MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by onecommentman | 2025-04-09 23:45:53+00:00
So if I read a personal narrative presented by a source that I can reasonably assume to have a particular political agenda, I can be fairly certain it is presented as a cynical stratagem to manipulate my opinion, rather than any sort of objective presentation of the situation that is actionable. Got it.

Explains why so much “sob story” anecdata gets presented by the two/several ends of the political spectrum. Studies like this say that they work to change opinion, rather than simply validate existing opinions. I can see it being effective in moving people from believing something is impossible to considering it as possible/plausible but not much past that. Nor can I understand how such a study as this can determine a change of opinion is “durable”.

Wonder if this posited “result” holds true across all ages, genders, educational attainment, country of origin, etc.? I’d assume more influential folks would be older and thus less likely to be moved by a single narrative, since they can put the single personal narrative in the context of the hundreds of narratives they’ve heard and lived through in their longer lives.
by econ | 2025-04-09 23:47:20+00:00
Yours is a great problem to have if one wants to find a solution.

I tried to work the ics format and Google Calendar but I hate it. All of it is a bad joke.

You should be able to read the text file. If a program is required the format failed.

My idea was that anything that has entries with time stamps should be data enough to import.

Agenda software should get out of the way or not have a say in it. Excuses do not apply. If people want transaction or order history, email or rss feeds, anything! the agenda should take whatever and deal with it.

My work schedule is very simple but all my shifts span across midnight. This was quite hilarious in Google Calendar.

https://support.google.com/calendar/thread/737128/events-spa...

There should really be such nice file formats and api that everyone can just use it for everything. Say, the many stages of a track and trace code can update and somewhat line up with an order history, payments and projects, weather reports etc etc

There seem to be a lot of fun hard puzzles in the space... Besides great time zone technology non of them seem solved.

By lack of good ideas I just use a 3d array now with weeks filled with days that may contain an array of events. Each event type has a number. I know what the numbers mean. In the software they are replaced with icons.

The file names start with the year and have a comma for each day. The legenda [embarrassingly] lives elsewhere.

They can fit in a normal month calendar view or in a timeline placed side by side with similar files made for others.

But then events that span new years eve don't work. haha

Thanks for the write up. Much to think about.
by erishabh | 2025-04-09 23:47:24+00:00
Human value systems aren’t fixed. They bend, stretch, and transform as the world around us shifts — driven by the tools we wield, the challenges we face, and the societies we build. What we treasure today isn’t what our ancestors held dear, and it won’t be what our descendants prioritize.

The rise of advanced AI will lead to a re-evaluation of our societal structures, our economic models, and even our understanding of purpose and fulfillment. If traditional forms of work become less central to human identity, we will redefine what we strive for.
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-04-09 23:47:29+00:00
It's still wrong, and I don't know how I could explain it more completely:

-ENTRYPOINT service ssh restart && bash +ENTRYPOINT ["service", "ssh", "restart", "&&", "bash"]

You should read and understand the documentation for the containerfile format before continuing. This isn't some quirk because i'm using &&, you are breaking almost every dockerfile that doesn't use the array syntax for ENTRYPOINT.
by anthk | 2025-04-09 23:47:52+00:00
Radio and TV had discrete programmes. Either you were there, or forget any watching in years except a rerun, if there was any. Yes, they were recordings in vynil, cassetes and whatnot, but these were not cheap.

Nowadays, you can, you know, just download narrated podcasts, ebooks from Gutenberg, free PD audiobooks...

Listen to some stories in silence, on your bed, at night. Let your brain imagine the story. You don't even need an internet connection at all. Download them at your library, listen them at home.

On news, RSS feeds. Feeder on Android (and any good client under Linux too) has access to full content, you don't need to be online to read the news.

The Conversation and Science Alert have the whole news in their feed. Use Feeder, and while you add a feed, don't forget to check the 'get the whole content' option or similar.

Now you will be able to read news offline. No alerts, no dopamine, no useless bullshit, no bait 'news', no nothing.

The Conversation has curated articles from major sections (Science, Health, Culture, Environment, Economy, Politics). Everything else it's just boring propaganda -from all sides- to polarize and scare you like hell so you are rendered a zombie customer.

Science Alert it's that, Scientific News, popular science. If The Conversation Science feed feels bland to you, here your have.
by albert_e | 2025-04-09 23:49:03+00:00
Done similar to help kids with learning beginner math.

Should now be possible to make an app that specializes in making new apps on demand based on simple requirements like these :)

As Khan Academy is experimenting with 1:1 tutoring using LLMs... this may be an adjacent space for them to explore: let users generate apps/games on a math or science topic of choice, beyond the regular quizzes.
by nom | 2025-04-09 23:49:40+00:00
Assuming this was planned so insiders can buy the dip (and let's be honest, he's not clever enough for this, but any crypto bro is), his announcement serves the insiders perfectly as plausible deniability.

What's even wilder is this random Twitter account that 'leaked' the 90 days pause two days ago, got picked up by the news as truth, caused the market to recover by trillions of dollars temporarily... and now this...
by dzaima | 2025-04-09 23:50:22+00:00
Directly running wasm/Java bytecode in hardware is just a bad idea unless you somehow have tons of loopless code that'll only be run once; both are stack-based with an unbounded stack size, so each op would have multiple memory loads/stores. At the very least you'd want some rewriting to use multiple registers, at which point a simple JIT/AOT isn't far off.
by radpanda | 2025-04-09 23:50:34+00:00
That’s how I feel about present day humanity with regards to computer tech. I was born around the time of the 8086; my parents never really became fluent with computers. I was a nerd and got into computers as a teen, soon enough I had internet and then WiFi and now frickin smartphones hooked into LLMs. We’re the Information Age equivalent of those folks who spanned all the from the feudal era to riding Honda motorbikes.
by TulliusCicero | 2025-04-09 23:51:09+00:00
> Except the study did show people quitting their jobs at a higher rate. But they mostly switched to new jobs instead of becoming unemployed.

Right, GP was clearly referring to to

> Does a basic income make people lazy? This assumption has been widely discussed, but never substantiated. The Basic Income Pilot Project demonstrates that the opposite is true.

If you knew you could get by forever without a job, that's very different from having a 3-year period where you can get by without a job. Especially when it comes to people coming of age. Think about the average 18 year old: if they could just 'get by' for a long time, it'd be awfully tempting.
by canpan | 2025-04-09 23:51:18+00:00
Quite a few of those still exist!

* Wysteria Vine. It is not written, but I am pretty sure it's Kameido Shrine. You need to come at the right time to see flowers like that though.

* Nikko All pictures that show shrine and pagoda

* Osaka Castle

* Daibutsu, at Kamakura

* Jinrikishia Now it's for tourists, but you can ride in Asakusa.

* View Ojigoku on Great Boiling Springs, Hakone.

* Wrestlers. Sumo still exists and looks like that.

* Gion Machi Street, at Kyoto. Looks a bit different, but there are still many old houses like this.

* View of Nara.

* Tennojo Buddhist Temple

* Hakone Lake of Fujiyama

What does not exist anymore is any picture showing a town or village. I feel sad about this. There are a very few places that kept this (E.g. Shirakawago). Now all houses look boring. Only recently people thought to build pretty houses again.
by sfblah | 2025-04-09 23:51:36+00:00
My opinion on this is that the damage has already been done. Successive administrations have already loaded up debt massively and participated in a Ponzi scheme with the Fed to pretend asset valuations in the US make sense. Sooner or later the chickens will come home to roost, and valuation multiples in the US will come to resemble those that have existed throughout history, and those which exist in all other parts of the world currently.

When this happens, there will be a big recession, and that is exactly the moment companies will start deploying AI in earnest to save money. This will create a downward spiral.

Yes, the Trump administration is incompetent. But, if you insist on blaming an administration, I would propose Obama and Biden as more reasonable culprits. It was Obama who presided over the massive Fed intervention into markets that enabled unbridled government spending increases. It was Biden who presided over the most problematic parts of the Covid response. Trump is just an idiot. Obama and Biden are actually bad guys.
by ugh123 | 2025-04-09 23:52:40+00:00
Thats nonsense. Their "recommendation" is based on supply and epidemiological trends, not actual need of the drug. If supply gets constrained, its up to the CDC and drug makers to make more, not to tell the population to limit uptake.

This is why I don't trust CDC guidelines, nor doctors who blindly parrot them without explanation or context.

Sure, check with "your doctor" about the vaccine. If they give you no good reason not to take it, then take it.
by neilv | 2025-04-09 23:52:56+00:00
I experienced similar headaches, putting Coreboot on about 10 laptops. A few things to add:

* For laptops that require extensive disassembly, once you realize that one day you might have to recover a bad software-based flashing, requiring disassembly again, you might be willing to cut a hole in the laptop: https://www.neilvandyke.org/coreboot/#cutouts

* Something like an IBM/Lenovo Hardware Maintenance Manual is a big win. Lately I even label removed screws with the page or section number of the manual that described their removal. https://www.neilvandyke.org/coreboot/#intro

* The flaky in-circuit reading&writing of the flash chip with hardware probes ranges from frustrating to maddening, for software person me. For example, I had an "assembly line" for Coreboot-ing seven ThinkPad X200 units, but in-circuit reading and writing failed different ways, multiple times, with pretty much every unit. And I fried a rare-ish variant of the ThinkPad T60 motherboard (I guess when current took a path it really wasn't supposed to).

* Had I only needed to do one laptop, afterwards I'd think that was rough, but that it would go much smoother next time, once I knew what I was doing. Not so. I never knew what I was doing. I did about 10 laptops, and each one was a pain. Maybe an EE/CE would do it much better, with better technique, or better tools?

* I really like the idea of open source boot firmware (and I hate UEFI complexity and dodginess). Now, if I could just get Coreboot and a good TrackPoint keyboard on Purism/Framework/System76/etc....
by aylmao | 2025-04-09 23:53:25+00:00
This is super impressive, great job!

Side-comment of something this made me think of (again): tech builds too much for tech. I've lived in the Bay before, so I know why this happens. When you're there, everyone around you is in tech, your girlfriend is in tech, you go to parties and everyone invariably ends up talking about work, which is tech. Your frustrations are with tech tools and so are your peers', so you're constantly thinking about tech solutions applicable to tech's problems.

This seems very much marketed to SF people doing SF things ("Cursor, Gmail, Slack, even your terminal"). I wonder how much effort has gone into making this work with code editors or the terminal, even though I doubt this would a big use-case for this software if it ever became generally popular. I'd imagine the market here is much larger in education, journalism, film, accessibility, even government. Those are much more exciting demos.
by TulliusCicero | 2025-04-09 23:53:37+00:00
The problem is that substantial number of people are actually shit employees who create no real value to companies or society. They may be able to pull off the bare minimum requirement to get the money they need, but it'll be like pulling teeth to get them to consistently show up and do their jobs to even a half-decent level.

What you need is a job that's largely self-evidently-verifying (can't be faked), doesn't really need to interface much with other humans (especially customers), and can be self-started/managed. For some homeless people, that job is picking up cans and bottles for recycling money, but it's hard to come up with more and better ones.
by toteroni | 2025-04-09 23:54:06+00:00
While I see the positives of this, do we want a future with AI lawyers? AI judges? AI juries? Who would be more biased, humans or bots? Bots can have their “memory” wiped so there is no bias for each case, but then lack that tribal knowledge that humans gain over years.

There’s a certain comfort in a super machine that approaches each case with a clean slate, free from past biases or emotional baggage…but there’s also something unsettling about a system that can’t truly grasp the human depth of justice the way we intuitively feel and interpret it.

Im not sure exactly what my point is here. The more I type the more I’m conflicted.
by antisthenes | 2025-04-09 23:54:29+00:00
> increases in general income levels being soaked up by real estate holders

More than 200 million Americans own their home. They are your real estate holders. So what if they absorb some of these increases?

If your concern is housing for those who don't own a home yet then say that, and the solution to that isn't not doing basic income, but to relax the obsolete local zoning laws that require e.g. 1 acre per home in rural area or "nothing higher than 30ft" in suburban areas, basically flat out banning any density increases.
by userbinator | 2025-04-09 23:54:59+00:00
Technically not, as MBR "legacy" boot just loads the first sector (MBR) of the selected boot device into memory and jumps to it, and BIOSes with Int13 Extensions (mid-90s!) already allowed accessing disks with up to 2^64 sectors.

There's also "MBR the partitioning scheme", which does have a limit of 2^32 sectors or 2TB, but that's not exactly the same as "MBR the boot method".
by krull10 | 2025-04-09 23:55:01+00:00
Yeah, and forget about giving skeleton code to students they should fill in; using an AI can quite frequently completely ace a typical undergraduate level assignment. I actually feel bad for people teaching programming courses, as the only real assessment one can now do is in-class testing without computers, but that is a strange way to test students’ ability to write and develop code to solve certain classes of problems…
by autoexec | 2025-04-09 23:56:18+00:00
> that is exactly the moment companies will start deploying AI in earnest to save money.

Companies are already deploying AI everywhere they possibly can as quickly as they possibly can. They aren't waiting for anything. AI just isn't up to the task of replacing most workers just yet. It's still unclear if it ever will be, but they're shoving AI into everything they can to see how it holds up, to see what it breaks, and to give it more data to work with so that it can hopefully be improved.
by iszomer | 2025-04-09 23:56:46+00:00
Touche. I'm just going to start querying both platforms at the same time to judge the quality of their responses. I only split it due to a recent query when ChatGPT appeared dumbfounded and cited only one source when it parallel, Grok cited fifteen webpages. Query as follows (and outside of this post's context):

- Has there ever been an instance quoted anywhere that said: "In this house we believe that: simplistic platitudes, trite tautologies, and semantically overloaded aphorisms are poor substitutes for respectful and rational discussions about complex issues."?
by jadar | 2025-04-09 23:56:56+00:00
This ranks among those things that are obvious and yet we “study” them expecting a different outcome.

“If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat. For we hear that there are some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, not working at all, but are busybodies. Now those who are such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ that they work in quietness and eat their own bread.” - 2 Thes 3:10b-12
by partdavid | 2025-04-09 23:57:11+00:00
We have already been through some generations of this rediscovery an I've worked at places where graphql type importing, protobuf stub generation etc. all worked in just the same way. There's a post elsewhere on HN today about how awesome it is to put your logic _in the database_ which I remember at least two generations of, in the document DB era as well as the relational era.

If there's one thing I've observed about developers in general, it's that they'd rather build than learn.
by sitkack | 2025-04-09 23:57:14+00:00
What is it with people about the false ethics and recommendation around efficacy this and some bs calculus. The downsides are miniscule, the upsides are reduced cancers across the board.

I just had a doctor offer the HPV vaccine for my daughter as optional, 1, I thought we had already gotten it (my bad) because we ask for all the vaccines and 2, anal, throat and neck cancer. There are many scenarios where HPV could be contracted that aren't voluntary. But preventing HPV is.
by Khalidbinalam | 2025-04-09 23:57:16+00:00
I'm reaching out to share a new demo under my artist project Luminous Lullabies. It’s an original ambient house piece—deep, atmospheric, and emotionally driven, with a sound that's both meditative and moving. This track represents a unique blend of lush textures and subtle grooves, designed to resonate with listeners seeking a journey-like experience.
by jongjong | 2025-04-09 23:58:05+00:00
It's interesting to think about the way in which the Chinese government operates compared to the government of other countries like the US. The US government was conceived as merely a public utility to fund public works; there was no single ideological basis beyond that. Freedom isn't a "single" ideology because it encapsulates all possible ideologies. The ideology rested with the people themselves to implement on an individual basis. The CCP, on the other hand, was conceived as an ideological movement with specific goals.

Now that the Chinese economy has become so important in the world, the ideological aspects are seeping into the economies of all countries, though it doesn't translate well into western politics. I think this is because the western political system was a limited-trust system, it only worked well when the state was anemic; if the state becomes big (cash-rich), companies will find that they can start to earn significant sums of money from the state, they will redirect their attention to catering to the needs of the state and away from the private sector. Unfortunately the western state has no intrinsic ideology, no intrinsic needs or goals, so it will lead to corruption or faux-adoption of external ideologies (as a means to serve private financial interests).

Western governments cannot form genuine ideological movements (besides the ideology of economic pragmatism) IMO because their foundations aren't designed to support anything besides that. They are founded on the principles of individualism and limited state power.
by egypturnash | 2025-04-09 23:58:12+00:00
I'm an artist, not a programmer. I'm not gonna be trying to use AI to code anything. I don't see any hypocrisy here.

I do however greatly enjoy pointing and laughing when I see programmers expressing unhappiness with the prospect of their life shifting from "actually programming" to "endless review of AI slopcode". Does that sound like fun? Is that related in any way to the joy of creation that made you decide to be a programmer? Probably not! But you'll be so productive! You'll be able to work four times harder in the same time, for the same pay! Or less, since obviously the real work is being done by the AI now. Does that possibility make you feel unhappy and sad? Good. Now you know how I feel.

Open-source AI isn't gonna do shit to keep from devaluing my craft. It'll just make it worse. I am no fan of the Mouse but if I can get them to fight all these motherfuckers with a ton of VC investment who want to eliminate every creative job and leave me with no way to scrape out a living then I'm cheering for Disney.
by TulliusCicero | 2025-04-09 23:58:14+00:00
While I'm not opposed to studies like this, we won't ever really know the impact until a country creates a permanent UBI for realsies (even then, it'll probably be a while until the true impact is known).

Being in a temporary study is simply not the same thing as feeling that you could just never have a career ever and still be financially okay.

This may sound like I'm opposed to a UBI, but actually I think getting one eventually would be rad. I just don't think we can easily extrapolate out from a study like this.
Neuro-Symbolic Logic Enhancement for LLMs
by N3Xxus_6 | 2025-04-09 23:58:23+00:00
I’m experimenting with a novel approach that integrates symbolic logic directly into a transformer’s attention mechanism. By using a custom spaCy-based logic parser, I generate a “logic mask” that guides the self-attention layers to focus on logical constructs. In preliminary tests with a fine-tuned LLaMA 3 8B model, this method has shown promising improvements on symbolic reasoning tasks (e.g., achieving around 62% on the FOLIO dataset). I’m eager to hear thoughts and suggestions from the community on further refining this approach. Also please note I don’t have a PhD nor masters in machine learning. Happy to take any criticism good or bad. :)

https://marqcodes.com/logicEnhanced.html
by vkou | 2025-04-09 23:59:48+00:00
If your goal is 'lower the rate at which you'll refinance a bit of debt by a quarter of a percentage point', blowing up your export economy, import and tourism industry, and introducing a national 40% sales tax seems like a really weird way to achieve it.

Given that all of those things would torpedo your ability to actually service debt, both new and old.

But what do I know? /s
by dataviz1000 | 2025-04-10 00:01:29+00:00
"Gutsy Traders Make $1.5 Billion Triple-Leveraged Bet on Nasdaq 100" [0]

This was Monday morning when it was trading ~$40. It is at $53 now. What is 20% increase on $1.5 Billion? $300,000,000.

[0] https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/gutsy-traders-make-1...
by fluidwizard | 2025-04-10 00:02:12+00:00
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by egypturnash | 2025-04-10 00:02:17+00:00
I'm scraping by on less than that in an entire month so maybe the number I pulled out of my ass is a little low.

Bezos makes ~8mil an hour according to some quick Internet searches and that sure is way over the "giant bag of money pretending to be human" threshold IMHO. The idiot-in-chief is worth ~$5mil and he sure is way over that threshold too.