MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rootbear | 2025-04-10 20:15:13+00:00
It’s a reality of cinema that when they do a biopic or a film about a real event, they often have to make changes that enhance the drama. Some of these are reasonable, some not so. In Apollo 13, they upped the drama by significantly shortening the time required to get the LEM up and running as a lifeboat. I’m okay with that. Inserting drama where there was none is less justifiable, as it speaks to the character of the persons involved.

That said, as a retired NASA contractor, I can say that Apollo 13 is highly respected at NASA. Hidden Figures has a lot of fans there, too. In spite of the horrible physics, Gravity also has its fans - some astronauts said it really captured the feeling of being in space.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-04-10 20:15:37+00:00
Ask an employment attorney what it would cost to send a cease and desist letter, documenting this misrepresentation and potential fraud. This starts a paper trail in the event you need to file suit and seek damages. They may cover the cost if their internal legal team is unable or unwilling to send such a document on your behalf.

(not an attorney, not your attorney)
by dguest | 2025-04-10 20:15:54+00:00
This is pretty much what I was asserting in my original post, my question was if there was some additional mechanism beyond simple market forces.

It's not inconceivable (nor magical in any way) to imagine treaties that would allow an actual conversion from one currency to another, where USD go in one side and Euro come out the other. Situations like this have existed in the past: currencies have been converted when, for example, the former currencies in the Eurozone were converted to Euros.

No such situations exist right now: entities just hold multiple currencies and exchange them for you.
by timewizard | 2025-04-10 20:16:04+00:00
> That uncertainty does not create stable markets.

Stable markets with bad outcomes are not worth defending on stability alone.

> It does not create very accurate business decisions

The business environment is not great. It does seem some part of that is the result of cheap Chinese goods that have displaced labor _and_ environmental costs flooding foreign markets. That China even uses proxy countries to push out even more is instructive.

So, if not tariffs, then what should we use to solve this?
by asfia-the | 2025-04-10 20:18:14+00:00
We've got past time the era of nodejs, and javascript surrogates running on bare-metal machines.

JSVM language is a distributed computed cluster workflows execution system, which runs programs inside of a new (but compatible with Javascript/Typescript) programming language called "JSVM".

If you know Javascript then you know JSVM.

Please read the attached PDF specification in case you are passioned about distributed computing and news about technology.

This is a teaser, full MIT project repository URL will be revealed depending on audience interest.

Just leave a "+1" in case you like the teaser idea, "0" in case you are indifferent, and "-1" in case you hate the idea presented in the PDF.
by notahacker | 2025-04-10 20:18:41+00:00
Yeah. If you actually wanted to bring manufacturing back to the US you'd figure out which industries you wanted to develop, probably subsidise them, communicate very clearly what you were going to do and then ratchet up the tariffs on those specific finishes products, whilst being sure to maintain access to raw materials and components you still needed. What you wouldn't do is slap unexpectedly high tariffs on absolutely everything, shout about how you'll do a deal if only they respect you, and then walk them back in as inept and inconsistent a manner as possible. That's what you'd do if you wanted to destroy what's left of your industry. Think there's anyone in the rest of the world relying on US suppliers that hasn't started looking elsewhere? And it might now be cheaper for Americans to import from Japan or South Korea than from US companies dependent on Chinese components in their supply chain...
by grepLeigh | 2025-04-10 20:18:48+00:00
Eh, if you hadn't found Stumbleupon then you would have experienced the same effect from one of the zillion other competitors in the attention economy.

You're right that this kind of novelty-seeking content has a profound impact on the brain. It's really interesting to see finally see longitudinal research, plus research on screens/novelty on child development (search for $thing + "psychosocial development").

One of the most encouraging thing I've taken away is that neutral pathways are still quite plastic well into adulthood.

For example, here's an experiment to try if you wake up and scroll in bed. After you do your morning routine, jot down a mood score (-1 feeling crummy, 0 meh neutral, +1 feeling good). You can do this for a week or two if you want to collect control data. Then, force yourself to get out of bed without looking at your phone (buy an alarm if you have too). You should see changes in your mood log within a week. Sleep regulates/replenishes dopamine levels, and scrolling through a dopamine wonderland first thing in the AM can result in dopamine dysregulation for the rest of the day. Try it!
by bradac56 | 2025-04-10 20:19:07+00:00
I've worked on allot of pots lines and haven't done that in 20 years as its all fiber back-hauld now.

The only time I'd send power down a copper line is to fuse it back together so I didn't have to dig it up and replace it and that's super rare now as I'd just put in a order to have it replaced with a 12 pair fiber run.
by mtlynch | 2025-04-10 20:19:08+00:00
>To evaluate this as your are describing, you must reveal your estimate of the workload of what Tiger Beetle has done to roll their own docs. If it took them 5 minutes, for instance, the calculus is far different than if it took 5 years. Plus you must compare that time estimate to their other priorities to estimate the opportunity cost, something that you simply can not do accurately from the outside looking in.

I don't need them to reveal their numbers to me to offer my critique, as I think few people would argue that the upfront cost of rolling your own docs site could possibly be lower than the cost of deploying an off-the-shelf solution like Hugo.

I think where reasonable people might disagree is about the total cost of ownership of Hugo vs. the home-rolled solution over five years, but I'd find it surprising if home-rolled solution wins.

>To assert that you don't believe Tiger Beetle at their word here is deeply disrespectful imo.

Where did I say that I doubt TigerBeetle's claims? I disagree with the justifications in the blog post, but it's a difference of opinion, not a question of facts.

They published this blog post, and this is HN, so I think it's well within the community standards to offer a respectful critique.
by timewizard | 2025-04-10 20:20:02+00:00
> It took several decades of consistent development.

Well... and massive investments. Where did those come from?

> It is not possible to do that, in US with 4 year election cycle

The great thing about Trump is he has made everyone forget that Congress exists and has these responsibilities.

> Next gov will just roll back all reforms, and redirects all money...

The other great thing is people forget Trump has donors and investors on his side who benefit from all these changes. The next administration will be just as beholden to these interests as this one is. The current US president is just a branded token of the elites. It's meant to keep the population in check not create a policy free for all.
by windowshopping | 2025-04-10 20:20:13+00:00
I find the dating on this website confusing. It says Jan 27 AND Nov 03, and when I click previous comic, in order it goes: Feb 04 / Jun 14, May 31, Oct 13, Aug 02, Jan 08.....I'm so confused.

A. Why are there 2 comics per day? B. Why are the dates seemingly random?
by pjmlp | 2025-04-10 20:21:01+00:00
You are making the mistake to confuse inheritance with class inheritance.

There is also interface inheritance, which Rust allows for with trait bounds composition, now made even easier with trait upcasting.

With some macro help, one can even do COM style of multiple interface implementation with aggregation and delegation, to simulate class inheritance, like ATL allows for with template metaprogramming.
by lmkg | 2025-04-10 20:21:07+00:00
It depends on the jurisdiction and law, but a "data breach" is when data is accessed by a party who is not authorized, or who should not be authorized. It's not just hackers. Sending data to the wrong recipient is a form of data breach. Under some definitions, sending data to the intended recipient without appropriate safeguard is a form of data breach.

In this case, health care data covered by HIPAA was sent to a party without a legal contract that extends HIPAA to the receiving party. By law, that's a data breach.

Under some legal definitions, "data breach" includes not just breakdowns of confidentiality, but also of availability and/or integrity. So a company deleting your data by accident would be considered a data breach, even though it's being accessed by fewer parties than intended. This can be important: imagine a bank or credit agency losing some or all of the data about you, this would materially impact your ability to do business in the modern world.
by Animats | 2025-04-10 20:21:12+00:00
"Blue Shield severed the connection between Google Analytics and Google Ads on its websites in January 2024."

They're lying.

Look at the page source for the announcement of the data breach. Use of both Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics.

<!-- Google tag (gtag.js) --> <script type="text/javascript" src="/static/js/jquery.cookie.js"></script> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-KTK4E56VDB"></script> <script>

...

<script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); var check_site_id = 347; var social_patterns = ['facebook.com/share','twitter.com/share','linkedin.com/share', 'pinterest.com/share','mailto:?subject'];

...
by wubrr | 2025-04-10 20:21:23+00:00
> At least humans still have access to the sensory data

I don't understand this point - we can obviously collect sensory data and use that for training. Many AI/LLM/robotics projects do this today...

> So it embed how we may use words, but not why we use this word and not others.

Humans learn language by observing other humans use language, not by being taught explicit rules about when to use which word and why.
by jemmyw | 2025-04-10 20:22:08+00:00
> Farmed animals are a means to an end, not an object of affection.

I've read a few accounts of farmers who didn't feel that way and talked about how sad they were sending the animals for slaughter, but they still did it.

There was a TV show ages ago where this guy decided to film one cow for it's life and then cook the meat. They showed the film and then he was just crying and the chef was starting to cook and be sympathetic.

Or something like https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-50986683

I'm not a vegetation but I feel like I am really pushing something out of my mind to eat meat, so it is a cognitive dissonance.
by jen_h | 2025-04-10 20:23:07+00:00
[Full disclosure, work @ Firebase]

But try this:

Open up a blank Flutter template in Studio: https://studio.firebase.google.com/new/flutter

After everything initializes and your Android and web previews set up, open chat by clicking the little Gemini spark at the bottom of the workspace and then add your prompt.

YMMV, but I got a very basic, but working chess clock in one shot with "Can you replace this sample Flutter project with a fully-functional chess clock that works on Android and on the web?"
by canadiantim | 2025-04-10 20:23:16+00:00
I can't help but feel on-device storage is still safer than cloud storage. Sure, can use cryptomator or similar to encrypt on cloud, but that's same with local. Only with cloud you're opening up a much bigger attack vector space than having it on-device/"at home". Cloud definitely gives better resiliency and redundancy, but data replication is also something to be cautious with if privacy is a concern.
by neilv | 2025-04-10 20:23:34+00:00
That's a lot of distracting elements in the design, in something intended to reduce distractions.

They're all saying "This has a lot of things, and we're going to noisily tell you about them."

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=fisher+price+busy+box&ia=imag...

What about instead an unobtrusive software-based timer on your computer?

And the notification to coworkers not to interrupt you being a low-tech "BUSY" Post-It on the back of your laptop. Or your headphones on?

Though their advertising does have some interesting features and use cases. For example, you'd need to figure out a convention equivalent to smacking the Busy Bar button, to make your colleagues slink away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_to_the_hand
by dfabulich | 2025-04-10 20:23:55+00:00
It's so strange that StumbleUpon died but TikTok thrives today.

TikTok's algorithm is based entirely on when you click the Like button and when you linger on a video, exactly like StumbleUpon's algorithm. StumbleUpon even had a video product, StumbleVideo, that was basically just TikTok.

But, in 2018, when StumbleUpon shut down and sold their assets to Mix, the prevailing wisdom was that people didn't want to use StumbleUpon because they wanted to use Reddit and Facebook, to follow curated feeds of links, instead of random links that other people like.

If that wisdom were true, TikTok should have failed too, because TikTok just gives you "random stuff that similar people like," just like StumbleUpon.

I guess it just goes to show that there's no accounting for the rise and fall of social media apps/networks.
by 7952 | 2025-04-10 20:23:59+00:00
Cars and pedestrian/bikes are an apple to oranges comparison. Its like comparing how we regulate cars to private planes. They just have completely different potential to hurt other people. Placing such a heavy burden on pedestrians/cyclists is just disproportionate to the threat they pose. There is no reason to expect a level play field relative to cars because they are just so different.

And to be clear people should be careful and look after their own safety. But that does not mean they have some moral obligation to help drivers limit the threat they pose. Nor is it reasonable to expect pedestrians to be perfect 100% of the time. Getting drunk, glancing at your phone, being distracted should not be a death sentance.
by jltsiren | 2025-04-10 20:26:02+00:00
A 5-hour movie is long, but not that long for people used to binge-watching TV shows. And I'd argue that watching modern productions without subtitles is a clearer indication of masochism. Too many actors just mumble their lines. If you care about the dialogue, you either have to use subtitles or concentrate and remain alert all the time.
by nchagnet | 2025-04-10 20:26:28+00:00
Sadly no, most examples I'm familiar with are within research articles. A typical thing done within such articles is to consider a spacetime geometry, calculate its Einstein tensor and map it to some ansatz like that of a perfect relativistic fluid. It's a neat way to interpret the geometry in question as an energy/matter content.

Hope that helps point you in the correct direction!
by hylaride | 2025-04-10 20:26:30+00:00
> Like, is Russia reserving its soliders on the Western front for NATO reasons rather than just using everything against Ukraine?

The Russian government is treading a fine line domestically. For most Russians, the war is a not relevant to them. They do not want to fight, which is why when it became clear Russia wasn't going to have a quick victory, there was one quick and dirty mobilization that mostly sucked up people from the outer regions, in particular ethnic minorities. Russia is also dealing with acute labour shortages because of a variety of factors, including bad demographics, at least a million people leaving the country, and demand from arms manufacturers. This is why you hear about military contracts being as high as 50x the average yearly salary.

This is why there are North Koreans fighting; there was already a program that essentially sends North Koreans to work in parts of Russia as essentially slave labour that the NK govn't gets the money for. This was just an extension of that, with the added bonus for the North Koreans that they will get their first exposure to combat in decades. There are probably a few hundred Chinese soldiers (as well as people from a host of other countries) that are in it for the money, too.
by thebruce87m | 2025-04-10 20:26:37+00:00
> So, if not tariffs, then what should we use to solve this?

I’d argue that tariffs that increase at a known rate are better than surprise large ones. Even a 1% increase a week every Monday for a year lets everyone’s supply chain adjust gradually. You’ll know within a few weeks how your product is affected and you’ll plan for the increase over the year. That’s probably still too fast though, since factories take time to build and the whole point is to encourage local manufacturing. Given the 4 year term trump could have gone for 3 years of increases with the hope that companies would start building factories and have them running by year 4.
by qingcharles | 2025-04-10 20:26:55+00:00
Also good:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GarfieldMinusJon/

And if you want to get weird:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AlzheimersGroup/top/?t=year

Full list:

https://www.reddit.com/r/garfieldminusgarfield/comments/gxl2...
by grey-area | 2025-04-10 20:27:42+00:00
Oh I don’t know, how about:

Not imposing ludicrous tariffs based on flawed economics on the entire world at once?

Not imposing tariffs with no warning on your closest allies and attempting to bully them into submission?

Not imposing huge tariffs on some of the weakest nations you trade with (e.g. Laos, Vietnam).

Not changing trade policy radically every few days and announcing it on social media?

Not crashing the stock market, announcing a reverse on your social media platform, then boasting about how much money your billionaire friends made?

Not calling one of your largest trading partners peasants and the then very clever, alternating between insults and praise like a two-bit mobster?

This administration has made America a laughing stock; I don’t think many Americans realise just how much trust has been burned with allies since ‘liberation day’.
by Paddywack | 2025-04-10 20:28:17+00:00
I randomly bought a fire truck a few months ago. I was looking for something to convert into a camper van, and found my truck: (A) low mileage, compared to other trucks because of the usage. Ambulances etc. are super high mileage. (B) they have excellent maintenance, so it’s ship shape (C) low comparable purchase cost due to tiny resale market.

I’m loving it. Kids love it. Community loves it. Wife tolerates it. Converted it into a camper and party truck!
by jeswin | 2025-04-10 20:29:01+00:00
There are two parts to what you said.

> A lot of things were working even if they did not change everything overnight.

We can disagree. The frog was slowly getting cooked.

China's trade surplus has reached 1 Trillion dollars, and has seen consistent YoY growth for decades. Such asymmetry is dangerous in the long run. Now, none of this is China's fault. They did the right thing for their country and their population.

> And the changes that will come to the world order and industries following this administration will on the whole be detrimental for the US economy and position in the world.

That remains to be seen. I have no way of knowing, but I would assume that it isn't just the US which is concerned about this.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-04-10 20:29:06+00:00
I would accuse that article of serious problems due to potentially very misleading statistics. The entire claim comes down to a single unsubstantiated quote.

> The odds of being involved in a motor vehicle crash when driving ‘stoned’ are approximately double those of sober driving, but significantly less than the 10 to 15 times increase when driving with a blood alcohol concentration of approximately 0.1,

That statistic doesn't account for conditional probability. At any given time of day, the set of people consuming recreational drugs have a significantly different distribution of group membership than the inverse of that set. I am reasonably confident that it constitutes a fatal flaw in this case.

> during the pandemic, fatally injured and non-fatally injured drivers “have demonstrated significantly higher overall drug prevalence.”

That doesn't tell us anything since what we would need is the numbers relative to trips without incident normalized for historical driving behavior of the individuals queried. (I realize that would be a nearly impossible dataset to obtain. That doesn't make the presented statement correct though.)
by rassimmoc | 2025-04-10 20:29:08+00:00
1.those are not the only options, far from it. If EU buys from 3rd party, that party gets to dictate what we can do with those weapons. How long have EU countries been asking US to allow them to transfer F-16, longer ranged artillery, missiles, MBT,... to Ukraine? Also, lets remember that UK has prevented shipping vaccine manufactured there to 3rd countries, even when some other country paid for it already. EU did not do that.

2. Thank you for confirming our fears. We decide not to buy something for you and now you go full crybaby and deny Ukrain help. Yes, you guys sound like totally dependable.

3. It's not isolationist and we do want (or should want to) cooperate with you, but Eu has just learnt what happens if you outsource your own defense and US elects idiot for the 2nd time. And lets not forget that you have political party on the rise, (Reform UK), that seems to be a bit too friendly with Trump, Farage supposedly received money from RT (russ sponsored Tv) in 2022. One of your previous PMs (Boris Johnson) had appointed Russian oligarch as Lord and is said to have ditched his own security to party with Russian intelligence officers while he was in office. So, if eu and russia come to blows, whos side will UK be on? Depends on what party is in government.
by huevosabio | 2025-04-10 20:30:04+00:00
Yes, that would be indeed very interesting.

I would like to try something like this in Rust: - you use a macro to stub out the body of functions (so you just write the signature) - the build step fills in the code and caches it - on failures the, the build step is allowed to change the function bodies generated by LLMs until it satisfies the test / compile steps - you can then convert the satisfying LLM-generated function bodies into a hard code (or leave it within the domain of "changeable by the llm")

It sandboxes what the LLM can actually alter, and makes the generation happen in an environment where you can check right away if it was done correctly. Being Rust, you get a lot of more verifications. And, crucially, keeps you in the driver's seat.