MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xphos | 2025-04-16 03:19:17+00:00
Listen, I hate the debt, but we have an income problem, not a spending problem. The military looks like a waste, but it does more than build bombs i.e research etc.

The issue we have is that republican every chance they get since the 1970s have cut taxes. And then blamed democrats for causing the deficits. We don't need smaller governments. We need a reasonable tax system that taxes people. It can be progressive like it was before we decided rich people just need it easier than poor people.

Yes, I will pay more taxes sign me up, especially if they can finally fix the roads and fund research. The problem is my taxes as a middle-class person go up and rich people get a tax cut. It's stupid. I like water provided by government utilities, I like planes that don't crash into stuff because there are air traffic controllers. These things used to work because we paid for them. When you buy cheap you get cheap.
by ModernMech | 2025-04-16 03:19:43+00:00
Still, the whole Unix philosophy of building tools starts with a foundation of building something small that can do one thing well. If that is your foundation, you can take advantage of composability and create larger tools that are more capable. The foundation of all computing today is built on this principle of design.

Building on AI seems more like building on a foundation of sand, or building in a swamp. You can probably put something together, but it's going to continually sink into the bog. Better to build on a solid foundation, so you don't have to continually stop the thing from sinking, so you can build taller.
by timr | 2025-04-16 03:20:06+00:00
> we're going to have to accept that everything everywhere else is just going to be awful. Hallucinations in your doctor's notes, legal rulings, in your coffee and laundry and everything else that hasn't yet been IoT-ified.

I installed a logitech mouse driver (sigh) the other day, and in addition to being obtrusive and horrible to use, it jams an LLM into the UI, for some reason.

AI has reached crapware status in record time.
by Joker_vD | 2025-04-16 03:21:17+00:00
> no one calls it x64 except for Microsoft. And even though it is fairly prevalent on Windows, I absolutely give my gamedev friends a hard time when they write x64.

So, it turns out, actually a lot of people call it x64 — including author's own friends! — it's just that the author dislikes it. Disliking something is fine, but why claim outright falsehood which you know first-hand is false?

Also, the actual proper name for this ISA is, of course, EM64T. /s

> The fourth entry of the triple (and I repeat myself, yes, it’s still a triple)

Any actual justification except the bald assertions from the personal preferences? Just call it a "tuple", or something...
by IAmLiterallyAB | 2025-04-16 03:22:26+00:00
> However, due to the runaway popularity of LLVM, virtually all compilers now use target triples.

That's a wild take. I think its pretty universally accepted the GCC and the GNU toolchain is what made this ubiquitous.

Also, the x32 ABI is still around, support is still around, I don't know where the author got that notion
by markhahn | 2025-04-16 03:23:08+00:00
it might be ignorance; it might be malice.

it might also be deliberate: that they actually don't think the government should be involved in this sort of thing. after all, someone could be making a profit on this, and that seems to be their highest value. if gov is involved, that makes it a communal effort, and you know what else starts with "commun-"?

yes, those reasons are stupid and ignorant AND intentional.

but is there any evidence against that interpretation?
by sokka_h2otribe | 2025-04-16 03:24:02+00:00
You might think crisis of reproducibility means everyone is faking data. No, that does not mean that. There are many factors to a crisis of reproducibility. One is fake data. A bigger one is a lack of incentive and a lack of complete data gathering details on some metric. Generally even if there is a crisis is subjective.

There's also usually a mismatch between what older scientists and younger scientists think are the right approach to studying something.

But generally, science is pretty good. You're reading small slices and assuming it actually represents all of science. It doesn't. Please give me a better sense of what ground your ear is on. I don't think it's generally representative of most science fields. Science has a cool thing where you could post totally fake data, but there are enough actors that also would question it if it's entirely unreproducible. Most issues are small nudges or selective data (e.g, retesting when data doesn't support your expectations), not blatant lies. The blatant lie stories you hear are not actually common and I'd love to hear where you think they are.
by levkk | 2025-04-16 03:25:04+00:00
It can but it's not the primary goal at the moment. If you want to restrict the number of rows returned, you can rewrite the query to add a LIMIT clause. To control which rows your users can see, you can use row-level security.

One thing I was thinking of doing is generating query plans asynchronously and blocking/cancelling queries that would otherwise be expensive and cause downtime. That's on the roadmap.
by k310 | 2025-04-16 03:25:59+00:00
Not rebuilt yet. I personally like Knoppix, but it hasn't been updated in a long time. I even emailed Klaus Knopper to no avail. I'll try again.

P.S. the latest version has no systemd.

Version 9.1 (2021)? I have to double-check.

In the past, I have installed Linux Mint on PC hardware with great success. It should install on old mac mini's. One way to find out.

In the distant past, I installed lubuntu and xubuntu on really minimal PC systems.
by csa | 2025-04-16 03:26:22+00:00
> I think you still need to be open to the product they are selling.

Generally speaking, yes.

That said, many people spend money or will spend money on things that aren’t for themselves.

> I always buy soda in this order: Cherry Dr Pepper, Dr Pepper, Cherry Coke, Coke, something with a fake grape flavour, maybe something else if none of those exist or water.

If this is your list, then (most) ads for sodas aren’t targeting you to buy sodas for yourself.

Every ad doesn’t need to address every viewer of the ad, nor should it.

Additionally, converting a viewer to a direct sale is not always the goal of an ad. Moving someone from a “cold lead” to a “warm lead” (e.g., through brand recognition, brand identity, etc.) are frequently the main goal of a given ad or ad campaign, especially ads that aren’t super targeted.
by kovac | 2025-04-16 03:26:23+00:00
This is where education comes in. When we come cross a certain scale, we should know that O(n) comes into play, and study existing literature before trying to naively solve the problem. What would happen if the "AI" and web search didn't return anything? Would you have stuck with your implementation? What if you couldn't find a library with a usable license?

Once I had to look up a research paper to implement a computational geometry algorithm because I couldn't find it any of the typical Web sources. There were also no library to use with a license for our commercial use.

I'm not against use of "AI". But this increasing refusal of those who aspire to work in specialist domains like software development to systematically learn things is not great. That's just compounding on an already diminished capacity to process information skillfully.
by garfield_light | 2025-04-16 03:28:31+00:00
Irrelevant, his thoughts in the matter or him being a shithead don't make the unintended use of a smart contract illegal or not. This is just usual case of Wilhoit’s Law by shitcoin peddlers.

> There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

They are outside of regulatory scrutiny but god-forbid someone uses the same excuses to take their funny money.
by ggm | 2025-04-16 03:29:19+00:00
You would think after other agencies got Judges rulings "nominate somebody, that somebody to get "handling PII" training in line with Fedgov INFOSEC/OPSEC requirements" this was a zero cost SEC come-back.

As for the FBI, DHS, like agencies, you enter the realms of custody of evidence, and effect on trial &c. This isn't something any Judge is going to take lightly, even SCOTUS would find it very very hard to argue against "in order to protect the rule of law as a thing in itself" reasoning. if the SEC has to wind up recommending legal action be taken, the last thing it needs is a defendant saying "you can't show me the information you used to decide to do this is not tainted now DOGE has been all over it"
by tart-lemonade | 2025-04-16 03:29:39+00:00
For decades, the US could be counted upon to fund things with little immediate benefit but massive long-term positive externalities. I don't think its likely that the republican party will "go back to normal" post-Trump, so we can all kiss the long-term reputation building that American hegemony relied upon goodbye. Short of a great depression-esque political reset, I do not see things changing for the better.
by seabird | 2025-04-16 03:29:52+00:00
I would be willing to live and let live for the sake of being practical, if the tolerance for (and even active drive towards) low quality slop didn't keep pushing further and further into places it shouldn't. People that accept it in sloppy web dev will accept it in fairly important line of business software. People that accept it in fairly important line of business software will accept it in IT infrastructure. People that accept it in IT infrastructure will accept it in non-trivial security software. People that accept it in non-trivial security software will accept it in what should be a high-integrity system, at which point real engineers or regulatory bodies hopefully step in to stop the bullshit. When asked, everybody will say they draw the line at security, but the drive towards Worse knows no bounds. It's why we see constant rookie mistakes in every IoT device imaginable.

My actual idealistic position, discounting the practicality, is that it shouldn't be tolerated anywhere. We should be trying to minimize the amount of cheap, born-to-die, plasticy shit in society, not maximize it. Most people going on about "muh feature velocity" are reinventing software that has existed for decades. The next shitty UI refresh for Android or Windows, or bad firmware update for whatever device is being screwed up for me, will leave me just as unhappy as the last. The sprint was indeed completed on time, but the product still sucks.

A guided missile should obviously not miss its target. An airliner should obviously never crash. An ERP system should obviously never screw up accounting, inventory, etc, although many people will tolerate that to an unreasonable degree. But my contention is that a phone or desktop's UI should never fail to function as described. A "smart" speaker should never fail to turn on or be controlled. A child's toy should never fail to work in the circumstances they would play with it.

If it's going to constantly fuck up and leave me unhappy and frustrated, why was it made? Why did I buy it? AI could have brought it to market faster, but for what? Once I noticed this, I did just quit buying/dealing with this junk. I'm an ideologue and maybe even a luddite, but I just don't need that bad juju on my soul. I use and write software that's worth caring about.
by emmelaich | 2025-04-16 03:29:57+00:00
There's a related, more polite version of "are you retarded" which is not uncommon even here on HN. It is "I'm confused". I don't know whether it's a phrase that I'm over analysing, but it always comes across as disingenuous to me.

The responder is never actually confused, they have a question that they should just ask.
by kalleboo | 2025-04-16 03:30:04+00:00
> Would make more sense to shit-can the program and just hand them cash

Is there anywhere else in the world that has a similar program to SNAP that micro-manages what kind of things people can buy? Everywhere else I'm familiar with just gives people in need cash that they can spend however they want. The closest thing I can think of is food banks (which also seems much more rare elsewhere, only recently popping up in the UK after their austerity programs)
by riahi | 2025-04-16 03:32:12+00:00
This data is from 2006. Over 20 years, there has been substantial progress in CT radiation reduction through model-based iterative reconstruction and now ML-assisted reconstruction, aside from iterative advances in detector sensitivity and now photon-counting CT.

In clinical practice, those doses are about 2-3x what I see on the machine dose reports every day at my place of work.

In thin patients who can hold still, I've done full-cycle cardiac CT and achieved a < 1 mSv dose. We are always trying to get the dose down while still being diagnostic.

Source: Practicing radiologist.
by ModernMech | 2025-04-16 03:33:03+00:00
It's not a big deal in the sense that it's easily reversed, but it is a big deal in that it means the tool is unpredictably unhelpful. Of the properties that good tools in my workflow possess, "unpredictably unhelpful" does not make the top 100.

When a tool starts confidently inserting random wrong code into my 100% correct code, there's not much more I need to see to know it's not a tool for me. That's less like a tool and more like a vandal. That's not something I need in my toolbox, and I'm certainly not going to replace my other tools with it.
by wredcoll | 2025-04-16 03:35:00+00:00
This indeed a complicated subject and it's difficult to discuss such things in the tiny text boxes we are given here.

Let me attempt to make a broader point here: these are issues that do not in any way justify the changes trump and the republicans are trying to make.

This is a classic scenario, not unique to right wing, but heavily favored by, where they mention something that, when you dig into it deeply enough, might be an actual problem for someone somewhere, then they propose broad sweeping changes to fix it. Changes that just happen to increase their power.

So yes, we can talk about the FAA hiring scandal. It sounds like some people did something wrong! I spent 30 seconds skimming the HN comments so I'm only slightly more informed than the average LLM, but be extremely wary of people who ask you to support vague but sweeping changes like "stopping the spread of DEI!" and so on.

> If there are real issues, engage with them.

There are very, very, very many real issues, which ones do we engage with? Is cheating, racial or otherwise, at the FAA hiring process, more important to engage with than whatever is going on with americans being deported right now to parts unknown?

Like, I've talked to a number of people recently who tell me with all apparent sincerity that they believe that when trump and musk say they're doing something for X reason, they're telling the truth. Two people who are literally famous for lying.

It's easy to be mad at something, like colleges and how they handle grants, and as a result be drawn to anyone else who is mad at them. But it is vital to understand what will actually happen when these people get power.
by prawn | 2025-04-16 03:35:47+00:00
The smaller dairies at least would absolutely care about their animals. And helpfully, their priorities are often aligned: healthier animals would be producing more milk. The autonomy for cows also suits the farmers who'd otherwise be up early running the rotary mechanism, etc.

Couple of years ago, I filmed for dairy tech companies and found it fascinating seeing how robot milkers, collars and so on all worked together.
by mwkaufma | 2025-04-16 03:36:00+00:00
Perceptual colors -- both sRGB and HSB -- are nonlinear, so you can't expect linear combinations to produce meaningful results (they often "interpolate through mud").

If you just want optical phenomena, you can just convert to luminescence -- WegGL and other modern graphics APIs actually does this internally when you load or render textures, so all shaders are handling optically-linear data, which is why the shader-produced images in the post look better than the javascript gradients.
by groby_b | 2025-04-16 03:36:10+00:00
Wait, somebody shares genuinely useful info, and you complain that it could've been spam, but wasn't?

Look, yes, the daytrading field is weird. You don't have to like it. (I don't either). But... that's an interesting workflow. I'm glad they did share it, I hadn't thought of that approach, and it might be genuinely useful.

Last I checked "interesting" was the criteria for posts here.
by emporas | 2025-04-16 03:36:15+00:00
Yeah, but when money becomes information then everyone has money. When music becomes information then everyone has music. When food, medicine and narcotics become information with genetic engineering, then everyone has food, medicine and narcotics. When weapons become information, everyone has weapons. When skyscrapers become information, then everyone has skyscrapers.

Also information wants to be sorted and compressed. See for example personal wikis using org-roam, personal databases of text files using org-mode in emacs and so on.

What good is for me, 10 songs which each one has 10 seconds of a part i like, and i am indifferent to the rest of the song. I take these 100 seconds in total and compress them down to a new song which is totally to my liking.
by EGreg | 2025-04-16 03:37:06+00:00
No. Definitely not.

Smart contracts are supposed to eliminate a huge swath of disputes, so often people don’t need courts at all. People can put business rules in place that aren’t violated - and not just for contracts.

For example bidders at Christie’s and Sotheby’s sometimes don’t have the money but the houses can’t make a big scandal. They try to hold another auction and sell it to someone else as if the guy sold it.

In crypto it would be trivial to endure bidders have put up the money. You can refund the lowest bidder below N winners. You can also ensure payouts happen at agreed-upon rates. You can prove escrow. And stuff like that.

Imagine a bunch of donors or investors seeing how their money is spent because it is on the blockchain. Or imagine a community having roles and knowing that each role was granted properly.

In web2 anyone who can get into the database can modify any records and then you hope court cases and chilling effects will undo the damage retroactively.
by 14 | 2025-04-16 03:40:17+00:00
As a parent I have seen first hand some of the bullying teens face on some of the mainstream platforms. Kids being bullied in an instant on snap where things are spread around at lightning speed for one example. But I have also seen some bad things happen on 4chan. People releasing nudes of their exes or posts where users submit clothed pictures of girls they want to see photoshopped naked and a person does so. Or the rekt threads with gore content blocked on most other sites. I guess my feeling is that no matter the site you will always get bad actors.
by alejohausner | 2025-04-16 03:40:21+00:00
Books were expensive, because they were hand made. That’s probably the reason for low literacy.

When the printing press was invented, there arose a huge appetite for books of all kinds. People learned to read, because they could afford books now. With so many books in print, people could compare spellings of words, and this led to standardisation of spelling.

Spelling became uniform because of printing.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-16 03:41:18+00:00
This sort of thing is happening across the federal government. There is no rhyme or reason. DOGE has been given an unrealistic target for cuts and they're desperately cutting whatever they can get their hands on. If you look at the federal budget it's nearly impossible for DOGE to hit their stated goals without touching benefits like medicare and social security (which are off limits so far) so the only option is deep, deep cuts into the narrow slice of the federal budget that excludes those protected categories.

There is no rhyme or reason to what gets cut, other than someone under pressure to hit KPIs (dollars cut) was desperately searching for things that looked easy to cancel.

This is happening everywhere the federal government touches. Most people aren't aware of it until they come around and pull the rug on something that intersects with your own life.

Even my die-hard Republican distant relatives are suddenly shocked because programs they benefited from are being cut. They thought they voted for something different.
by rincebrain | 2025-04-16 03:41:54+00:00
The memetic speedrun that's so common now on social media has some roots there, to be sure, but I think a lot of it was parallel evolution combined with cribbing things that were already polished from years of metaphorical rock tumbling on 4chan, in the best ifunny.com style.

The ubiquitous expectations for modern humor among younger and even middle-aged people rely a lot more on knowing not just the joke but the culture and context it evolved in, and that sort of thing very much dominated bubbles of terminally online people before many people became terminally online and there was an expectation that everyone would know what you meant if you sent an image macro as the entire reply to an email.

You can find example after example from not that long ago of people who are not so terminally online being completely perplexed, on TV and otherwise, and memes like "what the fuck is he saying" "let's get you to bed grandpa" about the cultural disconnect.

Unfortunately, this sort of attention minmaxing without enough deliberation and learning around it produces people who are uncritical of what they consume and just want the next hit.
by rickard | 2025-04-16 03:42:14+00:00
I agree that it’s not zero, but according to CDC, the US sees about 1.35 million cases per year in a population of about 346 million, which is about 390 cases per 100,000 people. Your figure for the EU over a population of 447 million in 2022 gives 14.5 cases per 100,000 people, or more than a factor of 26 less.

Being 26 times less worried about something translates, at least for most things, for me, to not being worried about it any more.
by brudgers | 2025-04-16 03:43:41+00:00
HN fails this one…

Which suggests that content wins and form just needs to be good enough for the intended audience.

To put it another way, san-serif is usually the best font absent a brand identity because it is the simplest thing that might work.

The problem is there’s no shortcut to typographic expertise. Design is a process not two tips and one trick.
by Retric | 2025-04-16 03:44:29+00:00
Countries are just arbitrary here. What happens long term is there’s massive selective pressure because children of people that reproduce in wealthy economies are the only people to be around in 200+ years.

The USA as a whole has 1.7 births per woman which is really close to the ~2.1 needed. However that isn’t evenly distributed ethic Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander’s living in the US actually sit just above replacement rate. Give it 200 years and that may very well increase.

Really 3 kids needs to be seen as normal long term because some people just aren’t going to have any.
by jmyeet | 2025-04-16 03:44:29+00:00
So NLRB handles confidential complaints. The complainant's idenity might be kept confidential. Exact details may be kept confidential.

Why aren't we to believe that this is Elon Musk going after anyone filing a complaint to the NLRB (from X, Twitter or SpaceX) or, worse yet (from Elon's POV), anyone potentially organizing any unionization effort?

There's absolutely no reason DOGE should have access to this information. There's absolutely no reason their activity, such as what information they accessed, should be hidden.