MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chandureddyvari | 2025-09-14 03:41:39+00:00
There were other HN posts suggesting BMAD, ccpm, conductor, etc. I considered giving it a try. They were quite comprehensive, to the point where I was exhausted reading all the documentation they’ve generated before coding - product requirements, epics, user stories/journeys, tasks, analysis, architecture, project plans.

The idea was to encapsulate the context for a subagent to work on in a single GitHub issue/document. I’m yet to see how the development/QA subagents will fare in real-world scenarios by relying on the context in the GitHub issue.

Like many others here, I believe subagents will starve for context. Claude Code Agent is context-rich, while claude subagents are context-poor.
by charcircuit | 2025-09-14 03:41:43+00:00
>If there is a small icon on my laptop screen, no amount of me moving closer will magically add resolution. But if there is a small icon in VR, leaning in will resolve more detail.

It works for laptops too. You either are starting too close or your monitor is not high enough resolution.

>can pinch-zoom on a photo, there’s nothing you can do that lets you peer closer at an interface element and get more data than is already there

That's what the pinch zoom gesture does already.

>Like, imagine looking at the tiny wi-fi icon in the top bar on your home screen. Simply lean your head towards it a little (unconsciously) and you are able to read the name of the current wi-fi network;

The author overestimated the willingness of people to want to read small text along with not being able to sit still.
by TheFreim | 2025-09-14 03:42:13+00:00
I can see particular applications of the law being unconstitutional, i.e. improper rationale for designating a group as being a foreign terrorist organization, but generally speaking I don't expect there would be any constitutional issue with preventing people charged with materially supporting terrorism from being able to flee the country using a passport.

Is there any section of the constitution that you think would be violated by the letter of the law?
by antonvs | 2025-09-14 03:42:48+00:00
What’s evil about the current situation is that the system tries to have it both ways: bring in cheap foreign labor, but in such a way that makes it easy to exploit them and hard for them to become permanent residents or citizens.

If the country’s goal was really to avoid direct competition with people outside its borders, you wouldn’t deliberately import so many of them, and you’d also take steps to prevent businesses from depending so much on undocumented immigrant labor.

Now, you might say that you don’t agree with the government’s position on all these things, but in that case you ought to be more in line with the comment you replied to.
by wkat4242 | 2025-09-14 03:44:11+00:00
> Also, studies have shown people focus more on negative (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias) and sensational (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salience_(neuroscience)#Salien...) things (and thus post/upvote/view them more), so an algorithm that doesn't explicitly push negativity and sensationalism may appear to.

This is exactly why it's a problem. It doesn't even matter whether the algorithm is trained specifically on negative content. The result is the same: negative content is promoted more because it sees more engagement.

The result is more discontent in society, people are constantly angry about something. Anger makes a reasonable discussion impossible which in turn causes polarisation and extremes in society and politics. What we're seeing all over the world.

And the user sourced content is a problem too because it can be used for anyone to run manipulation campaigns. At least with traditional media there was an editor who would make sure fact checking was done. The social media platforms don't stand for the content they publish.
by CMay | 2025-09-14 03:44:23+00:00
That website has a list of professors they claim were interfering with, educating against or are openly against free speech.

https://www.professorwatchlist.org/tags/anti-1st-amendment

I just randomly clicked one of the professors in that list:

- "Shaviro has been suspended after he posted on Facebook that it would be better for people to kill their political opponents than to protest them. In a now-deleted post, Shaviro wrote:"

- “So here is what I think about free speech on campus. Although I do not advocate violating federal and state criminal codes, I think it is far more admirable to kill a racist, homophobic, or transphobic speaker than it is to shout them down.”

That's straight from the website, which may or may not be accurate or true. The way it looks, is still about the way it looks given the larger context of the rest of its post.

It's particularly relevant given the recent events.
by petesergeant | 2025-09-14 03:45:11+00:00
I’ve been journaling for 15 years. Top tip: remove any need at all to do it “right”. Have a time in the day to do it, and be comfortable with writing just one word, or two sentences, or an essay, just whatever comes out. The best kind of journaling is the one you actually do, and even five-word entries written ten years ago will transport me back to what I was feeling and thinking. Every failed attempt I’ve seen or heard of has people feeling they have to write an essay.
by latentsea | 2025-09-14 03:45:53+00:00
Even if you can't get to 100%, it would still make sense to strive for as large a % of renewables as you could achieve. So, that's going to involve batteries necessarily.

For context I work at a company in Japan working on this problem. The entire reason the company exists is Japan's energy policy in response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Batteries are severely underutilized in Japan at this point in time, so we can at least vastly improve on where we are.
by webstrand | 2025-09-14 03:46:36+00:00
It sounds like you're describing a query builders which, unlike true ORMs, don't attempt to mask the object-relational boundary. They only help you build queries in a convenient way and sometimes type-safe way. Query builders are great.

ORMs are not query builders. The problem with ORMs is that they hide the query logic from you. It's not clear what's getting joined in, how its getting joined in, or if its actually 1 or N queries. The further you get from a straight query builder, too, the fewer SQL features you have access to, such as parameterized joins, CTEs, window functions, etc. Sometimes you can hack those into the ORM, but often you have to resort to string concat and build the parameterized query and arguments manually.

I've never used Exposed, but from what I can tell it's kind of a hybrid? the query builder parts look great, but I'd still be wary of the ORM parts.

I've never had a good experience debugging performance issues in ORM-generated queries. Maybe I haven't used the right ones, but the libraries I've used have gone out of their way to hide how the query is actually being executed and only have obtuse levers to tweak that execution. Sure you can see the raw logs of what queries the ORM executed, but you can't easily figure out why its chosen a particular strategy. Or you can't easily make it stop using a pathological join ordering.
by ntnsndr | 2025-09-14 03:46:42+00:00
I was speaking at a conference recently and was asked to chair the session at the last minute. It was hybrid, so all the speakers needed to share their slides on Zoom. I have been daily driving Linux for 14 years, and this has almost never been a problem (there was a moment with i3 but it seems better). But I hadn't bothered to test this since installing (and generally loving!) PopOS COSMIC.

The problem, at root, is Wayland. Zoom has some kind of workaround it seems, but it's not working yet in COSMIC.

The result was sad: speakers having to speak with their slides being run by one of the remote speakers, and anyone who recognized the computer running Zoom as Linux surely strengthened their conviction never to try that.
by beeflet | 2025-09-14 03:47:50+00:00
The intention is to express political dominance. By panicking and responding emotionally, you are feeding the trolls. It is as much an ego trip for the right to act oppressive (within the bounds of "the rules") as it is for the left wing to act oppressed.

If the democratic party is going to win, they need to succinctly and stoically state a handful of memorable counterpoints to appeal to the common man. What we have had for the past decade is a ton of noise from the mainstream media explaining a million reasons why we should oppose Trump. The left wing does not equip it's supporters to argue against the right well.

Trump won in 2016 rattling on about Hillary's emails. Trump didn't give a million reasons for us to oppose Hillary, he had 1. He would have a single canned response and name for each of his opponents. The point is you have to agree on a couple of memorable weak points to attack.
by jchw | 2025-09-14 03:47:52+00:00
The Wayland protocol "lacks" some things "by design" in that they are not specified. However, this is not intentional omissions, not even under the guise of "security", it's stuff that simply hasn't been done yet.

The most promising work towards improving accessibility support in Wayland was the work done on the Newton protocol:

https://blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2024/06/18/update-on-newton-the...

Unfortunately, the project appears to have stalled. I think the Linux desktop just lacks important strategic investments, and this is one of them. For now, existing accessibility bus support in UI toolkits is mostly being leveraged. Some compositors (i.e. KDE's kwin) also can support some old X11 features used for automation/accessibility (i.e. XTEST works, although applications will need to be granted permission first)

The situation is somewhat similar for IME: There are a few protocols for handling basic IME/text input, but it's not really finished, and further work on text input protocols has stalled.

This is not an ideal state of affairs at all, and it is a major threat to the future of the Linux desktop. I doubt many Wayland proponents (of which I do consider myself to be one) seriously believes that shipping Wayland-only without robust support for accessibility or internationalization is really a good idea. It's basically only happening because progress on Wayland has been rather slow, for many reasons, a lot of which really aren't in the control of open source contributors or maintainers. However, at the same time, maintaining both X.org and Wayland paths everywhere forever is also not sustainable: with limited resources, there simply has to be a point at which the line is drawn. X.org outside of XWayland has been unmaintained for a fairly long time.

On the flip side, if anyone working on Newton or Wayland accessibility has any idea what anyone on the outside can do to help things along, we'd love to know. I really hope that one of the major investors in the free software desktop (Valve? Red Hat?) can be convinced to help shift some resources to this. It's one thing to have some software work somewhat sub-optimally (as is the case with KiCAD), but it's a bigger issue that users who upgrade to newer free operating systems may face a system that is not usable for them because of limited accessibility tools. Possibly a compliance problem for companies that wish to ship systems based on free software desktops.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-14 03:49:46+00:00
> in the end it's a presentation issue.

Whoah there, no, that's a huge pitfall of sharpened spikes as soon as you deal with events in the future.

If someone proposes an after-work party for "5:30 PM" at the Latverian office in Latverian time, that's not a fixed offset of seconds from now, it's actually a set of triggering conditions.

We can make a decent guess about when those conditions will be satisfied, but don't actually know until it finally happens. At any moment, the administration of Dr. Doom could arbitrarily change the country's clocks. They might skip over that entire hour, or the hour might repeat on that day, or the entire country might cease to exist.

Making a prediction in UTC and storing just that is a very bad idea, because you lost all the original context you need to recalculate a better prediction as things change. Storing the "5PM in Latverian" is how we keep that context.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-09-14 03:49:51+00:00
> On the software side, acessibility aside, there are a lot of VNC and other remote-X setups out there with no viable replacement in sight (yet).

I've been using wayvnc for probably 5 years now? Works great. Sway can output fine to virtual-crtc out for headless mide; I expect other compositors can use this part of your GPU too. If you really desperate & your Wayland server just can't for no reason, get a DisplayPort dummy plug for $15.

I know less about others but krfb and gnome-remote-desktop are both there. KDE is recently kicking off a bunch of work to make sure their login manager is remote friendly too.

> I do not appreciate when it turns into tribalism, forcing of monoculture and insisting "X11 is deprecated".

Most of the devs doing X11 agreed en masse that it was at a dead end and not worth caring for anymore. It's not tribalism. It's technics.
by necovek | 2025-09-14 03:50:18+00:00
I am curious if the math is right for the 100k income tax rule?

In an example of reduced personal allowance (£110k earnings, taxed at 40% rate above 52k, additional 5k becomes taxable), it's not clear at what rate is it taxable?

I would guess at 20% (part of less than 52k), so you are really adding 1k to your tax bill, so instead of 34k you are paying 35k (for a rate of 32% instead of 31%). Even if it was taxed at 100%, in the worst case (124k, no allowance), you'd be adding 12k to you tax bill, for a rate of 41% — still a far cry from the claimed 60%, but also better off than 45% in the next tax bracket.

Can anyone clarify what's going on here? Or does this include the loss of child benefits too? Does it not depend on the number of children too?
by o11c | 2025-09-14 03:51:33+00:00
Let's do the math. If each Wayland implementation supports an independent 95% of what users need, then:

* With 0 implementations, Wayland is good for 100.0% of users

* With 1 implementations, Wayland is good for 95.0% of users

* With 2 implementations, Wayland is good for 90.2% of users

* With 3 implementations, Wayland is good for 85.7% of users

* With 4 implementations, Wayland is good for 81.5% of users

* With 5 implementations, Wayland is good for 77.4% of users

* With 6 implementations, Wayland is good for 73.5% of users

* With 7 implementations, Wayland is good for 69.8% of users

* With 8 implementations, Wayland is good for 66.3% of users

* With 9 implementations, Wayland is good for 63.0% of users

* With 10 implementations, Wayland is good for 59.9% of users
by roshin | 2025-09-14 03:52:07+00:00
I think this is the bill https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/news/press-releases/house-f...

It still annoys me to no end that MSM refuses to link to the original source.

Here's the quote

> Authorizes the State Department to revoke passports to any individual who been charged, convicted, or determined to have knowingly aided, assisted, abetted, or otherwise provided material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-14 03:52:23+00:00
At this time, the conversation about what he said has been going on for so long (nearly a decade) that nobody is under any obligation to present more context. His position on these topics was pretty clear.

I don't think he should have been shot for his beliefs. I do think his beliefs included the idea that it was important for people to be armed independently of the government, and if that means more people get shot than would otherwise, that's an acceptable price to pay. After all, "Having an armed citizenry comes with a price, and that is part of liberty. Driving comes with a price -- 50,000, 50,000, 50,000 people die on the road every year. That's a price. You get rid of driving, you'd have 50,000 less auto fatalities" (https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-its-w...). In context, it's clear that if his philosophy is consistent, his death should fit his own "with a price" criteria (same as if he'd died in a car accident on the way to the event).

... Incidentally, this is an interesting discourse because he goes on to suggest that the solution to school shootings is armed guards. Kirk had a five-member security detail and the support of six members of the campus police. If this appearance was consistent with past ones, he also had a bullet-proof vest under his shirt. So it appears Kirk was wrong about one hypothesis at least: not even armor and a security detail guarantees the safety of the first person in the crosshairs.
by yepitwas | 2025-09-14 03:53:51+00:00
IME the cost savings of having a good piracy set-up (good = won't lose a ton of stuff on a single disk failure; streams well to your viewing devices in a way that normal people and visitors in your house can use without help) isn't even that large. I definitely wouldn't bother if I didn't have to have it to have (convenient) access to quite a bit of stuff I can't get any other way.

But once that's set up... adding more to it adds basically zero more marginal work, and when everything's in one interface the UX is crazy-better than any legitimate option on the market. So, may as well.
by tibbar | 2025-09-14 03:53:53+00:00
Left unsaid is why this practice can be so meaningful. I think it's just that: these are the questions you wish someone else would ask you. When we're stressed, angry, grieving, lost, I think we all yearn to have someone care about us enough to ask these questions, to let us open up, to not be alone.

And while I think it's great when that can actually be another person, whether it's a friend, or partner, or therapist, it is still surprisingly calming, healing, even, when we pose the question to ourselves, and then really wait to hear the answer.
by LocalH | 2025-09-14 03:54:23+00:00
Whatever happened to "be the better man". Stoop to the perceived level of your worst enemy and you're just like you perceive them to be.

Kirk shouldn't have died. But he also didn't say very nice things about people who aren't white males. There's a difference between celebrating his death and merely saying "he wasn't a very nice person unless you were white and male". Unfortunately, those two are being conflated. The very first listing on "charliesmurderers.com" is a woman who states in her tweet "I don't believe violence is ever the answer. It just makes everything worse" and "I hope Charlie survives", in response to those taking issue with her worrying that some further far-right Kirk followers might see this as an opportunity for "revenge". She did not champion his death. She didn't celebrate it. She just raised a point.

Unfortunately, he was killed by someone who didn't think he was as far right as they wanted. Ever heard of a "groyper"?
by j7ake | 2025-09-14 03:54:45+00:00
There are plenty. The author is over exaggerating the prestige of CMU compared to other institutes outside of the USA.

Just in the western countries:

Toronto, Cambridge, ENS in France, the many max Planck institutes in Germany (eg Tubingen), the two federal institutes in Switzerland.

Faculty positions in any of those are likely to be better than CMU (in terms of start up package, funding, quality of students, quality of faculty, and ability to hire people).
by contrarian1234 | 2025-09-14 03:55:04+00:00
> arbitrary interference with privacy

So if it's non-arbitrary, but systematic and consistent then anything goes?

The linked article has a great anachronism providing protections against

> attacks upon his honor and reputation

haha

> the ability of one to remove themselves or information about themselves from the public

This is completely divorced from reality.. This is pure fantasy in the digital age...
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-09-14 03:55:38+00:00
By all means feel free, but know that you commit yourself to an endless task; every compositor has to have every feature implemented independently. The big two, GNOME and KDE, will need to be handled completely independently. After that, you can ease the process by getting support into wlroots, but that merely makes it easier per compositor; you'll still need to submit patches to every consumer of the library to actually wire up support. (For a worked example: wlroots has a way to set the keyboard layout. This does not mean that every compositor using wlroots has a way to set keyboard layout.)
by teleforce | 2025-09-14 03:56:39+00:00
The standard risk model based on SCORE-2 and PREVENT like parameters are very poor as reported in the recently published paper on the their accuracy performance by the Swedish team [1].

>All of these risk factors can be measured with a blood test + doctor review

As all CVD risk stratification with cardiologist review, the most important accuracy is sensivity (avoiding false negative that will escape review) of SCORE-2 and PREVENT, 48% and 26%, respectively [1].

The paper alternative proposal increased the sensitivity to 58% by performing clustering instead of conventional regression models as practiced in the standard SCORE-2 (Europe) and PREVENT (US).

These type of models including the latest proposal performed very poorly as indicated by their otherwise excellent and intuitive display of graphical abstract results [1].

[1] Risk stratification for cardiovascular disease: a comparative analysis of cluster analysis and traditional prediction models:

https://academic.oup.com/eurjpc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/...
by geodel | 2025-09-14 03:56:50+00:00
> A nativist academic culture in STEM in the US would completely destroy any R&D capacity that even exists today.

Well, considering all other countries mentioned here are just hiring native people who worked in US. Indians are not hiring Chinese, or Europeans or any other than natively Indians. Same for Chinese or others. So nativist policy can for those countries but not US is strange.

If one sees crowd at US embassy or consulates in India, US has nothing to worry about talent not trying hard to come to US.

All this analysis about US downfall seems kind of assuming that rest of the world is doing lot better. Traveling to India in last few years and experiencing first hand tells me believing even 1% of these hype generators of India is believing too much.
by kashunstva | 2025-09-14 03:58:14+00:00
My wife, daughter and I are Canadian-U.S. dual citizens. We live in Canada. It is exhausting trying to reason through the decision of how to advise our 17 year-old on her post-secondary plans. She has opportunities to study at eminent institutions in the U.S. but is it wise? The broad attack on U.S. education at the hands of the current administration is extremely off-putting.
by Animats | 2025-09-14 03:58:22+00:00
Sigh. As I point out occasionally, the halting problem very rarely comes up in practice. Combinatorial explosion, yes, but not actual undecidability.

Understanding the implicit constraints of C/C++ functions is something where an LLM can help. Once you have the constraints recorded, they become formal constraints at the call. Historic C isn't expressive enough for even basic constraints.

Most of the constraints mentioned are at least expressible in Rust.
by aborsy | 2025-09-14 03:58:49+00:00
Nothing specific to pass. It’s just Yubikey setup with GPG; that’s part of the appeal!

https://github.com/drduh/YubiKey-Guide

This guide covers many adjacent topics; the relevant part is generating the secret key inside Yubikey, or in an airgapped system and doing “key-to-card” in gpg.