MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by CRConrad | 2025-04-14 09:16:28+00:00
> Oooh, you sound pissed.

Big fucking wonder, after the tone of your previous comment???

> I can tell you though why my comment sounds defensive; it's because I care about the tool and the community invested into it.

You need to find better ways to show that care.

> Despite having virtually no better alternative in its category, it is still not a very popular tool

Then maybe there actually are lots of better alternatives, by the potential users' own judgement. If it were actually percieved as good, it would be more popular. Seems the evangelism for it is just failing. You don't think you're exhibiting a prime example of how and why that is...?

> Disingenuous remarks similar to yours

What the fucking fuck was "disingenuous" about it??? Someone said (paraphrasing), "Oh, inserting M-dashes in Emacs is easy, you just type Ctrl-Meta-Alt Youdelihoo blah-blah...", and I responded "That's too fucking long to type." Then you came and moved the goalposts with your, uh, "continuations", was it? I feel it's not me who's being disingenuous here.

> do a disservice to the community of its users, maintainers and interested newcomers.

I started my comment by pointing out that I was a potential newcomer. Wanna guess what shit like this does to my level of interest?

And not only mine: Everyone else who sees examples of "Emacs evangelism" like this, including everyone who stumbles across this exact thread.

> Feel free to blame me for not describing it properly,

Will do.

> don't blame the tool.

If you're a typical example of the user / evangelist base -- and I have no reason to believe otherwise -- I'll blame the tool, too: For what its community turns its users into. (ETA: I'm enough of an asshole already, I don't need Emacs to make it worse.)
by fennecfoxy | 2025-04-14 09:16:32+00:00
As they should do even for a Google search.

I see search engines as a dripfeed from a firehose, not some magical thing that's going to get me the 100% correct 100% accurate result.

Humans are the most prolific liars; I could never trust search results anyway since Google may find something that looks right but the author may be heavily biased, uninformed and all manner of other things anyways.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-04-14 09:17:04+00:00
>but you may be a little young to remember any of them. I'm 45

> Social security isn’t an income tax because we have a tax called the income tax.

I took too long to be able to edit my other comment but I should have asked who said this? Because "social security" isn't a tax at all. In my other comment I assumed you meant tax we pay to fund SS but this still leaves me confused, can you provide me with a quote that shows the lie?
by Ambadassor | 2025-04-14 09:17:33+00:00
If you're running Home Assistant and your LEAF is from before 2019, you may be able to replace the scraping part with the Nissan Leaf integration https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/nissan_leaf/. Their iOS app also has support for custom widgets https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/integrations/ios-wi... which might suffice for what you're trying to achieve.

It's unfortunate that newer cars are not supported.
by roenxi | 2025-04-14 09:17:37+00:00
> being stuck in a situation where your livelihood can disappear at a moment's notice due to factors beyond your control is no way to live

That is literally the only way to live. Disaster stalks us an is only ever one misstep away (sometimes literally). In rare instances people can even just fall over and die.

In the sense that there should be food and shelter for everyone, even poor people; strictly speaking I think most countries have already agreed to that. Although how well that gets implemented is open to a lot of debate. But beyond that everything can always change at a moments notice.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-04-14 09:18:42+00:00
> But if this is all we settle for we’re like dogs fighting for scraps.

Who is settling for this? It's just one battle when multiple battles occur at the same time and we don't stop fighting.

Are you saying too much is being focused on this issue? I think it's something that if we don't do that then it will only get worse.
by sublimefire | 2025-04-14 09:19:23+00:00
> Lots of early funding ($480M+ within a year of emerging from stealth )

> By May 2023, ARR reached $200M, and by February 2024, it was $350M

There is little substance about how the invested money was absorbed and how that absorption led to such an ARR. Did it pay for integrations and hand holding for each contract? Or was it used to bluntly bribe the CISOs to use their product?
by DonHopkins | 2025-04-14 09:20:33+00:00
Makes perfect sense to me! ;)

THE CONGRESS - Entering The Animation Zone - Film Clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pqzaZcivh4

THE CONGRESS clip1- Miramount Nagasaki Lobby:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPGhw4nACfk

This actually explains it pretty well:

The Congress - Escape from Reality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ1hFKDCpd8
by immibis | 2025-04-14 09:20:36+00:00
I'm unsure how to understand your comment because both things exist on Reddit:

1. subreddits where sane things are removed and their posters are banned in order to astroturf a moderator's insane opinions as normal

2. subreddits where insane things are removed and their posters are banned, as they should be, but the banned posters (who can be very numerous!) try very hard to make it out like it's situation 1.
by LeonM | 2025-04-14 09:21:04+00:00
I'd say it is actually perfect that it is last on the list.

Capital alone won't make a business succeed, and more capital won't make a business necessarily better. A big investment is typically the result of doing everything right before that. They would have never been able to get that amount of capital without a very solid foundation.

Capital is just a small piece of a business, it's not the hardest part by far. Capital is also relatively accessible, it's not an 'unfair' thing. There seems much unfairness sentiment nowadays where people think companies with access to lots of capital are guaranteed to succeed, like some kid with rich parents. Many seem to think that all there is between them and success is money, but in reality that's rarely the case.
by lelag | 2025-04-14 09:22:23+00:00
I can’t say for certain, but I’d guess that writing without the letter “e” is slightly more difficult in French than in English. For one, “e” is a bit more common in French (around 15% of all letters, versus about 12% in English). But more importantly, French grammar adds extra challenges—like gender agreement, where feminine forms often require an “e”, and the frequent use of articles like le and les, which become unusable.

That said, I think the most impressive achievement is the English translation of the French novel. Writing an original constrained novel is hard enough, but translating one means you can’t just steer the story wherever you like. You have to preserve the plot, tone, and themes of the original, all while respecting a completely different set of linguistic limitations. That’s a remarkable balancing act.
by lostlogin | 2025-04-14 09:22:26+00:00
> Alas they didn't become one of the largest companies on the planet because of how they treated their macOS userbase.

I’m not so sure. We love to complain about Apple, but I don’t see many old timer Mac users now extolling the virtues of Windows. It’s dangerous extrapolating one’s own observations to the world at large, so maybe I’m wrong?
by fennecfoxy | 2025-04-14 09:23:43+00:00
I firmly believe the majority of CEOs and executives may do something useful (often not) but none of them truly _earn_ their multi-million salaries (for those that are on the modern 100-1000x salaries). It's just suits, handshakes and social connections from certain schools/families. That's all.

Constantly I see them dodging responsibility or resigning (as an "apology") during a crisis they caused and then moving on to the next place they got buddies at for another multi-mil salary.

Many here would defend 'em tho. HN/SV tech people seem to aspire to such things from what I've seen. The rest of us just really think computers are super cool.
by yodsanklai | 2025-04-14 09:24:27+00:00
I also work in a big tech company. We had bunch of layoffs, some based on performance (which often was a lie), some random. In all instances, the company made a lot of money and kept hiring at a high pace.

At that stage, I know I'll be laid off eventually for one reason or another, I just don't know when. My partner tells me that I should quit on my own terms so I'm not depressed when it happens. But my salary is very competitive, and I'll get severance too. Still, I fear this moment and it's really hard to feel invested in the company. If it wasn't for my colleagues, I think I'd be slacking, waiting for my time.
by robinhouston | 2025-04-14 09:26:17+00:00
On the theme of difficult ideas explained using a limited vocabulary, I suppose one has to mention xkcd's Thing Explainer as well as George Boolos's classic _Gödel's Second Incompleteness Theorem Explained in Words of One Syllable_:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_Explainer

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/BoolosOneSyllable.pdf
by flanked-evergl | 2025-04-14 09:29:33+00:00
I think it was from Sean Caroll's book The Big Picture.

The statement is a category error, but that criticism distracts from the very valuable insight he does provide regarding entropy, life and complexity.

He did a series on minutephysics explaining it quite well, worth a watch. He does explain why complexity increases as entropy increases (with some additional qualification).

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoaVOjvkzQtyZF-2VpJrx...
by probably_wrong | 2025-04-14 09:30:23+00:00
I tried something like that some time ago. The problem with that strategy is the lack of backtracking.

Let's say I prompt my LLM to exclusively use the letters 'aefghilmnoprst' and the LLM generates "that's one small step for a man, one giant leap for man-"[1]. Since the next token with the highest probability ("-kind") isn't allowed, it may very well be that the next appropriate word is something really generic or, if your grammar is really restrictive, straight up nonsense because nothing fits. And then there's pathological stuff like "... one giant leap for man, one small step for a man, one giant leap for man- ...".

[1] Toy example - I'm sure these specific rules are not super restrictive and "management" is right there.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-04-14 09:32:22+00:00
I'm confident the first games trying to have an AI as game master are being built, if not demonstrated already.

And I'm also confident that they will not make for good games because the players will find and exploit loopholes. I think LLMs in (video) games are here and here to stay, but they will only be actually beneficial to a game if they are tightly restricted and limited in scope. (no having your ingame partner write your code for you)
by roenxi | 2025-04-14 09:32:27+00:00
> Philanthropy is absolutely an expectation, though I agree the noblesse oblige8 has decayed.

Arguably nobless oblige has been embedded in the legal system. The expectation is there and expressed in the tax code. The philosophical process was the elites sat down, codified their obligations and called it "our taxes".

Ironically, big chunks of beloch's post is pointing out that billionaires have a huge amount of social responsibility under the modern system. They are expected to provide welfare and build stadiums. Just not administer the process.
by LeonM | 2025-04-14 09:32:54+00:00
> Having launched a couple of dead startups that started with several months of writing code first, this way definitely sounds better.

This is basically what startup 101 tells you. This is what every successful entrepreneur will tell you. This is what every coach tells you. This is what every entrepreneurial book or blog will tell you.

But, this is also what every tech entrepreneur will ignore anyway.

This is one of those things that you have to experience a few times before you look back and think 'oh... they were right'. But coding is comfortable and cold calling is very scary. It's also against our nature to ask anyone what they think of your idea, because it might shatter your dream.

YC Startup school nailed this in one of their talks, the presenter opened the talk with something like "this is important advice that you will all ignore, and that's okay, my goal is to make you recognise the situation after you'll inevitably make one of these mistakes".

I'm not being a snob here. Trust me, I made this very same mistake. I ignored all the advice and poured years into building products that nobody wanted.
by tomaskafka | 2025-04-14 09:35:42+00:00
> "The debug mode sounds interesting at first thought"

I don't think so. I just added typia's is* checks to places where I am digesting a json input, it was rather trivial, and now I can actually trust for the first time that the object I am holding actually matches the declared type.

> "You can’t make things idiot proof"

I just did. You can't have a non-idiot-proof program running in the wild and blindly trusting the outputs of whatever API it uses.
by hnbad | 2025-04-14 09:37:03+00:00
"Believing in the mission" requires a suspension of disbelief that can reduce the impact of various factors that would otherwise decrease morale (e.g. lower cash compensation, fewer benefits, unfair working conditions, longer hours, etc).

There's a reason many startups are built on hordes of college kids and it's not that they "have more energy" or "are more willing to think outside the box". They're less experienced and thus easier to manipulate. They're also less likely to have dependents they need to take into consideration, don't understand their limits or trade-offs between short-term performance and long-term endurance (e.g. burnout), and are more likely to be naive about their place in the company and the effect/function of the company. Plus, of course, they're "less risk-averse" which is another way of saying bad at judging the odds of certain outcomes.
by torginus | 2025-04-14 09:38:08+00:00
Is it just me, or is this thing really, really stupid?

I mean the whole AI personal assistant shebang from all possible angles.

Imagine, for example if booking.com built an MCP server allowing you to book a hotel room, query all offers in an area in a given time, quickly, effortlessly, with a rate limit of 100 requests/caller/second, full featured, no hiding or limiting data.

That would essentially be asking them to just offer you their internal databases, remove their ability to show you ads, remove the possibility to sell advertisers better search rankings, etc.

It would be essentially asking them to keel over and die, and voluntarily surrender all their moat.

But imagine for a second they did do that. You get the API, all the info is there.

Why do you need AI then?

Let's say you want to plan a trip to Thailand with your family. You could use the fancy AI to do it for you, or you could build a stupid frontend with minimal natural language understanding.

It would be essentially a smart search box, where you could type in 'book trip to Thailand for 4 people, 1 week, from July 5th', and then it would parse your query, call out to MCP, and display the listings directly to you, where you could book with a click.

The AI value add here is minimal, even non-existent.

This applies to every service under the sun, you're essentially creating a second Internet just for AIs, without all the BS advertising, fluff, clout chasing and time wasting. I, as a human am dying to get access to that internet.

Edit: I'm quite sure this AI MCP future is going to be enshittified in some way.
by tmtvl | 2025-04-14 09:39:50+00:00
I'm not a car person, but as an Ubuntu Touch user I have ran into issues with bike share providers who only allow renting a bike through an app which is only available for Android or iOs. I take umbrage at that and liken it to cars: imagine if you could only unlock your car with an Android phone or an iPhone. If your phone were to malfunction or got stolen or whatever you wouldn't be able to get into your car.

Now, as not a car person I don't know if there are cars like that, but seeing:

> it seems like the NissanConnect app [...] may detect when x86_64 Android is being used and then refuse to sign in.

Imagine having a ZenPhone 2, downloading an app to manage your car and it refusing to work. I'd go ape.
Scanoss Pre-commit Hooks integration
by scanosss | 2025-04-14 09:40:38+00:00
SCANOSS has released a pre-commit hook that scans staged files for undeclared open source components before they’re committed. It’s lightweight, open source, and integrates easily into any Git workflow using the pre-commit framework. Helps catch licensing and attribution issues early without disrupting development.

Repo: https://github.com/scanoss/pre-commit-hooks
by santiagobasulto | 2025-04-14 09:40:46+00:00
Could this be run as a web interface? For example, getting a GCP instance with GPU and deploying it there and accessing it from the browser.

EDIT: Seems it has a client/server model and the server can be installed somewhere else: https://transformerlab.ai/docs/install/advanced-install

But I'm wondering if this is an electron based app and I could run the client on a web interface as well.
by lelag | 2025-04-14 09:41:04+00:00
If I understand it correctly, that's a valid concern but the way structured generation library like outlines[1] work is that they can generate multiple variants of the inference (which they call beam search).

One beam could be "This is a way to solv-". With no obvious "good" next token. Another beam could be "This way is solv-". With "ing" as the obvious next token.

It will select the best beam for the output.

[1]:https://github.com/dottxt-ai/outlines
by bjourne | 2025-04-14 09:41:30+00:00
In non-web contexts untrusted input is not interpolated into the executable streams so you don't worry about special characters. E.g., there is no point in "sanitizing" the name of a variable in a C compiler.

> And if you really want a template that is a separate object that is passed the values separately, you can just wrap a t-string in a function that takes the parameters as arguments.

No, you can't do that: "Template strings are evaluated eagerly from left to right, just like f-strings. This means that interpolations are evaluated immediately when the template string is processed, not deferred or wrapped in lambdas." Every function evaluation creates a new Template object, it does not reuse a precompiled one.

> and possibly faster

Possibly not, since precompilation is not supported.
by sightbroke | 2025-04-14 09:42:44+00:00
> I haven't considered selling the Cybertruck because it takes a whole lot of courage to consistently grow and work and strive really hard to be successful in business and help the community. I am not one that will be bullied. I'm just not going to allow a group of people to bully me into actually trading in my vehicle.

A. It's the businesses vehicle. Not the individuals.

B. It's starting to cost the business more money AND harming employees of said business.

C. A primary intended purpose is to advertise and promote the business. It's not achieving that in a good manner now. Good business would be to dump the toxic asset.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-04-14 09:42:58+00:00
"What is Hooli? Excellent question. Hooli isn't just another high tech company. Hooli isn't just about software. Hooli...Hooli is about people. Hooli is about innovative technology that makes a difference, transforming the world as we know it. Making the world a better place, through minimal message oriented transport layers. I firmly believe we can only achieve greatness if first we achieve goodness."
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-04-14 09:43:14+00:00
The new pull and the old pull both just feel like a pull, if you can only feel the pull at one spot. To see how the old pull is not like the new pull, you have to test the pull at a spot near you (but not the same spot), too. The new pull will be the same at each spot, but the old pull may not be the same (we call this the tide), and you test the sum of the new and old pull.

(This is hard.)
by tmountain | 2025-04-14 09:43:43+00:00
I’ve always been a “time in the market” is better than “timing the market” guy, but I find myself questioning that a ton in the current climate. When US bond yields started rising in the current market calamity, I was not surprised but definitely alarmed. As a “retirement saver” (not trader), what’s the best strategic hedge at the moment?
by insighto | 2025-04-14 09:44:23+00:00
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by scarface_74 | 2025-04-14 09:44:24+00:00
Look at the cost of living rankings.

https://www.mottomortgage.com/blog/ranking-each-of-the-50-st...

Notice that the 12 bottom states are all blue states?

And tax burden rankings

https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/tax-burden-by-state...
by globular-toast | 2025-04-14 09:44:30+00:00
Probably because English is written left to right and doesn't work so well top to bottom. So vertical bits tend to not include text, which is quite limiting. I do remember older UIs that included text at 90 degrees on sidebars, but that seems to have gone completely out of fashion.

The real problem is our screens are the wrong shape. 16:9 is a stupid aspect ratio for a computer monitor if you work mostly with text. Square is probably the best. Using floating windows (like classic Mac OSX) is an option, but for some reason people like full screen windows these days. A tiling window manager is another option to effectively divide the screen up into better shaped areas. I tend to have 6 columns across 2 screens which works well.
by larusso | 2025-04-14 09:46:14+00:00
I want to chime in. I drive Skoda Enyaq (VW Family EV, think ID.4) and have all these gimmicks. I ruled out a Model 3 because at that time it didn’t come with some of these features like notarized trunk etc.

I have my car on a schedule and it automatically heats up, turns on the seat heaters and defrosts the windshield. By the time I leave the house I have seither a snuggly warm car or pre cooled car. That is a huge time saver for me. One annoying part on this car is the fact that the LED headlights don‘t defrost. It sounds like a real first world problem but when it’s real cold outside and the car warms up etc I need to manually scrape the ice from the headlights. I would pay some money to get this „fixed“…
by raxxorraxor | 2025-04-14 09:48:51+00:00
I believe model and concept can be equivalent, not sure about the required formal terminology in English.

Complexity is probably most formally modeled in entroy in thermodynamics, although it behaves in the opposite direction that these ideas and oberservations suggest it should.

It still asks questions about the reason for this complexity and there is no scientific answer aside from "propably accidental complexity".

Science is curious so it probably shouldn't be dismissed by unmet formal requirements that aren't specified. "Layman" is unspecific, so what would your requirements be exactly?