MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 47282847 | 2025-04-12 07:25:22+00:00
I am based in Germany and have helped a couple of dozen individuals and small groups to successfully apply for grants and incorporate. It’s really not that difficult once you overcome the typical psychological barriers which if you look closely are a combination of prejudices and negative self talk.

On all levels, once you really breathe that there is a human person you are directing your inquiry to, and that you can help them do their job, they will be happy to direct money towards you. That principle applies from local startup funds to federal grants to EU level project officers. The “bureaucracy“ can be annoying in the sense of feeling like a waste of time (which, since you should factor in the cost of application into your later grant, is simply not true. It is actually really well paid boring labor.), but it’s really not complex or hard. If you believe they are hard for you (“hell“), you are engaged in negative self talk.

If you approach these things as highly annoying, and direct your annoying energy to the people who are handling your application, you will annoy them, which will make you feel like they are there to annoy you. The alternative is to approach them with the understanding that they’re not trying to make your life hard but are simply doing their job. They know much better than you that some things should be changed but it’s not up to them to change them, and they are not the right target to lobby for change.
by beardyw | 2025-04-12 07:26:35+00:00
I still have bad memories of driving down a quiet, country lane in rural France, the type with banks on either side, with my wife and children. It was very dark and warm. Absolutely out of nowhere my windscreen was an explosion of water and I could see nothing. Luckily I stopped OK, and found it was an industrial scale watering hose rotating occasionally across the road. Scared me half to death.
by namaria | 2025-04-12 07:26:38+00:00
> intelligent beings can communicate in the context of a lot of prior knowledge

This is key. It works because of previous work. People have shared context because they develop it over time, when we are raised - shared context is passed on the the new generation and it grows.

LLMs consume the context recorded in the training data, but they don't give it back. They diminish it because people don't need to learn the shared context when using this tools. It appears to work in some use cases, but it will degrade our collective shared context over time as people engage with and use these tools that consume past shared context and at the same time atrophy our ability to maintain and increase the shared context. Because the shared context is reproduced and grows when it is learned by people. If a tool just takes it and precludes people learning it, there is a delayed effect where over time there will be less shared context and when the performance of the tool degrades the ability to maintain and extend the shared context will also have degraded. We might get to an irrecoverable state and spiral.
by visarga | 2025-04-12 07:26:40+00:00
> There is no such thing as "get as good as a human artist" unless it becomes an actual human that lived the human experience. Even bad art starts with something to express and a want to express it.

There is always an actual human who has actual human experience in the loop, the AI doesn't need to have it. AI doesn't intend to draw anything on its own, and can't enjoy the process, there has to be a human to make it work on either intent (input) or value (output) side.
by LeafItAlone | 2025-04-12 07:27:19+00:00
Also, most of the situations you are describing are not insider trading. If Warren Buffett calls his secretary and tells them he needs to go to the hospital because he’s having a heart attack, and they short BH on the way, that _could_ be considered insider trading. If I’m a nurse at that hospital and I’m on break outside and watch Buffett being wheeled in on a gurney and I trade on that, that would generally not be.
by delusional | 2025-04-12 07:27:50+00:00
> It'll get a lot worse before it gets better.

Importantly, there's no guarantee it's actually going to get better. We like to pretend that human existence has some trajectory towards "justice" or "prosperity". I don't think that impulse does us justice.

Stalin/Lenin could have won. Hitler could have won, Napoleon could have conquered and held. It could just get worse.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-04-12 07:29:14+00:00
>To be fair...the other side was just as ferocious when someone postulated that the election was rigged,

No they weren't

Not in the amount of court cases, elected politicans stating the view, and January 6th

When a few Democrats starting objecting to the 2016 results. Joe Biden, in congress during the certification, slammed the gavel down and said "it's over"

https://www.npr.org/2017/01/06/508562183/biden-to-democrats-...

To even compare the two situations it's insane.
by LauraMedia | 2025-04-12 07:29:18+00:00
I may also just misunderstand the term itself. From what I've seen, "vibe coding" is used as a term for someone who does not want to go into the details, who does not want to check or adapt the code, who just wants to explain their idea to an LLM and expect a fully built feature, without doing any of the development themselves.

I myself use AI all the time, for smaller things, for more math-heavy things, for decisions I already thought about but want to check with best-practices (after all, LLMs are trained with the "hive mind" thoughts of programming). I use it as a companion, a tool akin to JetBrains refactor tools, something I can drop on a specific function to enhance my own work.
by devsda | 2025-04-12 07:29:36+00:00
> actually an "annual plan, billed monthly" and thus that if they cancel after one month (for example) they'll be billed for the remaining 11 immediately

I don't know if this is a recent policy change, but it is not the complete amount but only 50% of the remaining annual amount as per their website[1].

If it were something involving physical goods or services I can understand, but 50% penalty is still a crazy amount for a hosted software service.

1. https://www.adobe.com/legal/subscription-terms.html
by josephg | 2025-04-12 07:29:43+00:00
My big problem with it is that it’s stateful. A menu or toolbar admits muscle memory - since you get used to where a certain button or option is and you can find it easily. With ribbons you need to know if you’re in the right submenu first.

Though personally, I’m increasingly delighted by the quicksilver - style palette / action tools that vscode and IntelliJ use for infrequently used options. Just hit the hotkey and type, and the option you want appears under the enter key.
by t0bia_s | 2025-04-12 07:30:16+00:00
As an artist, mine major complain about Adobe is their spyware software design. Constant calls for adobe servers, unable to work offline in field with their product and no support for linux.

Also, I'm curious, when they start censoring exports from their software. They already do that for money scans.

I'm not worry about image generators. They'll never generate art by definition. AI tools are same as camera back then - a new tool that still require human skills and purpose to create specific tasks.
by 1dom | 2025-04-12 07:31:15+00:00
I feel you're missing the point. Your angle is self perpetuating. People have a higher risk of cardiac arrest at the fear of the consequences of missing the IRS date. The argument being made is that there won't really be any major consequences - if millions of people miss it because of a TurboTax issue, an extension will be granted.

Why should the engineers be stressed and overworked because other people are scared of something that doesn't have to happen?

The world is less stressful and - I think - better without manufactured urgency like what you're defending.

Don't get me wrong, some things are life and death, like life support machines. Taxes are not.
by DaanDeMeyer | 2025-04-12 07:32:20+00:00
I think you'll get the most out of this at the moment if you're interested in actively contributing to systemd. There's lots of work left to be done to make this usable which will just be annoying if you aren't interested in fixing some of this stuff yourself.

Of course if you're interested in doing small prs and such to improve things then I think it could be very satisfying. You can always join the mkosi matrix channel to chat more about this stuff.
by LauraMedia | 2025-04-12 07:33:30+00:00
To me, it's always wild to see people trying to prove this is "the future" and "no one will ever code again". And then they try to prove it by building a react todo app, something that has been done millions of times and is really just an advanced hello world project...

I've had great success using AI for some tough things, but not on an entire foreign codebase that requires domain knowledge, no matter how constrained my prompts are. As soon as your use-case goes above the average "building a small tool and make it a $4.99 saas startup", AI really only helps you with the exact code to transfer your already pre-planned pseudo-code/behavior.

And even then, you need the knowledge to understand that what the AI merged out of the millions of StackOverflow answers is actually outdated or a hallucinated API function that never existed.
by smackeyacky | 2025-04-12 07:33:44+00:00
Wow that was long and surprisingly nuanced. One thing I’ve thought about recently looking at my own daughters is that they are bombarded with a lot of fake “this is the good life” that rarely includes children.

As a consequence perhaps the right time to have them will never eventuate. A lot of our Gen X contemporaries who put off child rearing for this reason ended up with heartbreaking fertility issues.

However I don’t think a smaller population is necessarily a bad thing.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-04-12 07:34:11+00:00
> Salaries are also not competitive in a lot of places.

This implies there are other companies in the same city/region that pay better. I doubt it. From what I have seen, most German software devs are paid horribly, come to HN complain about it, then proceed to do nothing. The solution is to move to a place that pays higher salaries, like Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, or another country. Or get a 100% remote job.
by chongli | 2025-04-12 07:35:05+00:00
I want fallout games to have a survival mode and I want rougelites to have a tourist mode

It's funny that you mention that. NetHack, one of the longest-running traditional Roguelikes (in active development since 1987) actually has a Tourist class. However it's not what you think. The class is based on the tourist character Twoflower from the Discworld series of books. This class is the hardest one in the game because it starts with the least amount of fighting ability, no weapons (apart from some darts), and no armour (just a Hawaiian shirt).

You do, however, also start with a credit card (useful for jimmying locks), some healing potions, a lot of food, a lot of money, some scrolls of magic mapping (maps), and an expensive camera (the monsters in the dungeon hate flash photography)! But until you become a lot more experienced shopkeepers will recognize you as a tourist and try to rip you off, so you better spend your money wisely!
by rollcat | 2025-04-12 07:35:25+00:00
Some competition is OK. For example, similar programming languages (e.g. Rust and Zig) - they inspire each other, fit slightly different niches, and there's plenty of space for both.

Experimentation is OK. DNF started as a yum fork, with a different solver algorithm. IMHO yum should've just adopted the algorithm, but Fedora/CentOS ended up switching. That's mostly fine (people had to update docs, retrain their muscle memory).

The level of "competition" we see in package managers, desktop environments, initrd builders (!), resolv.conf managers (!!!), is just wasted effort. There's no "pick the winner", it's "everyone is a loser".

<https://tailscale.com/blog/sisyphean-dns-client-linux>
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-04-12 07:36:02+00:00
>This is a conspiracy theory

Doesn't meet the criteria of what people typically call a conspiracy theory. It's easily verified or debunked by amateurs with publicly available information, it doesn't seem absurd on its face, and it makes no claims other than those of association (certainly none of blatant felony, coup, or world domination).
by russellbeattie | 2025-04-12 07:36:46+00:00
"The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."

Wow, a classic example of Brandolini's Law! [1] Two words of bullshit required a paragraph to refute it. Perfect.

Just don't bother. They never argue in good faith. You'll just give yourself an aneurysm trying to keep up with their firehose of falsehoods.

They know and we know that even if their right wing fever dreams about Pelosi were true (which they aren't), it's obvious that the scale and criminality of what Trump did this week doesn't even begin to compare.

It doesn't matter to them. They only want to obfuscate, deflect and ideally enrage. That's what they do.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini's_law
by Mainan_Tagonist | 2025-04-12 07:37:14+00:00
I happen to work in this industry, and just a word for those that compare this with an Apple Watch or a Casio, this Vacheron-Constantin will likely be around 200 years from now, it will still be a testimony of the refinement and engineering of a fine craft that few can achieve, a highly valued item with specialist technicians marvelling on the talent of its builders, just as is the case today with 200 year old timepieces.

you'll be very lucky if your Casio can last as long. Your mass commoditised Apple watch will likely be worthless.

Personaly, I like the IWC on my wrist as much as I like my Casio G-Shock, both are wonderful in their own way.

The Apple watch on my wife's wrist is a fine computer i guess, but at some point, it will have the same "quaint charm" as the IBM Thinkpad she owned 23 years ago.
by nramanand | 2025-04-12 07:37:46+00:00
I agree with you that it's possibly unanswerable, which is more or less the point. The broader idea is that there are lots of obscure interactions like that one I made up.

You can switch up the doctor and CEO patient for anything else. Bankers, lenders, family friends, former professors ... An unbounded number of humans that can come into contact with useful info to trade on. What do we think are the magical constraints that prevent them from doing so? Corporate etiquette?

The ROI will obviously be a function of what information is passed. But I think that I'm more interested in understanding how often it happens rather than that any one case is "low ROI". It is interesting to consider whether it's the ROI threshold that should philosophically make/not make something insider trading.
by hello_computer | 2025-04-12 07:38:02+00:00
The college deportations are the government, but I would guess that the Meta compliance has more to do with the fact that Cheryl Sandberg is a politically-connected turbo-Zionist.

I wish we were neutral on this issue. As an American, it is not my business. I am in no position to justly arbitrate between them. But our politicians are whores, our Zionists have deep pockets, and they're not afraid to empty them out for the cause, so it looks like America's taxpayers are all on Team Zionist, whether we like it or not.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-04-12 07:39:14+00:00
>He's married to a citizen which gives him an avenue towards legal residency and full citizenship.

You seem as if you're trying to leverage that to actual citizen rights... "look, he could be a citizen someday, so that means he has these same rights reserved to citizens". But it does not work that way.

>there is effectively nothing stopping them from doing it to full blown citizens.

Be sure to raise the alarm when they do. I'd be curious if it ever got that far. I think that some on the left worry that it might not, because if they don't have the absurd slippery slope argument then many people would never be concerned about this at all.
by wahern | 2025-04-12 07:40:03+00:00
Technically the law is protecting the share holders. Legal scholars, regulators, and even judges have continually tried to push the fraud-on-the-market theory of insider trading, but IIRC it's been firmly rejected by SCOTUS multiple times. There are statutes where the fraud-on-the-market principal pertains, but for your typical insider trading case predicated on Securities Exchange Act jurisprudence, it doesn't fly. Courts have said it would sweep far too broadly and significantly expand the scope of criminal liability (e.g. end up in prison for trading on something you overheard at the coffee shop). As insider trading law has been largely constructed by the courts (the statute its rooted in says nothing about "insider trading"), Congress would have to be explicit about a further expansion of criminal liability.
by jaza | 2025-04-12 07:40:32+00:00
Surely the number one suspect for having made this trade, is Trump himself (and/or his immediately family)? Nobody knew better exactly what would be announced and when, than the guy who did the announcing. Ownership could be hidden behind trust / shell structures, possibly indefinitely, or at least until it's too late for anyone to do anything about it (although in Trump's America, I doubt that anyone could do anything about it anyway). We already know that he's unscrupulous and unprincipled. We already know that he's an indicted felon.
by torginus | 2025-04-12 07:41:02+00:00
I don't even know who pushes this German exceptionalism propaganda - is it themselves or do they have 'German-weeaboos' who think everything German is better?

> Germany maintains world-class engineering and manufacturing excellence through their Mittelstand network - small companies are not unique to Germany. But you'll be surprised how many German industrial automation companies (a domain I know something about), basically haven't changed their product portfolio in the past 10-15 years. Research institutions aren't unique to Germany. The fact you're banking on the clout of having invented MP3 40 years ago is weakness masquerading as strength.

> Their dual education system creates exceptional technical competence without requiring college degrees. - they do have excellent training for skilled technicians, I do give them that.

> Germans live significantly longer - the 28th longest life expectancy in Europe

> Germany isn't now teetering on becoming a police state. - no comment on this, because I don't want to turn this into political mudslinging, but needless to day, this isn't an uncontroversial take. It'd be more accurate to say Germany isn't becoming a kleptocracy/plutocracy like the US.
by peterisza | 2025-04-12 07:41:24+00:00
The same youtuber has done more comprehensive testing. HW3 with FSD v12 consistently failed while HW4 with v13 consistently passed the same test.

I didn't like Mark Rober's video because he only tested Autopilot which is a different software.

Autopilot = simple lane keep assistant from 7 years ago

FSD = the real deal, this can do all the maneuvers, this is what is supposed to become unsupervised according to Tesla

I am interested in the future of Tesla's technology, so testing Autopilot feels irrelevant to me.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-04-12 07:42:11+00:00
Gemini 2.5 Pro's prose isn't quite as tight as GPT4.5s, but being able to have long form writing where your entire manuscript is in the context, along with all your source/background material, and it all gets used _well_ is pretty stellar. That lets Gemini update scenes in a really thoughtful, intelligent way, and frankly it's a better beta reader than ~85% of the people I've hired on Fiverr.
by watwut | 2025-04-12 07:42:12+00:00
Obama was centrist, campaigned as a centrist and was voted for by people who wanted centrism. Tried to rule as centrist as was his actual mandate from voters. That is when republicans went crazy and radicalized to the far right. And no, you wont convince me that racism was not playing the role, no matter how much did the online center claimed the opposite.

It is ridiculous that he is blamed for not doing much when what republicans back then did was, well, blocking everything. The ridiculous obstructions and one sided arguments were new back then, they became norm now.

> while Trump again removed the chips act and everything else that Biden did

Trump broke laws big time while doing it. He is literally dismantling both democracy and rule of law. It is ridiculous to criticize democrats for not going full fascists when they had power while also claiming them and republicans are the same. Yes they could act like Trump does now and create own autocracy. That they did not is a good point for them.

> who cares about the small differences

These are not small differences. For that matter, the tariffs Biden kept and current 135% dramas mixed with annexations threats toward allies are not nearly in the same league. And that is what I am talking about.

In order to achieve both sides are the same, you need to:

- Massively exaggerate bad democrats do, simultaneously blame them when they are centrists and when they go slightly left. And then throw blame them for what republicans do on top of it.

- Massively whitewash what republicans do, ignore the worst of what they do, minimize the scale. And then use their worst as a blueprint for what democrats were supposed to do.
by adrian_b | 2025-04-12 07:42:19+00:00
The title should mention the 2023 year, as reference for "recent".

As explained in the article, this is actually old news.

There has been more than a decade since it is well known that the hexapods a.k.a. insects have evolved from within a certain group of crustaceans, which includes the water fleas.

The 2023 research paper linked in the article has only provided stronger evidence for this.

The main implication of this discovery is that the myriapods (e.g. millipedes and centipedes) are much more remotely related to insects than it has been believed in the past and they have adapted to a terrestrial life completely independently and much earlier than the insects (the invasion of the land by major animal groups has happened in the order myriapods, then arachnids, then hexapods a.k.a. insects, then tetrapod vertebrates, by a coincidence in decreasing order of the number of legs).
by mrweasel | 2025-04-12 07:43:12+00:00
Is anyone actually going to use those complications? That's really my question for most high-end watches. I can see a diver using the features on their watch, but how many are actually using a Rolex or an Omega as their regular dive watch?

Chronographs, while cool, isn't exactly a useful why of measuring speed these days, and how often do you really need to do that anyway.

On a mechanical watch having the date might be useful, I know I keep forgetting the exact date, but do I really need a watch to remind me that it's Saturday?

I really love mechanical wristwatches, the mechanics of it is amazing and they are beautiful pieces or engineering and works great as an accessory/jewellery, but I don't understand the need for many of the complications.
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-04-12 07:43:42+00:00
I think it's still not great. The annual/monthly plan says:

>Annual, billed monthly

>US$22.99/mo

>Fee applies if you cancel after 14 days

There's a popup you can open with more information, but that just says:

>If you cancel after 14 days, your service will continue until the end of that month's billing period, and you will be charged an early termination fee.

It doesn't tell you anywhere what that fee is, and I can't find any link to a page with more information.