MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pc86 | 2025-04-10 13:43:06+00:00
For the most part degrees from roughly comparable schools in the same subject are fungible. However, graduating cheaters who should have flunked out of school their freshman year is a one-way ticket to having a reputation that your degree is worthless. You're now comparable to a lower tier of schools and suddenly Y's degree is worth a lot more than yours. The best way (not to only way) to combat this is to actively cull the bottom of your classes. Most schools already do this by kicking out people with low enough GPAs, academic probation, etc. My undergrad would expel you if you had a GPA below 1.8 after your first semester, and you were on academic probation if your GPA was > 1.8 and <=2.5.

This assumes, of course, an institution is actively trying to raise the academic bar of its student population. Most schools are emphatically not trying to do this and are focused more on just increasing enrollment, getting more tax dollars, and hiring more administrators.
by em-bee | 2025-04-10 13:43:35+00:00
i haven't read much about this, but i think that the point is that land taxes should incentivize people to make their land work ad produce an income. the problem is that this only works if you have lots of land that can be meaningfully exploited. if the tax is applied equally to every one then small landowners will suffer because you can't make a profit from a house and a garden that you live in yourself.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-04-10 13:43:50+00:00
Maybe it's because you're not really asking a question but making an insulting statement intended to ellict exactly this reaction. Even if this sort of "question" was genuine it's predicated on a huge set of assumptions and systems interactions that makes it worthless as a question, but great as a campaign gotcha!

Also, fishing is most definitely not a "sport".
by MSFT_Edging | 2025-04-10 13:43:53+00:00
Odd how you refer to vaporwave as elevator music. The original artists of the genre very lovingly remixed classic city pop from the 80s and 90s, and overlayed their own music on top.

I think you might be referring to "Muzak", a particular brand of background music that would sell to businesses to play in stores and elevators.
by romanovcode | 2025-04-10 13:44:09+00:00
- Create Angular app (success)

- Add SSR (fail)

- Give the correct command to add SSR (success)

- Add i18n (fail)

- Retries like 6 times, completely messes angular.json file up to no recovery, project doesn't even build

Outputs: It seems I am running circles, I cannot help you with that.

Wow, AI will really replace developers soon. /s
by gwbennett | 2025-04-10 13:44:10+00:00
Great read on how ILM made the shots. As a crew member on the USS Salt Lake City (SSN-716), we took many of the cast and crew out to sea for 24 hours before they made the movie to get a feel for what sub-life was like before they made the movie. All the cast and crew were great, and I think it made the movie better.

Actor Scott Glenn, who plays the Captain of Dallas, modeled his character after our Captain, Tom Fargo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rjO_VrESNo

It is a great movie!
by 9rx | 2025-04-10 13:44:21+00:00
> Would I kill a cow? No, but I'm happy to eat a burger.

You have to eat. If a burger is the best choice in front of you, it is reasonable to make that choice. Likewise, if a certain party is the best choice in front of you during an election, it is equally reasonable to choose it. Such decisions always require making tradeoffs.

However, the original comment seems to imply that it is not only a case of voting for a party, but also carrying out activism for that party. This is akin to you eating a burger while protesting with PETA proclaiming the evils of killing cattle. That may be still cognitive dissonance, but to a very different degree.
by thrance | 2025-04-10 13:44:31+00:00
I don't think it's cognitive dissonance if you recognize the issue. Also, you can both enjoy a good burger and be disgusted at the idea of killing a cow yourself. As you said, it's simply an hypocrisy (of which I am guilty too). From Wikipedia [1], (emphasis mine):

> In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is described as a mental phenomenon in which people unknowingly hold fundamentally conflicting cognitions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
by MisterTea | 2025-04-10 13:44:36+00:00
If you are doing remote learning and using AI to cheat your way through school you have obliterated any chance of fair competition. Cheaters can hide at home feeding homework and exams into AI, get a diploma that certifies all the cheating, then they go on to do the same at work where they feed work problems into an AI. Get paid to copy paste.

But I have a feeling that if it's that easy to cheat through life then its just as easy to eliminate that job being performed by a human and negate the need to worry about cheating. So I have a feeling it will work for only a very short amount of time.

Another feeling I have is mandatory in-person exams involving a locked down terminal presenting the user with a problem to solve. Might be a whole service industry waiting to be born - verify the human on the other end is real and competent. Of course, anything is corruptible. Weird future of rapidly diminishing trust.
by rcarmo | 2025-04-10 13:44:38+00:00
I just use Obsidian's copilot sidebar plugin with a prompt that is essentially:

"Review {activeNote} and point out misspellings or structural errors. Please ensure to highlight any grammatical issues and carefully examine the text for clarity and coherence. Additionally, check for punctuation errors, repeated use of words and ensure proper sentence structure. Do not mention double dashes (--) since they are post-processed into em dashes. Check any inline HTML for accessibility attributes."

Zero generation, zero automated edit, pure review and manual tweaking. If you want to keep your own voice, that's the only thing you need.
by jmull | 2025-04-10 13:44:59+00:00
Just a side note, but what happened to "hypocrisy"?

It used to mean having behavior that contradicts your stated beliefs.

Now it seems to mean an apparent contradiction between behavior and belief if you ignore real distinctions.

I don't like because it weakens the word and loses an important concept -- we don't have a good way to express real hypocrisy vs. fallaciously construed hypocrisy.
by eterm | 2025-04-10 13:45:08+00:00
Yes, it's partial parity, and is server only. It's also not easy to migrate; the upgrade-assistant tool typically just gives up.

The client libraries only came separately, and much later[1] , and in typical "Fuck your migration path" fashion, doesn't have any .NET standard support.

[1]: ( https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/wcf-client-60-has-been... )
by redczar | 2025-04-10 13:45:36+00:00
It didn’t come across as provocative to me. It would be a snowflake reaction to get indignant at such a small amount of “provocative” language.

The essence of the question is why do people who love the outdoors vote for politicians who want to repeal laws to protect the outdoors?

I presume that a reasonable person can easily answer this question and defend their position. I can think of several reasonable explanations and I’m opposed to hunting and am in favor of strong environmental regulations.
by JohnFen | 2025-04-10 13:45:53+00:00
I'm not sure that observations match this hypothesis, actually. But this

> the stronger male person

raises an interesting point (ignoring the "male" part) -- there isn't any real consensus on what attributes indicate "strength" (for instance, there are a lot of people who consider Trump strong, and a lot of people who equally consider him weak).

So the hypothesis could be true, but not terribly enlightening.
by nkrisc | 2025-04-10 13:46:00+00:00
> "Our new study shows that this supply may only be sufficient to sustain a very small population of microbes weighing a total of only a few kilograms at most – equivalent to the mass of a small dog," Affholder said. "Such a tiny biosphere would average less than one cell per liter of water over Titan's entire vast ocean."

Assuming for a moment that some life does exist in the subsurface ocean, I imagine it would be most likely that you would then expect to find very, very rare, but highly concentrated pockets of life?

Unfortunately I couldn't read the linked study because I was stuck in an endless CAPTCHA loop of trying to find an image of a refrigerator among a varying set of only helicopters, ships, and avocados. I feel absurd just writing that.
by throw0101c | 2025-04-10 13:46:36+00:00
> One argument which I find profoundly stupid is the "well it doesn't matter what we do, look at China".

1. Implement a mechanism domestically to reduce pollution. [1][2]

2. Then implement a "carbon/pollution tariff" on any imports[3] so that foreigners are hit the same way domestics folks are (perhaps with allowances for developing companies that are too poor for advanced pollution control).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economists%27_Statement_on_Car...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.–Canada_Air_Quality_Agreem...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_Carbon_Border_Adjustment_Me...
by notahacker | 2025-04-10 13:46:38+00:00
If the billionaires were genuinely concerned about a complete collapse of the USA financial system in 10 years, they wouldn't have bet on a president with a track record of expanding debt to pump the stock market in the first place, and it would be hard to imagine anything less likely to stave off a crash than launching a trade war or threatening to annex your neighburs. Frankly the only only credible cause of the US economy completely collapsing within a decade is called Donald.

Getting a short term interest rate cut makes very little difference to the robustness of the US economy in a decade's time, and even if it did, there are many ways of getting a short term interest rate cut that don't involve massive economic disruption and permanently sabotaging US trading relationships (most obviously, the president nominates the chair of the Fed...). You could see what the likes of Ackman and Elon actually thought about the tariffs from them breaking ranks to moan about them.

The billionaires who backed Trump like standard right wing stuff like tax cuts, deregulation and/or racism, or figured he was going to win anyway so they might as well get credit for being seen as his ally. Some of them might actually be well informed enough to place shorts (and hey, the ones who own trading shops rather than manufacturing and services companies might be able to win more than they lose in equity value that way) but that's a completely separate issue from the idea that chaos now could have positive effects in a decade's time, which only one billionaire in the world is dumb enough to believe...
by ada1981 | 2025-04-10 13:46:51+00:00
I mean, I don't understand how you could care about the environment and vote for Trump.

He's actively unwinding decades of environmental policy and protections, destaffing and defunding national parks, and opening up logging 100MM acres which will be gone in no time at all.

He's the kind of guy that says "we are going to have the cleanest air and water" and then literally does the opposite policy wise.
by oortoo | 2025-04-10 13:47:36+00:00
If you think harming animals unnecessarily is wrong, but still eat meat, then yes thats cognitive dissonance. The meat industry is the single most prolific source of animal abuse in the world. Factory farms are basically auschwitz for animals. Buying meat and then getting upset at someone who kicked their dog etc. is a pretty clear cut example of dissonance because you are saying that animal abuse is wrong, but your actions indicate you have no problem with it.
Show HN: AutoUSD – Autonomous LP that optimizes stablecoin yield
by chrisford | 2025-04-10 13:48:00+00:00
USD stablecoins have different and scalable yield sources:

• Lending • T-bills • Funding Rates • LPing

Despite being scalable, the answer to what’s the optimal yield source is volatile, and it varies according to market conditions. To solve this problem, Tokemak developed a new solution that aggregates all scalable yield sources under a single product: autoUSD

As yields change across integrated destinations, Autopilot adjusts the underlying collateral to ensure that LPs earn the best rates. Powered by Autopilot, autoUSD is effectively backed by autonomous liquidity that connects lending protocols, DEXs, and yield-bearing stablecoins.

The autoUSD yield is the new blended rate for stablecoin yields across DeFi.
by rayiner | 2025-04-10 13:48:03+00:00
It's not just that people care about many things at once, but they have different assumptions about how much real-world output will result from a particular political input.

For example, this article is about air pollution. Trump rolled back a number of Obama-era air pollution rules in 2017: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/04/trump-em.... But there was no corresponding increase in air pollution in the subsequent six years: https://epa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=c2....

So your friends simply don't believe that rolling back particular environmental regulations will meaningfully reduce the quality of the environment. It's similar to how liberals downplay how much reshoring of industry will result from the Trump administration's tariffs.
by bloopernova | 2025-04-10 13:48:28+00:00
It could be a little smaller, but compared to the USA plug and socket it's pure perfection.

USA plugs have prongs that are so thin they bend. The prongs act as a hinge that lets the plug pivot away from the wall to expose the live prongs! And most USA sockets don't have ground on top to block anything resting over those exposed live prongs.
by wpietri | 2025-04-10 13:48:50+00:00
I find it frustrating when somebody replies as if they've only read one sentence in a paragraph.

I also said, "I like animals and I eat meat." I thought that was pretty clear, but if you'd like me to beat the point to death, the cognitive dissonance is between my fondness for animals, cows included, who I would never personally hurt and don't want to see killed, and my fondness for a good cheeseburger.

Could I come up with some contrived rationalization which somehow includes both? Sure, I have in the past, and many meat-eaters do. But ultimately I saw through my own bullshit here. Cows aren't essentially different than horses or dogs, but I eat cow while I'd be horrified to eat horse or dog. This doesn't make any logical or moral sense; it's just what I grew up with and am used to. When I think about it, I experience cognitive dissonance. For some that dissonance resolves into becoming vegetarians; for others they just refuse to think about it, or become dickish anti-vegetarians. I'm only different in that I have worked to get more comfortable with that sort of dissonance, as it's important to me to see things as clearly as I can.
by domoritz | 2025-04-10 13:49:43+00:00
Author of this paper here. Cool to see this show up on HN. Little story about this paper: Danyel and I did this while I was on an internship at Microsoft Research. The algorithm was too simple to get it published at a conference, but the technique has been adopted in a few places now, including other papers. We did some follow-up work to more efficiently compute the density and also support interactive filtering. See https://www.domoritz.de/papers/2021-KDBox-VIS.pdf.
by aa-jv | 2025-04-10 13:49:59+00:00
Minor correction in the article: The Oric-1 did ship with 16K RAM initially, but was widely available not long after in the 48K (really, 64K) configuration, and users could easily upgrade their 16K Oric-1's to the beefier RAM, and also conversions to Atmos-level Orics' were available widely as well.

The Oric-1, however, did far better than the Jupiter Ace on the market - which isn't to say it was successful, just that it didn't quite flop as hard as the Ace did. The Jupiter Ace definitely has its quirky appeal, meanwhile, as a FORTH Machine - but it should be noted that the Oric-1/Atmos machines get far, far better software written for them, even today .. and some of the new stuff is just great.
by immibis | 2025-04-10 13:50:02+00:00
Trump delaying the tariffs was only common sense after Trump delayed the tariffs. Before Trump delayed the tariffs, common sense was that Trump would not delay the tariffs.

Again, you're just taking pure luck and rebranding it as common sense, using survivor bias.

If you still insist you had a crystal ball, then I ask you: Did you predict the 125% non-delayed tariffs on China, or did you think he would delay all the tariffs? Are you still predicting the 125% tariffs on China will be delayed?
by ada1981 | 2025-04-10 13:50:08+00:00
It's really wild. I'm not sure if people have just reached a level of fatigue with the lies -- they say after so many lies peoples brains just shut down discernment of truth.. He leverages this very well.

In absence of truth, its just trolling and abuse. I think for some of the followers, this is what they really want. They have lives devoid of meaning and subjectivity as they are long numb, and so watching someone troll / hurt others (including them at times) helps them feel anything.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-04-10 13:50:24+00:00
'WhyQ'

• why respect the customer's actual search query when we could auction keywords instead?

• why allow the user to sort by price when they might find a product we get lower commission on?

• why not spam 'Prime' on every page, and use dark patterns to trick users into a subscription?

• why bother with expensive safety and quality audits of third party seller products?

• why ignore our private metrics on popular third party products when we could use them to create a knockoff and drive them out of business?
by lapcat | 2025-04-10 13:51:01+00:00
> half of its inhabitants now live with Fox News induced cognitive dissonance and are literally "ride or die" with the GOP.

This is a bit of an overstatement. In 2024, Trump received 49.8% of the vote on 64.1% turnout, which is only 31.9% of eligible voters and of course doesn't include millions of people who are ineligible to vote, mostly due to age. And some of Trump's total, relatively small yet crucial, consisted of nonpartisan "swing" voters who are not loyal to Trump or the GOP. The way our electoral system works, small differences are greatly magnified.
by dagw | 2025-04-10 13:51:07+00:00
My wife works at a European engineering university with students from all over the world and is often a thesis advisor for Masters students. She says that up until 2 years ago a lot of her time was spent on just proofreading and correcting the student's English. Now everybody writes 'perfect' English and all sound exactly the same in an obvious ChatGPT sort way. It is also obvious that they use AI when she asks them why they used a certain 'big' word or complicated sentence structure, and they just stare blankly and cannot answer.

To be clear the students almost certainly aren't using ChatGPT to write their thesis for them from scratch, but rather to edit and improve their bad first drafts.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-04-10 13:51:33+00:00
The principled approach to YIMBYism is to say yes to (or rather, to not artificially stand in the way of) every development (within reason). Otherwise you're just another NIMBY with slightly different opinions about what types of things you don't want in your backyard. Generally speaking the market is pretty good about sorting out what what developments provide value on its own without interference from the loud minority of people who want to vote on everything with their voices rather than their feet.
by mholm | 2025-04-10 13:51:41+00:00
This indicates to me that you treat blogging as an obligation rather than a way to share your ideas. I guess if you read enough AI blog spam, blogging itself just feels like a status game of what you've written about, divorced from quality of content? If you're padding out your own ideas with AI filler, why not just make your style more shortform and save your reader's time?
by iLoveOncall | 2025-04-10 13:51:59+00:00
As someone who's been in Amazon for 7 years and has seen the constant decline since Jassy took over, I have to say he once again delivers disappointment.

This is by far the longest letter to shareholders ever written, and yet it's the least inspiring. All he does is try to justify the choices he has made since he has become CEO.

He is just so lame.
by em-bee | 2025-04-10 13:52:15+00:00
funny, this sister comment here makes the exact opposite argument: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43639593

but even if you are right about retired people stopping to work, you also need to consider their age, and maybe the feeling that they have earned it after working for decades?

the same isn't true for young people, so the comparison is not conclusive.
Show HN: KeyboardStack – Control your macOS mouse with keyboard
by creativedg | 2025-04-10 13:53:12+00:00
After 3 long months of coding and testing, I'm thrilled to share KeyboardStack with you today! My 1st Mac OS app (with no prior Swift experience).

I always got frustrated having to constantly switch between keyboard and mouse, breaking my flow state dozens of times per day. I thought: "there has to be a better way." So I built KeyboardStack.

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What makes KeyboardStack different: - Works system-wide (not just in browser like Vimium) - Actively maintained (unlike Scoot, etc. that haven't been updated in years) - Free forever

There's a premium version with additional features, but you can absolutely get massive productivity benefits from just the free version.

If you're tired of constantly switching between keyboard and mouse, download it today at https://keyboardstack.com and let me know what you think!
Show HN: Nightingale – A Community for Pet Owners and Caregivers
by crazylazylife | 2025-04-10 13:53:14+00:00
Hey HN,

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Many pet owners struggle to find reliable, local care when they travel or need help. At the same time, there are plenty of people willing to offer pet-related services but lack a platform to connect with potential clients. We wanted to bridge that gap and create a trusted pet care community.

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We’re actively improving it and would love feedback from the HN community!

What features would you like to see? Any UX/UI improvements? Thoughts on growth strategies?

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Would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks for checking it out!