MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ty6853 | 2025-04-16 18:14:33+00:00
Personally I prefer the low-tax individualistic model, but my point is that I would also defer that a high-tax model would also present balanced incentives if they better reciprocated an investment in children.

The argument for taxes is usually something along the lines of forming a society, but society is almost totally gone when you make the investment in a child to become productive but then magically appears as soon as the kid is productive. As we are finding out this bastardized model is not working out for kids or parents.
by throwanem | 2025-04-16 18:14:49+00:00
All good to know, I appreciate it! The HR and O2 sat on this Band 7 line up pretty well with my old finger clip thing, but I haven't really benchmarked it more than that. I do now also have a T-Rex 3 en route, and for an order of magnitude higher cost, I expect to see it perform at least as well.

I wasn't really in the market for a smartwatch, if I'm honest; I haven't bothered with one in at least a decade. But a wearable I can program to this extent, with this interface and sensor suite, as cheaply as these things sell for? Unless they develop a habit of exploding on my wrist or I decide I really do hate bracelets after all, I genuinely can't imagine finding an enormous amount not to like.
Ask HN: How do you talk about past jobs you regret in interviews?
by newacc250218 | 2025-04-16 18:14:51+00:00
I'm currently interviewing for new roles and while I did do some pretty cool work in my last role, I really struggle to talk about any of it in a remotely positive away. It's a period of my life where I was mostly unhappy and the endless arbitrary deadlines only compounded it, resulting in me staying there for several years too long just from feeling too busy to look at alternatives. While I don't think very highly of the company or upper-management, my disappointment and regret is mostly directed towards myself for not getting out of there years earlier.

Obviously complaining about the company or my personal situation at that time to a new prospective employer is an absolute no go. With how long I stayed it's virtually impossible to talk about older roles or just blitz my way through listing out the technologies I used; I have to talk about this one role, in detail, multiple times with every company.

Has anyone else had to deal with a similar issue? What kind of solutions did you come up with for it and have you done anything since to ensure you don't wind up in similar situations again.
by whalesalad | 2025-04-16 18:14:57+00:00
recent? they've been doing this for decades.

person a: "I just got an new macbook pro!"

person b: "Nice! I just got a Lenovo YogaPilates Flipfold XR 3299 T92 Thinkbookpad model number SRE44939293X3321"

...

person a: "does that have oled?"

person b: "Lol no silly that is model SRE44939293XB3321". Notice the B in the middle?!?! That is for OLED.
by djmips | 2025-04-16 18:15:42+00:00
Further to Accolade - briefly mentioned in the article - Allan Miller one of the “Gang of Four,” photo about the start of Activision went on to start Accolade but it was also destroyed by SEGA's legal actions despite winning it's court case. However while that was being decided, SEGA had already been previously granted a months long injuction against the sale of Accolade's legally reverse engineered game cartridges for the Genesis / Mega Drive which cut off the life blood of the scrappy publisher and lead to it's eventual demise even if they were to later win in court.
by specialist | 2025-04-16 18:16:13+00:00
I happily pay.

And I continue to use NetBeans, VS Code, Eclipse as needed (or desired).

eg Mike Lischke's (awesome) ANTLR4 plugin for VS Code has features not in Terr Parr's (et al) IntelliJ extension (and vice versa).

Switching back and forth is nothing sauce.
by dtagames | 2025-04-16 18:16:43+00:00
There is always a positive takeaway after you get enough distance from something. My last studio was a complete catastrophe. I was angry for a while after they laid us all off. But I realized that I had been given a college education in how Big Gaming really works and been paid 2 years of salary to attend. I took that education to do my next thing that I'm working on now.
by ziddoap | 2025-04-16 18:16:56+00:00
I noticed that in my top 20 similar users, the similarity rank/score/whatever are all >~0.83. However, randomly sampling from users in this thread, some top 20s are all <~0.75, or all roughly 0.8, etc.

Is there anything that can be inferred from that? Is my writing less unique, so ends up being more similar to more people?

Also, someone like tptacek has a top 20 with matches all >0.87. Would this be a side-effect of his prolific posting, so matches better with a lot more people?
by paxys | 2025-04-16 18:17:28+00:00
OpenAI isn't selling GPT-4 or o1 or o4-mini or turbo or whatever else to the general public. These announcements may as well be them releasing GPT v12.582.599385. No one outside of a small group of nerds cares. The end consumer is going to chatgpt.com and typing things in the box.
by 9rx | 2025-04-16 18:19:21+00:00
> the egg market in the US has gone from 4% cage-free in 2010 to 39.7% cage-free in 2024.

What does that really mean, though? A farmer down the road produces "free-range" chickens. While it is true that the operation is technically setup for it, which is what is required to meet certification, never in my life have I seen the barn doors open.
by chowchowchow | 2025-04-16 18:20:15+00:00
I am certain you can find more than one quote of his relating to Project 2025. In any event this also doesn't disagree with what I said more broadly, which is, he was not forthright about his plan to do exactly what Project 2025 said, so you can't say he's doing exactly what he said. But anyone with a hint of insight could understand that was his plan.

I'm responding to someone who said Trump is doing what he SAID he would do, and that is all I intended to correct.
by ashvardanian | 2025-04-16 18:20:17+00:00
It's a good start, but I was hoping for more data. Currently, it's only around 114 GB across 2 languages (<https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/wikimedia-foundation/wikiped...>):

- English: "Size of uncompressed dataset: 79.57 GB chunked by max 2.15GB." - French: "Size of the uncompressed dataset: 34.01 GB chunked by max 2.15GB."

In 2025, the standards for ML datasets are quite high.
by methods21 | 2025-04-16 18:20:34+00:00
How can any trade be made and not know 'who' made the trade? Doesn't every trading account need to be registered/identified in some manner? KYC right? At a minimum the account holder would want to transfer funds to/from account....

I can't even buy sudafed without 3 forms of ID, yet we have 'invisible' traders of millions of dollars?
by EA-3167 | 2025-04-16 18:20:45+00:00
You seem to be arguing for a more superficial definition of sex? I think that fits better with gender, which is a lot more flexible than biology. At the end of the day casual language isn't set up to draw distinctions between gender and sex, "Woman" or "Man" is generally taken to refer to both gender and sex. In reality of course that isn't necessarily the case, and in law it's important to strictly define terms.

So the court did just that, and defined (for the purposes of legislation) what "Man" and "Woman" refers to, i.e. sex not gender. A person with XY chromosomes, but some sort of developmental disorder that makes them appear feminine isn't some kind of massive puzzle from a biological point of view either, you'd just say "Male with AIS" for example. From a legal (in the UK now) point of view you'd say the same, and from a social point of view you'd say whatever that person identifies as.

People love pointing out that biology is complex, but for some reason bristle at the prospect of language that accurately expresses that complexity. And to be clear, if someone who is XY identifies as a woman... *Call them a woman!* It's rude and cruel to do otherwise, but from a legal standpoint it's unhelpful to play word games.
by wahern | 2025-04-16 18:20:50+00:00
I think Cosmopolitan support on OpenBSD is broken (since 7.5?). And IIRC it also conflicts with WINE on Linux without explicit binfmt support. It's amazing and laudable that Cosmopolitan managed to thread the needle the way that it did, but it's also entirely unsurprising that it's been broken; and even if fixed would be broken again.
by bob1029 | 2025-04-16 18:21:01+00:00
What's the end game here? I agree with the dissent. Why not make it 30 seconds?

Once we cross the threshold of "I absolutely have to automate everything or it's not viable to use TLS anymore", why do we care about providing anything beyond ~48 hours? I am willing to bet money this threshold will never be crossed.

This feels like much more of an ideological mission than a practical one, unless I've missed some monetary/power advantage to forcing everyone to play musical chairs with their entire infra once a month...
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-04-16 18:21:13+00:00
A Key Lime is only vaguely a lime (they call it a Dayap and I don't think they would consider it a lime at all), that's why we call them 'Key Lime' instead of just lime. I'm putting a fine point on it, but I think when we say 'Lime' we mean something like a Persian Lime. You don't make Persian Lime pie!

As far as I know in the Philippines they don't have a common word to describe a Persian lime, and I never saw one in a store there.
by zak-mandhro | 2025-04-16 18:21:49+00:00
When it comes to IDEs, Cursor still feels like the most robust and productive, so I'm sticking to it for day to day. However, Windsurf did just launched with free GPT 4.1 and 4o-mini for a week. I'll give it a try.

Of course there's also lovable and bolt for "text to app". Great for non-programmers.
by bityard | 2025-04-16 18:22:00+00:00
I see that there is a timeline for progressive shortening, so if anyone has any "inside baseball" on this, I'm very curious to know:

Given that the overarching rationale here is security, what made them stop at 47 days? If the concern is _actually_ security, allowing a compromised cert to exist for a month and a half is I guess better than 398 days, but why is 47 days "enough"?

When will we see proposals for max cert lifetimes of 1 week? Or 1 day? Or 1 hour? What is the lower limit of the actual lifespan of a cert and why aren't we at that already? What will it take to get there?

Why are we investing time and money in hatching schemes to continually ratchet the lifespan of certs back one more step instead of addressing the root problems, whatever those are?
by austin-cheney | 2025-04-16 18:22:21+00:00
In a broker/agent model agents are people doing most of the client-facing work, but they defer an offset of both liabilities and earnings to a broker. This is how real estate agents, lawyers, teachers, doctors, and many others enter their professions, at least in the US. Because the broker carries civil, and possibly criminal, liable for the violations of their represented agents they have a vested interest in the quality of product/service those agents deliver. In the medical industry the agent phase is described as residency and internship. Its a matter of who actually holds the license that allows a person to perform professionally.

In criminal enterprise drug mules and prostitutes often subscribe to this business model. Drug mules will transport drugs as part of an illegal enterprise and are paid by criminal organizations that have vested interest in the successful completion of the logistical services provided by the drug mules. Likewise, in some geographies prostitutes will voluntarily pay pimps a percentage of their earnings in exchange for physical security and those pimps stake the value of their services on the success and reputation of the services they provide to their prostitute agents.

You also have to understand most of the software industry loves to bitch and cry about all these problems they see in hiring and practicing and yet don't really want any of these problems to be solved.
by egypturnash | 2025-04-16 18:22:32+00:00
Honestly now I want "paged mode" as an option in my browsers next to "reader mode". Or a thing I can choose for reader mode to involve.

Flipping pages on my desktop with l/r arrow keys (which is what this 'eink mode' does if you invoke it on a desktop) instead of endlessly scrolling is pretty nice.
by osigurdson | 2025-04-16 18:22:44+00:00
I have a very basic / stupid "Turing test" which is just to write a base 62 converter in C#. I would think this exact thing would be in github somewhere (thus in the weights) but has always failed for me in the past (non-scientific / didn't try every single model).

Using o4-mini-high, it actually did produce a working implementation after a bit of prompting. So yeah, today, this test passed which is cool.
by dylan604 | 2025-04-16 18:22:52+00:00
we used to collect the AOL CDs and make different art projects with them. from simple hanging mobiles to catch/reflect light to melting them with torches and other ways of using them in random ways.

can't forget the tying cassette tape to your antenna as a streamer. kids today look at cars and ask what's an antenna. no, i don't mean the sharkfin for XM radio.
by outer_web | 2025-04-16 18:23:03+00:00
> “The Court ultimately determines that the Government’s actions on that day demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt,” Boasberg wrote in a 46-page ruling detailing his decision.

The title correctly states that Boasberg found cause to hold the government in criminal contempt. It correctly did not state that Boasberg did not hold the government in civil contempt, yet.
by shakna | 2025-04-16 18:23:25+00:00
85% is surprisingly high for fingerprinting, hence self-deprecation over insulting the author by poking at efficacy. I wouldn't have expected my Australian spelling, Oxford comma, or cadence to be anything close to the Californian Rust enthusiasts I apparently match against. Especially as there's no normalization happening - so even the Burrows-Delta method shouldn't match my use of "gaol" or "humour" that often.

But, limiting to the top couple hundred words, probably does limit me to sounding like a pretentious dickhole, as I often use "however", "but", and "isn't". Corrections are a little too frequent in my post history.

I'd expect things might be a tiny bit looser with precisions if something small like stop words were removed. Though, it'd be interesting to do the opposite. If you were only measuring stopwords, would that show a unique cadence?
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-04-16 18:23:28+00:00
Why does any business' requisitons staff manage their purchases? Because it's quite literally their job. They have limited money to allocate based on their budget, and their lifelong career is trying to make that money work as effectively as possible at keeping the American research "institution" powerful. That's why grants have application processes and contract negotiations

And it's also why it's so insulting to just dismiss this whole process and claim rampant fraud with zero evidence. It's basically accusing thousands of people of being lazy and felonious and maliciously negligent. It's telling thousands of researchers who struggle for funding that they're apparently just morons for not getting in on the "infinite cash" we purportedly hand out like candy. It's saying universities don't need buildings or janitors and shouldn't take bulk discounts on their raw materials. Etc.

This isn't even getting into the absurd misunderstanding of economics of treating a government grant like a hamburger purchase. The US gives money to a US university which purchases US materials and pays US staff that are all taxed to give money to the US government. And their findings develop knowledge and cultivate skilled labor in the US that produce higher value exports for the US which are taxed to the US government. They aren't buying a hamburger, they're taking on what has proven to be one of the best investments in world history.
by stevekemp | 2025-04-16 18:23:39+00:00
I "recently" wrote a CP/M emulator, and I have a lot of love for the kinda vintage software out there that still runs on it.

https://github.com/skx/cpmulator/

Over the past few days I've seen posts on hacker news discussion 6502 assembly, people coming to the infocom games, and similar things. There's a lot of interest out there in this retro stuff, even now.
by cratermoon | 2025-04-16 18:23:51+00:00
>The system uses on purpose those simple words, since they are "tellers" of the style of the user in a context independent way.

Yes, that's good! I didn't state my interest clearly, though. I'd like to see the "analyze" result with the stop words excluded, not for the style comparison part, but for the reasons you state and others.
by leptons | 2025-04-16 18:24:12+00:00
>That isn't a useful lens

Yet that is the exact "lens" you chose to view fusion with. It absolutely also applies equally to AGI.

> you didn't track the field until recently?

Okay, now you're trolling. You don't know me and are making assumptions based on what exactly??

This conversation is over. I'm not going back and forth when you're going to make attacks like this.
by poincaredisk | 2025-04-16 18:25:05+00:00
>That's why it's a good idea to block connections of all protocols into address ranges where an attacker might be able to host a service.

It's not a terrible idea, but it's pretty far down the list if things to do. It will stop mass scanners, but probably not any targeted attack unless you try REALLY hard (and then you have a chance of breaking your own infrastructure by accident doing this).

They should start with updating their ghostscript sometime over the last 10 years. Then maybe think about separating some parts of their infrastructure.

I mean, wow, that's really 2012 tech, looks like new owner d invested completely nothing since acquiring 4chan.
by quirk | 2025-04-16 18:25:08+00:00
Curious if anyone reading this has explored the alternative theories to Darwinian evolution. I only recently started looking at it, so don't want to share links because I don't know what is believable. But it seems there are major flaws that even Darwin knew about. He considered Origin of Species an abstract, and was promising the full "big book" for the rest of his life, but never was able to pull it together.
by kiitos | 2025-04-16 18:25:19+00:00
There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding at play here.

The MCP spec makes it pretty clear that MCP servers are expected to be run in environments that are implicitly trusted/trustable for any client that can reach them. This is clear from the default/assumed stdio transport, but even with SSE the protocol expects auth to be already-solved.

In short, MCP servers are not meant to be accessible as public APIs -- as ChatGPT puts it, MCP assumes that its transport is inherently trusted. It doesn't seem like this is widely understood.
by egeozcan | 2025-04-16 18:25:55+00:00
Oh, thanks for the update. I assumed it'd be an incremental departure and that things couldn't have changed so much in 12 years (given the complexity of the browser engines). Now that I've read more about the fork, I learned that the codebases were already significantly different at the time they declared it officially as a fork. Interesting, because it feels like they are very compatible when I'm testing stuff as a developer (apart from their support of new stuff obviously).
by Volundr | 2025-04-16 18:26:13+00:00
I mean I don't trust the guy either, and readily acknowledge he may be lying or even could just change his mind at any moment. That doesn't somehow make the situation better. We have a bunch of people now held at the whims of a capricious dictator, and our own leader is sending them more people, and suggesting sending our citizens, while claiming it's impossible to fix any mistakes, because "who knows what that guy will do, I can't control him"
by dylan604 | 2025-04-16 18:26:25+00:00
Stroke 6 of the "r" is weird in that it is making an upward stroke rather than a down stroke. I guess that this still grates after those years learning calligraphy with pens that would not work trying to draw up. All strokes were made with a downward/pulling motion. Pushing a pen like that just didn't work.
by carlosjobim | 2025-04-16 18:27:50+00:00
You can -almost- do this on most browsers by pressing space bar to scroll down and shift+space bar to scroll up. But on phones there is no remedy yet.

For e-ink the problem with space bar scrolling is that it has an animation which messes up the display.

Historically we went from scrolls to pages when the printing press was developed. Digital reading needs to go through the same evolution, it seems.
by torginus | 2025-04-16 18:28:17+00:00
Do not watch it please unless you want to consume worldview-distoring propaganda and become more ignorant as a result. It's made by 2 American expats who gotten kicked out of China when visa-requirements were tightened, and no-skill immigrants were no longer welcome.

They've become anti-China youtubers serving the hungry China-hating audience on how China is bad and a paper tiger.

Instead watch this guy (https://www.youtube.com/@Awakening_Richard). I'm not saying he's unbiased, either, but he's thoughtful and I think he brings insight into how the Chinese intelligentsia thinks about how the world works.

But back to your point - it's oft repeated that Chinese population decline will destroy China in the long run and poverty in Chinese society.

He made a video on this exact issue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdRH7aPWGGc

The TLDR version is that about half of the Chinese population lives in desperate poverty (and are economically invisible), and just a couple decades ago 90+% of Chinese lived like this. One cannot bring about a transformation into an industrialized wealthy lifestyle overnight, but coming from the experience of the past decades, the Chinese have been remarkably effective in this, and the following decades will see these people lifted up to modern societal standards as well.

By this alone, one can conservatively expect a doubling of Chinese GDP, as there will be twice as many consumers and laborers who consume and work at the level of the current workforce.

This also means that China has a huge and high marginal utility domestic demand for goods, and even if sanctioned, they wont run of people to sell to.
by mrguyorama | 2025-04-16 18:28:29+00:00
Exploiting the need to invent a "logical" reason to do something illogical is the exact attack vector that the Gish Gallop uses to fuck over people.

Like you get that right? This administration does not discuss or debate, it shits out lies and laughs as people play make believe high school debate games, and give them infinitely more effort than they did.

There is no such thing as "effectively arguing" against a Gish Gallop, that's it's entire purpose.