MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sph | 2025-04-24 13:35:22+00:00
My hand writing got rusty and awkward until I read that writing something by hand is shown to strengthen one's memory and recollection. It definitely seems to be the case for me and has made me much more organised.

Now I journal on a paper notebook, take daily notes on a whiteboard and I'm rediscovering index cards for long term storage, but I wish real life had a search function.

If I had an automated scanning + OCR + convert to Org system, I would never use a text editor for notes ever again.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-04-24 13:35:32+00:00
I don’t see why energy labels move the needle for phones and tablets, considering battery life is already a highly maximized and sought after feature.

An appliance plugged into a wall is different as most people have no easy way to discern energy usage. But they are reminded everyday of their mobile’s energy efficiency.

And no one is going to use a black and white mobile to save 100kWh per year.
by empath75 | 2025-04-24 13:35:38+00:00
> If LLMs are so smart, why do they need a custom "MCP" format to what's commonly known as a normal API? Why can't they just call normal APIs?

LLM's _can't_ just call APIs, because all they can do is generate text. The LLM can _ask_ you to run some code, but it has no ability to run code directly. MCPs are basically a way for LLMs to signal intent to make an API call, along with a list of white listed APIs, and documentation for using them, and preloaded credentials with whatever permissions you want to give them.
by drdrek | 2025-04-24 13:36:12+00:00
You are equating "Hard" with impossible. Its impossible to turn a for profit company against itself from the inside, its hard to push for regulatory change. One system is built to create shareholder value, the other is to create social value. Its like a vegan working in a pig farm for 7 years to change the industry from the inside, at some point you need to ask yourself, is she just whitewashing her time there.
by hattmall | 2025-04-24 13:36:19+00:00
If not pure propaganda it's ignorant delusion. The US removing a small number of criminals illegally in the country draws massive correlations to Nazi Germany, meanwhile China has 1 million+ people in actual concentration camps simply based on their ethnicity.

The fact that other countries aren't standing up to China as much as the US is now is the thing that's really mind bending.
by fooList | 2025-04-24 13:36:24+00:00
>Does anyone actually believe that hard work and talent are either zero or negatively correlated to success?

On average or for a particular person? Maybe on average there’s an effect (r=.4), so there will be many people for whom that correlation is in their individual case actually negative. Some struggle with this notion, and assume success must signal talent or hard work in individual cases. How one defines success matters a lot too. If one is comparing zuck to some random CEO, say collison, can you say zuck is more hardworking or talented? He is more successful on paper, but I doubt he is significantly more hardworking or talented.
by dwringer | 2025-04-24 13:36:49+00:00
Google Gemini (2.0 Flash, free online version) handled this rather okay; it gave me an arguably unneccessary calculation of the individual prices of ball and bat, but then ended with "However with the information given, we can't determine exactly how many balls and bats Sally stole. The fact that she has $20 tells us she could have stolen some, but we don't know how many she did steal." While "the fact that she has $20" has no bearing on this - and the model seems to wrongly imply that it does - the fact that we have insufficient information to determine an answer is correct, and the model got the answer essentially right.
by netfortius | 2025-04-24 13:36:54+00:00
Not to the specific topic of the article ("inequalities"), but seeing the nationality of the author and source of some of the examples, reminded me of the high school I attended, in the late 70s, when - in order to pass the class - one had to have a minimum of points obtained by sending solutions to problems printed in "Gazeta Matematica" (Math Journal), and - in order to get a grade above a certain level - to qualify for the second stage of the Math Olympics. Let alone the amount of proven practice during each summer vacation. Can't say this didn't help getting two masters and a PhD later ;-)
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-04-24 13:37:06+00:00
The Artemis Accords don't establish a land grab, they just don't prevent one.

So this argument is: we need to get there first so we can mine it. But what can we mine? We have no evidence of anything on Mars that's valuable to mine for any reason other than Mars colonization or further space exploration.

If you don't already believe Mars colonization or space exploration are intrinsically valuable, there's no evidence of anything worth mining on Mars.
by jstummbillig | 2025-04-24 13:37:33+00:00
Why?

What has always held true so far: <new tool x> abstracts challenging parts of a task away. The only people you will outcompete are those, who now add little over <new tool x>.

But: If in the future people are just using <new tool x> to create a product that a lot of people can easily produce with <new tool x>, then, before long, that's not enough to stand out anymore. The floor has risen and the only way to stand out will always be to use <new tool x> in a way that other people don't.
Show HN: A free Stripe app to see what companies your customers work at
by patrickdevivo | 2025-04-24 13:37:39+00:00
I built a small Stripe app that enriches customer data directly in the Stripe UI. If a customer signs up with a work email, the app looks up their company, industry, estimated size, etc. from a firmographic database and shows it in a sidebar when you view the customer.

It also gives you a breakdown chart of all your customers by industry. I'm working on a couple other facets and filters too.

No signup, API keys, or config - it just works inside Stripe and you can install it directly from the marketplace. Would love feedback if you end up trying it out: https://marketplace.stripe.com/apps/hybound-enrichment
by IggleSniggle | 2025-04-24 13:37:53+00:00
This is the more interesting answer to me because it's a reminder that everyone is playing a different game.

I used to play games to win, but now I play games to maximize the collective enjoyment of playing the game. This shift began with my spouse (who is a very sore loser) but continued with my children. I still let them lose sometimes because I want them to know how to enjoy a losing game, but I (selfishly) want them to enjoy games as much as I do, so that's my focus, and I will play to lose (as non-obviously as possible) frequently.

When I play games against good players now, I notice that I've lost a lot of skill in the kind of strategic ruthlessness required to win. I found this surprising, because playing in a way where you're trying to "fix" the outcomes for other players and modulate the mood of the game based on outcomes still requires a great deal of strategic insight and clever play. I guess the additional attention to the social and emotional dynamics must naturally reduce focus. It's kind of a shame, because you can't maximize enjoyment with a skilled player without being skilled, but I suppose the trade off is that there will always be more unskilled players who can benefit from enjoyment maximizing play than skilled players who will suffer from subpar opponents. Naturally, skilled players are already getting a lot out of the game, or else they wouldn't be playing enough to become skilled.
by vendiddy | 2025-04-24 13:38:08+00:00
I love coding but I also love AI.

I don't know if I'm a minority but I'd like to think there are a lot of folks like me out there.

You can compare it to someone who is writing assembly code and now they've been introduced to C. They were happy writing assembly but now they're thrilled they can write things more quickly.

Sure, AI could lead us to write buggier code. Sure, AI could make us dumber because we just have AI write things we don't understand. But neither has to be the case.

With better tools, we'll be able to do more ambitious things.
by whalesalad | 2025-04-24 13:38:09+00:00
I don't have a prompt per-say.. but recently I have managed to ask certain questions of both openai o1/o3 and claude extended thinking 3.7 that have spiraled way out of control. A simple high-level architecture question with an emphasis on do not produce code lets just talk thru this yields nearly 1,000 lines of SQL. Once the conversation/context gets quite long it is more likely to occur, in my experience.
by pornel | 2025-04-24 13:38:22+00:00
I'm saying "digital images" are captured by and created for hardware that has the "little squares". This defines what their pixels really are. Pixels in these digital images actually represent discrete units, and not infinitesimal samples of waveforms.

Since the pixels never were a waveform, never were sampled from such signal (even light in camera sensors isn't sampled along these axis), and don't get displayed as a 2D waveform, the pixels-as-points model from the article at the top of this thread is just an arbitrary abstract model, but it's not an accurate representation of what pixels are.
by crazygringo | 2025-04-24 13:38:23+00:00
Because it's too dependent on business logic.

Different products will handle soft deletes differently. Which queries need to include soft-deleted rows and which don't? What about different levels of soft deletes, e.g. done by the user (can be undone by user) vs. done by an admin (can't be undone by user)?

Implementing soft deletes yourself isn't hard. Yes you'll have to make a bunch of decisions about how they work in every circumstance, but that's the point.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-24 13:38:24+00:00
I grew up pre-smartphone (pre-Web, partially, even) and even through college probably half my total output for school was hand written (friggin' blue book exams, LOL)

Some time last year, when trying to write something by hand and finding it alien and awkward, it occurred to me that for probably something like 15 years, and maybe more, I've perhaps not written more than a hundred words (signatures aside) by hand per year.

I have kids, so nearly all those words are on the stupid forms they constantly make you re-fill-out from scratch for no apparent reason at doctor's offices. If not for that, it'd be even lower. Some years I bet I was under 50. I go months without writing more than two or three words, total.
by schnitzelstoat | 2025-04-24 13:38:58+00:00
I live in BCN and just had a kid but I want to move out of the city to be able to have a car.

It's been quite stressful relying on public transport to have to take the baby to medical appointments etc. and when the child is older there is no public transport to the nearby castles, calas etc. that you might want to visit.

The city is also quite dirty and there is a growing homeless problem, some areas of the city like El Raval are downright dangerous too.
by elicksaur | 2025-04-24 13:39:00+00:00
Each activity we engage in has different use, value, and subjective enjoyment to different people. Some people love knitting! Personally, I do know how to sew small tears, which is more than most people in the US these days.

Just because I utilize the services of others for some things does not mean that it should be expected I want to utilize the service of others for all things.

This is a preposterous generalization and exactly why I said the OP premise is laughable.

Further, you’ve shifted OP’s point from subjective enjoyment of an activity to getting “paid well” - this is an irrelevant tangent to whether “most” people in general would delegate work if they could.
by apercu | 2025-04-24 13:39:06+00:00
I've always distilled this down to people who like the "craft" and those who like the "result".

Of course, everything is on a scale so it's not either/or.

But, like you, how I get there matters to me, not just the destination.

Outside the context of music, a project could be super successful but if the journey was littered with unnecessary stress due to preventable reasons, it will still leave a bad taste in my mouth.
by empath75 | 2025-04-24 13:39:17+00:00
We have a software templating tool we use internally to start new projects. I wired an MCP server into it and now I can just ask cursor to start a new project for me, and it'll go through our list of templates, find the most useful one, create a new project, read the documentation for it, and then be ready to building it and adding new features right away.
by mr-karan | 2025-04-24 13:39:32+00:00
Never knew about `tab` shortcut, thanks for letting me know!

BTW, as I was using it today, I was quite surprised to see `@` working now. Turns out in 0.27.5 they added this feature: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELO... :)
by throw4847285 | 2025-04-24 13:39:40+00:00
I assumed the word choice was a reference to this line from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald:

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

Given the way the novel is written, this is intentional understatement.
by coldpie | 2025-04-24 13:39:56+00:00
The trouble is there is just very little gain. It really just doesn't matter. All the systems are fine, they all work. If you come live here, you'll adjust after 2 years. If I moved to Europe, I would adjust in 2 years. Once in a blue moon you have to bother with converting units but c'est la vie. There's bigger things to worry about.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-04-24 13:40:23+00:00
I know a number of wealthy folks, many of them, actually really decent people. They deserve their wealth, and I have no issues with it. They tend to have somewhat different value systems than I do, but we get along, anyway.

I have learned that one word they pretty much never hear, is "No."

Even the very best of them, gets used to having every whacked-out fever dream their Id squeezes out, treated like God's Word.

People who aren't very good at self-analysis and self-control, can have real problems with it.

We are watching a bunch of very public examples of exactly this, right now.
by overu589 | 2025-04-24 13:40:34+00:00
Maybe my answer was too indirect and “conspiracy” sounding.

There are private contractor hound of war among us who are hygenxing any and every layer.

These will sell to the government just as the Ruski mob will pimp it on the dark side.

They are there and they are active. The USA government are incompetent opportunists doing their jobs mostly.

Be vigilant.
by brunocam11 | 2025-04-24 13:40:48+00:00
I built this as a solution for a photography marketplace that needed face recognition across thousands of images — but AWS Rekognition was getting too expensive.

Facerec is a production-ready, scalable face recognition system that uses:

- FastAPI + Docker

- EC2 Spot Instances for cost-effective processing

- Pinecone for vector search

- S3 for storage

- SQS for task queuing

It’s working well in production and open to contributions.

GitHub: https://github.com/brunocam11/facerec

Let me know if you try it or want help running it — happy to chat!
by joshstrange | 2025-04-24 13:40:48+00:00
Setting a timer and setting a reminder. Occasionally converting units of measure. That's all I can rely on Siri (or Alexa) for and even then sometimes Siri doesn't make it clear if it did the thing. Most importantly, "set a reminder", it shows the text, and then the UI disappears, sometimes the reminder was created, sometimes not. It's maddening since I'm normally asking to be reminded about something important that I need to get recorded/tracked so I can "forget" it.

The number of times I've had 2 reminders fire back-to-back because I asked Siri again to create one since I was _sure_ it didn't create the first one.

Siri is so dumb and it's insane that more heads have not rolled at Apple because of it (I'm aware of the recent shakeup, it's about a decade too late). Lastly, whoever decided to ship the new Siri UI without any of the new features should lose their job. What a squandered opportunity and effectively fraud IMHO.

More and more it's clear that Tim Cook is not the person that Apple needs at the helm. My mom knows Siri sucks, why doesn't the CEO and/or why is he incapable of doing anything to fix it. Get off your Trump-kissing, over-relying-on-China ass and fix your software! (Siri is not the only thing rotten)
by samiv | 2025-04-24 13:40:54+00:00
This is very much what professor Richard Wolff is saying.

What you're witnessing down is the systemic failure and breakdown of a system (capitalism) that is completely out of control and ultimately starts to attack the very institutions that enable it in its greedy search for "growth" (i.e. producing more wealth for the already wealthy).

The system will eventually collapse.

Recommended video, an interview with Prof Wolff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeWiKOEkfj8
by achierius | 2025-04-24 13:41:02+00:00
> We all fuck shit up and ruin lives

Part A sure, but I can say with some certainty that most people do not ruin lives. It's just hard to have that much influence over other people. If you want to be particularly pessimistic, you might be able to argue that many people ruin their children's lives -- But even that's a stretch.
by Crosseye_Jack | 2025-04-24 13:41:03+00:00
We keep saying we are going to do something like that, but we keep forgetting because we normally in "Go do task" mode when we grab the keys. Its not too much of an issue because we will normally grab the fob key, it only becomes and issue when one of us forget to put the fob key back when being done with the car.

But "reprogramming" a key (more like adding a key) on that model of ford just involves doing a dance with the fob key then inserting the key with the new transponder. So we plan to get all keys working on the car at some point. I was just going to order a new chip but my bother was complaining about the key barrel being a bit loose on him so just doing to replace everything at some point. Its just more about not being lazy about it :-P

Thing is, its what we call "the work horse" car of the family, it gets used about once a week to do tasks no one wants to do in their own cars (or when I need to do something in a car), so its not really a high priority thing to fix, but if we are going fix it might as well do it "right")
by iamgopal | 2025-04-24 13:41:11+00:00
gemini 2.5 give following response.

Conclusion:

We can determine the price of a single ball ($0.575) and a single bat ($0.525). However, we cannot determine how many balls and bats Sally has because the information "a few" is too vague, and the fact she stole them means her $20 wasn't used for the transaction described.
by rendaw | 2025-04-24 13:41:44+00:00
If I search for something in a category with "too few" results amazon redirects the search to "all products"... even when I know exactly what I want.

And lately, even more infuriatingly, they started modifying my search terms! Like, I'll search for "hoover 2100" and some javascript will, after a second, change it to "hover 2100" and then show me completely irrelevant junk. And I go and change it back, and the javascript modifies it again! Not just showing the wrong results, but gaslighting me into thinking I had actually searched for the wrong thing, that the poor results were my fault!

This isn't dumb stuff like bad categorization, or missing search facets, or all the other low effort issues... It's like they're actively trying to prevent me from buying things!
by therealpygon | 2025-04-24 13:42:09+00:00
Not sure where you got “random format” from the comments, but we (U.S.) also use a very precise method for defining the size of paper, which is 8.5x11 and legal as 8.5x14. For the US, both are sized to fit in the same standard envelopes. I’ve never thought, “boy, I really need half this sheet length-wise but made shorter to keep the same aspect ratio for this situation”, so while I can understand why that could make sense when creating an international standard, it isn’t more or less random or more/less precise than any other basis. Our basis simply evolved naturally from our system of measurement and our needs with countries we traded most closely, rather than as an international standard based on a different system of measurement that needed to be shared among numerous countries situated closely together.
by terinjokes | 2025-04-24 13:42:14+00:00
Why should the test process be sending physical letters (edit: in 2025)? Nothing in the GPLv2 requires a physical letter.

The address the OP sent a letter too has already been removed from the canonical version of the license (and was itself an unversioned change from the original address), and section 3 doesn't require a physical offer if the machine-readable source code is provided.
by apercu | 2025-04-24 13:42:35+00:00
If they used an algorithm to come up with a cool melody and then did something with it, why look down on it?

Look at popular music for the last 400 years. How is that any different than simply copying the previous generations stuff and putting your own spin on it?

If you heard a CD in 1986 then in 2015 you wrote a song subconsciously inspired by that tune, should I look down on you?

I mean, I'm not a huge fan of electronic music because the vast majority of it sounds the same to me, but I don't argue that they are not "real musicians".

I do think that some genres of music will age better than others, but that's a totally different topic.
by llm_nerd | 2025-04-24 13:42:36+00:00
Enormous numbers of humans work hard and are talented at the things they do. Hard work and talent gets you a middle-class existence, at least if you were born in the right country and with the right resources to go to university, etc.

In the case of Zuck, he basically did play a lottery ticket, and a perfect confluence of being in the right place at precisely the right time yielded some success. A million other programmers, working just as hard and just as talented, were trying to make their web app hit at that time and failed.

That's how life is. It is a lottery ticket that Zuck is super rich. And it's a strawman to act as if pointing this out means that hard work and talent don't matter.

And FWIW, the overwhelming predicate of significant business success is sociopathy. I am kind of a broken record on this, but I think Meta's entire business is basically the oxycontin of the online world, and that everyone involved should feel absolute shame about the negative value they bring to the world. Non-sociopaths would have felt shame and changed course when they realized they were getting rich on the mentally ill, conspiracies, misinformation, etc.
by sgarland | 2025-04-24 13:42:57+00:00
> And anyway, if you're playing games for fun and to bond with people, you probably shouldn't be playing tryhard optimal strategies every game, and should instead explore and experiment with more creative strategies.

Agreed. I have played some truly awful strategies in games (Azul: Queen’s Garden comes to mind) where it was clear within a round or two that it was doomed to fail; my wife / gaming partner expressed dismay that I was doggedly continuing, but to me, I had to see it through without introducing other variables so that I could definitively know (modulo luck of tile draw) that the strategy sucked. I thoroughly enjoyed losing.

EDIT: if anyone is curious, the strategy was to maximize high-point (5/6) tokens above everything else, eschewing end-round bonuses, brief tactical shifts, etc. Turns out it’s really hard to collect enough sets of them to count at game end, and you’re giving up compounding points along the way.