MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by knorker | 2025-04-09 13:14:01+00:00
Your point is a good one. I don't think it invalidates what I said, since my still valid message would get lost if I hedged it with "except (more or less) organized crime".

But I agree that Silk Road was an economy. Just like slave trading and other human trafficking is an economy.

We do still have an illegal cryptocurrency economy. It's more tilted towards the ransomware economy than drugs, though. So it's not just pyramid schemes.

But I'm sure crypto drug kingpins and murderers like Ross Ulbricht are still out there. In fact recently I listened to a money podcast that investigated if hitmen paid in cryptocurrency on the dark web were a real thing. I can't find it now, but the answer was that most are scams, but yes actually there's a nonzero number who will kill the person.

But back to my point: Most people talking about the cryptocurrency utopia (though most have given up on that, instead shifting to "it's a store of value!"), when they (de facto) say "real cryptocurrency economy has not been tried" mean the non-traditionally-criminal economy. So I also don't think that what I said was wrong. It depends what you mean by the word "real". :-)
by ValentineC | 2025-04-09 13:14:25+00:00
> Does something like Whisky work in the new macOS Apple Silicon world?

From what I understand, Whisky only works with macOS Sonoma and Sequoia anyway.

Kegworks [1] works with Mavericks and Ventura, and WineBottler for Intel Macs.

[1] https://github.com/Kegworks-App/Kegworks
by Clubber | 2025-04-09 13:14:36+00:00
>Personally I've never found it a problem to just fix things that I see are broken, as a dev, without PM approval, even in very dysfunctional organizations. Sometimes it even goes noticed and people applaud you for it.

It's a lot easier when you're not shoving out a release every 2 weeks. When I worked at a company with quarterly releases, the standing order was fix any bug you see and we saw drastic improvements after just a few releases.
by PaulHoule | 2025-04-09 13:14:43+00:00
... depending on how the forest in question regrows or fails to regrow. In the short-term carbon in the atmosphere has increased, maybe in 50-100 years it is neutral, in the meantime we are suffering effects of increased temperatures right now. Contrast that to, say, sugarcane, which really does regrow in a season -- but might still be a problem if you clear land to produce it. What complicates it all is that large amounts of carbon are stored in the soil and that is really "dark matter" that we barely understand.

That BECCS technology is one of those things where there are hundreds if not thousands of research papers for every working installation.
by bearjaws | 2025-04-09 13:15:08+00:00
Friend ordered the solar roof (the solar panels that look like shingles), and after waiting a year switched to their regular solar.

From my conversations it was a complete mess to get installed, with poor communication on their end. After it was installed he had 2 issues within 2 years resulting in them needing to replace hardware.

Add in that it was quite expensive, he is not a happy customer.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-09 13:15:09+00:00
It’s worse than that: most of those hypothetical factory jobs will go to people “higher” on the economic chain who lost their jobs and are shifting “down”, not to “lower” workers shifting “up”. Reduced retail volume will indeed put Wal mart workers and such out of work, but they simply won’t have other jobs. Maybe meat packing and fruit picking, if Trump gets around to deporting those workers instead of college students.
by acdha | 2025-04-09 13:15:40+00:00
It’s not easy, but there’s enough money on the line that I would expect it here rather than anywhere else, and the longer it goes on the more Republicans in Congress are going to be afraid of affirmatively voting to continue it. Right now they’re acting like bystanders but if a few people are willing to let a bill ending the proclaimed emergency out of committee, they’re forced to own the damage.
by bitmasher9 | 2025-04-09 13:16:26+00:00
In general I value service more than (manufactured) goods. Goods are mass manufactured, with millions of exact copies made. There is no scarcity to goods.

I’d rather have a great doctor, lawyer, or accountant when I need one than a great car.

Having an average car is always just fine, having an average lawyer might not cut it.
by satisfice | 2025-04-09 13:16:59+00:00
I don’t trust LLMs for search and neither should anyone. I speak as a professional tester. They are essentially untested. It should offend us all that OpenAI puts such unreliable software out there.

Unlike Google, or Duck Duck Go, which serve up links that we can instantly judge are relevant to us, LLM spin stories that sound pretty good but may be and often are insidiously wrong. It’s too much effort to fact check them, so people don’t.
by ElevenLathe | 2025-04-09 13:17:09+00:00
The sky didn't fall in during the first term, so why would it during the second?

I didn't vote for him but slightly less than half the voters did (according to best estimates -- one thing MAGA is right about is that our election security is a joke, with a few private voting machine companies and an army of partisan local officials having unauditable sway over a good chunk of elections). In any case, it's not productive to blame voters. The point of a democracy is to court voters. Shaming them and calling them idiots only pushes them away.
by the_af | 2025-04-09 13:17:56+00:00
Any idea who this Paul Gilster is? Or Tau Zero? He says he was trained as a medievalist who later turned into flight instructor and now he's obviously fascinated with astronomy and exoplanets.

I'm always wary of sites like this, but this one seems to have a long history, starting in 2004, and as far as I can tell the articles are solid (or at least, not quackery). This article in particular seems reasonable, too.
by fakedang | 2025-04-09 13:18:08+00:00
It's not a monopoly if it is hard to migrate from. SAP doesn't go out of its way to prevent you from migrating out of the HANA database. It's just that by the time you need a software like SAP, whatever you're buying becomes business critical and hard to migrate from regardless. And SAP is good enough to handle all kinds of edge case scenarios reasonably strongly. SAP doesn't even engage in monopolistic practices like what Microsoft or Apple do.

SAP and Salesforce are pretty much in the same bucket imo. The reason there is no Hubspot for SAP is that most smaller companies don't really need an ERP system.
by bearjaws | 2025-04-09 13:18:12+00:00
Except you can guarantee MKBHD got the best of the best service with Elon Musk personally holding a gun to the head of whomever was in charge of the install.

They literally work with their top influencers for FSD to make it looks more impressive than it really is.

He even talks about how everyone was having problems but "for whatever reason it went perfectly"... and it still took 8 months

https://electrek.co/2024/07/09/tesla-insiders-say-elon-optim...
by jeswin | 2025-04-09 13:18:33+00:00
From this month's HN hiring, we might have received 30-40 resumes so far. Out of that, we have interviewed (or scheduled) around 20. There were no fake resumes; in fact we got very high quality resumes this time. There weren't any fakes in the previous months as well (in noticeable numbers).

I am not saying it's not happening. But we haven't seen it happen on HN.
by crazygringo | 2025-04-09 13:19:05+00:00
That's fantastic for you.

But yes, you can clearly see from the market that you have been much smarter, if your company was confident enough to take action to spend a lot of money to hedge against this. You'll make out like bandits if the tariffs remain, so congratulations. Truly, anyone who saw this coming and shorted stocks appropriately is now rich. That's how unexpected this was.

But Trump was promising vengeance on cultural issues and immigration. Not on prices. Again -- voters expected him to follow through on his promise to lower prices. Not to raise them massively.
by codechicago277 | 2025-04-09 13:19:22+00:00
SolarCity was about to go bankrupt (owned by Elon Musk’s cousins), so he found a way to justify bailing them out with Tesla money. He held the famous solar roof event, saying that all the homes behind him had solar roofs cheaper than a normal roof, which was later proven a lie. Tesla’s entire solar business was built on that foundation, and they struggled to justify it in the long term.
by zellyn | 2025-04-09 13:19:32+00:00
It’s frustratingly difficult to see what these (A2A and MCP) protocols actually look like. All I want is a simple example conversation that includes the actual LLM outputs used to trigger a call and the JSON that goes over the wire… maybe I’ll take some time and make a cheat-sheet.

I have to say, the endorsements at the end somehow made this seem worse…
by milesrout | 2025-04-09 13:19:37+00:00
You seem to have confused "The whole AI thing is nonsense. [Anecdote]." with "The whole AI thing is nonsense because [anecdote]." I see a lot of "LLMs are not useful. e.g. the other day I asked it to do X and it was terrible." That is not somebody saying that that one experience definitively proves that LLMs are useless, or saying that you should believe that LLMs are useful based only on that one anecdote. It is people making their posts more interesting than just giving their opinions along with arguments for those opinions.

Obviously their views are based on the sum of all their experience with LLMs. We don't have to say so every time.
by pornel | 2025-04-09 13:20:03+00:00
From European perspective, Russia's latest invasion was a wake-up call that the peace isn't permanent, and diplomacy and economic power may not be sufficient to keep it.

Effectiveness of drones and advanced missiles in the war was also a wake-up call that semiconductors and batteries have a strategic military importance, and the rest of the world is quite dependent on China and Taiwan for these.

I assume that all the talk about trade deficits and unfair competition from Chinese EVs is bullshit, and the US and the EU are having an "oh shit" moment realising they're unprepared for the world where wars are fought with drones and robots.
by codegladiator | 2025-04-09 13:20:05+00:00
> putting recruit A in front of the interviewer and then slotting recruit B in after the position is secured

reality is way more messy and worse. There are multiple actors involved in each part. Eg 2-3 "actors" for visual screen are ready for each call, 2-4 "audio" knowledge only experts on the call, 1 dedicated speaker, 1 person coordinating answers from audio folks to actor folks.

they are even ready for once in a while visit to offices in us, so they have actors there on the field as well ready to attend calls (probably 1 to 1 mapping after first visit)

and the work assigned is assigned to a completely different set of people, not involved in any of above. those folks and these folks dont interact.

i have worked part time as one of the "audio" person in above interviews. also involved on work side. ama.
by jonwachob91 | 2025-04-09 13:20:16+00:00
If you are willing to put in some Project Management time yourself, you can get solar for a LOT cheaper than if you hire an outside solar company.

For the installation - most roofing companies will install the roof mounts and screw on the solar panels for $1.5k-$2k (might be different in your area, but still cheap). An electrician can be hired to make all the solar panel connections and the grid connection for a few hundred $$$.

As the Project Manager - you'll need to source the panels, file the permits, and hire the roofers and electricians. https://www.solarwholesale.com/jerry-rig-everything/ can assist (assist, not do) all of that for you for a cheap price. $10k-$15k with Solar Wholesale will get you the panels and cables you need, plus the engineering drawings, the permit paperwork, and etc. (thank you for the great Solar DIY series Jerry!)

For $20k and working as the Project Manager yourself, you can get what most solar companies will charge you $50k for. Which is ballpark inline with construction project management costs - typical residential construction project management cost 40-50% of the total project budget. A lot of those projects as complex enough to warrant those fees, unless you have a lot of experience, but in my opinion adding solar to your roof is not a complex process and does not warrant those fees.
by Simon_O_Rourke | 2025-04-09 13:20:21+00:00
Had one apply to my team last week, they had on their resume they worked with a tech company from 2019 to 2022 in a very specific role which would have been managed by my brother in law. Checked with him and he called BS on it. Wanted to drag them out a few rounds and do some last minute reschedules, but HR just slammed the door, saying they get lots of these now.
by GPUboy | 2025-04-09 13:20:24+00:00
Introducing Iterative Code Generation: increase the success rate of your vibe coding!

One big problem with AI code generation today is it ‘throws the baby out with the bathwater’ and doesn’t work like software engineers actually write code.

Iterative Code Generation actually increases the success rate of AI code generation/Vibe coding, and mitigates the "generate and pray" problem.

## Why current AI code generation falls short:

Most LLM coding assistants today generate complete solutions in one pass and hope they work. But programming isn't a one-shot process — it's iterative debugging and refinement.

When code inevitably fails, users face a frustrating cycle of: 1. Getting an error message 2. Manually interpreting what went wrong 3. Asking the AI for a fix 4. Repeating until it works... or giving up

## The iterative execution approach:

Instead, this new approach writes code iteratively like real software engineers:

1. Generates a complete solution first 2. Visually executes it line-by-line (like a debugger) 3. Intelligently identifies real errors vs. expected partial execution artifacts 4. Automatically feeds errors back to the AI for targeted fixes 5. Shows the reasoning behind each fix

The results? More robust, reliable code solutions with dramatically fewer iterations.

## Why this matters:

*For developers/Vibe coders:* This approach mirrors how we actually write code — incrementally with constant feedback loops.

*For AI systems:* It creates a tighter execution/feedback loop for models to learn from their mistakes in context. Go from 1 bit resolution in data to N bit, which should also improve training data and code generation models themselves with more valuable data.

This plus the idea of direct 'latent space languages' should unlock previously impossible software across the solution space that we couldn't have imagined before.
by dspillett | 2025-04-09 13:20:37+00:00
Apple aren't the only ones to do is¹, of course, but it is definitely true.

This enough digging for you?

Go on. Vote down without offering a counter again. Take my fake points from me. You know it'll make you feel big. :)

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[1] In true Apple style, people did it before, they polished the act a bit, and took it as theirs!
Ask HN: Where's the GitHub for Database Schemas?
by twen_ty | 2025-04-09 13:21:37+00:00
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to have a standard place where people could share database designs and build up a collection of well designed, well tested database designs?

Many years ago I remember there was a UK based site where some DBA would curate lots of standard schemas but I can't find it now.
by ty6853 | 2025-04-09 13:21:49+00:00
Even though I 100% agree with you, the one piece of merit here is that the world is pissed shows that they recognize they lost something. They would not care if we were merely shooting ourselves.

Now if they are pissed and totally lost trust then we are totally fucked. But if they are pissed and willing to negotiate then maybe something can be salvaged out of this. It would be nice to have 20th century hong kong esque zero duty free trade between the US, EU, Mercosur, Canada, and all the other friendly nations as a result of us all learning how dumb this is. But I won't hold my breath.
by Kirby64 | 2025-04-09 13:22:00+00:00
Respectfully, what I’m describing is not discrimination in the hiring sense. Discrimination is unfair treatment related to immutable characteristics about a person such as race, age, gender, etc.

You could just as easily argue that people “discriminate” against candidates by making them do leetcode, when leetcode is unrelated to performance at the job. Leetcode is a performance some people look at during interviews, just like how you socially meld in an interview is a performance people look at during interviews.
by pjc50 | 2025-04-09 13:22:08+00:00
> there isn't a reasonable path to them paying the money back

Indefinite rollover is completely fine! Yes there are problems if the total interest payment gets too large, and there's scope for discussion about that, but there's no hard cutoff, it just becomes more and more uncomfortable.

People saying there will be a default: deadline please. Or is this just a general assumption that mortality is inevitable for states? The UK has never defaulted, for example.
by EdiX | 2025-04-09 13:22:57+00:00
> It's a commonplace of international relations, and intuitively obvious, that the more integrated are the economies of two countries, the less likely they are to start wars with each other

This is indeed a common way of thinking and intuitively obvious but I think it has also been proven wrong by the war in Ukraine. We sanctioned Russia as hard as we could and it 3 years later they're still there.

Withholding some nebulous service industry from a country that's mostly reliant on primary and/or manufacturing is probably not a strong enough deterrent to a sufficiently motivated political force. It might be that it just puts service industry reliant countries at a disadvantage.

Drone warfare is another piece of the puzzle, both how they are employed in the Ukrainian war as well as in the red sea blockade. The west is also at a disadvantage here compared to, say, China. When was the last time you saw a drone-dragon lightshow outside of Shenzhen?

We thought we had world peace through commerce but it was probably an illusion. I think everyone is rethinking the last 150 years of history right now.
by jajko | 2025-04-09 13:23:08+00:00
The issue then wasn't phone specifically, but social media apps installed there. I have phone at home around on the desk (but then again not always sitting by it), but since having 0 social apps its just a tool for emails, calls, whatsapp, navigation etc. and I quickly check it maybe every 1-2h for new emails/calls and thats it.

I still check FB on desktop from time to time if somebody close doesn't have anything interesting, but that is 1-3 mins max. FB has a very hostile UI on desktop these days (Firefox and ublock origin) and a lot of bugs on their sites, so I quickly get disgusted and close it.

The best part is, it completely refreshes whole timeline with new stuff every few mins, so anything I was just reading just blips out of existence, never to be seen again. So even if I manage to stay 3 mins it literally kicks me out. Thanx FB.

Another issue with that social media (don't use any other, why ffs its all mind cancer) is being overflooded with fake AI generated bullshit posts full of half truths and outright lies. Normally via suggested groups, cesspool of scum. So I have no idea what friends actually do, and not missing it.
by 7thaccount | 2025-04-09 13:23:15+00:00
Not political => without even looking at the solar panels, I'd be wary based off all the numerous issues with their cars. The CyberTruck in particular is like a modern day DeLorean, but much worse. That kind of cost cutting is going to be company wide and makes me wonder if their solar stuff is also problematic (not that I've heard anything).

Political=> he did a full blown Nazi salute twice and has been working to have millions fired from their government jobs. The conservatives who don't seem as bothered by that have never been interested in EVs to begin with and his liberal fanboy customers will never buy from him again now. He is extremely unpopular in Germany and China's Tesla market is being out competed. I don't think that makes Tesla look good long term, so I'd be cautious about a long term investment with them like rooftop solar. That's just my opinion anyway.
by milesrout | 2025-04-09 13:24:11+00:00
Very selective data in that presentation. The worst figures are always selected for comparisons: in one it's since 2019, then since 2020, then since 2022, then since 2020, then 2019, and on and on.

There is nothing wrong with making entertainment products to make money. That's the reason all products are made: to make money. Games have gone bad because the audience has bad taste. People like Fortnite. They like microtransactions. They like themepark rubbish that you can sell branded skins for. It is the same reason Magic: the Gathering has been ruined with constant IP tie-ins: the audience likes it. People pay for it. People like tat.
by Hyperlisk | 2025-04-09 13:24:17+00:00
Are you ready to get naked?

['style','link[rel=stylesheet]','link[type="text/css"]'].forEach(selector => document.querySelectorAll(selector).forEach(e => e.parentNode.removeChild(e))); document.querySelectorAll('[style]').forEach(el => el.removeAttribute('style'));

My little page seems to pass (submitted things here previously, but it's not naked currently)
by eru | 2025-04-09 13:24:46+00:00
I think that's a limitation of our implementations. In principle, it's just bytes that we shoving down the pipe to the browser, so it shouldn't matter for performance whether those bytes are 'inline' or in 'external resources'.

In principle, you could imagine the server packing all the external resources that the browser will definitely ask for together, and just sending them together with the original website. But I'm not sure how much re-engineering that would be.
Show HN: Dynomate– Fast, Git-Friendly DynamoDB GUI Client (Dynobase Alternative)
by orlando252 | 2025-04-09 13:24:51+00:00
After a bit of frustration with the existing DynamoDB GUI clients, I decided to build one.

Features:

1. Request collections: Chain together multiple operations - put, query, update, and delete across tables, accounts and sessions. Use the output of one operation as input for the next.

2. Environment Variables: Configure variables once and run the same requests across different environments (dev/staging/prod). No more manual parameter swapping.

3. Multi-tab, multi-account support: Work with multiple tables across different AWS accounts, and sso sessions simultaneously.

4. Easy SSO Login: Start sso login without leaving the GUI.

5. Git sync: All requests configurations are saved locally as TOML files. Your data stays private, and you can version control with Git.

I appreciate any feedback.
by RhysU | 2025-04-09 13:25:01+00:00
The above story is a primary source. Later writers should quote any desired linguistic flair within their later stories, thereby properly attributing the flair to the primary source.

What happens now is journalists throw around secondary and tertiary sources without attribution.

It's okay to report "Bob Jones commented 'Someone is a miserable SOB'." It's not okay to report "Someone is a miserable SOB" as if it's fact not judgement.

None of this is a new variant of journalism. It's just journalism and/or history practices that somehow got forgotten despite the fact that we teach these primary vs secondary source concepts and proper quoting in middle/high school in the US.
by cjcenizal | 2025-04-09 13:25:03+00:00
I went through this process this year. Found solar installation companies on Yelp, got some quotes, chose an installer. A month later, I have Panasonic panels and a Powerwall powering my home. There’s plenty of info online. I live in the US and found this resource very educational: https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/homeowners-guide-going-sol...