MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rdtsc | 2025-07-01 04:11:13+00:00
It's surprising how hostile youtube is to multilingual users. Probably all in some attempt to show off their translation capability or to improve the experience for users who may want to access content in a language they don't speak? Or it's just as dumb as this was on some product managers "designed and implemented" line to get promoted?

But, surely someone sane there has to realize there is a large number of users out there who speak more than one language, and don't need Google do "help" them or "guess" for what language they like more.
by callc | 2025-07-01 04:11:46+00:00
> Why should I be forced to open up the carefully designed ecosystem I’ve built?

I think general purpose computing devices should be open.

This is a moralistic argument, putting legal and business reasons to the side.

Go ahead and lock down specific purpose computing devices, like ATMs, fridge, mouse firmware.

The practice of setting up fiefdoms to become the landlord is an abhorrent practice.
by Jcampuzano2 | 2025-07-01 04:14:10+00:00
I feel like its profoundly American to assume everyone wants to see everything in one language.

I regularly consume content in two languages, my partner 3, and many of my friends are in the same boat. Please either allow me to just blacklist languages to not translate automatically or always keep content in the original language but allow changing after engaging with it. Its insane that this requires an extension for a company with as much resources as google.

The translations of video titles are absolutely atrocious and rarely mean anything near the intent of the original title.
by tucson-josh | 2025-07-01 04:14:27+00:00
I'm not the OP here, but I did write the blog post. I have mixed thoughts on how much should be part of std. I think that what we're seeing is a class of library where we could see a new level introduced to open languages like rust that sits somewhere above std, but is maintained and blessed by a broader group than just the nebulous community. Rust's separation of std from no-std is a good example of tiers that I think we could see evolve. Another example in the same category as clap would be serde and some of the specific serde implementations like serde-yaml that is now in a really painful unmaintained/forked status. Maybe these are things to push for more broadly in the rust community.
by root_axis | 2025-07-01 04:15:07+00:00
I don't see the usefulness of drawing a comparison to a human. "Context" in this sense is a technical term with a clear meaning. The anthropomorphization doesn't enlighten our understanding of the LLM in any way.

Of course, that comment was just one trivial example, this trope is present in every thread about LLMs. Inevitably, someone trots out a line like "well humans do the same thing" or "humans work the same way" or "humans can't do that either". It's a reflexive platitude most often deployed as a thought-terminating cliche.
by dyauspitr | 2025-07-01 04:15:58+00:00
You can definitely get fried on cannabis but you have to do it a lot, like multiple times a week for a while. In my mid twenties I smoked all day everyday for years and in my case it definitely left me paranoid and agoraphobic. That was more than a decade ago and I haven’t really smoked much pot since then (maybe once a year) and you end up making a full recovery after about 6 months to a year of no usage.
by atyvr | 2025-07-01 04:16:52+00:00
Really thoughtful take. That exact gap: bridging identity-aware tunneling (like WireGuard) with protocol-aware proxy decisions is exactly what we set out to solve with Border0.

We pair WireGuard-style tunnels with real-time identity (sso, device, group context) and protocol aware proxies for SSH, RDP, HTTP, psql, Mysql, mssql, ES, and Kubernetes. Our policy engine lets you write rules like “only the DBA group can run DELETEs in Prod” or “Support can exec into this pod,” and we log every query, command, or request, all tied back to the user and device.

Think of it as combining the modern VPN experience of Tailscale with the deep authZ and observability of Teleport. I call it VPN plus PAM. Would love your thoughts if you give it a look.

Quick 2-minute overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU7QixSqnSM&t=3s

https://www.border0.com/
by zzo38computer | 2025-07-01 04:17:29+00:00
> There’s only one encoding I choose to acknowledge, which is DER (the Distinguished Encoding Representation, it’s got a monocle and tophat).

I also prefer to use DER, because it is better than BER and CER. DER is actually a subset of BER but BER has some messiness which is avoided by DER; because there are not as any ways to encode data by DER this makes it simpler to handle.

DER is also the format used by X.509 certificates, so this is fortunate; however, I use DER for other stuff too (since I think it is generally better than XML, JSON, CSV, etc).

I wrote a library in C to serialize and deserialize DER.
by rTX5CMRXIfFG | 2025-07-01 04:17:41+00:00
So then for code generation purposes, how is “context engineering” different now from writing technical specs? Providing the LLMs the “right amount of information” means writing specs that cover all states and edge cases. Providing the information “at the right time” means writing composable tech specs that can be interlinked with each other so that you can prompt the LLM with just the specs for the task at hand.
by mindcrime | 2025-07-01 04:18:18+00:00
> The solution here shouldn't be technical; it should be legal.

I expect more than a few commenters here will disagree with you. Some rather vehemently.

To those that do so, I'd encourage you to read the novel Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow. While it's fiction, in the book, Doctorow makes a pretty compelling argument for the notion that when it comes to privacy, we can't win by "out tech'ing" the governments and corporations. We're simply too heavily out-resourced. If I'm interpreting his message correctly, he is saying basically what Josho is saying here: that we have to use the political/legal system to get the privacy protections that we care about enshrined into law and properly enforced.

Now, is that going to be easy? Hell no. But after reading the book I was largely sold on the idea, FWIW. That said, the two approaches aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. But I do believe that those of us who care about privacy should focus more on using our (knowledge|skills|resources) to try to foster change through politics, than on trying to beat "them" with better tech.

YMMV, of course. But if you haven't read the book, at least consider giving it a shot. Probably Doctorow makes the argument better than I can.
by csnover | 2025-07-01 04:19:48+00:00
In my opinion, clap is a textbook example of over-engineering for a single metric (UX) at the expense of all other considerations (compilation speed, runtime cost, binary size, auditability, and maintainability). It is an 18kloc command-line parser with an additional 125kloc of dependencies that takes nearly 6 seconds to compile (‘only’ 400ms for an incremental build) and which adds nearly 690KiB to an optimised release binary (‘only’ 430KiB if you strip out most of the sugar that only clap provides).

There are many other command-line parsers to choose from that do all the key things that clap does, with half or less the build cost, and most of them with 30x less binary overhead[0]. argh is under 4kloc. gumdrop is under 2kloc. pico-args is under 700loc. What is the value of that extra 10kloc? A 10% better parser?

I am not saying there is no room for a library like clap—it is, at least, a triumphant clown car of features that can handle practically any edge-case anyone ever thought of—but if I got a nickel every time I spent 15 minutes replacing a trivial use of clap with pico-args and thus reduced the binary size and compile time of some project by at least 80%, I would have at least three nickels.

Just to try to pre-empt arguments like “disk space is cheap”, “compiler time is cheaper than human time”, etc.: there are no golden bullets in engineering, only trade-offs. Why would you default to the biggest, slowest option? This is the “every web site must be able to scale like Facebook” type logic. You don’t even have to do more work to use argh or gumdrop. If clap ends up having some magic feature that no other parser has that you absolutely need, you can switch, but I’ve yet to ever encounter such a thing. Its inertia and popularity carry it forward, but it is perhaps the last choice you should pick for a new project—not the first.

[0] https://github.com/rosetta-rs/argparse-rosetta-rs
by Tomte | 2025-07-01 04:20:25+00:00
I‘m German, watching a German creator in a German-language recording.

Only that YouTube decides to use their Mickey Mouse sounding AI voice to deliver an English audio track. Not every time, but at least a third of the time. I have to hunt for the audio setting each time, because you cannot turn off AI voices permanently.

Tell me again how I‘m wrong.
by dcow | 2025-07-01 04:20:51+00:00
It would be nice if you could argue, “well, just be a good site and don’t use marketing cookies”, but the ePrivacy Directive requires consent for performance and preference cookies too. Perhaps a liberal reading arguably allows classification of certain statistics and preferences functions to be strictly necessary, like “I wouldn’t provide this service without crash reporting because I’d go insane so it’s strictly necessary”, but most lawyers would be ill before advising as much.

https://gdpr.eu/cookies/
by jrflowers | 2025-07-01 04:22:21+00:00
> i think there are a lot of folks who would be willing to have a 27% discount (allow for ~3% card processing fee) and forego those features.

This makes sense because companies are used to making 70%, so obviously when given the choice to make 30% more overnight they will simply lower prices to avoid having to deal with all that extra revenue
by hks0 | 2025-07-01 04:22:29+00:00
Can't Apple say in this case "I'm selling you this package under the condition that you accept you don't fully own it, and if you're not happy with that, don't buy it".

I don't like this hypothetical (or maybe real) argument from Apple, but can't answer it either.

Update; well, here's the answer to that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44427725
by defrost | 2025-07-01 04:22:43+00:00
Largely what josephg said, with of a strong dash of the US holds a great deal of responsibility for the current state of the climate by virtue of being the country that globally led the world in CO2 emmissions from the early days, the country that outsourced it's emmissions to China, the country that leads in per capita consumption, a country that has led the world in climate change denial, and the country of origin of many of the companies that influence the Australian government and extract oil and gas about the Australian coast.

The UK, the US, AU, and others have long cross outsourced spying on citizens for the hand washing aspects, US private companies are responsible for a hefty load of that and happily sell their privacy invasion summaries to US and other intelligence services.
by rajkumarsekar | 2025-07-01 04:24:31+00:00
I think the hardest skills for AI to replace will be those that require human trust, emotional intelligence, and real-time physical adaptability.

For example, Conflict resolution, therapy, and coaching depend on nuance, empathy, and trust.

Skilled trades like plumbing, electrical work, or HVAC repair, Auto mechanics, Elevator technicians.

Roles like physical presence plus knowledge Emergency responders (firefighters, EMTs), Disaster relief coordinators.
by karmakaze | 2025-07-01 04:25:26+00:00
On Firefox with an old webapp that works well enough for me.

It shows one days' worth of top items reverse-chronologically--click date header for yesterday's.

This avoids mixing old and new stories, lowering dopamine finding new ones.

- https://hackerer.news/

- https://gitlab.com/karmakaze/hackerer-news
by simonw | 2025-07-01 04:27:31+00:00
I'm not sure how you ended up on that page... my comment above links to https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/27/context-engineering/

The "Read large enough context to ensure you get what you need" quote is from a different post entirely, this one: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/30/vscode-copilot-chat/

That's part of the system prompts used by the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code - from this line: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat/blob/40d039...

The full line is:

When using the {ToolName.ReadFile} tool, prefer reading a large section over calling the {ToolName.ReadFile} tool many times in sequence. You can also think of all the pieces you may be interested in and read them in parallel. Read large enough context to ensure you get what you need.

That's a hint to the tool-calling LLM that it should attempt to guess which area of the file is most likely to include the code that it needs to review.

It makes more sense if you look at the definition of the ReadFile tool:

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat/blob/40d039...

description: 'Read the contents of a file. Line numbers are 1-indexed. This tool will truncate its output at 2000 lines and may be called repeatedly with offset and limit parameters to read larger files in chunks.'

The tool takes three arguments: filePath, offset and limit.
by ninjin | 2025-07-01 04:28:58+00:00
There is this whole "It is not a proper meal unless there is a bowl of rice" kind of thinking. So you get rice with the potatoes that come with your Nikujaga, the mashed potatoes, steak and fried potatoes, etc. But then there is that completely arbitrary line that you do not get a bowl of rice with your noodles (unless it is for dunking into the leftover soup of your Ramen or Tsukemen), pasta, burger, etc.

I love Japanese food culture to bits, but figuring out when a bowl of rice is vital for a meal to even be considered a meal and when it is not is still a mystery to me after observing my wife and in-laws for more than a decade. Having been taught the "food pyramid" [1] line of thinking as a child, it just makes no sense to this gaijin how we can not substitute one source of carbohydrates with another, but I suppose that is what culture is for you.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_Guide_Pyramid
by zzo38computer | 2025-07-01 04:29:30+00:00
If cookies are only used for preferences functions, then I should expect that it should only require to mention the cookies in the preferences menu (I hope)? If they have a document to explain each cookie by name, then it would also be helpful, that you can enable/disable them individiaully (or make them read-only) by the browser settings. However, for some things such as languages there are other ways to do without using cookies, such as Accept-Language header for languages, although cookies could be used to override the Accept-Language header in case both are present in the request.
by thisislife2 | 2025-07-01 04:29:36+00:00
I partly agree with you - but then you as a consumer should also be willing to expect variable pricing in such cases. If I as a developer offer a subscription for $10, and Apple demands $3 from it, while other payment providers only want $1 or $2 commissions, I should be able to tell you (the consumer) this information transparently and should be able to give you the options to choose between these different payment service providers. (Note that while you, as a paying customer, are an important part of the ecosystem, we developers too add value to the platform by developing apps that people like you want to use. That Apple seeks to exploit both you and me, should piss you off too. After all, one of us has to absorb the higher cost of Apple's services, and that often ends up being you, the consumer.)
by cassonmars | 2025-07-01 04:34:52+00:00
The backup is secured with "a strong key", implying that all PFS guarantees go out the window regardless of the PFS algorithm used to send the messages in the first place. Signal had great guarantees by how they both enforced a single client and was limited largely to screenshots as backups, now you'll never know if the person you're talking to has a full backup in the cloud, with metadata to match the actual conversation times, destroying the repudiability (i.e. plausible deniability) feature.
by dinfinity | 2025-07-01 04:37:05+00:00
GP asked for causal rather than correlational links for non-diabetics, which I provided.

But you are right that a lot of the health problems are caused through obesity; I will not deny that.

The thing with gulping down butter is that almost nobody does that, because it quickly leads to satiety and does not trigger the desire to eat (or drink) more.
by tomhow | 2025-07-01 04:37:18+00:00
> I think your comment is absurd

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by birn559 | 2025-07-01 04:37:38+00:00
Do people have to pay when they call the police? Do people avoid reporting a crime because it's too costly? So people have to do fundraising because they can't afford the police to investigate a crime that happened to them?

That's what the US healthcare looks like from outside. "Paying for calling the police? Don't be stupid, dear!" Yes, exactly.
by jwrallie | 2025-07-01 04:37:39+00:00
Very interesting, your readme.md would benefit from a pic of it running on the system and showing something in Japanese!

I always thought of a similar system for a jailbroken Kindle, I really like the idea of spaced repetition on the go in a device that is not a phone full of distractions.

I could see it working nicely with physical buttons on your device too, maybe you could do some gamifying scores to match its vibe.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-07-01 04:38:02+00:00
Even expecting parents to buy the car for their kid is kinda weird to me really

I had to get my own job and save to buy my own first car. It was 2k

If it had been 10k it would have taken forever to afford on part time minimum wage

My parents definitely did not have a spare 10k laying around to buy me a car. And if a family has more than one child, then what?
by vel0city | 2025-07-01 04:38:28+00:00
> The error in this is in assuming the analogs have equivalent reliability

The majority of my comment points out how the equivalent analoge on the pure ICE is massively less reliable than the hybrid. Who is ignoring the reliability of the different components here again?

Sure, there is a HV and a LV battery. They're both solid state devices and thus generally pretty reliable when it comes to cars. The LV battery faces far less wear. The overall system is considerably more reliable in the hybrid than the same in the ICE. It's near impossible to generally talk about the prices of something like the HV battery, it varies greatly based on what models you're talking about. One car might have a replacement used battery that's good for many years be $700, another might be extremely bespoke and rare and be $10k. If I were to judge prices of pure ICE transmissions based on extremely rare hyper cars I might say an ICE transmission replacement costs $20k or more. The details matter greatly when judging TCO on potentially low market cars.
by weinzierl | 2025-07-01 04:39:08+00:00
I only love it when their Mickey Mouse sounding AI voice turns ads into a real clown show.

Imagine how they spent big money developing a slogan for their brand or product and then AI comes around with a near literal translation that makes no sense whatsoever and that is what people hear.

That is the only positive side, otherwise it is what you wrote. A real pain.
by ffsm8 | 2025-07-01 04:40:06+00:00
Yeah, if anything it should be called an art.

The term engineering makes little sense in this context, but really... Did it make sense for eg "QA Engineer" and all the other jobs we tacked it on, too? I don't think so, so it's kinda arguing after we've been misusing the term for well over 10 yrs
by throwaway290 | 2025-07-01 04:40:25+00:00
Not complicated

- Flat earth support = doubt for science is higher among extreme right. So maybe they do not care about the fake astronomy field with its "asteroids", even if they are real when they fall on your head

- In US demographic on the right is older than left and anything concerning distant future is less important if you are not going to live for too long.

Vote democrat I guess the point?)
by ThatPlayer | 2025-07-01 04:40:42+00:00
> It's the same phones for sale in the US or in Thailand.

They actually aren't. US iPhones no longer have SIM card slots. Most international phones don't support the same radio bands that US carriers use. This used to be a bigger issue with CDMA, but still an issue with the many 4G/5G bands and VoLTE. That'll be most Xiaomi and Oppo phones in the US. And there's Huawei phones that are banned and not allowed on US carriers; so it makes zero sense to include them into any marketshare calculations for a US consumer.

So even an iPhone 16 Pro has different models: A3293 (International) A3083 (USA) A3292 (Middle East, Canada, Mexico) and A3294 (China, Hong Kong). The A3293 and the A3294 do not support T-mobile's 5G band 71. This isn't uncommon, and Samsung will do similar international vs US models. Samsung is even worse sometimes, having completely different CPUs between regions.

And of course there's software differences too. Chinese iPhones can disable internet permissions for individual apps but not anyone else for some reason. Google Pixel's Gemini isn't available in EU countries. Apple Intelligence did similarly at launch.

While local marketshare isn't the perfect indicator, it's definitely better than using global marketshare.
by snuxoll | 2025-07-01 04:42:37+00:00
I guess I should clarify, the unibody design makes it cheaper to do this in a compact design, given the extra material you would need to protect modern LiFePO4 cells from physical damage compared to the SLA batteries the EV Ranger and EV S-10 both used (which could pretty much take a bullet and not end up with a volatile reaction), as well as space efficiency with packing the cells.

The F-150 Lightning is body-on-frame, so I know it's entirely feasible, but the same reasons Ford went with a unibody for the Maverick are probably doubly relevant for something like the Slate (cost and weight). I'm going to quietly hope they succeed with this and somebody (Slate or otherwise) makes a proper compact EV pickup designed to get dirty. If not, maybe the market for EV conversion kits will further develop and I'll just yank the V6 out of my Ranger and slap an electric drivetrain in it.
by dcow | 2025-07-01 04:44:17+00:00
> Companies that monetize user data in exchange for “free” services that abuse your privacy aren’t affected by this [the app store tax], as they don’t process payments through the App Store. However, privacy-first companies that monetize through subscriptions are disproportionately hit by this fee, putting a major barrier toward the adoption of privacy-first business models.

Huh. I’ve never seen it framed this way and it might be the most compelling argument I’ve heard to date. It’s not simply a debate about whether a company should be allowed to be vertically integrated in isolation, but whether that vertical integration allows them to exert unfair distorting pressure on the free markets we are trying to protect.
by petesergeant | 2025-07-01 04:44:30+00:00
> They took 1970s dead tech and deployed it on machines 1 million times more powerful. I’m not sure I’d qualify this as progress

If this isn’t meant to be sarcasm or irony, you’ve got some really exciting research and learning ahead of you! At the moment it reads very “computers are just addition and multiplication and we’ve had that for thousands of years!”