MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krainboltgreene | 2025-04-25 00:06:55+00:00
If someone asked me or my kid "What do you know about Mt. Olampus." we wouldn't reply: "Oh, Mt. Olampus is a big mountain in greek myth...". We'd say "Wait, did you mean Mt. Olympus?"

It doesn't "assume" anything, because it can't assume, that's now the machine works.
by rogerrogerr | 2025-04-25 00:07:31+00:00
This is the note:

> Closed TO NON SKED TRANSIENT GA ACFT EXC PPR 617-561-2500

Which translates to “closed to non-scheduled transient general aviation aircraft, except those with prior permission from calling 617-561-2500”

They just don’t want me flying my Skyhawk in there at 90kts on final, at least without calling them first so they can get some cathartic tongue lashing in before giving me permission.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-04-25 00:09:46+00:00
It's just not an option in most leadership positions. When news comes down that the NSF budget is likely to be cut 55%, being the director of the NSF means deciding how that 55% cut is allocated. Your subordinates need advice on how to make funding decisions, and guarantees that you'll preserve funding for X and Y and Z which are particularly important. And once you start offering such advice and guarantees, you're an active participant in the cuts, no matter how much you personally wish they hadn't happened.
by ojbyrne | 2025-04-25 00:10:45+00:00
I think 4 year olds know how to do that. Follow the exact letter of what they say, but doing everything else outside the bounds of "do this" the way you want to.

I.e. "It's time for bed" means "I'm going to continue to play, just in my bed."

"Go to sleep" means "Pretend to sleep for 5 minutes, then go back to playing." When confronted, say that you woke up after 5 minutes.
by sillyfluke | 2025-04-25 00:10:58+00:00
I don't know, I can feel everyone who has tried and failed to prevent calamity from inside an organization cringe recalling that they had nothing to show for it except lost years and burn out.

As for GP's options, normally I would think B (standing your ground and throwing them a small bone while waiting to get fired) is the most rational option outside of sheer self-preservation. Since its a federal job if you don't know the law it may get little dicey if you go the C route.

My guess from out of leftfield: there is immense pressure and unseen threats being thrown about by admin goons similar to what they did in the attorney general's office in the Southern District of New York, namely: If you don't resign we will fire everyone underneath you. That's what would easily explain this behavior.
by uncomplexity_ | 2025-04-25 00:11:18+00:00
why, what's wrong with it?

on the minecraft tips app, you are paying money for something that saves you time.

on this one, you are paying for the same thing here, unless you wanna reimplement it by your own.

and there are lots of avenues to have an edge, such as support for other framework / libraries, better / more efficient implementation, more configurability / control on possible variants.

please don't shoot down people on their attempts to make a living on their efforts.
by nradov | 2025-04-25 00:12:03+00:00
We should be careful not to make claims that any particular behavior is "more natural". Citation needed. Many cultures place very tight constraints on men approaching women, sometimes to the extent of criminal penalties. I'm not saying this is a good thing — people should be able to live their own lives — but I'm just pointing out that we really have no idea what natural human behavior without cultural influences would even look like.
Show HN: PopUpFeed – I made a second screen app for Movies
by Viper512 | 2025-04-25 00:12:55+00:00
Hey HN, I'm Corey and I created PopUpFeed.

Quite Simply, the idea is facts which "popup" during the movie you're watching on your tablet or phone.

It also tries to search the internet for facts on a movie.

It will share trivia facts, filming locations, scenes, who's in the scene, songs playing, pictures and whatever else I can think of, all timed to your movie.

There's also 3 movies that the audio detection works with. They are : - Back to the future - Jurassic Park - Top Gun: Maverick

Give it a try! Whether it's good or sucks, let me know.
by dzhiurgis | 2025-04-25 00:13:08+00:00
I'm trying to imagine how few things could and couldn't if moved from iPhone:

1. Does bluetooth headphones work? Kinda dealbreaker to go back to cables.

2. Music apps? Soundcloud web app probably ok. I don't use Apple Music much, but I know they have web app.

3. I don't even dream HomePod or HomeKit support. I use HomeKit to open my house, but probably could move it to Home Assistant.

4. Messenger/Instagram web apps suck balls, but I manage to cope.

5. Government Id app - this one ties to phones hardware. Very useful but I'm not extremeley dependent on it.

6. Car Key - dealbreaker to go back to keys/cards

7. Payment card - it's been a decade or so since I use this.

8. Myriad of apps that technically don't require a phone to operate - could probably have a burner phone for this - DJI, Eufy, Tuya, Deye, Wyze, Ewelink, Aqara.

9. EV charger apps - afaik none of them have web interface. Keyfobs are an option, but another thing to loose.

10. Supermarket loyalty apps - screenshot normally works

11. I assume some sort of video calling app exists for it? Is it cross platform?
by _wire_ | 2025-04-25 00:13:10+00:00
//What, exactly, does a social network do?//

<i>It's as if no one had ever thought of any of it before</i>

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_industry

Go on...

//Facebook was where you might find out that your friend was dating someone new, or that someone had thrown a party without inviting you.//

There you have it, straight from the horse's mouth. And from such an auspicious start, an empire was born.
by jumploops | 2025-04-25 00:13:44+00:00
From the GPT-4o System Card Addendum[0]:

> Unlike DALL·E, which operates as a diffusion model, 4o image generation is an autoregressive model natively embedded within ChatGPT.

[0]https://cdn.openai.com/11998be9-5319-4302-bfbf-1167e093f1fb/...
by jrflowers | 2025-04-25 00:14:20+00:00
“Can retreating ever inward, pioneering new and more complete ways of irrevocably shedding any vestiges of human contact that simultaneously engender heretofore unseen levels of emotional dependence on a sterile, unfeeling, monthly subscription based phantom in a screen help with dating? Can forgetting humanity so thoroughly that we can only be comforted by the chatbot shaped absence of it help us to find love?” is so funny.

I was trying to figure out why this is so silly to me and I realized that it’s because this is the plot to American Pie. Like, my man you’re doing a serious thought experiment version of pondering whether Jason Biggs’ character learned cool sex tricks by sticking his penis into the pie and if we could all learn cool sex tricks by fucking pies too. The answer was no, they named the whole movie after that scene because that idea was so stupid that every audience would see the comedy in how incredibly dumb of an idea that was
by hayst4ck | 2025-04-25 00:15:29+00:00
> It is more about observing reality and patters.

I don't agree with this, since people who hold this belief generally ignore second order effects and are immune to hypocrisy/contradiction based arguments. Without respect of contradictions, there is no basis for truth only for feelings and actions, which I think I would call "genetic truth."

Clearly this group is evolutionary conserved, and there must be some truth to that ideology for that to be true.

The first group has to deal with the Karl Popper's paradox of tolerance, which is the rigorous description of what you just said. It requires constant maintenance and adjustment against selfishness and decay, it requires enforcement of universalized principles (assimilation of specific ideas).

The second group must deal with having beliefs that directly contradict reality and freedom and reality asserting itself.

Both groups have different fundamental strategies for the prisoner's dilemma and different failure modes for their strategy.

The first group says there is one theoretically correct strategy, to always trust/cooperate because from a mathematical perspective, under conditions of abundance and an assumption of universality, that is provably the correct strategy.

The second says that if you can win by defecting, you should.

The first group fails when they fail to defect in response to people defecting against them. The paradox of intolerance can be restated in prisoner's dilemma terms: if you think cooperation is always right, then how do you justify defection?

The second group fails by failing to get out of zero sum thinking. They can never be greater than the sum of their parts, they also generally create a ruggedly darwinistic society you wouldn't want to be a part of.
by philwelch | 2025-04-25 00:16:03+00:00
It's not normal for Americans to just have a lawyer ahead of time. But then again it's also not normal for most Americans to routinely get themselves arrested at "protests". So if you're going to engage in activities that are likely to get you into legal trouble, you might find yourself a criminal defense attorney ahead of time. In particular, organized "protests" often have legal assistance from sympathetic lawyers.

It is possible to have an attorney on retainer though, either as a consequence of having hired that attorney in the past or as part of a subscription service.
by nandomrumber | 2025-04-25 00:17:30+00:00
I’m not from the USA, but as far as I understand isn’t education the purview of the states?

And anyway, if you feel that strongly about it, go round up an armed militia and see how far you get. You’re going to need the support of a not insignificant fraction of your fellow citizens, so you’d better get your story straight.

That is to say, you’d better have a rigorous alternative you think will persuade others, and you’re willing to bet your life on.
by bsnnkv | 2025-04-25 00:17:31+00:00
> but the flip side of this attitude is it disqualifies you from the best, most satisfying teams to work on

Speaking for myself, I'm just not interested in this anymore - work is just a single (and not even particularly important) part of a much more vast and rich life I have now

There will also never be anything the best and brightest teams will be working on that will be even half as interesting, engaging or satisfying as the projects I work on in my own time
by bombcar | 2025-04-25 00:17:32+00:00
> One more thing: Is it credible that she had such a high profile job for so long and still be worried about money?

Read threads at bogleheads for a month or so. The eighth post that is a variation on "we have fifteen million dollars in cash, and more in stock, can we afford to buy a used 2008 Accord" and you'll go insane.
by sanderjd | 2025-04-25 00:18:16+00:00
Nah, people have got to stop buying into this unitary executive stuff! Independent agencies have oversight and accountability. Congress can do whatever they want with them whenever they want.

I think it's imminently reasonable to say that agencies shouldn't be independent of the executive, and that's the default if the legislation passed by Congress (and signed by the current executive!) doesn't specify otherwise. But Congress should, and I believe does, have the power to set things up otherwise.
by verteu | 2025-04-25 00:19:41+00:00
Though a far cry from steroids & doping, DeflateGate was found NOT to be explainable by the ideal gas law.

https://web.archive.org/web/20191107043435/https://static.nf...

"we have concluded that it is more probable than not that Jim McNally (the Officials Locker Room attendant for the Patriots) and John Jastremski (an equipment assistant for the Patriots) participated in a deliberate effort to release air from Patriots game balls after the balls were examined by the referee

...

Our consultants confirmed that a reduction in air pressure is a natural result of footballs moving from a relatively warm environment such as a locker room to a colder environment such as a playing field. According to our scientific consultants, however, the reduction in pressure of the Patriots game balls cannot be explained completely by basic scientific principles, such as the Ideal Gas Law, based on the circumstances and conditions likely to have been present on the day of the AFC Championship Game. In addition, the average pressure drop of the Patriots game balls exceeded the average pressure drop of the Colts balls ...

...

Based on the testing and analysis, however, Exponent concluded that, within the range of likely game conditions and circumstances studied, they could identify no set of credible environmental or physical factors that completely accounts for the Patriots halftime measurements or for the additional loss in air pressure exhibited by the Patriots game balls, as compared to the loss in air pressure exhibited by the Colts game balls. Dr. Marlow agreed with this conclusion. This absence of a credible scientific explanation for the Patriots halftime measurements tends to support a finding that human intervention may account for the additional loss of pressure exhibited by the Patriots balls."
by forrestthewoods | 2025-04-25 00:19:46+00:00
I’ll go a step further. If someone is well known it’s more likely than not that they’re a charlatan. Not always of course. But if someone gives 6+ conference talks a year it’s like 80%+ chance they’re a dingleberry.

The world is full of amazingly talented and hard working people. Almost all of them are not on social media.
by anyfoo | 2025-04-25 00:21:01+00:00
I don't understand this discussion. What I said was that for our big projects internally, we keep them warning-free, and -Werror obviously helps tremendously with that. Nobody said you need to ship externally with -Werror, or anything about external libraries the project may be using.

By keeping your own project warning-free in your environment, you are doing a service to everyone.
by cmurf | 2025-04-25 00:21:05+00:00
But if not one thing is yielded to him, if without any violence he is simply not obeyed, he becomes naked and undone and nothing, just as when the root receives no nourishment, the branch withers and dies. - Étienne de La Boétie, Discourse on Voluntary Servitude: Why People Enslave Themselves to Authority
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-04-25 00:21:43+00:00
This works even with a completely absurd version of the riddle. Here's one I just tried:

> A son and his man are in a car accident. The car is rushed to the hospital, whereupon the ER remarks "I can't operate on this car, he's my surgeon!" How is this possible?

Answer from the LLM:

> The answer is that the ER person is a woman, and she's the surgeon's mother. Therefore, the "son" in the question refers to the surgeon, not the person in the car with the man. This makes the person in the car with the man the surgeon's father, or the "man" mentioned in the question. This familial relationship explains why the ER person can't operate – she's the surgeon's mother and the man in the car is her husband (the surgeon's father)
by CamperBob2 | 2025-04-25 00:22:00+00:00
Linking to ChatGPT as a “source” is unhelpful, since it could well have made that up too

No, it absolutely is helpful, because it links to its source. It takes a grand total of one additional click to check its answer.

Anyone who still complains about that is impossible to satisfy, and should thus be ignored.
by emmelaich | 2025-04-25 00:22:14+00:00
That story is disputed, to say the least.

Dex Hunter-Torricke:

>There's a story about when I was playing Mark Zuckerberg at Catan. Sarah suggests I was deliberately letting Zuckerberg win the game, and "brazenly" dismissing her strategic guidance. It's a lovely anecdote that positions our heroic narrator as some sort of principled mind surrounded by a sea of yes men or something, and that we all liked to let Zuckerberg win. Yeah, except that's not what happened at all.

Read on: https://www.threads.com/@dextorricke/post/DHCUpnssuuw/theres...

I for one don't believe it.
by yodsanklai | 2025-04-25 00:22:24+00:00
I find it very disappointing that there aren't more public figures speaking on what's happening and calling out Trump's BS and lies. My guess, they are scared of Trump, but also Trump is still popular so they don't want to take a side. The saddest thing is that American people voted for that guy, and that check and balances don't seem to work. So it's not a Trump issue, it's a US problem.
by kccqzy | 2025-04-25 00:22:25+00:00
What's missing from this explanation is how open outcry trading works. If the "sell 30 April at 142" instruction is barely heard correctly, how would other traders be sure of what they heard and react accordingly? It seems like a messy trading environment where mistakes could easily be made. What do they do to prevent these mistakes and to prevent traders from reneging on the trades? Do they have a ticker tape? Do they have employees who would record all transactions on the ticker tape? How do they go from verbal instructions to a verified record?

Amazing movie though. I just wish I had more context to understand the scene fully.
by ngharo | 2025-04-25 00:23:50+00:00
I met a web developer working for the FSF at a Boston pub one night while in town for a Red Hat conference. After many drinks, he walked us down fifth street to the FSF office building. I wasn’t sure what to expect but when we got there, he typed in some numbers on the door entry system, and what came out was RMS singing the free software song lol. It was a wonderful treat for a young Linux nerd on a hazy adventure in the early morning
by bombcar | 2025-04-25 00:24:25+00:00
I wonder if trying to support strange international address styles (like cities where the numbers on the street are in order of building permit issued, not ordinal from a center point) and/or trying to scan imagery for addresses is confusing it.

The fact it gets the street wrong indicates a tokenization issue somewhere.

Any evidence it happens to non-numeric streets like Main Street or Martin Luther Blvd, or is it only 10th st types of things?
by like_any_other | 2025-04-25 00:25:57+00:00
China is operating police stations in your country [1,2], subverting your elections [3,4], and got you to pass a trade agreement tilted wildly in their favor [5,6]. If you're worried about real sovereignty, your top current threat is China, that will happily pull the strings while letting you have sovereignty in name only.

[1] Why are Chinese police operating in Canada, while our own government and security services apparently look the other way? - https://web.archive.org/web/20220926120429/https://www.thegl...

[2] Canada police probe alleged Chinese 'police stations' in Montreal - https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-police-probe-a...

[3] CSIS documents reveal Chinese strategy to influence Canada’s 2021 election - https://web.archive.org/web/20230217155126/https://www.thegl...

[4] CSIS documents reveal a web of Chinese influence in Canada - https://web.archive.org/web/20230227134241/https://www.thegl...

[5] Canadian governments are locked in for a generation. If Canada finds the deal unsatisfactory, it cannot be cancelled completely for 31 years. China benefits much more than Canada, because of a clause allowing existing restrictions in each country to stay in place. Chinese companies get to play on a relatively level field in Canada, while maintaining wildly arbitrary practices and rules for Canadian companies in China. - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/fipa-agreement-with-china-wha...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada-China_Promotion_and_Rec...
by zemo | 2025-04-25 00:26:47+00:00
sure, that's "what people want" inasmuch as if you put every button through a statistical microscope, that's what the statistics will tell you, but if you give a rat cocaine-dispensing button and measure how many times it hits the "more cocaine" button you'll also come away with the conclusion "rats want cocaine", a thing they never encounter in nature and would never have encountered without you putting it in front of them, and you'll pat yourself on the back and say "now I understand rats: they are all vicious cocaine fiends", but you haven't really learned about rats' true nature, you'll have only conned yourself into a false narrative that confirms that your own actions are only "giving the rat what it wanted", and after it dies of an overdose, you declare yourself innocent. Anyway that's a/b testing and the tech industry.
by hedora | 2025-04-25 00:27:05+00:00
Yeah.

I think project governance matters more than license, and the BSDs are great examples.

Having said that, I’ve soured on the GPL. V3 more-or-less bans companies from selling you hardware that runs free software, but lets Google, Meta, etc use the software to expand their cloud-based monopolies where surveillance capitalism and enshittification have won out.

AGPL or BSL seem much better if you want free as in freedom. BSD and Apache at least don’t force your software off of machines that end users control.

Yes, BSL is not open (TM) or free (TM) or whatever. It’s still better IMHO, since it at least has some path to revenue for the developers.
by electroly | 2025-04-25 00:27:15+00:00
That's the play when your adversary is regulation--the government moves slowly, court cases move even slower, and you can grease the wheels politically.

That is not the scenario here. Cursor is being hunted by an extremely motivated corporate competitor. Cursor has been leeching the gorilla's blood and the gorilla finally noticed. Microsoft doesn't (necessarily) need the law here. They have it if they need it, but they can kill Cursor without needing to sue them. The disastrous outcome isn't a penalty--it's a critical mass of users switching to Copilot because they can't use their Microsoft extensions in Cursor any more. Cutting off the extensions on the same day that their Cursor clone went live was effectively a declaration of war from Microsoft.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-04-25 00:27:17+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scout_Mindset

> The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't is a 2021 non-fiction book by Julia Galef.

> In the book, Galef argues for what she calls a scout mindset: "the motivation to see things as they are, not as you wish they were". The scout mindset emphasizes curiosity, unbiased truth-seeking, and facing reality, even if that reality is unexpected. Galef contrasts this with a "soldier mindset", which she says is a natural tendency to use motivated reasoning to defend one's existing beliefs instead of being open to changing them.

Related:

The Tech Elite’s Favorite Pop Intellectual: Julia Galef on bringing the rationalist movement to the mainstream - https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/04/julia-galef-scout-mi... - April 13th, 2021

Astral Codex Ten Book Review: The Scout Mindset - https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-the-scout-... - September 29th, 2021

Mentioned in the "Appendix: related discussions" section of https://danluu.com/cocktail-ideas/ (2022)
by rcombatwombat | 2025-04-25 00:28:42+00:00
Two points:

From the exit proposal: "Over 97% of contributions to the NATS.io server were made by employees of Synadia and its predecessor company".

Also, when they applied for graduation in 2018, they were told no because most of the contributors work for Synadia (https://github.com/cncf/toc/pull/168). As of now 7 years later, it's still not graduated by CNCF. At this point it likely never will.

Putting yourself in their shoes, are your surprised they want to take it back from CNCF?
by davrosthedalek | 2025-04-25 00:28:48+00:00
I disagree with your first statement. People absolutely can and do provide many things of value while the mental health is declining. In fact, being able to provide things of value is often what helps with the mental health. Don't take that away.

Seeking shelter to heal is certainly one good option, but I also encourage everyone who struggles to seek out help. That's not a fight you have to fight alone. If out break your bone, you see a specialist for fractures. If your mental health is damaged, see a specialist for mental health.