MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wavemode | 2025-04-20 16:49:31+00:00
You're going to have to elaborate in words what your actual problem with my comment is. It's not clear to me why you believe I only read the first sentence, nor in what way I am addressing a strawman. It is perhaps you who have misunderstood my point, rather than the other way around. But, again, you've provided not enough details for me to ascertain this.
by MichaelZuo | 2025-04-20 16:49:43+00:00
How does that follow? And why is your agreement relevant either?

Anyone can have an unlimited number of irrelevant opinions that they believe to possess this or that attribute, they may even genuinely believe so, yet it doesn’t amount to anything.

Even if the claimed argument was flawless… it seems strange to put a non sequitor at the beginning.
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-04-20 16:49:51+00:00
To me, Stygian blue doesn't look like blue on top of black. It looks like black that glows blue, which doesn't make sense in the real world. I think it is fairly described as a new color—I would be quite unsettled if I encountered it in real life.

Of course, colors are a hallucination our brain produces, so perhaps different brains deal differently with an unusual experience like Stygian blue.
by schneems | 2025-04-20 16:49:57+00:00
The flip side of focus (to me) is responsiveness. A post to SO might deliver me the exact answer I need, but it will take focus to write the correct question and patience to wait for a response and then time spent iterating in the comments. In contrast an LLM will happily tell me the wrong thing, instantaneously. It’s responsive.

Good engineers must also be responsive to their teammates, managers, customers, and the business. Great engineers also find a way to weave in periods of focus.

I’m curious how others navigate these?

It seems there was a large culture shift when Covid hit and non-async non-remote people all moved online and expected online to work like in person. I feel pushed to be more responsive at the cost of focus. On the flip side, I’ve given time and space to engineers so they could focus only to come back and find they had abused that time and trust. Or some well meaning engineers got lost in the weeds and lost the narrative of *why* they were focusing. It is super easy to measure responsiveness: how long did it take to respond. It’s much harder to measure quality and growth. Especially when being vulnerable about what you don’t know or the failure to make progress is a truly senior level skill.

How do we find balance?
by ClumsyPilot | 2025-04-20 16:50:15+00:00
This is both a non-sequitor and a confabulation.

Kids that don’t grow up with their parents do not learn them as first words. Kids that do grow up with their parents, often still learn something else as their first words.

Learning X as your first word does not prove that X is a foundational unit of society, it simply does not follow.
by gizmo686 | 2025-04-20 16:50:20+00:00
Are the negotiated prices secret? I've never had a major hospital visit. But every time insurance has covered something for me, I could look on my account claims and see both the official price, and the negotiated price.

I also had an "amusing" experience with my dental insurance, where my provider went out of network, and I didn't know until I was in the chair (at which point I was at least asked before they proceeded). When I went to pay, they gave me a bill that listed only something to the effect of "anticipated insurance payment", which is what I was charged. They also filed an insurance claim on my behalf, which was eventually reimbursed fully. However, when I got the reimbursement notice from my insurer, it list a cash price about 50% higher than what I paid, which my insurance company was able to negotiate down for me.
Ask HN: The Rise of Cross-Cultural Political Commentary
by haebom | 2025-04-20 16:50:39+00:00
I've noticed an increasing trend of people from other countries, speaking different languages, commenting on our domestic political and social issues - and these posts often gain significant traction. I wonder what this signifies? It seems to have become more prevalent with the introduction of avatar features. I'm curious about why this is happening and what the underlying intentions might be. While profit motivation is likely a basic factor, I've recently been reading about hybrid warfare which has colored my perspective on this phenomenon. This response maintains your original observation about cross-cultural political commentary trends, preserves your questioning tone about motivations behind this trend, and includes your reference to hybrid warfare while keeping the professional, thoughtful tone appropriate for HackerNews discussions.
by gruez | 2025-04-20 16:51:47+00:00
>I was thinking form 8300.

It's only criminal for "willful" infractions. If you sold a car and forgot to file, that's probably not willful. Moreover, how often are people really doing >$10k cash transactions? "it's hard to be a saint" is a massive shifting of the goalposts from "3 felonies per day".

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

>Could seeding a torrent be interpreted as distribution?

From wikipedia: United States v. LaMacchia 871 F.Supp. 535 (1994) was a case decided by the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts which ruled that, under the copyright and cybercrime laws effective at the time, committing copyright infringement for non-commercial motives could not be prosecuted under criminal copyright law.
by throwaway81523 | 2025-04-20 16:52:11+00:00
Yes I guess for 80TB and 5 years, LTO starts looking better. For 20TB, StorageBox is still ahead.

Per https://aws.amazon.com/s3/glacier/pricing/ it looks like Glacier costs $3.6 per TB per month, which is a lot more than StorageBox even not counting egress fees. Is there a cheaper class of Glacier that I missed?

Another idea is simply to buy a 29TB hard drive or pair of them to keep spinning, doing occasional integrity checks. I've had terrible luck using HDD's for cold storage but by now have had a few spinning in servers for 5 years without failures. Those are hosted servers in data centers though. Environmental conditions at home might not be as good. Two HDD's idling might use $100 of electricity over 5 years.

An LTO7 drive on ebay is $1000+, while new is still close to $4000. I'm dubious of used tape drives but maybe it is an ok idea. Hmm. New LTO7 tapes are around $50 (6TB capacity) so just barely ahead of HDD.

I wonder why there is no "LTO as a service" where someone has an LTO drive in a data center, and for a fee will write a tape for you and ship it to you.
by rvz | 2025-04-20 16:52:43+00:00
Because Cursor got too greedy.

Before approaching Windsurf, OpenAI wanted to buy Cursor (which is what I predicted thought too [0]) first, then the talks failed twice! [1]

The fact they approached Cursor more than once tells you they REALLY wanted to buyout Cursor. But Cursor wanted more and were raising over $10B.

Instead OpenAI went to Windsurf. The team at Windsurf should think carefully and they should sell because of the extreme competition, overvaluation and the current AI hype cycle.

Both Windsurf and Cursor’s revenue can evaporate very quickly. Don’t get greedy like Cursor.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43708867

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/17/openai-pursued-cursor-make...
by jameshart | 2025-04-20 16:53:02+00:00
It's not true to say that mixtures of red and blue 'do not exist in nature'. Fuchsia petals really are that color. All you need is a substance that preferentially absorbs green wavelengths but reflects reds and blues.

What 'does not exist in nature' is a single wavelength that produces the equivalent stimulation of your L, M and S cone cells as a mixture of red and blue light does.

But most of what we see in nature is not single wavelength light - it's broad spectrum white light reflecting off things with absorption spectra.

The reason stuff looks so weird under certain LED lights or pure sodium light is that the source light isn't broad spectrum - it's missing wavelengths already - so the way it interacts with absorption spectra is unintuitive. Something that looks blue under white light should still look blue under blue light - but a blue LED might just be emitting blue frequencies that the object absorbs, so it looks black instead.
by dullcrisp | 2025-04-20 16:53:12+00:00
You got me, I just came to the comments to learn what felonies I’m committing so I may be missing some nuance.

But I do believe that doing stock transactions while knowing material non-public information is the definition of insider trading that you’re taught if you ever work at a public company. As for how exactly you’re supposed to handle that if you’re the CEO I’m not sure but I don’t think the answer is “just do the insider trading, everyone does it.”
by no_wizard | 2025-04-20 16:53:46+00:00
I like the Zig language and tooling. I do wish there was a safety mode that give the same guarantees as Rust, but it’s a huge step above C/C++. I am also extremely impressed with the Zig compiler.

Perhaps the safety is the tradeoff with the comparative ease of using the language compared to Rust, but I’d love the best of both worlds if it were possible
by avar | 2025-04-20 16:54:00+00:00
> There's an intermediate > solution

The "intermediate" solution is one Iceland already had in its past.

The number of representatives is fixed at 63. They'd be around 200 if the representatives per capita were the same as in 1903, 140 if it was the same as 1960, and 105 if they were the same as 1984, when the number was fixed at 63.

This "hack" of "moving your vote around" only came about because it became more obviously unfair over time that your representative not making the cut-off left you without representation.

The other "obvious" solution of moving to a national vote isn't possible due to the entrenched interests that benefit from the current disenfranchisement being the ones would need to vote for such a system.
by jeffbee | 2025-04-20 16:55:16+00:00
The difference is in your file you still have the `Widget widget` parameter, whereas your faster version has the `const Widget& widget` parameter. That's what matters.

ETA: there is a slight advantage for your function body using GNU libstdc++, but there is no advantage when using LLVM libc++. Under libc++ all three are exactly as fast, and faster across the board than any of the GNU results.

https://quick-bench.com/q/Ot1AK-q7D0CNVDeHrKCRtJ-dmA0
by lurk2 | 2025-04-20 16:55:20+00:00
It was a plain question and not immediately obvious from the first few seconds of the video nor the title of the video what the answer was.

The video itself had no relevance to the discussion. The appropriate response was “The Perks of Being a Wallflower in Oxford, Pennsylvania,” along with a non-video citation showing that the book was pulled from circulation. Even if it was, it would be a non-issue. No ordinary person understands the removal of obscenity from a children’s library to be a “book ban.” The people who advance this narrative know this and lie about it anyway.
by baobabKoodaa | 2025-04-20 16:56:19+00:00
I'm going to take a charitable interpretation of your post and assume that you have simply misunderstood Kagi subscription tiers, and you have mistakenly assumed that I was on the first tier. I am not on the first tier. I am on the tier which they continue to advertise with the words "Unlimited Kagi Assistant". That is the product I am paying for. Now, instead of getting "Unlimited Kagi Assistant", I am getting "Limited Kagi Assistant".
by tzs | 2025-04-20 16:56:20+00:00
If you need a new roof anyway it might come out ahead.

I've seen people who were quoted $35k for replacing their roof with a non-solar roof and $50k for a roof with solar shingles. Because the solar shingles were an integral part of the roof the whole roof counted for the 30% federal tax credit, bringing that $50k down to $35k.

If they had went with the non-solar roof with a separate solar system installed on top of it the tax credit would only cover that system because the roof is not part of the system.
by stavros | 2025-04-20 16:56:26+00:00
> And definitely I ll never sell anyone’s data.

But "I'll never sell the data" is different from "this service will never sell the data". If you sell the service, will you put it in the contract that any subsequent owner can never monetise the data? Will you decline a sale if they decline? How will you justify that to the board? What if they fire you to push the sale through?

Etc etc. "We'll never sell your data" is just empty words to me, except in one case: if you designed a system that never has my data in the first place.
Ask HN: Quiz or test shared on HN you only take once
by lispybanana | 2025-04-20 16:56:47+00:00
Quiz or challenge shared on HN. User allowed to take test only once, or rather something about the test made subsequent attempts not valid. (You learn something about the test as you take it.) At the end you receive a percentile score relative to other users. I don't exactly remember the content or what was being tested. Possibly it had something to do with LLMs.
by throwaway81523 | 2025-04-20 16:57:15+00:00
> LTO-8/9 aren't the only options. LTO5/6/7 aren't defunct/unusable/unavailable.

LTO 5 and 6 have too little capacity to be really viable these days. LTO 7 is more interesting but you're still looking at drive cost of $1000+ and media cost almost as much as HDD's per TB.
by Tiktaalik | 2025-04-20 16:57:24+00:00
The article vaguely alludes to why this trend could appear but unfortunate it couldn't devote at least a paragraph to it. It's such an important issue, but given that this the industry impacted is considered small and niche it's so under discussed.

Decades of political opposition toward any and all redevelopment of existing low density single family dominated residentially zoned areas has meant that practically all creation of new housing in the major cities of Canada has meant greenfield sprawl or for urban areas, creeping into brownfield redevelopment, rezoning old industrial areas into new condo developments.

The problem with this is that the arts and gallery system has long relied on repurposing old and affordable industrial space into arts production space gallery and performance space. So what we've been seeing as the housing crisis has become more severe, is an increasing amount of destruction and rezoning of irreplaceable industrial land, aiding a shortage of industrial space, badly wanted by the Amazon's of the world too.

So artists are being squeezed on both ends. The shortage of affordable housing is especially severe for low income working artists, and the political solution for solving this problem is to destroy the artist spaces which makes things more expensive for artists too.

This could all be better fixed if we simply left industrial as industrial and actually allowed people to more intensively develop residential homes to meet our housing goals, and add more arts uses into residential areas (because let's be clear, everything mentioned in this article is likely on the down low, breaking municipal bylaws and Provincial liquor laws), but people have been incredibly resistant to this, no matter how much they claim to love the arts etc etc.
by kbelder | 2025-04-20 16:59:09+00:00
My uncertain guess is that intelligent people often are miserable as a way to protect their self-esteem. By having such a pessimistic and defeatist attitude about the world and other people, they can excuse away any problems as being out of their control.

But, I generally think most psychological issues revolve around self-esteem, and the individual's desire to protect it and boost it, often by denial and self-deception.
by mrj | 2025-04-20 16:59:54+00:00
Notification blindness.

I've been struggling with finding balance for years as a front-line manager who codes. I need to be responsive-ish to incoming queries but also have my own tasks. If I am too responsive, it's easy for my work to become my evening time and my working hours for everybody else.

The "weaving" in of periods of focus is maintained by ignoring notifications and checking them in batches. Nobody gets to interrupt me when I'm in focus mode (much chagrin for my wife) and I can actually get stuff done. This happened a lot by accident, I get enough notifications for long enough that I don't really hear or notice them just like I don't hear or notice the trains that pass near my house.
by p_ing | 2025-04-20 17:00:05+00:00
> Sharepoint

Noooooooooooooooooo!

SharePoint

(but you got it right everywhere else)

As far as limits:

SharePoint has upped the file size limit to 250GB, except when copying/moving OneNote files - 2GB max, there. URLs in ODSP are automatically shortened but otherwise have a 400 decoded character limit. And ODSP continues to throttle based on client activity or stamp utilization.

> This enabled consistent behavior regardless of whether notebooks were stored in OneDrive, SharePoint, or potentially other future backend systems.

Microsoft (at least at one point) used Azure Blob Storage to store ODSP content, effectively an in-house RBS provider (if you were sneaky, you could replicate this with SharePoint Server until it was effectively blocked on the Azure side). On-prem was stuck with SQL or SQL RBS using a file system, at least until SPSE.

My question is, why 'onetoc2' and not 'onetoc'?
by spamizbad | 2025-04-20 17:00:34+00:00
> Software architecture was never about code elegance, it’s about making it easier to get reliable results. And that’s mostly about using automated tooling to check correctness and easy to understand and to modify modules.

The first isn't entirely true, and automating tooling is actually quite poor at doing any sort of architecture analysis since the "right" architecture is heavily dependent on factors you cannot see in the code itself: What sort of SLO are you setting? What is your services load and usage pattern (read heavy? write heavy? blend?). Read heavy and high availability? You may want CQRS, but if the service is only experiencing light loading that could easily be over-engineering. Tooling won't help you identify that; you'll need experienced engineers to make judgements.
by altairprime | 2025-04-20 17:00:52+00:00
Linux is only a temporary panacea at best.

Given Valve’s failures with AAA multiplayer games rejecting Linux due to the ease of undetectable cheating that unsecured Linux presents, once Steam Linux gains enough market foothold they’ll be able to ship attested secure boot for Linux; at which point games will start opting in to require you to be booting Valve’s anti-cheat Linux that requires TPM 2.0 to deny you kernel modding, debugging other processes, and so on. This is why Windows 11, specific enterprise versions of Windows 10, and any Apple operating system released since the T2 chip all require a TPM: preventing users with admin rights from patching kernel space stops cheating and malware, and is a ten-year lead held by Apple and Xbox over PCs and Steam Deck.

It would be deeply ironic if they licensed Microsoft’s Xbox Proton TPM, which AMD ships Windows 11 drivers for, to a new Steam Deck that support dual secure-booting attested Windows 11 and attested Linux :)
by everforward | 2025-04-20 17:01:24+00:00
> Police now know they cannot use this method in the future, so suppressing the evidence in this particular case does not disincentivize anything, as long as its made clear that it cannot be done in the future.

It disincentivizes constitutional crapshoots where they throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks. It incentivizes using already known-good techniques where possible.

“This method” is also frequently scoped very narrowly. Next time they can get the data from a slightly different place, and it’s suddenly a new case. Or they filter the time or device info slightly differently. There are a bajillion permutations one could argue about in good faith.
by quantadev | 2025-04-20 17:01:26+00:00
For new developers wanting to learn to code, AI is great today to help them. For experienced developers AI is also great because it can write tons of code for us that we already know how to evaluate and test, because of years of experience doing it in the "pre-AI" world.

However the future is uncertain, when we reach a point where most developers have used generated code most of their lives, and never developed the coding skills that are required to fully understand the code.

I guess we'll adapt to it. We always do. I mean for example, I can no longer do long division on paper like I did in elementary school, so I rely totally on computers for all calculating.
by tombert | 2025-04-20 17:01:49+00:00
I'm kind of in the same boat.

I've started doing something that I have been meaning to do for years, which is to go through all the seminal papers on concurrency and make a minimal implementation of them. I did Raft recently, then Lamport timestamps, then a lot of the common Mutex algorithms, then Paxos, and now I'm working on Ambient Calculus.

I've attempted this before, but I would always get stuck on some detail that I didn't fully grasp in the paper and would abandon the project. Using ChatGPT, I've been able to unblock myself much easier. I will ask it to clarify stuff in the paper, and sometimes it doesn't even matter if it's "wrong", so much as it's giving me some form of feedback and helps me think of other ideas on how to fix things.

Doing this, I manage to actually finish these projects, and I think I more or less understand them, and I certainly understand them more than I would have had I abandoned them a quarter of the way through like I usually do.
by parineum | 2025-04-20 17:02:25+00:00
Fictional books can be good and there are plenty of valuable lessons in the Bible. I know plenty of Christians who are great people capable of critical thinking.

> aims to suppress critical thinking in order to lock the reader into a particular world view for the rest of their lives.

There are a myriad of books that present their POV as absolute truth. Some of them aren't even in the dreaded fiction section! Most books don't end every statement with, "I could be wrong though, do your own research."
by gruez | 2025-04-20 17:02:32+00:00
>I don't know that it was intended to assert or enumerate that as a literal statement?

Here's the blub from amazon.com:

>The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day.

I don't know how you can read that and think "three felonies a day was a metaphor!"

>I don't know that their underlying point is even possible to quantify, but in my opinion that doesn't detract from its basic assertion that no one should feel out-of-reach from the kind of motivated prosecution they describe in the one highlighted example.

Sorry, but "they're were still directionally correct" is not an excuse for sloppy writing and outlandish claims. The author didn't have to incorporate the "three felonies a day" into his book. He could have named it literally anything else.