MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jmyeet | 2025-04-13 00:27:32+00:00
So I'm normally a fan of science but I'm torn on this one because, as far as I can tell, there's no clear objective with this collider. It just seems to be bumping up collision energy (to ~100TeV) and hoping something interesting pops out.

The LHC had a clear objective: to experimentally validate the Higgs boson, which it did. There have been a ton of experiments since but AFAIK all those have really done is invalidated various theories. That has value, for sure.

But it really seems like we need to play catch up and work out a theoretical model in what we'd actually search for with a bigger collider, rather than hoping higher energies will break something significant in the Stnardard Model in such a way that it'll give us a clue to a theory beyond the Standard Model.

Think of it like looking for a treasure ship. As a salvager you may know from historical records that a given Spanish ship, carrying gold and silver from the New World, sunk on its way back to Spain. You may have developed a model to really narrow down where on the ocean floor you want to search. That's what the LHC was. But this seems like throwing a dart at a map and searching the ocean floor to see if anything interesting shows up.
by Retric | 2025-04-13 00:28:06+00:00
Those are wildly different crossovers. That glass roof on the Y adds a lot of weight, it’s kind of silly how popular such an impractical feature became.

The other common issue with EV’s is many don’t integrate the batteries casing as a structural element. Skipping the lead acid battery would also be useful, but that’s a different issue.
by hackingonempty | 2025-04-13 00:28:29+00:00
He has a plan, it is called Project 2025. Trump appointed the authors of the Project 2025 plan and they are executing it. Here is the chapter on trade and tariffs, authored by Peter Navarro who is currently Trump's senior counselor for trade and manufacturing.

https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHA...
by Saline9515 | 2025-04-13 00:29:00+00:00
Paris has an ever increasing congestion caused by those measures, as most of the drivers are professionals linked to the city's economic activity who need to get there. Deliveries, constructions vehicules and workers, and so on. It is so bad that surface public transports are being shunned and see usage decrease because they are too slow.

https://www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/paris-ville-la-plus-embou...
by nickt | 2025-04-13 00:29:19+00:00
> * Auto convert all incoming letters to emails. Should save them delivery costs, especially when the sender uses the reverse service.

Back in the 1990’s when I moved away from the UK they had the opposite service. You send an email and the Royal Mail sends it as a letter. I forget the name of the service but it was a good way to “email” someone before everyone had email. I still think it’d be nice to have today.
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-04-13 00:29:28+00:00
I've observed similar things to happen in other tools too - third-party tools that will list a certain set of file formats by default, and enable Autodesk formats if C:/Autodesk is present.

It seems to be most common in systems that cross major business domains (or come from completely separate companies). If you could just add an entry to the featureful, versioned, controlled config file then you'd do that, but if you can't developers frequently resort to the "does this path name resolve" heuristic.
by abetusk | 2025-04-13 00:29:38+00:00
There's a sentiment here that I think is valid and I'm struggling to tease out the best version of it, along with providing a valid response.

I'll mention that, in an extreme case, one could provide a proof-of-work challenge that's directly tied to some cryptocurrency mining effort, so that the work/energy expenditure is captured by the one providing the challenge. This has the effect of the challenger giving money to the one providing the challenge, just in a real-time proof-of-work way. Since money is effectively being exchanged anyway, this punishes systems that don't allow up-front payments to do away with the page load delay.
by marcusb | 2025-04-13 00:30:33+00:00
> Usually there is a hidden variable that you don't know.

This is frequently the case. I've worked at big employers (comparable in level of corporate-ness to Google if not absolute size) where the layoff process, roughly was:

1. Aggregate layoff target gets set and apportioned amongst functional leaders, then targets cascaded down to the line manager level.

2. Managers fill out a stack ranking spreadsheet for their team across a few metrics including a boolean "diversity" field[0]. There were many rumors about the "diversity field", most notably that anyone so flagged would not be fired, but so far as I could tell these were false (see point #4)

3. People to be fired are developed based on these lists (I.e., if a manager has to fire two people, then the two lowest-ranked employees per the spreadsheet are selected.)

4. HR does a meta-analysis of all to-be-fired employees, ensuring that a disproportionate number of employees from protected classes are not impacted. If too many are, then some of the next-lowest-ranked employees are selected to be fired in their stead.

As far as I could tell, the only part of the process where any sort of individual, human consideration was occurring was maybe at the line manager level if they decided to tweak the stack rankings based on who they felt deserved to be protected. And then, to the extent that happens, you have all the problems with bias and favoritism that come into play.

0 - I realize this is probably controversial, but I saw it with my own eyes.
by mrandish | 2025-04-13 00:33:55+00:00
There's definitely a correlation between higher spectacle and poorer storytelling and less artful visuals. I was discussing this recently specifically in the context of less 'cinematic' cinematography in VFX-heavy super hero films and arrived at three primary conclusions:

* There are specific reasons for this correlation driven by the additional on-set shooting requirements placed on the cinematographer, lighting director and camera team to support VFX. This takes time and focus away from artfully lighting and lensing the live action elements and producers don't always budget sufficient time for both. When something has to give, it isn't going to be shooting the VFX plates.

* There are specific aesthetic reasons driving this. On a film with 2000 VFX elements that will later be layered into almost every live action scene, the cinematographer and lighting director are understandably reluctant to light or lens expressively beautiful shots because matching those shots can be more challenging for the VFX teams. It's easier (and faster) for everyone if the cinematographer lights and lenses with a more flat look. I recently saw an interview with the cinematographer on the Marvel series Loki (Season 2) and he said that he talked extensively with the VFX director specifically about this issue and the VFX director was unique in telling him, "Nope, shoot it how you really want to and we'll match you." Obviously, this was enabled in-part by the Marvel-level budget and talent. But it's interesting that it's rare enough to be notable.

* Ultimately, there's good evidence that VFX-heavy films don't have to look "flat HDR boring". We have counter-examples like "The Batman" (2022) proving a VFX-soaked super hero movie with beautifully expressive lighting and principle photography is possible. It's just hard, requires more time and money and you need highly skilled people.

The thread is here and includes links to several good videos with example clips: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43560111
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-04-13 00:34:05+00:00
Whatever you think of Sabine, it's not accurate to dismiss this as spinning lies for clicks. Very similar core points are also made here:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00793-x

It seems accurate that this is an expensive proposed experiment with less expensive alternatives, with very real debate about costs and benefits.

I'm in the "spend more money on theory first" camp. You keep saying that theorists should guide experimenters, but you seem to mean that in the limited sense of poking a little harder at the Standard Model and hoping it breaks.

Meanwhile there are all kinds of open questions where fundamental theory around and parallel to the Standard Model is underdeveloped.

It might well be better to spend a few billion on doing something about that first, then designing experiments to test whatever falls out.
by greatgib | 2025-04-13 00:35:44+00:00
First it will be optional, then it will be mandatory for some cases (in China, in Trump's US), then it will be mandatory in some companies, so the AI can watch employees, do accurate reports about their day to day activities, then it will mandatory for everyone (for security reason, ensuring you don't work on harmful things, because knowing what you do is important for Microsoft to know what to improve, to sell you ads based on your activity)...

In case of doubt, remember that Microsoft assholes sold a feature in Office 365 To report to boss users activity, like number of email typed, time on keyboard, looking at email in outlook, ...
by ryao | 2025-04-13 00:36:02+00:00
Both C and C++ release new versions. The compilers continue to support the old versions and people continue using the old versions (less so in the case of C++). Rust’s compiler drops the old version every time it has a new release.

There is no `-std=1.85` in rust 1.86. You do get `-std=c++98` in both g++ and clang++. A book on C or C++ is still useful even decades later since the version of C or C++ described does not become abandonware at some well defined point after release, unlike Rust releases.
by lifthrasiir | 2025-04-13 00:36:35+00:00
It originates from the code page 37, which is the EBCDIC-based character set for US and Canada. At least initially EBCDIC code pages are numbered sequentially while PC DOS code pages were numbered more or less randomly; I have no clue why it is the code page 437 and not 337. (I can see why it is not 137 nor 237, as later code pages were numbered from 251.)
by Natsu | 2025-04-13 00:37:14+00:00
The tester they give is basically just a pulse oximeter that logs your heart rate and SpO2 all night. I'm not sure how they interpret it, but I'd imagine that if your heart rate goes crazy and your oxygen drops, that's probably bad.

Otherwise you can look at questionnaires that ask things like whether you wake up a lot at night or snore, etc.

That said... it's pretty easy to just get a device that they give you that you connect to your phone to log data for a night. And they know what they're doing when they interpret it. So I would recommend that, since it's really easy to just go to a place and get a device and do a test.

This isn't like it used to be where you'd have to sleep in some strange place.
by mdp2021 | 2025-04-13 00:37:39+00:00
> random number generator

But the use of randomness inside the system should not prevent, in theory, as-if-full reliability - this stresses that the architecture could be unfinished, as I expressed with the example of RAG. (E.g.: well trained natural minds use check systems over provisional output, however obtained.)

> newer long context models

Practical question: if the query-contextual documentation needs to be part of the input (I am not aware of a more efficient way), does not that massively impact the processing time? Suppose you have to examine interactively the content of a Standard Hefty Document of 1MB of text... If so, that would make local LLM use prohibitive.
by techpineapple | 2025-04-13 00:38:00+00:00
The thing that’s really been getting to me, is that, I’m liberal, not pro-Trump, but the MAGA American heartland story has been really getting to me. I want to see small business, manufacturing, small town American succeed. And there’s some part of me that thought maybe Trump, as much as I don’t like him, is the thing that is needed to make that happen, but man it seems like he’s really fucking over the people who supported him the most.
by Barrin92 | 2025-04-13 00:38:03+00:00
The budget deficit is not the trade deficit. You are not taking on debt when you purchase a foreign good, just like you as an individual don't take on debt when you go to Walmart and exchange money for goods but Walmart doesn't buy anything from you.

The US domestic economy is vastly larger than its foreign trade (which is only 20% of America's GDP), so you can in fact run a persistent trade deficit and a budget surplus at the same time, which the US actually did for a while during the 90s and early 2000s. We need to teach more economics honestly.
by phforms | 2025-04-13 00:39:34+00:00
My Emacs wouldn’t be the same without Prots modus themes[1], which I found to be a great foundation to build my own theme on top of. I am grateful for all the work he did for the Emacs community.

I also enjoy watching his videos where he talks about various philosophical topics from a very clear, pragmatic and down-to-earth perspective. My impression is that he is a really kind and humble person and that he lives by his philosophical insights, without bragging about his lifestyle or judging about how other people live their lifes.

[1]: https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes
by nullfield | 2025-04-13 00:43:54+00:00
I still am not going to rent software like this. I get why you need MRR or something, but if that’s the case sell me the product-$30? $40?-after a brief trial, and promise a year? the next major version (or at least a year)? of upgrades.

Then don’t cause major versions casually, and charge a reasonable upgrade fee when more value is delivered with a major upgrade.

I get that you have expenses, and things like servers cost money-but you’re not providing the server here.
by ryao | 2025-04-13 00:45:45+00:00
My copy of The C++ Programming Language for C++98 is still useful today, as is copy of The C Programming Language for C89. The idea that these books are no longer useful is absurd. Modern compilers still support those versions and the new versions are largely extensions of the old (although C++11 changed some standard library definitions). The only way you could think this is if you have zero knowledge of these languages.
by PaulHoule | 2025-04-13 00:45:57+00:00
Sounds like you want to make an "app store" for the kind of FaaS that you've developed.

Maybe the industry has moved forward but from 2010-2015 when I was interested in this sort of thing there seemed to be a zillion products aimed at the API economy, some venture backed, some of which spent an fortune on annoying ads and blog sponsorship (spam?) which supported numerous "I could care less" and "nice to have" features but none addressed the problem of billing people and taking payment for an API -- the one feature which you need to have a business.
by olebedev | 2025-04-13 00:45:59+00:00
I use iced, the idea behind is great - elm architecture. However, the attitude of maintainer that doesn’t bother to be involved in discussions in their discord and merge behemoth size changes with no review makes me think more and more if it’s a good choice.

I recently started looking at the xilem which is also elm architecture inspired abd being developed openly and with proper engineering practices, however it is at very early stages just yet.
by keepamovin | 2025-04-13 00:47:04+00:00
Don’t do this. When you open source stuff you want to monetize, people will take it and not pay you. This is not ideal, but real.

If you released the code do it under a non permissive, commercial license and add license key activation and telemetry. Don’t let anyone use it for free. If you want to be generous give people a temp SaaS free tier. Don’t trade your time and IP for Stars, trade it for dollars.

People will not reciprocate if you just give them avenues to free use. they will take, then act entitled if you ever charge. Keep it locked solid from the start.

That other thing to avoid is companies that try to use contracts or employment to rip off your IP because they assume that as you are a developer building stuff you’re an easy mark. Protect yourself from such abusers. Many “legitimate” companies use highly shady practices to try to exploit the individual selling good IP.

Just use one of the good ideas and productize the shit out of it. You got this.
by stackedinserter | 2025-04-13 00:47:28+00:00
Oh interesting, look it's our empathy beacon right here.

Have you ever tried to figure out where did these money go? People like you keep parroting "feeding children", but when I read actual list of orgs funded by USAID, it's all nice words and stock pictures with very little actual data.

Yes, I look for metrics like for that N million dollars M thousand kids were fed. Without that it looks like corrupt sink hole, that it actually is.

Learn empathy, send me $100 monthly, I promise to spend them for good.
by ks2048 | 2025-04-13 00:47:40+00:00
> I actually like XML. It isn't "cool" like YAML anymore, but it has better tooling support (e.g. schema checking) and doesn't try to be too clever. Just try to stay away from namespaces and don't be afraid of using attributes.

I agree with this (even though, In practice I usually just use JSON or YAML) - it avoids some of the pitfalls of both JSON and YAML - has comments, lacks ambiguity. The main annoyances are textContent (is whitespace important?), attributes vs children, verbosity of closing tags, etc.
by prologic | 2025-04-13 00:47:53+00:00
I've read about Anubis, cool project! Unfortunately, as pointed out in the comments, requires your site's visitors to have Javascript™ enabled. This is totally fine for sites that require Javascript™ anyway to enhance the user experience, but not so great for static sites and such that require no JS at all.

I built my own solution that effectively blocks these "Bad Bots" at the network level. I effectively block the entirety of several large "Big Tech / Big LLM" networks entirely at the ASN (BGP) by utilizing MaxMind's database and a custom WAF and Reverse Proxy I put together.
by Saline9515 | 2025-04-13 00:50:36+00:00
Le Grand Paris...mostly doesn't involve Paris, as it's a new metro loop around it.

Besides, what your say about the speed limit is false, the mayor didn't wait for the State's answer and decided unilaterally. The State and the region didn't agree with her: https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2024/09/09/anne-hid... https://www.lepoint.fr/politique/la-region-ile-de-france-ref...

You can consider as much as you want, it is not unified. The result is that Paris has an anti-car policy, but the neighboring towns are very pro-car, creating a system where Parisians can't own one, but have to bear their neighbor's who use them to get into the city.
by ryao | 2025-04-13 00:51:07+00:00
I wrote a new daemon in C the other day. Plenty of people will continue to write software in C. Some will even write it in C++. There is nothing you can write that will convince the world to stop writing software in these languages. We went through this once with Java. We are going through it with Rust. We will go through it with Zig or whatever it is that people say everyone should adopt next instead of Rust and all else that came before it.
by sigmar | 2025-04-13 00:52:00+00:00
My view- she, like many, has been conditioned by social media to optimize for clicks by having contrarian and anti-establishment views. She's not positioned to have a particularly well-researched opinion on 95%+ of the topics she covers (which is understandable considering how many hundreds of videos she has made). I watched her for a bit, but stopped when I researched a topic deeper and found her analysis very superficial. Physics is a huge field. Think it is always better to find experts in a particular subfield and hear their views, rather than follow the feed of someone who repeatedly expresses the "everyone else is wrong" schtick
by ryao | 2025-04-13 00:52:16+00:00
In COBOL’s case, nobody really wanted to write software in it in the first place. People used assembly or FORTRAN at the time. MBAs wanted a language corporate secretaries could use, so they made COBOL. It failed at its main purpose, but since IBM pushed it for business processing, people were coerced into writing software with it since if they did not use it, they would not have a job. As the industry developed, they stopped finding new people that they could coerce into using it and the old people started retiring/dying. Unlike COBOL adoption, C and C++ adoption occurred because software engineers wanted to use them due to merit.
by raducu | 2025-04-13 00:53:06+00:00
That's what you get for electing a president with the intelectual and emotional maturity of a 5 year old.

Oh, oh, also, electing a felon, you get a lot of grifring, including, but not limited to the trump crypto scam, the insider trading Trump boasted about on video (about his friends making billions in the stock market).

This guy is not playing 5d chess guys, he's just a clown surrounded by yes men.
by mdp2021 | 2025-04-13 00:53:29+00:00
Afterthought: I realize my reading of the original post should have been more attentive;

nonetheless, I would still object that the ideas proposed (e.g. "reproduction" and "paraphrasing") cannot be taken without further specification. The fault is not at that generic level. And the context we should be after should not be this provisional one, of an unfinished technology.
by guywithahat | 2025-04-13 00:54:11+00:00
Really what they should do is use some management site to simultaneously post to Facebook/X. What will be really stupid is when Democrats take office, and then they change to some other site, and then Republicans take office, and they return everything to X.

The goal should be to maximize access at minimal cost. Social media posts maximize access, and it's not hard to post to multiple sites at once. There are a million different tools for it, and it could be as simple as the social media maintainer posting twice
by techpineapple | 2025-04-13 00:54:35+00:00
Are they trying to imply that natural language is easier than wysiwyg? What in the AI-hype-cycle is this? There’s a time and place for everything, but the idea that wysiwyg or other visual forms of code editing are dead is insanity. I think one of the amazing things about the AI “LLMs will replace everything’s hype is just how bad natural language so often is.
by beeflet | 2025-04-13 00:55:12+00:00
It's a reference to a movie called "Empire of Dust" where a chinese-led team has a hard time building infrastructure in Africa.

Whether or not some third world country is worth developing is an economic question, not a moral one. And even if it is, the question of whether or not you will be able to monetize that relationship by the end of it is another one. What the chinse are doing now is basically IMF-style debt trapping of other nations, which doesn't seem like a successful strategy historically.

The bottom line is that if the natives don't want to cooperate with whatever civilization you're building, it's not going to work out. Look at what happened to the USA in afganistan (and pretty much every empire that stepped foot in there). I don't think that's racist, I think it is pretty optimistic outlook towards the sovereignty of nations.

There is a really great movie called Bitter Lake about this, by Adam Curtis.
by ks2048 | 2025-04-13 00:55:12+00:00
I'm not sure "total" vs "turing-complete" should be a huge difference - just terminate with an error after X seconds.

For example, can "total programming languages" include: "for i in range(10000000000000): do_something()"?

If so, your config file can still hang - even though it provably terminates.