MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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by Heliodex | 2025-04-03 00:31:20+00:00
Loving this! Like other commenters here the syntax reminds me of KDL, except a lot simpler. I checked it out and was fully nerdsniped, so wrote an implementation <https://github.com/Heliodex/confetti-go> that passes all conformance tests, giving me a good feel for the language. Pretty easy to get working as well, though I haven't tried adding any of the appendices yet.
by throwaway422432 | 2025-04-03 00:32:45+00:00
Can't speak for the US, but having built a few versions of a car insurance comparison tool for a popular Australian comparison site; colour was a factor used by a few insurers: yellow & white getting a discount; grey, black, dark green costing more. WHile red and orange are perceived as being sporty, factors such as a driver under 30 with a Nissan 300ZX, WRX or a V8 would blow out a premium far more and some insurers wouldn't even take the risk.
by spudlyo | 2025-04-03 00:34:24+00:00
Jira is already almost like "productivity theater" where engineers chart the work for the benefit of managers, and managers of managers only. Many programmers already really resent having to deal with it. Soon it will be a total farce, as engineers using MCP Jira servers have LLMs chart the "work" and manage the tickets for them, as managers do the same in reverse, instructing LLMs to summarize the work being done in Jira.

It'll be nothing but LLMs talking to other LLMs under the guise of organizational productivity in which the only one deriving any value from this effort is the companies charging for the input and output tokens. Except, they are likely operating at a loss...
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-04-03 00:34:27+00:00
Sure, and I think generally speaking this is also not a hard problem: A CA can advertise the networks it expects to be able to validate your control from, and you can also choose to selectively allow access for domain validation purposes to those networks. The modern firewall is quite discriminatory.

I just find a constant frustration that geoblocking is often discussed as "bad" when... if you aren't running a global service, is an incredibly powerful tool. Even among global services, the hesitation to intelligently use risk-based authentication strategies remains deeply frustrating... there's no reason an account which has never been accessed outside the United States should be permitted to suddenly log in from Nigeria. Credit card companies figured this stuff out decades ago.
by squiggleblaz | 2025-04-03 00:35:46+00:00
What else could it be but a bitwise AND. If they had used `open_source && privacy_focused && user_controlled`, it would just be `true`, which is hardly an interesting philosophy. This way, you'll be able to do tests like `if (!(philosophy & privacy_focused)) { track_user_activity(); serve_creepy_but_useless_ad_about_something_they_bought_yesterday(); }`. Alternatively, they could have used some kind of set datatype if the number of philosophy variables is large enough, but I think the code would have become unmaintainable if they want to implement every possible philosophical alternative; 64 bits should be enough for everyone.
by palata | 2025-04-03 00:36:07+00:00
> Whether or not it's encrypted has zero to do with how smooth and well built a chat UI is.

Ok, let's talk with concrete examples.

1. Say you open the Signal Desktop app: either you don't get the history of the messages, or you need to wait a fairly long time for them to arrive. With Telegram, you get the whole history immediately. Does that count as "smooth and unrelated to encryption" to you?

2. Say you send a message to a group on Telegram and on Signal/Element. On Telegram you see that the message was received noticeably faster than on the others. Does that count as "smooth and unrelated to encryption" to you?

3. Let's talk about GIFs and stickers: I'm sure Telegram has many more than e.g. Signal. Is that something you consider when you say Telegram has a better implementation and it is unrelated to the privacy concerns?

4. Telegram has bots that enable a lot of feature. Does that count?

You're telling me that for the stuff that isn't impacted by privacy concerns, Telegram is better. You seem very sure of that, and maybe that's right. But can you give concrete examples? Because until now, what I've been reading from you is that the UI/UX is not impacted by the privacy, and this is obviously wrong.

So let me ask this: would you agree that at least some UI/UX is impacted by the privacy concerns?
by shw1n | 2025-04-03 00:37:24+00:00
The assumption that social ambushes only occur for horrific beliefs is an amazingly naive take on humanity. By this logic it's implied that the women burned in the Salem witch trials must've done something to deserve it.

I've been ambushed for explaining: - to right-leaning folk that most migrants are seeking a better life - to left-leaning folk that securing a border is not a crazy idea - to right-leaning folk that subsidies to help restore agency to people who've had a rougher start and benefit everyone - to left-leaning folk that merely allocating money to an government agency does not necessarily mean anything beneficial happens

Not even taking a stand, just pointing out opposing points -- hardly an anti-social, horrible act
by 6stringmerc | 2025-04-03 00:38:04+00:00
Fascinating and very accessible read. While in jail I tried to get through Sartre’s “Being and Nothingness” (new translation) and some of the big concepts are echoed in this dialogue.

An LLM trained on Sartre would be amazing because the logical extensions of many of his positions and postulations would be uncomfortable in polite society. Even as a human being he quite frequently espoused concepts counter the grain of civility or notions of what ethics are or should be. An unrestrained, uncensored LLM in this vein could be scary and gut wrenching and yet a good reminder of our less-than-ideal state of refinement of thought and behavior as a species.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-04-03 00:39:28+00:00
well, not the original poster, but I have been managed by both kinds, and the best manager I ever had was not a former techie and the worst was a former programmer.

The worst manager did often say things that were sort of valuable and correct in a general way, like "well you don't actually know that because it hasn't been tested" which was of course true, but he also seemed to think he could tell people what the correct way to do something was without knowing the technology and the codebase. This often meant that I had to go to junior developers later, after a meeting, and say "concerning ticket X, T. didn't consider these things(listing the things), so that while it is true that we should in principle do what T. said, it will not be adequate, you will also need to do this - look at the code for this function here, it should be abstracted out in some way probably, this was my crappy way of handling the problem in desperation Y months ago."

Trying to explain to him why he was wrong was impossible in itself, he was a tech genius evidently, and you just had to give it up after a bit, and figure that at some time in the future the decisions would be reversed after "we learned" something.¨

on edit: in the example I give the manager as I said was correct in what he wanted done, but as I said it was inadequate as the bug would keep recurring if only that was done, so more things had to be done that were not as pretty or as pure as what he wanted.
by SauciestGNU | 2025-04-03 00:40:03+00:00
As I learned earlier today, time in country is legally relevant in this case. Current law is that someone who has been in the country for over 2 years is entitled to a hearing prior to removal.

To specifically answer your questions, I think it's reasonable that countries can deny visa applications, but I don't think they should be able to do so for behavior that would be legally be protected in the jurisdiction a person is trying to enter. I do not think the US should be able to deny visa applications for speech critical of the US government or Israel.

Once a person is in the country I would absolutely want for a judicial fact finding exercise to determine whether a person has violated the terms of their admittance. I would prefer that process to take the form of a jury trial, but practically speaking I will also accept the opportunity for people to appear before a judge as a workable but less than ideal situation.

For your final situation time in country changes things legally and entitles a person to a hearing before a judge. Ideally this would be a trial. Furthermore, it is repugnant to think that visas can be revoked for nothing but constitutionally protected activities, such as writing opinion pieces for a newspaper. I believe a judiciary not captured by fascists would find that such revocations are a violation of the plain letter of the first amendment and fourteenth amendment, and that the US government should not be able to take adverse actions against anyone for purely expressive activity.
by ggm | 2025-04-03 00:41:03+00:00
I think a lot of people assume the economic consequences like these have not been understood by the WH. Although I don't like this administration I beg to differ: they know what's going to happen, and they expect the coming storm because they seek what follows.

They want to repudiate foreign held debt, or devalue it, by revaluation of the USD and they will wear what they think of as a one time economic shock to get their reset in a belief they can make it less like the Smoot-Hawley great depression because so many other economic levers exist now, including floating currency, MMT, and massive fintech.

Personally I think it's a mistake but hot takes "they have no idea what's coming" are I believe naive. They know. They just don't care. Some amount of foreign trade will absorb the cost. Not all, not most. Not all prices in the US will rise and some substitution will happen although spinning up cheap labor factories again isn't going to happen in 2025. Maybe by 2027? Rust belt sewing shops and Walmart grade cheap goods production lines?

What amazes me is the timing: the midterms will hit while the bottom is still chugging along. I would think it unlikely they can secure an updraft from this to keep the house. What's the plan for that?
by acdha | 2025-04-03 00:41:08+00:00
When I lived in San Diego, tons of people would walk or drive across for better deals - teenagers would even take the trolley and walk over since their money went so much further. I’ve heard that this is also common in Washington and Maine.

If the savings is enough, it’s guaranteed that people are going to try this. San Diego claimed a 158% increase in egg seizures last month, there’s no way you aren’t going to have people try that with iPhones.

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/28/nx-s1-5342554/eggs-border-sei...
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by ants_everywhere | 2025-04-03 00:42:19+00:00
> a private corporation taking the source to make a commercial project and refusing to give anything back (whether patches, money, or otherwise) is abusing.

What I'm saying is that's the point of the license. That's why universities use the licenses (e.g. MIT, Berkeley) and why Apache uses it. They're designed to stimulate the private sector by moving IP from research into industry (universities) or by industries pooling resources to make software purchases cheaper (Apache).

I don't think it makes sense to describe using them in this way as abusive or bad faith.
by phantomathkg | 2025-04-03 00:42:40+00:00
What you see in that repo is not truly true IPTV[0].

What you see in the repo is a lot of different HLS manifest[1], which in turn pointed to different questionable sources of all the OTT streams around the world.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_IPTV_Forum [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming
by alephnerd | 2025-04-03 00:43:25+00:00
Managers (as in PMs, EMs, and C-Suite) don't like JIRA either - there just isn't an alternative.

Customers and investors ask for delivery timelines and amount of resources invested on major features or products, and you need to give an accurate-ish answer, and you as a company will be dealing with hundreds if not thousands of features depending on size.

In that kind of a situation, the only way you can get that visibility is through JIRA (or a JIRA type product), because it acts as a forcing function to get a defensible estimate, and monitor progress.

Furthermore, due to tax laws, we need to track investments into features and initiatives, and JIRA becomes the easiest way to collect that kind of amoratization data.

Once some AI Agent to automate this whole program management/JIRA hygiene process exists, it will make life for everyone so much easier.
by ceejayoz | 2025-04-03 00:43:37+00:00
We have long avoided extradition to countries where someone risks torture or death disproportionate to their crimes.

https://www.state.gov/extraditions

> In determining whether a fugitive should be extradited, the Secretary may consider issues properly raised before the extradition court or a habeas court as well as any humanitarian or other considerations for or against surrender, including whether surrender may violate the United States’ obligations under the Convention Against Torture. See 22 C.F.R. 95.1 et seq.

Hence the judge’s ruling, and the Administration’s admission of error.
by perilunar | 2025-04-03 00:43:40+00:00
> "At its most basic, the watt is a measure of work. It’s the amount of energy it takes to do something at a particular speed."

Oh dear. This article is full of confusion between energy and power.

But I agree that batteries should list total energy. Just list the voltage, energy (in Wh or J) and the max power output (W).
by defrost | 2025-04-03 00:43:51+00:00
There are biological differences between the 49% of human births that are unambiguously female and the 49% of human births that unambiguously male. There are many and varied biological differences between those two cohorts and the various subsets of the 2% of births that are not cleanly one sex or another .. all the way down to the 0.02% of births that are neither male nor female at birth.

I feel like many people are unaware of the breadth and depth of edge cases in biology at birth in humans.
by tptacek | 2025-04-03 00:44:10+00:00
I don't care. The phenomenon repeats itself in states/MSAs with different school funding formulae, but obviously I agree that Illinois school funding is problematic; the Jesuits pounded that into me with "Savage Inequalities" back in the 1990s. I'm working within the system I am in, and I have no patience for people who resist immediate reform in the ostensible service of some greater future reform.
by wat10000 | 2025-04-03 00:46:05+00:00
It’s very difficult to know how it’s made.

I’m shopping for some good or service. I see different offerings. Usually I have little capacity to judge them. Companies aren’t transparent. Reviews are rigged. Recommendations are based on profit rather than quality. If I don’t have some personal knowledge of the thing, it’s really hard to tell what’s what.

What do I do? Well, I usually pick the cheapest one. Might as well. If I spend more, it’s likely to be the same or even worse, so it’s just a waste.
by protocolture | 2025-04-03 00:48:14+00:00
I used to use airtasker a lot.

One thing I noticed is that the people doing airtasker full time, rushed a lot.

I really don't think the platform is for them.

The 2 - 3 people who did the best work, were already people in that trade, doing professional work (often self employed), but using the app to book up just their slack time.

One time I had a professional lawn care company come through and do all my garden maintenance, just to keep the apprentice busy. The job was just for lawn mowing. But unlike the other people on the platform, these guys never wanted to hear from me again. They dont need my business on an ongoing basis.
by kazinator | 2025-04-03 00:48:23+00:00
The objective reality of the situation is that there is a transaction between a buyer and a seller. That transaction is what pays the tariff, VAT, property transfer tax or whatever vampirical suckage by whatevername.

Both transacting counterparties are robbed.

How that is distributed between them is a matter of which has more alternatives. E.g. if the seller has lots of prospective buyers, most of whom are not subject to the tax, then the market price they demand is not sensitive to the rare buyer who does pay the tax.

If a big fraction of the seller's prospective buyers face a tax, then it makes their product or service look more expensive to a good chunk of the market, which exerts downward pressure on the price. The downward pressure on the price means that the seller effectively pays some of the tax, through lost revenue.

So, the transaction pays the tax as such, but how much of it is distributed between buyer and seller depends on the degree of influence of the tax on the price point.
by tjbiddle | 2025-04-03 00:49:19+00:00
Creatine is quite literally the most researched supplement in the world. It's safe, effective, and recommended by both gym rats and doctors in any field. It's naturally occurring in many foods.

It's the only supplement that's actually given insanely effective results for my own anecdotal use.

Any study that says otherwise I'm just going to assume is complete BS. Normally I'd give something a chance and read their evidence, but this is practically up there with someone trying to argue the world is flat for me.
by antonkar | 2025-04-03 00:49:33+00:00
There is a planet-wise eternal 100% safe AI solution that can be a billion dollar startup, too:

Put all the GPUs in cloud/s controlled by international scientists (now you can use your GPU on any device, can earn money by renting it when you don’t need it, nothing changes except you need to be online to us it, but we’ll have 5G and better worldwide. You can develop, sell or release free math-proven safe AI models in this cloud “AI App Store”, etc).

Because the main risk is an AI agent botnet - current GPUs are like nukes that are 100% unprotected - any hacker can make a virus with AI agent component just to steal money, this AI will be not aligned at all, will become a per perpetual and eventually autonomous botnet.
by duxup | 2025-04-03 00:49:57+00:00
So apparently it was approved but ...

>A spokesperson for Ontario's Ministry of Health said that prescribing hearing aids is restricted to licensed audiologists and physicians. "Should the AirPods Pro 2 be sold in Ontario as a hearing aid," said the spokesperson, "it would need to be done in accordance with the requirements [of the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991]."

Is there something about that act that prevents "licensed audiologists and physicians" from prescribing them?

The process here isn't clear.
by AramV | 2025-04-03 00:51:04+00:00
I use a trackball for my laptop and desktop PC for over 20 years now and highly recommend it. I have one with the ball with the ball under the thumb instead of the middle like this one has though.

It works not just for light gaming, but also "heavy" gaming, like shooters. Just move your thumb instead of your whole arm. Works perfectly well.

And that's not even mentioning how relaxing it is. You can put the trackball anywhere. I like to stretch my arms sometimes and put the trackball away from me or lean back and put it on my lap. It works on any surface.
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by bhouston | 2025-04-03 00:51:51+00:00
Good point. It is a bit of a grey area. It is acting, then executing the code, and sensing the results, and then making changes. So in that sense it is an agent, but it is a little self-contained.

In a way thinking is sort of agentic in a way, it is talking to itself and sensing it and deciding what to think next...
by protocolture | 2025-04-03 00:52:39+00:00
>It’s very difficult to know how it’s made.

Do people not talk to the contractor?

I remember riding along in a taxi, sitting up front, having a conversation about how he used his taxi license to get around the anti uber laws (that have since been repealed) in my state.

I talk to the guys who I hire online. We often end up working out a deal behind the platform. I once hired a bloke to help move stuff out of my garage, and we talked about how he is having a hard time saving money after moving here to study, which is why he was taking airtasker stuff.