MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by superkuh | 2025-04-15 16:13:23+00:00
Pretty formalized for being weird. But I think the most important thing for human beings continuing to have websites (and so weird websites) is to keep HTTP/1.1 and HTTP+HTTPS alive. Without those thing websites are just too fragile for humans to keep going more than a few years. Whereas with those things websites have indefinite lifespans even unmantained. I know the pieces fit, because I watched them fall away: http://superkuh.com/the-pieces-fit.html (a wierd web page). HTTP+HTTPS does work for human person use cases. Even if the profit-seeking corps and institutions want it gone because it doesn't fit theirs.

WEIRD is okay, and a fine start, but using someone else's service does not usually lead to creativity or weird. Just look how weird the early web was when everyone just did their own thing.
by jarbus | 2025-04-15 16:13:44+00:00
I've largely held this viewpoint for quite some time, but everyone has a line that shouldn't be crossed. Trying to literally overthrow our democracy was a line for a lot of the Trump supporters I've met who have since turned away. It personally wasn't even the line for me.

This second administration has very much crossed my line, in so many ways. We are past the point of "maybe I'm just confused?"

The people I've met who still support this guy are dangerously, dangerously stupid and hypocritical. They'd have strongly opposed all of the stuff Trump has done if they didn't know Trump was the one who did it. It's terrifying watching people completely abandon the principles they used to stand for.

We are dealing with a different phenomenon than just political disagreement; we are dealing with the type of delusion that gets millions of people killed, and we need to acknowledge it as such now.
by schnable | 2025-04-15 16:13:53+00:00
Like many AI-driven products, the marquee use case they show is useless. "Job offers that require my signature"?? I am going to have one of these in the air at one time and will not be too busy to keep track the relevant emails! Indicates to me that product is a solution in search of a problem.

Similarly, the first Humane AI Pin hype video showed a guy on a train asking his pin to tell him about prices of vintage photos of a solar eclipse.
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by AppMaestro | 2025-04-15 16:14:14+00:00
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by bornfreddy | 2025-04-15 16:14:15+00:00
Actually, children don't need grounding, they need to be taken seriously instead. Their emotions are no less valid than the ones of the grown up people, they just lack experience to recognize them and to handle them appropriately.

If you take the time to explain the situation to the child you often don't need to convince them anymore. And if you can't explain - should you really have your way?
by endominus | 2025-04-15 16:14:28+00:00
>But they can't change their mind as they never established something that can be changed.

"I am 70% confident that candidate X will win the upcoming elections."

"Oh, new polling data has come in that shows more support than I previously knew about? I'm now 80% confident of their victory."

Why do you think change cannot occur unless a belief is certain?
by helle253 | 2025-04-15 16:14:53+00:00
what's funny is that I have had good experience using the opposite workflow as said coworker

Do implementation with minimal (not none, tbf) AI support, ask copilot if there are any obvious issues with and otherwise check my work.

This workflow has helped me catch quite a few gotchas I would have otherwise missed.

Coding assistants are really helpful for validating output, I've had much more mixed results trying to use it to generate novel outputs.
by PaulHoule | 2025-04-15 16:14:55+00:00
As someone who's got a quick finger on the "flag" button I am inclined to flag anything that involves Elon Musk whether is someone who thinks he is a hero or thinks he is a villian.

There are topics that go viral because of emotionally negative content and I feel like I have to be very careful who I follow on Mastodon and Bluesky so that my feed is not dominated by outrage. I appreciate that HN isn't like that and I want to keep it that way. There are enough places you can participate in breathless discussions about the outrage of the day.

Also there are fellow HNers whose comments I really enjoy, who seem thoughtful and intelligent and who I have a great time interacting with who seem to turn into werewolves [1] when certain topics come up and keeping those topics away helps me experience their best.

[1] circa Spring 2025 I'm starting to wonder if is fair to werewolves to talk like this though
by hnuser123456 | 2025-04-15 16:15:11+00:00
User files a ticket for their computer, then goes to lunch. IT fixes the problem and closes the ticket while user is at lunch with nothing but an email "we've resolved your ticket" and user discovers it is in fact solved. Some people will still be mildly upset because they didn't get to talk to the technician and give them a story or socialize, or they start calling the IT team "ghosts"
by jjulius | 2025-04-15 16:15:40+00:00
Yeah, basically! I won't not serve it to them again no matter how much they insisted they didn't like it last time. When I serve dinner, I always make sure a little bit of everything makes it to their plate before they come to the table. And yeah, exposing them to the same food in different dishes or cooked in a different manner has definitely helped them be open to trying it down the line.

I think zero pressure + constant exposure is the overall key.
by slowking2 | 2025-04-15 16:15:51+00:00
Also, being far enough from Europe that a huge amount of talent decided the U.S. was a better bet for getting away from the Nazis. And then taking a large number of former Nazi scientist's post-war as well.

The article mentions but underrates the fact that post-war the British shot themselves in the foot economically.

As far as I'm aware, the article is kind of wrong that there wasn't a successful British computing industry post war, or at least it's not obvious that it's eventual failure has much to do with differences in basic research structure. There was a successful British computing industry at first, and it failed a few decades later.
Ask HN: Is Vegemite worthy of an international trade crisis?
by cf100clunk | 2025-04-15 16:16:31+00:00
Canada and Australia, sister-countries of the British Empire now within the Commonwealth and simultaneously engaged in respective federal elections in the face of massive U.S.-instigated upheaval in global trade, are now engaged in a struggle over... Vegemite. Top trending news stories in Canada and Australia describe the turmoil as leading politicians have joined the fray:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/australian-canadian-cafe-owner-ordered-remove-vegemite-1.7508893

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/pro-vegemite-albanese-backs-cafe-owner-as-canada-cracks-down-on-iconic-spread-20250415-p5lrxr.html

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/15/anthony-albanese-backs-australian-cafe-owner-importing-vegemite-to-canada-ntwnfb

I personally loathe and despise Vegemite (and Marmite, too) but my wife finds it tolerable after trying it in her uni days at Flinders way back when.

Perhaps this crisis is only just an opportunity for levity in the midst of massive disruption to world trade patterns. Perhaps my click-baity question will bring a smile.

So, is Vegemite worthy of all the strife?
by ldoughty | 2025-04-15 16:16:32+00:00
> I was very pleased with my "[brand name, if applicable] toilet seat, (2-pack), premium pure white, toolless installation", that I purchased for my family. Would definitely recommend it to friends and family. It arrived promptly and was in perfect condition. You exceeded your current quota please check your plan and billing details.

The above is similar to recent reviews I've seen.

It's infuriating that there is a reliance on user reporting to find and report COMPLETELY OBVIOUS fake reviews on Amazon. A great example of why competition is necessary, and not just from one other entity equally interested in allowing the others existing to avoid being a "monopoly"
by kimbernator | 2025-04-15 16:16:54+00:00
It definitely sucks when "validation" feels more like pandering and a means to an end. I think it's probably fair to say that you want to establish trust and fairness in a discussion about solving a problem though, yes? And in my opinion validation has more to do with reaching a baseline agreement about the problem itself. I think a lot of people, myself included, just overanalyze what validation itself is or how it should be deployed.
by 9rx | 2025-04-15 16:17:24+00:00
I have no mind formed when it comes to anything related to politics. I'm not sure how anyone reasonably could. There is so much information, and even more information not accessible, that making a mind is completely beyond grasp. If one thinks they have, I suspect they are out to lunch. Perhaps confusing their state with tribalism or some such similar quality.

The fact that most people seem to enjoy a good political argument now and again solidifies the idea that they don't actually have a mind made. People lose interest in arguments once they've settled. Argument occurs in the state where one is unsure. It is how humans explore and learn about the world they don't yet understand.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-15 16:17:25+00:00
The first term was a wild shift in norms. Dozens of incidents that would have been a huge scandals normally, just faded into the background noise and nothing came of them.

One stand-out feature of the first term was a total disregard for conflict of interest. No real attempt to distance himself from his investments and businesses, multiple actions that sure looked like enriching himself at the public expense, multiple family members given roles in the administration. All of these would have been huge scandals and maybe even drawn impeachment and a conviction, not that long ago.
by chromanoid | 2025-04-15 16:17:26+00:00
Yes, but only for internal stuff. I prefer traefik at the moment. But my point is more about how people use wix over free webspace and so on. While I don't agree with many of Jonathan Blow's arguments, but news like this make me think of his talk "Preventing the collapse of civilization" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko
by dijksterhuis | 2025-04-15 16:17:58+00:00
> I can still download it and use it however I want, privately, just that I'm limited legally to further distribute it

the party that allowed you to download it committed copyright infringement by distributing it. the same restrictions apply to them as to you*. a copyright holder may well want that party to stop distributing it, which means no-one else can download it.

it’s just moving the ‘control’ up a level to a different party. it’s still there.

> as soon as the content is visible on the public internet, you lose 100% control of it's propagation, illegal or not.

GPL license: thou shall always* provide access to this software’s source code —> form of control in the opposite direction to music copyright, but still a form of control

* subject to terms, conditions, locale and other legal things (IANAL)
by lenerdenator | 2025-04-15 16:17:59+00:00
> To put it short; the reason you cannot afford a home isn't because of Bezos, Musk, and Blakrock.

When one person holds the wealth equivalent to the total yearly economic output of a mid-sized American metropolitan area, yes, it's going to introduce distortions, even if only because the people who actually do the labor under those people are being paid less in order to better fund the equities that make up the wealth of that person.

And that's before getting into the other problems with the housing supply.
by bcrosby95 | 2025-04-15 16:18:00+00:00
As an aside, this worked for 2/3 of our children. For one of them if we gave them choices like that they would just scream back "NONE". We never really found what worked for her, usually we just let her cry it out a bit then offer a metaphorical olive branch (oftentimes our oldest would let her play with one of her toys, which tended to make her happy, but only if you let her be upset for a long enough period of time first... otherwise she would just reject/throw it).

Anyways, kids are people. Try different things.
by jaxtracks | 2025-04-15 16:18:41+00:00
Oh yeah that's a sweeping generalization of course. My point was that the heavy reliance on paid services that usually comes with a white-collar lifestyle reduces participation in community-based mutual aid and deepens cultural divides. I figure this probably gets worse with higher income since the more services you can afford, the less you may feel you need community.

Diverse hobby groups are also a great way of attacking these divides, but may lack the aspect of vulnerability that comes from experiences like the author's.
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by HelloMcFly | 2025-04-15 16:19:51+00:00
It's easy to look at the internet at large see people with these contradictory takes. But 1) these groups may consist of entirely different people who are vocal about different topics, or 2) the wide brush obscures critical context.

I support a $20 minimum wage AND

I think tariffs can be justified, especially when we use free trade to ignore the external costs to the environment and the arbitrage of exploitative labor AND

I have a problem with implementing tariffs in such a shotgun, ill-considered, shoddy way lacking clear strategy or intent
by 6510 | 2025-04-15 16:20:05+00:00
I have often .... (what is the word for it, disrupted? enlightened?) communities highly focused on a single topic with a meta conversation about general topics. It is of course great to have [say] a physics community and talk about physics but also rather sad that such gathering of analytical people cant talk about other things that very much need their attention. It gets rather absurd where people who talk for many years and are deeply familiar with the others perspective inside the domain NEVER talk about anything outside of it. It is how these online gatherings function and why they work so well but it prevents building quality relationships in the time tested ancient way.

We are missing out on truly hilarious insights, when you present professionals from one discipline wiht topics from another. A biologist might judge the fitness of the economy by fertility and average life span.

Not sure what the solution to the riddle is but I suspect walled gardens are the problem. How to code a "bring your own community everywhere" I have no idea.
by sepositus | 2025-04-15 16:20:51+00:00
> It probably doesn’t pay to argue over things we have chosen to believe as part of our identity.

In a world where things are increasingly becoming a part of our identity (i.e., Democrat/Republican), this presents a real problem. I agree it hardly does good to argue with people about these things, but the problem is that the list of valid things to argue over seems to be diminishing yearly.
by spencerflem | 2025-04-15 16:21:04+00:00
Hmmm, I'd argue that there's two separate problems here:

1. The desire to have a working computer, which was validated and solved

2. The desire to be connected to the process and the people they're working with, which was neither validated nor solved

Validating but not solving the second would include some sort of message saying that you know they'd rather a call but it helps you serve more tickets this way, or something to that regard.
by nextos | 2025-04-15 16:21:05+00:00
One annecdata. When I handed in my doctoral thesis in Oxbridge, I was contacted by a recruiter from PRC that offered me generous startup funds ($600k-1M) and salary to bootstrap my own academic lab at Tsinghua, Fudan, or other top universities. It'd take me 4-6 years to get an equivalent offer in UK or EU where experience and connections are much more important than talent.

I am European and I do basic research in science. They seem to be very interested in fundamental science and investing heavily in lots of subfields. As discussed in other comments, the improvement in their research quality during the last decade is nothing short of impressive.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-04-15 16:21:11+00:00
I think there were two separate puzzles where I had identified the correct solution, but the mechanics were so clunky that my attempt failed. Making me waste time exploring elsewhere. Had to consult a guide just to see that I had unknowingly botched the physics. Which is an awful experience for a puzzle game. Especially when the clock is working against you and some of the set pieces require very specific timing to interact with them (where doors are only open for a certain few minutes in a run).

The game is definitely a unique experience, but some of the design elements hamper the experience.
by entropicdrifter | 2025-04-15 16:22:01+00:00
Why is it that, specifically with food, people who have absolutely no taste seem to hold a strange pride about it?

You don't see this with e.g. film or music, somebody pridefully saying "I'll listen to anything anybody considers music" like it's some sort of badge of honor to have no preferences.

I'm not trying to knock you here, it's just weird to me to be proud of having no preferences.
by jimbob45 | 2025-04-15 16:22:07+00:00
This weird demoralization has to stop. We went to the moon in less than 10 years from beginning the Apollo program. It’s less than 10 years to build a nuclear power plant on average. We deployed the COVID vaccine worldwide in less than one year. Manufacturing is not that hard. If we want to do it, we can do it and we can do it quickly.
by natebc | 2025-04-15 16:23:27+00:00
Luckily Ubisoft is (mostly) European so it should avoid the events in the US. I'm sure the the anti-progressives will eventually start making headway in Europe but so far the Continent at least seems to have stayed sane. I could be wrong about this but i don't think I've seen the slept agenda being pushed anywhere other than the U.K.
by dale_glass | 2025-04-15 16:24:06+00:00
We're effectively open source VR chat, if you want to get an idea of what it's like.

Crypto-focused projects of this kind include Decentraland. Which tend to devolve into things like selling virtual land. That's not our jam and doesn't align with the way the project works anyway -- you can have all the land you want, and set things up for free on your own server.

I don't have any more issues with ChatGPT than I have with Google and Kagi. All of those are closed source projects. But by all means, I love open source, so if an open source LLM can do something like writing code for our platform, that'd be wonderful.
by burningChrome | 2025-04-15 16:24:26+00:00
The main purpose of tariffs is to change behavior for both the consumer and the manufacturers.

Auto manufacturers have been doing this for decades when the US started imposing tariffs on Japanese manufacturers back in the 1970's. To get around the tariffs and still get access to the US markets, they would simply assemble the parts of the cars here and bypass the rules of the tariffs. Many companies then started doing the same.

This effectively changed the behavior of the companies to avoid the tariffs. The end result was more manufacturing and assembly plants here - even though most of the big production tasks of the vehicles were still done overseas.

Also, there's already been several announcements of companies moving their manufacturing to the US in order to avoid getting hit with tariffs:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-commits-500-billion-to...

Nvidia (NVDA) on Monday said it will produce up to $500 billion of AI infrastructure in the US within the next four years as the tech industry looks to bolster its domestic manufacturing footprint in the face of Trump's approach to trade policy and desire to onshore more US heavy industry.

Also, Ford made some moves to avoid both US and European tariffs:

Less than a week after the White House announced its comprehensive set of tariffs, the Dearborn automaker exclusively revealed to Ford Authority its comprehensive plan to relocate all of its assembly plants to Hawaii. The move will be made possible by state of the art 3D printing technology and has the support of the United Auto Workers.

In any event, Ford envisions Hawaii as an export hub for markets outside North America and a key pillar of the company’s domestic production capabilities. Ford will utilize an obscure maritime law from World War II as a way to get completely around European and Asian tariffs, as the original intent of the legislation enabled private companies to avoid punitive trade measures to get badly needed supplies to the Allies at the height of the conflict.
by codingmoh | 2025-04-15 16:24:33+00:00
Thanks for laying that out. You raise great points: Pandas (or Polars) chaining is indeed closer to what we want than raw imperative loops, and it handles a lot of the transformations. But it still assumes an in-memory, columnar approach, which doesn’t always gel with row-by-row side effects like pushing data to an external API. Also, real-world systems do require robust error handling and partial retries, which is exactly the scenario we’d love a functional pipeline to address by design, rather than patching in big try/except blocks. Tools like DAG orchestrators solve that at a workflow level, but not so much at the record/stream level.

So that’s the core frustration: yes, we can hack it in Python with a pipeline style, yes we can load data into DataFrames and transform it, but as soon as we do side-effectful calls (like collection.add(...) per record or batch), we have to drop out of the nice .pipe() flow. For me, it’s less about syntax and more about a missing standard approach to composable streams + side effects. Elixir Broadway, or even a DSL in Lisp/Clojure, addresses that more natively.

“Just use batch jobs / just use SQL transactions” works only if your external system supports transactions or if you keep your data in a single database. But many people use specialized systems (e.g. vector DBs, text embeddings) that don’t have an ACID-like model. Tools like Elixir Broadway do exactly that for streaming: concurrency, batching, backpressure, built-in retry, etc. That’s part of the reason we’re exploring new paradigms, rather than simply reading into Pandas or writing a standard “for line in file” script.

In short, I’m not saying Pandas can’t be coerced into something close to a pipeline. It’s more that we lack a standard, built-in, composable “stream of records -> transform -> side-effect-> handle errors” solution. Once you leave the purely tabular, in-memory paradigm, or need partial success handling, you quickly outgrow the typical DataFrame approach. That’s why I find frameworks like Elixir Broadway, or even an RxJS-like pipeline, so appealing — they make chunk-based side effects a first-class citizen.

So the question is: do we keep building one-off solutions in Python, or do we push for a more standardized, composable approach that can handle both transformations and side effects gracefully?