MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ramesh31 | 2025-04-30 16:32:33+00:00
>"Also did you take a huge take hit to reallocate to bonds or was it all in tax advantage accounts? Seems more crazy to sell all equities when you have to pay tax on the gains."

Speaking entirely to retirement accounts. Taxables are pretty much screwed either way.

>"What will happen in the market if Trump keeps blinking and folds further, congress takes back the tariff power, Trump loses big in the midterms, GOP loses big in 28, AI ends up being a big thing, etc?"

Maybe I will miss some growth. But watching my life's work evaporate on this wild ride is too much to stomach.

>"You will eventually have to buy back in and you don't know where the bottom is."

Indeed, and I don't intend to time it. Not waiting for a rebound. Waiting for sanity.
by SirMaster | 2025-04-30 16:32:39+00:00
I don't think being abused has anything to do with being in software. Just my experience and opinion though.

I think you will both find and wont find you are abused in most lines of work.

Seems like a lot more work to change industries (with probably a similar risk of being abused) than to just find a software position where you aren't being abused IMO.
by kchoudhu | 2025-04-30 16:32:43+00:00
I've suspected that there are consistency issues on RDS for a while now: if you push large quantities of data (e.g. 1MM+ rows) into a database quickly and then try to read the same data out on another connection, you'll periodically get null return sets.

We've worked around it by not touching the hot stove, but it's kind of worrying that there are consistency issues with it.
by matsemann | 2025-04-30 16:32:52+00:00
What kills me with the autoplay (at least on mobile), is that the video continues from where it was when you click it. But the autoplay had no sound, and I probably didn't watch it closely. So I always have to scroll back to the beginning, as I've just now been put in the middle of a sentence a bit into the video. Especially for channels which actually gets straight to the point (like Numberphile) it's annoying. Such a stupid design.

Additionally there's a bug on the Android app that it sometimes doesn't show video titles (or the worlds worst A/B test?), so scrolling through I just see talking heads (since it autoplays instead of showing the video thumb) and have to force restart it to actually understand what's going on.
by gosub100 | 2025-04-30 16:32:54+00:00
I am surprised the mods haven't made an announcement to address the shift towards politics. It could be that there's no way to avoid it, but everything on HN has become more political lately, and as you say, there is only one right way to think or you're not part of the in group. I don't care about politics and I wish this place could focus on what tech things people built or the nuance of some programming language. No, the solution isn't to just step over the steaming piles of dog shit that interleave the remaining tech posts. Maybe we should crowd fund them all memberships to the Daily Kos and block their accounts ?
by gwbas1c | 2025-04-30 16:33:25+00:00
I was afraid that mentorship was the point where human-to-human interaction is needed most.

I suspect what you're getting at is that "mentorship" is really code for using AI to step in when people are making the wrong kind of changes to a Wikipedia page. (IE, introducing bias, promoting products, edit wars, ect.)

I'm curious to see how this plays out.
by dehrmann | 2025-04-30 16:33:30+00:00
There's a chance the tariffs will be rejected by the Supreme Court within a year, a chance something political happens within the next two years (senators and representatives will turn on Trump as soon as he becomes a liability in the next election), and new management will be here in four years.

Too much is in flux to make an expensive decision that won't see value for years. There'd need to be grants to jump start construction.
by roughly | 2025-04-30 16:33:46+00:00
Completely agree. But I think something lost in this is how much violence the "end of history" state of affairs increasingly relied on to keep that "peaceful" context in place - among the reasons Russia walked into the Ukraine was that Russia considered the Ukraine to be its buffer against NATO, which it viewed as genuinely an existential threat. The Middle East has been in a state of war for 20 years now, the US drug wars in Central and South America have had absolutely disastrous consequences, and the level of environmental destruction we've outsourced to other parts of the world would preclude a lot of our current economic practices if we tried to do them at home. Even in the US, the Mangione killing highlighted this - UHC was the absolute top in denying health care claims, an activity with actual deaths associated with it. Just because the power centers aren't threatened doesn't mean there's not violence present in the system. In the west, we've relied a lot on the fact that the majority of the people with guns have typically been further out in the periphery than us, and all those guns have been pointed at other people on our behalf - our peace is not everyone's peace.
by geodel | 2025-04-30 16:34:23+00:00
> In my view, it's more compelling to solution the many downsides of nepotism

The solution is endless growing bureaucracy to implement and enforce fairness at every level and it is happening everywhere I can see.

> Are you saying friends cannot provide support in minor ways?

From my experience family members have some sort of obligation towards other members( though maybe less true or just untrue in modern day US) whereas friends can say yes or no to any request purely based on convenience.
by vidarh | 2025-04-30 16:34:45+00:00
This does not logically follow. If your bot is getting slammed by a page returning all zeros (what the person I replied to reacted to), all you know is something on the server is returning a neverending stream of zeros. A symlink to /dev/zero is an easy way of doing that, but knowing the server is serving up a neverending stream of zeros by no means tells you whether the server is running in a decently isolated environment or not.

Even if you knew it was done with a symlink you don't know that - these days odds are it'd run in a container or vm, and so having access to /dev/zero means very little.
by abe_m | 2025-04-30 16:34:52+00:00
But not in the context of the grid. Most (all that I'm aware of) commercial grid-scale wind turbines have an output inverter. That allows the turbine to rotate at optimal speed for wind conditions, while still outputting the required 50hZ or 60Hz grid frequency. The output inverter has the same "inertia" as a solar inverter. From a grid stability and regulation perspective, they are the same.

Thermal and hydro plants use synchronous rotating generators that have physical inertia, and the generator rotational speed is exactly locked to the electrical frequency. (proportional to the number of poles in the generator).
by LiquidSky | 2025-04-30 16:34:58+00:00
>Well yes, as I mentioned in my post China does make more than cheap junk.

And yet you don't see the contradiction in characterizing people's fears as being unable to "go without TikTok and Temu junk" rather than being rightfully afraid of the recession and mass economic hardship this will trigger costing many people their jobs and savings. This is going to severely damage our economy for absolutely no reason with no plan whatsoever. People are entirely correct to be worried.

>While I think the Trump admin is weak

Again with the tough-guy nonsense. It's not about "weak" or "strong" it's that this whole endeavor is beyond idiotic. If the goal is rebuild American manufacturing capacity this just isn't a way to achieve that.
by npteljes | 2025-04-30 16:35:02+00:00
Honestly, this, and the other reasons in the thread (like the resetting preferences) is the reason why I don't invest emotionally into platforms anymore. Been burned too many times. In most cases, I won't fight the system at all - I'll use the defaults, and if I don't like it, I'll go elsewhere. This have freed up so much mental energy for me.

SO much stupid bullshit is going on that boggles the mind. But they are only bullshit from "our" consumer perspective - they make perfect sense from other perspectives, like the creators, the platform providers, and so on. Most just boils down to the participants having different priorities. And to the power dynamics between them. For example - yeah you might not like YouTube (addressed to the creator or the consumer), but where else will you go?
by epistasis | 2025-04-30 16:35:09+00:00
That's also a far different route... Has demand for additional shipping to Europe gone up because of increased demand? Is it seasonal? Does the US army's fairly incompetent police action [1][2] against Yemeni Houthis have much impact?

I'm very curious!

[1] https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/04/commander-of-... [2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/29/fighter-jet-...
by nobody9999 | 2025-04-30 16:35:24+00:00
>They are going to learn a tough lesson about the modern economy and how things can get worse them for sure. The desire to burn it all down came from despair over a loss of status and economic anxiety, which was/is justified because the R/D party before Trump legitimately did not care about them at all and had fantastical notions about globalization turning everyone into winners, and ignored all evidence to the contrary.

To be fair, much of the hollowing out of the rust belt/rural areas is/was as you mention (although, I'd say that Trump doesn't give a rat's ass about those folks either, they were just a means to an end), but what's unsaid is the lack of infrastructure investment by the states themselves.

Had the state governments paid attention to the lack of decent educational opportunities, broadband, transportation and opportunities for the "new economy" (as compared with the withering/now withered manufacturing economy), there would be significant investment/start ups in/of tech companies in those areas, as the cost of living and capital/real estate costs are much lower in the "rust belt" and similar areas.

But no such investment was made by those state governments, so those areas left damaged by the loss of manufacturing jobs were left to rot. Not just by the Federal government, but even more so by the state and local governments in those areas.

There were/are other factors in play too, but you rarely (if ever) hear anyone calling state/local governments to task over this stuff -- it's always the "Feds" who, in point of fact, can certainly help, but remaking areas with sagging economies is much more a state/local thing, IMNSHO.
by rob74 | 2025-04-30 16:35:32+00:00
That's actually the crux of the matter - not only shouldn't they have done training (at night, with night vision goggles) in conditions where aircraft could be only 30 m apart, this construct of a helicopter flight corridor being within an altimeter's tolerance of the glide path for an airport runway shouldn't have been allowed to happen at all! It's unfortunate that the article focuses on who made what missteps and doesn't mention this systemic issue.
by the_af | 2025-04-30 16:35:34+00:00
ChatGPT assures me it doesn't use RAG (fed from my other chat windows), but will use memory-saved preferences (in the store that can be accessed and reviewed in Settings->Personalization->Memory).

Then again, I don't think ChatGPT is reliable when reporting on its own inner workings.

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Oh, no, here it says it also references chat history: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8590148-memory-faq
by sophacles | 2025-04-30 16:35:38+00:00
I downvoted you because it's politics, and there is always opposition, a plan worth acting on includes handling the opposition and having contingencies. This is true for every politician in every context for the history and pre-history of humanity.

The fact that the MAGAts are so utterly incompetent that even the idea of opposition sends them into chaos and whining fits while they control the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government is itself supportive of if the "these morons are too stupid to make a plan" type theories. Instead of planning they attacked anyone who asked how they would handle the obvious consequences, they deny that the obvious consequences that are clearly happening are actually happening. They attack anyone asking for metrics that the plan is working, make unbacked claims that they are in talks to fix the situation that caused the trade war (while refusing to even articulate what the goals are and attacking anyone who asks that too). They aren't even communicating with each other to coordinate something that looks like a plan: how many times have one group of lackeys been talking about plan X while another group or the president himself does the opposite to the surprise of everyone.

There is no evidence that one of the key bullet points of a campaign platform was ever more than a bullet point - no plan, no attempt to prepare for consequences, nothing indicative of a plan at all. They truly believed that imposing tarrifs would magically make factories appear overnight.
by markus_zhang | 2025-04-30 16:35:48+00:00
I think the author is also very skilled, considering porting part of UNIX to a new architecture almost all by himself as a sophomore.

I admit everything is simpler back then, but again tooling is bad and docs was just Lyon's book.

Putting myself in the shoes. I don't even know where to start. Honestly it would be an interesting project to port xv6 from RISC-V to another architecture WITHOUT the help of Internet and AI.
by mrighele | 2025-04-30 16:36:23+00:00
Why do you even need _different teams_ for the homepage ?

The home page is made up of: a search bar with some extra buttons that link to different pages, a sidebar with some more buttons and a list of videos. What are the multiple teams for ? And even assuming it is necessary, there is really no single person responsible for the page so that issues like this can be seen and fixed ?

And since we are talking about pet peeves, on my laptop when you open the homepage you get a placeholder with 4 videos per row, and then you get 3 videos per row (or 5 shorts per row)
by bluGill | 2025-04-30 16:36:29+00:00
It would be fine as a translation option. For cases when the page is not found, or the local language is lacking so you want to translate from a different language.

It isn't a replacement for an expert writing the real page in the language though. But there are a lot of languages with very little content. German has less than half as many articles as English (Cebuano is number 2 by number of articles - but that seems fishy. German is number 3). At the bottom Cree has only 13 articles. There are also a small number of inactive wikipedias, some of which may want a translation option as better than nothing.
by badpun | 2025-04-30 16:36:49+00:00
> I have found that more likely than not, nobody actually notices that you aren't working as hard as all the 10x developers that have no life and the people who imitate them.

In my experience, people do notice, but there's nothing to be done about it. Companies, unless they pay top dollar, can't expect 10x performance out of their developers (because 10x devs are so rare) - they expect and are fine with just 1x, and anyone delivering 10x is a nice bonus for them. In other words, managers are realistic and know what the money they spend on workforce can buy them.
by chasing | 2025-04-30 16:36:51+00:00
The Trump/Musk administration is a superb example of how big ideas alone aren't enough to accomplish major goals. You could agree with the need to bring back manufacturing jobs. You could agree with wanting to stick it to China. You could agree our federal government is too large and inefficient. You could agree that free speech is under attack or that our borders are insecure. Or that penguins are inherently untrustworthy and should not be engaged with economically. Whatever.

When people actually want to solve large problems they want information and input. They move with deliberation and precision so they can accomplish the goal without creating unnecessary harm or stress. They communicate. I know: Techbro doofuses will be, like, "I know everything already, just do it all right now YOLO!" But that's not how the world works.

There is no evidence that these major actions are being taken with any amount of care. They're erratic. They're often illegal. They're clearly creating destructive side-effects. Instead of engaging with real information, the administration seeks to destroy it. Musk, in my opinion, has big ideas he thinks are good but no mechanism to actually implement them in a good way. Trump is just an ignorant, self-serving man. He neither knows nor cares except to the degree that something can make him feel powerful in the moment.
by ajross | 2025-04-30 16:37:12+00:00
This is revisionist. ARM didn't break out as an embedded architecture until a full decade later. At the time it was entirely forgettable, with no competitive parts in the workstation market and no software worth running (again, the center of the universe at the time was SunOS).

It's popular now to imagine that ARM had some magic ISA back in the 80's, but it was very much an also-ran through most of its life. The magic is inside Apple Computer, and quite frankly they could have made anything fast. They simply happened to have an ARM OS core running already, so they picked the architecture that wouldn't force people to recompile their iPhone apps.
by resolutefunctor | 2025-04-30 16:37:52+00:00
I was keying in on the line:

> This is an important illustration: AI is really good for helping you if you're bad at something, or at least below average. But it's probably not the right tool if you're great at something.

Considering the authors complaint is having professionals (who would in theory be good at their job because they are professionals) use AI puts that in the "not the right tool."

But I probably did stretch a bit there, and appreciate you calling it out.
by aristofun | 2025-04-30 16:37:54+00:00
I argue that building a software is just a small part of the story. Not the most important one.

The most important one is a customer acquisition.

There is an ocean of cool but dead software products and a sea of mediocre successfull ones with the right business model and sales/marketing strategy/budgets.

If you stay solo while in the large and profitable market - you're either stay very small, get flushed away by a competitor with big money or become the competitor with big money.
by polotics | 2025-04-30 16:38:09+00:00
create a new folder, put two files there:

manifest.json

containing: { "manifest_version": 3, "name": "Hide YouTube Shorts", "version": "1.0", "description": "Hides YouTube Shorts", "content_scripts": [ { "matches": ["://www.youtube.com/"], "js": ["content.js"] } ] }

and a file named content.js

containing:

function hideShorts() { const shorts = document.querySelectorAll('ytd-rich-shelf-renderer[is-shorts]'); shorts.forEach(short => { short.style.display = 'none'; }); } hideShorts(); const observer = new MutationObserver(hideShorts); observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });

add the contents of this folder as a chrome extension
by adverbly | 2025-04-30 16:39:01+00:00
I wasn't trying to be witty at all. I was legitimately curious.

I didn't know teachers needed to use their smartphones for work. What do they need their phones for? Do they have landlines in each classroom to call parents or the office? Do teachers get laptops or PCs these days or are they expected to use a personal mobile phone to google things?
by bcrosby95 | 2025-04-30 16:39:39+00:00
I think it's shady to use cross-shop information unless the customer explicitly opts into it.

But shopify isn't just a payment processing service. It's a full blown ecommerce suite. Do you think there's an online store out there that gets rid of all PII once an order is paid for, or even after its fulfilled?

We've had people try to return/replace things (or even credit card disputes) years after they bought it. How exactly would that work if we got rid of all information about their order shortly after they made it?
by conductr | 2025-04-30 16:39:58+00:00
Yes please!!! I too hate Shorts. I hate that I get sucked into them in a downward doom scroll even more. I'd love nothing more than to completely disable it. But, i think this is also why they will never let me.

I also hate that the first one or two short may be relevant to whatever I'm consuming, researching, then it quickly turns into me watching Kill Tony comedians, girls basically naked in the gym, etc. they know my brain basically just turns off and enters the void
by skeaker | 2025-04-30 16:40:08+00:00
The flaw with this angle is that their success can be attributed to momentum rather than any good decision-making. They have no real competition for long-form video content. If they make a terrible decision, they can still be successful as their market has nowhere else to go to.

That is to say that "If you don't like the service, you can stop using it" isn't really true if you want to watch long-form videos on the internet. There isn't an alternative.
by remich | 2025-04-30 16:40:39+00:00
And a subgroup (or cousin?) of the exuberant AI boosters are the people absolutely convinced that LLM research leads to the singularity in the next 18-24 months.

I really do wish we could get to a place where the general consensus was something similar to what Anil wrote - the greatest gains and biggest pitfalls are realized by people who aren't experienced in whatever domain they're using it for.

The more experience you have in a given domain, the more narrow your use-cases for AI will be (because you can do a lot of things on your own faster than the time spent coming up with the right prompts and context mods), but paradoxically the better you will be at using the tools because of your increased ability to spot errors.

*Note: by "narrow" I don't mean useless, I just mean benefits typically accrue as speed gains rather than knowledge + speed gains.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-04-30 16:40:42+00:00
I think the fix is a more drastic refactor than that. We need more depth in this tree. Much more depth.

I imagine a sort of cultural "open enrollment" period during which anyone can mark anyone else as their representative. Perhaps we create four or five categories that we need representation in (foreign policy, infrastructure, education, monetary policy... something like that), so you gotta then find four or five representatives which you personally know and trust.

Then we follow the directed representation graph to its terminal nodes (or cycles) and those are the representatives that we ask to get together and get things done. Those are our leaders. They meet only sometimes, the rest of the year they spend working with their constituents.
by samsilva | 2025-04-30 16:40:52+00:00
AI is exploding, but using it still feels messy: every new chatbot lives in its own tab, none of them share context, and pasting private files into the cloud never feels great.

We’re building Proxly because we want something simpler—a place where you can browse, install, and run AI apps right on your own laptop or phone, while keeping your data in your hands. Think “App Store,” but for local-first AI tools.

We’re still heads-down on the first build—designing the OS layer, permission prompts, and developer API—and we’d love your thoughts. What would make an AI store like this a must-have for you, either as a user or a builder? Drop your feedback in the comments.
by no_wizard | 2025-04-30 16:40:55+00:00
>With the increase in automation, the labor costs aren't as much of a differentiator

and unsurprisingly, the imported goods are the goods that are still heavily reliant on labor cost.

If automation was possible, it would be the preference of any business to use that over human labor, simply for the consistency of output and ability to control cost factors. I do believe this to be the case in most instances.

Thats why car companies have long advocated for tariffs on imported vehicles (and is one tariff we have consistently held for a long time).