MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by monkeycantype | 2025-07-22 22:41:10+00:00
I disagree, these are not anonymous people, but real work collegues that I enjoyed working with, who would love to be able to settle in Australia, and would make a great contribution to the country. Australia without post war migration would be a much duller place. The fact that companies use immigation as a lever against fair wages, doesn't mean that there are not also skills shortages in many areas. I don't think we should conflate that with the need to care for citizens, which I would rather we approach with fair tax systems, maybe some resource extraction royalties and using the increase tax income on vastly increased infrastructure and social spending.

Blaming immigrants instead of systematic explotation and inequality takes us down the disasterous Brexit path.
by apparent | 2025-07-22 22:42:20+00:00
Recently test drove a used EX90 PHEV. I was shocked at how rough the transition from electric to ICE was. The owner said he never drove it in all-electric mode, just in hybrid mode (so the ICE is on all the time). We liked other aspects of the vehicle, but once we saw the vehicle history from the dealer, we knew it'd be thousands of dollars every year or two for repairs.
by recipe19 | 2025-07-22 22:43:32+00:00
A CNC router with a work area suitable for typical woodworking projects is definitely not $300 - you're probably thinking about 3018 kits, but with 18 cm of travel, that's really not enough for the usual scale of woodworking projects. Not even enough for a typical cutting board.

A ready-made unit in "woodworking" size will likely set you back $2-$4k.
by muzani | 2025-07-22 22:43:34+00:00
They're placeholders for me. Not for everyone else. I can't write perfect code the first time. I may use hardcoded strings (instead of spending 20 mins uploading the string to localization). I may make a O(n^2) loop because I'm fixing another problem. If you find these TODO in a PR, you should call them out. Or I might be on a long vacation next week but I don't want to leave the branch out of sync for a long time and it works but is a little dirty.

In some other cases, they don't have to be done now. They're bottom priority. A hardcoded color that won't work with dark mode, but we have no plans to use dark mode, etc.
by theoreticalmal | 2025-07-22 22:44:06+00:00
I, for one, would love to know where the exact breakdown between “microwave a bagel” and “faster-than-light-travel” occurs such that it wouldn’t be possible. In certain situations, I could absolutely see myself saying “that’s a great question!”

Not everyone is the same, some questions are pertinent, or funny, or interesting to some people but not others
by kazinator | 2025-07-22 22:44:07+00:00
The author of the submitted paper writes that by positing that someone's post may have been AI generated, or could as well have been, you're oppressing disadvantaged groups, helping to keep them out of joining the knowledge worker class.

I.e. implying you should probably stop doing that, in the name of social justice.

That is absurdly woke, by any objective measure. The word woke is being used accurately.

By the way, for most people, it should be a compliment to have their writing compared to AI, because "AI could have written that" means that it the writing has good grammar and spelling, and usually makes some kind of coherent point.

I happen like the above article by Graham; it's very observant. I feel that he nails almost everything in it, and handles the subject in an different way from other authors.
by Marsymars | 2025-07-22 22:44:54+00:00
I’m actually scheduled for an install next Monday. Mine has two components:

1. The ventilation isn’t really “in the house” - the fan pulls from below the slab (and exhausts outside) to prevent radon seeping through. 2. Based on the best guess about my home age/area and radon patterns in my house, the slab was probably poured around the furnace, so the mitigation will include disassembling/reassembling my furnace to seal underneath.
by NegativeLatency | 2025-07-22 22:45:01+00:00
I don't think I'd spend 150k for a car, I imagine it would create a certain sense of entitlement, but he does sound pretty annoying.

It's just an order mess-up, but opening with stuff like: "Sent a formal complaint to Volvo Canada on January 16, requesting escalation to Managing Director Matt Girgis. Volvo Canada never confirmed this escalation." is a vibe.
by viharkurama | 2025-07-22 22:45:11+00:00
We already support this. We pack all our products in one single offering.

This includes Projects + Wiki. More here: https://docs.plane.so/core-concepts/pages/wiki

Here's a blog on how you can switch between products within Plane, https://plane.so/blog/introducing-apprail-plane-new-navigati...
by j-pb | 2025-07-22 22:45:58+00:00
Yes but one with a much much much smaller impact as we just demonstrated.

This is exactly the kind of cognitive dissonance in people that I meant.

You literally see the math and go "but I like my meat, why should I give that up if you got your AI".

Because, as I just demonstrated, my AI takes a infinitesimal fraction of your meat.

It literally takes you only going vegan for a day to offset your entire AI usage of a year.
by irrational | 2025-07-22 22:46:54+00:00
Drill a 6” hole through the concrete foundation and dig out about 15-20 gallons worth of material. Install a 3-4” PVC pipe into the hole (the end of the pipe should be a few inches below the bottom of the foundation) and seal the hole up with hydraulic cement. Continue the PVC pipe up out out of the house. There are lots of rules around distance of the outlet from windows and doors and how high above roof line. Inline install a radon fan. How big a fan you need depends on many factors like soil type, home dimensions, etc. The fan runs 24/7 creating a vacuum under the house.
by bdhcuidbebe | 2025-07-22 22:47:09+00:00
Interesting. I made my comment after visiting their repo and website. Didnt see a pixel worth of the mozilla brand there, hence my comment.

On a second visit I notice a link to mozilla.org on their footer.

Still doesent ring official by me from being a veteran mozilla user (netscape, mdn, firefox) but ok, thanks for the explanation.
by SllX | 2025-07-22 22:47:13+00:00
We’re the ones seeking to cap our contributions. The formula currently doesn’t allow for any one country to pay more than 22% with America the only one actually paying that much, save for the institutions we’ve cut off. For UN peacekeeping we’re actually assessed at 27% but Congress capped that to 25% back in 1993.

https://betterworldcampaign.org/us-funding-for-the-un/un-bud...

If any other country wants to step in and fill the gap, I don’t think Congress will care.
by butlike | 2025-07-22 22:48:10+00:00
I was on board until I realized there can be an infinite number of "nodes" (as defined in the post) between one another. The idea of destabilization/destruction of ideas works in the macro examples defined in the post, but may not be effective in practice, where the amount of major nodes between one idea and the next is opaque.

Any mapping of the destruction of one idea node in hindsight will suffer survivorship bias with the mapping seemingly sublimely simple. Hindsight is, as they say, always 20/20.
by echelon | 2025-07-22 22:48:15+00:00
Our org used Jira on-prem for 2k engineers and 3k additional staff and it was slow as molasses.

The dialogues and context menus took forever to show and page navigation was beyond painful.

We had dedicated engineering for maintaining our Jira and Bitbucket, and they still fell over. We eventually moved back to GitHub. (Our usage went from GitHub on-prem pre-MS -> Bitbucket on-prem -> GitHub cloud post-MS.)

I hate Jira regardless of where it's deployed. It's a beast.
by vspuzzler | 2025-07-22 22:48:17+00:00
Ever been in deep focus, only to break it by Googling one small thing?

You’re not alone — and the cost is way higher than you’d think.

It takes 23 minutes and 15 seconds to regain deep focus after a context switch (UC Irvine).

Frequent tab/app switching can reduce productivity by up to 40% (APA).

Each tool switch adds an average of 9.5 minutes of lost time per hour (Qatalog + Cornell).

And yet… every time we have a question or want to draft an email, we switch tabs. To ChatGPT. To Google. To some other tool that breaks the flow.

That’s why we built Wagoo.ai, an AI desktop assistant that sees what’s on your screen and helps in context, without making you switch apps.

Reading a contract? Ask Wagoo to summarize it.

Writing an email? Ask Wagoo to draft a reply based on what you’re looking at.

Stuck on a report? Ask for help without ever leaving the doc.

Need to search something up? Just include the keyword search in your question.

It works locally, even offline, so your data stays private, and your flow stays uninterrupted.

If you hate breaking focus as much as we do, give it a try.
by stonogo | 2025-07-22 22:48:30+00:00
I was never sold on those shifters either. Mechanically indexed shifting in general never really was fantastic enough to justify all the additional finicky fine-tuning required for it to work well. But electric shifting is a whole separate ballpark; it's self-adjusting, prevents cross-chaining, etc. It's set and forget except charging it every few weeks.

It's like the difference between carburetors and modern fuel injection. Some people like to spend all their time playing with jets; I'd rather be driving the car.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-07-22 22:48:57+00:00
There are exceptions: (Protools, Solidworks) but I think that most of the time the best of breed ends up being built by its users, not as a product for sale to some users (VLC, Blender, Pandas, ...). Not to mention all of that software that just doesn't make sense as a product to begin with (Linux, TCP, Kubernetes...).

Focusing on software products, rather than on whatever the actual job is, creates a mountain of distractions related to marketing and billing and shareholder fluffing such that we'd have a lot more talent to apply if we stopped playing games with moats and applied ourselves instead to, you know, the tangible things that need to get done. We're on an increasingly inefficient path here, it seems like the available work gets less meaningful each year.

As for fragmenting the expertise pool... I'm not sure which represents more fragmentation:

- specialist users, together with their associated tool specialists (a.k.a. software engineers) such that the software folk are separated from each other

- tool specialists separated from the people who need those tools, such that the software folk are together

One group is split, but the other is unified, seems like more or less a wash to me. Or it did, pre-LLM. But now that AI is rather applicable to software problems I think it makes more sense to use it as a bridge between the software engineering diaspora such that they're as close as possible to their users (if not just being the users themselves).

Ask anybody who is not a software person: software people end up increasingly disconnected from reality the more time they spend in the company of other software people. It's why we have this: https://xkcd.com/2030/. We're better of helping the others, not helping each other.
by int_19h | 2025-07-22 22:49:21+00:00
Interestingly, there's no reason for this to be the case on Windows given that it does, in fact, have a separate command (`ren`) which only renames files without moving. Indeed, `ren` has been around since DOS 1.0, while `move` was only added in DOS 6.

Unfortunately, for whatever reason, Microsoft decided to make `move` also do renames, effectively subsuming the `ren` command.
by bigcat12345678 | 2025-07-22 22:49:35+00:00
Wow!!! You are not contributing to this discussion whatsoever!

+1 for me to quit posting on hn

This type of word spinning is distasteful, and more importantly, it's a sign of significantly weaker mind capacity than past level I recall joined hn 10ish years ago.

The first thing you should be doing, is to read the link, fire up AI deep research with some neutrally toned question to gather information.

The reason hn drew me in, was people actually always aim for contributing to the discussion constructively. That's not the norm nowadays.
by Expurple | 2025-07-22 22:49:40+00:00
Perhaps you'll find MPL 2.0 less complex and more "in the spirit of the LGPL":

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/msjil9/opinions_on_th...

https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/msjk93/licensin...

https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1g2sprd/could_a...

Although that won't help you with GEOS, which is already licensed as LGPL-only.
by maxglute | 2025-07-22 22:49:51+00:00
>slow escalation

That's probably how it plays out if it plays out (also imo unlikely). But also mere existence of capabilities like PRC PGS will force parties to recalibrate response matrix. It would also be true to say ANY US strike on PRC mainland via any delivery platform, boats/planes/subs at scale will invite immediate retaliatory MAD response... after all essentially every US delivery platform is dual capable, i.e. can be nuclear tipped -> warhead ambiguity problem. How would PRC know otherwise? Except rational actors (maybe lol expectations) from both sides knows adversary capable of conventional homeland strikes will have to adjust response accordingly. This means in world where PRC can strike CONUS at scale, US likely has to settle for launch on confirmation, just like PRC has to deal with US striking mainland at scale. That's why assured second strike via triad exists (really SSGN for US, rocketforce TELs in tunnels for PRC). But until shooting actually starts, GD doesn't need to be trusted, it just needs to exist to placate domestic audience or confuse adversaries.
by miki123211 | 2025-07-22 22:50:04+00:00
HLS feels like the best format to actually embed effective watermarks in.

With a traditional "large-file" video format, this is non-trivial, as you need to reencode (or at least remux) the entire video for each user. This is not only computationally intensive, it also prevents you from hosting your videos on a CDN, increasing bandwidth costs.

With a segmented format like HLS, you can just embed the watermark in a few key segments, leaving the rest of the video intact. As long as the user can't distinguish between watermarked and non-watermarked segments, you get most of the benefit at a much lower cost. Crucially, you can keep serving the non-watermarked segments off a CDN.

This makes me wonder whether there are "segment-native" watermarking algorithms. The idea would be to pre-encode each segment multiple times, with each file containing a different watermark. A random variant of each segment would be chosen for each download, with the IDs of the chosen variants saved in a database. THe security of such an algorithm would rely on the combinatorial explosion resulting from the number of allowed variant combinations. For example, with just 3 variants per segment, 15 segments would give you 59 million distinct watermarks.
by pxc | 2025-07-22 22:51:30+00:00
> Qwen3-Coder is available in multiple sizes, but we’re excited to introduce its most powerful variant first

I'm most excited for the smaller sizes because I'm interested in locally-runnable models that can sometimes write passable code, and I think we're getting close. But since for the foreseeable future, I'll probably sometimes want to "call in" a bigger model that I can't realistically or affordably host on my own computer, I love having the option of high-quality open-weight models for this, and I also like the idea of "paying in" for the smaller open-weight models I play around with by renting access to their larger counterparts.

Congrats to the Qwen team on this release! I'm excited to try it out.
by JohnPDickerson | 2025-07-22 22:52:05+00:00
Common question, thanks for asking! We’re a public benefit corporation focused on democratizing access to AI tech, on enabling non-AI experts to benefit from and control their own AI tools, and on empowering the open source AI ecosystem. Our majority shareholder is the Mozilla Foundation - the other shareholders being our employees, soon :). As access to knowledge and people shifts due to AI, we’re working to make sure people retain choice, ownership, privacy, and dignity.

We're very small compared to the Mozilla mothership, but moving quickly to support open source AI in any way we can.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-07-22 22:52:12+00:00
Apparently writing reliable software is harder and more expensive than legacy car makers expected. VW finally figured this out and is paying Rivian $5billion to write their software, but AFAICT no other legacy car maker has accepted that software is kind of important in modern cars and not just a showroom afterthought like it was 10 years ago when car buyers routinely ignored the stupid screen in the dash and just used their phones for everything.

That crap won't cut it with EVs.
by soganess | 2025-07-22 22:52:43+00:00
Agreed! Which stinks, because it seems fun, if a bit boring aesthetically.

If Tesla were still seen as culturally aspirational (or optimistic) like turn‑of‑the‑millennium Sony was[1,2,3], a retro‑futurist space serving primarily as a PR campaign could attract both better press and loads of visitors. Even though the Metreon project ultimately failed financially[4], people initially came in the millions because they wanted to experience Sony’s vision of the future[5,6]. Tesla’s inability to generate even a modicum of enthusiasm (instead sparking ridicule) is telling; sure the company’s goodwill has eroded, but more importantly so has its social cachet[7]. Said another way: people are no longer interested in inhabiting a future envisioned by Tesla/Elon.

[1] https://youtu.be/i3-3dvgYt7c?feature=shared&t=129

[2] https://youtu.be/1iijVmH74jc?feature=shared

[3] https://www.wired.com/1999/06/metreon-the-entertainment-mall

[4] https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/sony-rethinking-oper...

[5] https://sophiasmith.medium.com/the-original-sony-metreon-was...

[6] https://www.sfchronicle.com/oursf/article/Requiem-for-Sony-M...

[7] https://www.emerging-strategy.com/how-elon-musks-politics-ar...
by tzs | 2025-07-22 22:53:49+00:00
I don't see any mention of this on their site, but they probably could not have picked a location with better symbolism.

It's on what was once part of the historic US Route 66, one of the most famous and important motorways in US history. It was often called the "Main Street of America" or "The Mother Road".

During the Dust Bowl in the '30s it carried hundreds of thousands of people migrated westward to escape the devastation from the drought. It connected rural and urban communities from Chicago to Los Angeles, helping small towns thrive by bringing commerce and tourists.

The need to provide services to all those people led to the creation of many roadside attractions and businesses, which was the birth of the American roadside culture with quirky attractions, motels, diners, and a spirit of adventure and road tripping. McDonalds started next to it.

It became a symbol of mobility and freedom. It's been featured in song and film.

The Tesla diner is just the sort of kind of odd thing that would have been right at home on Route 66.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-07-22 22:54:23+00:00
The numbers aren't even relevant as he's obsessing about flows tracked across borders. An awful lot of what the US exports is services and data, not things, and doesn't show up.

Look at that research base that got targeted. Imports: what the scientists need. Exports: science. The latter doesn't show up, it looked like it was hugely "out of balance" despite the only inhabitants being penguins.

In the real world, something's being exported even if you're not tracking it. If there was a large, continuing imbalance the relative values of the currencies would change.
by jerlam | 2025-07-22 22:54:55+00:00
I had one of the first newly redesigned Volvos after the Ford acquisition, an S80 T6, either the first or second year released in the US. It was a fantastic car - extremely comfortable, fast, and analog controls for everything.

After five or six years it spent more time being repaired than not, and I sold it. It was one of the few times where having an extended warranty paid off. Haven't really considered a Volvo since.
by deathanatos | 2025-07-22 22:55:19+00:00
This looks like a very typical audio recording UI element. The bars are animated to the volume of the recorded audio. Helps the user see that the application is picking up their mic.

It's a digital analog of a VU meter on a mixing console, though the UI has morphed over time. (Like that the lines vertically centered, vs. being on aligned bottom like you might see on a real-world meter.)
by exiguus | 2025-07-22 22:55:34+00:00
Besides its clean and simple appearance, I appreciate the fact that it uses very clean and modern CSS with rules like @layer or @import. This demonstrates that it is possible to use only CSS (without SASS or other preprocessors) to maintain well-structured code [1].

Another interesting part is the license. I had never considered Disallowed Uses before [2].

[1] https://github.com/cferdinandi/kelp/blob/main/css/kelp.css

[2] https://github.com/cferdinandi/kelp/blob/main/LICENSE.md
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-07-22 22:57:33+00:00
> I don't think this is possible. I think it's better to pursue a world where violence is unnecessary and aberrant.

I didn't say it was possible. I said it's worth striving for, and then you stated the same thing with different words. We agree.

Ah so you think societies that did public hangings tended to have a strong and reasonable sense of justice.

You are wrong.

Justice in the sense of "punishing people who are legitimately antisocial" tends to yield less indulgent punishments because they recognize that true justice must be dealt cold and with solemnity.

Or do you think it's only a coincidence that the most abhorrent justice systems on the planet do public executions and "civilized" justice systems do not?
by Pi9h | 2025-07-22 22:57:38+00:00
I am also building https://docmost.com, a self-hostable Confluence alternative that can run fully air-gapped.

It has support for spaces, real-time collaboration, a rich-text editor, built-in diagrams support and more.

We launched on HN 1 year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40832146
by bsder | 2025-07-22 22:58:00+00:00
> Ignoring the strawman at the end

Oh, no. You don't get to ignore my actual experience with people and Covid vaccines. I watched 3 different anti-vaxxers in my family die begging for a vaccine while doctors struggled to save their dumb asses (yeah, mass spreading event).

> it can never be proven that vaccines don't harm us.

That's your job to prove, Mr. Skeptical. Not mine.

I very much can prove that not getting a vaccine does harm you. I've got a handful of measles deaths to point to right now. We've got step function decreases in reproductive cancers due to HPV vaccination. We've got shingles vaccines showing decreases in dementia and Alzheimers. I can go on and on.

It's up to YOU to show the contrary that the harm a vaccine does outweighs it's benefits.

People don't seem to get that "being skeptical" is simply the first step. After that, you are required to begin the hard work of massing factual evidence as well as cause/effect relationships for your argument.

Otherwise you are simply "obviously irrational and can't be reasoned with".

> I say this as a fully vaccinated (including COVID) vaccine enjoyer.

"I'm not racist, but ..."

Sorry. Statement gives you no credibility or authority.