MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lesuorac | 2025-04-01 22:36:10+00:00
My main concern would be these seem to be fabricated claims.

Mr Mitchell still was invited to the auction and attended it [1].

Ryan Burger seems to have never invited Mitchel to any events at all [2] prior to the video and yet shortly before the video was posted he invited him 3 times and canceled all of them?

These guys seem to be people that Mitchell has been friends with for very long times so it seems more reasonable to me they'd help him out with an email or two when it's literally at no cost to them. Where's an email from some Stock Brokers convention reneging on an appearance deal or a merchandise supplier asking him to find a new supplier?

That said, IIUC Australian is not as loose as the US is when making verbal claims about other people so claiming "Billy caused Apollo to kill himself" is a much weaker claim to make then "Billy is happy Apollo killed himself".

[1]: https://www.desertsun.com/story/life/2021/09/24/museum-pinba...

[2]: https://www.google.com/search?q=Ryan+Burger+Billy+Mitchell
by jonas21 | 2025-04-01 22:36:20+00:00
> if you like reading, then buy the books outright, pre-order it, ask your library to get it.

I don't think the issue is that people are reading her book without buying it or requesting it at the library. The issue is that not enough people want to read it in the first place. That's just the way things work. Far more people want to write books than can be supported by the market.
by tossandthrow | 2025-04-01 22:37:57+00:00
>... whose fans think they're making any money...

I am curious about this.

I might be alone, but very rarely do I think about what the authors I enjoy, or musicians I enjoy earn.

I am constantly, however, being exposed to what tailor swift earns. But I absolutely don't make myself belive that German niche Orchestras make comparable amounts.

Being a musician, author etc. Does not pay well. And nobody has ever told them elsewise, or is telling them elsewise.

It has really always been the case.

So it rings hollow when authors and musicians try to put awareness on their earnings.
by sylware | 2025-04-01 22:38:52+00:00
This article missed a critical point which is "the right way" to select a glibc ABI version: see binutils ld documentation, second part of the page related to VERSION support. This must include glibc internal symbols.

This will allow to craft ELF binaries on a modern distro which will run on "older" distros. This is critical for games and game engines. There is an significant upfront only-once work in order to select an "old" glibc ABI.

The quick and dirty alternative being having a toolchain configured to link with an "old" glibc on the side.

This article missed the -static-libstdc++ critical option for c++ applications (the c++ ABI is hell on earth), but did not miss the -static-libgcc and the dynamic loading of system interface shared libs.
by CodeMage | 2025-04-01 22:39:01+00:00
> What do you mean not their fault? I've seen wrong parts delivered by suppliers, so yes responsibility of an engineer who puts together a circuit is definitely checking that the parts are correct.

Let's not move the goal posts, please. If you're going to use a hypothetical situation as an analogy, make sure it's actually analogous. Yes, an engineer who puts together a circuit has that responsibility, because they're an engineer. They went through the required training that makes them an engineer and not just an engineering student.

> I find it hard to believe that the lab tech said it could never be the parts, considering how those things are handled in student labs, small parts break all the time.

And therein lies the problem. You "find it hard to believe" that the lab tech could have been that unhelpful, just like the lab tech found it hard to believe that the student wasn't doing something wrong. Both you and the lab tech are behaving in a way that is inappropriate for a senior mentoring a junior.

In my experience mentoring others, the first assumption should not be that the person you're mentoring simply didn't do enough and that they should try to do better. Yes, that might end up being the case, but most of the time there's also something else that could have been done better. Maybe the documentation is not clear enough, maybe the process didn't help catch the mistake, maybe the expectations I set weren't clear enough, maybe I didn't communicate well enough.

"Go check your work again" is rarely helpful, even in the extremely rare cases where that's the only thing that needed to be done and no other improvements exist. If you're really convinced that they merely need to check their work again, guide them to it.

That's why they are junior and you are senior, because they need more guidance than you do. They will not develop the necessary insights and instincts without that guidance.

> I've seen the other side of the equation as well, when things don't work students often just throw their hands up and say "it doesn't work" without any of their own troubleshooting expecting the tutor/lab tech/professor to do the troubleshooting for them (quite literally, can you check that we wired everything correctly...)

And in turn, you're arguing that the mentor should merely throw their hands up and say "go check your work yourself". Again, even that can be said differently: "Can you explain what you have checked so far and how you've checked it?"

> Simply saying "it wasn't my fault because I had a wrong part" shouldn't just give you an A.

You are drawing a lot of your own conclusions from what hasn't been said. In this comment thread, you have repeatedly and consistently shown bias through your assumptions. Yes, what you're saying could have been the case, but I see no evidence of it and no reason to simply assume it without at least inquiring about it.
by dredmorbius | 2025-04-01 22:39:12+00:00
The question asked for specific issues with a specific person.

The comment flagged, that status apparently endorsed by your own response, answers that specific question.

It's extraordinarily difficult to write a critique of someone, particularly where that critique focuses on political, social, and personality aspects, without hitting some nerves, individually or collectively.

I'll note that HN's policy is to moderate YC firms less (and yes, that's not "not at all" <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33974170>), rather than more. I'd suggest a similar approach to YC personnel, particularly current/past leadership and/or founders.
by otaviogood | 2025-04-01 22:39:35+00:00
Me and my team used these yellow tracking dots to reconstruct shredded documents for a DARPA shredder challenge over a decade ago. You can see our program highlight the dots as we reconstruct the shredded docs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzZDhyrjdVo Thanks to that, we were able to win by a large margin. :)
by zxspectrum1982 | 2025-04-01 22:40:09+00:00
52% is not fair but pure robbery. Not so long ago, people paid the tithe (10%) and if any lord, governor or king dared to go just a little further, they'd be killed, usually by hanging. There's many countries in the world with smaller taxes and still great services. Public money is just wasted by politicians trying to buy votes for the next election.
by tzs | 2025-04-01 22:40:18+00:00
Or let them trade but with one or both of these restrictions:

1. Make them subject to the Section 16(b) of the Securities and Exchange Act rule against short swing trades by insiders.

2. Their trades must be pre-announced to the public. Allow others to piggyback on those trades. E.g/, if a member of Congress announces they are going to buy 50000 shares of a particular stock in 7 days, other investors can queue buys of that stock to occur at the same time conditioned on the Congress member actually making their pre-announced purchase.
by westurner | 2025-04-01 22:41:11+00:00
Is that more debuggable?

Re: the Von Neumann bottleneck, debuggability, and I guess any form of computation in RAM; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42312971

It seems like memristors have been n years away for quite awhile now; maybe like QC.

Wonder if these would work for spiking neural behavior with electronic transistors:

"Breakthrough in avalanche-based amorphization reduces data storage energy 1e-9" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42318944

Cerebras WSE is probably the fastest RAM bus, though it's not really a bus it's just addressed multiple chips on the same wafer FWIU.
by gblargg | 2025-04-01 22:41:43+00:00
While it's ridiculous to expect a student to have the skills of a professional, even a student needs to develop assertive skills to demand a replacement part. This is a basic skill for debugging hardware problems: see if problem manifests on more than one unit. Here it would be demanding another chip to try, early-on. Chips can be marked correctly but damaged or defective.
by bigger_cheese | 2025-04-01 22:42:15+00:00
I studied Engineering rather that physics. In our lab reports we were expected to include a discussion of the results and the experimental method. It was basically expected that the report should include associated commentary around potential sources of error and modifications to improve the experimental accuracy.

I don't recall ever being marked down for failing to obtain the "correct" result the impression I came away with was so long as you were thorough in your discussion and analysis the exact result was less important.

I can remember my second year thermodynamics class had a fairly complicated lab which involved taking measurements from inflow and outflow of various heat exchangers in a variety of configurations (Counter flow, Cross flow etc) then computing the efficiency of each configuration. I recall getting into minutiae in the report about assumed friction factors and suggested methods to asses the smoothness of the pvc pipes etc. to improve the accuracy of calculations etc.
by photonthug | 2025-04-01 22:42:23+00:00
Again in that case the newness of different tech isn’t actually the real problem and feels like the wrong critique. What’s problematic is trajectory and intent with things like planned obsolescence, subscriptions, ongoing costs in repairs after initial sale. I’d say that a new interface is barely even an issue compared with that.. although fwiw, yes, I prefer buttons rather than touch screens.
by nlawalker | 2025-04-01 22:43:02+00:00
Totally agree - the industry will thrive (unlike some others that could be totally obsoleted in an AI-powered economy), but it will need far fewer paid humans to run it.

The retention of accountability and access to otherwise-inaccessible information will continue to be among the hottest commodities.

If you’ve ever wondered what makes “shady data brokers” so powerful in cyberpunk stories, it’s not their collections of stolen credit card numbers - it’s insider knowledge of what your trillion-dollar competitor is doing.
by mmooss | 2025-04-01 22:43:14+00:00
> function keys were no more difficult to use than any other key shortcut

That's a bold statement. I think most users would disagree, and the voted with their feet/fingers, and UI designers seem to agree.

Why? Some guesses: Nothing about F# indicates what it does, making it hard to learn; ctrl+S makes sense. And after you learn it, few can touch type function keys which means, 1) you have to look away from the document and, 2) there's much less muscle memory involved.
by GenericCanadian | 2025-04-01 22:43:57+00:00
Slots are pretty easy in Phlex. Have a look at the README in the repo I linked for an idea. I just create `with_column` or `with_header` methods that take a block and store it.

To create them declaratively (not needing to call them in a set order) you just create a module that defines `before_template` and calls `vanish`: https://www.phlex.fun/miscellaneous/v2-upgrade.html#removed-...
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by calmbonsai | 2025-04-01 22:44:26+00:00
Wow, that's quite the "mission pivot".

We already have all-electric trainers like the Bye eFlyer https://byeaerospace.com/ so I can see this "working", but I'm not certain how effective it would be compared to something as well-tested as the "stealth" version of the MH-6 helicopter that's been in production for about a decade.

Additionally, the basic non-stealth MH-6 airframe and power-plant configuration has been around since the 1960s so its base flight characteristics are well-known.
by Havoc | 2025-04-01 22:45:06+00:00
The first part of that prediction seems on track.

Think we’re still a while away on many of the other knowledge work ones. Often they just don’t have a good source of training data that has similar depth to GitHub/stack overflow etc.

eg law - yes you have law books. But that doesn’t have the same 1:1 relationship as code does. A lawyers output is not law books
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by eye_sun | 2025-04-01 22:45:11+00:00
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by int_19h | 2025-04-01 22:45:58+00:00
> There's no way in Java, Rust or C++ to express this, praised be the language designers.

That's not even the case. In Java, you'd just use Object, which is for all practical purposes equivalent to `interface{}` aka `any` in Go. And then you downcast. Indeed, code exactly like this was necessary in Java to work with collections before generics were added to the language.

In C++, there's no common supertype, but there std::any, which can contain a value of any type and be downcast if you know what the actual type is.
by mmooss | 2025-04-01 22:45:58+00:00
> WordPerfect was like vi: forbidding entry point, difficult key bindings, and a joy to use once you got it.

Maybe in that way, but I think it's misleading to say a every keyboard-based non-GUI editor is essentially similar. Vi's appeal is the muscle memory of complex commands, because of the moded keyboard - one mode being character insert, the other being commands.

Didn't WP use function keys + accelerator keys? That's almost the opposite of Vi's efficiency and muscle-memory.
by mbirth | 2025-04-01 22:46:03+00:00
> I had this idea before Honey

AdBlock Plus also had this idea back in 2012/2013.

Here’s a (German) article about this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220817235820/https://www.mobil...

Near the end he mentions the typoRules.js, rules.json, urlfixer stuff and Yieldkit. Apparently, whenever you’ve mis-typed a URL to e.g. amazon, it auto-corrected it and added their own affiliate id (which was then valid for 30 days). And the feature only needed very few changes to get applied even to correct links.
by analog31 | 2025-04-01 22:46:17+00:00
I'm certainly not going to defend your teacher or your experience, especially at the high school level. That's too soon. And I also remember being indignant for a similar experience in analytical chemistry.

But... there's a point in one's development as a science student, where science becomes more nuanced than "doing your best and honestly reporting what you observe." Those things will always be there of course. But in an experimental science, doing an experiment and getting accurate results is a vital skill, or you'll never make progress.

Naturally you have no standard for checking a measurement whose result is truly unknown, but you can insert the equivalent of breakpoints where you make sure that the same data do reproduce known results. Ironically for the discussion here, those are called "gravity tests." Students need to know at some point if they're going to like the experimental side of science. Getting things right is part of it. Some people don't belong in the lab.

I happen to be stuck at the "gravity test" level in my day job. My experiment produced a calibration that's reproducible, and that I could use, but it doesn't make sense. I'm not going to move forward until it does.

The problem with a lot of teaching is that the purpose of the lesson is never explained, and the nuanced view is never spelled out.
by joegibbs | 2025-04-01 22:46:50+00:00
"Will the application has a local repository of songs, will you use database to store songs?"

This doesn't really sound like AI to me, maybe machine translation or something like that but I never see a model making nonsense grammar mistakes and messing up tenses. Even a really small 7B model mostly outputs correct grammar until it goes off the rails. I'd expect bad AI feedback to be vague and verbose, in this instance perhaps whoever is writing the feedback doesn't know much English and is translating from their native language, or maybe they're outsourcing or something.
by fragmede | 2025-04-01 22:47:33+00:00
You have to define which axis' you're using to define efficient. If I were an executive at some corporation, I'd tell my assistant to book me a flight to New York on Friday at 7pm and that takes me less than 10 seconds. It may take her a while longer, but that's her problem and that's what I pay her for.

How long is it going to take you to get to a device, load the app/webpage, tell it which airport you're flying from and going to and what date and then you start looking at options. You've blown way past the 10 seconds it took for that executive to get a plane flight.

Better is in the eye of the beholder. What's monetarily efficient isn't going to be temporaly efficient, and that's true along a lot of other dimensions too.

Point is, there are some people that like having conversations, you may not be one of them. you don't have to be. I'm not taking away your mouse and keyboard. I have those too and won't give them up either. But I also find talking out loud helps my thinking process though I know that's not everybody.
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by Symbiote | 2025-04-01 22:49:17+00:00
Within the next year or two, I'm going to look at implementing something similar at my work.

We don't pay for electricity directly (it's included in the rackspace rental), but we could reduce our carbon footprint by adjusting the timing of batch processing, perhaps based on the carbon intensity APIs from https://app.electricitymaps.com/

Though, the first step will be to quantify the savings. I have the impression from being in the datacentre while batch jobs have started that they cause a significant increase in power use, but no numbers.
by crazygringo | 2025-04-01 22:49:43+00:00
Not that it changes your overall point, but they didn't. They sold away the rights before they spent the two and a half years writing their book. If they hadn't gotten the advance and therefore the ~guarantee it would get published, they might not have written it in the first place.

But they can't choose to self-publish after they finish it, because they chose to sign their contract long before that.