MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tpmoney | 2025-04-18 15:33:24+00:00
You seem to have missed the point. For one, I’m not telling you this is a good thing or that this is how it ought to be. For two, even in the fable the wolf was real in the end. The problem is, the wolf wasn’t real the last time, or the time before that. Or the time before that. Or the time before that. You can quibble over whether prior politicians were heralds of the wolf or not, but that wasn’t the message. The message was that the wolf was at the gates. And when no wolf materialized, people grew resistant to the idea of the cries ever having meaning. So now we have a wolf, and the problem we are facing is that the people who we need to convince that the wolf is real have no reason at all to believe us until their sheep are being eaten by a wolf in front of them. So how do you convince someone that has no incentive to believe you that this time you’re telling the truth? That’s the problem to be solved. Everything else is just a side show.
by basch | 2025-04-18 15:33:41+00:00
I prefer identity as the top layer. Give me an identity portal that acts as an account manager, access to api layer, let me perform password resets, and let me avoid 2fa if I’m logged into my identity manager account. It should allow bidirectional control: both what services have access to my identity, and what services anything in my identity are granted access to access. Things like LLM, cloud storage etc should be obscured away from services so they can’t tell my storage providers from one another. All access between services should cascade down from my identity portal.
by jerf | 2025-04-18 15:33:47+00:00
You can make anything, even assembler, not "crumble under its own weight" if you, the developer, bring enough discipline and care to it.

The main reason I like static languages and other such things is that after many decades of the programming community developing, since before I was born, we have not found very many best ways of "bringing enough discipline" to a codebase. It really all amounts to the same disciplines over and over. Check the types. Be sure guarantees are maintained. Document the input and output parameters. If there were dozens of very distinct and mutually-contradictory ways to impose this discipline, and there was no clear domination among those ways, then it might make sense for all of our languages to be loosey-goosey and not impose anything directly. But since we all generally find the same disciplines, we might as well pull those up to the language level and thereby enable them to be fully supported, and share the tooling among each other rather than expecting every junior dev to reinvent it from scratch... which they won't.
by MyPasswordSucks | 2025-04-18 15:34:04+00:00
> I am curious if anyone can find the text for "IBM's Policy Letter #4" written by IBM's chairman in 1953, which is referenced in this article.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110409171021/http://www-03.ibm...

It has both the original typewritten scan and a searchable-text version right underneath.
by JustExAWS | 2025-04-18 15:34:26+00:00
My bad. I have never seen anything so user hostile in my life. It looks like the only way that it doesn’t force you to use the app is if you go to the website from a computer. Requesting desktop site doesn’t do it and even using a third party browser that lets you change the user agent will still force you to use the app on mobile.
by kragen | 2025-04-18 15:34:30+00:00
Paterson claims CP/M-86 wasn't released yet in http://dosmandrivel.blogspot.com/2007/09/design-of-dos.html?...:

> We knew Digital Research was working on a 16-bit OS, CP/M-86. At one point we were expecting it to be available at the end of 1979. Had it made its debut at any time before DOS was working, the DOS project would have been dropped. SCP wanted to be a hardware company, not a software company.
by jncfhnb | 2025-04-18 15:35:18+00:00
Hmmm this could be really problematic tbh.

The version of using reasoning to do geoguesser to find approximate locations is fine. But we should fully expect this tech to reasonably soon be able to rapidly vector search satellite imagery or even non satellite imagery to pinpoint locations based on landmarks that should feel unusable to us humans.

We’re going to create a fuzzy visual index for every location in the world.
by nluken | 2025-04-18 15:35:26+00:00
If the crypto community ever plans on being successful, it needs to show the world outside crypto why it should use cryptocurrency. Right now, people use these coins mainly for remittances and illegal trade because they allow the users to sidestep financial regulation and tracking. Beyond that a few gambling applications like Polymarket have cropped up, but these succeed not with the broader population but within the crypto social bubble because the kind of person making wildly speculative trades on virtual currency will probably also enjoy using an unregulated gambling market.

I have a hard time seeing how the market expands beyond its current demographic, many (but not all) of whom meld the worst traits of the finance and tech industries and only further alienate themselves from the mainstream in doing so.
by stickfigure | 2025-04-18 15:35:28+00:00
I thought you had changed the subject to Youtube? Snap is person to person communication, Youtube is broadcast to the public. I don't think Youtube knows who my friends are. I wouldn't call it social media; it's just media.

It makes no sense to group these things together; "youtube leads to sexploitation" is nonsense. What I think I'm hearing is ennui about technology in general, which I can understand, but keep your arguments straight.
by K0balt | 2025-04-18 15:35:38+00:00
It is disheartening to me to observe that the thing that broke the once proud USA, the final straw, the thing that disenfranchised hundreds of millions of people and made them rabid and reactionary (on both sides of the rage algorithm) was a black man in the white house and women on the presidential ballot. The retrograde prejudices so deeply ingrained in the country’s memome that we are still in the throes of an anaphylactic reaction to an acute melatonin allergy.

It doesn’t help that many of us (yes , I mean us, the technorati, the readers and contributors of this vaunted forum) actively and even knowingly participated in making poisonous systems, pocket prohistamines, amplifiers of fears and antagonists of rational thought.

We decry the world we have wrested from decency with our own tender, uncalloused hands, our minds sharpened to create beautiful weapons of mass confusion, elegant and brutal in their viral carapaces, eager to dissolve into the psyche of any unfortunate enough to fall into their dopamine sweetened viciousness.

We created this. Not the politicians, there have always been irrational, brutish, would be populists and morons in suits. That is not new. People with money willing to pay people to build or do malignant things, that is also an ancient malady that society has evolved to bear. We. We made the mind-killers. We, with our cleverness and desire for perfect symmetry manufactured social PCP, and now we are witnessing the fruits of our careless, avaricious labors, shocked and in denial of the damage we have done.

In our defense, we didn’t know. No one had built anything on our idea machines that hooked into the flesh of the human psyche like that before, and at first we didn’t even understand what we were building. But later in the fall, we knew better.

Our algorithms, nanowire sharp in their efficiency, honed to amplify fear and rage while suppressing rational thought, no, those were not made in ignorance, neither in malice, but more in a playful curiosity. The same playful curiosity that made the atom bomb, but at least the physicists could foresee and conceptualize the demon they would create. In contrast, we the technorati are still reeling with surprise and denial, not able to understand the beast that we have conjured from the depths of the human psyche.

We know there is a problem, we know that social media is not helping… so what do we do? We make lame attempts to make new social media platforms, lower in poison, filtered cigarettes. Precision strategic weapons of mass destruction. Low-fat butter.

We need to look in the mirror and get to work figuring how to fix what we broke. The future of humanity is at stake, and we are directly responsible for, knowingly or not, the situation our children are facing.
by jonstewart | 2025-04-18 15:35:50+00:00
Oh MSVC, bless. Mingw setup might be a pain, but the dividends accrue over time.

--

This was a good reminder that I need to pay more attention to Unum's projects. I noticed this older blog article, https://www.unum.cloud/blog/2021-01-03-texts, and that brings up some questions. First, in 2025, is UStore a wholesale replacement for UDisk or are the two complementary? Second, what is the current Unum approach for replacing full-text search engines (e.g., ElasticSearch)?
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-04-18 15:36:46+00:00
This is a weird thing to write about in 2025. AMP emails didn't really take off / get any kind of adoption did they. And HTML emails, annoying and problematic as they are have come a long way from the mess of client support and complete hack-job coding to where they are now thanks to standards and largely the popularity of web-based clients and the benefits those bring for email reading. GIFs inside emails unthinkable and ridiculous ten years ago. Today, not a big deal really for a good chuck of audiences. Etc.
by linguistbreaker | 2025-04-18 15:36:46+00:00
"Places like Alabama, practically the only way women can get ahead is to either move out of state or keep marrying up."

This sounds like an assumption that a woman could not have a career or get ahead of her own accord without relying on a man. Is that the thrust or did I misinterpret? And if so is it because the culture of that state is so patriarchal that a woman cannot have opportunities? I'm American but I haven't been to Alabama.
by souhail_dev | 2025-04-18 15:37:08+00:00
I think SaaS platforms will increase year after year, so the real skill a founder needs to learn is not how to build or how to come up with the perfect idea, but how to market.

imo, the quality of the product doesn't need to be so perfect, only the necessary what users are expecting is enough, but if you had a perfect marketing strategy you can sell anything, and I learned that from "stanley water bottle", they managed to wash people's minds to buy a f*cking water bottle for 70$, or I guess it was even more than that when it was trendy
by GrantMoyer | 2025-04-18 15:37:17+00:00
Let me elaborate. I'm not saying the OPs story is cruel. I'm saying shipping live animals is cruel. Shipping animals isn't transporting them using some specialized service; it's litterally sending them through the mail system like any other parcel, the same system that regularly damages heavily padded packages. The practice is still common today, especially for live chicks, and many animals die due to the conditions of transport. Their deaths are treated as an expected loss.
by phil21 | 2025-04-18 15:37:22+00:00
> It’s probably a violation of ToS, but customer service reps allow it and support it, so maybe it’s not actually a violation… ? It feels like corporate may eventually ban users who abuse that and cost more money than they are worth.

I've done this at least a few dozen times over the past 4-5 years now. I have way more tools than is reasonable for my use-case. No problem so far.

From what I can tell HD doesn't seem to care much - the margin on these things has to be insane, so they are likely still making money on the transaction. Given how the discount is pro-rated across both SKUs you apply the deal to they likely did that on purpose. Who knows what rebates they are getting on the backend from Milwaukee on such promos, but I'd be surprised if there were none.

I imagine if you did this a dozen times in a given month they might ban you for outright suspected return fraud - but for most folks I don't think it's a major concern.
by photochemsyn | 2025-04-18 15:37:40+00:00
The excellent mathematical history "The Music of the Primes" by Marcus du Sautoy covers this period:

"Within the space of a few weeks, Hitler had destroyed the great Gottingen tradition forged by Gauss, Riemann, Dirichlet and Hilbert. One commentator wrote that it was 'one of the greatest tragedies experienced by human culture since the time of the Renaissance'. Gottingen (and some might argue, German mathematics itself) has never recovered from its destruction by Nazi Germany during the thirties. Hilbert died on St. Valentine's Day in 1943... his death marked the end of the city's position as the Mecca of mathematics."

The central rational for the initial Nazi assault on the Gottingen department of mathematics was its Marxist leanings, with Nazi street protests decrying the 'fortress of Marxism'. Note that 'Landau, who was Jewish, was allowed to stay because he had been appointed before the outbreak of the First World War. The non-Aryan clause in the civil-service law of April 1933 did not apply to long-serving professors or those who had fought in the war.' Later Landau was targeted for his Jewishness, forced to resign, and died in 1938 in Germany after a bried exodus to Britain.

People should be somewhat cautious in applying these historical examples to the USA today - indeed, the corruption of the American academic system began long ago in the 1980s, when Bayh-Dole legislation initiated the corporatization of research via the exclusive licensing of tax-payer funded research to private interests, who then stopped financing their own proprietary industrial research centers like Bell Labs. Now American universities are packed with shady entrepreneurs who routinely cook data and found startups in the hope of large financial payouts via acquistion by large corporations. This has lead to rampant fraud, a culture of secrecy and distrust, and various other ills.
by gessha | 2025-04-18 15:38:02+00:00
Not sure why you get downvoted without any arguments but to add support for your position, I had a similar experience growing up.

I didn’t want to drink before high school gatherings where there was peer pressure and I stopped shortly after that.

I see so many first-world westerners cringe at the idea of letting your child have freedom and make mistakes on their own. Tracking, parental controls everywhere, neighbors snitching when your child is out and about exploring the world, etc, etc.
by uconnectlol | 2025-04-18 15:39:13+00:00
lets just skip straight to the logical conclusion, buddy. no amount of "web" or "discord" regulation stops porn consumption. the statistic of "minors viewing porn" wouldn't be affected even slightly, even if all of the regulation in question here were passed to the fullest extent. this is because people can just download and run whatever software they want, and communicate with any party they want. what you want is for people to not have control over their computers/communications made from them. people talk about a middle ground, but there is none, because you will always just notice that the "minors viewing porn" statistic is not affected by your latest law, until you have absolute control over civilian communications. this is completely against what anyone in the open source community let alone democracy, stand for.
by kaycebasques | 2025-04-18 15:39:14+00:00
> VCs are too traumatized to invest in the stuff regular people actually want to buy and use

What are these things? The post doesn't seem to elaborate on the "actually useful and desirable stuff".

I allocated small portions of my investment portfolio to BTC (3%) and ETH (1%) last year. I don't have any faith in crypto but it has proved me wrong for many years. Also, there is a lot of renewed doubt about the place of USD in the global economic system, and gold can only go so far. Plus it's very easy to invest in them now: IBIT, FBTC, ETHA, FETH, etc. Last, in terms of the age-old wisdom of being fearful when others are greedy and vice versa, this article is a clear buy signal. I've heard that crypto is ^SPX on steroids but the correlations I've ran seem to suggest that BTC and ETH have quite a bit of uncorrelation to equities. Time will tell!

As a developer, what is something crypto-related that is fun to dabble in?

Disclaimer: I am not a finance / investment professional and my long-term investment record is in fact very subpar (not even par)
by CharlesW | 2025-04-18 15:39:37+00:00
Has IBM ever let moral or ethical standards get in the way of profit? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

"…Black outlined the key role of IBM's technology in the Holocaust genocide committed by the German Nazi regime, by facilitating the regime's generation and tabulation of punch cards for national census data, military logistics, ghetto statistics, train traffic management, and concentration camp capacity."
Show HN: Product Analytics for LLMs
by otterk10 | 2025-04-18 15:39:54+00:00
Over the past two years, I’ve developed a toolkit for helping dozens of clients improve their LLM-powered products, which I'm now open-sourcing. First up: a library to bring product analytics to conversational AI.

One of the biggest challenges I see clients face is understanding how their assistants are performing in production. Evals are great for catching regressions, but they can’t surface the blind spots in your AI’s behavior.

This gets even more challenging for conversational AI products that don’t have a single “correct” answer. Different users cohorts want different experiences. That makes measurement tricky.

Coming from a product analytics background, my default instinct is always: “instrument the product!” However, tracking generic events like user_sent_message doesn’t tell you much.

What you really want are insights like:

- How frequently do users request to speak with a human when interacting with a customer support agent? - Which user journeys trigger self-reflection during a session with an AI therapist? - What percentage of the time does an AI tutor's explanation leave the student confused?

This new library enables these types of insights through the following workflow:

- Analyzes your conversation transcripts - Auto-generates a rich event schema - Tags each message with relevant events and event properties - Sends the events to your analytics tool (currently supports Amplitude and PostHog)

Any thoughts or feedback would be greatly appreciated!
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-18 15:40:41+00:00
Humanae vitae by Pope Paul VI, July 25, 1976

https://www.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/encyclicals/docume...

Consequences of Artificial Methods

17. Responsible men can ... first consider how easily this course of action could open wide the way for marital infidelity and a general lowering of moral standards. ... [A] man who grows accustomed to the use of contraceptive methods may forget the reverence due to a woman, and, disregarding her physical and emotional equilibrium, reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires, no longer considering her as his partner whom he should surround with care and affection.
by alephnerd | 2025-04-18 15:40:51+00:00
> On Tuesday, Big Blue shared new rules on where it expects its US sales staff to work: At least three days a week at a client, a flagship office, or a sales hub.

> And the mainframe giant last week told all US Cloud employees, sales or otherwise, to return to the office at least three days per week at designated "strategic" locations.

Yep. It's a de facto layoff.

Smart of them to add the DEI statement - as we can see here, everyone is arguing over that while ignoring what is essentially a mass layoff.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-04-18 15:41:21+00:00
It would be nice to have a more polished version, but haven't played around with it for 5 minutes I can tell you that just gluing together scrcpy and your choice of Xephyr+x11vnc / headless Wayland compositor + wayvnc works surprisingly well. I haven't tried yet since I just wanted to know if it would work at all, but I can't see any reason why you couldn't do the same thing with RDP or even noVNC or Apache Guacamole.
by dang | 2025-04-18 15:41:28+00:00
I think you're conflating two kinds of interest. Doing this leads to mistaken conclusions about HN.

Political interest and intellectual interest are not the same. There is overlap, of course [1], but there is also a huge amount of political and social material which is not primarily about intellectual curiosity. Most of that is off topic on HN (as the site guidelines say), even though much of it is far more important—as you say—than most anything on HN.

People who feel intensely always want us to change this, but if we changed it then HN would become a current affairs site [2] – and there are always people who feel intensely.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by krapp | 2025-04-18 15:42:05+00:00
Jesus was a Jew preaching within a framework of Judaism which he clearly believed in and claimed authority from.

That framework rejected him, and I can sympathize with arguments that the system of "Christianity" that developed was not the system he intended, but I don't think it would be accurate to describe Jesus as anti-system per se.

Either way, any definition of Christianity that excludes Catholicism or any other organized sect doesn't seem useful.

It's like people defining Capitalism to require pure free markets, just so they can say the US or British Empires never really engaged in Capitalism. It just seems like an exercise in semantics.
by danaris | 2025-04-18 15:42:18+00:00
I was emphatically disagreeing with their first sentence. The idea that Congress shouldn't be delegating its power to regulatory agencies was a fringe one until very recently, with the obviously-corrupt SCOTUS ruling ending Chevron deference.

Delegating power to regulatory agencies also has nearly nothing to do with Congress's recent gridlock and ineffectiveness, or the spate of executive orders that has prompted.
by kotaKat | 2025-04-18 15:43:44+00:00
I do remember using WorkMarket a long time ago and experiencing the bizarreness of their emails as they were one of the very few AMP users.

They'd send out emails about work opportunities and leveraged AMP to be able to go back into the email and tell you if it's still available to apply for or not in realtime, so you wouldn't have to click through and be disappointed it was already taken.
by jonstewart | 2025-04-18 15:43:55+00:00
To echo Ash, HyperScan is the performance king. Use it when shipping on x64 and one has control over the pattern sets and you don't mind building it and working through its idiosyncrasies. It has some nonstandard matching semantics, reflecting its focus on network intrusion detection systems (NIDS), and does not have Unicode support.

For general purpose usage, Google's RE2 and PCRE2 in JIT mode will offer pretty good performance. Zoltan Herczeg's work on the PCRE2's JIT is underappreciated. Both these options are widely available and portable.
by 9rx | 2025-04-18 15:44:18+00:00
Only to the extent of having specialized bespoke solutions. We have hardware to fly a plane, but that same hardware isn't able to throw a mortarboard in the air after receiving its degree, and the hardware that can do that isn't able to lactate for a young child.

General intelligence is easy compared to general physicality. And, of course, if you keep the hardware specialized to make its creation more tractable, what do you need general intelligence for? Special intelligence that matches the special hardware will work just as well.