MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by andsoitis | 2025-04-04 14:09:11+00:00
> their patent is still owned by certain oligarchy.

I don’t know that it’s helpful to have such a blunt and un-nuanced take.

Theres no “certain oligarchy” that holds a single patent on "chemotherapy" as a broad concept, as it encompasses various chemical treatments for cancer. specific chemotherapy drugs and methods are patented by pharmaceutical companies and research institutions, for example:

- NanOlogy LLC: holds a patent for a method involving injecting large surface area microparticle taxanes directly into the tumor, combined with systemic delivery of immunotherapeutic agents.

- Johns Hopkins University: assigned patent rights for a method related to cancer treatment to Becton-Dickinson & Company, which then sublicensed them to Baxter.

- University of Cincinnati Clermont College: has a patent for breakthrough chemotherapy technology involving nanocarriers.

- Northeastern University: reports a patented molecule, WYC-209, that eliminates cancer cells.
by tzs | 2025-04-04 14:09:46+00:00
Pages greatly confused me the first time I tried to use it, several years ago. That's because it included a bunch of templates for different kinds of documents, and when you created a new document from one of those templates the document was full of text and images.

That text was Lorem ipsum [1]. I had never seen that before and assumed that I had somehow gotten the templates for some other language installed with my English Pages install.

I then spent a few hours trying to figure out how to change template language settings or install English templates.

I eventually copies some of the text and Googled it, hoping to find someone else who had this problem and had found the fix and then learned about Lorem ipsum.

Nowadays when you create a document from the templates that come with Pages the placeholder text is in your language and is usage instructions for the template.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum
by scrlk | 2025-04-04 14:09:47+00:00
I read the article. My comment was prompted by this:

> One reason for this is that parts of the British state are fundamentally misaligned with goals like ‘improving living standards’ or ‘increasing wealth’, whether that’s through hand-wringingly incompetent procurement processes, long-term failure to invest in the infrastructure and management required to support ‘moar frontline staff!!’, acute treasury brain, or endless cohorts of committees and quangos.

> The current level of ambition, of vision, just doesn’t match up to the situation we’re in.

It’s about a failure of state capacity. The article’s entire argument hinges on why British institutions can no longer turn wealth into functioning systems. The post-imperial loss of strategic vision among British elites is not a distraction: it’s the historical foundation of the current malaise.

Suez was the moment Britain exited the world stage and never figured out what it stood for domestically in the vacuum that followed.

You can’t talk about the failure to invest, coordinate, or reform over decades without asking why the ruling class stopped trying.
by morsecodist | 2025-04-04 14:09:53+00:00
Trade surplus is not sufficient to analyze the issue here. It is about commitment. What you want is something closer to the probability that the trade surplus will lead to a policy change. Even if it is true that the average Chinese citizen will be more negatively impacted than the average US citizen that negative impact doesn't equally translate to policy change. The US congress is fairly evenly split. It doesn't take that much to cause a policy shift.
by KineticLensman | 2025-04-04 14:10:00+00:00
> how accruals work

Slightly off-topic but I worked at a UK research organisation that was a privatised entity recently spun-off from a civil-service organisation. The new CEO (who came from a finance background) got a tour of each department. He apparently listened to all of the tech evangelism from the department directors and then asked them how their department's accruals were doing. Those department directors who asked him to clarify what he meant by accruals didn't stay in post very long. Allegedly.

Us lowly engineers just kept our heads down.
by p_ing | 2025-04-04 14:10:23+00:00
It's been decades since I did desktop support, but even back then I used RIS or (ugh) Altiris when a machine when t-u. There was no troubleshooting if it was seemingly an OS or hardware level issue, the people I supported had better things to do.

And today, Microsoft's push is the InTune-driven Autopilot which favors a very similar disposable (cattle-like) model.
by rdtsc | 2025-04-04 14:10:29+00:00
The likeness of Indiana Jones, as a character, is owned by Disney

If they show that image to a jury they’ll have no issues convincing them the LLM is infringing.

Moreover if the LLM creators are charging for it, per token or whatever, they are profiting from it.

Yes are there jurisdictions were this won’t work and but I think in US Disney lawyers could make viable argument.
by placardloop | 2025-04-04 14:10:35+00:00
It isn’t even close to being the greatest tool in human history. This type of misunderstanding and hyperbole is exactly why people are tired/bored/frustrated of it.

The uncomfortable truth is that AI is the world’s greatest con man. The tools and hype around them have created an environment where AI is incredibly effective at fooling people into thinking it is knowledgeable and helpful, even when it isn’t. And the people it is fooling aren’t knowledgeable enough in the topics being described to realize they’re being conned, and even when they realize they’ve been conned, they’re too proud to admit it.

This is exactly why you see people that are deeply knowledgeable in certain areas pointing out that AI is fallible, meanwhile you have people like CEOs that lack the actual technical depth in topics praising AI. They know just enough to think they know what “good” looks like, but not enough to realize when the “good” output is just lipstick on a pig.
by floatrock | 2025-04-04 14:10:56+00:00
My job requires pulling large data dumps produced by research from a national lab from public S3 buckets. TB's of data.

This research is publicly funded, the data produced is public data, and it enables an entire ecosystem of business activity. imho, this is a good use of public funding and research, and hosting it in S3 buckets is a good solution that makes huge quantities of data easily accessible to people who would use this.

I don't use NOAA data, but this has chilling effects for my business (is my national lab next?). There is nothing "efficient" about forcing agencies to get rid of data and service hosting that works well at scale.

(If DOGE was actually about increasing efficiency of digital services like it's pre-rename/pre-takeover US Digital Services agency was actually doing, we'd be building a TB or PB-scale S3 alternative for government agencies to use, but we all know that's not the constructive efficiency they're doing here)
by gjm11 | 2025-04-04 14:11:11+00:00
> The root of the word celebrity is celebrate.

Actually, that's not quite right. The root of both "celebrate" and "celebrity" is a Latin word whose original meaning is something to do with crowdedness. Celebrity (in the older sense of "being famous") means being someone that people crowd around. The original meaning of "celebrate" was to hold a religious service, attended by crowds of people. Later "celebrity" evolved to also mean a person who has the quality of celebrity-in-the-old-sense, and "celebrate" evolved to also mean to hold some other kind of event that attracts crowds. But "celebrity" didn't ever primarily mean "person who is admired", it was always "person who attracts attention".

(It is still true that people who are famous and then not famous can find it hard to adapt to the change, of course.)
by masswerk | 2025-04-04 14:11:17+00:00
Regarding that choice: Given that this is really a different library (the DOM and its individual browser implementation), it's probably quite sane to just define a certain object to evaluate as falsy, as compared to any attempts to check for a certain implementation in this external library for any call.

(Even more so, since any access using `document.all` retrieves an object from a live collection, while the other access method is a function call, which is a totally different thing.)
by latexr | 2025-04-04 14:11:29+00:00
> Apple has been the most antagonistic to Trump.

The most reluctant or the least vocal to comply, maybe, but far from antagonistic.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/20/apple-ceo-tim-cook-and-preid...

https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-ceo-tim-cook-meet-w...

https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/apple-ceo-tim-cook-don...
by dachworker | 2025-04-04 14:11:54+00:00
You are free to come to Germany. Pretty sure you can get a VISA to do an Ausbildung at the end of which you will be working in some factory or another. Getting a German VISA is much easier than getting an American VISA and Germany is actively advertising abroad to attract workers. That should tell you something, but do come and experience it with your own eyes.
by em-bee | 2025-04-04 14:12:11+00:00
i thought it is comparable to talking to my friends online instead of in person. in my case those friends are on a different continent. i do have local fiends too, but talking to my online friends is what keeps me connected to my the place where i grew up. (even though these friends are not from that time)

interestingly, as someone who plays an instrument, i don't enjoy just listening to music as much because i'd rather play with friends
by amalcon | 2025-04-04 14:12:39+00:00
We'll likely never know for sure, since they will just claim that the goal is to save money. There's even a grain of truth to it: AWS and GCP are the most expensive offerings in that class. Of course, if the goal was actually to save money -- then first off, Wordpress wouldn't be getting cut. Also, the plan would be to migrate to more cost effective alternatives (of which there are several), not to just turn the thing off.
by mppm | 2025-04-04 14:12:50+00:00
One thing that I'd like to inject into this discussion, is that the nominal trade imbalance is not the only relevant figure, and maybe not the most important one. For many goods, there is a very strong disconnect between the market value (the lowest price you can offer a group of suppliers competing against each other) and what one might call, for lack of a better word, true value (the price you'd be willing to pay if you had no alternatives). For luxury goods, these are often nearly the same, while basic goods might have a 5x difference and antibiotics could well have 1000x. When this is taken into account, the trade between the West on the one hand, and China and Russia on the other, is not unbalanced by a factor of 2, but more like 20. The West receives a huge amount of energy, manufactured products, chemical precursors, electronics, technological supplies, medical supplies and basic medicines. And in return they send champaigne, BMWs, branded clothing, intellectual property, and yes, some aircraft and photolithography machines. The effect of this has already been demonstrated once with the mostly unsuccessful sanctions against Russia, but would be felt ten-fold if there were a major disruption of trade between China and the West. China is at a point in their development, where they really could walk away from trading with the West if they really had to, but the Western economies would likely be sent into shock by such a step. Not that I think this is likely to happen, but I do get the feeling that the new tariffs are mostly giving China a leg-up towards full economic independence, while onshoring the US industry will be a very long and painful process.
by p_ing | 2025-04-04 14:13:20+00:00
I'm sure window.open will work great, absolutely. HN will probably work wonders, too. nbcnews? new (arg) reddit?

We could go back a little more and find a great PII 400. I had one with a CL 3Dfx Voodoo2 12MB, though I forget the 2D card.

It played MP3s REALLY well! As long as that is all you wanted to do because anything else would introduce skips and pops.

I like old machines, but I would hardly call them day-to-day usable with modern apps, and I would question the underlying hardware/firmware security the rest of the way.
by ManuelKiessling | 2025-04-04 14:13:25+00:00
I've taken this feedback to heart and tried to improve the structure a bit.

The main message I want to bring across is two-fold:

1. Senior developers are in a great position to make productive use of AI coding tools

2. I have (so far) identified three measures that make AI coding sessions much more successful

I hope the reworked version makes these more central and clear. I'm not a native English speaker, thus it's probably not possible for me to end up with an optimal version.

Still, I hope the new approach works a bit better for you — would love to receive another round of feedback.
by potato3732842 | 2025-04-04 14:13:34+00:00
What you're describing for Reddit is farcically charitable except in cases where you could just google it yourself. What you're describing for the LLM is what Reddit does when any judgement is involved.

I've encountered enough instances in subjects I am familiar with where the "I'm 14 and I just googled it for you" solution that's right 51% of the time and dangerously wrong the other 49 is highly upvoted and the "so I've been here before and this is kind of nuanced with a lot of moving pieced, you'll need to understand the following X, the general gist of Y is..." type take that's more correct is highly downvoted that I feel justified in making the "safe" assumption that this is how all subjects work.

On one hand at least Reddit shows you the downvoted comment if you look and you can go independently verify what they have to say.

But on the other hand the LLM is instant and won't screech at you if you ask it to cite sources.
by brap | 2025-04-04 14:13:51+00:00
I remember properly learning JS from “The Good Parts” book, which makes it known from the start that JS is a nasty language but if you ignore many sharp edges it can be nice and elegant. I think this is especially true with (a subset of) TS. All you need is a very, very strict linter, and then you get to pretend you’re working in a mostly solid language.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-04-04 14:13:59+00:00
The US are leaving Europe behind in term of growth (and thus ultimately GDP and GDP per capita) in any case [1] [2].

"Between 2010 and 2023, the cumulative growth rate of GDP reached 34% in the United States, compared with just 21% in the European Union and 18% in the eurozone. This measure of GDP in volume does not depend on changes in exchange rates." [2]

[1] https://www.futuribles.com/en/sur-le-decrochage-economique-e... [2] https://www.polytechnique-insights.com/en/columns/economy/ec...
by James_K | 2025-04-04 14:14:58+00:00
The purpose of tax is not to raise money to government, but to redistribute wealth. The government prints money to cover the bill of its expenditure. If it issued no taxes, then that burden would fall on all people through inflation, affecting the poor moreso than the rich. Taxes are an issue separate from spending that allows the government to move money down from rich to poor, and in doing so offset the inflationary effects of spending. This is why tax is a solution to rent. Rent is poor people giving money to rich people, and tax allows you to reverse that flow.
by yapyap | 2025-04-04 14:14:58+00:00
well i dont know who in the world Douglas is, probably some geriatric weirdo but he is completely wrong.

am in the second group and ur comment just feels like ragebait, sure there are enough “hip and trendy” teenagers to twenty, thirty something people who like influence more than technology and are on their “vibe code” grind and idk, fucking their AI every night with their claude wrapped fleshlight but I for one am not one of them.
by water-data-dude | 2025-04-04 14:15:01+00:00
Honestly, no one should be using water to grow alfalfa in Utah. The way Western water law currently works with prior appropriation encourages extremely wasteful uses of water, just because they don’t want to lose their valuable water allocations (use it or lose it). Alfalfa is a VERY water intensive crop, growing it in the desert wouldn’t make sense without these perverse incentives.

There’s a lot of effects, but one very visible one in Utah is the fact that the Great Salt Lake is drying out, because too much water is being diverted from its tributaries. Now there’s dust getting stirred up from the exposed lake bed that’s chock full of heavy metals, which is less than ideal next to a fairly big city.
by tekknik | 2025-04-04 14:15:09+00:00
crazy thought, maybe a $1 item shouldn’t be shipped from overseas at great expense to the environment? 5 years ago all anybody would talk about is the environment and now people are burning down EVs and complaining that they’ll have to pay more for a cheap $1 shirt they don’t need to be moved 6000 or more miles? make this make sense.
by fragmede | 2025-04-04 14:15:18+00:00
As much as I'd like to pretend otherwise, I'm just a programmer. Say I build, I dunno, an Eventbrite clone. Okay, cool I've got some code running on Vercel. What do I do next? I'm not about to quit my day job to try and pay my mortgage on hopes and dreams, and while I'm working my day job and having a life outside of that. There's just not enough hours left in the day to also work on this hypothetical EventBrite clone. And there are already so many competitors of them out there, what's one more? What's my "in" to the events industry that would have me succeed over any of their numerous existing competitors? Sure, Thants to LLMs I can vibe code some CRUD app, but my point is there's so much I don't know that I don't even know what I don't know about business in order to be successful. So realistically it's just a fun hobby, like how some people sew sweaters.
by freedomben | 2025-04-04 14:15:54+00:00
It is natural for humans to eat and desire to eat meat. You might as well criticize people for having sex drives (which clearly sometimes lead to negative outcomes), or needing to urinate, or criticizing dogs or lions for their eating of meat. I think we can and should develop alternatives and put our higher levels of intellect to use, but that isn't going to change our natures and it's not reasonable to expect large amounts of people to voluntarily choose to become monks and forsake the natural man. If you really want to fix things, developing more sustainable and healthy replacements is the way, not trying to shame them for their naturally-endowed characteristics.
by katelynsills | 2025-04-04 14:16:38+00:00
I suspect this is related to what Nikhil Rajpal was doing at NOAA. He was originally reported to be asking about Google sites. https://www.wired.com/story/doge-engineer-noaa-data-google-m...

@nikrdc, if this is you, why are you doing something so destructive and stupid?
by palata | 2025-04-04 14:17:08+00:00
I call this bad faith. You're right, living the way we live is unsustainable. That's why almost all species are dying, and that's not yet a consequence of global warming. Now, some things are harder to change than others, and have more or less impact.

Stopping to eat meat/fish is probably the one thing that is reasonably easy, cheap (vegetarian food is globally cheaper), and would have a huge impact.
by salawat | 2025-04-04 14:17:30+00:00
Unemployment literally only tracks those interacting with State unemployment insurance. People out of work who aren't interfacing with said established monitoring may as well not exist in the same manner as engine & cockpit shot planes in WWII.

In short, citing unemployment is falling for the mother of all survivorship biases. If you're more interested in fake paperwork derived numbers than the actual world though, you do you then.
by grumpy-de-sre | 2025-04-04 14:17:40+00:00
Visiting China earlier this year broke me, left the place dismayed about the situation back home.

I'm no communist, just someone who recognizes the social and economic benefits of abundant housing, cheap energy, and forward thinking transport policy.

I have no idea how we'll get back on the track of improving human development but it's not going to be easy.
by netdevphoenix | 2025-04-04 14:17:49+00:00
You are still condoning unauthorized computer access. You are accessing facilities or resources that you are not authorized to access. Just because you are typing on a computer does not make it any less worse.

"Real damage" means more than that. You can enter a building without breaking a door or a window, not sure where you got the notion that is not possible. If you enter a building there is no physical damage but the reputation of the security company managing the building gets damaged once it's found out.

Just because you don't see it, does not mean that the damage is not there. Similarly, if you SSH into a server, the company handling the security gets its reputation tarnished. In both cases, there is a financial penalty that those companies will suffer. Someone in some company will be under crazy stress because of your actions. Just because you don't get to meet that person does not mean that the damage is not real. Similarly, accessing someone's private cloud and viewing their files will cause someone emotional distress. Again, you won't see it but does not make it any less real. Imagine, someone spying on you while you sleep (whether online or in person) or while you are in the toilet, again there is no "real damage" according to you but the emotional distress is very much real.

All those people hacking web cams for "fun" without causing "real damage" are indeed causing emotional distress which very much falls under real damage.

I suggest you review your definition of "real damage" as it is likely to get you into trouble one day. You should not be condoning federal crimes.
by rbetts | 2025-04-04 14:17:58+00:00
They were fired by the administration. Looks to me like the system working. Government agency does something stupid. Congress investigates. Situation corrected. I'm looking forward to that oversight of the current administration. Enjoy your kite.

> In November 2024, FEMA fired a supervisor for directing relief workers to avoid assisting homes displaying support for President Donald Trump in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton. In response, the House Oversight Committee launched an investigation into political discrimination at FEMA and held a hearing with former Administrator Deanne Criswell. This week, FEMA informed the Oversight Committee that it has terminated three additional employees for failing to uphold the agency’s standards of conduct. The agency is also implementing additional training to reinforce that political affiliation must never be a factor in disaster relief efforts.

https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-applauds-fema-for-...
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-04-04 14:18:10+00:00
Don't make yourself out to be the grandstander here, that's my job. Politics is so hard and so complicated that your expected contribution is almost certainly net negative, so take that time and energy and apply it to things you actually have a hope of reliably improving. The true cowardice is spending 6 hours a day spinning your wheels instead of getting to work on things that actually work.

An example inspired from the paper: I'm sure medieval surgeons felt they were doing God's work, putting in 12 hour days incising people with razors, and yet without a basic understanding of germ theory they almost certainly make many people much worse off. For a more recent example, did you know that less than 50 years ago it was believed infants didn't need to be anesthetized when modern surgeons operated upon them, despite showing extreme pain responses?

Politics is many orders of magnitude more complex than both germ theory and anesthesiology, and yet people somehow feel they need to study it systematically even less. It's not hard to summon a litany of state sponsored actions which would make Genghis Khan blush, and yet, for each one of those actions, some group of people thought it was such an obviously good idea it simply had to be done.