MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by beAbU | 2025-04-15 09:38:58+00:00
I don't know what #TeamTrees is, nor do I know what MrBeast's involvement in it is. I only know _of_ MrBeast because of some workplace controversy that spilled on to the general internet recently.

I also did not specifically say trees need to be used. I mentioned fast growing things like bamboo. If there is another biological organism (GMO or not) that accumulates carbon-rich biomass faster, then I'm interested in understanding how that compares to more modern CCS techniques that require electricity for example.
by pjmlp | 2025-04-15 09:39:41+00:00
Which is in the past I would reach out to something like Perl on its heyday, given its coverage of UNIX API as part of the standard library, for anything manipulating CLI tools or config files.

Nowadays pick your scripting language, and if C is really needed, cleanly placing it in a loadable module with all security invariants into that scripting, or managed language, instead of 100% pure C source.

My solution since early 2000's.
by fransje26 | 2025-04-15 09:40:36+00:00
> My fat ass would have given up before I even reached the Bay Bridge

Cycling is a fairly low-impact activity for your body, and is a great way to get some exercise if you are out of shape, with a fairly low risk of getting exercise-related injuries. (Compared to, say, running)

The only thing you'll really need to "train" are your "sit-bones". A good, soft-ish, wide saddle will help, as well as padded shorts. In fact, for your comfort, padded shorts are a must-have.
by vultour | 2025-04-15 09:42:00+00:00
Reading this thread is mind-boggling. People complaining that cheap garbage from Temu is falling apart. People proudly proclaiming that they order Chinese crap almost daily. An argument about whether one crap peddler is better than another one.

Am I taking crazy pills? Am I the only one who buys things a few times per year? This rampant consumerism is depressing.
by esperent | 2025-04-15 09:44:18+00:00
Shopee has even worse behavior around reviews. You can't even leave a review past the first few days, and they bribe you with shopee points to leave a review.

The result is people opening the box, going yep, it works, 5 stars, gimme those points.

If it breaks a week or so later? Too late! No way to give feedback.
by Timwi | 2025-04-15 09:44:47+00:00
I have written long methods and will do so again and I wouldn't say it's because I have larger working memory or some other supposedly superior attribute. Some methods are just a long series of steps that you can just write one after another. Reading it from top to bottom is exactly as difficult/confusing/whatever as reading them as separate methods would be (assuming you put short comments in the same places where you would otherwise break it up). I think people just don't want inexperienced programmers to do that because they'll end up with tons of mutable state spanning the whole thing, and it's easier to tell them to break it up into methods than to explain what you mean by mutable state and limited scope.
by fransje26 | 2025-04-15 09:45:56+00:00
Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially the change of partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. [..] The frightening thing, he reflected for the ten thousandth time [..] was that it might all be true. If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened -- that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death? [..] It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. 'Reality control', they called it: in Newspeak, 'doublethink'
by Joker_vD | 2025-04-15 09:46:20+00:00
Always was puzzled by this "use present/imperative" prescription, to be fair. Shouldn't the messages about the past work be preterite/simple past? "Added support for OpenFizz 3.1", "Fixed FOO-2123 with foos that don't foo", "Changed default shell from /bin/fish to /bin/tcsh", etc. Heck, even the titular xkcd has initial commit messages in the Past Simple.
by wesselbindt | 2025-04-15 09:46:23+00:00
But GDP (PPP) is not the same as purchasing power, no? I don't know of any actual data but you can imagine two countries, both with the same GDP (PPP), same population size, shared currency (so the PPP doesn't factor in). One has organized its production and labor force in such a way that everyone has a relatively equal share of the pie, and the other one consists of a massive wage slave class getting by on poverty wages and a privileged few who reap the benefits of production. Surely the first of these two countries is more interesting to global ecommerce companies from a sales perspective.
by globular-toast | 2025-04-15 09:47:06+00:00
Wow, this is a "full circle" moment. I can distinctly remember installing my first WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack back in ~03 when I was learning to program. It was all easy point-and-click installers. I think I may have had to edit a config file to enable PHP, but that was it.
by latexr | 2025-04-15 09:47:42+00:00
Every time I see a comment accusing HN of having some specific consensual position like a hive mind, I go back and see comments both contradicting and supporting the stance. In other words, different opinions. Every single time I check, and every single time it shows the original commenter engaged in selection bias.

This case is particularly wrong, as that iPod quote is from Slashdot. HN didn’t even exist in 2001.

https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...
by blacklion | 2025-04-15 09:48:00+00:00
48% doesn't include healthcare (it is another about 170 euro/month per person, and, really, you don't have choice for better or worse conditions, formally there is "market" for this but it is very regulated) or pension. Some industries (but not software/IT one) have industry-wide pension funds, but it is additional payments and if you are in industry without this fund you can go to one of the "open" pension funds and put your money in them.
by sschueller | 2025-04-15 09:50:05+00:00
> These Terms and your use of T3 Chat will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the jurisdiction where T3 Tools Inc. is incorporated, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. Any disputes arising out of or in connection with these Terms will be resolved exclusively in the courts located in that jurisdiction, unless otherwise required by applicable law.

Would be nice if there was at least some hint as to where T3 Tools Inc. is located and what jurisdiction applies.
by simonw | 2025-04-15 09:50:25+00:00
I've been following prompt injection for 2.5 years and until last week I hadn't seen any convincing mitigations for it - the proposed solutions were almost all optimistic versions of "if we train a good enough model it won't get tricked any more", which doesn't work.

What changed is the new CaMeL paper from DeepMind, which notably does not rely on AI models to detect attacks: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18813

I wrote my own notes on that paper here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/11/camel/
by sph | 2025-04-15 09:52:46+00:00
Not only they get low rates, but if they have friends in the palace, they tend to be beneficiaries of large governmental contracts; during times of economic upset, they are the beneficiaries of large “monetary injections” that later cause inflation and prices to rise for all of us. During 2008, COVID, and the Mango recession the wealthy got much much wealthier, and all we got was expensive eggs and higher costs of living.
by herendin2 | 2025-04-15 09:53:41+00:00
If I got the math right, then about 1 in every 32,000 stars in the universe goes supernova each year. That's scary. But I think I'm getting the math very wrong.

edit: I guess my error might be related to confusing a probability factor with the number of incidents in a period.

edit: The right answer is probably up to 1 in every 10bn stars go supernovae in the universe each year (or 1 in 10bn die and a fraction are supernovae). Thanks: yzydserd and zild3d
by meh999 | 2025-04-15 09:53:55+00:00
Blindly, strong word- I agree.

By saying 'trusting blindly' I meant 'dismissing possibility of incorrect diagnosis and applying prescribed procedure withought weighting the risk'.

So, if GP gave diagnosis and informed about the risks and outlined other diagnosis that are less probable based on his experience, and the patient weighted the risk and decided to go with the procedure without taking 2nd opinion, that in my opinion would not be 'trusting blindly'
by timClicks | 2025-04-15 09:53:58+00:00
There are a few commercially valid strategies.

1. Goodwill and mindshare. If you're known as "the best" or "the most innovative", then you'll attract customers.

2. Talent acquisition. Smart people like working with smart people.

3. Becoming the standard. If your technology becomes widely adopted, and you've been using it the longest, then you're suddenly be the best placed in your industry to make use of the technology while everyone retools.

4. Deception. Sometimes you publish work that's "old" internally but is still state of the art. This provides your competition with a false sense of where your research actually is.

5. Freeride on others' work. Maybe experimenting with extending an idea is too expensive/risky to fund internally? Perhaps a wave of startups will try. Acquire one of them that actually makes it work.

6. Undercut the market leader. If your industry has a clear market leader, the others can use open source to cooperate to erode that leadership position.
by nabla9 | 2025-04-15 09:54:25+00:00
Nearly a quarter of Boeing's sales come from China.

>China's top three airlines - Air China (601111.SS), opens new tab, China Eastern Airlines (600115.SS), opens new tab and China Southern Airlines (600029.SS), opens new tab - have plans to take delivery of 45, 53 and 81 Boeing planes, respectively, between 2025-2027.
Is outdated product documentation a known issue for you too?
by sidekickhero | 2025-04-15 09:54:35+00:00
Hi, I've been talking with other founders, support leads, and product teams—and it seems like there's a shared pain point: Product documentation becomes outdated way too fast.

Screenshots go stale, videos become misleading, step-by-step guides are obsolete after one or two UI changes. Even internal wikis end up half-wrong because no one updates them in time.

The result: - Users get confused or frustrated - Support gets bombarded with tickets that “should be answered in the docs” - The wiki becomes a graveyard—nobody trusts what’s in there

Everyone I’ve talked to agrees it’s frustrating, but most seem to just accept it as a cost of shipping fast.

I’m currently building something to help with this—making help content more resilient and easier to keep up-to-date, even when your product changes constantly.

Before I go deeper, I wanted to ask here: Is this a well-known issue for you or your team too? Or have you found workflows or tools that actually work long-term?

Appreciate any thoughts!
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by constantcrying | 2025-04-15 09:55:12+00:00
>Your environmental footprint depends on your income and your country.

No, it depends on what you do with that income.

>Everything bought is environmentally unfriendly in proportion to the cost.

Plainly false. E.g. more expensive things made of natural materials and lasting for a long time create much less landfill than products which are cheap but last only a short time.

I own expensive shelfs which my parent bought for me as a child decades ago. They are literally "as good as new", much of the IKEA furniture I had to replace. Clearly the IKEA furniture had a bigger impact, although it was "cheaper".

>Complaining about specific things being bad is almost pointless.

All complaining I do is pointless. Obviously no institution who could force change is making decisions based on my HN posts.
by krageon | 2025-04-15 09:55:28+00:00
If you actually read the article you see this garment lacked a "flammable" label. It's not the flammability that wouldn't happen, it's just a tiny warning.

This article is outrage bait, especially obvious given the incredibly graphic pictures and the high focus on emotional statements combined with the low amount of actually important detail (what went wrong? It's not what you or the article are implying, which is the fire risk).
by benlivengood | 2025-04-15 09:56:24+00:00
It's hard to beat CDNs for streaming because the number of hops is low. Basically any p2p technology would have to mirror the way existing livestreams work; a local well-connected peer sucks down the livestream from farther away and rebroadcasts it to local peers. Anything else introduces latency or wastes WAN bandwidth. Peers are also rarely situated where they have moderate downstream and exceptional (local) upstream.

IPv6 multicast is probably the way forward for livestreams but I haven't really been keeping up on recent developments. In theory there could be dynamic registrations of multicast addresses that ISPs could opt-in to subscribe to and route for their customers.
by shaky-carrousel | 2025-04-15 09:56:37+00:00
The vast majority of Americans will be hurt even more when product prices double just to subsidize a handful of jobs. If there's such strong interest in ensuring some people have a salary—regardless of the cost to everyone else—we might as well drop the pretense and just pay them directly.

Except, of course, if we did that, the government wouldn't be able to hand those factories over to their friends or political allies. That's the real feature of these "industrial policy" moves, not a bug.

Argentina has been running a nearly identical playbook for decades: impose high tariffs and taxes on imports, hand out subsidies to politically connected local manufacturers, and claim it's all in the name of "national production" and "job creation." The result? Inefficient, uncompetitive factories that only survive because they're protected from global markets. Consumers get stuck paying absurd prices for low-quality goods, innovation dies, and the overall economy stagnates. The only real winners are the cronies who cash in on state favors.

If the U.S. goes down that same path, just like Argentina, it's not going to end in a manufacturing renaissance. It's going to end in inflation, stagnation, and a bunch of overpriced junk no one wants to buy.
by DemocracyFTW2 | 2025-04-15 09:56:47+00:00
> custom presets for different countries

Can skip those, this is a uniquely American concern, in the rest of the world we just pay our bills and if there's something to split a generous approximation is what people do, and they leave something for the waiter if appropriate without needing a frigging calculator to do that.

> I discovered this tip calculator [...] I built tipcalculator.top

This is also a uniquely American thing where you can both discover something and then build it, or is it the other way round?

> struggling [...] when dining

This is also a uniquely American thing where you can't just marry someone but must plan every detail months in advance, where you can't just give birth to a child but must perform a gender reveal party, and, also, struggle when 'dining'. In the rest of the world people get married, have kids, and eat.
by sidekickhero | 2025-04-15 09:57:38+00:00
One thing I’ve also noticed is that some big teams doing (Google included) is avoiding direct UI recordings/screenshots altogether. Instead, they use animated GIFs or illustrations that suggest the UI rather than replicate it exactly.

That way, when the product changes visually, the help content doesn’t immediately break. It communicates what to do rather than exactly where to click, and that seems to make it more resilient over time.

Kind of a “show the concept, not the pixels” approach.

It’s definitely a more scalable mindset, but also harder for smaller teams to pull off without design resources.

Curious if anyone else here has tried something similar or has lightweight ways to make help content more durable?
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-04-15 09:58:43+00:00
The problem with zooming out is that the speed of light sets a specific size/time scale so the more zoomed out you get, the more disconnected the big picture is. The observable universe is a mere 93 billion light-years across, so there's a limit on how far it makes sense to talk about zooming out. Also, with the universe expanding, the observable size will reduce over a long time period.

The scales involved are vastly different than the minor difference in scales between bacteria and us - we don't have to worry about the speed of light for anything that we currently consider alive.
by zynzel | 2025-04-15 09:58:54+00:00
Dead-Man-Hand will execute pre-added actions when you will no longer be "available".

All actions are encrypted and when properly configured nobody will be able to get action details till you are alive.

Main goal of DMH is to ensure that actions can be executed only when you are dead. And before that time, every action should be confidential - even for people who have access to DMH.
by LeonM | 2025-04-15 10:01:18+00:00
> native UI libraries need to step up their game in terms of approachability.

Gnome does this, you can develop apps in Typescript.

But, they started to migrate some of their own apps to Typescript and immediately received backlash from the community [0]. Although granted, the Phoronix forums can be quite toxic.

My observation is that there is just a big disconnect between younger devs who just want to get the job done, and the more old-school community that care about resource efficients. Both are good intentions that I can understand, but they clash badly. This unfortunately hinders progress on this point.

[0] https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoron...
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-04-15 10:02:23+00:00
I actually wasn't referring to iroh but rather ipfs / the stratos thing that I mentioned.

My only gripe with iroh currently is that its browser wasm feels too much for me/ I don't want to learn rust.

So I actually wanted to build something that required connectivity and I used nostr because nostr is great for website and not gonna lie ,its awesome as well (but nostr is also riddled with crypto bros :( )
by andy99 | 2025-04-15 10:03:54+00:00
The question doesn't make sense imo because it, meaning neural network or other ML computer vision classification, doesn't have a mechanism to be trustworthy. It's just looking for shortcuts with predictive power, it's not reasoning, doesn't have a world model, it's just an equation that mostly works, etc, all the stuff we know about ML. It's not just about validation set performance, you could change the lighting or some camera feature or something, have some unusual mole shape, and suddenly get completely different performance. It can't be "trusted" the way a person can, even if they are less accurate.

These limitations are often acceptable but I think as long as it works how it does, denying someone a person looking at them in favor of a statistical stereotype should be the last thing we do.

I can see if this was in a third world country and the alternative was nothing, but in the developed world the alternative is less profit or fewer administrators. We should strongly reject outsourcing the actual medical care part of healthcare to AI as an efficiency measure.
by ktnt | 2025-04-15 10:04:08+00:00
Funny timing.

I just had my GH account "flagged" (basically all interaction over web or API is locked, all open PRs wiped). No explanation.

Opening a support ticket is blocked by SMS verification. Which 429s. No idea if and how this will be sorted. Trust with some collaborators will definitely be hurt after the ban/flag even if lifted.

Really should have worked more on assigning another owner to the managed org...

So yeah, in case anyone who cares at GH sees this, account name profile.
by drivingmenuts | 2025-04-15 10:04:16+00:00
I'll take that second option for $500, Alex.

This is the point where image generation gets squicky - not-for-profit fan art is one thing, but straight up copping someone's style to make money just seems like taking things a bit far.

I guess it's OK, though. They did say it was an "homage" in the FAQ.

Hey, guys? An homage is a one-off piece done to show an appreciation for another's work. Whoever you are, you're straight up stealing a look for profit.
by RhysU | 2025-04-15 10:04:31+00:00
Here's the Mr. Money Mustache article I referenced: https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2021/01/29/margin-loan-ibkr-...

Another very rational reason for such a margin loan for a home down payment is if the stock you wanted to sell hadn't been held for a year and therefore its sale would not yet qualify for long-term capital gains rates.

You might choose to pay margin interest for up to a year so that the stock sales become taxed at the much lower long-term capital gains rates instead of like income.

That might make sense for someone in the 24% federal bracket which ends at just under $200K of annual income, depending upon how much longer one needs to hold the position to achieve the more favorable taxation. Certainly far below the yacht-owning bracket.
by zeta0134 | 2025-04-15 10:04:40+00:00
Philips Hue and many other similar smart light bulbs connects to my zigbee network with no Wi-Fi needed. It's remarkably simple to control them from Home Assistant, which I can run on a fully isolated home network. When my Internet gave out for two weeks (the perils of living in a forest) lots of stuff became inconvenient, but my smart light bulbs continued to work perfectly.
by consp | 2025-04-15 10:04:59+00:00
https://www.thestockpot.net/videos/whykmart for those who do not want to watch a video like me.

Isn't the use of USB-C promotion without at minimum basic USB compatability disallowed?

I have a few devices which have a USB-A to barrel plug, but they do not advertise anything and afaik that is perfectly fine. And they also only work with a normal USB charger, not the fancy ones.