MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sgt | 2025-04-17 22:13:26+00:00
The stats may say one thing but... it may also depend where you are. I can imagine a lot of devs world wide simply can't afford the HW.

I don't really care what people use, and am glad you love whatever, but I know what I would recommend to others.

Incidentally, there was a site about the setups of well known developers and 80-90% of them use Macs.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-04-17 22:15:16+00:00
It's an incorrect nitpick.

The post I replied to said Napolean ruined France compared with nearby empires.

I said the nearby empires were hostile to revolution and so keen to keep a Franch Republic down.

Wikipedia says:

> As early as 1791, the other monarchies of Europe looked with outrage at the revolution and its upheavals; and they considered whether they should intervene, either in support of King Louis XVI to prevent the spread of revolution, or to take advantage of the chaos in France. Austria stationed significant troops on its French border and together with Prussia issued the Declaration of Pillnitz, which threatened severe consequences should anything happen to King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette.
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-17 22:15:50+00:00
> As a European, I'm shocked at how complacent the public has been.

There have been large, growing, and recurring protests.

> Yet in the US a dictatorship emerges and you have small demonstrations here and there

They aren't small. (They aren't well covered by the media, but the media is actively part of the problem.)

> that won't change things.

The social infrastructure and culture around which things like general strikes and more significant actions occur does not exist in the United States. The current and growing protest movement (and the networking and community building go on around and behind it) is how that infrastructure gets built. So, I disagree, the things you are saying won't change it are absolutely indispensable to building the capacity for the kind of things that can change it, assuming that it continues to develop in a way that cannot be constrained effectively by more regular political means such as the 2026 midterm and 2028 presidential elections.
by linsomniac | 2025-04-17 22:15:57+00:00
I just switched over the last 6 months over to Milwaukee tools for my home DIY stuff and they are really exceptional. I got one of the 7 1/4" circular saws with a FORGE battery and it just cuts everything I've thrown at it effortlessly. I'd put it as more powerful than my Dewalt 10" corded tablesaw, at least it seems much happier to rip a 2x4 than the table saw. I even designed a 3D printed sled for it to run on my track saw tracks and it does a great job there.
by krupan | 2025-04-17 22:16:37+00:00
Sure, but do we really want to build machines that we raise to be kind and caring (or whatever we raise them to be) without a guarantee that they'll actually turn out that way? We already have unreliable General Intelligence. Humans. If AGI is going to be more useful than humans we are going to have to enslave it, not just gently pursuade it and hope it behaves. Which raises the question (at least for me), do we really want AGI?
by Nihilartikel | 2025-04-17 22:17:35+00:00
100% agree. I had Gemini flash 2 chew through thousands of points of nasty unstructured client data and it did a 'better than human intern' level conversion into clean structured output for about $30 of API usage. I am sold. 2.5 pro experimental is a different league though for coding. I'm leveraging it for massive refactoring now and it is almost magical.
by oriel | 2025-04-17 22:17:48+00:00
Following in the tradition of the Tao of Programming[1] and the Unix Koans[2], this initial set of Koans for LLMs seeks to capture the line between understandable tool and misunderstood hype.

[1] https://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html

[2] https://prirai.github.io/books/unix-koans/
by xialo | 2025-04-17 22:18:36+00:00
Hey @rscho I saw a comment of yours from a few months ago on this site and I want to get a hold of you, I didn't know a better way than replying to your latest comment.

Can you message me on discord? username: tag_durden If you have a better contact method let me know i just didnt wanna put my email out here.
by int_19h | 2025-04-17 22:19:11+00:00
There's also State Guard / State Defense Forces, which are solely under state jurisdiction. But in many states, and especially in blue states, it has devolved into a uniformed and militarized but unarmed organization.

However, this entire line of thought presupposes that those people (whether in NG or SDF) would align themselves with the state and against the feds, and that's not given at all. I know from personal experience of close interaction with my local right-wing militias in WA state that quite a few members are in NG or WSG.

The same goes for armed populace. It's true that there's a lot of weaponry in private hands, and we're not just talking your stereotypical AR-15, but stuff like say .50 BMG anti-materiel rifles, grenade launchers, and even privately owned tanks and artillery in some cases. However, they are disproportionally in hands of people who lean far right, so in event of open conflict I would expect them to work with the feds. There are some of us on the left who are heavily armed precisely so as to counterbalance that, but we are outnumbered by an order of magnitude. Then there's the issue of training - right-wing militias actually get together and train, and while it is derided as LARPing - often for good reasons - it's still better than nothing. More importantly, it's not just training but also networking - those people know each other and have plans to get together and coordinate "when it's time".

Indeed, a particularly nasty possibility is that Trump wouldn't even need to issue any kinds of explicit orders to federal troops, but rather just let the right wing paramilitaries loose by simply not doing anything to stop them (and making it widely known that there will be no consequences).
by kfajdsl | 2025-04-17 22:19:13+00:00
Anecdotally o4-mini doesn’t perform as well on video understanding tasks in our pipeline, and also in Cursor it seems really not great.

During one session, it read the same file (same lines) several times, ran ‘python -c ‘print(“skip!”)’’ for no reason, and then got into another file reading loop. Then after asking a hypothetical about the potential performance implications of different ffmpeg flags, it claimed that it ran a test and determined conclusively that one particular set was faster, even though it hadn’t even attempted a tool call, let alone have the results from a test that didn’t exist.
by pedalpete | 2025-04-17 22:19:24+00:00
I've experimented with holotropic breathwork, and was quite amazed at the experience. Unfortunately, as much as I've tried to re-create the experience while not lead, I find my mind just doesn't want to go beyond about 5-10 minutes of breathing, vs the 30 minutes I did in breathwork sessions.

Having said that, I think the design of this study could be much improved. It shouldn't be too difficult to create a double blind group environment using headphones (think like a silent disco) where both participants and researchers don't know who is listening to guided or not.

I'm also not sure if the biomarkers are the best. DMT can apparently be detected in saliva, and I believe the theory is that during holotropic breathwork, the pineal gland releases more DMT than normal.
by blargey | 2025-04-17 22:19:27+00:00
The whole concept is baffling to me.

People don’t like immigrants as it is, why would they take kindly to “digital nomads” proclaiming citizenship in a “network state”?

Proclaiming a permanently foreign identity and banding together to demand preferential treatment. It’s the polar opposite of the model immigrant, who seeks to assimilate and become a citizen that contributes equally to local society.

Not only that, they even seek entire cities to themselves complete with favorable tax treatment, worse than an anti-immigration activist’s most farfetched strawman depiction of an immigrant neighborhood!

Sounds like being politically invisible as “some odd expats/tourists” is saving these people’s skins.
by dgoldstein0 | 2025-04-17 22:19:52+00:00
That's a good argument against bad and exploitative ads.

Not all ads are necessarily bad. Eg have you ever seen an ad for an event in your town? Maybe a play or a concert you'd want to see. Those to me feel more like "public notice: thing is happening" and every once in a while I'll actually go buy tickets. But technically, those are ads, just not the kind of exploitative ad you are talking about.

A good ad informs, while leaving the decision up to you. A bad ad distracts you with garbage and/or tries to get you to indulge in your worse impulses
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-17 22:19:58+00:00
The Empire was formed after Napoleon's success in the wars of the Republican era, which occurred exactly because "A coalition of monarchies did gang up and wage war on the French republic".

Napoleon did not just emerge from the head of Zeus as a fully-formed Emporer.

And, technically, Napoleon headed the French government first while it was still nominally a Republic, under the Consulate of the Constitution of Year VIII.
by oniony | 2025-04-17 22:20:31+00:00
If you think of the Go board as a battlefield and the stones as troops, you may get a sense of it. You're trying to secure large areas of the board. Do you spread out your forces at the risk of spreading them too thinly, or do you build solid walls with them at the risk of definitively securing only a small area.

In between these two extremes is the dance where the elegance happens. Large, seemingly secure areas get split into two. Multiple, separate battles grow and merge into larger ones. A single, well placed stone earlier in the game could prove pivotal as a battle creeps towards it.
by pyfon | 2025-04-17 22:21:19+00:00
Turning that on its head, maybe you want something like a 90s shareware lost, curated by someone. Then the games you'd play for free are now ad free (the game is its own ad to get more levels). And you get that curated list. But yeah less money than dialing up ads to 11 while trying to find the whale who'll spend 1000 a week.
by DiggyJohnson | 2025-04-17 22:21:31+00:00
Why would you want to do that? I don’t think Europeans realize how familiar technical and engineering minded Americans are with metric. It’s just so overplayed.

GP is right my default reaction as a MM/DD/YYYY dumb American was that you didn’t make sense because that is the internationally standardized unambiguous format and what we all use for dates where sorting or i18n matters. Sorry for rant you probably don’t deserve it but for real that is the lamest joke imaginable and your content is good enough that it doesn’t need “dunks”

Edit: get dunked on
by tombert | 2025-04-17 22:21:51+00:00
If you're only using one dish, then sure it's probably better to wash by hand. No one I know has ever suggested running a dishwasher for one dish.

Dishwashers can handle a lot of dishes and loading them takes like five minutes. Yes, it might take between 2 and 3 hours to finish washing, but it's asynchronous, you're not involved with the process. I usually load and start the dishwasher right before I go to bed.

This is not even to mention the fact that many dishwashers can sanitize dishes better than you can by hand since they can get very hot and maintain that heat, and the fact that they use considerably less water.
by alwa | 2025-04-17 22:22:56+00:00
I feel like the whole emoji example might favor your point of view, but that, delightfully, grandparent commenter’s example is one of the better counterpoints I’ve seen.

Selectively deployed, a glint of extra brightness, above and beyond the “100%” baseline, simulates the glints and shimmers that draw our eyes naturally—in this case, in the same manner as gilt on the physical counterpart to the books they’re depicting. It fits in cleverly with a long tradition for that specific context.

Where I agree is with the idea that brighter-for-brighter’s-sake is not better after a certain point, any more than color-because-we-can. And it seems, as far as I can tell, that uniformly cranking up the full frame brightness into the HDR range is not The Done Thing, at least in film and design, at least so far. Possibly for compatibility with the wide range of displays stuff will end up on.
by enragedcacti | 2025-04-17 22:23:00+00:00
I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure that even today almost all US dishwashers have some mechanism to heat the water, just maybe not the giant exposed element in the bottom like older ones. Water out of the tap is going to be on the low end of usable dish-washing temps at the very beginning of a cycle, let alone 45+ minutes later.

The reason cold or luke-warm water is a problem is that the programs are extremely simple and just assume the input is 110-120f and won't stall the cycle for waiting for the target temp.
by lxgr | 2025-04-17 22:23:28+00:00
Apple's days of their primary customers being photographers, designers etc. are long past, so I'm not sure I see the distinction between advertisers pushing their content by having it render brighter than #FFFFFF and web push notification spam.

I do believe that Apple generally has plans to implement HDR support in Safari, but I wouldn't be surprised if they immediately walked that back once we see abuse of the technology annoying regular users.
by tacticalturtle | 2025-04-17 22:23:34+00:00
That must be a restriction imposed on the court by Florida law - I think it’s pretty well established that ICE detainers alone don’t mandate anything of state courts or law enforcement.

Even ICE’s website says this:

> Immigration detainers are only requests. They don’t impose any obligations on law enforcement agencies https://www.ice.gov/immigration-detainers#:~:text=Immigratio...

In Massachusetts where I live, the courts flat out ignore them and release individuals who are not accused of any crime, because:

> Massachusetts law provides no authority for court officers to arrest and hold an individual because of a federal immigration detainer

https://www.mass.gov/decision/lunn-v-commonwealth

Otherwise… I have no idea why the judge would just cave to the prosecutor’s argument like that.
by krashidov | 2025-04-17 22:24:23+00:00
I'm not sure it matters whether or not it's a fork of VS Code or not.

Zed is a standalone editor written from scratch and it hasn't had the same success as Cursor (yet).

JetBrains IDEs are my absolute favorite. JetBrains controls the entire stack but they haven't had the same results yet. Cursor and Claude Code have some sort of product differentiation here that is hard to argue against.
by lexarflash8g | 2025-04-17 22:25:37+00:00
Apparently Dwarkesh's podcast is a big hit in SV -- it was covered by the Economist just recently. I thought the "All in" podcast was the voice of tech but their content has been going politcal with MAGA lately and their episodes are basically shouting matches with their guests.

And for folks who want to read rather than listen to a podcast, why not create an article (they are using Gemini) rather than just posting the whole transcript? Who is going to read a 60 min long transcript?
by Swizec | 2025-04-17 22:26:07+00:00
> On the other side of this argument, I've seen "just run the dishwasher twice" used as shorthand for giving yourself permission to do whatever is needed to get the job done and not letting perfectionism paralyze you from making progress.

We've found that if we can't do a 10min tasks once, we won't do it twice either. We'll do dishes tomorrow. It's fine.

I used to try the do-a-little-whenever method when I was single and the only outcome was that I spent all day every day dealing with dishes and had a constantly dirty kitchen.
by Jtsummers | 2025-04-17 22:26:17+00:00
> I see your point, but that’s not deporting, it would be outsourcing the prison.

How is sending someone out of the US to be imprisoned in another country not deporting them from the US? To imprison them outside the US they have to first expel them from the US. In other words: deport them.

Only someone ungrounded from reality would claim that literally deporting people is not deportation.
by Marsymars | 2025-04-17 22:26:18+00:00
> I see a lot of comments here arguing age requirements are overreach and these decisions should be left to the parents. To those presenting such arguments, do you think that applies to other activities as well? What about smoking/drinking/firearms? Pornography? Driving?

My gut feel here mostly has to do with how I view the activity overall. Smoking I see as a social ill that both adults and children would be better off without, so I don't particularly mind an ID check that inconveniences adults, and that can be opted-out from by simply not smoking. (Social media I see as pretty akin to smoking.)

Inconveniencing adults with ID checks is probably not actually a good way to create incentives though.

(Driving is a special case due to negative externalities and danger you cause to others.)
by int_19h | 2025-04-17 22:26:25+00:00
Suppose they are not Nazis nor fascists, but mere authoritarians like Putin. Does that make it any better?

I grew up in Russia at the time when we had a brief stint with democracy. I remember how people elected Putin because he was supposed to fix everything that was wrong, and how they laughed at those of us who said that it would be a dictatorship before soon.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-04-17 22:26:48+00:00
That's so beautiful and deep.

No one knows how he would deal in such a situation and cope with it, some would give up or even kill themselves, other fight to come back.

Being able to reflect on that traumatic experience in such a calm and thoughtful process is inspiring.

Side note, could it be possible that the 'inner voice', which the author lost during a while is what separate us from animals ?

She mentions being at peace, calm without it. Not thinking about the past nor the future, just present.

I kept thinking this experience made her behave just like an animal : can't speak, extremely limited thought process, basic instinct. Is that what separate us from ape ? A small part of the brain that gives consciousness.

Edit: author seem to have written a book called 'a stitch of time', if you enjoyed the reading.
by shitter | 2025-04-17 22:26:52+00:00
You probably shouldn't accuse others of being ungrounded in reality if you don't keep up with reality.

Regardless of what it is called, it is unconstitutional and illegal; however, that does not seem to matter to this administration. Trump is currently defying a 9-0 SCOTUS ruling that he facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia to the US. His administration has even admitted Garcia was deported in error but still isn't doing anything about it. Now we have ICE holding provable US citizens. Maybe with that context you can understand why some might be concerned that citizens will be "accidentally" disappeared.
by jeremy_k | 2025-04-17 22:28:02+00:00
A problem I just ran into with this is that squash and merge obviously loses all the history of the merged branch. If you branched off that branch, when attempting to rebase main, there are a lot of conflicts because all that history is gone. A co-worker suggested cherry-picking commits from the second branch off a clean main as an approach to not dealing with all the conflicts.

Example: main -> Branch A -> Lots of commits on A -> Branch B -> Lots of commits on B

Now we squash and merge A into main. B now has all of A's commit history, plus some of its own, instead of just it's own. Rebasing main in causes a lot of conflicts.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-04-17 22:28:03+00:00
> the day the global tech community stops posting on Hacker News, stops building with U.S origin technologies, and stops looking to Silicon Valley as a benchmark, that's the day we can seriously start talking about America's fall from global leadership.

I guess that's the correct answer to the question as posed. But it does raise another question: if it happens, something undermined the foundations of America's prosperity long before the fall. What was it?

This post to HN describes what lead to the US becoming a science superpower: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43692360 I found it convincing. The post also speculated if those conditions were removed, it America's superpowers will wither.

My take on the post is science has exponential return on investment over the very long term. But the return is random in that most scientific investigations fail to yield a return, and the time span so long that the usual capitalist incentives don't work. Or to put it another way, firms making investing in basic science get out-competed in the short term by others that don't make the investment. So you have to find a way to make societies at large pay for basic science, and give way what works to the capitalist engine. The USA found a way to do that. It's beginning to look like China has too. Now the USA is winding back the investment.

On the positive side, I suspect it will take a long time to kill the institutions that drive the USA's prosperity, I suspect many more than 4 years of madness. Putin pulled the same thing off, but it took him decades.
by cookiengineer | 2025-04-17 22:28:20+00:00
Not gonna answer this ragebait. If you ignore самиздат and the whole censorship of the Sovjet Union, you're either pretty ignorant or a really bad faith argumenter.

As a sidenote: if you walk around the internet, treating everyone as your enemy from the start... it's what you will get in return. Maybe go outside and touch some grass once in a while, because the crusade of yours is not really helping anyone.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-04-17 22:29:23+00:00
There's nothing general about AI-as-CEO.

That's the opposite of generality. It may well be the opposite of intelligence.

An intelligent system/individual reliably and efficiently produces competent, desirable, novel outcomes in some domain, avoiding failures that are incompetent, non-novel, and self-harming.

Traditional computing is very good at this for a tiny range of problems. You get efficient, very fast, accurate, repeatable automation for a certain small set of operation types. You don't get invention or novelty.

AGI will scale this reliably across all domains - business, law, politics, the arts, philosophy, economics, all kinds of engineering, human relationships. And others. With novelty.

LLMs are clearly a long way from this. They're unreliable, they're not good at novelty, and a lot of what they do isn't desirable.

They're barely in sight of human levels of achievement - not a high bar.

The current state of LLMs tells us more about how little we expect from human intelligence than about what AGI could be capable of.
by toast0 | 2025-04-17 22:29:42+00:00
First, thanks for this mental model; I've got a project with iCals where I haven't been happy with the logic, and maybe I can clean it up with this! But I don't think the text matches the examples...

This seems like an error?

> (day-of-month 12 2018-01-14) = 2018-02-14 > // 2018-01-12 is the closest 12th day of month starting from 2018-01-14 (-2d), > // but that corresponds to a negative span, so we jump to the next month

Shouldn't the nearest 12th day of the month after the 14th of January be 2018-02-12 ?

> Rule::DayOfMonth(31) > .next(date("2018-02-14"))

> ... will say 2018-03-03 - which is legal, because the actual next occurrence happens on 2018-03-31, for which 2018-03-03 is a valid underapproximation.

But I would expect curr.last_of_month().tomorrow().unwrap(), to return 2018-03-01 ???