MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by homebrewer | 2025-04-05 12:07:53+00:00
You already know the answer. It's not just the US — a midrange iPhone costs three median monthly incomes in my country, and they're massively popular: people buy them on credit and then pay out in installments for 1-3 years. It really is a cult.

Americans can be excused as it's a relatively cheap toy for them. Our people I don't understand.
by beejiu | 2025-04-05 12:07:54+00:00
Computer Misuse Act 1990. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/18/section/3

(1)A person is guilty of an offence if—

(a)he does any unauthorised act in relation to a computer;

(b)at the time when he does the act he knows that it is unauthorised; and

(c)either subsection (2) or subsection (3) below applies.

(2)This subsection applies if the person intends by doing the act—

(c)to impair the operation of any such program or the reliability of any such data;
by pards | 2025-04-05 12:08:42+00:00
The title refers to the January 6, 2012 episode, beginning about halfway through the article:

> “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory” is mesmerizing and flawlessly produced. It became the most-downloaded episode of This American Life. There was only one problem. In almost every salient detail, the story was a fabrication.

On March 16, 2012, This American Life, aired the “Retraction” covering Rob Schmitz’s deconstruction of Daisey’s piece (he uncovered at least thirteen lies).

“Immediately after that we started working with professional fact-checkers,” said Glass.
by Spooky23 | 2025-04-05 12:08:57+00:00
Frankly, because the “high value” ads are intrusive and gross.

Getting retargeted for something I bought two months ago on Amazon is annoying. Having Facebook notice I’m no longer in proximity to my wife’s phone and target forensic accountant and dating ads to me is creepy. It’s gross and offensive when it turns out we’re not together because she’s just succumbed to cancer.
by UncleMeat | 2025-04-05 12:09:17+00:00
In the US the government is specifically retaliating against law offices that have done this in ways that Trump doesn't like and those offices are largely caving and offering millions of dollars of pro bono work to Trump.

Leadership within the Democratic party is saying that Trump ignoring court orders is not really a big deal until they ignore an order from the Supreme Court, as if rulings from district and circuit courts somehow don't actually have the force of law.

Spineless cowards, everywhere.
by codedokode | 2025-04-05 12:10:51+00:00
Buying something because you saw it in ads is a wrong choice. If you need something, it is better to make an objective comparison and choose the product with the best properties. I think that for a rational buyer ad should be worthless.

Product makers don't want you to make a rational choice though. For example, take speakers: cheap ones do not have a response curve published at all (so assume worst), and more expensive ones often have a small blurred graph that is averaged to an octave, doesn't show the deviation between different samples of a product and is only for on-axis sound.

And guitars have no spec regarding sound at all except for trivial things like scale length, weight etc.
Show HN: Composer Web – cursor extension for vibe coders
by saketsarin | 2025-04-05 12:11:47+00:00
I've been using Cursor, Co-Pilot, ChatGPT, Claude and what not since quite some time now, and we are at a stage where we can just "vibe code" whole apps from idea to execution in a few prompts. I tried this personally to create some side projects that solved little problems for me. But I always got stuck at a point where it just goes into an infinite loop of issues and can't solve the issue by itself.

Well I'm a developer, so it's easier for me to dive into the code and solve the problem myself, but that would take a hell lot of time to understand all the code AI wrote for me. If I keep wanna "vibing", I would just give it the screenshot of my current webpage view along with the console logs, and even network requests if its connected to some APIs

But even this took quite some manual effort and time, so I decided to solve this problem for myself when I created Composer Web

It solves that problem seamlessly by sending all your logs, reqs, and screenshot of your webpage altogether directly to your cursor chat, in just one-click and LESS THAN A SECOND.

I made this open source and it kinda blew up. So I'm looking for people to help me maintain this and build it further for more use cases like iOS Simulator logs, AWS Cloud Console logs and even extend the support to other open source IDEs like Cline, Aider, etc.

I'm also open to any feedback and suggestions you have for me. So feel free to comment here, or ping me on the discord given on the github repo

btw it also support iOS simulator screenshots now, so you can build both websites and iOS applications way easier now!!

Hope it makes your vibe coding flow even easier and hassle-free :D
by herval | 2025-04-05 12:13:24+00:00
Look up what happened when he tried to strongarm China in 2018. China simply switched their supplier to Brazil, and never fully returned as a buyer of the American product.

Trump’s ship of fools is tossing the US to the sidelines of the global trade, in particular due to his inability to work with anyone else. EU is rearming, they won’t need “america’s protection”. Latin America (with the only exception being Argentina) is stronger than ever as a trade block, and getting courted by EU and China. Africa is aligning with China for a decade. India is going up the ladder, from US’s cheap labor center to a country producing goods for their own consumption. Even Israel seems completely uninterested in joining the “green list”.

Everyone will find more reliable trade partners, and the American people will be left hanging with this supposed “upper hand” trump supporters dream he has
by jerkstate | 2025-04-05 12:13:28+00:00
> This feels sarcastic?

Wasn’t my intention but maybe I was laying it on thick.

I misspoke, the service job categories I referenced can be done withOUT a college degree, that probably should have been obvious because it included the categories “retail” (which, as you noted, can be done in a coma) and “hospitality” - but wouldn’t it underscore my point even more if you could make more money in manufacturing without a college degree than the largest sectors of service, with a college degree?

I didn’t include the service categories that require substantial amounts of post-secondary education such as “healthcare” and “financial.”

Anyways now you’re calling me disingenuous so I’m going to disengage. I hope despite a small mistake on my part, you can still see my point. Have a nice life!
by squigz | 2025-04-05 12:13:38+00:00
How do you define social media? The use of algorithms to drive engagement? HN does use algorithms, though, such as upvotes/downvotes/flags influencing which stories/comments are seen more, and then there's the second chance pool. These algorithms may be more basic than those of, say, Facebook, but they are there. So what's the difference?
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-04-05 12:13:52+00:00
> We've adopted a model where we expect most content we consume to be free, paid for by ads.

I didn't adopt this. I wasn't consulted about it, and whenever possible I (and many others) voice very strongly our hatred of this model. We want it gone and will do everything in our meager power to avoid/disrupt/disengage from it.
by UncleMeat | 2025-04-05 12:14:20+00:00
RBG had more power than almost anybody else on the planet to protect Roe by retiring when the dems had the ability to confirm a replacement. She chose not to. Frankly, I don't think she's the best source of wisdom for practical politicking around protecting abortion rights.

Do you really think that federal abortion protections would stand up to this court? They aren't even able to stand behind EMTALA protecting abortions when it is essential for the health of the pregnant woman. There is absolutely no way that federal legislation protecting abortion up to viability would resist conservative challenge in the courts given the supreme court's current makeup.
Distributed P2P LinkedIn query system
by aakashkathuria | 2025-04-05 12:14:37+00:00
Linkedin (free version) is extremely search restrictive for a social network, economically makes sense for them with all the professional data/ networks, but i'm tired of making inroads for finding data on what career paths are available only to be popped up with irritating "limited search results to be viewed" or "opt for Linkedin premium" to view more profile, etc.

As a result was wondering if we could build a distributed query system (p2p) which leverages user's own LK accounts and queries LK and sends curated results.

It should be free for everyone to use - their currency is giving the platform access to their LK profile.

What do you folks think?
by jqpabc123 | 2025-04-05 12:16:23+00:00
Let's go back to basics --- show me the evidence that a large scale trade war is "winnable".

It's the economic version of the "nuclear option". There are no "winners" --- everyone loses. And those who will lose the most are largely Trump voters.

WalMart shoppers, prepare to be gouged.

This is absolutely unprecedented. No country in history has ever intentionally engaged in economic self harm to this extreme.

Over $10 trillion wiped from equity markets in 4 months. The same companies that are supposed to "Make America Great Again" have just been handicapped --- in more ways than one.

This is how you "Git er' done" with Larry the Cable Guy as leader of the global economy. It would be funny if it wasn't so serious.
by xnorswap | 2025-04-05 12:16:49+00:00
LLMs ought to be good at generating simple substitutions too, but they're not: https://claude.ai/share/9495246c-b77a-496e-8643-dbc5ec58dbcb

It tries but it fails to both generate and apply a simple substitution. It starts substituting based on applying the substitution twice to some letters.

It was a very frustrating time I spent trying to solve it, especially after asking to confirm it had created a 1:1 mapping.

Since it has no reasoning, it just lies about having done so.
by raffael_de | 2025-04-05 12:17:42+00:00
> Look up what happened when he tried to strongarm China in 2018. China simply switched their supplier to Brazil, and never fully returned as a buyer of the American product.

Okay, let's have a look ... well, this statistic doesn't back up your claim:

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/exports/china

> Trump’s ship of fools

Which is actually part of his strategy. You need fools that commit outrageous claims, threats and actions. Then he can play the good cop when it makes sense and just fire the fool. That is basically applied game theory on a meta- and psychological level.

> Everyone will find more reliable trade partners

No, they won't and everybody knows that.
by DonHopkins | 2025-04-05 12:17:53+00:00
The TRS-80 has TROFF and TRON!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQoL_qpYbW0

More useful but not quite as magical as DECSYSTEM 10 and DECSYSTEM 20 BASIC's "LISTREVERSE" command!

https://web.archive.org/web/20210713130832/https://imgur.com...

Chalk one up for DEC and BASIC. What other programming languages support that feature, huh?

Now all you need is a COMEFROM and COMESUB and RUNREVERSE (or NUR) statements, and you can write reversible BASIC programs!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_computing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Clock_World

DECSYSTEM 20 BASIC User's Guide: LISTREVERSE command LISTREVERSE LISTNHREVERSE LISTREVERSE and LISTNHREVERSE print the contents of the user's memory area in order of descending line numbers. LISTREVERSE precedes the output with a heading, LISTNHREVERSE eliminates the heading. LISTREVERSE EQUIV 10:53 13-NOV-75 40 END 35 PRINT "THE EQUIVALENT CURRENT IS",I, " AMPERES" 25 I=E1/R 10 INPUT R 5 INPUT E1 READY

http://bitsavers.org/www.computer.museum.uq.edu.au/pdf/DEC-1...

http://bitsavers.org/www.computer.museum.uq.edu.au/pdf/DEC-2...

Emacs should have an edit-reverse-mode!
by iamtedd | 2025-04-05 12:17:58+00:00
Where is this choice?

I don't have control over what certain qualities ad companies deduce and store about me. I can't even ask them to pretty please show me fewer ads if I give them all my data.

Do you think someone with a Google account, using every one of their products and being tracked every which way sees less advertising across the web, as opposed to someone without an account?

I do, however, have direct control over whether ads are shown to me or not, through blockers.

This is the only leverage I have in this unfair deal, so I'm damn well going to exercise it.
by Avicebron | 2025-04-05 12:18:34+00:00
Right. I want to make it clear I wasn't saying "I support Ayn Rand's thought's on Platonism", what I wanted to convey was my interpretation of what Rand/Piekoff Wrote and why I think they read Plato and had the reaction they did.

I'm not a professional philosopher, but I think the nebulous nature of how Plato addresses forms and shapes is difficult for someone from a Randian Materialistic viewpoint to accept.

I think that even at it's weakest interpretation, the concept of forms and shapes at least provides an avenue for aspirational meditation as we can discuss what an "ideal" of a thing (food, medecine, political ideaology, etc) might be
by mcv | 2025-04-05 12:18:37+00:00
That's what drove up housing costs after we switched from single to double income households. But before that, but before that, people in lots of countries could afford a house and a family on a single income, despite competition from other countries.

It's not that this situation was unsustainable or only attainable for the US; this situation should have been the norm, with the additional income just providing extra luxury or time off, but instead we got screwed through artificial scarcity and more money going to the very rich instead of the working and middle class.
by pornel | 2025-04-05 12:18:44+00:00
Facebook and Google+ tried to do this with their realname policies. It doesn't work as well as one would expect:

• Toxic assholes are not deterred by their name being attached to what they're saying, because they think they're saying righteous things and/or fighting bad people who don't deserve any respect.

• People self-censor, because they don't want to risk upsetting some random violent stranger on the internet who can track them down.

• People who don't use their legal name publicly have trouble participating. This impacts transgender people, but also people using stage names/pen names, and stalking victims.
by Spivak | 2025-04-05 12:18:44+00:00
Betteridge's Law is strong with this one. The lede is buried at after all the sob stories about guys who discovered they were pedophiles because recommendation algorithms are really good as showing you what you want to see. This is all just pretext to the UK government's massive privacy overreach and censorship.

> Along with other countries, the UK is bringing in tighter controls on the porn industry. Porn sites will be required to have age verification processes in place by July to stop children viewing their content, a process that will be monitored by Ofcom under the new Online Safety Act (OSA). But the OSA does not ban or control certain common practices in porn, such as strangulation, sexual fetishisation of incest or the abuse of children acted by adults. The government argues depiction of sexual strangulation is banned but a recent in-depth review of porn by Baroness Bertin, a Conservative peer, warned it is not, in reality, covered by case law. She called for tighter regulation of “legal but harmful pornography like choking, violent and degrading acts … even content that could encourage child sexual abuse”. While headlines picked out the call to ban strangulation, Bertin also demanded clearer rules around “incest, step-incest and ‘teen’ porn”.

I think the people pushing these moral purity bills need a wake-up call about what women find hot. Because this worldview makes no sense once you know that these "violent and degrading acts" are extremely common fetishes among women who play the part of the "victim." It's not men who are reading gothic horror where incest one of the tamer depictions. The problem in the real world is that, despite the public perception otherwise, guys are generally deeply uncomfortable playing out the other side of these kinds of fantasies.
by UncleMeat | 2025-04-05 12:19:00+00:00
Even if there ever was a coalition of 60 pro-choice senators, it wouldn't matter. Federal abortion protections would need to be passed under the commerce clause and would obviously be challenged and struck down by the 6-3 court. Even EMTALA, which ties federal funding for hospitals to a requirement that hospitals provide abortion care for pregnant people when a pregnancy is a serious threat to their health, is being challenged in court (and successfully blocked in the 5th circuit). The challenge would be even easier for the right if there's no connection to serious threats to the health of the pregnant woman.

All of these "you should have ignored the courts and focused on legislation" arguments aren't based in a lick of reality.
by herval | 2025-04-05 12:19:08+00:00
Plenty of celebrities & other rich people left. Just because you didn’t read it on Fox News, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. You can easily google and see.

Trump already backpedaled on his tariffs a handful of times. I agree his strategy is bad, from a game theoretical perspective. He’s eroding trust with partners for nothing at all. Just like he ran all his businesses.
by soraminazuki | 2025-04-05 12:19:17+00:00
You can't just make extraordinary claims [1][2], demand rigorous citation for those who question it, even going as far as to word lawyer the definition of cognition [3], and reverse the burden of proof. All the while providing no evidence beyond what essentially boils down to "anything and everything is possible."

> Vague phrases mean nothing.

Yep, you made my point.

> Do you see the difference?

Yes, I clearly state my reasons. I can confidently claim that LLMs are no replacements for programming languages for two reasons.

1. Programming languages are superior to natural languages for software development. Nothing on earth, not even transformers, can make up for the unavoidable lack of specificity in the hypothetical natural language programs without making things up because that's how logic works.

2. LLMs, as impressive as they may be, are fundamentally computerized parrots so you can't understand or control how they generate code unlike with compilers like GCC which provides all that through source code.

This is just stating the obvious here, no surprises.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43567653

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43568699

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43585498
by aziaziazi | 2025-04-05 12:19:18+00:00
> Every adult that eats meat is quite aware of what goes on to bring it to his table

> They are knocked out first, so it is quite humane

Those two statements contradicts themselves: most of the chicken aren’t knocked out, or failed to be. It’s however easier to finish your dish if you don’t bother evaluating agroindustrial marketing material (and the cute kid’s farm you saw when toddler)

Same happen with "caws eats grass", "this fish was sustainably catch because the label said so", "that chicken had a mn happy life because it’s an organic one".
by colesantiago | 2025-04-05 12:19:31+00:00
This is brilliant and necessary, Leetcode needs to die and a means to an end in the age of AI.

For our business we don't use Leetcode, the future looks something like paid bounties and in person interviews.

tinycorp from George Hotz does the very same thing of paid bounties to get hired there.

The highly talented people will do this for fun, while those who aren't will self select themselves out.

(0) https://tinygrad.org/#worktiny
by coldpie | 2025-04-05 12:21:06+00:00
> The idea is that people can't take new ideas in as they age makes zero sense to me.

Hmm. My counter to this would be that I agree it isn't impossible, but would take such an enormous amount of voluntary effort that no one would spend it to completely update their information about the world.

To give a non-controversial example, take dinosaurs. Almost everyone who grew up before about the year 2000 thinks of dinosaurs as big, scaly lizards, myself included. That's what we were taught, that's what all of our culture showed us, that's what our museums contained. It was the pervasive view for well over a hundred years before we were even born. But now we know that many of them had feathers! This is an uncontroversial fact, but almost everyone currently over the age of 30 is wrong about it, and everyone under the age of 30 has the (currently believed to be) correct view!

Now think about how many other facts we were taught 30+ years ago. Which do we now know are wrong? What cultural beliefs did we learn growing up, that are now outdated and believed to be harmful? What systems do we need to have to update those beliefs? Given current evidence, will those systems actually work? Relearning information and modifying your lifelong habits is really, really hard compared to children learning new information. I don't think the vast majority of people would put in the effort. I think science and culture would stagnate. Death is the process by which we give power to younger people, who have better information to work with than we did. Death is how we make cultural and scientific progress.

While this is something I feel strongly about, I also understand your point of view. I'm open to being convinced otherwise, but I think the folks working in longevity fields really need to think about and address these problems before they open Pandora's Box and eliminate natural death. I'm not convinced their work is good for humanity.
by rglullis | 2025-04-05 12:22:23+00:00
> there's the fact that the only thing discussed in those places is how terrible the thing they're trying to replace is.

If you only go check it after there is some major news that get people talking about it, then yes you'll probably end up seeing mostly this annoying meta-conversation around the Fediverse.

However, if you manage to stick around just a bit longer you will see that there is a tiny-but-growing number of people who are using Mastodon/Lemmy/Peertube "just" because they have found enough interesting people and conversation.

There is also nothing stopping you from taking initiative and starting the conversation around other, "better" topics. I made a habit of posting at least 3-5 links every day to Lemmy. You can always push out some introduction post on Mastodon with some relevant hashtags to see if you can help bootstrap a community, etc.

[0]: https://communick.news/u/rglullis?page=1&sort=New&view=Posts