MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by saad-tarhi | 2025-04-05 15:30:21+00:00
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by rsynnott | 2025-04-05 15:30:41+00:00
Currently, Trump’s tariffs have kinda broken the stock markets, and caused some difficult-to-measure economic damage (investments will have been delayed or cancelled, that sort of thing). If, tomorrow, Trump chokes on a well-done steak, or Congress puts him back in his box (remember, his ability to do _anything_ with tariffs is entirely within the gift of Congress), or otherwise the tariffs go away, then the markets will pretty much spring back, and the economic hit will be small enough that it’s hard to measure.

While estimates of the damage done by Brexit are of course very politically sensitive, nearly everyone agrees that some substantial damage has been done, particularly to trade and jobs (one estimate has the UK with _over 2 million_ fewer jobs today than it would otherwise have, Goldman Sachs says that the UK economy is 5% smaller than it ‘should’ be, etc etc)
by sureglymop | 2025-04-05 15:31:27+00:00
I missed the boat on that too. I'm your age but I know that it's possible to meet people, it just takes some real effort.

I made a new friend at a hackathon recently. Since you're here on hacker news you could try attending events such as programming meetups, hackathons, tech workshops, conventions etc. It's easier to bond when there are mutual interests.

Otherwise try joining some sports related club, e.g. a local gymnastics or football club or even just a jogging group.

It is different but there are people who want to hang out, even if in the context of doing some other activity.
by NotGMan | 2025-04-05 15:31:33+00:00
The problem is in the very act of creating a false dichotomy of "vibe coder" vs "crafstman": the two extremes exist only in marketing/stupid blogger mentality.

The future programmer will have to use both until true AGI is created.

You cannot prompt yourself out of difficult scenarious without understanding the underlying mechanisms of the problem/solution.

The trivial prompting as in "it's not working for test X, fix it, it should be Y" work right now well only in more simplistic domains and cherry picked example.

This immediately becomes obvious in many gamedev scenarious where AI totaly fails and starts to produce garbage for even trivial things such as not being able to fix "Mouse Y should pitch camera up, not roll it".

I personally did found modern AI useful for some very obscure API cases for which there aren't many docs online. It didn't give me the correct solution but merely creating non-working boiler-plate was enough to give me the insight for how to fill in the blanks.
by Calwestjobs | 2025-04-05 15:31:59+00:00
you forgot to calculate how much of cost of nuclear energy(sic) is going towards removing all CO2, NOx it is generating....

so if you are calculating efficiency of one power plant calculate this into price of another power plant too.

we can build utility PV + 12 hour battery with LCOE lower than nuclear... PV + battery price is for already deployed system. nuclear price is prediction of price of new plant...

Nuclear is dead in the water. And it is not pacific ocean water.
by dtagames | 2025-04-05 15:32:08+00:00
This is fascinating, useful, and slightly terrifying. I definitely want to try sending a screenshot or console logs on command but I'd want to be the one deciding exactly when that happens and in the context of what other prompt. I often say things like, "You can see how..." and I want to be sure that goes with only the screenshot(s) I want.

Because Cursor goes off the rails easily with even a medium sized amount of context, I'm a little leery of letting it include ongoing screenshots or console logs during a thread.
by csa | 2025-04-05 15:32:27+00:00
> I've seen so many posts of $.30 per kwh or even more, as high as $.36.

Iirc, my “off-peak ev rate” is $0.31 with PG&E. Chargers are at $0.35 for cheap ones, and $0.45-$0.55 is fairly typical.

Note that when I got my car in 2021, off-peak rate was $0.16 or $0.18 (which is still expensive, imho).

The power companies were put in an odd spot when every new house in CA was required to have solar. The utilities are essentially guaranteed profits, so the cost of the network is essentially being distributed over fewer customers (the non-solar ones), so prices have gone up a lot.

I will add, gas is about $2 a gallon more (or more) than most other states.
by cle | 2025-04-05 15:32:49+00:00
Every time I read about fact-checking in journalism, I feel like there's a huge gap that nobody really talks about.

It's very easy to present a story that is 100% factually accurate, but that implies causal links or other claims that are not. Our brains love hasty generalizations, and media outlets rely on that to present near-100% truthful facts to their viewers, such that they jump to completely opposite generalizations. We're further primed for this with thought-terminating cliches like "trust the data" and "look at the facts". Media profits enormously from the subsequent outrage.

The more folks talk about "fact checking" without acknowledging the danger of cherry-picking and Texas sharpshooters and confounding variables, like in this article, the less I trust "fact checking" as a useful mechanism for forming opinions from their reported facts. Fact-checking is definitely a requirement, but still insufficient.

This is also exacerbated by narratives like those presented by TAL that introduce enormous complexity to the task, due to the emotional context.
by rsynnott | 2025-04-05 15:33:35+00:00
> They took almost 4 years to do it in January of 2020 after 4 years of arguing about it with a transition period and trade talks with the EU until the end of 2020.

Oh, longer than that. Some transition arrangements are _still in practice in place_, for instance see https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-brexit-border-checks-dela... . Brexit is not done, yet; things will get worse before they get better.
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by varispeed | 2025-04-05 15:34:00+00:00
There's a common mistake in equating class with job title or postcode. Being a consultant doesn't automatically make someone middle class—especially when they don't own the means of production, don't control their work, and can't build anything lasting from it. That's the real distinction. Class is about power and autonomy, not just how polished your CV looks or how many screens are on your desk.

Many skilled workers set up limited companies not to "make out like bandits" but to gain a small degree of control in a system that otherwise offers very little. IR35 took that away, not from boardrooms or multinational firms, but from individuals trying to carve out their own space. It wasn't just a policy shift—it was a signal: you're not allowed to operate outside the machine.

This has little to do with London versus the rest. It's about how the economy is increasingly structured to funnel all meaningful work through large gatekeepers, whether private or public. The destruction of small-scale service businesses - especially in the public sector - didn't just hurt livelihoods. It erased entire layers of local innovation, independence, and pride in craft.

The result is exactly what we see now: a drained workforce with no stake in the outcome, no reason to go above and beyond, and no path to build something of their own. That's not a London problem or a Basingstoke problem. That's a systemic one.
by subscribed | 2025-04-05 15:34:04+00:00
OK? So it's replacing $0.30 worth of part (plus $0.05 for silicone grease probably) instead of replacing the whole watch, right?

Different phone manufacturers are different. Apple now famously changed the design of the last iPhone so it must be opened from the front (expensive screen!) rather than from the back like with the previous model - to make it even harder for the end user to seek he'll outside of apple services.

This is just an example of the intentional hostility. Make deliberate changes that harm costumer in the long run.
by linsomniac | 2025-04-05 15:34:43+00:00
I agree. I'm also interested to see if it actually increases "made in America" goods and whether it has any unintended consequences.

One guy was talking about mini excavators he was buying from China for $8K. The equivalent American brand was over $40K. Prices of the American brands could go up due to foreign components (which won't immediately have manufacturing capacity here, and will likely be even more expensive), 10% would bring it up to $44K. Meanwhile even a 100% tariff on the $8K import would "only" put it at $16K. The people buying the $8K ones aren't going to start buying $44K versions, they'll still buy the import most likely. Meanwhile, it could be that some $40K buyers move to the $16K import, decreasing sales of the American version.

And on top of it all, retaliatory tariffs from other countries could decrease exports of the American product, reducing sales even further.
by glenstein | 2025-04-05 15:35:22+00:00
This feels largely like a gish gallop away from the parts of topic that would be pertinent to the article. The article in question here is about This American life and I don't think the reason it got past people's critical filters was because of a reflexive instinct to believe state department narratives. I think it had a lot more to do with the credibility of this American life, the motivations of the person being interviewed as the primary source for the story, and the narrative beats that this American life was interested in representing to its audience.

>But the positions of the U.S. government and its vassal states are not defacto truth.

I don't know that anyone here is making that argument, so I'm not sure it's a prudent use of time to be engaging with it, and I think engaging would take us further away from the article with increasingly diminishing returns.
Ask HN: What makes a HN post popular? Looking for ideas beyond the obvious
by mueden15 | 2025-04-05 15:35:56+00:00
I’m analyzing the relationship between post popularity and post features - trying to understand what makes certain posts resonate more than others. So far, I’ve been looking at standard factors like text length, topic and timing.

Now, I’d like to consult the swarm intelligence of HN: What subtle or overlooked features do you think make a post catch fire? - Have you written or shared content that unexpectedly did really well - or flopped - and why do you think that happened? - Personal experiences, unconventional ideas, or even half-baked theories are welcome. I’m hoping to uncover some less obvious insights, or at least expand the list of features worth analyzing. Thanks in advance!
by rizsyed | 2025-04-05 15:36:17+00:00
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by PaulHoule | 2025-04-05 15:36:21+00:00
In Ithaca, NY property taxes have become a left-wing issue as tenants realize that they pay them too. It's particularly tough in Ithaca because so much land belongs to Cornell, Ithaca College and local government so only a fraction of the land carries the whole tax burden. Last year the school district tried for a 13% tax increase which was handily voted down in an area which values education and developers, who expect a tax break for anything new they build, are facing more and more scrutiny over it.
by mcphage | 2025-04-05 15:36:22+00:00
> But for this specific case, would it have been any different a year ago?

Yes? They may have kicked her out of the country—not locked her up for 19 days.

> Because saying "oh it was all just a mistake, I didn't realize I got the wrong visa" is like saying "oh it was all just a mistake, I thought that sign said speed limit 80 MPH, not speed limit 30 MPH".

And if someone said that, do you think they should get locked up for 19 days?
by rsynnott | 2025-04-05 15:37:00+00:00
Thing is, Brexit didn’t _really_ happen in 2020. The UK was, for practical purposes, in the single market until 2021 under a transition arrangement, and even after that, it kind of petered out over years. Some special arrangements are _still in place_: https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-brexit-border-checks-dela...
by NotGMan | 2025-04-05 15:37:21+00:00
I fully agree in theory. In practice everything gets poisoned due to the circular earth global-level natural recyling system.

So basically you need to steam distill water to remove pollutants, plant your own veggies in non-plastic containers, test your own soil, keep your kids out of public schools...

It's doable, but you really need to put in the hours!
by bediger4000 | 2025-04-05 15:37:46+00:00
Sure, but if you can't find out some is toxic or cancer causing, this is impossible. I'll note that asbestos' health effects were covered up for years. If you're not an expert you can't know. That's why there was a regulatory state.

Also there's a little economic concept called "externalizing". I come to your neighborhood, set up a popup forever chemical factory, foul your neighborhood, and when you figure out your children are born with spina bifida because of my factory, I leave at 3am. I externalized the health effects, but I made a tidy profit!
by snozolli | 2025-04-05 15:37:54+00:00
If we have the opportunity to revive a species that humans exterminated, and said species doesn't present any immediate and obvious danger to humanity, then we absolutely should.

Worst case (according to the article's arguments) we get depressed, ill mammoths that actually damage the ecosystem. So exterminate them again, I guess, and try again when the science improves? Nothing was lost.
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by jauntywundrkind | 2025-04-05 15:37:57+00:00
Agreed. The genie isn't going back into the bottle. While connecting with that world has lots of downsides, it is also incredible and fascinating. Humanity does some amazing things, has amazing people, and social media does give us lots of glimpses of others.

The anti-social networking anti-online people need to do a lot better than their useless squalid whining & saying we should turn it off & touch grass instead. Get a little more creative than that, find something less than the polemic version to advocate for.
by krnsll | 2025-04-05 15:38:56+00:00
> I wonder how helpful it would be for music and art education if AI could help us deconstruct some songs.

Was thinking along the same lines as I fell into the trap of Ghiblifying pictures earlier this week. As someone who spent countless hours in my childhood trying to copy the styles of my favorite comic books (Japanese and otherwise), at some point in this AI exercise I started rendering each picture in the artistic styles of each of my favorite artists and placing them side by side for comparison. Realized an exercise like this would have been very useful back when I drew in comparing different styles and what _exactly_ made them different. Maybe it speaks more to how I think —- lacking a true artistic intuition —- but simply comparing styles and giving words to their distinctions helped me appreciate them in a way I hadn't (of course the AI didn't produce a perfect representation but a crude enough approximation)
by isleyaardvark | 2025-04-05 15:39:16+00:00
People often say there is no contradiction by looking at it on a philosophical level, but it's interesting to look at it at a more meta level, namely the fact that Rand felt she needed SS.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ayn-rand-social-security/#...

> Pryor: I had read enough to know that she despised government interference, and that she felt that people should and could live independently. She was coming to a point in her life where she was going to receive the very thing she didn't like, which was Medicare and Social Security.

> I remember telling her that this was going to be difficult. For me to do my job, she had to recognize that there were exceptions to her theory. So that started our politial discussions. From there on - with gusto - we argued all the time the initial argument was on greed. She had to see that there was such a thing as greed in this world. Doctors could cost an awful lot more money than books earn, and she could be totally wiped out by medical bills if she didn't watch it. Since she had worked her entire life and had paid into Social Security, she had a right to it. She didn't feel that an individual should take help.

Emphasis added. If a successful writer, who built their success on their supposed keen insights on business, the economy, and their relation to the government, if that writer could be totally wiped out and feel the need to take Social Security, what chance do the less successful have? Or should they just die?
by krapp | 2025-04-05 15:39:33+00:00
>There are whole communities in the US that lived for generations on civic duty and kindness of heart.

But not entirely. Living in the US means they take advantage of the American capitalist system and infrastructure to some degree, which means they benefit from taxation. And obviously they pay their taxes otherwise the men with guns would have shown up.

And again, the free rider problem is intractable at scale. You can't simply build "community structure" and expect everyone to buy in. If that were possible, we wouldn't need laws at all, we could just expect everyone to play nice. And the fact that most people play nice by default doesn't imply laws aren't necessary.

And we can centrally fund and manage problems. That does work. Look at the numerous public work projects in the US like Hoover Dam, NASA, interstate highways, modern agriculture, the internet. None of that happens if all you can depend on is kindness of heart.
by chuckadams | 2025-04-05 15:39:36+00:00
Oddly, I'm moving all my stuff to k8s because of how convenient and easy everything is to admin with tooling like k9s. But I've only ever worked with toy clusters with nodes in the single digits, and I can see what a nightmare debugging something like networking or storage at scale can be.

Also, helm gave me a loathing for yaml I never knew I had in me. I avoid some of helm's more vulgar gyrations by using helmfile, but I'm also giving yoke a look.