MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by androng | 2025-04-26 13:14:10+00:00
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by klabb3 | 2025-04-26 13:14:25+00:00
> I don't want the lesson to be "don't write things down", I want it to be "don't break the law".

That would be great if the law was functional. US antitrust law is a low-level IQ test, whose only function is to catch the occasional stray careless CEO admitting to the crime, ignoring corporate training 101. The article puts it well:

> It's damned hard to prove an antitrust case: so often, the prosecution has to prove that the company intended to crush competition, […] It's a lot easier to prove what a corporation did than it is to prove why they did it.

In other words, think happy thoughts when crushing the competition. Like when Bezos was feeling charitable selling baby products at a massive loss until diapers.com was starved to death[1], and then jacking up the prices.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diapers.com
by yellowapple | 2025-04-26 13:14:32+00:00
If Slate can actually pull this off then this might be the first automobile I buy new. It's almost exactly what I've been begging for.

Main question I have is whether the "blank slate" can be gradually upgraded. Article mentions a battery upgrade, but for example if I did eventually want to install a head unit or whatever, would I be able to do that after driving the truck off the lot? How open will this thing be to aftermarket upgrades?
by krapp | 2025-04-26 13:15:18+00:00
>Did someone already dig into the released JFK files? Or are there any projects?

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=what%27s+in+the+jfk+files

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43594918

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43430492

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43414002

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43408399

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42922624

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34006548

Yes.

You haven't heard about it probably because nothing in them was a bombshell revelation blowing the lid off someone's conspiracy theory. Mostly they just revealed some CIA intel programs and doxxed some people.
by FollowingTheDao | 2025-04-26 13:15:20+00:00
"Life has a 100 percent fatality rate"

So, "no one should ask" a suicidal person to not kill themselves "or force them" not to.

It is when people cannot fight for themselves that those of us who can fight have to fight even harder. I am saying this as someone who has attempted suicide twice.

You are literally arguing in favor for shrugging your shoulders to things like slavery.
by bko | 2025-04-26 13:15:51+00:00
Strong disagree, the failure is from no one having incentives or control. There is no bottom up if you have career unelected bureaucrats running the show. That's why it's in bad shape now. I'm thinking things like teachers unions that fought like hell to keep schools closed during COVID even when it became obvious that the virus was not especially harmful to children, parents wanted them open and incredible harm was being done. This is also why schools have grown administrative staff so much over the last few decades. You think an executive would allow for that?

I don't know the answer is necessarily top down but someone needs to make the calls and have ownership.
by AIPedant | 2025-04-26 13:15:57+00:00
The problem is that Trump, Musk, Lindell, etc are all extremely arrogant and constantly disregard sound legal advice. Their lawyers aren't merely associated with a controversial client; their professional reputation is put at risk because they might lose easily winnable cases due to a client's dumb tweet. You have to be a crappy lawyer (or an unethical enforcer like Alex Spiro and Roy Cohn) to even want to work with them.
by Spooky23 | 2025-04-26 13:16:08+00:00
People will often choose to not have a countdown.

I buy a smoke alarm with a fixed 10 year life to avoid battery replacement. Others buy models with replaceable batteries, still others install wired alarms.

You should disclose the lifecycle at sale so consumers can make a decision. I’ve been in the computing infrastructure business for many years - I can model out the expected life and cost structure for all of my gear.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-04-26 13:16:24+00:00
> It feels like your actual beef here is that the majority of consumers are interested in buying cloud-connected gear that degrades when the vendor moves on, but you're framing their choice as "crazy".

My concern is that consumers don't know what they're buying. They don't know what "cloud connected" means. I don't care if people but this stuff, I care that they know what the bargain is that they're making.
by roenxi | 2025-04-26 13:16:25+00:00
My eye is drawn to the section:

> The various foreign services of the BBC have always been tied, in some manner, to the national interest. In the 2017 Agreement, that means the Foreign Secretary. Article 33.6 (right) is subject to the Mission and the Public Purposes of the BBC as defined in the Charter, but it supersedes Article 3 (independence).

> Taking account of the strategy and the budget it has set, the BBC will agree with the Foreign Secretary-

> (a) objectives, priorities and targets for the World Service;

> (b) the languages in which the World Service is to be provided
by barry-cotter | 2025-04-26 13:16:27+00:00
> If you use the Hollywood standard, then probably none of us have close friends.

I’m probably bottom quintile for social skills and I have done some extremely unwise things for one of my friends who was there for me when I needed a hand. The Hollywood idea of “close friend” is a great deal nearer to my own life experience than its representation of many other important relationships.
by rdtsc | 2025-04-26 13:18:03+00:00
> While Budman claimed that he wanted to avoid any appearance of trying to “time the market,” he appears to have done so nearly perfectly, as Backblaze’s shares crashed by as much as 26% intraday following the announcement and have continued to slide ever since.[5]

Doesn’t that seem like insider trading? I guess he can claim he didn’t know so and so was going to quit.
by calcifer | 2025-04-26 13:18:12+00:00
> The problem is that we didn't replace the social housing lost to RtB.

We didn't fail that - Councils wanted to build more social housing with RtB and Thatcher viciously destroyed those programs. She created RtB not because it was a "forward-looking policy aimed to reward people for work" but because she hated the social security apparatus and wanted to destroy it. And she was never covert nor apologetic about it.
by foldr | 2025-04-26 13:18:14+00:00
Margret Thatcher wasn’t a “faction of the British Government”. She was Prime Minister for 11 years. Do you really think RT would still be here if Putin had wanted it gone for the past 11 years? People and institutions that Putin wants rid of don’t tend to hang around quite that long. And what sort of effective public scrutiny can you possibly think that RT’s journalism is subject to?

But more broadly, you’re arguing at a level of abstraction that rises above actually looking at the content produced by the BBC in comparison to the content produced by RT. You only have to watch each for 15 minutes to see the very clear difference. Perhaps your theory of the world tells you that the BBC must be British propaganda because it depends to some extent on the British government for its existence. Ok then — so much the worse for your theory of the world. Believe it or not, there is actually such a thing as public service broadcasting as distinct from state propaganda. The BBC is really the obvious counterexample to any claim to the contrary.

> Contrary to what you suggest, the government of the day cannot simply direct the BBC's editorial output or defund the BBC if it displeases them. >> I never put either of those things. They are both obviously untrue.

You asked “If [the BBC] isn't pushing a British viewpoint, wouldn't it be incumbent on the British government to shut it down?” That clearly suggests that the government of the day could defund the BBC if it displeased them.

Thatcher certainly wanted to put the BBC in its place after the clip I linked above. Her husband memorably complained that she’d been “stitched up by bloody BBC poofs and Trots [Trotsykists]”.
by closewith | 2025-04-26 13:18:23+00:00
> Also, bad communities fail. They should be allowed to fail.

This is wishful thinking. The resilience of communities is orthogonal to their moral worth, which is inherently subjective. Many communities which have horrific traits survive and thrive for centuries and even millennia. Many which I'm sure you would consider morally good are perilously close to failure.
by barotalomey | 2025-04-26 13:19:03+00:00
> by contesting the very existence of articles on individual episodes of TV shows, software, or video games, which are all completely uncontroversial on the English one.

In the first year or so of the english Wikipedia, I was very engaged in adding content but never really tried to engage with the community. I started adding articles about my topic of interest at the time, which was New York 80s punk and hardcore bands. Soon, I had the lot of my articles deleted for "lacking relevance".

I haven't been contributing much since.
by tpmoney | 2025-04-26 13:19:36+00:00
The more I learn about how the bigger companies do business, the happier I am my dreams of working for them never materialized. I encounter enough stupid things caused by businesses trying to measure difficult things. I would hate to work in a place where the proper mode of conduct – praise in public, criticize in private – is flipped on its head for the purposes of someone's spreadsheet.
by bko | 2025-04-26 13:19:36+00:00
This is easily searchable. Here is a quick answer from Claude.

> Regarding agency terminations through sunset provisions, in practice these have been rare. Despite the widespread adoption of sunset laws at the state level in the 1970s and 1980s (with 35 states enacting such laws), "few agencies have actually been terminated under these sunset provisions." At the federal level, Congress has used sunset provisions more sparingly and typically for specific statutes rather than entire agencies. [Britannica](https://www.britannica.com/topic/sunset-law)

As the saying goes, there's nothing as permanent as a temporary government program
by viraptor | 2025-04-26 13:19:37+00:00
So... I'm assuming this is another timecube style website, right? The number of time subatomic, philosophy, dark matter and similar things are mentioned on a page about an image codec is weirdly high. AI generated paragraphs, no visual examples, no code, no real explanation how this works, ... and from what is there, I can't tell a difference between this and converting to a trained latent space.
by nikhizzle | 2025-04-26 13:19:50+00:00
I have a rough idea of my friend’s schedules, and I call them when I’m driving the kids around, or we text. Staying in constant contact with a few very close friends about my mental health has floated me through my mid-40s.

A tip I got from a friend in his 60s was that even when you lose friends, life is great because you constantly have the opportunity to find new ones. I am in a new close friends renaissance in my 40s, just be vulnerable and don’t take rejection personally.
by somenameforme | 2025-04-26 13:19:52+00:00
A lot of things in history, with regards to the negative impacts of religion, have been rather exaggerated. For instance during the Spanish Inquisition a total of ~3,000 people were put to death [1] over a period of 356 years. So that's a total of 8 people per year. And of course that was throughout the entire Spanish Empire and not just modern day Spain. So, in other words, on average substantially more people were killed by lightning per year than by the Spanish Inquisition.

The reason not to get on a high horse over it however is simply because comparing the norms of one time to the norms of another is quite pointless. The Romans did great things and they did awful things. Like pretty much every culture to have ever existed and most likely like every culture that ever will exist. And comparing which did worse, outside of obvious extremes, is not meaningful if even possible.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition#Death_toll...
by AIPedant | 2025-04-26 13:20:04+00:00
This seems like both-sidesism at its worst. Michael Avenatti is one man, and he represented Stormy Daniels, who is hardly a significant figure on the left compared to Rudy Giuliani or Mike Lindell. I don't see Democrat-leaning CEOs (e.g. Howard Schultz) hiring lawyers like this. And Trump's lawyers are far worse than Biden's!
by 93po | 2025-04-26 13:20:04+00:00
Here's the root of the problem though: wikipedia isn't an objective source by its very nature. Wikipedia requires mainstream established news sources for a lot of articles that aren't academic in nature, and especially for articles about people. You cannot include information that isn't supported by corporate news articles, which means corporate news is now the arbiter of truth, and corporate news lies all the time about everything.

Wikipedia is, and always has been, the encyclopedia of the elite and billionaire narrative, and especially the left-wing narrative, which dominates nearly all corporate news groups. I say this as a far left person myself.
by protimewaster | 2025-04-26 13:20:24+00:00
It's been a pretty common practice for years that musicians will refuse their music being used to promote things they disagree with. E.g., some politician will use a track by a band, the band doesn't like the politician, so they'll tell the politician to stop using the track.

And, I don't think that the agreement here is meant to equate eating meat with being right wing. Moby is famously against animal products, so he's decided he doesn't want the music used to support those products.
by paulryanrogers | 2025-04-26 13:20:46+00:00
I don't deny white flight and red-lining happened, continues in some places, and is horrible. I'm not convinced that's the sole or even primary reason for modern loneliness.

> Things like Elks Lodges went into long term decline when women and blacks had to be admitted.

People don't need institutionalized racism and misogyny to make friends. They already have a right to be racist and privately associate / not associate.
by 59nadir | 2025-04-26 13:21:54+00:00
> And while it is easier to become good at coding than at singing - for professional purposes at least - I believe that the effect still holds.

I can't reconcile this with my own view of things but I think "for professional purposes at least" is doing a lot of work in your sentence and I get the feeling you intend to say "good enough" by adding that bit.

Most programmers are very bad at programming (and problem solving) and only if they were compared to absolute beginners with zero insight could they be said to be "good" (and most of that comes down to them at least knowing the names of maybe a couple of concepts, etc., which makes for at least a partial map of the knowledge space). Most of them will never become good at what they do either, but will stay middling because they basically just glue libraries together and learn surface level things over and over.

If all you've ever done is learn a language, a backend framework in that language, learn how to use SQL, learn JavaScript, learn a couple of frontend frameworks for JavaScript, you've just basically learned a bunch of trivia that at best could be considered table stakes for a certain part of the industry.

If you're not actually doing free form problem solving, implementing things from scratch, reading code you didn't have to read and building and reinforcing your own fundamentals in other ways you won't ever be a good programmer.

I've worked with people who've spent 10+ years in the industry only to be essentially useless without frameworks and libraries and it regularly showed in how poor their output was. It wasn't any better when they did have frameworks and libraries to use, but they could pretend it was because at least a solution was reached. The truth is that in most of those cases a much better version could've been reached by simply re-implementing only the parts that were needed, but these types of programmers don't have the capability to do so.
by constantcrying | 2025-04-26 13:22:07+00:00
The problem is that the default state to all recently published results should be doubt. But this is never something which the general public is told.

Both psychology and nutrition are some of the most error prone areas of science. Yet results from both of these are again and again publicized as major finding. "Scientists find ..." headlines have conditioned the population into believing uncritically the outcome of scientific studies. Of course scientists are also heavily incentivized to portray their results as definitive and get publicity among the general population for their research. (By the way, this is surely what contributed to the growth of the "anti-science" movement. You can only read so many obviously fake science papers in the news about how "X is curing/causing cancer" until you realize that there is something deeply wrong.)

All the incentives are terrible. And unless there are major changes scientific credibility will fall even lower.

>Science is "self correcting" because if the "effect" you saw isn't real, nobody will be able to build off your work. Alzheimer's Amyloid research has been really unproductive, which is how we knew it probably wasn't the magic bullet even before it had fraud scandals.

After how many billions wasted? By that metric we do not need airplane safety regulations, as after ramming a hundred planes into the ground the margins become bad and safety should improve.

Science is full of fraudsters and they should not be allowed to operate like this.
by brewtide | 2025-04-26 13:22:11+00:00
In a similar vein, my 'smart' thermostat solution for my oil furnace has been to splice in a relay board that's connected to an esp32 running esphome through home assistant. On that board, and many others around the house, I have many 'virtual thermometers running again off esp32's using dht11's and esphome.

This configuration has allowed me to control the single-zone furnace using any or a combination of 'virtual' thermometers to turn the relay board on/off depending on conditions. I left the real old honeywell thermostat on the wall as a fail-safe situation in case the system comes crashing down, to prevent the house from freezing up in the winter -- Just set at a low minimum.

The downside of this is I either have to directly adjust the temp via phone interface / tablet interface / or google-assistant interface, but when that is done, it is all done locally. Simply toggling a simple relay board that just connects the 2-wire thermostat feed like a typical thermostat does. It has worked great!

In addition, one of the heat pump units (MrCool!) in the house was able to use a cloud-free dongle to bring it's controls into local-only control as well via home assistant, as well. This can also be controlled via phone / tablet / google home interface (I subscribe, I feel home assistant is worth supporting).

All of the local only devices are able to be accessed from afar using tailscale into the local network, with subnet routing.

When you have something like home assistant controlling it all, it's quite easy to set up situations like 'when the outside temp is less than 15(f)', turn the heat-pump off, and use the oil furnace instead, etc.

It seems the commercial control boards that do things of this nature cost a heck of a lot more, and effectively do very similar things.

It's a good time to start really considering a more local-based solution if you have the time to get the initial configurations all sorted!
by janwas | 2025-04-26 13:22:26+00:00
(For other readers:) This is what our Highway library does - wrapper functions around intrinsics, plus a (constexpr if possible) Lanes() function to query the length.

For very many cases, writing the code once for an 'unknown to the programmer' vector length indeed works.

One example that doesn't work so well is a sorting network; its size depends on the vector length. (I see you mention this below.)
by nailer | 2025-04-26 13:22:27+00:00
I have. People donate once and have trouble cancelling the donation. It’s bad but the people donating actually are republicans and have donated before - which is a different situation from the people who aren’t democrats, haven’t donated to democrats and have repeatedly been donating to ActBlue.

Likewise, I have not heard that winred don’t use CVVs, which HN, having many people with experience in handling online payments would agree is bizarre.
by cpursley | 2025-04-26 13:22:31+00:00
Exactly this. It's not a left/right thing; I'm really tired of the charged partisan excuses (pun intended). What I'm saying is, where is all the charging infrastructure that my tax payer dollars payed for? Where the hell did the money go? If we can't get refunds for wasted taxpayer money, we need to start reevaluating if some of these programs should even exist.
by zug_zug | 2025-04-26 13:22:34+00:00
>> What is a close friend? Before we can start asking people if they have any we should probably agree on a definition. If you use the Hollywood standard, then probably none of us have close friends.

I've come to this same conclusion, but rarely express it because it's possible I'm just different. And I'd even go one step further, I think what a lot of people say friendship is, isn't actually what human friendship is in practice. I think these unrealistic expectations undermine real-world friendships because they always fall short.

Theoretical friendship:

- Completely perfect and devoid of all realities of life

- No jealousy, no competition, no negative feelings

- Timeless and immortal

- No effort involved

- Completely balanced and healthy for everybody at all times

- Able to talk about every topic

Realistic friendship:

- Temporary at first, may or may not build into something more

- Often starts with a simple exchange of banter on common interests

- Multiple opinions/topics that are mutually avoided

- One person often tries harder, one person often values the relationship more

- The relationship may or may not even be mutually healthy

- Many will hit a point where they become more effort than they're worth and end (e.g. moving)

- Some will never grow out of one or two common things to bitch about