MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Panzer04 | 2025-04-16 00:12:41+00:00
The counterargument is whether the government should be directing the allocation of resources via its spending rather than private actors.

Any money spent by the government in an economy is going to cause a redirection of resources from other actors to its own spending. In an economy running below its normal potential it makes it easy to justify because not much is getting done anyway, but if everyone is already doing a lot of stuff and there's not much spare capacity, then the government is effectively overriding the preferences of private citizens to its own ends to a much greater degree.

There's other arguments as well as to how efficiently the government tends to be at actually getting productive things done with its spending.

It's up to you whether this is good or not, but I'd argue it should not be our default position.
by klabb3 | 2025-04-16 00:13:10+00:00
One reason is lazy one liners are allowed and have high cost/benefit for shitposters and attract many upvotes, so this gets voted highly setting the tone for flamewars in the thread.

It’s miles better on HN. Most bad responses are penalized. The culture is upvoting things that are contributing. I frequently upvote responses that disagree with me. Oftentimes I learn something from it.
by btilly | 2025-04-16 00:13:18+00:00
I strongly agree with this, and particularly point 1. If you ask people to provide estimated ranges for answers that they are 90% confident in, people on average produce roughly 30% confidence intervals instead. Over 90% of people don't even get to 70% confidence intervals.

You can test yourself at https://blog.codinghorror.com/how-good-an-estimator-are-you/.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-04-16 00:13:38+00:00
> I wouldn't call them "same concept" at all.

They are both metadata about file extents and their memory images.

> sections are far easier to work with

Yes. They are not, however, loaded into memory by default. Linkers do not generate LOAD segments for section metadata since they are not needed for execution. Thus it's impossible for a program to introspect its own sections without additional logic and I/O to read them into memory.

> Also, normally you just just call `getauxval`, but if needed the type is already named `ElfW(auxv_t)*`.

True. I didn't use it because it was not available. I wrote my article in the context of a freestanding nolibc program.
by brokeAstronomer | 2025-04-16 00:15:43+00:00
>> There are far too many documented instances of it actually working to call it a fantasy.

Markets are a tool which can work extremely well if deployed carefully and within a sensible regulatory framework. Given that the world CO2 level keeps rising, we can't eat fish because of heavy metals and we all have forever microplastics in us, I think it's fair to question some of our assumptions.

>> Markets aren't expected to account for externalities. Externalities are the things you're supposed to tax.

Agreed - however taxing externalities doesn't seem to be working out in practice (in the US).

>> You're describing regulatory capture. This is why governments are supposed to have limited powers.

Wealth inequality can rise without regulatory capture. Government is not the source of all evil. Smaller govenrment would just lead to further concentration of wealth and power within the private sector. We need a balanced system, not blind devotion.

>> Markets are actually pretty good at providing all of those things... The real problem here is that some people can't afford those thing

So can the market provide those things or not? Clearly we want everyone to have an education not just the uber wealthy.
by hayst4ck | 2025-04-16 00:16:13+00:00
The problem is capture. How many platforms for news and discussing news are not completely captured by people with an agenda of personal power?

You are funding and dang is running a forum for curiosity while the basis for curiosity is under attack.

Your dilemma is to support free inquiry and a platform for curiosity resulting in you being an enemy of the administration or to obey their wishes in order to protect yourself and your assets. What happens when everyone in every position of power rationally protects themselves in the short term by selling out their values in the long term, when they bury their head in the sand and stay in denial, or they run away to another safer country?

How many of your peers have any form of integrity? How many of them wouldn't sell out their mother for a dollar? How many of them fund and participate in building a world anyone would want to live in instead of a world where they are the supreme rulers of the ruins. Concentration camps were built by business men excited by cheap labor.

You cannot have curiosity without solidarity against forces that would submit reason to power. You cannot have curiosity without a consent based society. Curiosity fundamentally challenges power, because it elevates reason above authority. Curiosity presumes that reason is the ultimate form of legitimacy.

Hacker news has a goal of staving off Eternal September, when new students, people uninitiated to academic rigor or professional social conventions, would flood Usenet every September when they received credentials from their academic institutions. Those very same universities which helped build the type of culture you hold in high regard are under direct attack.

Curious environments won't survive neutrality. Curious environments won't survive lack of solidarity with other institutions that inspire curiosity. Systems, like authoritarianism, that demand obedience rather than reason are the default, and they require active maintenance to prevent. Neutrality under these conditions is neglect of curiosity.
by donnachangstein | 2025-04-16 00:16:24+00:00
> Don't run versions of ghostscript from 2012?

Per Wikipedia:

In February 2013, with version 9.07, Ghostscript changed its license from GPLv3 to GNU AGPL.

With the AGPL license being legal kryptonite I wonder if license compatibility drove the decision (and how many other installations of Ghostscript share this concern)?
by spartanatreyu | 2025-04-16 00:17:19+00:00
As far as I can tell, the account is just for:

- github integration (e.g. git auth, sync text editor settings in private gist)

- a trusted third party server for negotiating p2p sessions with someone else (for pair programming, debugging over a call, etc...)

But anyone who wants to remove the microsoft/github account features from their editor entirely can just use vscodium instead.
by fuzztester | 2025-04-16 00:18:00+00:00
>At least in the free market inefficient companies will eventually go defunct which frees those resources for more economically useful output.

ha ha. you mean like in 2008 and 2009, the great recession (1), the subprime mortgage crisis (2), etc., and then things like:

(1) the great recession

(2) the subprime mortgage crisis

TARP:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Progra...

terms floating around at that time, like:

"privatize profits, socialize losses"

"too big to fail"

etc.?
by stevenwoo | 2025-04-16 00:18:30+00:00
I’ve only seen one person expelled for support of Hamas with evidence - the doctor who went to a funeral in Lebanon of the Hamas leader assassinated in past year. The administration was super proud of that one. Show me evidence of anyone else that has any association with Israel/Palestine conflict protests that actually support Hamas. It does not have to be an either or proposition - one can be against Israel killing civilians and against Hamas. And for other arbitrary decisions there’s several examples of people expelled for gang activity who simply had tattoos.
by gorgoiler | 2025-04-16 00:19:17+00:00
The analogy is with Iain Banks’ The Culture.

Anyone can be anything and do anything they want in an abundant, machine assisted world. The connections, cliques, friends and network you cultivate are more important than ever before if you want to be heard above the noise. Sheer talent has long fallen by the wayside as a differentiator.

…or alternatively it’s not The Culture at all. Is live performance the new, ahem, rock star career? In fifty years time all the lawyers and engineers and bankers will be working two jobs for minimum wage. The real high earners will be the ones who can deliver live, unassisted art that showcases their skills with instruments and their voice.

Those who are truly passionate about the law will only be able to pursue it as a barely-living-wage hobby while being advised to “not give up the night job” — their main, stable source of income — as a cabaret singer. They might be a journalist or a programmer in their twenties for fun before economics forces them to settle down and get a real, stable job: starting a rock band.
by zipy124 | 2025-04-16 00:20:27+00:00
Your ciation [1] shows the highest number as being approximately 70,000 USD a year, not 85k. That's 15,000 dollars less than you claim. Your [0] citation is not a share-able link and just redirects to the home-page.

In the UK (where I am based so I know the numbers well) a post doc is usually paid around 52,936 dollars a year, or a bit more if in london closer to 60,000 dollars a year. US postdocs seem to be somewehre between 60,000-90,000 dollars depending on institution, MIT [2] for example state a minimum of 69,000 and maximum of 90,000 dollars for a post-doc. This lines up well with your claim of a third higher, however the cost of living claim doesn't really check out, especially since tax rates are much higher in european countries than the US.

If we take your numbers for example with 100k usd, after federal taxes and NY state taxes (the highest I believe) you're looking at close to a 25% marginal tax rate so a take-home of 75,000 USD. In France on 85000 USD you would have a marginal tax rate of 38% for a take home of 52,700 USD. This is closer to a 43% difference not 33%, and does not include the fact that this is not disposable income. For instance my annual pay recently doubled, but my disposable income after council tax/bills/food/transport increased by about 900%, far above the 200% increase. Thus a 33% pay increase would be life-changing, not just some minor increase. (and the cost of living is really not that much higher in the US anyway, since VAT at 20% in europe is much higher than sales tax in most states, and health-care is included in many US jobs of the type we are talking about here, rent is the only thing largely more expensive in the US, but you guys actually have incredibly cheap property when normalised by size. In the us you are looking at a median of 2,500 USD per square meter for houses and somewhere around 5,000 for an apatment, whilst in france it is somewhere around 6750 (couldn't find a breakdown per type)).

[2]: https://postdocs.mit.edu/postdoctoral-position/postdoctoral-...
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-04-16 00:20:50+00:00
How does he support Hamas? Does nonviolently supporting the Palestinian people, wanting to learn more about Israelis and find common ground, openly advocate for non-violent solutions as your religion (for him Buddhism) is a nonviolent one (in his words at least).

What part of that is Hamas-like to you?

Meanwhile an American citizen can actually sign up for and fight in a foreign army, commit war crimes there, and come back here happy as a clam. Insane world we live in.
by itake | 2025-04-16 00:21:11+00:00
> gene editing, in physics, with the jwst, with LLMs and robotics and computer vision, with alt energy sources, batteries, in material sciences, etc.

These are tidal waves compared to the tech boom tsunami we experienced in the last 25+ years: enabling rapid communication of every human on the planet and democratizing access (anyone can create a app/website/etc to enable other people to communicate/make money/etc).

> where people are now capable of finding needles in needlestacks

Yes, exactly. all that is left is going after hard problems that impact the long tail.
by cachvico | 2025-04-16 00:21:52+00:00
I use it all the time, and it has accelerated my output massively.

Now, I don't trust the output - I review everything, and it often goes wrong. You have to know how to use it. But I would never go back. Often it comes up with more elegant solutions than I would have. And when you're working with a new platform, or some unfamiliar library that it already knows, it's an absolute godsend.

I'm also damn proud of my own hand-crafted code, but to avoid LLMs out of principal? That's just luddite.

20+ years of experience across game dev, mobile and web apps, in case you feel it relevant.
by NunoSempere | 2025-04-16 00:22:59+00:00
The android app fits lognormals, and 90% rather than 95% confidence intervals. I think they are a more parsimonious distribution for doing these kinds of estimates. One hint might be that, per the central limit theorem, sums of independent variables will tend to normals, which means that products will tend to be lognormals, and for the decompositions quick estimates are most useful, multiplications are more common
by throw0101b | 2025-04-16 00:23:19+00:00
Official notice:

> Comments Due: May 7, 2025

* https://lon.tv/publicnotice

* FCC: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-25-314A1.pdf

* Express form: https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express

* Longer form: https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/standard

The video points out paragraph 8:

> Also, the Commission has received thousands of consumer comments objecting to broadcasters employing the use of Digital Rights Management encryption on their ATSC 3.0 signals because the complaints state that such action has resulted in the consumer’s inability to receive programming despite having purchased an ATSC 3.0 enabled device.23 What steps can or should the industry and/or the Commission take to ensure broadcasters are able to protect their content and signal, while also ensuring viewers are able to continue to view a station’s free over-the-air signal in ATSC 3.0 just as they do today?

and goes over some suggestions on how, if you object to DRM, to possibly enter comments (e.g., reasonable arguments backed up evidence versus what broadcast could possibly do (which they could deny)).
by tehjoker | 2025-04-16 00:23:29+00:00
It depends on the situation, but when you have a disagreement with someone, for example of a different political tendency about serious issues, if they acknowledge my perspective and don't just talk past me, I'm more likely to engage with them more seriously. The acknowledgement lets you know you share some kind of reality to discuss even if you disagree. It's not only about feelings (though that can be part of it), it's combating the assumption that you don't see what they see and therefore your words are spoken out of ignorance and can be dismissed.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-04-16 00:23:30+00:00
Why does believing that Israel's system of only allowing a minority ethnicity in the land it controls to have political power and rights but claiming to be a democracy is wrong, and why do you assume people who believe this also believe in whatever weird conspiracy you're talking about.

Maybe the blood of one's ancestors doesn't make it okay for someone thousands of miles away who never lived in a place be eligible to move there while someone who lived in their own home a few miles away can never return to it in the same piece of land? Isn't that obviously wrong to you?
by jonnycomputer | 2025-04-16 00:23:39+00:00
On the other hand, there are two things about that screenshot of the repo which is a little weird. First, the timestamp of that repo is cutoff, but, the items seem to be in reverse chronological order, which would put that repo sometime in 2021-ish, or before.

The owner could, of course, just make it public again, or put it back up, and end all the speculation.
by dom96 | 2025-04-16 00:24:20+00:00
Why would AI be any better at filtering out spam than developers have so far been with ML?

The only way to avoid spam is to actually make a social network for humans, and the only way to do so is to verify each account belongs to a single human. The only way I've found that this can be done is by using passports[0].

0 - https://onlyhumanhub.com
by ranger_danger | 2025-04-16 00:24:41+00:00
> they can say, well it was open source

I disagree... if those terms are unenforceable, then 1. someone else's model does not become free just because they say it does, and 2. I'm not convinced that is even legal to begin with.

Typically contracts (a license is a contract) have to be fair and mutually beneficial... I don't think a judge would agree that giving a whole model away for free just because you trained on some of their data, is fair, if there's anything even legally wrong with using said data for training in the first place.

You would also need to show a "reasonable purpose" for such a stipulation in the contract. Giving their product away for free as a punishment doesn't sound very reasonable to me, and I don't think a judge would say so either.
by FiniteField | 2025-04-16 00:24:47+00:00
Pepe the frog became associated with the online far right because it was a commonly used memetic avatar in general 4chan culture, and became intertwined with the space's shift to the political right in a fairly organic way. The association was boosted by (IIRC) the 2016 Clinton campaign's assertion that it was a far-right symbol, which was obviously embraced by those people as a sort of irreverent statement. Likewise, there may have been some very thin, actually existing connection between the far right and the "ok" gesture, but it really came about as an association that was imposed by the media and subsequently embraced by that community. To say these terms were "co-opted" isn't really correct.

I think there's actually a better case to be made that the pipeline of "co-option" (if you want to call it that) is stronger in the reverse direction. I posted a sister comment to yours about that.
by plorkyeran | 2025-04-16 00:24:56+00:00
The thing named Rosetta (actually Rosetta 2) for the x86_64 -> ARM transition is technologically completely unrelated to the PPC -> x86 Rosetta, and has none of the problems you mention. There's no user-observable difference between a program using Rosetta and a native program in modern macOS, and porting programs which didn't have any assembly or other CPU-arch-specific code was generally just a matter of wrangling your build system.
by MrMattWright | 2025-04-16 00:25:05+00:00
I have some experience here (built : https://www.simmons-simmons.com/en/products/trademark-rocket...) which as an ML trademark predictor that lawyers use.

There's nothing explicitly stopping people trademarking "Dev Mode" but there's all sorts of things around which Goods and Services you're using - which there must be related to your business and a thing called "Proof of use" which is what is sounds like - which means you actually can't just trademark all the words in the dictionary, you have to be actively using it on relevant things.

Saw some comments on twitter saying "oh but xyz used that term in 1998" - that doesn't get taken into account since at that point it's not a trademark. You don't have to be first, just the first to trademark it + it has to be relevant to your business and you have to be using it ;)

The clashes are down to an assessment of aural, visual and conceptual similarity (some fun NLP in there!) if multiple corps use the same terms, or similar terms.

Oddly terms like "Apple" get extra protection for being well known names associate with clear brands.
by hedora | 2025-04-16 00:25:14+00:00
None of the things you mention support building more housing.

A few look like they might, but don’t: Increasing taxes on expensive real estate just pushes demand down the chain, reducing supply for all.

If empty houses are actually a problem, fix the root cause. I can think of two reasons a house would go empty: Speculation (betting there will not be enough houses built), or planning departments that prevent the house from being repaired.

Making it easy to build houses solves both those problems.

If you attack landlords, who do you expect to build and maintain rental housing?

The affordable housing requirements are similar nonsense: Say you have some cash to invest. If you put it into building housing, the government will require you to sell the houses at a loss. Are you really going to build houses, and not invest it in something that can at least break even?

The yimby folks in CA are useful idiots that serve people that want housing prices to stay up. If you don’t believe this, go take an introductory micro and macroeconomics course.
by vips7L | 2025-04-16 00:25:26+00:00
The problem with thread locals is that you need to copy the value into each platform thread. And the expectation of virtual threads is that any platform thread from the pool would end up running them.

This is super applicable to any system, enterprise or not. If the web framework is running on virtual threads as soon as you query the database your virtual thread will be parked and then another platform thread could potentially pick it up finish running it. Managing thread locals in this situation would be impossible, but you still need some mechanism to manage the global context. It’s really nothing to do with data volume.
by Fardeen_Khimani | 2025-04-16 00:25:55+00:00
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by analog31 | 2025-04-16 00:26:33+00:00
Perhaps our brain is using our experiences to build a mental model for predicting someone's behavior in the future, and our emotions are a feedback channel for that model. Depending on the society you live in, getting some relief for losing a parking ticket, or screwing up at work, is completely within the realm of possibility, and we're "training" ourselves to detect situations where it might be beneficial.

The parking lot example would seem extreme in my locale, but not unthinkable in some places, especially if a bribe were a possible alternative. And I'll probably never see the attendant again, but I'd certainly expect to see my boss again, and to refine my model of their behavior.
by netsharc | 2025-04-16 00:26:34+00:00
I wonder if these plans have anything to do with the world's reserve currency being controlled by an entity that's sometimes erratic and assholey...

In the utopia where the USA is actually a beacon of democracy, the people in the BRICs countries might be fans of it, and would vehemently support politicians who align themselves with it, weakening other political factions.
by ryandrake | 2025-04-16 00:28:33+00:00
> Just with a bunch of extra features hastily grafted and grown organically, but never dealing with the insane amount of technical debt.

This describes probably 95%+ of the entire software world, from enterprise, to SaaS to IoT to mobile to desktop to embedded... Everything seems to be hastily thrown together features that barely work and piles of debt that will never get fixed. It's a wonder anything actually even works. If cars (the non-software parts) were made like this, there would be millions of them breaking down by the side of the road daily.