MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by leereeves | 2025-04-30 02:35:19+00:00
> Murder is nothing new in my city

Murder is an interesting example, because like corruption, people overlook it when "their side" does it. Governments employ soldiers to do it on demand. Gang members and mafiosos use it as a tool. Sometimes people even celebrate it, such as equating body count with success in war.

The problem in politics is that everyone seems to choose a side, then apply that same kind of double standard. Rules for thee and not for me, as it were.

Edit: but of course, "war is the continuation of politics by other means." So it makes sense that the behavior would be similar.

> Warfare is entirely different.

Not so much. A lot of people are already talking about civil war. If political differences escalate to that point, how many will mourn the loss of lives from "the other side"?
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-04-30 02:37:15+00:00
But you don’t really. You get a weak drive train as many moving parts as an ICE plus a non-trivial size battery that is expensive to replace. Your maintenance costs potential are as a bad as an ICE plus an EV. EVs are way more elegant solutions, simpler, better performance. Also, EVs are improving rapidly, charging speed and range keep getting better.
by consumer451 | 2025-04-30 02:37:27+00:00
To push back on this, a somewhat recent Linus Torvalds ~quote:

"I don't think that 'just predicting the next word' is the insult that people think it is, it's mostly what we all do."

If we break our lives down into the different types of reasoning, and what we mostly do day-to-day, this rings very true to me.

I currently believe that our brains generally operate as very efficient inference machines. Sometimes we slow down to think things through, but for example, when in the ideal "flow state" it's some kind of distilled efficient inference. Isn't it? This is very hard for me to deny at this time.

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edit:

4o appears to agree with both of you, more than it does with me.

https://chatgpt.com/share/68119b41-1144-8012-b50d-f8f15997eb...

However, Sonnet 3.7 appears to side with me.

https://claude.ai/share/91139bca-3201-4ffc-a940-bdd27329e71f

(Both of these are the default models available for free accounts, on each website, at the time of writing)

IMO, hey, at least we do live in interesting times.
by luhn | 2025-04-30 02:38:04+00:00
It's not mentioned in the headline and not made super clear in the article: This is specific to multi-AZ clusters, which is a relatively new feature of RDS, and differ from multi-AZ instance that most will be familiar with. (Clear as mud.)

Multi-AZ instances is a long-standing feature of RDS where the primary DB is synchronously replicated to a secondary DB in another AZ. On failure of the primary, RDS fails over to the secondary.

Multi-AZ clusters has two secondaries, and transactions are synchronously replicated to at least one of them. This is more robust than multi-AZ instances if a secondary fails or is degraded. It also allows read-only access to the secondaries.

Multi-AZ clusters no doubt have more "magic" under the hood, as its not a vanilla Postgres feature as far as I'm aware. I imagine this is why it's failing the Jepsen test.
by Hizonner | 2025-04-30 02:38:26+00:00
You may be talking about that, but I'm not. I was talking about the task-specific memory footprint. I didn't say anything at all about the rest of the computer.

And even that wasn't meant to be taken literally. I kind of thought that was obvious[1].

But in the end, OK, you're right. You probably could fit the banking app logic in 64K, but you'd have to rely on the OS to provide things like crypto, the network stack, and the I/O. So the machine as a whole would need more than that to get the job done. And the UI would be pretty bad if you stuffed even the app part into 64k.

No problem fitting it all into megabytes, though. Definitely no need for it to be gigabytes. I challenge you to explain what needs to be there that would make the entire system, OS, app, and all, need even one gigabyte of RAM to run even a very pretty, featureful banking app. Or even a quarter of a gigabyte.

By the way, you can put TLS itself in less than 64k (see for example https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl). But you have to profile it way down, maybe to the point of leaving out X.509, so you don't really have "full on" TLS. On the other hand, a lot of the footprint is because the TLS protocol itself is bloated and overcomplicated, and no, that bloat doesn't improve the security.

[1]: ... and I mean, if we're going to get pedantic like that, nobody can write an SSL implementation with modern ciphers for any computer, because modern ciphers weren't introduced into the protocol until after it was renamed TLS. Actual SSL isn't something anybody should be using now. Even TLS 1.1 isn't.
by smackeyacky | 2025-04-30 02:38:31+00:00
I am not sure how the system for most grocery stores works now, but in the ancient past there was a central authority that set the prices for individual stores (so in Australia, the Coles or Woolworths all have individualised prices per store for items except for advertised sale items).

The computer in the store that drives the POS scanners then can print out the shelf label stickers and a poor sod goes and replaces the stickers on the shelves.

This is all a big secret of course, so asking a grocery store for their prices is going to get you nowhere.

You could try scraping the websites, but often the price for online shopping is different to what is in store.

Best bet would be to offer an incentive for people to scan their receipts into your app. I don't know what kind of incentive you could build to do that, maybe for every 5 receipts you could offer a coupon or something. Not much of an idea and a massive PITA, it would also only give prices on those things that people bought.

edit: also gets complicated for multi-item discounts or combination discounts
by jdminhbg | 2025-04-30 02:39:22+00:00
No, OP is referring to the fact that the companies that are big enough to be subject to the EU DSA's rules about platforms are all American. So any fines handed down for violations of the DSA are exclusively to American big tech firms. The rejoinder is that the rules apply to everyone, it just happens that the companies that are subject are American.
by anonym29 | 2025-04-30 02:41:40+00:00
The pace with which the cost of living is rising is staggering. Heck, I remember the fight for 15 (referring to the campaign to raise the federal minimum wage to $15/h) a decade ago, but I don't see how someone could live on that, $2600/mo pre-tax income, in most of the country these days either. That's like 60%+ of your gross income on rent for a typical 1br across large swaths of the country, no?
by Aloisius | 2025-04-30 02:42:33+00:00
It's still a thing in bash 5.2.37.

It's just how bash works. If there's an entry in the session cache, it uses it. Since executable paths only get cached when you run a command successfully, this only happens when it gets moved from one directory in your PATH to another after you run it once, which isn't that common.

Setting PATH or calling hash -r will clear the session cache or one could run set +h which will disable it altogether.
by CyberDildonics | 2025-04-30 02:42:46+00:00
This thread is about traversing a tree. At what point do we take a step back and think that iterating through a data structure and "building new compositional foundations for game theory" shouldn't be conflated together?

When does someone give up on the pagentry of programming and just get something done by looping through data instead of "constructing getters and setters to model gradient based machine learning".

It really seems like the straight forward way of doing things is to make simple iteration and worry about the game theory after that is all figured out.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-04-30 02:42:47+00:00
my ex-boyfriend attacks me. I call the police at midnight, hating the thought of being seen as a victim. But they don’t see me as a victim. I didn’t know it at the time, but California Penal Code 13701 says police have to make an arrest in domestic violence cases—me or my ex. They choose me. "It’s the law. I could lose my job if I don’t arrest someone" the arresting officer insists. I want to scream. I called for help and got taken away in cuffs. My ex threatens to kill me and gets resources. How is this fair? Later, after the DA drops my charges for lack of evidence, I learn that the law was meant to protect victims. But gaps in officer training and the pressure to act, often lead to rushed, flawed arrests—like mine.

It is my experience that inexperienced cops, wound up cops, inappropriately outraged cops, casually contemptuous cops - they're how we know there is a bad police chief.
by stelonix | 2025-04-30 02:43:11+00:00
I believe it's a general consensus. I thought it was just me but I also thought it couldn't be just me. We've been reading for years how Google results have sucked and specially the past 12 months it seems to have gotten worse and worse. Meanwhile with ChatGPT, I no longer need to use Google-Fu to find my way around stuff, which is good because the past year it feels like no amount of decades using Google were helping me find any results. It does feel like the fall of AltaVista but without the company going under.
by cyberax | 2025-04-30 02:43:17+00:00
No, there isn't. FCR market is not pan-European, and even where it's in place, it's basically in the name only. It's basically only countries that already use rotational generation, so it's not really a stretch for them to participate.

Spain and Portugal are not members, btw.

And the same applies to capacity markets. I believe, there is a plan to come up with a plan for it by 2027.

> Similarly, grid operators offer contracts for local black start capacity. The technical requirements are fixed, and any party capable of meeting those can bid on it.

And I don't believe there are ANY solar/wind plants that have black start capacity in Europe. The current incentives structure makes that a near certainty.
by carterschonwald | 2025-04-30 02:43:19+00:00
Yeah, if I could roll out some sort of transparency in political advertising statute that applies to orgs with foot prints in la, Atlanta and nyc at the same time and gave a nonprofit ready to launch that provides some hosted shared platform software to the respective local municipal campaign finance offices, I think that would be an important intermediate step to force finance reform. Even if it got struck down later.
by austin-cheney | 2025-04-30 02:43:40+00:00
Operating systems have this with file systems.

Web browsers have this. It’s the DOM and it scares the shit out of most JavaScript developers. The fun part is confronting people about their irrational fears watching them spin their wheels with all the imagined excuses.

I am a tremendous fan of tree systems. Tree systems should completely replace inheritance in programming to enforce the composition over inheritance principle.
by opello | 2025-04-30 02:43:49+00:00
That is indeed one of the more well defined boundaries in the system. Also worth understanding is that programs aren't generally invoking system calls directly, for example calling interrupt 0x80, glibc provides wrapper functions that invoke system calls, blurring the boundary a bit. Further blurring the boundary is the vDSO layer that intercepts some system call wrappers for more efficient access.

At issue in this article and comment thread is the boundary between the shell, environment, and Linux. This is a blurrier boundary still because the shell sets up the environment, which is passed through the kernel, and interpreted for downstream processes, generally (but not necessarily) by that shared system library.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-04-30 02:43:50+00:00
Easily. If the job cannot pay a living wage, it should not exist. We'll get there with structural demographics eventually (pushing up wages as labor supply diminishes as the fertility rate continues to rapidly fall), but it would be nice if we could not make so many people suffer in the interim ("time value of life"). Several states are removing child labor restrictions due to "labor shortages," for example. So, you have to starve the beast of underpaid labor.

We have the means, it's a choice. We could make a better choice, but if we don't, demographics dynamics will make it for us.

https://usafacts.org/articles/minimum-wage-america-how-many-...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://joshbersin.com/2023/09/why-we-are-entering-a-secular...

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2020/09/18/the-great-...

https://wallethub.com/edu/states-employers-hiring/101730

https://www.epi.org/publication/child-labor-laws-under-attac...
by _heimdall | 2025-04-30 02:45:43+00:00
Access to raw materials may be a fundamental blocker there.

I had seen stats putting China's control of certain rare earth minerals as high as 80% and products like lithium batteries as high as 97%. I don't know the industry well enough to validate that, but I couldn't find anything refuting or disproving those numbers either. If true, we very well may not be able to make them here if China were to cut off those resources long term.
by iJohnDoe | 2025-04-30 02:45:52+00:00
I think it’s interesting where we are today with AI responses in search results.

Remember the uproar when Google started displaying the text results directly from the sites in the search results. It basically eliminated the need to visit the actual websites at all.

Now, you get your answer right at the top without even looking at the search results themselves.

I don’t know what this means in the long term for websites and online content.
by blululu | 2025-04-30 02:46:28+00:00
Inflation sucks but it is a basic reality. As a request to policy folks out there please consider advocating the minimum wage have some connection to local CPI. A demand for a $xx/hr minimum globally is going to be both too high and too low and irrelevant in a few years time either way. This should not be an issue that needs to be relitigated every 5-10 years just to get back to where we started. The minimum should be set to reflect a basic standard of living in a given locale and not an arbitrary number.
by nozzlegear | 2025-04-30 02:47:32+00:00
> I don't see how someone could live on that, $2600/mo pre-tax income, in most of the country these days either. That's like 60%+ of your gross income on rent for a typical 1br across large swaths of the country, no?

Probably really location dependent, like you said. I could definitely live on that where I live in rural Iowa; the mortgage for my 3 bedroom 2 bathroom house is less than $800 per month.
by d4mi3n | 2025-04-30 02:48:40+00:00
High school kids don't work full time year-round.

If they are working full time through the year, they likely aren't spending much time in school and whatever work they are doing should bring in enough money for them to not be homeless, starving, or unable to meet other basic needs like healthcare.

I'd further note that the government and it's taxpayers pay the toll regardless of whether or not we increase the minimum wage. We just end up paying the cost elsewhere in a way that's dollar for dollar a lot less efficient (policing, ER visits, homeless shelters, etc.)

Arguments aside, what do you feel would be an appropriate minimum wage for someone working a job in the US? What factors go into that number? In what situations does that number change?
by mindslight | 2025-04-30 02:48:44+00:00
I'm right there with you, friend. I still consider myself a 'libertarian' though. Just always with a small 'l' because the party is garbage, as the ideals are primed to spread corporate propaganda like wildfire once someone buys into the fallacy that coercion by non-governmental entities is definitionally impossible.

When I was younger I'd do online political tests and invariably come back with left-libertarian. Then the detour into cpunks, ancap, and the "two axis political chart" made me see myself unaligned and see a lot of utility in rightism. But that started to fall apart when it became clear that fundamentalism doesn't address the big picture of emergent layers of complexity. Ironically it was Moldbug's writing that nudged my transition back to seeing myself as latently left-aligned. No matter how much you'd like to, you can't fight thermodynamics!
by poisonborz | 2025-04-30 02:49:51+00:00
I'd never want to rely on a mechanism that would not source its answers in at least such a complicated way that would make such attributions meaningless. Unless I would state in a blog that the high blue frog king's birthday is on 5th moon of kuibtober, and someone is asking extactly that, which would make it... similarly meaningless, besides maybe a passing sidenote, even if true, since it's a single unverified claim.
by roxolotl | 2025-04-30 02:50:28+00:00
Over the weekend I was looking up NCAA softball rankings and there was an acronym I couldn’t figure out, CPCT. Asking Claude and Gemini it was pure random generation. You can refresh google and get a different explanation every time. They are usually logical “a percentage representing conference success”, but every time it was extremely confident about a different meaning for the abbreviation.

It’s less that they don’t know, I still have no clue what it stands it seems like no one defines it anywhere, it’s more that they show 0 evidence of not knowing. I still really struggle to understand how someone would genuinely replace research with LLMs. Argument sure, but fully replace? The likelihood of being convinced of a total falsehood still feels too high.
by brenns10 | 2025-04-30 02:50:37+00:00
Having used cars that had that "supervised" driving feature.... Gosh, I hope you were paying 100% attention the whole time of that driving experience you described. Even the smart cruise control features I've used allowed my mind to drift, and I was glad for the beeping from the steering wheel telling me to pay attention. I don't use those features anymore.

If it's full self driving, then I assume that Tesla is paying for your insurance and taking all responsibility for any crashes it causes in your car?
by bmitc | 2025-04-30 02:51:07+00:00
.NET is one of the easiest to install and robust cross-platform systems out there. It's actually very impressive. I don't know of a single other platform that nails cross-platform so well.

The effort of .NET Framework to .NET Core to .NET 5 and now up to .NET 9 is well over a decade long of steady and increasing progress.
by boroboro4 | 2025-04-30 02:52:04+00:00
We don’t put things into long term memory after we read it. We usually put it after night of sleep. I personally think that context (and kv cache correspondingly) in the models are akin to our short term memory, while training process (and actual weights) are to our long term memory. And we can’t be sure our short term memory doesn’t work in a way of matching the current context towards currently stored short term memory. From this perspective transformers are enough and just fine.
by rayiner | 2025-04-30 02:52:26+00:00
> From what I see and know, among conservative supporters violence against police is strongly condemned and to be harshly punished, as is any form of protest that is arguably the slightest bit disruptive.

The question is who the police are being deployed to protect, private citizens or the government itself. Ordinarily police are deployed to protect citizens from criminals, so it’s bad to attack the police. But the Capitol police are protecting government officials from citizens, so attacking them is less bad. That’s the view.

> 60s ... traditional It's a nice tactic to try to attribute those who disagree to a passing fancy, and your beliefs to 'tradition'.

The assertion that the civil rights era signaled a major shift in views about the relationship between individuals and the government is hardly controversial. There’s a book on this idea (probably more than one): https://lawliberty.org/did-the-civil-rights-constitution-dis....

Indeed, folks in the progressive left share more or less the same premise. If you talk to a progressive about foundational principles like federalism and limited government, the chief response is that those ideas were championed by our forebearers so that the government wouldn’t be powerful enough to protect minorities from the majority. The point of disagreement is about whether the new approach is better than the traditional one.
by socalgal2 | 2025-04-30 02:52:51+00:00
I looked recently when thinking of starting some new shared blog. My criteria was "based on tech I know". I don't know Ruby so Jekyll was out. I tried Eleventy and Hexo. I chose Hexo but then ultimately decided I wasn't going to do this new blog.

IIRC, Eleventy printed lots of out-of-date warnings when I installed it and/or the default style was broken in various ways which didn't give me much confidence.

My younger sister asked me to help her start a blog. I just pointed her to substack. Zero effort, easy for her.
by hnburnsy | 2025-04-30 02:53:18+00:00
>Even if it is just a Toyota vehicle with Waymo brains

Does the Waymo brain need all the Waymo hardware?

>With 13 cameras, 4 lidar, 6 radar, and an array of external audio receivers (EARs), our new sensor suite is optimized for greater performance...

https://waymo.com/blog/2024/08/meet-the-6th-generation-waymo...
by Larrikin | 2025-04-30 02:53:51+00:00
Why should age matter at all if the person is doing the exact same job? Children already get paid less than minimum wage when there are jobs they legally can't do. The owner of the McDonald's I worked at in high school loved hiring 14 and 15 year olds because he could make them do every single menial job there except cook the food. They were run ragged same as the rest of us for the bonuses only the manager got.
by unmole | 2025-04-30 02:53:51+00:00
> In other words, Winthorpe and Valentine have contracts allowing them to buy millions of pounds of orange juice in April for 29 cents a pound, and to sell it for $1.42 a pound.

Yeah, no. They went short on April OJ futures when it was trading at $1.42 and closed their short when the price crashed to 29 cents.
by Renaud | 2025-04-30 02:53:56+00:00
So, you're saying it's a non issue?

If virtually no one earns $7.25/hr and employers wouldn't dream of offering it, then why not just raise the federal minimum to $12?

If it’s truly irrelevant, then it won’t affect anyone -workers won’t be hurt, and businesses won’t be forced to pay more than they already do. Seems like a win-win, right?
by idle_zealot | 2025-04-30 02:54:17+00:00
This is obviously good policy, but is effectively impossible because a large contingent of policymakers don't want there to be a minimum wage. In a past era they could trade votes for an $X/hr minimum in exchange for something they wanted, confident that any law they helped pass would be effectively obsolete in a few years anyway, while what they bargained for would live on. A proposal for a scaling minimum wage would never pass. This isn't just a dig at Republicans, by the way, there are plenty of fiscal conservatives among the Dems too.
by SimianSci | 2025-04-30 02:54:55+00:00
America is rapidly falling behind its peers. Its been well understood that taking care of your people is the key to prosperity, yet politically we seem to be more worried about ensuring the rich live their lives of leisure at the expense of our working class.

The bare minimum standard we should hold ourselves to is that a 40 hour work week should be able to put a roof over your head and food on your table. The fact that the minimum wage is continuously supressed is absurd.
by ninkendo | 2025-04-30 02:55:27+00:00
Bah, you’re right! I got it backwards, it’s zsh that has rehash, bash does not. And hash -r works in both.

I guess I’ve been using zsh longer than I thought, because I learned about rehash first, then made the switch to hash -r later. I started using zsh 14 years ago, and bash 20+ years ago, so my brain assumed “I learned about rehash first” must have been back when I was using bash. zsh is still “that new thing” in my head.