MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hintymad | 2025-04-24 17:33:27+00:00
I think a strong loyalty towards a company will work only in a society like Japan: companies are culturally committed to taking care of them employees until their death. In the meantime, the income gap between ordinary employees and the executives is small. Per this article (https://japanoptimist.substack.com/p/japan-reality-check-4-i...): "The biggest difference between the Salaryman CEO and the Superstar CEO is, of course, the absolute gap in CEO compensation relative to average employee pay: in Japan this is now just about 50-times (for top 50 CEOs; the average is about 12-times)". And there is a seniority system. In contrast, the US companies have none of those.

I'd rather subscribe to Reed Hoffman's notion on company-employee relationship: alliance. That is, a company and its employees are allies. It is a two-way relationship that enables companies and employees to work together toward common goals, even when some of their interests differ. If either a company or an employee feels that the alliance does not exist any more, they part ways. Note that this notion is orthogonal to the power dynamics between a company and its employees. The power dynamics has to do with supply-and-demand of the market and the negotiation power of the employees.
by eestrada | 2025-04-24 17:33:43+00:00
I mostly like Vim because it is available everywhere and in the terminal. In its default configuration it isn't the most powerful IDE, but it is vastly more powerful that any other default experience in any other text editor (IMO). It also makes it trivially easy to shell out to external tools for modifying the text, so even for a set up that isn't heavily riced you can still do a ton.

Even when I'm forced to use another IDE for work, I try to find Vim keybindings ASAP. I like that I can learn Vim motions and actions once and use them in nearly every IDE.
by ang_cire | 2025-04-24 17:34:10+00:00
I love AI as a concept.

I hate the reality of our current AI, which is benefitting corporations over workers, being used for surveillance and censorship (nevermind direct social control via misinformation bots), and is copying the work of millions without compensating them in order to do it.

And the push for coders to use it to increase their output, will likely just end up meaning expectations of more LoC and more features faster, for the same pay.

But FOSS, self-hosted LLMs? Awesome!
by James_K | 2025-04-24 17:34:13+00:00
The point of how fast computers are, and why you need to make them smaller to make them faster. Think about the bus between the CPU and GPU, not much shorter than that. Information cannot travel faster than the speed of light, so there is a hard constraint on how quickly the GPU can respond to commands. The same is true for RAM and even within the CPU, signals take time to propagate across it. The total length of your circuitry for a single instruction can't be longer than 21cm if that's how far light travels.
by Certified | 2025-04-24 17:34:28+00:00
GPT 4.5 seems to get it right, but then repeat the 700 pounds

"A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

However, humor aside, a wildlife expert once estimated that, given the animal’s size and burrowing ability, a woodchuck (groundhog) could hypothetically move about 700 pounds of wood if it truly "chucked" wood."

https://chatgpt.com/share/680a75c6-cec8-8012-a573-798d2d8f6b...
by mrandish | 2025-04-24 17:34:36+00:00
I agree ads are annoying and I wish they weren't there (and for me, they're mostly not because: uBlock Origen). My point was that conceptually in-store advertising has been a thing for over a hundred years. Retailers have always merchandised their inventory.

However, breaking existing basic functionality like Search with the specific intention of making it harder and take longer for users to find what they want goes beyond annoying to malicious.
by disqard | 2025-04-24 17:35:26+00:00
Right, and the things preventing restaurants from doing this:

1. At-scale boycott: would you eat at a McD's where the "Happy Meal" has fentanyl in it? But somehow, this doesn't work for "social" media -- we're all aware what it is, yet we still use it, unironically.

2. Regulation: if a food inspector eats at your restaurant and confirms rumours that your food is actually addictive, your restaurant will get shut down. But somehow, FB/IG/etc. can operate without regulation, and free of any consequences. Sarah Wynn-Williams' book "Careless People" is worth reading.
by alxlaz | 2025-04-24 17:35:31+00:00
Oh, wow, have we come full circle -- from Apple breaking the law in a jurisdiction where they do business to, err, Cyprus, and Europe, and... Ivan the Terrible having somehow become a woman for half a sentence?

Touch some grass, mate, Apple isn't worth your energy. No company their size is, whether on this side of the Atlantic or the other.
by pona-a | 2025-04-24 17:35:42+00:00
How so? I'm writing this from an Fedora Sericea, which is Silverblue but with Sway instead of GNOME. Atomic Fedoras solve only package hysteresis (your package manager being unable to reproduce the intended system state because of unaccounted for changes) by generating the root file system with OSTree. It has nothing to do with sandboxing the applications themselves.
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-04-24 17:35:49+00:00
I once scored a fat bonus by using debug.com to write a reboot.com utility that was easily deployed (COPY CON: COM1:) across multiple remote modem connections to workstations all over the country that needed to reboot. It was either work out how to do it, or get on a plane to 25 different offices .. my boss was convinced I was just going to have to be the Ctrl-alt-del monkey for an hour or two after assigning me the task, but my skills with debug.com saved a ton of plane ticket expenses, and I got a 1/3rd of those savings to put towards my brand new 386 ..
by 1dom | 2025-04-24 17:35:51+00:00
This is really useful, thanks.

I've recently been playing around selfhosting a small single user activitypub server to see how it works. I can't understate how satisfying it's been to wallow in compared to a static site or serverless setup. It unexpectedly tickled that special "oooh, a _system_" part of my brain, a lot.
by fidotron | 2025-04-24 17:35:51+00:00
As long as it's not sold as "Android" to the mass public I don't think there is a meaningful problem. For example, if you go to the trouble of hacking the Play Store on to a Kindle Fire you do know it's your responsibility if it works or not. Google would probably tacitly approve because such activity reduces the need for the Amazon App Store.
by racingmars | 2025-04-24 17:36:03+00:00
Hercules is _not_ used by IBM's own developers. Being found with Hercules on your computer at IBM gets you in trouble. I know people who work on mainframe-related stuff inside IBM and they steer well clear of Hercules. And I've heard that IBM's computer monitoring stuff (antivirus, asset protection, etc.) looks for Hercules and flags it.

But IBM _does_ have their own mainframe emulator, zPDT (z Personal Development Tool), sold to their customers for dev and testing (under the name zD&T -- z Development and Test), and to ISVs under their ISV program. That's what IBM's own developers would be using if they're doing stuff under emulation instead of LPARs on real hardware.

(And IBM's emulator is significantly faster than Hercules, FWIW, but overall less feature-full and lacks all of the support Hercules has for older architectures, more device types, etc.)
by eadmund | 2025-04-24 17:36:44+00:00
> For T&E it really matters see NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter and the need for heroics in the Gimli glider.

> You need to keep to the same unit.

Completely agreed. You’ll get similar issues if you have one set of parts using m/s and others using km/hr.

And you’ll avoid those issues with any standard, whether it’s m/s, knots or mph. The important thing is to have a standard.
by potus_kushner | 2025-04-24 17:37:33+00:00
What I'm looking for is conceptually similar to cygwin - where the "kernel", or better worded - the POSIX API - is provided as a library, not as a separate process that communicates via IPC with the minC "app"'s process. However, unlike cygwin, there should be a static libminc.a (or .lib) that can be used to make standalone binaries that don't need an external DLL like cygwin1.dll. MingW is not an option here as it lacks too many POSIX apis, but it could serve as the base toolchain to compile minc itself, and the programs linking against it, by switching out (or overriding) the default library and include paths. Basically making it use MinC's libc and OS syscall layer, but keeping its WinAPI interface. That would allow cross-compiling minc applications from linux, without having to use a win32 binary toolchain. Alas, the short project description on the website and on the github repo don't address any of these (imo crucial) details.
Show HN: Infat – Declaritive application assocation manager for macOS
by philocalyst | 2025-04-24 17:37:52+00:00
Bello! Made this to help navigate the tumultuous process of navigating to a new machine on Mac when you have a number of custom utilities setup for editing particular files. This is designed to make that as easy as possible, and add some magic on top of that, like setting mailto handlers or anything else of that breed. Use XDG_CONFIG_HOME to keep it organized.

Credit to https://github.com/moretension/duti for the original inspiration for the project.

Happy to answer and help with whatever.
by erxam | 2025-04-24 17:38:58+00:00
South America is also having its Trump moment currently, even if it's not as extreme.

But with Milei in Argentina, Noboa in Ecuador, Bolsonaro in Brasil and the upheaval in Chile and Colombia, there's plenty of far-right stupidity to go around and keep supporting Trump even if he's not playing nice.

And there's also the elephant in the room that's Venezuela. You see it with Venezuelans all the time. Even though they're being targeted by the Trump administration, they all still love him as if he were some sort of messiah just because he's opposed to Maduro.
by pje | 2025-04-24 17:39:23+00:00
GPT 4.5 even doubles down when challenged:

> Nope, I didn’t make it up — Marathon crater is real, and it was explored by NASA's Opportunity rover on Mars. The crater got its name because Opportunity had driven about 42.2 kilometers (26.2 miles — a marathon distance) when it reached that point in March 2015. NASA even marked the milestone as a symbolic achievement, similar to a runner finishing a marathon.

(Obviously all of that is bullshit.)
by rootnod3 | 2025-04-24 17:39:49+00:00
I tried the same a while back. I am now pretty sure it's part of the algorithm. If you stay away long enough, it reels you back in to scrolling by showing you some important updates first and before you know it, it draws you back into the abyss of AI generated content and ads and influencers.

edit: s/tells/reels
by toast0 | 2025-04-24 17:40:45+00:00
You can easily get a VPS for around $5/month from quality vendors. You can probably find a lot of offers around $1/month for a VPS on lowendbox, lowendtalk, and webhostingtalk.

If you want more oomph than that, you can find dedicated server offers at those three places, starting around maybe $30/month. Typically pretty old systems, but I enjoy having a whole ancient box rather than one core in a vm on a modern box. My personal hosting needs are tiny though, so I could fit back into the VPS if money were an issue.
by ThinkBeat | 2025-04-24 17:41:55+00:00
Anything that starts as Open source but is clearly meant to be a for profit product makes me sceptical.

The page has a link "Pricing" that takes to a page that says its coming up.

Well I will wait and see what and how the pricing structure will be revealed.

It is a product that easily lends itself to being a "little vit free and open source" and then all the for profit add ons are $$$$$ and not open sourced .
by ks2048 | 2025-04-24 17:42:16+00:00
I don't know if it stumps every model, but I saw some funny tweets asking ChatGPT something like "Is Al Pacino in Heat?" (asking if some actor or actress in the film "Heat") - and it confirms it knows this actor, but says that "in heat" refers to something about the female reproductive cycle - so, no, they are not in heat.
by abhisek | 2025-04-24 17:42:26+00:00
We found a malicious npm package express-cookie-parser impersonating the popular Express cookie-parser package. The README.md file for express-cookie-parser is a copy from the cookie-parser package. The malicious payload is in cookie-loader.min.js in the analyzed version 1.4.12. This an unique malicious npm sample that does not depend on pre or post install hooks. Instead, the payload is executed when a documented API from the malicious library is used by an affected application.
by red-iron-pine | 2025-04-24 17:42:26+00:00
there were lots of reasons to go west, since Europe was desperate and starved for spices and goods from the Silk Road.

the Ottomans had cut them off following the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 (or where they didn't they taxed the hell out of them).

they knew for sure there was good stuff over there, and just wanted a new way there.

we know for sure that Mars is blasted, toxic, rock ball with less metal than Earth. what great and grand spices will future explorers be returning with? the Portuguese could prove that nutmeg and silk existed...
by devmor | 2025-04-24 17:42:31+00:00
"Mutual Respect" is the key term here for sure, and I wholeheartedly agree.

I have worked for a lot of employers that did not respect me, and I, despite all intentions, eventually came to not respect them with my work effort.

My current employer does a lot to show that they respect my time and effort. As such, the lethargy in my work effort that has been present while working for other employers does not exist. I am just as energetic and invested in my work here as I was when I started.

I think that this is certainly a lesson not just for employees when considering career moves, but a lesson for employers who are interested in retaining talent. In my opinion, it should be a no-brainer; treat your employees well and they will treat you well. Conversely, treat your employees as an expendable resource and do not be shocked when their resourcefulness to your company is expended.
by BeetleB | 2025-04-24 17:42:35+00:00
I'm in favor of funding USAID, and definitely don't like what Trump is doing to the federal government.

Having said that, seeing the comments in this submission, your comment and those below yours not only will not convince a conservative, they don't even convince me who is in favor of funding USAID.

Here's what a normal person (not even conservative) will say and want to know:

1. Cuts in funding don't kill people. Malaria kills people. USAID was saving lives that it did not have a moral obligation to save. I can donate to a food bank and help prevent starvation. But if I choose not to donate, no one is going to blame me for people being starved. (I mean, I'm sure someone will try...). Blaming the US for their deaths is like blaming Chile for these deaths, assuming Chile was not putting in much effort to decrease malarial deaths in Africa.

2. Providing aid/charity is good. However, there's always a valid question on how much aid is appropriate. I don't donate all my salary to charity. But I do donate. Every year I do have to ask myself if I think I'm donating enough or too much.

3. How much aid should the US provide vs other developed countries? Which metric would you pick to decide this? Was the US underfunding in the past or overfunding?

I ignore any journalistic piece that doesn't address these 3. This is basic Reasoning 101. Back in my college days, I'd have gotten a poor grade if I didn't address these.

It's easy to focus on the crappy method Trump/Musk did things and ignore the real underlying questions. A typical conservative can easily agree that how Trump is doing things is wrong, but that doesn't negate the need to answer these questions.

Of course, one can bring in imperialism and exploitation by the US (and other countries), but you still need to answer the above.
by regnull | 2025-04-24 17:42:38+00:00
ChatGPT really impressed me on this one:

Sing, O Muse, of the Chucking of Wood

Sing, O Muse, of the stout-hearted woodchuck, Dweller of hills, whom men call groundhog, Whose paws, though small, could hurl mighty timbers, If fate had gifted him such labor divine.

Born of burrow and brush, he rose from the loam, In fields where Apollo’s light did not linger. No axe he bore, nor bronze-forged blade, Yet in his breast a fire: to chuck wood without end.

Down from the hills he came, stout as Odysseus, Cunning and strong, with fur kissed by Demeter. The trees did tremble at his gaze, And even old oak whispered, “Beware!”

“Would he chuck?” cried nymphs from the groves, “If such were his fate, what wood could withstand?” Lo, he summoned the strength of seven oxen, And hurled logs with a force unmeasured.

Seven hundred pounds of timber he cast, Each arc a hymn to muscle and will. Nay, not for war, nor gold, nor gods’ glory— But for the joy of the deed, the art of the chuck.

Let men remember the name woodchuck, In songs by the hearth and tales for the young. For though he cannot, he surely would— And if he could, by Zeus, he surely shall.
by _hao | 2025-04-24 17:42:40+00:00
I've been of the opinion for the last 5 years at least, that if Meta and all of it's associated products and platforms suddenly disappear from existence, nothing of actual value will be lost. There are better competitors for everything they do. I don't think I can pinpoint one single unique thing about Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp at this stage in time. Everything they do is done or executed better by a competitor. They had some sort of advantage in the late 2000's and early 2010's, but that's it. I'm not optimistic for their future and relevance.
by int_19h | 2025-04-24 17:42:49+00:00
> That sort of loyalty is not quite the same: protecting your own to indirectly protect yourself.

I would argue that this is a tit-for-tat, and as such, not really an example of loyalty per se. Loyalty would be protecting your country even when it doesn't actually benefit you and yours in any tangible way. And it has all the same problems as corporate loyalty, really.
by pugworthy | 2025-04-24 17:42:58+00:00
During COVID I made it a goal to walk every street in my town using the web-based CityStrides (https://citystrides.com/) tracker. It keeps tracks of streets you have walked and lets you know what percentage of a town you have walked. It didn't optimize my routes for coverage, but it was a fun mental puzzle to plan out my walks to hit as many streets as possible without duplication. An automated tool might be fun, but doing it by hand was part of the journey as it were.

As you browse the CityStrides site you can find people's LifeMaps which show all their walking. Some people have done amazing amounts of walking. See this user for example and their coverage of Paris, France...

https://citystrides.com/users/15259/map#48.85741101618777,2....
by TheJCDenton | 2025-04-24 17:43:07+00:00
It seems that another round is necessary, and VCs want AI. You and the CEO are competent and transparent. This is the premises.

You just need to have the conversation with the CEO, but in the right order.

Come to him/her with objective data, but without your conclusions or concerns, just your observations about where this is headed and if he sees at what rate this AI focus is eating ressources. Ask the CEO what it means for the company. Let him/her do the talking.

From this point, the CEO have the data and you have the company policy. Know you can talk on equal grounds on the matter with him or her. Good luck.
by gwern | 2025-04-24 17:43:10+00:00
As an American, I do indeed have little idea what sorts of improvements people in the EU as a whole - much less any individual country - have had. I can guess at a few, since presumably a lot of my items transfer. (Pascalization for avocado preservation, for example, is presumably a world-wide thing because the laws of physics are the same everywhere.) But I can't write a decent list.

I see that fact as more of an invitation to write your own. Do Europeans feel annoyed at the omissions of XYZ? Go right ahead and make your own! There's no patent on the idea of 'writing down a list of things that have gotten better'. I'm not going to sue you if you write down a list of ordinary things that have gotten nicer in the UK. In fact, I'd be happy to link it in the external links section if anyone makes a decent list for some other country in the same spirit. (I would prefer it not be tech-heavy, though. Things like "did you know PCs and smartphones also got really cheap in the Third World or the EU, and SSDs are pretty sweet compared to HDDs?" are not particularly interesting to anyone and do not need to be pointed out.)
by nostrademons | 2025-04-24 17:43:16+00:00
This is where you need multiple levels of management so that you can create a different reality for the investors than for the engineers and then just chalk it up to “communication difficulties”.

The CEO needs to tell the investors that the company is all-in on AI. At the same time, the CEO needs to tell the engineers to use AI judiciously to support real customer needs, but not go hog-wild with it where it doesn’t make sense. This sort of situation, where you need to tell one group one set of facts to get them to act but another group a different set of facts, is fairly common in business (and politics).

The way big corporations handle this is to have many layers of management and a very diffuse set of responsibilities so that nobody is outright “lying”, they’re just interpreting what they’ve been told in a way that makes sense relative to their job responsibilities. The way startups handle it is to lie and hope that by the time they get caught, their results speak for themselves.
by usrusr | 2025-04-24 17:43:29+00:00
There's more to loyalty than imagining it as a credits account.

The baseline is absence of disloyalty, which does not mean "stay aboard despite lower pay or benefits" but simply not cheating the organization you are (or were) part of. An employer who has to distrust every move of their employees will inevitably be a terrible employer to work at. No matter how hard they try not to be.

Not going below that baseline won't magically protect you from bad employers, but going below will inevitably turn any employer you work at into a bad employer, at least if enough of your peers aren't above following your example.
by tialaramex | 2025-04-24 17:44:10+00:00
Only road distances for cars are in miles and yards. The British railways continue to use chains (which are not used for any other ordinary activity) and non-road traffic is often in metres or kilometres as appropriate.

Some of those "Metric martyr" types, the kind of people who think anything which changed after they were 35 is an abomination, but somehow anything which changed ten years before they were born has never been any other way, will vandalize legal stuff which uses (in their opinion) the wrong units. So if you put a (legal and reasonable) 1.5km distance sign on a cycle route, but some car driver who thinks sane units are fascism sees it, they might smash it to pieces which is annoying.

There has been a very gradual lean towards sanity, after all my mother was taught decimal currency because it was forthcoming when she was at school, her parents had used a non-decimal currency system. When I was a teenager I still had coins which, though they were treated as their modern decimal value, if you read their faces had a non-decimal value printed on them, because it's too expensive to replace the currency when you switch.

When I was a child I would buy a quarter pound of sweets. At the turn of the century I'd ask for, and receive, 100 grams or 200 grams as I felt, but most customers would use pounds (although legally they'd be served in grams). These days everybody else would likely also ask in grams. So it's changing, it's just very slow.