MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by slater | 2025-04-04 17:24:10+00:00
Always a good time to remember this fantastic quote:

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
by guywithahat | 2025-04-04 17:24:20+00:00
I can't find the source of that quote (possibly a misquote?), but if I had to guess, he's saying he sold people on the problem, knowing they wouldn't like the solution. Everyone likes the idea of fixing the budget deficit, and some people like the idea of cutting wasteful government spending, but the act of fixing the budget means people lose jobs, and lives are destroyed. Even though it has to happen, people don't like watching it happen.

I don't think your "quote" says what you think it says.
by switch007 | 2025-04-04 17:24:27+00:00
> Being a DIY type, I was appalled at the building standards

Yup. It's no understatement to say a good tradesperson is extremely difficult to find. They all charge the inflated going rate regardless of their skill level, as people are desperate. They often get pretty shiry/nasty if you demand things or want to check their work - to keep you afraid and to accept their very subpar work.

Materials are shockingly terrible across the board too

I've been putting off renovations because I've had so, so many bad experiences with tradespeople in the past.
by khalladay | 2025-04-04 17:24:29+00:00
Though I found they like having control over whether the music is playing more... to my chagrin. I tried to keep my parrot from being too noisy through the day by setting up a microphone in his room, and having it turn off the radio for 30 seconds every time he was louder than a threshold amount.

Day one -> he triggered the shut down ~10 times. Day two -> easily 50. Day three -> you can see where this is going

Dude freaking LOVED being able to turn on and off the radio. It almost beat out being able to flap his wings and make the curtains move as one of his favourite hobbies.
by pesus | 2025-04-04 17:24:38+00:00
I would argue that Picasso's life experiences, the environments he grew up and lived in, the people he interacted with, and the world events that took place in his life (like the world wars) were the external developments that led to the development of cubism. Sure, an AI could take in and analyze the works that existed prior, but it couldn't have the emotional reaction that occurred en masse after WWI and started the breakdown of more classical forms of art and the development/rise of more abstract forms of art.

Or, as the kids might say, AI couldn't feel the vibe shift occurring in the world at the time.
by ergonaught | 2025-04-04 17:24:50+00:00
> Packaging and deployment will soon be solved problems ...

I hope so. Every time I engage in a "Why I began using Go aeons ago" conversation, half of the motivation was this. The reason I stopped engaging in them is because most of the participants apparently cannot see that this is even a problem. Performance was always the second problem (with Python); this was always the first.
by accrual | 2025-04-04 17:24:57+00:00
I agree, I meant "tame" as in comparison to where we are now. The first term felt incompetent and maybe a bit malicious, but the current term feels outwardly malicious and extraordinarily corrupt.

I could put on a mask and stay at home for COVID, but I can't do much about shunning our allies, disrupting the world economy, disappearing people, electing a cabinet of highly unqualifed individuals, putting the SCOTUS in pocket, etc. I can advocate, stay informed, support my community, etc., but this feels on another level than the first term and that's what I meant by my comment.
by jokethrowaway | 2025-04-04 17:24:57+00:00
A friend built a startup for years and progress was not looking good. Eventually the entire development team quit and left without equities. The founder was then acquired for millions.

Another case: startup running out of money after a series B or C and a history of questionable expenses. Everybody but a few left. The founders sold their main product for cheap to some private equity firm, focused on a crappy internal tool they built and they used their last money to hire a literal army of sales people.

These sales guys were apparently amazing and somehow managed to sell the tool to a bunch of fortune 500 companies and are now making bank.

The main product they sold? It's still on life support, the original buyer just sold it to another holding.
by mrguyorama | 2025-04-04 17:25:41+00:00
> But then again given our current political environment maybe that is what we're trying to tell the next generation.

There's no trying.

The US has played "Just grift your way to money" as a standard means of operating since at least the dotcom boom. A reason so many young and poorly educated people jump at obvious MLM type scams and other scams is because they feel that everything is a scam, so surely they can get in on it too, right?

And everything IS a scam. Coke doubled in price in the past 5 years. I promise you their costs did not double. Their costs are Labor (highly automated), water (they almost always have sweetheart deals for dirt cheap water, cheaper than you pay), and one of the most subsidized commodities available, HFCS, or alternatively, a sprinkle of dirt cheap chemicals for their diet sodas.

People feel that, even when they don't understand or even recognize it.

People recognize that the US has been a scammy free for all for decades now. Everyone for themselves, fuck you, got mine.

We are on like the third generation raised this way. The people who took "Greed is good" to heart had kids, and raised them with it as a core principle.

Jordan Belfort, the guy who Wolf Of Wall Street is based on and spent time in prison for scamming his clients in basically the same way modern crypto pump and dumps work, now sells out auditoriums as a motivational speaker for fucks sake.

The kids LOOK UP TO SCAMMERS
by taeric | 2025-04-04 17:26:04+00:00
Would be interesting to see what the causes of death were?

I'm also still surprised that "current smoking status" is a thing. Quickly checking, seems a lot of western Europe is higher in that than the US? Curious how regional that is in the US, even. I don't see nearly as many smokers around home as I do when I visit the likes of Atlanta.
by scottlamb | 2025-04-04 17:26:16+00:00
On Unix-like platforms? sysv shared memory (shmget, etc). https://github.com/gnzlbg/slice_deque/blob/045fb28701d3b674b... does this. (Though that code looks racy to me; unmapping the second half's virtual address space before mapping again is wrong. I guess it does that because shmat's SHM_REMAP flag is Linux-specific. At least it will fail rather than silently overwrite some other mapping. edit: oh, and it retries too, so not bad.)

Seems like you could use shm_open + mmap also.

On Linux, you could probably also do some juggling with mremap + MREMAP_DONTUNMAP, but I don't know why you'd prefer this over memfd_create.
by almostgotcaught | 2025-04-04 17:27:14+00:00
it's funny - people around here really do not have a clue about the GPU ecosystem even though everyone is always talking about AI:

> The article is about the next wave of Python-oriented JIT toolchains

the article is content marketing (for whatever) but the actual product has literally has nothing to do with kernels or jitting or anything

https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuda-python

literally just cython bindings to CUDA runtime and CUB.

for once CUDA is aping ROCm:

https://github.com/ROCm/hip-python
by byearthithatius | 2025-04-04 17:27:59+00:00
Disagree. We know it _can_ learn out of distribution capabilities based on similarities to other distributions. Like the TikZ Unicorn[1] (which was not in training data anywhere) or my code (which has variable names and methods/ideas probably not seen 1:1 in training).

IMO this out of distribution learning is all we need to scale to AGI. Sure there are still issues, it doesn't always know which distribution to pick from. Neither do we, hence car crashes.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712 or on YT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbIk7-JPB2c
Show HN: Promptify-CLI – Vibe Coding TUI for Selecting/Copying Project Context
by olliepro | 2025-04-04 17:28:16+00:00
This is a project that I've iterated on personally for almost a year. I was frustrated by the constant copying and pasting, not to mention my tendency to make monolithic code files when working with AI chatbots. This version of the tool was in large part written by Gemini 2.5. The features like a clean ui for selecting files to copy, tracking the number of lines/tokens as you select things -- they're largely inspired by the frustrations I had with previous iterations that were rigid or not transparent.

My usual pattern when working with this tool is select the files with relevant context and then paste the results into an AI chatbot which outputs a bash script to create/overwrite multiple files at once. It's also useful for large documentation git repos, like Streamlit's docs... copy the parts I want of their docs into the Gemini 1M token context window.

Additional features may come, but for now this is an MVP that I believe is worth sharing.
by chneu | 2025-04-04 17:28:21+00:00
It's, in part, the American diet. Americans eat an insane amount of beef, fat, grease, etc which accumulates into old age. Then older Americans see a reduction in "usable years" because basic things become difficult.

A lot of older Americans are "skinny fat". In that they might not appear obese, but their actual health compares to an obese sedentary person.

Add in the car centric culture, the obsession with luxury goods(beef is a luxury food), and the glorification of sedentary lifestyles, and you get olds who can barely walk for the last 20 years of their life.

We're also seeing a crazy uptick in people in their 20s coming down with heart diseases. I havent looked into that specific issue in a while but the leading theories were over consumption of caffeine and beef.

I grew up in rural America. I watched so many older people I knew come down with diabetes and heart issues in their 40s and early 50s. It meant they couldn't do much physically. A lot of older Americans, especially rural, spend their last 20 years trapped in their home because going outside is too much effort. In hindsight, and the data backs this up, it's clearly their diet. Americans glorify overconsumption of horrible foods. We made beef and meat a luxury good and encouraged it's over consumption by making it a "thing" successful people consumed every night.
by abxyz | 2025-04-04 17:28:37+00:00
There's an entire industry of "closers" (and the natural companion, people selling courses on how to build an agency of closers). Pitches like "we place closers into your business and guarantee they close business or you pay us nothing" are the standard. The reason this business model is not as good as it seems is that the incentives aren't aligned, these closers don't care about the business, so they'll sell to bad clients to hit their targets. You can definitely be successful doing this (so don't be discouraged, if you do it well you'll stand out) but you're competing with an ocean of trash that so many businesses / startups have been burned by and/or are apprehensive of. "high ticket closer" is the phrase you can google for to find examples.

edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/sales/comments/146gjwu/what_the_hel...
by RobKohr | 2025-04-04 17:28:49+00:00
Manufacturing pays very little, and for good reason.

You are competing with sometimes slave labor in other countries. Countries with no environmental protections and with no labor laws or concern for safety.

Imagine you could open a factory in country A or B, but country B's labor and employment law makes your production cost 30% less. You'd be an idiot, and more importantly you would lose in the market if you chose country A.

But you slap a tariff on, then it changes the dynamics. It makes the higher pay and labor costs more palatable in country A.

The usA has gotten itself in a pickle. It advanced worker rights and minimum wages to the point that shipping their work overseas to countries that don't care about such things is the only rational choice.

Perhaps if pay rates go up by some percentage to bring them out of their self isolation, then this will be resolved.
by jfengel | 2025-04-04 17:28:52+00:00
I wonder if this stands any chance of passage.

There are many bills introduced that stand no chance, but give the legislator a chance to show their constituents that they're doing something. They then get to blame the opposition for its defeat. (Even if it's actually shot down by their own party.)

That happens at both the state and national level. The state level bills are often seen as barometers of national opinion.

I have no idea what the Arkansas legislature consists of, so I don't know if this is serious. It sounds like the kind of thing that gets referred to committee, maybe a few meetings are held, and it's quietly dropped. But they may well consider it seriously -- in which case it's pretty likely that the haircuts part will be dropped, but many other parts remain.
by kaligraph_y | 2025-04-04 17:29:18+00:00
This has been my take throughout the last 2 losses. There's a massive divide between what the vast majority of Americans need/want to change and what the top Democrats have been pushing for the past 30 years. I mean, it's not to the level of a "death-cult" status that has pervaded the Republican mindset, but really are they that far off? > $1 Bil. was spent on the last presidential election cycle and for what? All they had to do was drop the corporate puppet-masters and speak to the general population with some sensible plans for getting America back to a place where the general population can live decent lives.
by kbolino | 2025-04-04 17:29:19+00:00
I had to think about this one a bit.

Basically, binary.Read/binary.Write are capable of reading/writing struct values. The worry would be that, if the Go compiler reordered fields under the hood, the order may differ between writing the data and reading it back (especially across different versions of Go).

However, because these functions use reflection, they likely wouldn't be affected. While the in-memory layout of the struct fields might get reordered, presumably the reflection order would match the declaration order. Indeed, there is already an Offset field on the reflect.StructField type, and there is no statement anywhere I can find that such offsets must increase monotonically.

So, the fields would remain in declaration order when inspected with reflection, but their offsets could jump around within the struct, yet well behaved reflection-based code should be agnostic to this change.
by vladms | 2025-04-04 17:30:10+00:00
Definitely it should not be patronizing. Presentation was so bad for various important topics (burning fossil fuels, nutrition habits, sex stuff, etc.).

Still, personally I try to let myself challenged even if the argument is patronizing. I don't want to say "I will not do X because you made a patronizing argument!". But for the cases I conclude it is actually a good idea, I will try to explain to the people making the argument "you would have convinced me easier if communicated like this".
by ben_w | 2025-04-04 17:30:29+00:00
US collectively does ~3.3e12 miles per year[0], over 283e6 registered vehicles[1], or 32 miles per vehicle per day.

EV efficiency is around 24-30 kWh/100 miles[2], so that's around 8-10 kWh/day.

200 W is what I expect as a 24h average; that's 4.8 kWh/day, 48%-60% of average usage.

I'd expect a semi to be a much smaller percentage because of getting driven further each day — drivers get in the news for spending longer than they're supposed to behind the wheel.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-drivers-log-328-trillion...

[1] https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/united-states/number-o...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car_EPA_fuel_economy
by globnomulous | 2025-04-04 17:30:30+00:00
That's just because Putin has been in power for long enough that he no longer needs the support of oligarchs. He came to power with their help and his relationship with them was initially transactional. Now he and his cronies no longer depend on them, so they either fall into line or fall out of favor and thus out of windows.

What you're describing is the first step, where the wealthy attempt to install a ruler friendly to their interests, someone they think they can control and reason with. Joke's on them -- and on everybody else, too, unfortunately.

Edit: this led me to realize that the advanced age of Fake Tan President is a saving grace. He simply won't live long enough to implement the kind of system Putin has been able to solidify over the past twenty or thirty years. And I'm not aware of anybody in the GOP who can replace him in the cult of personality that a stable dictatorship generally requires.
by hinkley | 2025-04-04 17:31:23+00:00
I was at a meeting and was sitting next to a guy whose company made an on-premise clone of parts of AWS. By the end of that conversation I came to find out that a lot of their funding came from Amazon.

A lot of people will walk into a trap. Some, once in it, will thrash to get out of it. Even if they hurt themselves in the process, they gain their freedom. Other people, seeing an escape route, will happily or at least grudgingly stay a while longer. Which then doesn’t warn off observers from making the same mistake.

If it makes sense for AWS to fund a “competitor”, then it makes sense for whale oil lamp sellers to cheer for an alternative fuel because the users can think, “we can always switch to kerosene”. And I’ve seen too many people who want to try something at least once while they still have the chance to experience it.
by mike_hearn | 2025-04-04 17:31:24+00:00
There's bad policy in other areas. Councils are going bankrupt due to court cases and equity laws that say any gender pay gap is the result of discrimination. Therefore they were found guilty because they are paying e.g. bin men or sewage workers more than mostly female jobs like nurses and librarians. They obviously have to do this because those jobs are dangerous and unpleasant so if you paid the same as other jobs nobody would want to do them. But the courts disagreed and now the councils have to pay huge sums out in equal pay lawsuits that they can't afford.

All this is a direct result of bad, ideological law making combined with a biased judiciary that interprets it in bad, ideological ways. Unfortunately it's the ideology Labour is in thrall too and they're in power for several years at minimum and maybe much longer if the right stays split, so the state of Britain's infrastructure will continue to sharply decline.
by solatic | 2025-04-04 17:31:35+00:00
A lot, but not all. The problem is that educational programs focusing on agriculture and manufacturing skills were eliminated in many school districts, rather than simply downsized to make room in the budget for information-economy education. By not offering these options at all, many children were pushed to positions that they were ill-suited for, often resulting in professional failure at best and at worst, large college debt that they would not be able to service without the expected parallel high-salary professional job.
by os2warpman | 2025-04-04 17:32:06+00:00
If you look at it from a systems perspective, battery storage is the same as increasing/decreasing steam output or drawing from a steam bank to match demand and the diurnal nature of solar is the same as taking units offline for maintenance.

The durations, scale, and reaction times to changing conditions are different (sometimes worse, sometimes better) but the concept is the same.

We solved those problems before, and have already solved them with solar it's just a matter of building out the infrastructure.

We may have to shed a single digit percentage of "market efficiency" in the short term to ensure the future of humanity, though, so there is resistance.
by warmandsoft | 2025-04-04 17:32:09+00:00
On February 20, 2025, they celebrated their 20th Anniversary of the public release:

"To be precise, it dates back to the release of its predecessor, CD-OpenBSD. Initially, it was just an experimental project to create an OpenBSD system that could boot from a CD. I never imagined it would last this long. Now, FuguIta supports three CPU architectures: i386, amd64, and arm64. It can also be installed and used on a variety of media, including DVDs, USB memory sticks, SD cards, hard disks, and SSDs. Its use cases have also expanded. While it was originally intended as a way to "try OpenBSD," it is now used not only as a daily PC environment but also as a dedicated machine for servers, routers, and IoT devices. As a result, FuguIta is now used for various purposes in different countries around the world. This is all thanks to the continued support of many people over the years: • Users who downloaded and used FuguIta • Those who provided valuable feedback, including reviews, questions, and feature requests • Community members who offered mirror servers and technical support When I first released CD-OpenBSD 20 years ago, there were many similar OpenBSD-based live systems. However, most of them have ceased development over time, and now FuguIta is likely the only one remaining. I will continue to develop and release FuguIta for as long as possible. Thank you for your continued support!"

Disclaimer: The above are quotes from the official site. I'm personally just a HN user and I have no ties to this project. I just think it's really cool!
by stevenAthompson | 2025-04-04 17:32:15+00:00
It is not a lie. She felt that the government had no right to assist, and that they should be left to depend on "charity" (IE - Begging).

There are also tapes of her saying that the retarded should not "be allowed to come near children," and that children cannot deal with the "spectacle of a handicapped human being."
by placardloop | 2025-04-04 17:32:41+00:00
You must not work in big tech, then. At my company, AI-companion tools were forcibly installed in everyone’s browser, soon followed by a press release parading how “100% of people at our company now use AI because it’s so great”. Attempts to uninstall the tool are explicitly blocked. Similarly, AI coding tools are forcibly installed in IDEs.

Every single hackathon or team workshop has been turned into a AI-specific hackathons or training. Managers have been told explicitly that they must come up with yearly goals that include the use of AI. Every project proposal must include a section answering how this project plans to utilize AI.
by bigyabai | 2025-04-04 17:32:47+00:00
It can be argued that they already did. AMD and Apple worked with Khronos to build OpenCL as a general competitor. The industry didn't come together to support it though, and eventually major stakeholders abandoned it altogether. Those ~10 wasted years were spent on Nvidia's side refining their software offerings and redesigning their GPU architecture to prioritize AI performance over raster optimization. Meanwhile Apple and AMD were pulling the rope in the opposite direction, trying to optimize raster performance at all costs.

This means that Nvidia is selling a relatively unique architecture with a fully-developed SDK, industry buy-in and relevant market demand. Getting AMD up to the same spot would force them to reevaluate their priorities and demand a clean-slate architecture to-boot.
by ArtTimeInvestor | 2025-04-04 17:32:48+00:00
I think it would be valuable to have a first-principles discussion about trade imbalances.

For a country, what are the actual downsides of having a trade deficit? Isn't it great to get stuff shipped to you and not having to ship the same amount of stuff back?

In fact, wouldn't a 100% trade deficit be ideal? Have stuff shipped to you without having to ship back anything?