MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by YurgenJurgensen | 2025-04-21 08:47:54+00:00
In most cases, the original is not available. I was listing exceptions showing that it was possible. People don’t reprint if there’s still lots of copies sitting on store shelves. Even going to eBay and dealing with scammers, fakes, damaged discs, and scalpers, the new thing and the old thing have the same title, so finding listings for a specific printing isn’t always possible, and information about what’s changed isn’t readily available. And of course, if you’re ‘buying’ digitally, the new version does often destroy the original, even if the original was what you paid for.
AI2027: What if we tracked its predictions in real time?
by MarkelKori | 2025-04-21 08:48:00+00:00
Many of you have probably read AI2027. If not, I highly recommend it — short but chilling.

What surprised me most wasn’t the predictions, but the lack of response from those who are closest to the issue: governments, research labs, and tech companies.

Agent-4+ (as described) could plausibly lead to either human extinction or a global surveillance state — yet no one seems to be doing much to avoid that.

So here’s my question: How realistic do you think the timeline is? And what could we — as the broader tech community — actually do to change its course?

Bonus idea: What if we built a simple app or site that tracks AI2027 events in real time?

It could scan trusted news feeds / APIs

Match events to key AI2027 milestones

Notify users if something significant has happened

Basically a "timeline tracker" for existential risk.

Thoughts?
by cinntaile | 2025-04-21 08:49:12+00:00
This is not correct. There absolutely is a De Minimis exemption for tariffs. You always have to pay VAT, which you didn't always have to do before. You also don't have to pay that fee, you can order from a store that supports IOSS. The big ones do nowadays. You can also choose to declare the package yourself, but you need to live close to a tariff declaration office for this to be feasible. You can also have it delivered through a different delivery company, they usually declare it for you.
by habinero | 2025-04-21 08:50:34+00:00
These kind of risible DEI ghost stories are exactly what I'm talking about. Y'all take a toothless, mostly lip-service kind of program and have hysterics about it.

Honestly, probably rightly, because mediocre was previous the acceptable status quo, and now they have talented competition.

> They wonder if it's going to be more difficult for them or their kids to get a job

I see. So....only certain kinds of people are entitled to jobs? Those other kinds of people don't struggle with needing jobs or having kids?

Gosh. Sure can't understand why you immediately followed up that statement with a highly defensive one about being "silenced" by being called racist or sexist lmao.
by oarsinsync | 2025-04-21 08:50:35+00:00
Exactly this. You can either work really hard and likely get minimal benefit and cause yourself a lot of pain, or you can work considerably less hard, and largely end up in the same place.

Rarely, you can do all that extra work and get meaningful improvement that justified all the effort. It does happen. Sometimes it presents itself in the form of a severance package.
by whereistejas | 2025-04-21 08:50:39+00:00
I strongly empathise with your situation. The definition of security and success in south asian countries is wildly different from that in the West. I’m 28 and I moved to the UK, 3 years ago. I did a bunch of open-source work and found an employer who hired me based on my contributions and was willing to sponsor my visa. Other than going to university, open-source contributions are the only option people like us to move to the West.

I understand why you feel like everything is chaotic. But, remember that most people don’t have the kind of time you have (you are only 19 and can afford to take a lot of risks). There maybe many things that are not in your favour, but you also have things that give you an advantage over others. I didn’t even know HN existed until I was 24. Ignore the chaos, focus on yourself. Apna time ayega.
by nottorp | 2025-04-21 08:51:07+00:00
> Look at how broad the definition on Wikipedia is.

But wikipedia doesn't make up definitions, just lists the commonly used meaning.

> I think the problem actually is the adults that are not being specific about which problems they want to stop when they broadly say that social media is bad.

Adults are also talking about cell phone addiction, like browsing FB/Instagram on your laptop is any better.

> HN although different is also run on an algorithm that is meant to surface the most interesting things.

Is it? I thought it was human upvotes and maybe a few human mods...

It would be interesting to determine why HN still works btw. It's a pretty unified community that is fairly large.

Is the main reason that it's basically a non profit?
by riffraff | 2025-04-21 08:51:09+00:00
But he was also an odd Jesuit wasn't he?

Starting from his chosen name, since Franciscans and Jesuits have not been very close historically (although the founder of the latter was inspired by St. Francis).

From what I read, it's exactly as you say: people expect either a reaction swing to conservativism or a a big swing towards modernity. Pope Francis was old and could not do much, but he tried to set a path for the latter, afaiu.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-04-21 08:51:46+00:00
Absolutely.

But we need to plan for it from Day One, and that can also include things like choosing good technology stacks.

Like I said, when inevitable errors happen, how we communicate (or, if possible, mitigate silently) the condition, is crucial.

[EDITED TO ADD] Note how any discussion of improving Quality of software is treated, hereabouts. Bit discouraging.
by numpad0 | 2025-04-21 08:54:40+00:00
I first encountered this pattern in a rare wearable device, over a decade ago. I bought it from someone and had to contact them to deregister the device.

The foot in the door was theft prevention. Crime rates in the targeted regions of those devices was the original motivation and the enabler. From Chesterton's Fence principle, that has to be solved before the zero consumer ownership problem can be solved.
by oarsinsync | 2025-04-21 08:55:19+00:00
+1 for recognising where you’re going.

If you’re going somewhere that isn’t NDA heavy, you can speak in general terms without violating the letter of your NDA and it’ll be fine.

If you’re going somewhere that is NDA heavy and has a culture of corporate secrecy, demonstrating that you will not pierce the veil of your NDA of your previous employer at all, neither in letter nor in spirit, will actually help your prospects.
by auggierose | 2025-04-21 08:57:38+00:00
I see at least three reasons:

- I want to have a DOI for something I also sell, like a book.

- I want a DOI for something that is still being submitted, and I don't want to share it yet with everybody, only a select few (like reviewers).

- A previous version of your paper has a serious problem (could be an error, or containing a password you would rather not share), and you want to remove public access to it.
by keybored | 2025-04-21 08:57:58+00:00
pron has been posting about programming languages for years and years, here, in public, for all to see. I guess reading them makes it personal? (We don’t know each other)

The usual persona is the hard-nosed pragmatist[1] who thinks language choice doesn’t matter and that PL preference is mostly about “programmer enjoyment”.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16889706

Edit: The original claim might have been skewed. Due to occupation the PL discussions often end up being about Java related things, and the JVM language which is criticized has often been Scala specifically. Here he recommends Kotlin over Scala (not Java): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9948798
by pjmlp | 2025-04-21 08:58:02+00:00
Mostly because Android was on the forefront that is about time to move from C and C++ for the whole application stack.

Note that you also aren't without issues on Apple platforms if the language doesn't plug into the Objective-C or Swift runtimes in some form.

Likewise on Windows if the language isn't able to talk .NET or COM/WinRT.
by jayy-lmao | 2025-04-21 08:58:45+00:00
Nice thing about Monads in JS with tools like neverthrow is that you can create the Monad boundary where you like.

It becomes very similar to try-catch exception handling at the place you draw the boundary, then within the boundary it’s monad land.

If you haven’t wrapped it in a monad, chances are you wouldn’t have wrapped it in a try-catch either!
by namaria | 2025-04-21 08:59:12+00:00
"In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it."

Herbert Simon (1971)
by mschuster91 | 2025-04-21 08:59:13+00:00
> With all due respect, massacring civilians because “you have no other choice” is historically not an excuse holding up in courts.

The thing is, under the rules of war, protected installations (such as residential areas or even hospitals) lose their protection if they are being abused by a warring party for military operations. Otherwise, it would be an open invitation for anyone to do what Hamas did - force the other party between either risking getting shot at or violating rules of war.

No one forced Hamas to embed themselves among civilians. They did that on their own.
by regentbowerbird | 2025-04-21 08:59:45+00:00
If I follow your logic:

- Israel has to eradicate Hamas as its existence is too much of a threat ("there is no alternative")

- Hamas has embedded itself in the civilian population in Gaza so that they are indistinguishable

- therefore, Israel must eliminate all Gazawis to guarantee its security

So.. Will Israel kill millions to avenge the deaths of thousands?
by oarsinsync | 2025-04-21 09:00:18+00:00
You’re saying the same thing that the GP is recommending, just phrasing it differently.

The GP is suggesting to talk about the problem, rather than “the owner blew all the cash on blackjack and hookers, screwing the rest of us in the process.”

The recommendation isn’t corporate speak, the recommendation is to focus on talking about the problem, not the people responsible for the problem.
by captainmuon | 2025-04-21 09:00:34+00:00
I would go further, it should not be (just) forbidden, but taboo. Just like it is taboo to install a camera in a bathroom or to listen in to private conversations.

If I have a thing, that thing should obey me. Be it a crowbar, a PC, a smart lamp or whatever. It's a value in and of itself that I can trust in my things. What about criminals? Sure, it is convenient a car can spy on a criminal and tell the police where they are, but we shouldn't allow that. Just like it would be convenient to force priests and lawyers to tell there secrets, but we as a society decided that there is greater value in confidentiality.

I mean especially for a society like the US which is traditionally individualistic and distrustful towards government etc., it should be a matter of principle that "my stuff" doesn't spy on my and serves me and no one else.
by intended | 2025-04-21 09:00:45+00:00
I’m reminded of how junk food was seen as a dominant and crushing force, and how today we have moved to people willingly embracing healthier lifestyles.

I rue the amount of damage caused, before people and society began resisting and arresting its deleterious effects.

But perhaps this is the same process being followed here. New shiny for the reptile brain, eventually the costs are made clear and people decide they would rather not become statistics and instead find joy in other formats and tools.

Then People make those formats or invent ways of engaging with our tools that includes self care and leads to more happiness. We grow older and we eventually get tired of all the online health fads and become crotchety older humans.

Get off my lawn, in advance.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-04-21 09:01:23+00:00
I've become quite pragmatic about all this stuff. Sure, the Catholic Church will act first and foremost for it's own survival but that still leaves open the possibility of reform towards something better for humanity as a whole and as an organization they can still make the world a better place.

Wether they do make the world better all things considered is questionable but given that the church will continue to exist regardless of what I believe, it's quite obvious to me that it's better for all of us if they reform themselves towards something more humanitarian.
by Someone | 2025-04-21 09:01:34+00:00
> D pioneered compile time function execution (CTFE) back around 2007

Pioneered? Forth had that in the 1970s, lisp somewhere in the 1960s (I’m not sure whether the first versions of either had it, so I won’t say 1970 respectively 1960), and there may be other or even older examples.
by defrost | 2025-04-21 09:02:10+00:00
It's not hard to sort good advice from bad.

* He's not the only ULR shooter in the area or the world, do they generally agree with each other or not?

* Guns clamped in place can be repeatedly fired and adjusted with turn screws allowing for evaluation of accuracy and range independant of the shooter.

Advice generally comes in the form of packing loads, types of shells, cold vs warm vs hot barrels, wear on twist, allowances for wind, drop, and ignoring coriolis force, etc.

Any advice similar to having a beer and shooting from a lawn chair in the garage can be readily discarded.
by codetrotter | 2025-04-21 09:02:19+00:00
It looks like OP filled out the text area alongside with the URL when submitting the post.

HN takes that text and turns it into a comment. I’ve seen it happen before.

The unfortunate outcome of that IMO is that sometimes text that makes sense as a description of a submission feels a bit out of place as a comment due to how they are worded. And these comments sometimes then end up getting downvoted.

I wouldn’t be completely sure it was not human written. Even though it feels a bit weird to read it as a comment.
by pjmlp | 2025-04-21 09:02:56+00:00
No, that is a side effect.

Truffle/GraalVM is the evolution of projects like MaximeVM and JikesRVM, of having a meta-circular JVM, with a compiler development toolchain.

Naturally by having a compiler development toolchain, there is also interest on going forward beyond just Java programming language, and see which other languages it can handle.

JVM itself already had a more friendly take on dynamic languages, following the .NET DLR efforts, with invokedynamic on the JVM (Java 7). Which was later also used as mechanism to implement lambdas due to the way as invokedynamic works, it can be faster and less resource hungry than the anonymous class approach many think is used instead.
by mschuster91 | 2025-04-21 09:03:30+00:00
> therefore, Israel must eliminate all Gazawis itself to guarantee its security

Guess why they're keeping the Palestinians on a run: to ransack the entire place for weapons caches or Gaza Metro entrances. And that's not eliminating the Gazan population, by the way.

I don't like it very much myself, but honestly, I do not see any other way of making sure Hamas does not rise up again.

> Will Israel kill millions to avenge the deaths of thousands?

Again: it's not about revenge any more, it's about preventing the repeat of 2006-2023 aka constant terror from Qassam rockets and other terrorism.
by logicchains | 2025-04-21 09:03:49+00:00
>that is mostly made of misheard slogans and made up discriminations

Aside from legitimate concern about the genocide in Gaza, there's also been a rise in good-old-fashioned antisemitism, especially among young people: https://www.adl.org/resources/press-release/46-adults-worldw... . For instance: 40% of those under age 35 affirm that “Jews are responsible for most of the world’s wars” while it is 29% for those over 50, a remarkable 11 percentage point difference.
by pembrook | 2025-04-21 09:03:59+00:00
The person you’re responding to is an autistic wheelchair-bound lesbian woman living in Ghana.

What now?

Personally, I’d prefer internet commenters argue in good faith instead of emotionally parroting 2010s social justice identity jargon. You could have responded with something op was missing about said music (interesting history, examples of artists innovating there, etc) instead and added some value to the thread.
by keybored | 2025-04-21 09:04:04+00:00
comptime can’t outright replace many language features because it chooses different tradeoffs to get to where it wants. You get a “one thing to rule all” at the expense of less declarative use.

Which I already said in my original comment. But here’s a source that I didn’t find last time: https://strongly-typed-thoughts.net/blog/zig-2025#comptime-i...

Academics have thought about evaluating things at compile time (or any time) for decades. No, you can’t just slot in eval at a weird place that no one ever thought of (they did) and immediately solve a suite of problems that other languages use multiple discrete features for (there’s a reason they do that).
by glenngillen | 2025-04-21 09:04:07+00:00
Another form of this observation is what initiated the flood of private equity into music back catalogs - people will go back and listen to music many many more times than they will a lot of other content. And the longevity of it is much longer, especially when you consider remixes, covers, and samples.

Every so often I’ll throw on some old jazz standards I’ve never heard of. Some classical music. Some early soul and R&B.

Old movies though? Only the iconic ones through a sense of obligation (eg, school/study) or someone convincing me I absolutely have to. Metropolis, Citizen Kane, interesting movies for their time and contribution. I just don’t feel the need to go back to this stuff the same way I actually enjoy going back to old music or other art.
by carlos-menezes | 2025-04-21 09:04:59+00:00
He was, but John Paul II was traditionally conservative. I think Francis resonated with more people–Christian or not–because he emphasized compassion, humility, and social justice.

He spoke more openly about issues like poverty, climate change, and inclusion–his encyclical LAUDATO SI’ is a great read–, and he often used language and gestures that the "common man" could relate to.

Perhaps the way he dressed so simply–with the plain white cassock–also emphasized his overall approach: less focus on grandeur, more on service.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-04-21 09:05:29+00:00
The CD release of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio program notes that it's mostly the original recordings, except for the music. They didn't have the rights to release the music on CD, so they substituted in different music. If you want the same program that was broadcast over the radio, you need to buy it on cassette, where apparently they do have the rights to the music.

Something has obviously gone badly wrong in the world of IP licensing. Somehow I imagine that movies don't license different parts of their soundtrack differently to make sure they can never be rereleased.
by rglullis | 2025-04-21 09:05:51+00:00
> We're almost at a point where the current generation of programmers wasn't even programming when that happened

I've been programming with Python since 2006, I think most of the systems were based on 2.4 at the time. I've been one of those who switched to Python 3 somewhat late, waiting for some major libraries to ship python 3 packages - celery and Twisted were one of the biggest holdouts - so I remember that the first project where all my dependencies were ready for python 3 was around 2015.

This is to say: even seasoned developers who were conservative around the migration have spent more time working with Python 3 than Python 2. There simply is no reason anymore to be talking about python 2.
by Jensson | 2025-04-21 09:06:52+00:00
Its the same middle schooler, nobody gave a time limit for how long it takes the middle schooler to solve the problem. These AI models wont solve it no matter how much time spent, you have to make new models, like making new kids.

Put one of these models in a classroom with middle schoolers, and make it go through all the same experiences, they still wont replace a white collar worker.

> a middle schooler might become a General Intelligence in the future

Being able to learn anything a human can means you are a general intelligence now. Having a skill is narrow intelligence, being able to learn is what we mean with general intelligence. No current model has demonstrated the ability to learn arbitrary white collar jobs, so no current model has done what it takes to be considered a general intelligence. The biological model homo sapiens have demonstrated that ability, thus we call homo sapiens generally intelligent.
by fidotron | 2025-04-21 09:09:12+00:00
If you believe this you underestimate how adversarial the software world really is. TikTok will be on the receiving end of botnets by everything from commercial entities, state backed groups and criminals.

They won't be betting that this stops that entirely, but it adds a layer of friction that is easy for them to change on a continuous basis. These things are also very good for leaving honeypots in where if someone is found to still be using something after a change you can tag them as a bot or otherwise hacking. Both of those approaches are also widely used in game anti-cheat mechanisms, and as shown there the lengths people will go to anyway are completely insane.
by johnisgood | 2025-04-21 09:10:58+00:00
From what I gathered, it does not appear to have an impact on prostate cancer risk since the prostate still undergoes stimulation and fluid production, and the contents are still expelled.

Silodosine-induced retrograde ejaculation does not prevent ejaculation from occurring, it simply redirects the pathway (different anatomical exit).

It is different from chronic ejaculatory abstinence.
by herewulf | 2025-04-21 09:11:44+00:00
> - Photographers / enthusiasts

Sorry, but the ship has sailed. Fix your problems in software maybe.

> - Astronomers / enthusiasts

Every Starship launch should offer ride-share for a space based observatory. Astronomy will only improve with space based telescopes. Yes, spacecraft are expensive but so are Earth based observatories, but how does it look with launch cost removed from the equation?

> - Those who enjoy nature

Generally can't see the satellites with the naked eye. Should probably concentrate on not walking into a hole / body of water / off a steep precipice.

This complaint about the aesthetics of the night sky is the wimpy enemy of progress. Imagine bronze / iron age people up in arms because suddenly the sea is full of fishing boats and merchant vessels. Or people up in arms because farmland has spoiled the view of forests.

Yes, I think this stuff looks nice without man-made things. I enjoy the night sky. I also enjoy being able to eat and utilize modern technology. There will come a day when spacecraft coming and going will be as routine as we see airplanes now, so our descendants will have that to complain about next, until it becomes as pointless to complain about as the asphalt roads that have lead to and from or houses.

Space based technology will make life better for all of humanity just like every technology that has come before it. The genie is out of the bottle and isn't going back in.