MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krapp | 2025-08-20 17:58:32+00:00
>do we trust that American food corporations would never knowingly ship unhealthy meat?

We know for a fact that many American businesses knowingly allow faulty and dangerous products on the market (see the Ford Pinto,) and that American food corporations have allow tainted meat onto the market.

But for some reason we don't fault capitalism for that the way we would fault communism for this, if it were true. If anything, the most likely reaction this happening in the US would be to deregulate industries so capitalism could capitalize even harder.
by jchw | 2025-08-20 17:58:38+00:00
Unless they have very unusual terms on their funding, it isn't really entirely in their control in the long term. Hopefully they find a way to make their investors whole that doesn't suck for everyone else, but if not, well, I at least appreciate that the editor is truly open source, since at least it offers a contingency plan in the worst cases.

If I'm wrong I'd love to know, but I think that we need to start talking about what funding really implies more honestly. It's traditionally met with unabashed enthusiasm and congratulations, which I totally understand, but it's a mutual exchange, not an award or a grant. I absolutely believe that everyone wants to make good on their promises, but promises made to users are not legally binding, and the track record for upholding those has not been great. Plus, as a user, I want to pay for software, but nothing feels worse than paying, then watching enshittification unfold anyways... When this happens, the investors should send you a nice postcard thanking you for paying back some of their money.

Can $20/mo sustain a text editor company with a massive multimillion dollar valuation? Well, we'll see. Good luck Zed Industries, we're all counting on you.
by duped | 2025-08-20 17:58:39+00:00
I have tried it out and by default it was so slow as to be unusable. After discovering it required some customization in /etc (because it's the only GUI application that fails to recognize my GPU on a very popular distro with next to zero customization, because I game a lot on Linux - weird how that's a me problem and not a Zed problem) it got better, but still noticeably slower than VS Code.

The modern Sublime Text is Sublime Text. There is way too much "extra" in Zed to compare it. If anything, it's a new IntelliJ.
by leptons | 2025-08-20 17:59:02+00:00
>But to pretend that the US is on some sort of unique authoritarian slide is laughable.

It is, but maybe you just haven't been paying close enough attention. Device scanning at the border is not the only indication of this, there are many. Masked federal agents arresting anyone they want without any warrant and then sending them to prisons in foreign countries without due process, should be ringing authoritarian alarm bells for everyone, including you.
by colmmacc | 2025-08-20 17:59:15+00:00
I think you're talking past each other and saying the same thing. There never was a Kaminsky bug. There was no new vulnerability. There was a new attack.

Kaminsky figured out how to build a much more practical way to exploit what was known already. This was very significant, and it's one of the ultimate examples of PoC||GTFO finally triggering action. He deserves a lot of credit.
by kevincox | 2025-08-20 17:59:28+00:00
Because even if your phone only breaks every 5 years on average do you want to get a new 5 year old phone because your last one died right before the refresh cycle? Having regular releases means that when you do get the phone you have a relatively up-to-date device with latest hardware improvements. You don't need to upgrade yearly because they release a new phone yearly.
by tucnak | 2025-08-20 17:59:31+00:00
https://archive.is/YonXY

NSA science departments being demolished is lowkey great news; as a European, I feel like there's already enough SIGINT going around on their part. No doubt they'll be capitalizing on AI advantage anyway. If this kind of news means there will be less of it, we all stand to gain from it. Especially now that the U.S. has become comically unreliable, and indeed, dangerous—ally to its friends, it's hard to view this bit of news in bad light.
by wishfish | 2025-08-20 17:59:45+00:00
I hope there's an improved screen. I bought a 9 Pro XL with hopes of running GrapheneOS but the PWM on the Pixel was terrible. Instant headaches. I can more or less get by ok with recent iPhone screens but the Pixel screen didn't work at all for me.

Heard a rumor that Google was going to take eye strain seriously for this version. Hope that's true.
by lenerdenator | 2025-08-20 17:59:47+00:00
Countries back radical groups all the time. The "reasons" for Al Qaeda turning back on the US were:

1) support for the existence of Israel: just the idea of it, not necessarily the finer points, like whether it should coexist with an Arab Palestinian state. Zionism, whether it meant only taking up part of what was Mandatory Palestine, or all of it, flew directly in the face of the idea of pan-Arabism and Islamic theocratic chauvinism.

2) the Saudi royal family's request that the US-led coalition defend Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War - that was something that Usama bin Laden really hated, as he thought that it should be on the Saudis themselves and Islam as a whole to defend its birthplace, not some Western power.
by bell-cot | 2025-08-20 18:00:37+00:00
Obvious-seeming questions:

What would be an honest total price, for the IP rights to the (say) 3 dozen books which the Legions of Censorship most wants to remove from America's libraries?

Why aren't Anti-Censorship Heroes busy raising that sum, so that they can make all those books freely available on the web? Thus foiling the evil plan. Or, did The Atlantic just forget to mention that effort?

(Yes, my sense is that 99% of the folks on either side of this issue are motivated by ideological posturing and zeal for combat. Not by book availability.)
by barbazoo | 2025-08-20 18:00:45+00:00
When phones are no longer considered reliable to make emergency calls in certain places, what alternative is there?

Sure it sucks for the operator to get a call, "Sorry, just testing to make sure emergency calling works, thanks, bye" and it would also suck, probably even more, for an individual to not be able to make an emergency call. Squeaky wheel gets the grease, hopefully someone improves the system, lol.
by conartist6 | 2025-08-20 18:01:07+00:00
It is! Our approach to error correcting is not to error correct. We instead help the user be highly effective while passing through incomplete states but not invalid ones.

Gaps are present in the embedded code representation, e.g. if · is a gap we would represent the result of parsing `console.log(·)` using a "gap tag" (written `<//>`) in a CSTML document that will look like this: https://gist.github.com/conartist6/75dc969b685bbf69c9fa9800c...
by pornel | 2025-08-20 18:02:07+00:00
The Nano model is 3.2B parameters at 4bit quantization. This is quite small compared to what you get from hosted chatbots, and even compared to open-weights models runnable on desktops.

It's cool to have something like this available locally anyway, but don't expect it to have reasoning capabilities. At this size it's going to be naive and prone to hallucinations. It's going to be more like a natural language regex and a word association game.
by nikisweeting | 2025-08-20 18:03:16+00:00
I've been trying to contribute to playwright for years! All of my issues have been closed / rejected without much consideration because they're not part of the core "QA testing" use-case that playwright is built for.

Personally have not found their team to be the easiest to work with on Github. I would've loved to use puppeteer instead, their team is quite reasonable but they abandoned their python bindings and we want to stay in python.
by michaelt | 2025-08-20 18:03:17+00:00
Well yes, you've just hit on why this is a rather niche product.

You get a handful of somewhat questionable benefits. If for some reason your guests are visiting your printer's administration page, they won't have to click through a scary warning page. If someone is somehow sniffing all the traffic within your home network they won't be able to get your printer's administrative password.

But the main reason is some homelab enthusiasts are like bodybuilders at the gym - taking on tasks that seem Sisyphean to outsiders, for fun and to build their strength.
by mptest | 2025-08-20 18:03:39+00:00
That being the better approach says volumes about the complexity of lithography.

For anyone reading this, read Chip Wars by Chris Miller. The Lithography sub-story that threads through is amazing and fascinating and the whole book is incredible besides.

For those who think Ai Is a bubble and longshot, look up how crazy of a bet EUV (extreme ultraviolet) lithography was.
by nradov | 2025-08-20 18:04:12+00:00
Running out of gas or having to breathe off of someone else's tank is uncommon. Gas planning and monitoring is a fundamental skill that every diver needs to master just to get a basic open water certification. If your buddies aren't able to do this reliably then they need remedial training.

It's good to practice gas sharing as a contingency in case of equipment failure but actually running out is not acceptable.
Tell HN: Somebody please make a faster task management system
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-08-20 18:04:21+00:00
I've used Jira at dayjobs, and presently am using clickup at my small business (we are on a paid plan). I like clickup, but it is _too slow_. It is soooo annoying to wait 5(!) seconds for every page load. I wish I could get a simpler, less-featured version, with uglier graphics, that loads in 0.2 sec. If you have made something like this, send me a link and I'll try it out.

If clickup folks see this: please make it load faster.
by dakiol | 2025-08-20 18:04:44+00:00
> devs don't really understand how the customers use the product or why

At the risk of overgeneralizing, I think we do understand, but we just don't sympathize. Either because the product is trying to trik the customers into buying/subscribing (so naturally we don't like that kind of behaviour, even less when we know exactly how's that implemented), or because the product is designed "for babies": nice graphic colors here and there, videos, sweet transitions, whatever. We think that's all unncessary, and a simple HTML+CSS page would suffice for most products out there.

At least, that's what I have seen around. My team is currently building a fitness app. We are discussing tirelessly things like what engaging content we can use, the transitions between fitness exercises, how to keep them motivated to use the app... and the engineers I'm working with (I'm included) we all think that a simple bullet list of exercises and links to videos would suffice.

More often than not, the product just sucks and nothing can be done to fix that (e.g., Linkedin, Facebook, Quora) ... but obviously we won't say anything because we are here for the paycheck.
by iLemming | 2025-08-20 18:06:02+00:00
We're not discussing science here. Personal empirical experience is different from scientific empirical proof. If something has profoundly shifted my worldview, thinking patterns, or life approach, that's my direct, lived evidence - my own empirical data.

One's personal transformation, changed perspectives, or new capabilities are real empirical evidence - just not the kind that satisfies scientific methodology's requirements for generalizability.

I never even hinted at attempting to prove it to be universally paradigm-shifting for everybody, but I can certainly vouch for its profound impact on thousands of users based on their direct experience.
by nikisweeting | 2025-08-20 18:06:25+00:00
Extensions are ok but they have limitations too, for example you cannot use extensions to automate other extensions.

We need the agent to be able to drive 1password, Privacy.com, etc. to request per-task credentials, change adblock settings, get 2fa codes, and more.

The holy grail really is CDP + control over browser launch flags + an extension bridge to get to the more ergonomic `chrome.*` APIs. We're also working on a custom Chromium fork.
by inerte | 2025-08-20 18:06:29+00:00
You don't add to your calendar but you probably got a confirmation email. Or you may have used an app that could expose this data to the operating system. OR, you called, and the phone app transcribed and summarized the call.

Same for the wallet... if you have your credit card / banking app installed it could expose this.

But yeah, none _needs_ any of that, for different degrees of fun and life optimization.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-08-20 18:07:17+00:00
Ya, that's fair, and very noble of you. I think this sort of thing is often the divide between engineering and politics. Engineers want to do the thing. Politicians want to make it easier to do the thing. I realize those are loose definitions, and I'm just some internet guy, but I like my definitions. As you get promoted, you move away from engineering, and further into politics. Personally I don't have the patience for much politics, even though i recognize that it is good and important.

All that to say -- I think you should be promoted :)
by quantified | 2025-08-20 18:08:35+00:00
You'd think the USA would at least embrace energy from all possible means at once. Energy availability allows energy consumption and larger/faster economies require more energy. But competition between interests in the source of energy drive problems like this. Though it's not clear what the economic value of blockchain and AI data centers really is (spend $T to make slop videos and write code a bit faster?).
by kjkjadksj | 2025-08-20 18:09:03+00:00
At this point I think I’m giving up on the migration. The critical window is over. Most of the curious people who made reddit what it was 15 years ago are probably too bogged down with life to make the next replacement good today. Younger people have been brought up on ad based social media and have no concept of what a healthy forum environment ought to be like and therefore lack the cultural context to be good contributors that we took for granted in the 2000s and early 2010s. Instead many want to be useful mouth pieces for a brand endorsement. It is just such a different internet today than just 10 years ago.
by diggan | 2025-08-20 18:09:38+00:00
> Is there a good reason to avoid using Pyrefly?

Wouldn't the other way around be easier for finding good tools? Figure out what matters to you, inspect if the project fulfills those needs and then go with it after making sure it works well for you.

Regardless, a comparison between the two was posted to HN not too long time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44107655
by Aurornis | 2025-08-20 18:10:16+00:00
> So if I understand well, investors are not really investing for the company results

I don't know where you got that idea. Investors are putting their money into this company because they like the results and believe it's a better investment that their alternatives.

Any time you sell shares you generate some signal about what a company is worth. You can claim the company is worth a $100B all day long, but until you can sell a significant number of fractional shares of the company at that valuation it's just talk.

> In a kind of a ... ponzi pyramid?

A ponzi scheme or pyramid scheme implies that the company is lying about their results and books. Classic ponzi schemes might not have any real assets at all. The operators lie about the company and rely on incoming cash from new investors to pay out claims from past investors.

There's no ponzi here unless you believe Databricks is completely falsifying their operations and results. If any of those investors took their shares to the secondary market there would be plenty of other investors interested in buying them because they represent shares in the real company.
by sylens | 2025-08-20 18:10:54+00:00
The thing to keep in mind with the "Block Public Access" setting is that is a redundancy built in to save people from making really big mistakes.

Even if you have a terrible and permissive bucket policy or ACLs (legacy but still around) configured for the S3 bucket, if you have Block Public Access turned on - it won't matter. It still won't allow public access to the objects within.

If you turn it off but you have a well scoped and ironclad bucket policy - you're still good! The bucket policy will dictate who, if anyone, has access. Of course, you have to make sure nobody inadvertantly modifies that bucket policy over time, or adds an IAM role with access, or modifies the trust policy for an existing IAM role that has access, and so on.
by StyloBill | 2025-08-20 18:11:06+00:00
It has nothing to do with reddit being 'hardcore-leftist' as you put it, and more to do with the sad state of the US nowadays. Also, try saying anything remotely moderate on any right-leaning sub and see how that works. Really depends on the sub you're browsing.

Also, my anecdotal experience is very different than yours: not a day goes by without me reading some imbecilic comment about american exceptionalism, and where other idiots (I think you'd call them "patriots") gather to upvote/outbid said comment, particularly on large subs.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-08-20 18:11:24+00:00
>> Yes. You are describing actual police work; it is how things have always been.

> No, it hasn’t. Criminals haven’t always had access to literally uncrackable encryption,

As a preamble, police already have a vast array of new avenues of surveilling citizens. They have this now and it gives them massively more access to our private data/comms, than ever before. There is little that LEO/Govs/Corps don't have access to already.

Police have never had at-will access to any personal data and communications they desired.

Until very recently: To find info they wanted, police performed police work and commonly found some degree of what they were looking for. But often it was nothing. Under this, society thrived.

What police have right now is massively more than that. In the few spaces where some content might be denied them, they still have the associated metadata which is valuable on it's own (often more so than the contents).

Historically, you and I have always had options and methods of keeping our personal info and our private comms out of the reach of police, govs and other powerful actors. It was good for us and promoted a healthy society.

We have lost most of that. However, using robust encryption we can keep a minuscule portion of our total comms and data out of their trivial reach. What little it is - it is still good for us.

Historical privacy was what we had. Under that condition, societies were healthy and thriving.

Persistent, pervasive surveillance is what we're moving (rapidly) toward. It promotes other types of societies.
by eth0up | 2025-08-20 18:12:10+00:00
I think a bit of Peter Principle and role enmeshment is at play here. Halo effect? Moral disengagement?

Or perhaps it's truly pure gratitude and warm hearted loyalty for having a job, any job, which our future suggests won't be very common soon.

On a more serious note, I don't think it's terribly valid to dismiss these behaviors (Home Despot mug shaming, not zealous employee bots) as nothing more than a fun opportunity to admire one's reflection. It may not by itself be a keystone stride on the path of anomie, but it's a stride indeed and I don't want that kind of society. Maybe you do. Home Depot and Blackrock certainly do. I don't.
by topspin | 2025-08-20 18:12:20+00:00
> but the 5 bit counters

5 bit shift register, I believe you mean. Have a look at this. 16 instructions. Completely untested. I qualified my comment about RP2350 as "I believe," because I haven't actually done this: only investigated it via ChatGPT and Gemini. But it appears sound. Precision bit banging. PIO is pretty cool.

; PIO program for high-precision stepper profiles with a two-word data format. ; RP2350 clock is 150 MHz ; Word 1: [32-bit Low-Time Delay]. A value of 0 is the sentinel to stop. ; Word 2: [32-bit Repetition Count] (N-1). .program stepper_pwm .define HIGH_PULSE_CYCLES 2998 ; 20us @ 150MHz. Total delay is (CONSTANT + 2) cycles. 3000 - 2 = 2998. .side_set 1 opt entry_point: pull block ; Pull Word 1 (Low-Time Delay) from DMA. mov x, osr ; Copy to X for sent sentinel test jmp !x, process_step ; fall through to the stop_sequence when sentinel == 0 stop_sequence: nop side 0 ; Force the output pin LOW. irq set 5 ; Signal the core that the profile has finished. halt_loop: jmp halt_loop ; Halt state machine. process_step: mov y, x ; Y now holds the 32-bit Low-Time Delay. mov isr, y ; Save LOW delay in ISR for use in every repetition. pull block ; Pull Word 2 (Repetition Count) from DMA. mov x, osr ; X now holds the 32-bit Repetition Count. rep_loop: ; High pulse duration = (HIGH_PULSE_CYCLES + 2) clock cycles. mov y, HIGH_PULSE_CYCLES side 1 high_loop: jmp y-- high_loop side 1 ; Low pulse duration between reps = (LOW_DELAY_FROM_ISR + 3) clock cycles. mov y, isr side 0 low_loop: jmp y-- low_loop side 0 jmp x-- rep_loop ; Decrement repetition counter and loop if not zero. jmp entry_point ; Finished all reps for this step, get the next one.
by reify | 2025-08-20 18:12:31+00:00
Nothing to do with the ever expansion of the autistic spectrum over the last 10-20 years which now, it seems, will include the likes of me.

Yes me! The classic introvert, meets the requirements of autistic diagnosis.

My myers Briggs = INFJ. yes, that 1-2% of the population.

well well. And I am a retired psychotherapist too.

How on earth did I manage 25 years practicing as a psychotherapist, when my life was overwhelemed by autistic traits. At the time, I thought I was just a simple introvert.

So I could in fact get a diagnosis tomorrow and claim I am autistic.

How wonderful is that?

I could become a member of the ever increasing population of autistic people.

I remember back in the 80-90's, every autistic person I ever met, and there weren't that many, were all non verbal.

Now we have likes of, Lone skum of X, masquerading as an autistic person, who in my professional opinion is simple a narcissist.

Narcissism and autism on the same diagnoses, what ever next.

Am I the type?????
by JoshTriplett | 2025-08-20 18:12:32+00:00
> This doesn't look like it can physically slide into jeans pockets.

I'm interested to hear more about this, because it's always interesting to understand how other people interact with things who have different use cases or usage models.

How tight are your jeans, and how do you fit anything else in your pocket if something ~1in thick doesn't fit comfortably (without having to force the pocket open in a way that would require a "ramp")?

Are you using your back pockets? I have never once understood the utility of those; I have no desire to sit on anything in my pockets.
by subsection1h | 2025-08-20 18:12:39+00:00
I did a Ctrl+F for "Patriots" and "ASCII" in this thread, and I didn't see any results, which was surprising because what killed Digg for me were two issues: the Digg Patriots who brigaded many discussions and all of the stupid ASCII art in the comments, such as "It's a trap!":

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/585451-alphabet-zoo/501...
by frankfrank13 | 2025-08-20 18:13:10+00:00
> A camera with Gemini

and im out

> Exclusive to the Pixel 10 Pro and 10 Pro XL, Pro Res Zoom captures astonishing detail at up to 100x zoom. It isn't just a simple crop; Pro Res Zoom uses Tensor G5 and an all-new generative imaging model to intelligently recover and refine intricate details.

bro in your demo the car is a half el-camino half mustang