MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aloisius | 2026-02-03 22:43:20+00:00
While I don't quite have the same problems as others have, there are some pain points.

Stepping through the debugger too fast will sometimes put the debugger in a weird state where step never breaks again and all other breakpoints stop working.

Git pull through the UI with stash and merge can blow away your local changes if there is a conflict. The changes aren't stashed. They're just gone.

Xcode likes to sometimes recompile files that haven't changed slowing everything down, sometimes significantly depending on the file. No idea why.

It can get very confused if you're missing a parenthesis in the wrong place in a SwiftUI View leading to opaque swift compiler errors about code being too complex.

Even mildly complex use of a swift #Predicate will cause an error about it being too complex forcing you to break them down into smaller pieces and even then it takes far too long to build even on a brand new machine.

The simulators are quite slow to start/update/run and xcode sometimes fails to shut them down completely when quitting leading to them just continually running eating memory unless you kill the processes manually.

The simulators also are really limited in their functionality. No background processes, spotlight, network degradation simulation, out of memory killer, etc.

The profiler sometimes just fails to start an app correctly, immediately ending a run forcing you to close the profiler and reopen it again before it'll start working.

Symbol refactor (rename) can be painfully slow where the UI just locks up until it can find all the references.

Xcode likes to duplicate package dependencies in xcodeproj. It just creates new hashes for the same library and adds it as a dependency over and over again, so when the link phase happens, it adds libraries repeatedly over and over and over again unless you manually clear them out. Not sure what causes this, perhaps updating the version or merges between users.
by necovek | 2026-02-03 22:43:45+00:00
That's interesting, how does Chrome implement "sandboxing" in Windows and MacOS? For Linux, does it use the same underlying technology as Docker, Podman, LXD, LXC (cgroups, namespaces...)?

Or is a custom "sandboxing" implementation not relying on system level functions (eg. a VM with restricted functions)?

If the latter, I wonder if something like JRE or .NET CLR is still out there in larger numbers, but obviously, Chrome does have billions of users.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-03 22:44:07+00:00
> And let’s be clear: this is a vanity project for Xi. Taiwan would have voted, eventually, to peacefully join China if pre-Xi trends continued. But he needed it on his watch. Hence the stupidity.

From what I've been hearing from my buddies still in the NatSec space what matters at this point is the 2028 Taiwanese Election and maybe the 2028 Philippines Election. If neither see a definitive victory for either side in 2028, it gives a face saving off-ramp for the Xi admin to argue they brought the "Taiwan Problem" back on track to the pre-2014 status quo. Of course they could be closeted KMT/TPP supporters but it does come down to the 28 elections.
by anigbrowl | 2026-02-03 22:44:12+00:00
If China gets bogged down in Taiwan

The odds of them losing militarily are virtually nil. They could face an insurgency, but there isn't a whole lot of rural Taiwan for insurgents to vanish into and occupying cities is a lot easier absent language and cultural barriers. The could be isolated politically and economically, but realistically China's territorial claim on Taiwan is on far firmer legal and historical ground than many other territorial disputes (eg their control over Tibet).

I don't see the US involving itself directly. What are they going to do, counter-blockade? Start a naval shooting war with a full-on nuclear power on the other side of the world? I don't see Japan backing that either, despite their natural anxiety over the vulnerability of the Ryukyu islands. Support for US bases in Okinawa is ambivalent at best, and while Japan is surely not thrilled about Chinese regional hegemony it's also a reality they've dealt with for thousands of years.
by rvnx | 2026-02-03 22:44:31+00:00
I've seen that during harassment; in one YouTube live the woman claimed:

"today it's my husband to take care of him because sometimes my baby makes me angry that I want to kill him"

but she was saying it normally, like any normal person does when they are angry.

-> Whoops, someone talked with 119 to refer a "worrying" situation, baby removed. It's already two years.

There are some non-profit fighting against such: https://lenfanceaucoeur.org/quest-ce-que-le-placement-abusif...

One worker explains that they don't have time to investigate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG9y_-4kGQA

so by default they tend to accept

That being said, it's a very small % obviously not let's not exaggerate but it's quite sneaky.
by quickthrowman | 2026-02-03 22:44:36+00:00
> It's the SI unit, what else do you want to use lol?

HVAC companies in the US exclusively use ‘tons’ to describe the amount of heat a chiller or heat pump can move. Trane, Daikin, and more all use ‘tons’ on both their marketing and engineering material.

1 ton ~= 3.56kW, but a 1-ton chiller will use ~= 1kW of electricity to remove 3.56kW of heat due to the COP of 3-4 for an air cooled chiller.

Daikin Chillers: https://www.daikinapplied.com/products/chiller-products

Trane Chillers: https://www.trane.com/commercial/north-america/us/en/product...
by SpaceManNabs | 2026-02-03 22:45:12+00:00
> Sabu was put under pressure by the FBI, they threatened to place his kids into foster care.

This is pretty messed up btw.

Social work for children systems in the USA are very messed up. It is not uncommon for minority families to lose rights to parent their children for very innocuous things that would not happen to a non-oppressed class.

It is just another way for the justice/legal system to pressure families that have not been convicted / penalized under the supervision of a court.

And this isn't the only lever they use.

Every time I read crap like this I just think of Aaron Swartz.
by whh | 2026-02-03 22:45:32+00:00
Author here. Mate, negativity just makes it harder for other voices to feel like they can be heard. Nobody should fear sharing their opinions… let’s be collaborative and show others how it’s done.

The approach I’m suggesting relies on the same secure enclave/TEE infrastructure passkeys use. Over 95% of iOS and Android devices are passkey-ready, TPM 2.0 is required for Windows 11 (although there are adoption issues here) but over a billion people have already activated a passkey. You’re right that coverage isn’t universal, but it’s broad enough to build on and beats uploading your passport to a third party.
by sfink | 2026-02-03 22:46:17+00:00
> It is better to leave the PR commits separate and atomic so reviewers can digest them more easily.

So reviewers have to digest all of the twists and turns I took to get to the final result? Why oh why oh why?

Sure, if they've already seen some of it, then there should be an easy way for them to see the updates. (Either via separate commits or if you're fortunate enough to have a good review system, integrated interdiffs so you can choose what view to use.)

In a better world, it would be the code author's responsibility to construct a meaningful series of commits. Unless you do everything perfectly right the first time, that means updating commits or using fixup commits. This doesn't just benefit reviewers, it's also enormously valuable when something goes wrong and you can bisect it down to one small change rather than half a dozen not-even-compiling ones.

But then, you said "atomic", which suggests you're already trying to make clean commits. How do you do that without modifying past commits once you discover another piece that belongs with an earlier step?

> You just squash on merge.

I'd rather not. Or more specifically, optimal review granularity != optimal final granularity. Some things should be reviewed separately then squashed together (eg a refactoring + the change on top). Some things should stay separate (eg making a change to one scary area and then making it to another). And optimal authoring granularity can often be yet another thing.

But I'll admit, git + github tooling kind of forces a subpar workflow.
by lynndotpy | 2026-02-03 22:46:35+00:00
I come from Linux land so I'm used to things being lightning fast, so using software on a Mac requires a thousand workarounds. A terminal integrated into the IDE is one of those necessary workarounds.

MacOS has very very slow slow window- and desktop- switching (over one FULL second to switch from one desktop to another - this is not a joke!) so having a terminal integrated into the same application is very useful for maintaining flow for users developing on a single-screen Macbook.
by 1718627440 | 2026-02-03 22:46:50+00:00
I also had that issue when setting up a server. I decided to disable the enforcement for the initial sync and then enable it.

Email only has two really mandatory headers: Date and From. There were emails without a Date header, you can't make that shit up. Naturally MUAs also can't deal with this, e.g. Thunderbird shows the timestamp of the first sync.
by its_magic | 2026-02-03 22:47:04+00:00
You seem to be unaware of the basic fact that government--laws and legal systems--is men with guns.

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." - George Washington

It's difficult to have a conversation with someone so profoundly ignorant of reality. Do some research and stop wasting our time with your angry rantings.
by general1465 | 2026-02-03 22:48:04+00:00
Well the issue is that a lot of people believe that space is cold. If you will ask Google/Gemini what is a temperature of space, it will tell you:

The average temperature of deep space is approximately -270.45°C or 2.73 Kelvin), which is just above absolute zero. This baseline temperature is set by the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiatio...

Which is absolute nonsense, because vacuum has no temperature.
by autoexec | 2026-02-03 22:48:12+00:00
We could not allow foreign investors to buy up properties in the US to use as short term rentals (airbnb) when they could instead be purchased by Americans and filled with families. We could also increase vacancy taxes to help encourage property owners to fill the millions of empty homes found all over the country. We could also decrease the wealth gap so that more Americans have enough money that they don't have to wait until they are 40 years old to buy their first starter house. (https://nypost.com/2025/11/05/real-estate/median-age-of-firs...)
by throw310822 | 2026-02-03 22:48:14+00:00
I have no idea, but it's funny that some people think this is a smart question that will make them score a point.

Why would Jews want to live as the Palestinians in the West Bank or Gaza, when that means living under occupation, being subjected to Israeli military law, being powerless against settlers violence and the prepotence of Israel? And what would they do, immigrate there from New York and start a farm, with a pinky promise that they won't turn into settlers and seek to join Israel?

And of course it would be risky, when they are so easily associated with the settlers and the occupying power- no point in denying it.

Nonetheless, there are entire large Palestinian clans that claim to descend from Jews and retain some of their customs: a famous example is the Makhamra family.
by divan | 2026-02-03 22:48:22+00:00
I don't have this problem. I bought iOS Anki app for myself many years ago. What I found hard is to recommend it to others, who never heard about spaced repetition yet, especially to young students, who arguably is the main target audience for this kind of tools. They just not jumping into buying 25$ app to try it. As soon as you start mentioning switching to laptop, using web/desktop - they're not jumping into it either. I don't know maybe you all have different experience, but that's what I experienced over the years and it always felt sad, because this price is a prohibitively high for many people.
by ethin | 2026-02-03 22:48:29+00:00
This is what I keep saying. If these LLMs were truly as revolutionary as the hype claims, these companies wouldn't need to shove it in your face and into every thing imaginable and to beg you to use it. It wouldn't surprise me if someone tries shoving one of these into your boot loader or firmware one of these days. Then again, I also see pro-LLM people making the "Well, humans do x too" arguments too, which of course ignores the fact that if an LLM is substituting for whatever came before, then you must compare what the LLM does to how whatever it's replacing was before it, and if the LLM provides little or no improvement, then it is actively making things worse, not better.
by scubbo | 2026-02-03 22:49:51+00:00
> It also can't be denied that he is an intelligent person. You can hear it when he talks in interviews.

While I certainly won't deny that I do strongly disagree with all of Elon's politics, I'm being as fair and unbiased as I can when I say - we must be listening to different interviews. The man sounds like a caricature of a bumbling college stoner philosophy student most of the time.
by stickfigure | 2026-02-03 22:49:52+00:00
I can't accept this strange definitional divide between interpersonal trust and social trust. Trust is an infinitely grey experience, and varies situation to situation and time to time.

Trust is just a word we use to describe how confident we are that the future will correspond to our expectations. Friends can lose the money you gave them to buy something, credit card machines can fail, AIs can order you the wrong product, I could get in a car accident on the way to the store. Do I "trust" that these schemes will go smoothly? Well, mostly (except the AI one).

I don't see a category error because there aren't categories here.
by aleph_minus_one | 2026-02-03 22:50:11+00:00
> But unfortunately, as the success of Facebook and Google have shown, most people really don't care about their privacy.

In particular concerning Facebook:

The very radical stances that people have concerning Facebooks (i.e. both the success of Facebook, and the existence of people who are radically opposed to social media sites) rather shows that both stances are very present in society and the trenches between these stances run deep.
by olliepro | 2026-02-03 22:51:37+00:00
Much of the scientific medical literature is behind paywalls. They have tapped into that datasource (whereas ChatGPT doesn't have access to that data). I suspect that were the medical journals to make a deal with OpenAI to open up the access to their articles/data etc, that open evidence would rely on the existing customers and stickiness of the product, but in that circumstance, they'd be pretty screwed.

For example, only 7% of pharmaceutical research is publicly accessible without paying.
See https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7048123/
by moribvndvs | 2026-02-03 22:51:38+00:00
Thanks for the response. So Stelvo’s sell is through its opinionated approach regarding architecture and defaults. I realize elevator pitches are tough especially when there are lots of competing solutions, but maybe some sort of short and sweet “us vs them” comparison on the home page would make that sell easier. Like many of my peers I’m sure, I’ll admit I have little time and patience to click through to get to the obligatory question of “why us”.

Anyways, not sure who went on the downvote spree or why (it wasn’t one account), and I admit it didn’t seem likely your team would be doing it since you folks were actively discussing, but I couldn’t think of why someone else would do it either. Anyways, sorry and thanks for your time.
by jjkaczor | 2026-02-03 22:51:43+00:00
Neither does your wife divorcing you at about the same time things started to go through legal process...

Oops... yeah, in retrospect it was even worse... no... you can and should be judged by the friends you keep and hang-out with... The same ones who seem to be circling the wagons with innocuous statements or attempts to find other scapegoats (DARVO)... hmm, what was that quote again:

"We must all hang together or we will all hang separately"
by bandrami | 2026-02-03 22:51:56+00:00
"Why isn't there better software available?" is the 900 pound gorilla in the LLM room, but I do think there are enough anecdotes now to hypothesize that what agents seem to be good at is writing software that

1. wasn't economical to write in the first place previously, and

2. doesn't need to be sold to anyone else or maintained over time

So, Brad in logistics previously had to collate scanned manifests with purchase requests once a month, but now he can tell Claw to do it for him.

Which is interesting given the talk of The End of Software Development or whatever because "software that nobody was willing to pay for previously" kind of by definition isn't going to displace a lof of people who make software.
by tomjakubowski | 2026-02-03 22:52:01+00:00
> they … aren’t compatible with commits that leave unstaged files in your tree.

It's a little surprising that git doesn't pass pre-commit hooks any information, like a list of which files were changed in the soon-to-be-made commit. git does so for pre-push, where it writes to a hook's stdin some information about the refs and remotes involved in the push.

I wonder if many pre-commit hooks, like the kind which run formatters, would be better off as `clean` filters, which run on files when they are staged. The filter mechanism makes it easier to apply just to the files which were changed. In the git docs, they even use a formatter (`indent`) as an example.

https://git-scm.com/book/ms/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Attribute...
by tjohns | 2026-02-03 22:52:29+00:00
Cars don't need high octane fuel, aircraft do. Outside of the absolute smallest aircraft, you can't get enough power out of automobile gasoline.

They started looking at it 14 years ago, but there's been tons of bureaucratic roadblocks that have impeded progress. (Depending on who you ask, the petroleum companies were responsible for some of these.)

Even today, there are reports that the new unleaded avgas formulations cause engine damage, and we don't entirely know why that's happening. So there's still technical issues to work out. (But it's important, so folks are trying to solve them as quickly as possible.)
by MrDrMcCoy | 2026-02-03 22:52:31+00:00
The I-prefix stands for Imatrix smoothing in the quantization. It trades a little more accuracy for speed than other quant styles. The _0 and _1 quants are older, simpler quants that are very accurate but kinda slow. The K quants, in my limited understanding, primarily quantize at the specified bit depth, but will bump certain important areas higher, and less used parts lower. It generally performs better while providing similar accuracy to the _1 quants. MXFP4 is specific to Nvidia, so I can't use it on my AMD hardware. It's supposed to be very efficient. The UD part includes more of Unsloth's speed optimizations.

Also, depending on how much regular system RAM you have, you can offload mixture-of-expert models like this, keeping only the most important layers on your GPU. This may let you use larger, more accurate quants. That is functionality that is supported by llama.cpp and other frameworks and is worth looking into how to do.
by parl_match | 2026-02-03 22:52:41+00:00
> It really gives the game away.

Does it?

That kingston ram is DDR5-5600, with smaller memory sizes, and has a longer warranty. This suggests that the product is binned memory from a line that is relatively mature (and by extension low failure rates).

And, because it's clocked lower, it runs cooler, which reduces failure rate.

On top of that, server memory is usually binned more strictly. And, it usually has bits missing for ECC, custom controller firmware, and cutting edge processes for packing more memory into the form factor.

Now as a consumer you may think an LED is "riced" out, but I think custom firmware on your ram built for your application is way more "riced".

> None of that stuff actually helps

It probably actually does, especially for "high end" ram. IE stuff running at much higher transfer rates. Heat and voltage are the enemies of stability here

On top of that, server ram has a higher expectation of cooling quality than consumer, which can be anything goes.
by ninininino | 2026-02-03 22:52:52+00:00
He didn't "start out" when LLMs were growing or at the time he founded a symbolic AI startup.

He "started out" a lot earlier, he wrote a book in 2001 and his written 8 books in total and has publications in academic journals like Cognitive Psychology dating back to 1995.

The world didn't start when LLMs got popular.
by empiko | 2026-02-03 22:53:18+00:00
> So it is just a case of older people pulling the ladder up behind themselves.

Is it though? I have a feeling that previous generations were simply happy with less. Now we are so connected and everybody wants what they consider the standard according to social media: huge house in the most prominent city in their country, N exotic vacations every year, meaningful job, etc. But this would be a pretty tall order even 20 or 40 years ago.
by saagarjha | 2026-02-03 22:53:18+00:00
> Starting a 'cold' debug session into a UI application may take 10-ish seconds until applicationDidFinishLaunching is reached, and most of that time seems to be spent with loading the symbols for hundreds of framework DLLs which are loaded during application start (which I never even need because I can't step into system frameworks anyway) - and seriously, why are there even hundreds of system DLLs in a more or less hello-world-style Metal application with minimal UI?

This is so you can see function names for system frameworks. You can step into them if you want too even if Xcode tries to stop you doing it by default.
by graypegg | 2026-02-03 22:53:43+00:00
I know the whole concept of fruitger aero as an era/visual aestetic is a bit contrived, and there's a multitude of great reasons I've been told by very smart people that it's not worth the (what I'm told is) imagined nostalgia... but I was born at exactly the right time to make this specific style crack a smile out of me. Sorry, I think it looks neat.

Really nice job to the author of this, there's a ton of passion and fun baked into this.
by DrewADesign | 2026-02-03 22:54:02+00:00
> I dunno, tbh I'd be in the camp of putting a banner 'run this at your own risk' and then let it go wild. Some people are going to get burnt, probably quite bad, but I guess it's more effective to learn like that rather than reading stuff upfront and take necessary precautions and maybe these will be cautionary tales also for others.

Maybe we should take the same approach to bridge design! Think of the efficiency! Slap a disclaimer on that bad boy and see how many people choose to use the bridge at their own risk. I’m sure we can just assume people aren’t doing irresponsible things like driving school buses over it, and even if they were, it’s their own responsibility.

It’s really not so bad if you focus your messaging on how many people won’t die… and’s they’ll all lean from the mistakes of the dead and choose a more reliable bridge. And it would be so much cheaper and faster to build bridges so you’d have a fraction of the downtime. I think it’s a winner!

Sure there would be larger consequences for the local job market and such when they get disrupted, but hey… if you’re going to make an omelet…