MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by riedel | 2025-08-03 05:24:38+00:00
I like my Z13. Despite the non-thinkpad look, they finally did a bit of engineering together with AMD to get the cooling working again (copying from the Mac as well). It the least Thinkpad I ever had (no hardware track point buttons), but I am still quite happy (the x395 was a cooling catastrophy IMHO). However, i agree wrt repairs. I had my mainboard, my screen and my keyboard replaced, due to broken cables and switches, which ridiculous. My case is fully intact opposite to all my other think pads. The worst thing however is the firmware of the USB/charging controller with this laptop. It often does not really pre-boot with USB connecte, it often needs to be hard reset to get charging to work again,... Lenovo firmware/BIOS is a huge mess because IMHO they simply have too many models. They should offer one X and one T and make those good ones again. (Or just sell the ThinkPad brand to someone producing good keyboards for framework laptops and as external keyboars: i actually spend nights on eBay trying get an external ThinkPad Keyboard with German layout, because they seemed to have stopped production. Prices are skyrocketing: used ThinkPads are cheaper that used keyboard: tells you a lot)
by trane_project | 2025-08-03 05:24:59+00:00
Sure, no problem in pointing it out. I did not hide the fact and I invite anyone to do their own research. The comments mostly draw from David Kilpatrick’s book “Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties”.

It’s a very academic book and I didn’t see anyone in the comments aware of orthographic mapping. The critique of direct instruction can also be found there. No intervention that does not train phonemic awareness to the advanced level had the massive results of those which do. That also applies to OG, which was mentioned in the thread.

Not selling anything yet, that page is a placeholder. But I will have a free and untimed version that should be enough to fix most reading difficulties caused by phonemic deficits.

Which I can do without worrying about cannibalizing my own business because I am not selling a reading app, but a complete path to mastery of reading and writing to college level and beyond. That hopefully helps clarify the difference in price.
by bookstand | 2025-08-03 05:25:00+00:00
Both are Israel based companies. It didn’t buy Okta as it is not Israel based company which is a better bet than this given Okta is really beaten down stock. Why did they realize now when stocks are at all time high. They should have honestly bought it a year back. CyberArk real price is around $250 and palo is buying for $450. The worst price one could buy.
by nitin_j11 | 2025-08-03 05:26:27+00:00
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by hansvm | 2025-08-03 05:27:17+00:00
I don't think that's true with current-gen models. You can even go so far as to write pseudocode for the LLM to translate to a real language, and for anything out-of-the-box my experience is that it will blatantly ignore your instructions. A baseline-competent junior at least has the context to know that if there are 5 steps listed and they only did 3 then there's probably a problem.

Prompting an LLM is definitely a different skillset from actually coding, but just "describing it better" isn't good enough.
by jhanschoo | 2025-08-03 05:27:49+00:00
In addition to other comments, see https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2024/12/11/fermats-last-th...

In particular, note that a key lemma of crystalline cohomology rests on a mistake. Experts think that it is fixable by virtue that results have depended on it for a long time and no issue was found, but it is not fixed.
by vatican_banker | 2025-08-03 05:29:01+00:00
Do it!

I was in your situation in 2023 and decided to quit without a job lined up. I rested for 2 months and then, out of nowhere, I had energy and motivation to start exercising again and start working on my mental health (with the help of a therapist/professional coach). I would recommend to have one single expectation if you decide to quit: rest.

All in all, quitting the toxic workplace and taking time off was the best thing I’ve ever done.

It took me 7 months to get an offer, 9 to actually start working.

Be prepared to be out of work for ~1 year.
by viraptor | 2025-08-03 05:31:16+00:00
They didn't, that's why I explicitly wrote "or ignored the existence of competing features/products for ages".

But they sure write releases like that's implied.

> iPhone introduces an entirely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering new software, letting users control iPhone with just their fingers.

Large display existed before, "just fingers" control was... always the case, the interface was quite polished, but it existed elsewhere, etc. But if you didn't know that, reading the announcement sure sounds like it's never been done before. It's the multi touch that makes the combination novel.
by duttish | 2025-08-03 05:32:26+00:00
Two thoughts

I think a larger house like she's living in makes it a lot easier to mitigate "the bad room mate" problem mentioned in a lot of comments. They likely have some filtering and process to kick someone out if they turn out weird. And recruitment is hopefully easier if you have 4 other people looking for a 5th than posting an ad somewhere.

This does seem like a potential solution for the male loneliness epidemic. I think it would be harder to check out if you're around other people. Their house seems _very_ women-styled with cooking dance parties, twerking in the garden and the ingredients. But that's just one house, each house has their own style.

Before I met my partner I looked into communal living spaces, and if this doesn't work out I might do so again, and give it a shot. I don't think living on my own is good for me long term. I get too isolated.
by corysama | 2025-08-03 05:33:10+00:00
The history of C++ has been one long loop of:

1. So many necessary common practices of C++ are far too complicated!

2. Std committee adds features to make those practices simpler.

3. C++ keeps adding features. It’s too big. They should cut out the old stuff!

4. The std committee points at the decade-long Python 3 fiasco.

5. Repeat.
by AndyNemmity | 2025-08-03 05:33:19+00:00
I don't believe it is good enough, it's also not as relevant.

my prompts have gotten less and less. It's the hooks and subagents, and using the tools that matter far more.

This is a thread about claude code. the other LLms don't matter. Nothing ever blatantly ignores my instructions in claude code. that's a thing of the past.

Of course, not using claude code, for sure. But all my instructions are followed with my setup. That really isn't an issue for me personally anymore.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-03 05:33:57+00:00
It may be envy, but I’m still not sure a direct comparison makes much sense, given how much of a different creature engineering LLMs is from what most devs are doing.

I think negative feelings are coming from more of a “why are they getting paid so much to build a machine that’s going to wreck everything” sort of angle, which I find understandable.
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by derek39576 | 2025-08-03 05:34:07+00:00
Hi HN – I hacked together AlephAI (https://alephai.net/) because I kept reaching for Runway’s Gen-4 Aleph model but wanted a dead-simple, single-page UI I could put in front of non-technical teammates.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-08-03 05:34:45+00:00
I didn't find them useful when I wrote my entries. LLMs get confused with code that "looks like" other code, and that intentional misdirection is half the fun of a good IOCCC entry. Plus, the morality filters get annoying once you obfuscate the code. Plugging an unsubmitted entry into Gemini, it refuses to even explain it because it thinks it's malware.
by kelnos | 2025-08-03 05:35:17+00:00
Yes, sometimes you are actually indeed holding it wrong. Sometimes a product has to be used in a certain way to get good results. You're not going to blame the shampoo when someone uses only a tiny drop of it, and the hair remains dirty.

This is still early days with LLMs and coding assistants. You do have to hold them in the right way sometimes. If you're not willing to do that, or think that provides less value than doing it another way... great, good for you, do it the way you think is best for you.

I've been a coding assistant skeptic for a long time. I just started playing with Claude Code a month or so ago. I was frustrated for a bit until I learned how to hold it the right way. It is a long, long way from being a substitute for a real human programmer, but it's helpful to me. I certainly prefer it to pair programming with a human (I hate pair programming), so this provides value.

If you don't care to figure out for yourself if it can provide you value, that's your choice. But this technology is going to get better, and you might later find yourself wishing you'd looked into it earlier. Just like any new tool that starts out rough but eventually turns out to be very useful.
by joules77 | 2025-08-03 05:35:33+00:00
Philosophers have been thinking about this for a long time.

Why does the Vatican survive collapse of empires, nations, world wars, plagues, internal schisms, the enlightenment, reformation, revolutions etc etc? And they have identified so many pieces. Ask ChatGPT. Ask it to talk about what Charles Taylor, Wendy Brown, Arnold Toynbee, Lynn Margulis say about longevity.

Its not about optimization and efficiency. Because the system has to survive unpredictability. More complex. More unpredictable. Something Engineers/Technologists are trained to avoid. Which is why they are all quite lost when it comes to transforming social/political systems. Priests (doesn't matter which Faith) and Politicians are trained to deal with it. Not sweep it under the carpet and pretend to be clever. The bill shows up sooner or later.
by sabedevops | 2025-08-03 05:35:40+00:00
I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
by adastra22 | 2025-08-03 05:36:20+00:00
Also the capacities for SSDs have barely budged. Many years ago I went all-out and equipped my PC with a 4TB SSD. Just last week I went SSD shopping for the first time in ages.. and 4TB was the largest drive anyone had. It's a few generations later and the new NVME/PCIe standards mean faster, lower-latency drives. But where are the 8TB, 12TB, or 24TB drives?
by kelnos | 2025-08-03 05:37:47+00:00
> People learn, LLMs don't - end of story.

That's not the end of the story, though. LLMs don't learn, but you can provide them with a "handbook" that they read in every time you start a new conversation with them. While it might take a human months or years to learn what's in that handbook, the LLM digests it in seconds. Yes, you have to keep feeding it the handbook every time you start from a clean slate, and it might have taken you months to get that handbook into the complete state it's in. But maybe that's not so bad.
by hansvm | 2025-08-03 05:39:15+00:00
It's not free, but it's not expensive.

Server load at that scale is measured in single-digit dollars per month, and bandwidth _might_ require two pipes with enough images being loaded. Multiply by 20 for replication and latency issues, and you're still only talking $200/month.

As a ballpark, even bad ad impressions bring in $10/mille, maybe $1/mille for something unintrusive. Does Anandtech get more than 200k impressions per month? If we're talking about a "hundreds of thousands of requests per minute" scale then I would certainly hope so.
by bharath1097 | 2025-08-03 05:39:22+00:00
I took a break from work for family reasons for 2 years and started looking for jobs earlier this year (I have 10+ years of experience) and I had a really hard time finding a job. Attended a ton of interviews, 2 times companies started the offer process and pulled back in the middle and I had to ultimately reach out to connections from old jobs to get hired. In my experience, it has never been this hard to get a job.
by illiac786 | 2025-08-03 05:40:16+00:00
I do agree that this is not being roommates but rather having (paying) guests.

I just would like to nuance the power a landlord holds. It really depends where you live. I live in Germany since a while now and renters have very very strong rights, they can just as well make the life of the landlord impossible. They can stop paying and it’ll be months, maybe even years, before he can kick them out.
by ptero | 2025-08-03 05:42:35+00:00
Yes. But Google being Google it got top notch planning advice from world class auction experts that Goldman pulled in to advise them on the IPO.

Most companies without such expert advice could step into some pitfalls. Just a guess, I am not an expert, but if my company were doing an IPO I would prefer it not to play financial games to eke out a percent of IPO price and instead focus on long term price stability to become a solid stock. My 2c.
by kelnos | 2025-08-03 05:43:25+00:00
That's the thing for me too: I don't want to pay for the agent's mistakes, even if those mistakes are in part the fault of my prompt. I'm fine with having usage limits if it means I pay a fixed cost per month. Not sure how long this will last, considering how expensive all this is for the companies to run, though.

I feel like Amp's costs are actually in line with Sourcegraph's costs, and eventually Anthropic, OpenAI, et al. will all be charging a lot more than they are now.

It's the classic play to entice people to something for low cost, and then later ramp it up once they're hooked. Right now they can afford to burn VC money, but that won't last forever.
by etempleton | 2025-08-03 05:43:56+00:00
Zuckerberg is one of the reasons I think AI is a bubble and overhyped. He lacks vision. Remember when they renamed the company Meta and the metaverse was the whole future of the company?

This is the same thing. It is the new shiny tech demo that is really cool. And technically works really, really well and has some real uses, but that doesn’t make a multi billion dollar business.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-08-03 05:44:01+00:00
I think a culture which views suing for everything as legitimate and the very peculiar and frankly weird specificity which enabled it to - the existence of punitive damages and them going to the other party - has a lot more to do with it than helicopter parenting.

I always find it surprising that American lament the death of shared spaces - because that’s what public spaces are - when it’s pretty obvious that they don’t actually want to spend time with each other. I mean two comments under this one you will find a commenter explaining that the situation is to be blamed on the other half of America they dislike. Well, that’s not very conductive to an environment where public spaces thrive.
by ff12wq111 | 2025-08-03 05:45:40+00:00
Thank you for the encouragement! Your point about abstention being a vote itself is really insightful - we're actually planning to track that as a signal for when topics need more discussion.

I'll definitely share lessons learned. Honestly, we don't know if this will work, but current alternatives aren't working either, so worth the experiment.

Appreciate the well wishes!
by AlecSchueler | 2025-08-03 05:45:56+00:00
> the assertion was not that young people have a 'clear preference' not to have children,

No, and the comment indeed ignored the very visibly growing "child free" movement popular with the younger generations in a way that framed it as unintentional.

> it was that they just have a clear preference to engage in a behaviour that, as a side-effect, lowers birth rates.

I understood this as well but if we're going to be picky about what was actually said then your use of "just" is unfair here. They actually didn't go one way or the other in it being coincidental or intentional.

> by asserting that I "understand" the commenter is trying to 'coerce [me] ...

I haven't implied this. I asserted that you understood that singling out the effect on birth rates over the effect on chocolate sales wasn't done arbitrarily. Did you understand that? Framing it as "just asking questions" obscures the obvious socio-political undertones and feels dishonest.
by jemmyw | 2025-08-03 05:46:10+00:00
> If the 1930s ESP experiments showed anomalies, lets reproduce them and learn something new.

There's not really anything to learn. There's no widespread evidence of ESP going on. The experiments back then were evidence enough that it doesn't exist. Yes, there were statistical anomalies, but perhaps you are misinterpreting the meaning of that phrase? If you roll a dice and get a 6 ten times in a row, and then you roll it more times and show a regression then you had an anomaly. If you continue rolling 6 then it's not an anomaly, it's evidence of something else. In those experiments they got anomalous sixes, but wanted to believe it was evidence so made up a story about ability fading or other explanations.

There are various things that people want to believe, and they'll keep coming up for as long as there are people. We each have so many thoughts and feelings and a long enough life that in our lifetimes there will be a few instances where a thought or feeling circumstantially matches reality in a way that makes us believe something more is going on. Most of the time its probably harmless and not worth getting worked up about. Sometimes it deserves investigation, and when disproof is not heeded, a bit of ridicule might prevent future scams.
by birn559 | 2025-08-03 05:46:22+00:00
Do they point at python 3? They were committed to backward compatibility long before python3 happened.

To me it feels like they have fleshed out key paradigms so that is not a mess anymore. They are not there yet with compile time evaluation (constexpr consteval,...), at least with C++20, not sure if it's mostly finished with C++23/26.

The language itself and std is quite bloated but writing modern C++ isn't that complicated anymore in my experience.
by hmottestad | 2025-08-03 05:47:41+00:00
In Oslo we seem to have a problem with trucks. Just in the past year, two people have been run over and killed by trucks. One was where the truck driver was reversing and another where the truck driver did an illegal right turn over a pavement.

Recently there has been a case in the courts where a truck driver didn’t yield to a cyclist and killed her. The narrative from the national truck association was basically that the cyclist was at fault. Even the courts were in on it, only when it got to the highest court did it seem that anyone was willing to blame the truck driver.
by kelnos | 2025-08-03 05:47:50+00:00
Calling what vibe coding, though? If you're reviewing, understanding, and testing everything that the coding assistant outputs, then you aren't vibe coding.

If you're just letting the coding assistant do its thing, uncritically, and committing whatever results, then you're vibe coding.

It sounds like you're not vibe coding. That's good. No need to throw away a useful term (even if it's a weird, gen-Z sounding term) that describes a particular (poor) way to use a LLM.
by radicality | 2025-08-03 05:47:57+00:00
They exist but definitely more painful to use at a home setup since their formats are more server oriented, like U.2/U.3 or E1S and few others. And for course the prices - you can get 30,60 TB (and even more), but it’s gonna be >$4k.

And versus the normal M2 drives, the larger server grade are more annoying. For example, I got recently a 15.36TB Kioxia Cd6-R in U.3 format, for $1.3k, which is not bad for ssd prices. After getting the right adapters and fitting it inside a minisforum ms-01. It’s working fine, but it immediately reached its “critical” temperature (while doing nothing) so I had to attach a big fan and cool it. All the larger SSDs which are meant for server rooms will expect lots of cooling.

https://www.serversupply.com/SSD/PCI-E4.0/15.36TB/KIOXIA/KCD...
by musicale | 2025-08-03 05:48:21+00:00
> Learning Chinese with a phonetic alphabet (bopomofo) is pretty common as far as I know, maybe just in Taiwan though. I suppose China mostly uses pinyin for this now.

I have also seen this in learning materials:

1. Putting the phonetic spelling (e.g. pinyin or bopomofo) in small print above the characters; a similar approach (furigana) is used for kanji in Japanese (in language textbooks and apps as well as books for beginning readers); there are special fonts as well as browser extensions, etc.; for Chinese/hanzi a font with phonetic superscripts would probably work well.

2. Phonetic sets; in addition to semantic elements/radicals, many characters also contain a phonetic element, which may not be exact (perhaps a bit like phonics in English) but studying groups of characters that share the same phonetic element can help with figuring out pronunciation or recognizing less familiar characters.
by Jensson | 2025-08-03 05:48:33+00:00
> Bro I really really hope you are not trying to compare wrongful cancellation and rape.

You have to compare such things. A cancellation if strong enough has ruined your entire social life, all your friends and family now shuns you, that is worse than rape. Of course a "cancellation" which is just some posts online and stays online is not a big deal, but some victims of false accusations do get their entire social life destroyed. Historically rape did lead to such cancelations for the woman, she was no longer fit for marriage and was seen as used goods, so then it was worse of course, but we no longer see it that way.