MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by low_tech_love | 2025-04-26 19:58:17+00:00
Although the whole idea of “figuring out the solution by explaining the problem” is absolutely real, I find that the problem for me with this is that the duck is (and always will be) an obvious stand in for something else; a gimmick of sorts. It just doesn’t work for me as a suspension of disbelief. I need to believe that my explanation is actually useful and necessary for the other person to help me. This happened to me a lot back in the days when stack overflow was the go-to place for programming help. I think the vast majority of my questions there I figured out by myself immediately after posting, but only because I actually believed that someone there (a) could actually help me and (b) for them to do it they needed me to be very clear in my explanation.
by wonderwonder | 2025-04-26 19:58:25+00:00
I have zero IRL friends, not even acquaintances. I stopped having friends once I had kids. So its been at least a decade. At the point now where my oldest is 13 and the youngest is 11 that I could probably have the time for them if I wanted but I haven't had any for so long that the desire is just gone. The effort required just doesn't seem like its worth it. I work remotely as well so I can actually go days without speaking to an adult aside from my wife. I don't even work on a team so literally not a word to anyone.

My wife had a good friend via our oldest being best friends with her oldest. We would do family get togethers and I would hang out with the husband but I had zero desire to hang out with him 1:1 despite both wives pushing for it. Our kids stopped being friends and we stopped being friends with the family. Honestly it was a relief. Having to pretend to be interested in what they were saying was exhausting.

I get up at 7am to get kids ready for school and start work at 9. Work until 4ish and then go get the kids. Everyone is home by 4:30 or so but then we have sports 4 nights a week until about 7. Then dinner. Wife is not remote so generally gets home around 6pm. Weekends is sports on Saturdays. We have Sundays to ourselves right now which is great. I'm writing this in the 2 hour break between kids sports games. I took the youngest to football, came home, the wife took him to a birthday party and now I have to take the oldest to his game in an hour.

I hit the gym for an hour or so 4x a week sometime between 7 and 9 during the week depending on if I am having dinner with the family (sometimes I'll go during work). Then I go again on Sunday. Gym is pretty much the only me time I have and I will not miss it.

Gotten to the point where I struggle to think of people I meet as real. I feign interest until we can part ways. I don't even know people's names at work. They are all offshore as well so our hours don't really overlap. Can't even pretend to be interested in my siblings anymore. I have to see my wife's dad once a week and its a struggle. I dread him passing away as I am going to have to try and pretend to be upset. He is a great guy, I have nothing against him, just no connection.

It just is what it is, I love my wife and kids but just have zero attachment or empathy for anyone else.
by db48x | 2025-04-26 19:58:25+00:00
This is a common misconception. A good understanding of economics might enable you to decide what kind of interventions to use (or to avoid) in an economy as a whole, but will not necessarily give you any insight into how well a particular company will do in the market. They are entirely different skills. As a very simple example, companies often fail for non–economic reasons such as fraud, negligence, incompetence, accidents, etc, etc.
by _aavaa_ | 2025-04-26 19:58:28+00:00
I hope so. Though the economic realities often take precedence. The university of Waterloo is one of their most prestigious universities, so they might be able to create more rigorous entry requirements (though that does bring up the question of “are you really teaching students to be competent or simply pre-filtering for only competent students”). But they can only do this if it doesn’t impact their ability to stay solvent.
by Zigurd | 2025-04-26 19:58:47+00:00
Not every edge case, but enough that the vehicle can correctly determine it doesn't know how to proceed and must ask a human to choose from among a menu of choices. This is how Waymo described how supervision works. Nobody actually drives the vehicle remotely. They just make a decision the on-board intelligence has decided it can't make.

One good bet based on Waymo's decision to expand is that the amount of supervision each robotaxi needs keeps going down, so supervision is not tightly coupled to fleet size.
by Frieren | 2025-04-26 19:59:06+00:00
> Budget cuts meant that America stopped publishing some national-accounts data last year

Governments need to invest money to properly work. many countries have been following neoliberal policies, not only the USA. Cut everything that the government does to cut taxes for billionaires and to not fix the mega rich getting loans instead of profits to not be taxed, and countries will fall.

A modern country needs investment. Accounting is just one of the many things failing.
by mlindner | 2025-04-26 19:59:27+00:00
I used to edit wikipedia until I got permanently "community banned" because of some poor choices of words and even my apologies were ignored. The site is full of people who are chronically online and like to witch hunt and destroy people's lives. That wasn't the case almost two decades ago when I started using the site, but now it's full of the type of people that passionately use reddit and bluesky and that were formerly on twitter. (It's worth noting that a "community ban" is a special type of ban that's basically a lynch mob where a bunch of people dog pile and if there's enough "consensus" you get banned, which can happen by the person proposing it simply calling forth all their friends. And this type of ban is considered "stronger" than an actual administrator ban so cannot be overturned by an administrator. It's mob violence at its finest.)

I was a very active editor who'd been using the site for a very long time, but they don't care. One major mistake and you're gone forever.

The site also has a huge bias toward "media" sources rather than actual scientific content or primary sources in general. They treat the media as vetters of the truth and ignore all of the group-think/mass delusion that is common among mainstream media where they all re-report each others stories. That causes a huge blind spot. It didn't used to be that way too, it used to be that most notable sources were books, but nowaydays with everything online and the quality of media reporting going down and down it's caused Wikipedia itself to decline in quality.

I used to encourage people to edit Wikipedia like you, no longer. The site needs a hard fork, at least for the english speaking site.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-04-26 19:59:42+00:00
Notably the examples on the page you linked appear to involve illegal acts (tampering, threatening, etc). Letting someone out a different door (neither party is trespassing) doesn't seem to rise to that bar.

Just as I'm not obligated to call the police to report something I don't see how I can be obligated to force my guest to use a particular door for the convenience of the police. It isn't my responsibility to actively facilitate their actions.

It would never have occurred to me (and doesn't seem reasonable) that obstruction could involve indirect (relative to the government process) actions.

I could understand "aiding and abetting" if I was actively facilitating the commission of a crime but I don't want to live in a country where mere avoidance is considered a crime. "Arrested for resisting arrest" gets mocked for good reason.
by rootsudo | 2025-04-26 20:00:01+00:00
He didn't really walk away:

"A 24-year-old Australian man who ordered uranium and plutonium to his parents’ apartment has been allowed to walk away from court on a two-year good behaviour bond.

After ordering various radioactive samples over the internet in an effort to collect the entire periodic table, Emmanuel Lidden pleaded guilty to two charges: moving nuclear material into Australia and possessing nuclear material without a permit.

While his actions were criminal, the judge concluded that Lidden had mental health issues and displayed no malicious intent"

The court established he had mental helath issues and has 2 years probation basically.
by richardw | 2025-04-26 20:00:04+00:00
Yup, it feel similar to mining. The models are a transformation of the underlying content. The content is owned by “us”. A mining company can come in and transform rock into iron but it owes something to the grantors of the mining rights.

There is certainly a contribution in improving how the body of work is represented but we treat the “AI” as the smarts, when really it’s a lens on the collective knowledge we have built. You can make the lens better, bit not claim ownership of the body of work. Right now that’s what’s happening, with a few edge cases for artists and publishers.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-04-26 20:00:43+00:00
It's the Microsoft Office paradigm in automotive form. Nobody uses more than 20% of the features in Word or Excel, but nobody uses the same 20%, so it's basically a useless observation. You can't just chop 80% of the features out and still end up with a widely-used product.

They can't sell a vehicle in the US market without a screen, in any case, due to the need for a backup camera.
by wolfgang42 | 2025-04-26 20:01:32+00:00
> just piling on ugly radioactive waste in your bedroom

This is an egregious mischaracterization which detracts from your otherwise excellent comment. Lidden was working on collecting the periodic table in decorative display cases.[1] I don’t get the point of coin collections either, but that doesn’t mean I would describe one as a “grubby heap of heavy metals.”

[1] https://www.luciteria.com/element-cubes/plutonium-for-sale
by JackYoustra | 2025-04-26 20:01:52+00:00
Saying "there is no such thing as a perfect process" when discussing the unconstitutional deportation of LITERAL American citizens on an overnight, including a child with cancer deprived of medication, isn't a reasonable position. It's an attempt to normalize extreme rights violations.

> Remigration is an ugly business, but it has to happen if you want to live in a sovereign nation under the rule of law.

god, what enemies do you have?? I don't know how you go from "give them due process" to "the west has fallen" unless you mean restricting migration by law, which Biden proposed and Trump rejected last year. I'm actually curious - are you aware of that law? Did you hear about it?
by Gualdrapo | 2025-04-26 20:01:58+00:00
Maybe I'm incredibly stupid but I still can't understand why everything in our lives have to be entirely devoted to "the economy". We are modern day slaves of "the economy". Many old people were left to die in the COVID-19 because of "the economy". The climate is going worse and the environment is being destroyed because of "the economy". But I can't see what is what "the economy" has given to us in return.
by sgc | 2025-04-26 20:02:10+00:00
So the fight needs to be to make things universal and fair, not to do away with everything. I agree there are many attempts to throw elections in the US, but I also think unreasonable resistance to measures that make a lot of sense on many levels would have far better results if it was spent making sure things were implemented correctly.

I think a lot of people see all-out resistance as extremist and somewhat irrational, and so you are losing people's good will. I do see it that way, I am sympathetic as to what leads to it and don't let it count against those pushing for 'no new rules' even if I find it immature / poorly thought out - but at the same time I don't think most people think it through and are as understanding as I try to be.
by failrate | 2025-04-26 20:02:11+00:00
I argue that verbalizing to the duck without involving another person solves many problems just by itself. Deeper problems may require verbalizing it to a person. In my professional experience, I have lost vast amounts of time and attention to people who would break my flow state to explain the problem to me and figure it out themselves while verbalizing it for the very first time. So, I explained Rubber ducking to them and gave them all ducks. It worked wonderfully.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-04-26 20:02:18+00:00
The response seems a little too emotional to be considered rational. Still, lets consider another perspective.

Would you agree that people with more money are treated differently from people with less money? Money is not exactly property or power, but would you agree that they stand more to lose than a person without either? If they stand to lose more, they automatically have more skin in the game. In fact, if we count money, we can give fairly definitive amount of skin in said game.
by hnburnsy | 2025-04-26 20:02:52+00:00
>Economists don't know what's going on

This reminds me of my favorite jokes about economists...

>Two economists are walking down the street. One says, "Look, a $20 bill!" The other replies, "That’s impossible. If it were real, someone would have already picked it up."

>Did you know economists have predicted nine out of the last five recessions?

>There is a story that has been going around about a physicist, a chemist, and an economist who were stranded on a desert island with no implements and a can of food. The physicist and the chemist each devised an ingenious mechanism for getting the can open; the economist merely said, "Assume we have a can opener"!

>If trivial pursuit were designed by economists, it would have 100 questions and 3,000 answers - Ronald Reagan
by kccqzy | 2025-04-26 20:03:41+00:00
There is no difference. People often complain during the pandemic that the San Francisco police department has seemingly instituted a "discretionary" policy that makes it de facto legal to violate traffic law at scale, you know, including speeding, not stopping at stop signs, not yielding to pedestrians. https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/11nbnxw/san_f...
by knorker | 2025-04-26 20:04:09+00:00
Yeah I've had specific use cases when I need to use syscall. I mean... if there weren't use cases for syscall then it wouldn't exist.

But not only is syscall an example of portability done wrong for APIs, as I said it's also an example of it being implemented in a dumb way causing needless work and breakage.

Syscall as implementation leads by bad example because it's the only method Go supports.

Checking for GOARCH+GOOS tuple equality for portable code is a known anti pattern, for reasons I've said and other ones, that Go still decided to go with.

But yeah, autotools scripts often check for way more things than actually matter. Often because people copy paste configure.ac from another project without trimming.
by DidYaWipe | 2025-04-26 20:04:16+00:00
NATIONAL-scale projects are exactly what the federal government should do. I specifically referred to the Eisenhower interstate-highway system. Those are the kind of grand undertakings that transformed our country, and which the current administration can't even conceive... let alone articulate or propose.

Read about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System
by wonderwonder | 2025-04-26 20:05:03+00:00
For me, I have to go to the gym. Its my only me thing. Taking someone to the gym sounds excruciating. For me the gym is all about disconnecting from everything requiring higher order thinking. Just loud music and heavy weights. Without that time I feel things would go very badly indeed.

The only time I really just spontaneously smile is during the walk from my car to the front door of the gym.
Show HN: I made a webtoon creation app powered by GPT 4o image
by extrafuzzy | 2025-04-26 20:05:27+00:00
A couple of years ago, I had the idea to create a webtoon creator app using Stable Diffusion and ControlNets, but it struggled with character consistency. Now, with the new GPT image API, I can finally make it happen.

Let me know your thoughts!
by akubera | 2025-04-26 20:05:31+00:00
I'm reminded of the SMBC comic https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2722 which resonated with me. If it takes ~7 years to master something, you should dedicate yourself to becoming good at it. Or at least you don't have to tie your identity to what you do you right now; you can reinvent yourself and experience more from of life, but you have to give yourself the time to do so.

It's been almost 14 years since that was published, so maybe some self-reflection is due.
by belter | 2025-04-26 20:05:48+00:00
The article highlights an important problem in several countries, but I am skeptical economists don't know what is going on. The FED has is own sources and means, and any of the best well funded investment houses do their own due diligence.

It's not like retail or supermarket prices are confidential, and somebody with enough hours and three or four interns can't have a clear view of real inflation. Or with the appropriate contacts at the HR departments of the Top 500 corporations can't have a clear idea of current hiring and layoff trends, or buy data feeds on sales and forecasts in core vertical markets.
by rootsudo | 2025-04-26 20:05:59+00:00
Nah, there are many island nations in the world, especially in oceania. Only NZ and AU are particularly overkill and security for x and y.

Case in point, I go to Indonesia and Philippines - I buy produce in either country to bring to the other country, full declare it, show it - no one cares. Several kilograms as in 10kg+.

Meanwhile, airplane gives passangers apples on flights to New Zealand (or was it AU?) and they all get fined $1000 upon entry if they kept it.

Now why do I bring produce from an country to another? Cost and availability. A green pepper costs $4-6+ in Philippines. It's less than 30 cents in Indonesia.

So, to reiterate no - it's clearly Aussie/NZ overkill.
by benator | 2025-04-26 20:06:07+00:00
This article is interesting to me mostly because it appears totally incoherent.

> “Western politicians do not appear to be strong-arming the nerds to produce favourable numbers. At the same time, international statistical bodies worry about the example of Dominik Rozkrut, who at the end of last year was mysteriously dismissed as Poland’s chief statistician.”

At the same time as not strong arming these bodies, at least one might be? What is the implication here?

> “Economic “surprises” in rich countries, where the reported data point either beats or falls short of analysts’ expectations, soared during the pandemic. Years later, surprises remain 30% bigger than before it. The confusion represents a reversal of a trend. In 1941 Britain’s…”

How is less trust/revisions in the data today connected with what Britain was doing 70+ years ago? We seem to just have two things said next to each other as if they were related?

Am I just being dumb or is this just ramblings, whether or not you agree with the headline?
by vram22 | 2025-04-26 20:06:35+00:00
>Python seems to be the odd one out. Imo, its list comprehensions are confusing as hell to "newcomers". For example, when a list comprehension has multiple `for`s, what order are they nested in?

The order is mentioned right in the docs, for Python 3:

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datastructures.html#list-...

>Note how the order of the for and if statements is the same in both these snippets.

And it is mentioned even more clearly in corresponding section in the Python 2 docs - last I checked, years ago,

Update: IOW, the nested list comprehension syntax is confusing only to newcomers or even experienced devs who are lazy or stupid enough to not read the docs for the language feature they want to use, before using it, IOW, "winging it", whether to try to seem cool or due to peer pressure or other reasons, all of which are stupid ones, even in the short term, because the cost is higher than the benefit in most cases.
by remarkEon | 2025-04-26 20:06:37+00:00
It's many different things, but scale and time horizon is certainly one of them. The scale of immigration over just the last 30 years is truly unprecedented, and will have political impacts for the next 50. The share of the population that is foreign born is up to 15% (likely much higher, since it's difficult to actually count illegal immigrants), which is the first time since the mid 19th century it's reached that level. Qualitatively, seeing e.g. a childhood neighborhood turn into something that resembles a (very) foreign country is ... jarring. I'd also submit that your brief summary of American history is wrong, and is part of the problem. It very slyly changes the foundation of the nation from something heroic to something that we should be ashamed of, and that mass immigration is the only way to do penance for that sin. It's fine to advocate for people coming here to seek a better life, but it's wrong to describe America as a "nation of immigrants", when the reality is closer to a "nation of settlers" who built up a largely empty country. I also tend to roll my eyes when people invoke "Islamophobia", since the United States is a) not a Muslim country and therefor does not have to defer to Islamic interests, and b) that term is typically invoked in an attempt to bully someone into agreeing with a more extreme position since, well, you don't want to be Islamophobic now do you.
by bityard | 2025-04-26 20:06:38+00:00
I wouldn't worry about taking every single one of these literally. A rule like this is meant as a compass bearing, not a precise set of directions to a perfect life.

Besides, it's totally possible to negotiate in good faith without lying. Professional negotiators actively advise against lying because A) you might get caught B) it's harder to remember a lie than the truth later on. (This is how a lot of criminals get caught.) If someone wants to know something you don't want them to know, you don't have to answer. Tell them it's not relevant or change the topic.
by crusty | 2025-04-26 20:06:41+00:00
If the current policymakers are operating on vibes and simplistic reasoning, then it seems reasonable that this business merely refutes those vibes and misguided reasoning with simplistic evidence. They aren't presenting the post as a rigorous academic study.

The comment that users might see the US option as a scam is interesting. It would have been interesting to offer an info modal for the US item or ask for feedback from users who added the US item to their carts. Still not the rigorous study you seem to be expecting, but some extra info.
by jeroenhd | 2025-04-26 20:07:11+00:00
If you're trying to track user information (notifications, actual timezone/language, battery level, VPN usage, etc) you can use screenshots of the current screen and open keyboard. You can also see stuff from other apps if the user is using split screen modes or has chat bubbles open. Apps can otherwise only access the data they render.

The research talks about thousands of apps but I do wonder how many of these are apps people use every day and how many are Chinese clones of freemium games and other shitware with a fraction of daily users. All we know from public app store data is the number of "downloads" and even that is distributed as a range. I doubt these 19000 apps were found by doing a survey on what people actually had on their phones.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-26 20:07:13+00:00
> index funds have no inherent value, they (just like all stocks and other financial derivatives/instruments) are effectively a paper with one or another form of "IOU" written on it

What do you think a real-estate deed is?

> No one's gonna come and kick you out of it

Property tax. Title fraud. Mortgage fraud. Mistaken foreclosure. (Legitimate foreclosure.) Squatters' rights. Eminent domain.

The difference between real estate and financial assets is possession. But every time you're away from your home, you aren't in possession of it. And possession, control and ownership are three overlapping but ultimately separate concepts.