MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jcgl | 2025-08-02 12:02:56+00:00
If you would like to productively add some input, I'd certainly welcome it. I like to learn more about this space. My own experience of course includes various terminal emulators with unset or unsupported TERMs. Of course I have of course experienced breakage.

Please note that I didn't say few or no programs use TERM. Rather, I mildly disagreed about "nearly any program," and pointed out that there are more robust alternatives to TERM.

Especially when it comes to greenfield development, it's not clear to me why anyone would use TERM rather than capabilities. In any case, I always try to leverage caps whenever I can.
by chemmail | 2025-08-02 12:03:37+00:00
Could be the low power ecores being in use somehow? Meteor Lake has 3 types of core with 2 lpE cores in the SOC to try to turn off the Main P and E core tile. Lunar Lake removed the lpE cores and it does feel faster when surfing pages like reddit than my 12th gen and 5000hz laptops. I also tried the Ryzen AI and it is pretty close but 20% less battery life. They get a pretty crazy 15hr battery life now.
by uecker | 2025-08-02 12:03:40+00:00
Things like this resulting in differnt alignment between Clang and GCC on x86_64 for _Atomic struct { char a[3]; }; See: https://godbolt.org/z/v5hsjhzj9

The problem is that in C++ these atomics are library types, but in C they are built-in types which should have a clearly specified ABI. But the goal was to make them compatibility with C++ library types, which is a rather stupid idea, which pulls in even more problems.
by nudgeOrnurture | 2025-08-02 12:04:53+00:00
The article is worth the attention.

> diluting tech’s understanding of “ethical” and “empathy” into meaninglessness

That's the overarching motive not only in tech, but in culture and business as well. It was a long ride and even caught the lefties, anarchists, anybody on the outer rim, really, while turning the right wing and any kind of extremists into the opposite: people with meaning and order as ethics and empathy for people who want these ethics. It's so strange and twisted sometimes but if you look at tech and AI, the picture, via analogies, becomes clear.
by latexr | 2025-08-02 12:05:16+00:00
I wanted to be encouraging, but this is frankly terrible. I tried but was unable to find one thing of note. The result is completely disjointed, stiff, and not life-like at all. There’s no fluidity, it’s as cookie-cutter as can be. It feels like a Flash tutorial for people who have never used a computer. It doesn’t even look like a stick figure (perhaps on mobile it’s screwing it up even more?) and there are console errors.

https://imgur.com/a/lyF9tWU

Why would we use this for UIs? Arrows and circles exist, we have decades upon decades of research and ideas on how to instruct users how to interact, and we already had the technology to produce stick figures and simple animations.

There’s nothing impressive about this. The tech industry’s infatuation with anything because it’s AI is starting to feel like blind parents praising toddlers for not stabbing themselves in the eye with a plastic fork.

Had you built this, we could’ve at least discussed next steps and approaches or ideas for improvements or how to fix bugs, but being something spit out by an LLM, I don’t even see the point. Anyone could build the exact same thing with the exact same lack of effort.
by dazzawazza | 2025-08-02 12:05:28+00:00
I've come off two motorbikes in the UK. On the first occasion I wore a leather jacket, on the second I had a synthetic jacket on (because it was more comfortable in hot weather).

Both were completely safe. On both occasions I slid along the tarmac for about 10-15 meters, I was travelling at around 30-40 mph. I still wear the same leather jacket 30 years later (not for riding) but the synthetic jacket was a right-off.

On both occasions I really smacked my head: don't mess about with sub-standard crash helmets.

So even though leather is better, we're not racing the TT, we're just going from A-B and if you want to wear synthetic you'll be fine at normal speeds. So if you can't wear leather, for whatever reason, don't let that stop you.
by elevation | 2025-08-02 12:07:42+00:00
Salary caps do nothing to prevent an elected official from accepting deals on the side, and it can be impossible to incriminate the bad actors.

Will the salary cap prevent a congressman’s daughter from accepting a lucrative job offer? Will his wife’s law firm have to turn away new clients? Will his non-profit have to turn away donations?

Any system that could prevent personal enrichment of elected officials would require every freedom be taken away from them. You’d have to imprison them (and anyone who could proxy wealth for them) as soon as they take office and for decades after if you want to be sure that they were not motivated by self interest.
by karolinepauls | 2025-08-02 12:07:45+00:00
The root of good faith conversation is that we don't latch on fuzzy meanings of words like "comparison" but try to understand which precise meaning should apply.

The result of subtraction is a difference. In my mind this is the most basic way to compare things. Subtraction of differing units is illegal.

The result of division is a quotient (day to day we say ratio). Division of different units is legal but not always practical.
by theshackleford | 2025-08-02 12:07:53+00:00
> he with his several teams, actually made electric cars a market wide reality

Electric cars? That would be Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, Tesla’s actual founders. They created the Roadster and brought the vision. Musk came in with money, staged a hostile takeover, and then rewrote the company’s history to fit his inflated ego, like the sad little man he is. It's honestly cringe.

> cheap orbit rockets and with starlink internet almost everywhere possible on earth

Amazing what billions in government contracts and management smart enough to keep Elon out of the way can accomplish. SpaceX deserves praise; spinning it into a Elon is a genius narrative? Not so much.

As for the snake oil, just a few of Elon's greatest hits:

1. Hyperloop. Old idea's wrapped in new buzzwords. Never viable. He didn’t invent it, but he sure wants you to think he did, just like with Telsa.

2. FSD “next year” since forever. Still not here. Still being marketed like it's solved. And still charging like a wounded bull for it.

3. Robotaxis and appreciation hype. Musk literally claimed Teslas would go up in value and earn passive income as robotaxis. It doesnt get much more snake oil than this.

"We’re confident the cars will be worth more than what you pay for them today." – July 2019

"It’s financially insane to buy anything other than a Tesla." – April 2019

Absolutely laughable. Show me one consumer owned Tesla that’s worth more today than it was in 2019. I’ll wait. If you can't, we'll mark it down as snake oil bullshit.

4. Optimus. Elon hyped this like Tesla had cracked general purpose humanoid robotics out of nowhere, leapfrogging companies that have been grinding on this for decades. The first reveal? A guy in a suit dancing. The follow ups? Stiff prototypes doing slow, assisted movements and following that, remotely controlled animatronics and so on. Meanwhile, Musk is on stage talking about replacing human labor, reshaping the economy, and bots becoming more valuable than cars. None of it is remotely close. But it worked, stock popped, headlines flooded in, and the fantasy sold.

5. SolarCity. An overhyped, underdelivered money pit that Tesla had to bail out. Just another Elon tyre fire.

6. "Funding secured." Flat out lied about taking Tesla private at $420. SEC slapped him, but the stock soared. Mission accomplished.

And that’s just scratching the surface of his bullshit. It ignores all the other missed deadlines, quality issues, inflated delivery claims, etc etc etc. Here is some more of his bullshit, also I am sure not exhaustive:

https://elonmusk.today/

Yes, he’s had wins. But wins don’t erase the mountain of bullshit. Elon’s biggest output isn’t cars or rockets. It’s hype. His true skill is selling fantasy to retail investors and tech worshipping middled aged white dudes who still think he’s some genius messiah. Strip the PR away, and you’ve got a guy who overpromises, underdelivers, and never stops running his mouth.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-08-02 12:08:04+00:00
This is good advice. I’d stress that having the screen up high is usually overlooked. People think of different heights when they hear this because it’s very rare to see examples of anyone having their screen actually near eye line, and most monitor arms / laptop trays won’t even go high enough.

I’d also add that having a more extreme tilt, beyond what “tenting” can provide (so, needing mounting), can also make a big difference in relieving nerve friction from twisting. Check for example how the Glove80 has a mounting kit.

And I personally found having anything actually on my lap required constant stress to balance it during use including from my hands themselves while typing and counterbalancing… mounting the keyboard halves to my chair arms or using sturdy tripods from the floor with a lounge chair etc helped me tremendously.
by dgacmu | 2025-08-02 12:09:41+00:00
I have used a mini home-datacenter to heat my house in winter (very effectively - I used a fan to direct the heat towards the intake for the AC system and ran the AC fan). But I decided against the HW heater version of it from a cost recovery perspective - we just don't use that much hot water and we had a then-new high efficiency gas hot water heater.

However, there's a fairly straightforward way to get halfway there: You can run a standard heat pump hot water heater and put the computers in the same room with it. The computers will heat the air, the heat pump hot water heater will cool the air. Won't be as efficient as a closed loop system directly connecting the computers to the HW heater but you also won't need to worry about whether the heat production and consumption are balanced.
by throw0101d | 2025-08-02 12:10:00+00:00
> It looked like we were getting a downturn of some sort this year no matter what the government did anyway just based off the debt term structure.

Who was predicting a downturn in 2025? What predictions of a downturn were being published in December 2024?

The fact of the matter is is that the numbers at the 2024 were looking great:

> Trump hammered the administration for creating an “economic catastrophe,” but some of his favorite gauges for assessing economic performance have been humming.

* https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/15/biden-economy-donal...

And the only predictions of a downturn in 2025 was if Trump made good on his threats of tariffs:

* https://chamber.ca/news/trumps-25-tariff-threat-new-analysis...

So you voted for tariffs by voting for Trump, and by voting for tariffs you voted for economic instability. There was nothing in the pre-Trump policies and economic thinking that would have caused an economic downturn.

Further, you voted for the gutting and privatization government functions:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025
by defrost | 2025-08-02 12:10:29+00:00
A surprising number of the people of Hiroshima remained more or less indifferent about the ethics of using the bomb.

Unsurprising for the time given the context.

While people far from Japan made much of the uniqueness and power of a single bomb destroying a single city for those on the ground it was just another single city destroyed overnight by bombing .. the 73rd such city destroyed in a relatively short duration of time.

The destruction and death in Hiroshima was on par with the destruction and death in Tokyo when that was firebombed.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-02 12:10:50+00:00
Everyone spewing opinions in this thread so they can get their upvotes from like minded readers is missing the 800lb gorilla.

It's not in the state's interest to kill profitable things most of the time except occasionally as a deterrent example. It's the same reason richer people (who pay a lot of taxes, engage in activity spawning yet more taxes, etc) tend to get probation instead of jail. Likewise, the state is happy to kill small(er) businesses. It does this all the time and it doesn't make the news. Whereas with the big ones it just takes its pound of flesh and keeps things running.

As long as that incentive mostly remains, the outcomes will mostly remain.
by xpe | 2025-08-02 12:11:02+00:00
> I don’t think people understand the point sutton was making; he’s saying that general, simple systems that get better with scale tend to outperform hand engineered systems that don’t

This is your reading of Sutton. When I read his original post, I don't extract this level of nuance. The very fact that he calls it a "lesson" rather than something else, such as a "tendency", suggests Sutton may not hold the idea lightly*. In other words, it might have become more than a testable theory; it might have become a narrative.

* Holding an idea lightly is usually good thing in my book. Very few ideas are foundational.
by exasperaited | 2025-08-02 12:11:20+00:00
Not necessarily. Every psychopath has a golden child, after all; perhaps it’s the same here. It depends who was singled out for more abuse and coldness or demands, and it depends who had more parental love from the other parent, and it could also be a question of genetic predisposition in terms of how they react, it might be different if you have more siblings, etc.

Maryanne Trump Barry —- a federal judge —- was nevertheless part of the family tax cheating scheme.

Robert Trump cheated on his wife and his egregious behaviour seemingly drove her to an overdose.

Fred Trump Jr (Mary’s dad and Fred’s eldest, intended to run the business) drank himself to death, unable to survive the unbearable pressure his father put on him.

DJT is in a different league for sure: he is a malignant narcissist which is already a very unusual personality type, and he was also shaped and protected by Roy Cohn.

Either way, evil dads are always in the back stories of these guys (Emory Tate was a cruel, diagnosed narcissist, a misogynist and adulterer, and often absent too)
by Grimeton | 2025-08-02 12:11:21+00:00
> But in this case we still don't know who is wrong. This is the original letter https://medium.com/@yifanxing/my-experience-with-sexual-hara... and it was not shown false. All that the courts said was "no evidence was provided". And the guy didn't clearly deny it in the letter as I understand it

Just as a reminder, it's: "Innocent until proven guilty."

The accuser has to provide proof that what they say is right and until that happened the person is considered innocent.
by thomas_witt | 2025-08-02 12:12:31+00:00
Vendis | Senior Ruby on Rails Developer | REMOTE (EU preferred, US ok) | Full-time

• Post-MVP AI-powered B2B SaaS; serial founder-built & self-funded (pre-angel/VC), first customers onboarding – hiring employee #2. Modernizing a software category every company needs.

• Stack: Rails 8 · Hotwire (low-JS) · ViewComponents · Tailwind 4 · AWS · DynamoDB · OpenSearch · LLM APIs (zero legacy).

• You: 5+ yrs Rails, full-stack; non-relational DB + AI/LLM integration; autonomous builder & team player.

• Culture: tiny senior a-team, zero managers – you code or you sell. Values: Ownership · Pragmatism · Tempo · Kindness · No Ego.

• Comp: € 80-100 k base + € 20-25 k stock options (Delaware C-corp).

• Process: founder call → code walkthrough → 4 h remote pairing → decision in days. Apply: https://vendis.ai/jobs/ or reply here with intro/CV + GitHub + LinkedIn.
by throwaway6612 | 2025-08-02 12:15:11+00:00
Yes, the NYT leans liberal. You can have your own political scale and that’s fine.

But the value of pointing to things and saying they’re right or left or conservative or liberal is a relative valuation measured relative to the general American public. And relative to the general American public the NYT is liberal. Just because you are more liberal than the NYT doesn’t make the NYT conservative.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-08-02 12:16:12+00:00
> I doubt the extra piping and infrastructure is anywhere near worth it

I wonder. Infrastructure investments tend to have absurd payoffs. For example, my solar energy equipment has been generating profit for years.

In my country 5 kW electric showers are common every day items and they add up to a huge chunk of household energy consumption. Switching to a more efficient water heating system has been on my mind for years. If I can use my home server as a heating element, so much the better. Could even use free CPU cycles to mine Monero on it. A solar powered cryptocurrency mining home serving water heating computer. Wow.

I also think a lot about the heat my air conditioners constantly pump out of my house. Seems like a waste to just throw it out of the house like that. Ideally it would be stored so that it could be used to heat other things later... To me it seems like it should be possible with enough integration.
by nudgeOrnurture | 2025-08-02 12:17:17+00:00
via analogy, "the people want to be free".

we mold users, now, not User Experiences.

Information always found a way or people found it, but if you shape the user for the experience, then

a) selective ignorance, via engineering, turns into a feature rather than an individual neural necessity that was turning into a vestigial tail and

b) elected ignorance morphs our democratic evolution into a fascist, Nazi singularity, aka brave new world.

But the road is not the end. It would be fine if they picked a spot on the globe or the universe and did it there but the road is ugly as hell and they have to surpress and control any other, individual models that might spread.

Defactors, no matter how hardened, functional and advantageous for the species, colony, life and evolution, cannot be tolerated on the path to a fascist, Nazi singularity. That's bad news but ...
by toisanji | 2025-08-02 12:17:27+00:00
Full Time and Part Time roles

Distark is hiring, an edutainment brand building learning videos for Education. Our small, passionate team creates animated shows and learning tools that help kids (ages 3-9) fall in love with curiosity and real-world learning. We use custom automation to speed up everything from story writing to animation. See what we’re making: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c46VaM_VZGU An example of some of our software, ChatGPT for families: https://www.studyturtle.com/ask

Open Roles (REMOTE):

Animators (2D/3D or hybrid—experience with AI tools a plus)

Junior Software Developers (Python, Node, JS, or open to learning new tech)

Interns (all backgrounds, generalists, tech, or creative)

Important: You must be a parent (of any age child) We want people who care deeply about kids and learning. Lived experience as a parent is essential—our mission is to build things real families want.

Why join us?

Fully remote, async-friendly Ship real things that impact how kids learn Fast, creative, zero-corporate-BS environment

Direct access to founders; real ownership

Opportunity to shape our tools and shows from the ground up

To apply: Email jobs [at] studyturtle.com with your background, a few sentences about your kids, and why this mission excites you. Please include links to any relevant work.

We are the hiring company and will reply to all genuine applicants. No recruiters, no agencies, please.
by em-bee | 2025-08-02 12:18:08+00:00
you read that right, i am only asking for the ability to select within one app window/pane instead of the selection going across the whole terminal. good to know that zellij can do that. and actually, i have seen vim being able to do that too, except the selection stayed within vim and was not going to the X11/wayland selection. since it turns out there is now an in-band method for terminal apps to write to the X11/wayland selection (as mentioned elsewhere in this discussion) it makes sense that this should solve the problem. and i am sure this is what zellij is using. now hopefully tmux can use it too.
by khelavastr | 2025-08-02 12:18:23+00:00
.. and NAFTA was engineered by John Negroponte, the ambassador to Mexico at the time. Right after he coordinated and covered up Nicaraguan and Honduran death squads. https://www.democracynow.org/2004/4/28/dems_ignore_negropont...

Negroponte is an ardent Trump opponent.
by fidotron | 2025-08-02 12:19:50+00:00
Good for those involved being offered such packages, but it really does raise the question of what exactly those offering them are so afraid of.

For example, Meta seem to be spending so much so they don't later have to fight a war against an external Facebook-as-chatbot style competitor, but it's hard to see how such a thing could emerge from the current social media landscape.
by mathgeek | 2025-08-02 12:19:55+00:00
Which analogy(s) are you going for? The world is about to end so money is essentially worthless? The players with all the money are going to move on to something else soon? The game ceased to be fun for anyone so they all want to find other things to do?

I assume you are going for “there are no more useful resources to acquire so those with all the resources overpay just to feel like they own those last few they don’t yet own”.
by iambateman | 2025-08-02 12:20:35+00:00
I’m working on a package for Laravel (iambateman/speedrun) that enforces a workflow to tell Claude Code how I want it to interact with my codebase.

The theory is that it should set up a staging folder of recommended changes first, and then implement them.

There’s a lot of interesting work to be done around making it safer to let Claude code make big adjustments without going off the rails.

So far, I’m noticing that… (1) it sometimes secretly chooses laziness…it leaves notes like “to implement later.”

(2) or it tends to do too much…it wants to go off and work on unrelated parts of the app even when not asked to. This is the most problematic.

(3) It tends to write tests that are hyper specific, and look for exact strings that will likely change over time.

As long as the applications are being used by humans and paid for by humans, we will need some group of developers providing context to the machine about what to do. Right now the tooling is outpacing our sensibilities about how to use it effectively.
by Zambyte | 2025-08-02 12:22:21+00:00
This summer I got into electric scooter riding, and along with that I have been interested in finding appropriate gear for my riding. My go-to so far has been to wear a fairly cheap half helmet that I used to wear longboarding, and a pair of well-padded cycling gloves. Wearing more protection sounds nice, but: at the speeds I'm going < 20 mph / 30 kph, and impact protection (from cars) is more important than sliding to me, and I'd also like things that are easy to get on and off and carry around at my destination.

I've been thinking about getting a nice, full face helmet (helmets marketed for mountain biking seem like a good fit), but they seem like a pain to deal with at my destination. A lot of times I'll just loop my current helmet on my scooter completely unlocked, because it's cheap enough that I'm not really worried about it being stolen. The full face helmets I have been looking at are an order of magnitude more expensive though, and I wouldn't really feel comfortable just leaving it unlocked by my scooter. Does anyone have any recommendations on this? Or recommendations on other appropriate safety gear for my kind of riding?
by anovikov | 2025-08-02 12:22:29+00:00
Being an entrepreneur is not about becoming "a boss". It's about coming up with what sells well by understanding people and what moves them, by being curios and a good communicator, and by having knowledge is several areas and being able to combine it, in order to come up with something no one else could. Then, you hire a "boss", if you still need to. In itself, entrepreneurship is not at all about leadership. Time to end confusing it. If it wasn't the case, ex-military would be the best business founders.

This world is full of overconfident people who have no self-doubt at all. They keeping confidently pouring their bullshit on us starting with the potato vendors in the street and all the way to Trump. Perhaps the world would be a better place if people had a bit more self-doubt.