MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by geocrasher | 2025-04-02 05:34:07+00:00
EDIT: I left out an important detail! The teacher of the programming class was actually a student who was apparently quite gifted, and guess whose computer the program was installed on? Right.

I also remembered another detail: Apparently the same fellow, who had a reputation for smart but also extremely difficult to deal with (I wouldn't know, never met them) also had their fingers in one of the first dialup Internet services in the area, cleverly named DNIS (Desert Network Internet Service, I think? It was basically an Internet connected Linux shell if I recall) but everyone locally called it PNIS. Poor guy.
by watwut | 2025-04-02 05:37:08+00:00
They found nothing, because they were not doing actual review. They just slashed things without comprehension, claimed they were fraud and then had to hire people back because they broke law or fired people they need. All the while throwing around accusations and knee jerk accusations based on nothing.

Every time their claims were checked, there were found massive mistakes and lies.

Repeating loendoes not make it true, despite people like you trying to use that tactic.
by westurner | 2025-04-02 05:39:01+00:00
"Non-Abelian Anyons and Non-Abelian Vortices in Topological Superconductors" (2023) https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11614 :

> Abstract: Anyons are particles obeying statistics of neither bosons nor fermions. Non-Abelian anyons, whose exchanges are described by a non-Abelian group acting on a set of wave functions, are attracting a great attention because of possible applications to topological quantum computations. Braiding of non-Abelian anyons corresponds to quantum computations. The simplest non-Abelian anyons are Ising anyons which can be realized by Majorana fermions hosted by vortices or edges of topological superconductors, ν=5/2 quantum Hall states, spin liquids, and dense quark matter. While Ising anyons are insufficient for universal quantum computations, Fibonacci anyons present in ν=12/5 quantum Hall states can be used for universal quantum computations. Yang-Lee anyons are non-unitary counterparts of Fibonacci anyons. Another possibility of non-Abelian anyons (of bosonic origin) is given by vortex anyons, which are constructed from non-Abelian vortices supported by a non-Abelian first homotopy group, relevant for certain nematic liquid crystals, superfluid 3He, spinor Bose-Einstein condensates, and high density quark matter. Finally, there is a unique system admitting two types of non-Abelian anyons, Majorana fermions (Ising anyons) and non-Abelian vortex anyons. That is 3P2 superfluids (spin-triplet, p-wave paring of neutrons), expected to exist in neutron star interiors as the largest topological quantum matter in our universe.
by tgma | 2025-04-02 05:40:09+00:00
I gave a concrete example to the affirmative to a different commenter, so strictly speaking, yes. Arguably many European politicians don't say this but advocate for policies whose immediate logical conclusion is stagnation or decreasing growth. One example to demonstrate the point is banning fossil fuels (not debating the merits of it, but to demonstrate the point). In fact, the writing of Abundance is implicitly acknowledging such policies are in place.

But that was not the main point: there is a difference in basing your ideology on top of that pillar and betting the farm on it ala Abundance vs. just thinking economic growth is a nice to have blessing.
by Sytten | 2025-04-02 05:41:00+00:00
Probably you saw my rant. We are small team, rust shop and we shipped Tauri for a couple years to more than 20k users. Our application is complex and we had a lot of unpleasant debugging to do due to differences in native webviews. Linux performance was just plain bad. We switched to electron, far from ideal but overall the right decision for us at least until Tauri allows bundling of a stable browser.
by ajb | 2025-04-02 05:41:27+00:00
According to Toke Høiland-Jørgensen's memorial of him[1], he turned down offers from big companies to stay independent.

This is a sad day. There's no doubt that his efforts benefitted very many people, without their knowledge.

[1] https://blog.tohojo.dk/2025/04/remembering-dave-t%C3%A4ht.ht...
by ceuk | 2025-04-02 05:41:48+00:00
Same experience from pretty much the same time.

I ran a relatively small web consultancy at the time and we were in the middle of trying to specialise in the new, more complex things people were starting to build on the web.

We had the potential to land a contract with what would be by far the biggest client we'd ever had. But they wanted us to test the water with us first by having us build a series of obnoxiously complex manufacturing cost calculators for one of their sales-focused web sites.

It was all complex rules and interdependent inputs/display values. And because it could all be hard coded it was the perfect candidate for a client-side only site (I don't think we even called them SPAs yet)

I remember thinking jQuery UI didn't feel like the right tool and React was super clunky back then so I reached for Mithril and had a great experience.

The declarative approach, automatic updates to the DOM etc that we take for granted now felt like magic back then. Being able to describe the data model/logic in a relatively abstract way and then watch as the UI changed in response was pretty cool.
by bvnierop | 2025-04-02 05:43:11+00:00
Until a few months ago I would have suggested Pop!_OS. I had been a happy user myself for several years and it's nice that almost everything works out of the box. Personally I recently got a new laptop and switched, but would still have recommended Pop!_OS to a non-expert user. However...

A few months ago my girlfriend started trying Linux and went with Pop!_OS on my advice. For most regular use it does indeed work fine, but she has needs for specific software that only exists for Windows. And that's where quite a few issues appeared. Both on the 22.04 and the new COSMIC version, the Lutris/Wine combination has... quirks. It's a pain to get her software working. It also just randomly _stops_ working. Whereas on a spare machine with just Ubuntu 24.04, all that stuff just works instantly.

Granted, not the most typical usecase, but even non-expert users can have hobbies that require obscure software. And more important than anything is that their software continues to work easily. I'm not sure I would recommend Ubuntu to a non-expert. It has its own quirks.

This comment ended up being less coherent and more ranty than I wanted, but there's a non-expert's Pop!_OS experience.
by MrVandemar | 2025-04-02 05:43:17+00:00
"Still, I was determined not to write any code ... I just sat laughing as the computer wrote code."

I can pop over to Midjourney and be determined not to draw a single line and "sit there laughing" as it draws the Mona Lisa in the style of Salvador Dali but with a turnip instead of a person.

How is this any different? What is ultimately notable about it? Did any of it make you a better programmer?

I'm always deeply impressed when people devote significant chunks of their time to achieving extraordinary results. I'm entirely baffled, however, that there's anything at all interesting about using an AI interface to build an AI interface to connect you to AI slop.

You could have spent 20 hours planting trees or doing some kind of community serivce, and the world would have been a far better place.
by k310 | 2025-04-02 05:44:34+00:00
Well, that's fun.

The tell:

> The questions asked above have received wholly contradictory answers. The United States is the land of the free—no, we are the home of systemic oppression.

OKAY. Not quite yet ...

> Rather than try to reconcile opposites, let’s imagine the consequences for two very different iterations of American society as they reap the whirlwind sowed by the human/AI mind:

> The first is a place of grievance and despair, composed of individuals universally alienated from every source of meaning—family, community, religion, nation, history. The result can only be self-loathing and moral paralysis. The pathologies involved include anxiety, depression, suicide, addiction, loneliness and random violence. Men are impotent and women are sterile. The future is apprehended as an unstoppable catastrophe. Everyday life is a desolation. The only pure soul in this picture is the victim, whose suffering redeems nothing.

> The entry of the human/AI mind into such a society will fill an immense void. It will inspire messianic expectations that can only be fulfilled by a priestly caste of technologists, who will reorganize society on some meaningful principle. Instead of God or Mammon, despairing Americans will come to worship an immortal Mind. Everything will be structured in terms of purposeful activity. The alienation of labor will be turned inside out, as work and worker dissolve into a single algorithmic function. Human existence will be reenchanted but deprived of agency. In this vision of the future, we will be predicated to a transcendental AI Subject.

> The second iteration posits a society of adventure. This assumes the continuation in time of a primordial theme of American life: the spirit of the frontier. The guiding impulse will be to “move fast and break things”—to push beyond geographical boundaries, the line of received knowledge, conventional arrangements, established systems. Endless pretexts will be found for competition, exploration, innovation, games of skill and chance, with heroic champions held as the models and envy of the rest. The abiding virtue of this society will also be its most egregious vice: a terrible restlessness—the inability to stand put and wait to see what happens.

> The insertion of the human/AI mind will turbocharge this society’s naturally dynamic tendencies. Exploration will push beyond all previous limits, even to the stars, triggering a manic quest to leave ourselves behind. Competition will drive differentiation in every facet of existence, down to the genome level: We will breathe freely in the void of space. Innovation, child of competition, will give “creative destruction” a dangerously literal meaning. Epic art and poetry will coexist with robotic warfare and genocidal technologies. It will be the best and the worst of times, an age of heroes and holocausts—the final fulfillment of human potential, lived on the edge of extinction.

I vote for neither of the above. Did AI write this?
by GolfPopper | 2025-04-02 05:45:41+00:00
Thank you for bringing this up. All the marketing (and the "journalism" regurgitating it) are writing as though 'seaglider' is a word I ought to be familiar with, but have never encountered before. I had a lot of "these things seem a lot like an ekranoplane variant, but they're not calling them that" puzzlement.
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by bayarearefugee | 2025-04-02 05:47:04+00:00
This outcome had nothing to do with Soros and everything to do with the fact that people really hate Elon. Most (normal, not terminally online) conservatives I know want him to go away as well and view his "autistic screeching on twitter" as the reason they lost this election.

And now his threat to fund primary elections against anyone who doesn't blindly support Trump is shown to not only be completely hollow, its worse than that because there's every reason to believe his support is brand-toxic to whomever he supports in a way that far outpaces the money injection he brings.

With this election outcome he's been exposed as a complete lame duck when it comes to being any sort of political kingmaker. And now that he's exposed Trump is very likely to toss him away in the near future like he did with Giuliani or Mike Lindell or any hundreds of people he discarded when their usefulness to him was used up.
by krige | 2025-04-02 05:47:09+00:00
I felt that, I felt that deeply

One of the most devious analytic chemistry labs I had was the one where the spectroscope was ancient, its tray was less transparent and more milky white, and the fluid to analyze was some sort of expired flavored water. The attempt vs result chart looked exactly like that figure.

A really eye-opening experience in many ways.
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by strken | 2025-04-02 05:47:57+00:00
I really hate that framing. "Tech is made up of people who don't do housework" is an insulting and largely incorrect framing, and my vast experience of cleaning my shower has taught me that it's almost completely unlike tech debt. The cost of not doing it is...it looks bad and it's harder to clean next time. And maybe I need to get out the real bleach and the safety gear. This cost is not at all like tech debt, which has downsides that multiply together in unforseen ways and fuse together into critical outages.

Deferred maintenance of other engineered systems is a better metaphor because it includes severe consequences. If you ignore problems in an aircraft, the aircraft doesn't just look slightly gross: it has to crash land in a river, severely injuring 8 people and killing 2. Similarly, the long-running transactions in that batch job you didn't fix + the fact you delete info from other systems within the batch job before the transaction commits + the job retries on an aggressive backoff + you only have a single database with a limited number of available ports, can all multiply together into a significant outage and data loss.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-04-02 05:48:06+00:00
Programming is not art. In the end, nobody will care whether software was painstakingly hand-chiseled by humans in a dungeon or "vibe coded", as long as the result is good enough. (I'd argue that art will "suffer" from the same "problem".)

What is notable here is that someone is demonstrating that the systems are reaching a quality where this is possible.

> Did any of it make you a better programmer?

By conventional metrics, if the job got done well enough in less time, yes, even if less skill is involved.
by westurner | 2025-04-02 05:49:35+00:00
> nematic liquid crystals,

- "Tunable entangled photon-pair generation in a liquid crystal" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07543-5 .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40815388 .. SPDC entangled photon generation with nematic liquid crystal

NewsArticle: "A liquid crystal source of photon pairs" (2024) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/06/240614141916.h...
by Full_Clark | 2025-04-02 05:49:47+00:00
Will be interesting to see how Australia goes. They have extensive rooftop solar already, and one of the major parties in the current election is proposing to build nuclear power plants rather than go farther with renewables.

FWIW I think the nuclear plan as proposed would be a flop, but given that there are currently zero nuclear power plants there and Australia has a strong track record of opposing nuclear power, it's interesting to note that the idea has even been brought up without becoming instant electoral poison.
by kmoser | 2025-04-02 05:50:26+00:00
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Corporate Prank #2: Every year or so the cafeteria would print surveys on blue cardstock and put them on all the tables asking questions like "Were the cashiers friendly?" and "How was the temperature of the food?" My friend and I found matching cardstock and mocked up copies, but changed the questions subtly, e.g. "How was the temperature of the cashiers?" and "Was the food friendly?" and distributed them to all the tables. Never found out what happened, but I'm sure management wasn't happy.

Corporate Prank #3: One day I went with my friends "B" and "C" to a different corporate cafeteria where you paid a flat rate just before exiting. "B" managed to find an emergency exit door just before the cashiers which let him make his way to the elevators without paying. Now the setup for the prank: every few months one of the departments would distribute company-wide security memos (on paper) which would get distributed to every desk. Me and "C" mocked up one of those security memos (complete with a police artist style sketch of "B", who had skipped out without paying) which warned everybody to be on the lookout for the suspect who was last seen exiting the cafeteria through an unmarked door, and should be considered dangerous. We made photocopies and put them on every desk.
by muzani | 2025-04-02 05:50:27+00:00
Most of it is extrapolation. Yes, it'll triple productivity. But from what we've seen with frameworks etc, that just ends up creating jobs. We work more hours today than before the computers came in.

The other problem is the unfortunate naming. Nobody talks about Jetbrains taking coder jobs but it's essentially doing the same thing, allowing people write more lines of code with less typing. How many jobs were eliminated with Zapier or Pipedream? "AI" implies that it replaces a human.
by a2dam | 2025-04-02 05:51:07+00:00
I made a board similar to this that is based on an ESP32 eink screen (the Inkplate, which I highly recommend). The easiest way to render a dashboard like this is with a website, versus making the ESP32 render custom components and call a bunch of APIs). There isn't enough power on the ESP32 to render a website, but there is enough to fetch and render an image, but something has to generate that image. On mine, I use Home Assistant and pre-render a custom dashboard into a PNG, which the Inkplate grabs and renders. This guy skipped all that by just having the Pi do all the work in the first place, which is a fine way to do things if you can get the display working how you like.
by GolfPopper | 2025-04-02 05:51:37+00:00
Except it isn't - the V-22 fleet is currently limited to flight 200nm or less due to mechanical concerns. [1] I'm not sure what the US Navy is currently doing or planning for near-future COD. (Beyond ordering more Ospreys. [2]) Pray they don't end up in a real hot war with a peer adversary, I guess?

1. https://news.usni.org/2025/02/11/navy-marines-learning-to-ma... 2. https://www.armyrecognition.com/news/navy-news/2025/us-navy-...
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by johnthesecure | 2025-04-02 05:54:23+00:00
It's interesting to see the number of deaths caused by pollution. But everyone will die of something. Could it be that many of those people whose death was caused by pollution may have been frail and close to death anyway? I wonder if it would be more useful to talk about quality-life-years (QUALYs) lost as a result of pollution. Probably much harder to get that data though.
by rkuodys | 2025-04-02 05:54:39+00:00
I have similar thoughts and I have come to conclusion that that's the beauty and the curse of this technology. If one relies too much on it - it's gonna be a curse. However, if technology is used with care - it's a beauty. Not only does it keep SWE jobs "secure" - it really helps a lot for those who know what they are doing.

I think in the end AI will be more advanced tool, but a tool nonetheless. Like methodologies and principles, good practises etc. - they only work if you use it with care and added thought and adaptation to your case. DRY it a great principle. But sometimes it's better if you repeat yourself. For one reason or another. And these are the the tradeoffs that human in the loop should be making imho.