
by echelon | 2025-07-13 17:53:38+00:00
Capitalism is a great model that results in evolutionary pressures for the efficient development of goods and services.

One failure mode of unchecked and unregulated capitalism is the establishment of monopolies that can starve oxygen from the rest of the ecosystem.

In order to have maximally efficient and broadly beneficial capitalism, you need strong anti-trust mechanisms to reoxygenate the environment for new competition. Regular enforcement also means that labor and investment capital reap the most rewards instead of calcified, legacy incumbents.

Companies need to be constantly fighting to survive. If they're sitting comfortable and growing without controls, something went wrong and the rest of the fitness landscape is being distorted by an invasive species.

Antitrust Regulation is incredibly pro-market and pro-competition.
by Jaxan | 2025-07-13 17:53:54+00:00
I hate these kind of “saves power” things in windows settings. The OS itself pings home so often, sends network request for everything you do, shows ads on the login screen, makes screenshots (for Recall), Edge sends contents from web forms for “AI”. And now it is my responsibility to disable showing seconds in the taskbar??? If microsoft really wants to be green, windows shouldn’t do all these wasteful things!
by avtar | 2025-07-13 17:54:04+00:00
--cap-add=NET_ADMIN

--cap-add=NET_RAW

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/.devcont...

If the cointainer route (with those types of privileges) is being suggested from a security point of view, then might as well run these processes in a VM and call it a day :/
by jkaplowitz | 2025-07-13 17:54:10+00:00
Yes indeed, both meanings are possible in most contexts.

In US English, when speaking with the mathematical precision, majority means absolute majority (more than half) and plurality means relative majority (more than anyone else). British English does also have the term relative majority like in French, though I don’t know if this is used in mathematics.

But like most other dictionaries in both English and French (with some exceptions like l’Académie Française’s dictionary), Merriam-Webster tries to describe how language is actually used in the real world and not some theoretical idea of how it should be used.

Therefore, since “majority” is often used to mean either absolute or relative majority when speaking in a less precise context than mathematics, a general-purpose dictionary like this one lists both meanings. A mathematical dictionary from the US (again I don’t know about the British equivalent) would list just the absolute meaning.
by AlSweigart | 2025-07-13 17:54:10+00:00
Page count. Automate the Boring Stuff with Python is supposed to be a beginner book for people with no coding experience, but it's almost 600 pages. The biggest hurdle to coding isn't being "smart" enough, but rather getting over the intimidation factor.

The editor recommended we cut this chapter. It made me realize that even though I work with multimedia stuff all the time, this isn't really something most office workers do (at least, not at the scale where you'd want to write Python scripts).

A lot of teaching people to code is hiding details so you don't fire hose them with information they don't need yet. So many software nerds don't get this, and they're excited about all these cool advanced techniques without realizing that beginners don't need to know about recursion or operator overloading. (I completely skip OOP in the book.)
by jonathanlydall | 2025-07-13 17:54:25+00:00
And also a human mission to Jupiter aided by a sentient computer in the year 2001.

As I recall, his communication satellite depiction included humans living on it full time to keep it running. Also not quite how it turned out.

I have the utmost respect for him, but he was not immune to getting the future wrong like other science fiction authors.
by bobbob27 | 2025-07-13 17:54:41+00:00
There's people in the FOSS realm running VERY competent operations for simple living wage, or less.

Take KDE for example. It's easy to argue they've accomplished MORE than Mozilla has in the last decade.

Their desktop ships with every Steam Deck (along with some niche laptop manufacturers) and they have a vast ecosystem of applications. Albeit some more rapidly developed than others.

Their structure is entirely different than Mozilla so it's hardly a direct comparison. But the main point is that Mozilla's traditional corporate structure seems to be a millstone.

They could have stashed most of their Google funding and kept a solid team of passionate maintainers paid in perpetuity. Goodwill could have volunteers contributing directly to Firefox, instead of forking it.
by YZF | 2025-07-13 17:54:46+00:00
I was just giving one example.

The first LCD products I remember were things like 7 segment digital watches and calculators where the LCD was passive and the "pixels" were large. I am not super familiar with how that went from lab to consumer product but I imagine even there it was non-trivial.

It took a long time to progress to modern LCD displays. It took years to get from small black and white displays, to small color, to larger and larger displays. Productizing this stuff includes building machines, factories, ASICs, and figuring out a lot of technology as you go along.

Some interesting history here: https://www.varjukass.ee/Kooli_asjad/Ylikool/telekom/displei...
by resize2996 | 2025-07-13 17:55:15+00:00
I suspect the person you're responding to was suggesting your energy could be better channeled to more productive pursuits, rather than aping bluesky-level analysis on an internet forum.

As a citizen of the world, this option absolutely remains available to you. As an extractive capitalist, I imagine you will continue to fuel the populist movements you're analyzing, but reminder: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
by hnfong | 2025-07-13 17:56:03+00:00
You speak as if "license proliferation" is actually a problem.

But is it really?

Sure, it may make some licenses incompatible with each other, but that's basically equivalent to whining about somebody releasing their code in GPL and it can't be used in a project that uses MIT...

And your argument that the terms are "less understood" really doesn't matter. It's not like people know the Common Public Attribution License in and out either. (I'm going to argue that 99% devs don't even know the GPL well.) Poor drafting could be an issue, but I don't think this is the case here.

And on an ideological standpoint, I don't think people should be shamed into releasing their code under terms they aren't 100% comfortable with.
by MisterSandman | 2025-07-13 17:56:36+00:00
Do you remember the command line command to convert 5:30 IST to PDT? Or convert $70 USD to SGD? Or what 17.3 years in seconds is? Or how many days are between 2024-12-30 and 2025-06-17?

Raycast can all of do that automatically, and the only shortcut you need to know is Cmd-Space.
by scoofy | 2025-07-13 17:57:03+00:00
I can want something to be legal without insisting it’s a human right. All the courts did here was say “no you don’t have a right to distribute pornographic material without age verification.” After which, it becomes an issue for the legislature, and we all culturally decide, together, what’s legal and what’s not.

I can say “I think kids seeing porn is no big deal” without insisting that pornographic speech is protected speech (which I don’t think is true).

I’m really confused as to why it’s not clear, but oh well, I’m just trying my best.

-note: “my photos only” in the previous post was an autocorrect typo.
by SkiFire13 | 2025-07-13 17:58:22+00:00
> What the C3 solution DOES to provide a way to detect at runtime when already freed temporary allocation is used.

The article makes no mention of this, so in the context of the article the title remains very wrong. I could also not find a page in the documentation claiming this is supported (though I have to admit I did not read all the pages), nor an explanation of how this works, especially in relation to the performace hit it would result in.

> C3 is able to do static checking with the contracts to reject contract violations at compile time

I tries searching how these contracts work in the C3 website [1] and these seems to be no guaranteed static checking of such contracts. Even worse, violating them when not using safe mode results in "unspecified behaviour", but really it's undefined behaviour (violating contracts is even their list of undefined behaviour! [2])

[1]: https://c3-lang.org/language-common/contracts/

[2]: https://c3-lang.org/language-rules/undefined-behaviour/#list...
by acdha | 2025-07-13 17:58:56+00:00
Qualified immunity is a relatively modern invention by the Supreme Court. The origins were fairly reasonable in the civil rights era, saying in Pierson v. Ray that some Mississippi police officers were not liable for enforcing a state law against assembly which was later ruled to be unconstitutional, which is probably the strongest case for a positive effect.

The negatives started mounting as it was rapidly expanded from the question of whether the action was legal at the time as in the Mississippi case to whether the officer violated clearly-established precedent for the specific actions they made. There really isn’t a positive argument for that better than “the courts invented a doctrine because Congress didn’t set a clean policy”. Because it ties into some hot-button political issues now, we’re unlikely to see improvements for a while but it is interesting to contemplate the alternate timeline where the Markey/Booker/Harris resolution in 2020 actually turned into a law.
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by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-07-13 17:59:36+00:00
Do you have any example scripts for your setup?

I have recently moved to a VM only development workflow, but still feeling some growing pains as I figure out a good setup. I run my IDE in the guest, which is kind of crummy - responsiveness is worse + the VMs are a lot heavier than a headless code setup would be. I have thought about using a Flatpak IDE with filesystem access disabled as a potential middle ground solution so that the guests could be minimal images connected by SSH.