MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BSDobelix | 2025-04-17 19:12:24+00:00
>cultural differences

It's stupidity, not cultural difference, when one side talks about free and the other side who has that "free" health care feels it's a massive (but good) burden.

I'm absolutely for this system, as a Swiss citizen I'm incredibly proud of what we've achieved, but man it's hard...really hard, and it's only going to get worse because of the age shift.
by bdamm | 2025-04-17 19:12:31+00:00
The pre-washing is silly, but the post-washing is totally mental. Why on earth would you post-wash a dish? Your dishwasher must be very dirty. Clean the filter, and also, run a few cycles with a couple of bowls facing up in the bottom, then discard the giant globs of dirt that will collect in them when the cycles are done. This is how to rehabilitate an old dishwasher, assuming it is mechanically working ok.
by cornel_io | 2025-04-17 19:13:07+00:00
None of that seems at all user-hostile to me, it's literally all aimed at making sure what the user is shown is more likely to actually be useful to them.

I guess this is a big and probably unbridgeable divide, some people think this sort of thing is obviously evil and others, like me, actually prefer it very strongly over a world where all advertising is untargeted but there is massively more of it because it's so much less valuable...
by engels_gibs | 2025-04-17 19:13:12+00:00
Yaya, I read how he "addressed" my points. "It isnt perfect but is the best we got" yadayada. "Rules based international order" never existed. It's just a buzzword promoted by NATO apologists to defend their imperialist expoliation. It never existed. There are no "international rules" for the powerful, the Hague was created to persecute poor third-world warlords or at best the enemies of NATO. It was not created to persecute Bush, Obama or Netanyahu. The WTO was created to sustain american capitalism and benefit american interests, when China started outgrowing american influence then suddenly the WTO is the enemy. There are no rules at all that stopped NATO to bomb Yugoslavia, Lybia, Syria, Yemen, Iraq or Afghanistan.

Its just a buzzword, a talking point parroted by american apologists. Never existed in the past and it certainly doesnt exist now. "Rules based international order" in practice means: NATO gets to do whatever the shit they want, as they have always done. That's it. That's the whole rules in actual practice.

And regarding the supposed reduction in warfare after WWII:

You can thank the existence of the Soviet Union, which united much of the western imperialist powers (Europe, America and its vessel states like Japan, Australia or South Korea) against the first real menace against capitalism in history. That's pretty much the reason why inter-european warfare stopped after WWII. And they focused on warfare against the third world (Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, South America, Central America, etc.) They function as an imperialist block with the same interests. It has little to do with the supposed existence of "rules" or an imaginary "order".
by taeric | 2025-04-17 19:13:22+00:00
That sounds similar to the way the fat thing was described to me, in the past. Curious how all of that relates. If anyone has a good read to dive into this, I'd be grateful!

It really lends itself to the way I model "training" for stuff. Sucks, as we want to think there are differences from rote practice and learning. But it increasingly seems that any differences there are are much softer than is often taught.
by OxfordOutlander | 2025-04-17 19:13:28+00:00
It makes sense for OpenAI to overpay for wrapper companies that have distribution - a good analogy is British pub (bar) companies. By mid 2000s they were struggling. Low margins, rising cost base, expensive debt.

What saved them? Heineken. They didn't care if the pubs made much of a profit - they made positive margins on having people drink their beer at market prices. They just wanted to increase volume. So they bought up several major players. In 2008 they acquired Scottish & Newcastle's operations, later thought bought Star Pubs & Bars, which had 1,049 leased and tenanted pubs, and finally half of Punch Taverns.

The same strategy can work for OpenAI - buy up the wrapper companies, and make sure YOUR models are served to the user base.
by dang | 2025-04-17 19:13:30+00:00
Related. Others?

Stewart Brand Interviews Jane Jacobs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37969169 - Oct 2023 (1 comment)

Jane Jacobs' Legacy (2006) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29947020 - Jan 2022 (6 comments)

Jane Jacobs' Radical Legacy (2006) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22228562 - Feb 2020 (1 comment)

Jane Jacobs: The Champion of Little Plans - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17262331 - June 2018 (15 comments)

An Ad Hoc Affair: Jane Jacobs’s Clear-Eyed Vision of Humanity - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13577008 - Feb 2017 (17 comments)

Bright Lights, Small Government: Why libertarians adore Jane Jacobs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13038972 - Nov 2016 (3 comments)

The Prophecies of Jane Jacobs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12772983 - Oct 2016 (15 comments)

It's the cities, stupid – Jane Jacobs' macroeconomics (2005) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10834435 - Jan 2016 (26 comments)

A Conversation with Jane Jacobs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5850288 - June 2013 (1 comment) (<-- posted by pg!)

How Jane Jacobs saved New York City's soul - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3091165 - Oct 2011 (3 comments)
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-04-17 19:14:40+00:00
Phone use during class time is banned in my kid's high schools.

Makes no difference -- it's completely unenforced by the teachers. They're practically physically adults, teachers don't want to risk the confrontation, etc. And the kids suffer for it.

And my youngest uses no social media but their mind is still eaten by constant phone usage.

More than social media, the problem is the device. The form factor.

The "smartphone" is a malevolent technology.
by senordevnyc | 2025-04-17 19:14:40+00:00
I share the frustration of many commenters that you're just now coming to believe that Trump is a dangerous threat to our entire system. It's bewildering to hear people say some variation of "how could we have known??", when it has all seemed so obvious to many of us for years that this is the road we were going down.

That said, I do deeply appreciate your willingness to change your mind, and to talk about it publicly. The reality is that a third of our society is in Trump's thrall. At my best, I don't want those people to disappear, or suffer in powerlessness for years. I want them to change their mind, and I know how hard that can be. So thank you!
by amedviediev | 2025-04-17 19:14:54+00:00
I keep seeing this sentiment so often here and on X that I have to wonder if I'm somehow using a different Gemini 2.5 Pro. I've been trying to use it for a couple of weeks already and without exaggeration it has yet to solve a single programming task successfully. It is constantly wrong, constantly misunderstands my requests, ignores constraints, ignores existing coding conventions, breaks my code and then tells me to fix it myself.
by darth_avocado | 2025-04-17 19:15:01+00:00
The question isn’t “can AI code?”, the question is “can AI keep coding?”.

How do any of these companies create “an AI Software Engineer”? Scraping knowledge posted by actual engineers on StackOverflow? Scraping public (& arguably private) GitHub repos created by actual engineers? What happens when all of them are out of a job? AI gets trained on knowledge generated by AI? Where will the incremental gain come from?

It’s like saying I will teach myself to cook better food by only learning from recipe books I created based on the knowledge I already have.
by danielparks | 2025-04-17 19:15:10+00:00
Similarly, I used to stress about loading the dishwasher when I was a teen. I would spend so much time loading it that I have myself a neck ache from leaning over and I could have saved time by washing the dishes by hand.

I still try to be somewhat efficient about loading the dishwasher, but… if I notice myself stressing I just say “screw it”, run it, and wash the rest by hand.

The other thing I’ve realized is that sometimes things don’t get clean if you load them properly. For example, tall glasses that had smoothies in them. It’s a little gross if you don’t notice it until you’re about to use it, but… you can just look at them and wash them by hand when you unload the dishwasher.

I guess this is all to say that sometimes the best optimization is to not think about it too much.
by happytoexplain | 2025-04-17 19:15:30+00:00
Wow, I've never seen the two-handwashings version of this complaint! Also, that remark about how people perceive you is worrying. Who are you hanging out with?

Seriously though, your opinion is common (maybe not majority, just weirdly not as rare as you would think).

I sometimes wonder about it, and I generally land on these explanations, in decreasing order of how common I think they are ("you" below refers to the representative of all people, not you personally):

1. You experienced a partial failure a number of times in specific cases (e.g. a fluke of loading/shapes where a spot just doesn't get clean, or maybe you were expecting it to accomplish the impossible task of cleaning a left-out bowl of mini-wheats). This soured you and caused you to over-compensate forever after.

2. You have very high standards for "clean" (e.g. faint streaks on glass is unacceptable).

3. You over-load it or never clean the filter.

4. Washers and/or detergent were indeed crappy, and are now better (maybe true, but I'm not sure I buy this as a significant reason).

5. You use detergent packs or you don't call for hot water before turning it on (even I'm guilty of these, and don't have issues).
by hwayne | 2025-04-17 19:15:46+00:00
> If you're solving some problem quickly, then we know that what you've solved was not one of the hard problems to begin with. If you're solving some problems in polynomial time, then those problems are in P.

I thought complexity classes applied to the problem definition, not the specific instances of the problem? An easy SAT problem instance doesn't belong in any complexity class, the set of SAT problem instances belongs to NP.
by neom | 2025-04-17 19:16:13+00:00
I'll lend to that. If you use Edmund Burke as the yardstick, calling her conservative is defensible because she believed complex social orders evolve from the bottom up vs grand schemes. My thought is she generally applied this thinking, and that thinking is traditionally conservative. I suppose she is a "radical localist" who stole bits she liked from every side... was a pragmatic, anti‑ideologue, but I do still feel in reading her works, she's is more frequently aligned conservatives than not.

I suppose that is also part of the joy in Jane.
by khedoros1 | 2025-04-17 19:16:57+00:00
I have some parallels.

My father's parents had a late-40s or early-50s refrigerator in the kitchen well into the late-90s. It had an actual levered latch to hold it shut, and a small freezer section up in the top. Especially as a child, I had to just about body-slam the door to get it to latch. That was the "icebox". They also had a more-modern fridge and chest freezer in the basement. Honestly, I don't remember how they differentiated them, vocabulary-wise.

There was an actual Radar Range microwave, although I don't know the vintage. Old enough for a mechanical timer and a bell to ring when it was done.

Grandma was a home baker (especially cookies at Christmas), so she certainly had all the classic equipment, hand and electric egg-beaters, flour sifters, breadbox...yep.
by bloopernova | 2025-04-17 19:18:44+00:00
HN mods/leadership appear to have taken the stance that this is a non-political site.

Why it's being flagged? People hiding behind the non-political rule are suppressing information and discussion.

This site is owned by ycombinator, who have a motivation to "not rock the boat", so such suppression is ignored.

I guess in time we'll see whether that's a good decision for them or not.
by basisword | 2025-04-17 19:19:10+00:00
Genuinely asking - is it impossible to just enforce a no phones until 16+ rule with your kids? The reasons against it I see are either “it’s too hard for the parents” or hypothetical (“they would have no social life”). There were tonnes of things I wanted to do as a teenager that my parents prevented me from doing. Including things my friends were allowed to do by their less strict parents. There was of course things I did despite them but phones seem like a simple one for parents to control given teenagers can’t afford them otherwise until they start working at 16+. Allowing instant messaging via a computer seems like a nice middle ground.
by AlexandrB | 2025-04-17 19:19:40+00:00
> While you have a right of free speech, the rest of us have the right not to listen to you, nor to be forced to listen to you, nor to interact with you.

This conception of "cancelling" has little relation to how it actually happens, where the offending messages are often spread as far as possible first. If the goal is not to listen to someone, muting/blocking is almost always an option. Cancelling is trying to convince everyone else to shun the person as well often with misleading or reductive narratives about what they said/did and use of guilt by association.

My favourite example is Contrapoints getting cancelled for featuring a short VoiceOver by a controversial trans person[1] in a video.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjMPJVmXxV8
by alnwlsn | 2025-04-17 19:19:57+00:00
I've been down this road before. The ASIC in the Milwaukee pack is known as an "analog front end". Since you can't wire cells directly up to the pins of your MCU, you have a chip to handle that stuff for you. It will let you read the voltage of each cell in the stack (some are literally analog, and just provide a nicely in-range voltage output for your MCU's ADC to read; others have internal ADCs). It might do current sensing. It might handle a couple alarms to turn off a mosfet when things go wrong. It will have an I2C interface, but the supported commands are "tell me voltage of cell #2" or "put shunt resistor on cell #1 for balancing". It's still the MCU that calls most of the shots here, but the more advanced ASICs can do more things autonomously.
by bpodgursky | 2025-04-17 19:20:07+00:00
Dude you have no idea what you are talking about. Just stop talking and read for a few minutes.

OpenAI was founded around the principle avoiding catastrophic risk. 0 people at OpenAI are confused by the goal. It is the governance board's (nominal) primary and only goal. Sidelining that team was an intentional goal by a CEO who wants to pivot into a for-profit company.

I just cannot explain how wrong you are on this. Please have some intellectual humility.
by engels_gibs | 2025-04-17 19:20:13+00:00
Is not that "it isnt perfect". It never existed. The Hague was created to persecute backwater third world shithole warlords or at best the enemies of NATO. Not to persecute Bush, Obama or Netanyahu.

You can thank the reduction in warfare killing to the existence of the Soviet Union, which united much of the western imperialist powers (Europe, America and its vessel states like Japan, Australia or South Korea) against the first real menace against capitalism in history. That's pretty much the reason why inter-european warfare stopped after WWII. They function as an imperialist block with the same interests. It has little to do with the supposed existence of "rules" or an imaginary "order".
by fidotron | 2025-04-17 19:20:22+00:00
Isn't the point that some bidders will not know which it is when they make the bid?

RTB bid requests have support for the normal auction based bids but also indicating possible private marketplaces which may come into play depending on the exchange and seller, meaning that the highest bidder will have indicated to the world their price, but not won the auction, so they may (erroneously) conclude next time to try bidding higher, leading to price distortions.

I suspect a large proportion of advertisers still believe the whole thing is a nice transparent fair auction process, and have no idea of how convoluted it has become.
by cloverich | 2025-04-17 19:20:45+00:00
Many of the big tech companies, especially Meta / X / Reddit, are the modern day equivalent of tobacco companies. I was a former smoker. Yes my mom should have done a better job preventing me from becoming one. But they were in fact designed to get my young self addicted, and that's a problem. Once we regulated them, it stopped happening nearly as much. I think a very constructive way to converse about this problem, is to focus less on who has the most fault or blame, and focus entirely on: Can policy help, and if so, how? Example:

- Require age verification only for apps with algorithmic feed (obv. definition requires some nuance) - Substantial tax on companies utilizing algorithmic feeds - Require (regular) disclaimers and time monitors that are automatically shared with users on the platforms - Ban usage rewards (e.g. Reddit tries to reward me for daily usage with stickers and such, why?)

Those are some of my current ideas.
by hylaride | 2025-04-17 19:21:06+00:00
She was pro-market, in many ways. She was mostly against top-down development that overrode people that were already in place (at the time it happened to be government ramming highways through cities using eminent domain). So in some ways she's "conservative" in that she likes property rights, less zoning, etc.

Urban left-leaning people tend to like her because she's very human-scale focused. Many use her anti-highway work to rally against other change (often private and market oriented. Though I love her work to death, I've found a lot of what most of us would call NIMBYs and champagne socialists cite her when opposing a lot of stuff (housing they don't like, etc).

This reason interview (libertarian org) outlines a lot of it: https://reason.com/2001/06/01/city-views-2/
Ask HN: Software Engineers to follow who have a healthy skepticism of AI
by wronginternet4 | 2025-04-17 19:21:34+00:00
Curious who you all follow for thoughtful, well-balanced takes on AI, particularly in the context of software engineering. I’m especially interested in folks who are learning in public and pushing back on the hype, but maybe still actively using these tools in their day-to-day work and sharing that.

Kelsey Hightower was a standout for me during the whole crypto/NFT insanity. His commentary cut through the noise, and I really respected that.

I’m currently on an experimental team at work diving deep into a bunch of these tools. My evaluation of most of them as an IC tends to land somewhere between “this is complete garbage” and “okay, this has some real utility, but it’s not living up to the hype.” There’s just so much noise, especially from certain kinds of product people who seem convinced this tech is going to replace engineers entirely.

So if you’ve found people or places that offer actual signal in all of this, I’d love to hear about them.
by biker142541 | 2025-04-17 19:22:27+00:00
Would generally disagree here. Especially when limited to edu emails, it was focused on human connections. Even after it opened to broader audience, it was centered on explicit connections you already had (or to some limited extent discovering new ones through network effects).

Now whether social networks in even these basic forms are harmful (discouraging physical connections, isolation in digital environments, etc), is maybe a different topic.

Exposure to echo chambers of harmful, hateful content driven by algorithms seems to be more the focus here. MySpace, early FB, or even AIM/ICQ, and others focused on facilitating connections and communication didn’t drive the same level of harm imo.
by btown | 2025-04-17 19:23:06+00:00
Ah, a world where this is taken to an extreme might even bring back the mythical https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place rapidly disappearing in the American suburb and city alike... because it becomes the only place in the community where property owners don't geofence to forbid social media use!

https://theweek.com/culture-life/third-places-disappearing

But of course, social media companies will pour incredible amounts of money into political campaigns long before they let anything close to this happen.
by n4ture | 2025-04-17 19:23:17+00:00
Hi @dang,

Sorry to hijack this thread with a completely off-topic issue, but I have no idea where else to reach about this. I did a submission yesterday showcasing the work of some of my colleagues at UofT, it's satire but it is backed by serious academical work. I was very sad to see it quickly got flagged and removed from the front page when it started to generate discussion. I just wanted to ask you to unflag it or provide an exlaination as to why it should remain flagged and is breaking the guidelines, as I believe censoring/muting academics on important topics such as AI in the current political climate is yet another dangerous step towards fascism.

The submission in question:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43704319

Thanks for listening to my plea, and again apologies for being so off-topic!

Best,

n

Edit: formating/typo for clarity
by csdvrx | 2025-04-17 19:23:32+00:00
> Cosmopolitan is neat hack, but it's not a viable multiplatform executable format, runtime sysytem, or distribution mechanism.

It's the best we have to ensure programs will be kept running. The multiple payloads are like a rosetta stone.

If I had 1 wish, I would make wine support sixel output + VNC to a localhost port + webgl or equivalent to extend this redundancy to GUIs

> Something like WASM + WASI seems much more likely to fulfill this function in the future.

Time will tell, but given 2 binaries (Sun Java vs Windows i386) from the same time period, the one that was "much more likely to fulfill this function in the future" is much harder to use

p-code is a neat technology, but failing at what it was supposed to achieve
by speakspokespok | 2025-04-17 19:23:45+00:00
To answer your question, yes that is what ketosis is. Eliminate the non-fibrous carbs from your diet and after 48 hours or once the carbs are out of your blood stream your body will start to break down stored body fat. Through a process in the liver you get ketones. In the context of meal planning, meal timing, and other lifestyle choices it's extremely effective. For anyone with ADHD / ADD patterns do TRY IT for a month!

The study and the discussion here however are focused on reducing the quantity of those adipocyte cells in the body, which aren't reduced through ketosis. I think ketosis causes more of a volumetric reduction of each adipocyte cell but I'm really not sure.

Like a balloon filling with air, do adipocyte cells expand in volume while storing lipids?
by bitwize | 2025-04-17 19:24:09+00:00
Probably got a lot of neurospicy folks here on Hackernews, so there's less of a stigma associated with it, and more people familiar with the kind of sensory issues you deal with.

I feel you. I can't have autocomplete on when I'm coding, partly because having video game stuff happening in my field of view while I'm trying to focus throws me off. I'd rather just remember the name.
by hyperhello | 2025-04-17 19:24:38+00:00
What bothers me a lot is that return values can't have a name. Suppose I have a function

string combineName(string first, string last);

Okay, I assume the result is the full name, but I don't really know that like I would if the return had a name in the header. (The function can be getFullName, yes, but that's so simple it doesn't matter).