MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WD-42 | 2025-07-23 20:40:37+00:00
I really don’t see the polish everyone talks about in KDE. Here’s a perfect example: Konsole the KDE terminal. https://apps.kde.org/konsole/

Why does the toolbar need giant copy/paste buttons? Is any terminal user actually clicking buttons to copy and paste? The vertical space those buttons take up is enough room for at least 2 more lines of actual terminal output, which is important.

The UI is just such a mess.
by chasil | 2025-07-23 20:40:39+00:00
In Oracle, a user has a default tablespace, and a temporary tablespace.

When a sort exceeds SORT AREA SIZE, then it writes into a sort segment in their registered temporary tablespace. Any or all of the datafiles behind this tablespace will show updated mtime. All users share a single sort segment within a tablespace.

And users running SELECT will write to the database if a delayed block cleanout needs to occur.

https://asktom.oracle.com/ords/asktom.search?tag=delayed-blo...
by mrangle | 2025-07-23 20:41:06+00:00
>I was a research engineer between 2016 - 2022 (pre ChatGPT) at a couple large tech companies doing MLOps alongside true scientists.

Their post reads like an advertisement for LLM tech.

No different than clickbait techniques commonly used for yt videos.

Pearl clutching over "superintelligence is here" should give it away, aside from the overall style.
by SideQuark | 2025-07-23 20:41:35+00:00
There are 211,230 CEOs with mean annual wage $258,900 [1]. Being the mean surely gives that the median is much lower.

There are 120,053,000 age workers with median weekly income of $1,159 = $60,258 annual income [2] (and this includes part time, people in college, semi-retired, many people who have had high incomes in the past or will in the future).

A story about a 4.3x of CEO to worker pay, which is the actual stats of CEO to worker, doesn't generate enough outrage.

Comparing the top 500 (ish) of them to all workers is simply bad analysis designed to rile up people.

Surely people here would call out the dishonesty of comparing the top 500 wage worker salaries (many millions/year each) vs all the CEOs (258k) as dishonest. It's funny seeing how many people eat this equally dishonest comparison up as indicative of all CEOs and companies...

As to all the theories as to this or that law being some culprit, or some evil intentions, note the pay of the top performers in nearly every category, from musician, to athlete, to lawyer, to top 500 CEO, to even employee, have seen pretty much the same growth over the same time. It's nearly impossible all these are driven by something as specific as a labor law, a union change, a stock market or money format change. It's almost a certainty these are all driven by an excess of accrued capital in the US (and other markets) allowing those paying these incomes to pay for what they see as talent, whether is a huge rise in middle class disposable income, a larger share of US money available for retirement accounts, etc. Many years ago chasing down this exact set of ideas revealed a ton of econ papers reaching the same conclusions....

In short, high (someone else) pay rarely is money taken from the poor, and in more cases the poor and middle get higher wages as the top get higher wages simply by econ effects like the Baumol effect. This is the effect that as some jobs pay more, it attracts more people, so for society to get older jobs done, they must now also pay more, even if productivity in the latter jobs have not increased. It's why the lowest labor in the US pays many, many fold over what you'd get for the same output in most of the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect

Just some thoughts....

[1] https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/may/oes111011.htm [2] https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat39.htm
by trashface | 2025-07-23 20:42:43+00:00
It won't, but since 10 still exists I'm just running that now and will probably do so as long as I can - then maybe I can get a hardware upgrade, do the proton switch, and my games will run about as well as they used to with 10 on my old hardware - with some fiddling naturally.

My point is it isn't a universal truth that everybody currently running 10 can just switch to linux/proton now and it is seamless. Really depends on what you run and your hardware, as with everything linux.

I also hack some games with dll injection and I don't know how I'm going to get that working with proton, maybe it works, maybe it doesn't.
by arevno | 2025-07-23 20:43:17+00:00
> by making it accessible at all times

This already happened, with Instagram and Tinder, though. No AI required. I agree with your analysis, that the accessibility is the issue, but we have been atomizing ourselves through screens for decades now already.

I'd argue that this was a significantly larger step than merely replacing the real human at the end of the fake interface with a fake human, because the interface is already artificial, already having removed voice intonation, body language, warmth, etc.
by b112 | 2025-07-23 20:43:30+00:00
Debian, at least until bookworm works perfectly without systemd. The easiest way to make this transition, is to installed Debian with nothing but 'standard system utilities' and 'SSH server' (if you want) during install:

https://forum.qubes-os.org/uploads/db3820/original/2X/c/c774...

Once install is done, login and save this file:

/etc/apt/preferences.d/systemd # this is the only systemd package that is required, so we up its priority first... Package: libsystemd0 Pin: release bookworm Pin-Priority: 700 /etc/apt/preferences.d/systemd # exclude the rest Package: systemd Pin: release * Pin-Priority: -1 Package: *systemd* Pin: release * Pin-Priority: -1 Package: systemd:i386 Pin: release * Pin-Priority: -1 Package: systemd:amd64 Pin: release * Pin-Priority: -1

After:

apt-get install sysvinit sysvinit-core sysvinit-utils

Reboot then:

apt-get purge systemd

There are a few edge cases, packages which require systemd, but I've been running thousands of systems including desktops this way for a decade.

Yes, I also run thousands of systems with systemd too.
by apetresc | 2025-07-23 20:43:34+00:00
Nobody is debating the usefulness of GPS versus a paper map. Obviously the paper map was worse. The point is precisely that because GPS is so much better than maps, we delegate all direction-finding to the GPS and completely lose our ability to navigate without it.

A 1990s driver without a map is probably a lot more capable of muddling their way to the destination than a 2020s driver without their GPS.

That's the right analogy. Whether you think it matters how well people can navigate without GPS in a world of ubiquitous phones (and, to bring the analogy back, how well people will be able to program without an LLM after a generation or two of ubiquitous AI) is, of course, a judgment call.
by readthenotes1 | 2025-07-23 20:43:40+00:00
Not a different person

"discovered she has a sizable interest in All U Chart, Inc., the company that holds the IP for ICEBlock"

I'm not sure what hen's employee contract reads.

There are some limitations on US government employees engaging in political action though (Hatch act).

Perhaps hen sent a text relating to All U during work hours?
by kjkjadksj | 2025-07-23 20:43:41+00:00
I feel its not nearly as useful as the old darksky api. The secret sauce of that software was that it combined typical weather data with local reports. Afaik there is no way to submit a weather report on the apple weather app. They bought it for the name and to kill a competing option essentially vs attempting to use what made that app actually compelling compared to other weather apps.
by SideQuark | 2025-07-23 20:43:54+00:00
> The statistic in the article compares average CEO pay to the median income

No, it compares the top 500 CEO pay out of 250k+ CEOs to all workers, which is as ludicrous and misleading as comparing the top 500 worker pay to all 250k CEOs and thinking this is the useful metric to rage about.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-07-23 20:44:43+00:00
ICE Speak:

- ICEBlock is an app that illegal aliens use to evade capture - while endangering the lives of ICE officers - by disclosing their location. - This DOJ will not tolerate threats against law enforcement or law enforcement officers."

Reality speak:

- ICEBlock is an app used by citizens who reasonably want to 1) be aware of what their government does 2) provide the only known oversight of ICE agents 3) avoid areas where risky, hostile militaristic patrols operate - The DOJ will not tolerate citizen empowerment that it does not expressly approve of. - This DOJ will disingenuously reframe any attempt at oversight of LEO as "a threat to law enforcement officers" and will freely deploy government resources as revenge against those citizens.
by appreciatorBus | 2025-07-23 20:44:52+00:00
If weather info is that valuable to so many private interests, wouldn't the public get a better deal by insisting that private interests pay market prices (to the public service provider) for that info?

We commonly assume that a publicly owned service serves the public good by giving away the service for free, but this assumes the public's only role is as passive consumer, whose sole interest is seeing the price as low as possible, if not $0

However the public is also the owner and as owners of the service, we are arguably being taking advantage of by private interests who take the free data, only to turn around and create private value with it.
by austin-cheney | 2025-07-23 20:45:37+00:00
If Gaza were a separate country then why would Israel restrict and regulate access to Gaza without an international embargo? For all practical considerations Gaza looks like a territory fully controlled by Israel. That begs the further question that if Gaza is controlled by Israel why is Israel so opposed to treating these people more equitably?

The reason this looks like some tribal/racial/dominance thing is because these questions and conditions apply almost equally to the West Bank. There is video evidence of multiple settler pogroms in the West Bank.

All of the rest of the world sees basically the same violent conclusions. The only people making excuses for it are some Israelis the rest of the world refers to as extremists.
by aqme28 | 2025-07-23 20:45:47+00:00
> Surveilling the police obviously enables crime, and in this case is specifically intended to enable crime.

Sure, some kinds of crime would be easier when we can track the police. However, crime caused by police is a real threat to people and they are right to be worried. We don't want a world where the people with the badge and the gun cannot be held accountable at all.
by zer00eyz | 2025-07-23 20:46:00+00:00
> First feed prices go up, No, thats not what the data says:

Corn: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPS012202

Soy: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSOYBUSDM

Both the major inputs to cattle feed are flat, and thats in the face of:

Fertilizer is up: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPU0652026A

Gas (delivered, by pipe, and were burning this off still so no reason for the price to go up this high) https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU000072620
by tptacek | 2025-07-23 20:46:38+00:00
We're just disagreeing and hashing this out, but, no, I don't think that's accurate. AI tools don't watch what human operators in a specific infrastructure do and then try to replicate them. They do things autonomously based on their own voluminous training information, and those things include lots of steps that humans are unlikely to take, and that are useful.

One intuitive way to think about this is that any human operator is prepared to bring a subset of investigative approaches to bear on a problem; they've had exposure to a tiny subset of all problems. Meanwhile, agents have exposure to a vast corpus of diagnostic case studies.

Further, agents can quickly operate on higher-order information: a human attempting to run down an anomaly first has to think about where to look for the anomaly, and then decide to do further investigation based on it. An AI agent can issue tool calls in parallel and quickly digest lots of information, spotting anomalies without any real intentionality or deliberation, which then get fed back into context where they're reasoned about naturally as if they were axioms available at the beginning of the incident.

As a simple example: you've got a corrupted DeviceMapper volume somewhere, you're on the host with it, all you know is you're seeing dmesg errors about it; you just dump a bunch of lvs/dmsetup output into a chat window. 5-10 seconds later the LLM is cross referencing lines and noticing block sizes aren't matching up. It just automatically (though lossily) spots stuff like this, in ways humans can't.

It's important to keep perspective: the value add here is that AI tools can quickly, by taking active diagnostic steps, surface several hypotheses about the cause of an incident. I'm not claiming they one-shot incidents, or that their hypotheses all tend to be good. Rather, it's just that if you're a skilled operator, having a menu of instantly generated hypotheses to start from, diligently documented, is well worth whatever the token cost is to generate it.
by rjh29 | 2025-07-23 20:47:16+00:00
With perl you just run $foo =~ /regex/ anywhere, you can also put that into an if condition or assign the results to a variable, you can use variables like $1 and $2 (the captures) immediately after, as they are global. You can use any choice of delimiter for the regex to improve readability (i.e. you don't have to use quotes, if your regex contains a lot of quotes).

So you can do while ($foo =~ /bar/) or even ($result) = $foo =~ /bar/.

Python has only raw strings and until recently you couldn't even do if ($regex) { ... } you had to assign the match to a variable and check it, causing lots of nested if/then blocks. It's just clunkier.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-23 20:47:17+00:00
Blockchain people have been trying variations of this for a decade. Any time you create a system that pays people for data, it will be exploited to the extreme.

I don’t think you need to incentivize people to provide weather data. Just make it easy to set up a station and get a lot of people interested. There are already hobby stations out there and networks for them.
by addaon | 2025-07-23 20:47:25+00:00
The other approach here is to provide access to the multiple implementations, documentation as to the (main) sensitivities for their performance, and let the caller do their own benchmarking to select the right one, based on the specific situations they care about. It's a bit of kicking the can down the road, but it's also a bit of allowing your customers (at least the ones who care) to get the best results possible.
by JohnFen | 2025-07-23 20:47:30+00:00
> But integrating is designing and building.

Kinda, but they're still very different activities even though they're related. Being relegated to a systems integration role is actually my biggest fear about how genAI may impact my job.

If I wanted to be a systems integrator, then I'd already have that job. To my ears, this article just used a lot of words to say that yes, genAI is going to kill my job.
by mattmanser | 2025-07-23 20:47:59+00:00
Those rewards are failing, so yes you can.

Your argument is just trickle down economics dressed up. But worse, we know that doesn't work. Not, we think. WE KNOW IT DOESN'T WORK.

In fact, once you realize it's just the same tired trickle down economics argument, then when you start asking why is growth stalling, why are living standards falling?

You can easily answer it. Because trickle down economics don't work.

Because too much value is being captured by a tiny minority, who use that capital poorly.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-07-23 20:48:21+00:00
Not currently using Zed but low input latency is one of the things that’s kept me on Sublime Text over the years. Might give Zed a shot and see how it stacks up.

The other two editors I use a lot are Xcode and Android Studio, and while the first is usually fine, Android Studio (IntelliJ) feels servicable but a touch sluggish in comparison. Given the popularity of JetBrains IDEs I’m a bit surprised that there’s not more demand from customers to make it more responsive.
by olyjohn | 2025-07-23 20:48:41+00:00
I wear one when I ride my motorcycle. Keeps my neck warm, and keeps the cold air off my face. And helps keep the dust off my face when I'm off road. And adds an extra layer of protection. They are also nice when you borrow someone else's helmet. The GoKart places near me give them out to help keep rental helmets from getting nasty.
by Projectiboga | 2025-07-23 20:48:42+00:00
This is for you and everyone reading, focus on making a friend first, not saying take it slow. If love blossoms great but if not maybe one of you two can meet someone via the friendship. I met my wife via a woman I met at a party. We went out a few times without any chemistry but I went to the beach w her and some friends and have been w my wife now 28 years. The rule for dating should be like camping "leave it (them) better than you found it (them)".
by benreesman | 2025-07-23 20:48:53+00:00
It's not out-of-the-box compatible with everything in the way that `proto3` is, but if dealing with the really atrocious performance and ergonomics of protobuf in C++ (among other targets) is bad enough to warrant going slightly off the beaten path, flatbuffers is still pretty mainstream. It's got bindings for the big languages and it's used IIRC in a bunch of the FAANG mobile clients, stuff like that.

Going a little further afield, `capnp` is cool. It's got a much nicer IDL and object model, but you start to get into where non-C++ bindings are "community maintained" in a pretty loose sense. I'm not sure how much sense it makes unless it really lands on your polyglot stack perfectly, because if you only need C++, zpp_bits is really ergonomic and approaches theoretical limits on performance along a number of dimensions.

I don't love any of the answers here.
by aaronbaugher | 2025-07-23 20:49:11+00:00
The immigration issue has been a crown lying in the gutter waiting for someone to pick it up ever since the 90s when the Clinton "It's the economy, stupid" Democrats teamed up with the Bush neocon Republicans to make corporate profits and Wall Street numbers their driving basis for economic policy. All the approved economists said making goods cheaper would make everyone richer, no matter how it happened, so they yelled "Smoot-Hawley hur hur" at everyone who disagreed, and invited the world.
by qualeed | 2025-07-23 20:49:36+00:00
>As a result, membership will never be open, and we will never have enough connected LANs to deal with the technical and social problems that start to happen with scale. This is a feature, not a bug.

>This is a call for you to do the same. Build your own LAN. Connect it with friends’ homes. Remember what is missing from your life, and fill it in. Use software you know how to operate and get it running. Build slowly. Build your community. Do it with joy.

From https://notes.pault.ag/tpl/
by toast0 | 2025-07-23 20:49:50+00:00
Tram tracks are a triping and cycling hazard. Leaving unused, presumably unmaintained tracks in your city for 70 years just in case has a cost.

Keeping unused right of ways open is challenging too. Adjacent properties will tend to encroach, and depending on specifics and local rules, may be able to claim the encroached property through adverse possession.
by Noumenon72 | 2025-07-23 20:49:50+00:00
I love these too. I have a run config checked into my repo that runs three run configs, for `fastapi dev`, npm start, and launching a JavaScript debugger, with one click. I also like clicking on a test or script and just hitting "ctrl+shift+d" to launch that particular code with the debugger.

VS Code can launch a fleet of dev containers but it's just not as good of an experience to restart and debug.
by reliabilityguy | 2025-07-23 20:50:06+00:00
> It's the norm that a genocides occur during wars. Are you going to be this obtuse through this whole comment?

The initial argument was that genocide and war are two distinct things. Saying “genocide normally happens during war” does not mean that every war leads to a genocide. If you are arguing that this is the case, then prove it.

> I don't pretend to understand the political calculations done by mass murderers, aspirant or otherwise. That said it's no secret that there's been a surge in right-wing politics all over the world. Perhaps 2024 was more amenable in the minds of those in charge than 2005 was. I don't know and am not particularly interested.

If you don’t want to understand why things happen, then it seems that this issue is like a religion to you.

> From the UN: https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition

Why did you omit the key word (intent) though?

> I mean there's also the bombed hospitals and piles of dead kids, the words of the IDF on the ground, rampant social media posts from Israeli's, if you don't strictly want to go by the words of Israel's leaders, the definition provided by the UN, the definition in common understanding... > Like, to be clear, whether you want to call it a genocide or simply an international power abusing it's close ties to the West to obliterate a neighbor with the express purpose of colonizing their land, I think that's pretty fucking bad too, and am equally opposed to it.

Can you show me a war without bombed hospitals and/or dead civilians?

Civilian infrastructure, if used for military purposes looses its protections during war. So, to claim that the hospital was bombed just for the sake of it, you would have to prove that there was no military activity whatsoever in it.

Yes, social media is like 100% reliable source. Did elections of 2016 thought you nothing?

> colonizing their land

Are you American? Non-white in Europe? Congrats, you are a colonizer!

Israelis at least may claim some sort of belonging to the land, you can’t.
by xt00 | 2025-07-23 20:50:11+00:00
Yea it is tricky for them -- the old model of "search, see google text / link ad, scroll, click website, scroll, see some ads on that page as well, done" will be replaced with "search, see google text / link ad, read AI result, 'and here are some relevant websites'" -- where all of the incentives there will be to "go into more depth" on the websites that are linked there.
by vgb2k18 | 2025-07-23 20:50:25+00:00
It's clear in the thread that a forum user worked for BT. What was unclear was whether the site still belonged to BT and whether the employee was given official or any clearance to retrieve the parts. There was no 'we' language, all 'I', which is unusual at best. For a company of BT's scale one would expect a small team for such a recovery.

I'm curious, where is it clear in the thread that he got permission?
by em-bee | 2025-07-23 20:51:11+00:00
the kernel requires swap (and its bugs) to be enabled for hibernation to work

this one gets me irritated every time i think about it. i don't want to use swap, but i do want hibernation. why is there no way to disable swap without that?

hmm, i suppose one could write a script that enables an inactive swap partition just before shutdown, and disables it again after boot.