MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by francio445 | 2025-04-15 16:06:42+00:00
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by AdmiralAsshat | 2025-04-15 16:06:51+00:00
Dunno why the internet enjoys dunking so much on a poor anonymous poster who guessed wrong about a product that would catch on, whether that's the iPod, the iPad, Dropbox, etc.

We don't seem to spend half as much energy taking major news outlets to task when they similarly guess wrong, unless we feel that somehow adding a question mark negates any responsibility (i.e. "The Ouya will revolutionize gaming" vs. "Will the Ouya revolutionize gaming?").
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-04-15 16:07:01+00:00
The problem can't always be resolved or even compromised on satisfactorily, however. So you have a game theoretic 2x2 matrix of options:

* Validate emotions + solve the problem: Most people consider this excellent service, and some people consider it at least adequate. Very few people will complain about this.

* Do not validate + solve the problem: Some consider this excellent, most consider this adequate, some consider this a slight even though the problem is solved.

* Validate + not solve: Most people will be annoyed, but at least be civil about it because you've been civil to them. A few will lash out, but they were going to anyway.

* Not validate + not solve: Virtually nobody likes this.

The game theoretic optimal solution for a service provider is to always validate, and hopefully solve the problem as well.
by bayindirh | 2025-04-15 16:07:06+00:00
Give me examples of websites which doesn’t have any kind of member system in place.

Forums? Nope. Blogging platforms? Nope. News sites? Nope. Wordpresss powered personal page? Nope. Mailing lists with web based management? Nope. They all have members.

What doesn’t have members or users? Static webpages. How much of the web is a completely static web page? Negligible amount.

So most of the sites have much more to protect than meets the eye.
by pron | 2025-04-15 16:07:12+00:00
It is not propaganda that POTUS is blackmailing law firms that represent his opponents and universities he doesn't like, and "suggesting" a revocation of broadcast licenses due to unfavorable coverage.

It is not propaganda that he has signed executive orders directing the DOJ to investigate individuals who have made statements he doesn't like but were never suspected of any crime.

It is not propaganda that America is now illegally (according to court rulings) renditioning people from the US to incarceration facilities in another country with no conviction, no charges, and no sentence -- indeed, no due process at all -- and illegally (according to court rulings) circumventing habeas corpus, a principle of proto-democracy since the 12th century.

It is not propaganda that the administration is willfully ignoring rulings by SCOTUS.

These are the basic facts. It is also a fact that these, or similar, things have not happened in US history outside of some extreme events such as the Civil War or world wars.

Whether or not you integrate these extreme and highly unusual actions that go against basic tenets of democracy and reach a conclusion of "danger" or not is up to you, but if anyone does reach such a conclusion, it would clearly not be "just propaganda" or even "mostly just propaganda".
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-04-15 16:07:33+00:00
Sahil Lavingia founder of Gumroad is DOGE. Joe Gebbia co-founder of Airbnb is DOGE. Not sympathetic to, they are DOGE. Those are just the ones I know off the top of my head from listening to basic reporting. The All In podcast is super pro-Trump/DOGE, with Sacks being the Trump regime's crypto czar (bringing that cohort on board). Peter Thiel. Musk. That's a lot of pro-DOGE headspace in HN related circles. A lot of people that HN related circles look up to and aspire to emulate. A lot of people that HN circles network with/have perverse incentives to support.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
by Workaccount2 | 2025-04-15 16:07:57+00:00
I'm not talking about billionairs or the ultra wealthy. I am talking about the 60-90% top earners category.

You can cut out the top 10% of earners in the country and it still wouldn't do much to change the situation for those in the <60% earning percentiles.

To put it short; the reason you cannot afford a home isn't because of Bezos, Musk, and Blakrock. It's because the other bidders have STEM masters degrees and dual income high paying jobs, and probably a few hints of financial literacy thrown in too.
by casey2 | 2025-04-15 16:08:06+00:00
All of these points are overstated or just flat out wrong. For example the price of cheap manufacturing labor in America isn't higher than it looks, it's much lower, because there are an extremely large number of NEET men.

The iphone, while impressive, is not the end all be all of American manufacturing. The major goal is to bring back tool makers and increase industrial density.

>Chinese manufacturing labor isn’t just cheaper. It’s better.

>In China, there are no people who are too fat to work.

This is obviously just dumb anti-american propaganda. Since this article isn't written in good faith it's not worth my time to debunk point by point.
by pomarie | 2025-04-15 16:08:46+00:00
Great questions!

For applying code changes with one-click: we keep suggestions deliberately conservative (usually obvious one-line fixes like typos) precisely to minimize risks of breaking things. Of course, you should confirm suggestions first.

Regarding AI reviewers being "too nice" and missing obvious mistakes—yes, that's a common issue and not easy to solve! We've approached it partly via prompt-tuning, and partly by equipping the AI with additional tools to better spot genuine mistakes without nitpicking unnecessarily. Lastly, we've added functionality allowing human reviewers to give immediate feedback directly to the AI—so it can continuously learn to pay attention to what's important to your team.
by chenxi9649 | 2025-04-15 16:09:00+00:00
I tried out an early version when I did some work at notion last year, just tried it again and it's honestly a lot better than I expected. The design is good as expected from a notion product, but it's actually lot snappier than I thought. Faster than the notion app lol. It's probably a consequence of not having too much legacy code, but still impressive nevertheless! Esp in a world of slow nextjs apps lol. Vibe wise, it kinda feels kinda like superhuman but 0 instead of $30/mo lol.

Tbh, I can also kinda see the vision that notion is pitching to investors now - the entire productivity suite, but redesigned and enhanced with AI. I'm not a power user of email/calendar by any means, but find myself using their calendar and mail client. I have no doubt the next generation of Tiktok girlies will eat this up like crazy. I don't use much of their AI stuff, but can also see how business can really find it useful.

GJ Notion team!
by dkarl | 2025-04-15 16:09:36+00:00
Even worse, it's a toy that people build elaborate things out of and then use them for business-critical functions. It's incredibly irritating to work with a Notion power user.

It must be great if you're a control freak, though. Get leadership to recognize your Notion doc as the source of truth, and then you get absolute control because nobody else wants to touch it.
by TechDebtDevin | 2025-04-15 16:10:52+00:00
The "de minimis" exemption, which previously allowed low-value packages (under $800) from China to enter the U.S. duty-free, is being phased out. This change, announced by the White House, will impact popular e-commerce platforms like Temu and Shein, potentially leading to higher prices for consumers. The de minimis exemption is being ended because it's being seen as a trade loophole that allows low-value goods to enter the country without paying import duties. The change is expected to take effect on May 2, with a new system in place to collect duties on small-value packages.

Well you have until May 2nd to order tarrif free fyi. Most people dont realuze this.
by chrisBob | 2025-04-15 16:11:04+00:00
One positive that could still come out of the tariffs is the US consuming less junk.

I just spent a few months in Germany, and the trash can for our APARTMENT BUILDING is roughly half of the size of the one at my single family home in the US. And here I see lots of my neighbors overflowing their 96 gallon wheeled tote very week. The world would be much better off with out all of this waste.
by 9rx | 2025-04-15 16:11:20+00:00
If someone can reasonably consider it food, fair to say that is food for the sake of this.

Like I said, I haven't met the food I don't like yet. It is impossible to know how I feel about the foods I haven't yet met. There is an infinite selection of food out there. Perhaps something will cross my plate someday that turns up my nose. I always try new foods when I have the opportunity, but that day hasn't yet come.
by mrweasel | 2025-04-15 16:11:28+00:00
You have to actually utilize the legal system. Other suggest attaching licenses to they published content/data preventing AI training, but attaching the license alone does nothing. You have to actually drag someone to court once in a while for it to work.

It's the same complaint about the GDPR, if it works why are site still doing X/Y/Z... Well because all people do is complain online, you need to report violations and be prepared to take legal action.
by TaniaBell_PD | 2025-04-15 16:11:40+00:00
Hi there,

I agree that it was never _meant_ to indicate that you jump straight into building an MVP.

However, people don't read the small print. Appreciate that a book isn't the proverbial 'small print' but not many founders read The Four Steps, The Startup Owner's Manual, The Lean Startup etc. _before_ they dive into figuring out how to take their idea forward.

I speak from experience - I've spoken with a number of founders who focused on building an MVP first and have spent hundreds of thousands in the process without any hope that they'd get their investments back.

The idea of MVP makes sense. But the term MVP is unhelpful and is responsible for more value destruction than it's helped create.

In fact I see two problems:

1. the phase before the MVP doesn't have a name 2. the term MVP suggests you need a product to validate your idea

To address these problems:

a. we need a name for the phase that comes before building - Pre-Build in|Validation

b. we build a Proven Viable Idea, not an MVP.
by LiquidSky | 2025-04-15 16:11:47+00:00
>Back in the 1990s politics were much less polarized.

The 90s were the era of Gingrich and the "Contract With America" and the rise of figures like Rush Limbaugh. If you weren't around it was pretty bad back then too. Witness the enduring "the Clintons are LITERALLY an evil crime family" meme from then that persists to this day.
by thenobsta | 2025-04-15 16:11:49+00:00
I wonder if the analogy might be more like comparing an apple tree evolving in a forest vs breeding varieties of apples on a farm.

Even if you pick a state, science in any single state has still gotten federal funding and had the ability to easily cross-pollinate with other very good researchers across state boarders. The federal funding then gets redirected to areas of success and the flywheel starts.

That's harder on the scale of a small country.
by toast0 | 2025-04-15 16:11:59+00:00
Typical guidance is to pin the CA or intermediate, because in case of a key compromise, you're going to need to generate a new key.

You should really generate a new key for each certificate, in case the old key is compromised and you don't know about it.

What would really be nice, but is unlikely to happen would be if you could get a constrained CA certificate issued for your domain and pin that, then issue your own short term certificates from there. But if those are wide spread, they'd need to be short dated too, so you'd need to either pin the real CA or the public key and we're back to where we were.
by nemo44x | 2025-04-15 16:11:59+00:00
Yeah very often it’s about feeling like they have some control. Consider their day to day they are constantly being told where to go and what to do. They’re still people and do want to feel like they have some agency. Of course we can’t let them choose to do whatever they want. But by giving them options they now feel like they’re included in the decision making process.

Not always appropriate but very useful in many situations. And if used proactively, possibly limit episode occurrence when not under your control.
by jsheard | 2025-04-15 16:12:02+00:00
If you squint at the GPL then you could argue that every LLM is already under it, because it's a viral license and there's almost certainly some GPL code in there somewhere. I'm sure the AI companies would beg to differ though, they want a one-way street where there's zero restrictions on IP going into models, but they can dictate whatever restrictions they like on the resulting model, derived models, and model output.

I hope one of the big proprietary models leaks one day so we get to see OpenAI or Google tie themselves in knots to argue that training on libgen is fine, but distilling a leaked copy of GPT or Gemini warrants death by firing squad.
by Eric_WVGG | 2025-04-15 16:12:12+00:00
I wonder how much of that is simply due to the ability to use the Gmail API vs IMAP.

I’ve been knocking around the idea of building an email client, but IMAP looks like nightmare fuel. JMAP would be perfect but adoption looks like it’s going nowhere.

[edit] Seeing a lot of people here diss on Gmail. I don’t blame you, I want out too. If you want more options, lean on your email provider to start supporting JMAP. https://jmap.io
by stevenwoo | 2025-04-15 16:12:13+00:00
The current administration have interrupted the pipeline of students to research - current research funded or partially funded by federal government is stopping or will be curtailed and future students will question whether is a rational decision to go into any sort of path that leads to research because it would only be stable for maybe two to three years, assuming a sane, science respecting House, Senate and President were in office and used the regular norms to pass bills and implement programs. I do not see a recovery path from this unless American public gets a similar thrashing like the Great Depression and decides to not elect nut jobs for 50 years. I keep seeing interviews with those who vote for Trump and are hurt by his tariffs or immigration changes and insisting they still support Trump. Those (mostly older) people are going to have to die of natural causes and be replaced by demographic shifts before things change, but the last election showing young men shifting to Trump and this administration trying to suppress the vote of women does not point to this.
by jonathanstrange | 2025-04-15 16:12:21+00:00
I don't see how this is a reply to my point. Building up manufacturing takes a decade or longer (putting the problem aside that there aren't going to be enough workers). Tariffs are heavy market regulation. Even if manufacturing was brought back successfully, the production costs would be too high without such heavy market regulation.

You seem to assume that once manufacturing has been brought back it would somehow be internationally competitive. I don't see how that's possible.

Maybe I didn't get your point.
by Dumblydorr | 2025-04-15 16:12:33+00:00
It’s possible parent comment is referring to factually proven issues, such as climate change, that the right has its own set of propagandistic facts for.

I’d say the any group of people has areas of less factitious basis for their beliefs. But, We all should want to employ truthful factual real, non-propagandistic ideas, eh? Is this controversial?

If we don’t have ground truth, real facts, what can we base anything off of? Our policies will fail, our dollars will be wasted, and division will grow.
by 2YwaZHXV | 2025-04-15 16:12:44+00:00
seems since it's a float it's only 32-bits, and the representation of both 3.14159274101257324219 and 3.14159265358979323846 is the same in IEEE-754: 0x40490fdb

though I agree that it is odd to see, and not sure I see a reason why they wouldn't use 3.14159265358979323846
by jack_h | 2025-04-15 16:12:46+00:00
> In 2025, with the abandonment of U.S. government support for university research, the long run of U.S. dominance in science may be over.

I find it amazing that this is the conclusion when earlier in the article it was stated that "[Britain] was teetering on bankruptcy. It couldn’t afford the broad and deep investments that the U.S. made." The US debt is starting to become an existential problem. Last year the second largest outlay behind social security was the interest payment at a trillion dollars. This is a trillion dollars that cannot be used to provide government services. Over the next 30 years the primary driver of debt will be medicare and interest payments, the former due to demographic shifts and the US being pretty unhealthy overall. Our deficit is (last I checked) projected to be 7.3% of GDP this year. That means that if congress voted to defund the entire military and the entire federal government (park services, FBI, law clerks, congressional salaries, everything) we would still have to borrow. Those two things combined are only ~25% of federal outlays.

I also reject the idea that this government-university partnership is somehow perfect. Over time bureaucracy tends to increase which increases overhead. This happens in private industry, government, universities, everywhere. However, there is no failure mechanism when it comes to government-university partnerships. At least in the free market inefficient companies will eventually go defunct which frees those resources for more economically useful output. Universities will continue to become more bureaucratic so long as the government keeps sending them more money. All of these economic effects must be viewed over very long periods of time. It's not enough to setup a system, see that it produced positive results, and assume it will continue to do so 80 years later.

Really this reads like a pleas from special interest groups who receive federal funding. Every special interest group will be doing this. That's the issue though. A lot of special interest groups who have a financial incentive to keep the money flowing despite the looming consequences to the USD.
by Ukv | 2025-04-15 16:12:59+00:00
I don't think "DOGE stories never make it to the frontpage" or "none of the really important DOGE news is allowed to surface" are accurate statements. DOGE has been heavily discussed here, and stories have received a lot of attention, e.g:

The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE 1683 points | 2990 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42910910 Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com' 1624 points | 1801 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42981756 Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website 1125 points | 1124 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43045835 DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes 1092 points | 1462 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43138238 DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data 884 points | 1670 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43112084

Flags are just from users. Controversial/polarized topics tend to be more prone to getting flagged, from what I've seen.
by eagleislandsong | 2025-04-15 16:12:59+00:00
> cares much about democracy anymore

Anymore? Arguably, the US never did. Ask, for example, the people living in Caribbean or Latin American countries what happened when they elected leaders that the US disliked.

Or Iran. Or Italy. Or Congo. And so on.

Or ask the Indonesians about the mass killings in their country in 1965-1966, supported by the US. Around 500,000 people died, though some estimates put the number of deaths at 1,000,000. Ask the Filipinos about how the US propped up their military dictatorship back in the 1970s-1980s.

I could keep going, but I think you get the point. The US has never been sincerely interested in democracy -- only strategically. The illusion that the US cared about democracy was a primarily Western luxury.
by InitialLastName | 2025-04-15 16:13:08+00:00
You, as an adult in a society, have presumably been able to make yourself understood (including to yourself) for a long time, so "we understand what each-other are saying and can imagine one another's feelings" is a basic subtext of essentially every conversation you have.

Toddlers, on the other hand, are still working on gaining enough linguistic capability to make themselves understood and understand what others are saying, and are still gaining self-awareness of their feelings, needs, and the way the world around them works. Remember that within very recent memory they could only make their needs known by screaming. Validating their emotions and needs confirms that you actually, mechanically understand what they want, and in some cases helps them recognize in fact what they want, both of which can undermine the frustration at the root of the tantrum.
by ljm | 2025-04-15 16:13:16+00:00
I don’t think it makes sense, per se, considering Gmail’s ubiquity comes from Google offering it as a free product, and then all the barriers to creating an email provider being raised in an attempt to combat spam.

There’s barely any point in setting up your own provider now because you have to compete both with free. All the action has been around email clients which have typically been acquired and then crushed.

Google could have stuck with the protocol or presented a spec for it, rather than leaving the competition with IMAP and SMTP.

What makes sense is they dominated the market and helped put up roadblocks afterwards. EEE.
by pomarie | 2025-04-15 16:13:18+00:00
Definitely—larger teams do typically have more stringent security and privacy requirements, especially if they're already using self-hosted GitHub. Self-hosted or hybrid deployment is definitely on our radar, and as we grow, it's likely we'll offer a self-hosted version specifically to support those larger teams.

If that's something your team might need, I'd love to chat more and keep you posted as we explore this!