MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nosignono | 2025-08-11 16:14:26+00:00
Open Source was always a collection of anarchist experiments in different ways of working. It turns out that it's quite effective and popular, and people will organize themselves naturally around projects they find interesting.

That said, capital has always been squeezing open source. Whether it was the Embrace; Extend; Extinguish mantra of Microsoft, Amazon's hosting of Open Source in AWS to control the market for it, or Oracle's litigiousness about trademarks and patents. To say nothing of all the companies who profit from it and give nothing back in return.

LLMs being trained on Open Source software is nothing new with respect to capital attempting to consume it and profit from it but not giving anything back in exchange.

So no, I'm not worried, I'm not going to change anything. I expect maybe we see a license that says you cannot use it as AI training material at some point in the future, and the lawyers will fight over that for a decade or two.
by don_neufeld | 2025-08-11 16:14:29+00:00
I’ve tried most of the major systems, and for me Things3 wins hands down. Yes, it costs some money to by the app on my phone and on my Mac, but the cost of missing even one deadline blows those costs out of the water.

I do with Things3 supported nested areas, but I just use Projects that I never complete to achieve the same effect.
by bediger4000 | 2025-08-11 16:14:30+00:00
So 40 years of "Free Market" absolutism, which was a central pillar of conservative economics, gets reversed just like that?

There's consequences to mercantilism. For starters, the best products may no longer win. Justifying anything by "best product won due to consumer choice" will be a laughable reason. Justifying respect for founders and CEOs as intelligent or better isn't possible. A successful founder or CEO is just better at sucking up or whatever it takes to be blessed by authority.

There's some consequences to this reversal to conservatism as well. How can any thinking man believe a justification from principles now? They're reversible. Conservatives lose any kind of intellectual high ground, even in retrospect. Are they reasoning from principles now or were they doing it then? Can't tell.
by sevensor | 2025-08-11 16:14:33+00:00
What’s missing in this discussion is the neighbor. This isn’t just about CPS, it’s about there being someone in the neighborhood twisted enough to call down state authority on the parents for no particularly good reason. Most people don’t have this kind of interaction with CPS because most people don’t live next to informers. But some people do, and the informer makes things terrible for them.

Edit, which on second reading, you do mention. “Some busybody” is a big part of the problem.
by WJW | 2025-08-11 16:15:06+00:00
No, it hasn't changed my approach. I open source things precisely because I don't care if other people profit from it or not. In fact, I *hope* the users of my code gain a better life because of it, just like how I hope the readers of my blog learn something (however small, sometimes).

Whether that process is intermediated by a LLM or not is not really relevant.
by jchw | 2025-08-11 16:15:19+00:00
The correct time for major service providers to shift their weight and start pulling out of any jurisdiction necessary to get their point across has already come and gone. The second best time would be as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, the Internet world we live in today isn't the one I grew up in, so I'm sure things will just go according to plan. Apparently a majority of Britons polled support these rules, even though a (smaller) majority of Britons also believe they are ineffective at their goals[1]. I think that really says a lot about what people really want here, and it would be hard to believe anyone without a serious dent in their head really though this had anything at all to do with protecting children. People will do literally anything to protect children, so as long as it only inconveniences and infringes on the rights of the rest of society. They don't even have to believe it will work.

And so maybe we will finally burn the house to roast the pig.

[1]: https://yougov.co.uk/technology/articles/52693-how-have-brit...
by not_kurt_godel | 2025-08-11 16:15:29+00:00
I agree it would be nice to have more alarm-like notification options. Flagging, setting as high priority, and assigning a date/time and getting in the habit of checking the Today category regularly all help mitigate; a bug-me-until-this-is-done feature would be a welcome alternative. (I will note that the GP's emacs stack isn't even close to offering native mobile push notifications, to state the obvious.)
by ryandrake | 2025-08-11 16:15:36+00:00
It seems like, at least in online places like Reddit, "boundaries" has become this magical, get-out-of-jail-free word that justifies people to short-circuit norms and socialization and just do whatever they want in human relationships. "I want to do X, and I don't want to do Y, and I don't want my partner calling me out for doing Z. If you don't like it, that's your problem, and if you object, you're crossing my boundaries and are in the wrong!"

Before, it was just "being selfish and anti-social." Now, the same thing is called "setting healthy boundaries for myself."
by tharmas | 2025-08-11 16:15:39+00:00
On trade imbalances: Trump expects Canada, a country of 40 Million people, to buy as much goods from the USA, a country of 300+ Million people. And if you subtract the oil that the USA buys from Canada, Canada has a trade SURPLUS with the USA. That is, apart from selling oil to the USA, Canada buys MORE from the USA than the USA buys from Canada, a country roughly one tenth the size.

This trade war isn't about righting trade imbalances. It's about the USA exerting leverage over countries that it can get away with. Just like a Mafia Don.

Or to quote a crude summary from Peaky Blinders: "Big $ucks small".

That's the philosophy of the Trump Administration in a nutshell.
by EGreg | 2025-08-11 16:15:54+00:00
I’ve been using a text file for years.

I wanted to make my own todo app. One thing that I would want is to reorder things, group and rank them etc.

For example, in my text file I usually put the number of minutes or hours something would take, and then order things by easiest first, to get things done. That way I have less things to carry over for the next day.

I also found that if I keep procrastinating on important but long things, it probably means I need to hire someone, or partner with someone, who is better than me in that thing. I don't believe in pushing myself more than I already am, or optimizing personal productivity, I think it's actually a sign that I need to work on recruiting people to a startup or join an existing project. I believe in optimizing the organization and its systems, not people.
by Spivak | 2025-08-11 16:15:57+00:00
The orange figurehead, probably not, but the people actually pulling the strings and writing all those executive orders absolutely do. The folks in power might be misguided but they are acting purposely creating more protectionist policies. To what end I think is anyone's guess. I don't think it's clear how an isolationist US benefits us when right now we have every country in the world giving us real tangible wealth in exchange for paper.
by hateful | 2025-08-11 16:15:57+00:00
I also do the text file thing. I use EditPad Pro. The only additional thing I've done is create syntax coloring in any file named 'tasks-*.txt'.

I added simple things like: - Color anything ending in a ? green, so when looking at a list of notes, so I know where the questions were. - Any line beginning with an all caps word is highlighted (e.g. TODO: ) - Any line ending in a : is highlighted light blue (e.g. title) - Any Line Containing "Error" is red

I do suppose I could be using Markdown, but I've had this going for 20 years now.
by AstroBen | 2025-08-11 16:15:59+00:00
I fundamentally disagree. Life isn't as neat and packaged that consistent hours for anything make much sense

If it's horrible weather and your family are busy with something do you forgo doing something productive because you've already met your balance amount?

If you're mentally drained or slept terribly do you do your 8 hours anyway even if you'd be better off taking time off that day? (I know this doesn't make sense if you can't dictate your hours, but just for arguments sake)

When I'm excited about a project I can put in a tonne of hours very productively and don't have drop-offs the next week

I just look at it as a set of shifting priorities, and don't put work over health or relationships
by cycomanic | 2025-08-11 16:16:20+00:00
It seems like you are taking a lot of effort to create an alternative narrative. It said nowhere that the 18month year old was not supervised, in fact if that was the case why complain about the climbing stairs and not the child being unsupervised? Regarding the neighbors allowing the children to use their yard? You did notice that the letter writer points out that it was not the neighbors who own the backyard who were complaining, so why are you creating a narrative that it was their understanding that the kids would be supervised?

In my experience the stories about strangers telling the kids what they can or cannot do (as a European not part that these people would be taken seriously by cps though) seem entirely plausible both from experiences from my childhood and experiences as a parent.

There are lots of people who seem to enjoy bossing kids around. It often gets worse when kids are articulate and insist on their rights. Some people get downright aggressive if a child or teenager isn't immediately submissive.
by Insanity | 2025-08-11 16:16:34+00:00
One of my reports was a hardcore HHGG fan, including carrying a towel on towel day. He signed off with the "so long and thanks for all the fish", and I don't think anyone read anything negative into this.

In fact, while that was some years ago, it was a tight-knit team and we still meet up for dinner with the original team members about 2-3x a year :)
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-08-11 16:17:07+00:00
>What if people are more happy not having kids?

Not sure what the point of this question is. If what you were supposing had any truth to it, then this is equivalent to wanting humanity to become extinct. I will concede that many people are dim enough that they can't follow through and therefor don't realize that it's equivalent, but there are a minimum number of children that must be born or our species is gone someday (soon).

If you somehow wish to hold the contradictory views that you both are unhappy with and do not want children, and you wish humanity to continue indefinitely, then what this would say is that your some sort of parasite that does not want to contribute your fair share to the continuation of the species. Let someone else do the work, you'll just benefit from it. At minimum, if such people were to be tolerated they must come to understand that they should have little say in policy, especially those policies dealing with the future.
by data-ottawa | 2025-08-11 16:17:54+00:00
No, when I licensed my open source code as MIT I essentially stated to not care what happens to it.

I am bothered that I was able to reproduce code from my blog through an LLM (suggesting exact same default values). That was not licensed for permissive use.

I still contribute to open source because I still use a lot of it. In my mind I owe it to the community to contribute back, and if nobody did the same my workflow would be a lot worse.
by themaninthedark | 2025-08-11 16:17:56+00:00
I think CPS system is just broken: there are well intentioned people there but also busybodies that enjoy power but between the two, you end still end up with horrific cases of kids dying from neglect with multiple reports.

>"He would come and get a drink of water and then he would casually take his cup and throw it in the trash that was there where they dump their trays. And then you would see him digging through the garbage," Davis said. "At that point, if the little kid is hungry, I'm going to buy his lunch ticket."

>Davis said she and a co-worker started paying for Gavin's lunch, despite being "advised" by school officials not to do so because the school wanted to encourage families in hardship to fill out a form for reduced or free lunch.

Teachers and admin are mandatory reporters...

>Over the course of several months, Davis said she and other cafeteria workers made multiple calls to school officials and the Utah Division of Child and Family Services to report their concerns.

>"First we went through the channels. The head lunch lady knew what was going on. She said the principal had to take care of it. We reported it to the principal," Davis said, adding that later they also called DCFS directly.

https://www.ksl.com/article/51077343/the-system-is-broken-ca...

I looked for follow up but aside for the parents being rightfully charged, what was done regarding the system? Anyone fired for not reporting? Not following up? From what I see, "It's a tragedy" and then same as before.
by 9dev | 2025-08-11 16:18:14+00:00
I fail to see how it’s not just nitpicking. Yes, pirates only copy something and the original owner still gets to keep it.

The end result however is that someone gets something for free that they otherwise would have to pay for, similar to sneaking on a train or into a concert. In these cases, I don’t think many people would argue that what you’re doing isn’t wrong, or meaningfully different from theft; safe for lawyers of course, but I fail to see why the quibbling is relevant for normal people.
by lucb1e | 2025-08-11 16:18:16+00:00
I think that's a different discussion. Some people would like their chat messages to simply be secure until they die. So long as that's a valid desire, or one can think of another purpose for this, I think we can agree that it's worth considering whether PQC is worth implementing today

Also, 2030 isn't 20 years away anymore and that's the recommendation I ended up finding in sources, even if they think it's only a small chance
by uludag | 2025-08-11 16:18:21+00:00
I too have used org-mode for a while and here are some additional features which may pique your interest:

- agenda views let me create custom pages of tasks with certain states or tags - a robust time tracking system. I use this for my freelancing work - very nice text tables that are programmable - a very customizable capturing system - a huge ecosystem of plugins - a programmable API: I'm currently working on an importer for the DayOne app as well as a fitness tracking package - PDF export with LaTeX. I can use this for printing out my weekly plan for example - in addition to deadlines, a scheduled property for when you intend to start a task - extensive linking system (https://orgmode.org/guide/Hyperlinks.html#External-Links-1) I often have todos linking to places in code

I think that org-mode could use better learning resources. There's pretty much the manual and blog posts by experienced users, neither are especially aimed towards new users.
by bookofjoe | 2025-08-11 16:19:23+00:00
>From the 2015 model year onward, the E-Series has remained in production solely in cutaway and stripped chassis configurations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_E-Series

>Ford E-Series chassis cabs and cutaways to survive mass Transit onslaught [UPDATE]

https://www.autoblog.com/news/ford-e-series-chassis-cabs-con...
by torium | 2025-08-11 16:19:35+00:00
The x-axis is in CPU cycles (10^0 means 1 cycle).

If you CPU runs on 1000MHz that's 10^9 cycles per second. On that CPU the right hand side of the picture corresponds to 1ms. You can do 1 million register-register operations in 1ms, or 1 billion in 1sec.

Computers are fast.
by toast0 | 2025-08-11 16:19:57+00:00
DMA works for devices, because the device does the memory access. RAM to RAM DMA would need something to do the accesses.

The other reason DMA works for devices is because it is asynchronous. You give a device a command and some memory to do it with, it does the thing and lets you know. Most devices can't complete commands instantaneously, so we know we have to queue things and then go do something else. Often when doing memcpy, we want to use the copied memory immediately... if it were a DMA, you'd need to submit the request and wait for it to complete before you continued... If your general purpose DMA engine is a typical device, you're probably doing a syscall to the kernel, which would submit the command (possibly through a queue), suspend your process, schedule something else and there may be delay before getting scheduled again when the DMA is complete.

If async memcpy was what was wanted, it could make sense, but that feels pretty hard to use.
by extraisland | 2025-08-11 16:20:26+00:00
People constantly cite this poll as it is proof that British people want this.

You cannot trust the YouGov polling. It is flawed.

> Despite the sophisticated methodology, the main drawback faced by YouGov, Ashcroft, and other UK pollsters is their recruitment strategy: pollsters generally recruit potential respondents via self-selected internet panels. The American Association of Public Opinion Research cautions that pollsters should avoid gathering panels like this because they can be unrepresentative of the electorate as a whole. The British Polling Council’s inquiry into the industry’s 2015 failings raised similar concerns. Trying to deal with these sample biases is one of the motivations behind YouGov and Ashcroft’s adoption of the modelling strategies discussed above.

https://theconversation.com/its-sophisticated-but-can-you-be...

Even if the aforementioned problems didn't exist with the polling. It has been known for quite a while that how you ask a question changes the results. The question you linked was the following.

> From everything you have seen and heard, do you support or oppose the recent rules requiring age verification to access websites that may contain pornographic material?

Most people would think "age verification to view pornography". They won't think about all the other things that maybe caught in that net.
by darth_avocado | 2025-08-11 16:20:28+00:00
> It often gets worse when kids are articulate and insist on their rights

I can relate with this so much. When kids are articulate and confident, bossy adults have a such a hard time reacting appropriately, that they often result to acting like children. They then resort to telling lies, knowing fully well that the society will often take the word of an adult over that of a child.
by brailsafe | 2025-08-11 16:20:38+00:00
Your link references a Business Insider editorial—possibly written by ai—that intentionally misquotes him.

The title of that article is "GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out."

and in that article, the quote is:

> "Either you have to embrace the Al, or you get out of your career," Dohmke wrote, citing one of the developers who GitHub interviewed.

but the text in the blog post that BI cited was:

> The developers who found success with AI tools have a strong underlying motivation to prepare for what they anticipate will be an overhaul of their profession. To that end, they relentlessly experiment with various AI tools, even when the tools aren’t consistently helpful. “Either you have to embrace the Al, or you get out of your career” one developer said.

Which honestly seems like poor phrasing on the supposed developer's part, but it wasn't the CEO saying it. Entropy all the way down.

Edit: Nevermind, apparently he did say that in various social media posts. It seems like an intentionally outrageous move that's been pretty typical of CEOs lately, but he did say it. Incidentally, I'm happy I'm so out of touch with other social media that I didn't know lol
by leecarraher | 2025-08-11 16:20:53+00:00
my slightly next gen todo is a notebook on my remarkable. added features are sharing between devices, and since it's eink its a good paper like alternative to sticky-notes. For me beating procrastination can be more important than organizing many subtasks.

FWIW, i only use this for work todos and differentiate todo with calendar(paper calendar and dry erase board for home, outlook for work calendar)
by xg15 | 2025-08-11 16:21:08+00:00
That's at least more of an argument than "it never happened before so it cannot happen in the future".

Money cannot disappear, but circulation can be confined to ever-smaller segments of the economy. Let's assume a world in which AI is good enough to do 90% if all white-collar jobs and companies have replaced positions with AI accordingly. Then the amount of money that entered the wider economy through salaries will now stay locked up in B2B transactions between AI companies, their corporate customers and their contractors. How will all the laid-off people get money? Some would probably get into blue-collar work, others will try their hand starting a business (that will also compete with AI), but all of them? What will happen to the businesses that were relying on those employees as customers?
by lukaslalinsky | 2025-08-11 16:21:16+00:00
I don't know if it's Gemini CLI or Gemini 2.5 Pro, but the combination is not even comparable to Claude Code with Sonnet. I was starting with these agent tools several weeks ago, so it was very tempting to use Gemini, instead of paying for Claude Pro, but the difference is huge. In my experience, Gemini was very quick to get stuck in debugging loop, fixing something "one last time" over and over again. Or it got into writing code, despite my explicitly saying not to do so. I'm still trying to figure out if I could use Gemini for something, but every time I try it, I regret it. Claude Code with GLM-4.5 is a good alternative to paying for Claude Pro, it's not as good as Sonnet, but close.
by garciasn | 2025-08-11 16:21:18+00:00
Agents are boon for introverts who fucking hate dealing with other people (read: me). I can iterate rapidly with another 'entity' in a technical fashion and not have to spend hours explaining in relatable language what to do next.

I feel as if you need to work with these things more, as you would prefer to work, and see just how good they are.
by picafrost | 2025-08-11 16:21:19+00:00
That's a fair point - but most of these threads focus on comparing systems rather than discussing whether they are necessary in the first place. I can see how folks with ADHD or similar challenges would benefit from a TODO app (or similar).

I'm more curious about a broader question: at what point does life complexity actually require a formal system versus just mental tracking? Tech people are, for the most part, the only people I encounter actively using and iterating on their TODO solutions, and I am skeptical that in general they lead more complex lives.
by kkfx | 2025-08-11 16:22:04+00:00
Me personally I'm very satisfied by org-mode, but the main point is not org-mode itself but Emacs, or an integrated, end-user programmable environment. Org-agenda handle todos, but in the same notes I handle attachments, runnable live code, links to mails/threads, ... because of that and that's the point: we have a single brain, we need systems who are integrated as well.

Not a gazillion of independent apps lacking also unix CLI IPCs (only cut&paste), but a single integrate, moldable one. Modern software have ERPs as best integrated solution, Emacs is the most integrated one still alive and kicking, Smalltalk workstations and LispM was the best from the past.

Maybe in some more decades, a step at a time, we will be back at such evolutive levels...
by tolerance | 2025-08-11 16:22:16+00:00
I feel like where I live the transition from being a near-novelty service in the city (Uber, Lime) to becoming commonplace even in suburban areas was drastic.

Granted, there really isn’t a method for transitioning; preparing and educating communities in ways that would be effective these days (notices, meetings, outreach).

Then there’s the matter of service style bikes and scooter being too accessible, as evident here.