MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by k310 | 2025-04-08 05:28:57+00:00
Welcome to the new world, where one stupid tweet sets off a tweet storm, which is picked up by so-called reputable news agencies, unchecked and set off a market roller coaster. [0]

> Around 8:30 a.m. ET, the National Economic Council's Kevin Hassett was asked during a live Fox News interview whether Trump would consider a 90-day pause to the sweeping tariffs he imposed on many countries last week. Hassett responded: "I think the president is going to decide what the president is going to decide." On X, that morphed into a bogus headline that Trump was considering a 90-day pause on tariffs for all countries except China.

> It appears the X account "Hammer Capital" was the first to share this false report, around 10:11 a.m. ET on Monday. The account has just over 1,100 followers, and it has a blue verification badge, a paid feature that helps enhance the reach of user's posts.

... which was re-tweeted over and over ...

> Around 10:12 a.m. ET, cheers broke out across the New York Stock Exchange trading floor, according to CNN, as the market rallied on the false premise that the White House was weighing a tariffs pause. Reuters, citing CNBC, then published a headline carrying the inaccurate tariff pause report.

> In statements to NPR, Reuters said it has withdrawn the incorrect report, blaming a headline published on CNBC. When asked for comment, CNBC said it "aired unconfirmed information in a banner," which it "quickly" corrected. The network would not comment on the source of its information.

It's truly a post-truth and no-checking world. It's not journalism any more, just move fast and literally break news.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2025/04/07/nx-s1-5355055/tariffs-markets...
by SuperHeavy256 | 2025-04-08 05:30:53+00:00
I used to read Quartz everyday. As a gen z digital native, Quartz was my first foray into reading journalism daily. It's clean interface, direct and high-quality writing style, and lack of clickbait appealed a lot to me.

These days, I read print newspapers everyday. But I still find myself wishing Quartz existed. I have not found any suitable replacement for it, and I am on the lookout for the same.
by robocat | 2025-04-08 05:33:39+00:00
I deeply support community resistance via vaccination programs.

However there needs to be some ability to avoid vaccines for those that are psychologically scarred by the sheer idea of them.

A friend's wife went off the deep end about the vaccine - and it really harmed him, her, and her child. Not everybody is rational. I don't know the solution but I do know we need to find a solution. The needs of the physically susceptible (those we are most trying to protect by herd immunisation) need to be balanced by the needs of the psychologically susceptible (those we harm by herd immunisation).

When something is that important to someone that they will give up their career and livelihood: that's a strong indication that harm is occurring.

Disclaimer: volunteered for all my shots.
by nxobject | 2025-04-08 05:35:43+00:00
It's such a pity 51nb's upgraded ThinkPad project is no longer quite as active as it was. I think the small niche market for hacker-friendly laptops is far too diluted now, especially with qualitatively unique products like the MNT Reform.

https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/1dh04ud/how_do_ge...
by Woodi | 2025-04-08 05:35:51+00:00
So cookie banners go first? As an obsolote "requirement" when all that tracking will be finaly banned? Right ? Just like paper journals - they don't do any identify-your-page-flipper...

And employer will be finally allowed to know his employee name and address?? Without additional paper trail? No, they won't allow that, it will be to sane.
by oulu2006 | 2025-04-08 05:36:42+00:00
"It didn't make sense that the Twilio API would not be able to handle sending 30 SMS messages at once - this seemed like a scaling issue that would be easily resolved through upgrading the plan"

Twilio indeed can't handle batching of SMS requests -- even to this day several years after I asked them to :)

To be specific, what I want is what sendgrid offers, copy + replacements, so I can send the copy I want to send, a list of recipients and a list of replacements for each recipient in a single request.
by saketsarin | 2025-04-08 05:37:29+00:00
Composer Web is an extension that helps you debug better, not build.

And it's not made with AI, but supports building with AI with simple features.

I never said it offers AI/complex algorithm solutions.

I understand your frustration with the current hype of AI wrappers, but I'm just helping out those people here brother.

Please don't judge blindly before actually trying something out. Or maybe it went over your head and you won't be able to understand that it's not at all what you're implying here.
by robocat | 2025-04-08 05:37:55+00:00
> raise the level of scientific and medical rigor [snip] so that people will feel comfortable taking vaccines

That won't help because people mostly aren't scared of the facts.

They are scared by the stories they get via social media.

They are scared by the actions of their government (the foolish words by WHO and the US politicians early in COVID really damaged trust). I'm in New Zealand and we had our own foolish government decisions (often unscientific).

In my experience trust cannot be regained after it is lost.
by uecker | 2025-04-08 05:38:15+00:00
You do not get the same automatic guarantees when not using external tools. But you get almost the same results when using tools readily available and having a good strategy for organizing. I do not have problems with double frees, void type unsafety, or tagged unions in my code. I occasionally have memory leaks, which tooling then tends to find. I certainly have exploitable integer overflows, but those are easily and comprehensively mitigated by UBsan.
by cess11 | 2025-04-08 05:38:57+00:00
Are you sure?

"Nobody interrogates each other's internal states when judging whether someone understands a topic. All we can judge it based on are the words they produce or the actions they take in response to a situation."

I'm fairly sure I wrote something that contradicts these two sentences.

You can commonly figure out whether people are leaking information about how they feel and what emotional and cognitive states they are in, even in text based communication. To some extent you can also decide the internal state of another person, and it's often easier to do with text than in direct communication, i.e. two bodies in the same space.

This idea that people aren't malleable and possible to interrogate without them noticing would be very surprising to anyone making a living from advertising.
by simonh | 2025-04-08 05:39:08+00:00
So, which evidence are you questioning. That Harrison Leggio has identified many North Koreans posing as US citizens? His claim that other companies he is familiar with are finding the same thing?

Are you disputing the evidence from other specific named private citizens in companiess that are reporting this happening, such as Michael Barnhart and Jamie Collier of Google, Bojan Simic of Hypr and Emi Chiba at Gartner who are confirming they have experienced the same activity in their firms? How about the evidence from Aidan Raney, a private security researcher, who reports he personally infiltrated one of these scam operations?

Furthermore it’s not just unsubstantiated claims by US agencies, the article also refers to two successfully prosecuted court cases in which they had to present evidence to secure convictions.

Your criticisms are aimed at US reporting, but the United Nations reports the same thing.
by Const-me | 2025-04-08 05:39:10+00:00
If I were an enthusiast, I would rather consider a mini PC with AMD Strix Halo APU. These things have been coming soon for a few months now.

The memory is slower but not by much, 256 GB/s is much faster than system memory found in most consumer-targeted PCs. The devices have way more memory, up to 128 GB. A system with a Strix Halo APU is a general-purpose computer; these special accelerator cards can only be used for one thing.
by anshumankmr | 2025-04-08 05:39:25+00:00
I had an HP laptop bought in 2016, that worked like a charm and worked perfectly till 2023, when I upgraded to Windows 11, which wasn't supported on it. But in Delhi's Nehru Place, I got the damn thing repaired several times for several times, including battery repairs, a broken keyboard amongst other things, that extended its life quite well. In fact, I was open to using it for more years, though the HDD kind of sucked compared to the SSD.
by Corrado | 2025-04-08 05:39:56+00:00
The UK government wants the ability to decrypt ANY UK users data no matter where they might be located. What do they think, that no other country would follow suit and ask that ITS citizens be "protected" by the same ruling? How short sighted can you be?

And props to Apple for refusing. Time and again Apple has refused to compromise their security in the face of government pressure. I know, I know, they are part of PRISM (and other Snowden leaks) but they are the company most willing to publicly resist. At this point, I wouldn't trust Google to host my dumpcake recipe, and it's terrible.
by zkmon | 2025-04-08 05:39:56+00:00
I grew up in a village, where literally nothing goes waste. Eevrything is recycled. You can't think of anything that is junk. Animal poop and rotten bio-waste makes a great fertilizer for crops. Metal waste is melt by blacksmith, Wood in any form or shape is highly reusable. Plastics are almost absent, but they are sold in exchange for onions etc. Fabric is extremely reused. After reusing multiple time, things end up in a dump at the corner of own premises, which degrades and becomes fertilizer, in time for next crop.
by saketsarin | 2025-04-08 05:41:59+00:00
Hey - it doesn't send the logs and screenshot automatically at any point. All control is in your hands

You can send those on-demand with a mouse click / keybind whenever you want

And there's no server game here either. So no latency issues, context issues, and no worries about privacy either

Btw it's my first time on hackernews and idk if I get notified about anything here, so missed your comment by 2 days. Sorry about that. Feel free to share your thoughts on our discord here so we can have a better conversation about this: https://discord.gg/cyA7NpTUQS
by ashoeafoot | 2025-04-08 05:42:12+00:00
Well, they have no choice. Similar to chinese students abroad who discover freedom and then get a video call of the police visiting their parents . Its like s mafia thing, you do not volunteer to that, you are born into that slavery anf you either serve or get broken . Oh, and than there is the tanki left, refusing to acknowledge the problem, helping to undermine dissenters escapeplans by downplaying the problem . The worst are the ones with good intentions refusing the call to horror that is reality .
by cletus | 2025-04-08 05:42:41+00:00
A lot of the time, a lack of bugfixes comes from the incentive structure management has created. Specifically, you rarely get rewarded for fixing things. You get rewarded for shipping new things. In effect, you're punished for fixing things because that's time you're not shipping new things.

Ownership is another one. For example, product teams who are responsible for shipping new things but support for existing things get increasingly pushed onto support teams. This is really a consequence of the same incentive structure.

This is partially why I don't think that all subscription software is bad. The Adobe end of the spectrum is bad. The Jetbrains end is good. There is value in creating good, reliable software. If your only source of revenue is new sales then bugs are even less of a priority until it's so bad it makes your software virtually unusuable. And usually it took a long while to get there with many ignored warnings.
by re-thc | 2025-04-08 05:45:07+00:00
> If you find you cannot function sitting in conference room with three other people for an hour, there is a 100% chance there is a better candidate suited for the role, even if his/her technical skills are less than yours.

This assumes that was the job? What if the job never talks or sits in a room with anyone?

> Hiring is all about finding the best candidate.

Then what is leet code about?
by Tade0 | 2025-04-08 05:45:10+00:00
It used to be that elders were few and far between, as the population pyramid was, well, a pyramid.

The other day I joked in conversation that I raise my daughters to disrespect the elderly - particularly my generation in the future - as considering the fertility rates (worse than in Japan) in the region, there will be plenty of elderly compared to younger generations.

I'm only half joking really. My own parents are reaching the age at which they would use some help every now and then. I have two siblings, so it doesn't take huge individual effort from any of us.

Meanwhile I'm the only one there who has children and most likely that will remain the case. Should they feel any obligation to help my siblings once the time comes?
by ggm | 2025-04-08 05:45:11+00:00
I would think this re-inforces the performative aspects of the situation. It is very hard to see good-faith negotiations existing between these trade blocs if an offer like this was not discussed seriously.

I believe a reddit observation I have read is that Musk called for "zero tariffs with europe" and a response was "it was 1.4 to 1.5% on average between the US and EU before you blew this up"
by mig1 | 2025-04-08 05:45:13+00:00
I agree with the sentiment of the article but I don’t understand the point they were trying to make here:

“Before, you had to go socialize with friends; now, you can just get drunk with a bunch of strangers. Before, you had to go find a mate, create children and raise a family; now, you can just watch a lot of porn.”

I’d think more of Facebook, Instagram and Netflix or the advertising industry in general like weaponized additions than what I do of alcohol.
by cxr | 2025-04-08 05:45:25+00:00
Mozilla Corporation spends about 60 million a year or more on marketing—which could fully fund the R&D of an entire goddamn browser—and yet the net result is approximately what you'd get if the annual marketing budget were $0.

Don't discount the opportunity that "advertising" presents to smuggle in a bunch of expenses that are either zero or negative on ROI.
by martinpw | 2025-04-08 05:45:35+00:00
Looks like they edited it to remove that end section that shows they just copied directly from an LLM, so here is the original ending of the comment for posterity...

Maybe the solution to preserving cultural heritage isn't always high-tech digital archives, but finding ways to make tradition relevant within existing social practices. RetryGIs this to academic?EditNot at all! Your comment is engaging and conversational rather than academic. It strikes a good balance between showing expertise and remaining accessible.
by zephyrthenoble | 2025-04-08 05:45:37+00:00
I've seen several posts like this recently. The title is something that seems very insightful into something that I've recently been dealing with, and I'm intrigued. I open the web page, read the opening paragraph, and realize that there are only two or three paragraphs. It is the highest of high level content, with more content in the title than in the blog post.

There's nothing inherently wrong with short blog posts. This particular post might even say that it's virtue, except it doesn't bother to expand upon its points at all. What did the OP want out of such a post?

As someone who deals with ADHD, I have read a lot of advice on the internet about how to be more productive. A lot of times, people point out things that seem like very efficient and successful solutions to problems that I have. A common one I see is to become more disciplined, or create a schedule, and you will find a productivity follows. I love this magical thinking because it does not take into account how different individuals deal with modern life. Of course, if I was able to have the discipline to do tasks, I would be more productive. The point is that I have an issue with creating habits or breaking bad ones, and I have found it difficult to find advice specific to my need to get better at sticking to habits with my ADHD brain.

Everyone is very willing to engage at a very high level, giving helpful sound and advice that works for the broadest possible audience; but when you actually examine what they say, you see it is full of holes. Any real person you give this advice to is quickly going to fall through because of their own individual situation and issues. Reading blog posts like this feels more like a way to give our minds a dopamine hit for "successfully accomplishing" something when it has accomplished nothing, and the shorter the blog post and the more general the topic, the sooner you get that hit.

This isn't to denigrate the post itself, I just felt a familiar sense of disappointment when I was able to grasp the entirety of the post in 15 seconds. I guess this is why people like Twitter.
by cess11 | 2025-04-08 05:45:45+00:00
Right, so that was about me having changed something in a Pharo image that was fundamental to the system as such, hence the menus and keyboard shortcuts stopped working. I had to kill -9 from the operating system, and at that point debugging whatever I was debugging didn't feel like a breeze.

But it should be very rare, and besides the change log and similar facilities it's also easy to just make timestamped copies of the image and pushing packages to git.
by ryandrake | 2025-04-08 05:46:03+00:00
I can't think of a single company (besides maybe a tiny start-up where you know all of leadership) where airing ethical grievances through a private, respectful, official channel would accomplish anything. If you're at the point where you're objecting so strongly to something your company is doing on ethical grounds, you're 99% of the way out the door already.

Better to just quit and if asked, quietly note the reason in your exit interview. Banding together and politely petitioning your company is not going to change anything--your employer is not a democracy. And obviously protesting your employer publicly is not going to help, either.

I didn't quite soil my pants like that other guy, but I at least mildly chuckled at the thought of telling my manager in my next 1:1 that I object ethically to some business my 10,000+ person company is engaged in.
by infecto | 2025-04-08 05:46:33+00:00
Come on. There’s a difference between questioning U.S. foreign policy and pretending North Korea is some misunderstood utopia. You’re right that propaganda exists in the West, but that doesn’t mean every criticism of the DPRK is racist or unexamined.

Calling out the regime’s control and the risk posed by state-backed cyber ops isn’t some “classic racist rhetoric”, it’s acknowledging reality. This is a country where you can be executed for watching the wrong movie. Pretending that’s morally equivalent to U.S. hypocrisy is lazy relativism.

Yes, the U.S. has done awful things. Yes, our media should be more critical. But no, I’m not going to pretend North Korean IT operatives raising money for a weapons program isn’t a serious issue just because the U.S. also has nukes. That’s not nuance, that’s deflection
by textlapse | 2025-04-08 05:46:54+00:00
Brains also have several other inputs that an RL algorithm trained from raw data (pixels/waves etc) don't have:

- Millions of years of evolution (and hence things like walking/swimming/hunting are usually not acquired characteristics even within mammals)

- Memory - and I don't mean the neural network raw weights. I mean concepts/places/things/faces and so on that is already processed and labeled and ready to go.

- Also we don't know what we don't know - how do cephalopods/us differ in 'intelligence'?

I am not trying to poo-poo the Dreamer kind of work: I am just waiting for someone to release a game that actually uses RL as part of the core logic (Sony's GT Sophy comes close).

Such a thing would be so cool and would not (necessarily) use pixels as they are too far downstream from the direct internal state!
by tsimionescu | 2025-04-08 05:48:41+00:00
Chess is a very simple game, and having basic general reasoning skills is more than enough to learn how to play it. It's not some advanced mathematics or complicated human interaction - it's a game with 30 or so fixed rules. And chess manuals have numerous examples of actual chess games, it's not like they are pure text talking about the game.

So, the fact that LLMs can't learn this sample game despite probably including all of the books ever written on it in their training set tells us something about their general reasoning skills.
by pstuart | 2025-04-08 05:49:23+00:00
Not sure where you're getting the "overturned" part, but if you're trying to point out the the DNC runs roughshod over party members, then you're right only in the sense that they suck.

What sucks more is having a two-party system -- the game is pretty well rigged by that. Voters have the choice of the lesser of two evils. But at least there's a choice involved.

So, comrade, you have failed to sway me. I don't put party before country, even if I was a party member. I doubt you can say the same.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-04-08 05:50:10+00:00
Not so independent --- and the proof is 'stable coins'.

The simple fact that tying crypto to fiat is the only way to achieve stability undermines the basic argument for crypto's utility and voids much of the rationale for it's existence.

What you're left with is really just another con and the world's most famous con artist is fully on board.
by kortilla | 2025-04-08 05:50:38+00:00
When? In my grandparents generation (born late 1800s to early 1900s) moving to either try to start a farm in the US or to leave a failing farm for a job in town at the local whatever factory was very common.

Post WW2 for the boomers was loaded with people flooding to all kinds of industrial boom cities.

After that it was hollowing out of the rust belt and moving out of cities to suburbs due to the lead/crime epidemic.

Then rich cities boomed back with millennials in a continuous feedback loop where the successful ones became more desirable as money brought attractions/activities/restaurants, draining the failing ones even more.

Then 2020 was the brief mega disruption where people thought the internet might catch on and they found out the vast majority of white collar jobs can be done from home so the fanned out to all of the nice and cheap suburbs, mountain towns, etc. Now the Internet fad has worn off so that’s reversing a bit.

Moving in the US has been very common until this brief lull where you could change jobs without relocating thanks to remote work.

Unfortunately we’re going backwards so it wouldn’t surprise me if constant relocation resumes.
by motorest | 2025-04-08 05:51:40+00:00
> Ahh... the age old, "just do better" position for neurodivergent people. Classic bigotry.

I think you're too eager to throw personal attacks on those who raise valid points that are you feel are uncomfortable to address.

You should be aware that engineering is a social activity that requires hard skills. In any project that employs more than one person, you need to be able to interact with others. This means being able to effectively address and interact with others around you.

If you give anyone a choice, anyone at all, on who they work with, they will of course favor those who they are able to effectively interact with.

This is not bigotry, is it?