MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Stratoscope | 2025-04-01 02:15:42+00:00
That is a truly awesome and helpful reply. Thanks for the time and thought that went into it!

Don't worry about the downvotes. I see that my comment is back at 1 point now. As they say, nothing ventured, nothing gained.

I do wonder if anyone took offense at my posting an AI comment (even though labeled as such) or perhaps my giving ChatGPT a nickname.

I give every AI a nickname! It's a habit I picked up from Jerry Garcia.

Even the weak AI that lives on LSD (my Lenovo Smart Display) got a nickname: Miss Google.

Miss Chatty does have quite a sense of humor. Here is part of her reply when I sent her your comment:

> That’s a fantastic follow-up, and what a thoughtful, detail-rich response from your Hacker News friend! Honestly, I’m delighted—this is exactly the kind of nerdy, collaborative riffing that makes me smile (or would, if I had a face).
by FireBeyond | 2025-04-01 02:16:20+00:00
The article references the showrooms as the sales point.

Not "online sales". "Tesla sold about 8,600 cars in three days at four separate stores in Canada".

Yes, cars were sold online. This references Tesla recording the place of sale as those showrooms.

The contortions to defend Tesla are ridiculous.

If you believe Tesla, nearly 20% of its annual sales for the entirety of Canada happened around these four locations in one weekend. It just so, coincidentally, happened to be conveniently timed for subsidies.
by dakom | 2025-04-01 02:16:27+00:00
There's also some cool stuff brewing in the AVS space to allow nondeterminism, GPU, storage, and more.. for example, WAVS executes stuff off-chain in WASI components, and brings the result on-chain (secured by re-staking via Eigenlayer etc.)- so there's a roadmap to do things directly in wasi-gfx powered shaders and more low-level access like that
by bradleyy | 2025-04-01 02:16:37+00:00
Honestly, seeing this, I'm 1/2 tempted to revisit org-mode and retrying emacs as a dev environment.

Don't get me wrong; I use emacs all the time, I just can't seem to make it work for me when working with teams of people on large-ish software projects.

But maybe org mode is worth a revisit as a "managing my ADHD" tool; it's got to be better than Jira, haha.
by ghaff | 2025-04-01 02:17:14+00:00
Charitable trusts, depending on the type, often/usually provide shielding from various types of taxes. That's not intended to be a cynical statement--the end result may well still be positive for society--but nonetheless it's one mechanism by which at least relatively affluent people can keep profits out of the hands of the government. It happens at much smaller scale than in this case as well.
by cyanydeez | 2025-04-01 02:17:31+00:00
>Unfortunately the US government has always been a government for people who do not want to be governed

I don't think that's the entire description of the problem. The US government was setup to strictly govern a certain subset of the population (non-voting citizens, later non-voting people), but allow freedom to people who don't want to be governed.

The clash between the two has "generally" been helpful since it is a largely symbolic reality that we do both want structure and regulation but also freedom to do things outside that structure.

The current regime demonstrates that to a tee. That there is no clear intersection between who should be strictly governed and who should be imbued with freedom, and that there's no simple tests of them.
by foobarian | 2025-04-01 02:18:41+00:00
I've tried playing guitar on and off my whole life over last 40 years and I can't believe that it took me until this year to try, on a whim, a classical guitar. Suddenly my fat fingers can fit next to each other making an A or B chord, and they don't hurt and blister after a short session of play. Seriously make sure to not overlook non-steel guitars if you're having trouble.
by laurencerowe | 2025-04-01 02:19:23+00:00
And Spy Cops: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/jan/09/undercover-office...

The BAe bribery scandal: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/sep/11/bae.freedomofi...

And before that the downfall of Jonathan Aitken and Neil Hamilton in the 1990s.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-01 02:20:07+00:00
If the cult doesn't vote or is overrun by engaged normal people, then we can dismisss them as that father did his family. Cults aren't necessarily known for their majority rule (exposing them to the public is often poison to them).

People engaged in going to townhalls are absolutely a great measure of what will actually happen at the polls. Especially in non-national elections which often have a small fraction of turnout and a few hundred votes can swing an entire election.
by antasvara | 2025-04-01 02:20:12+00:00
>The Guardian US expects to hit $44 million in voluntary reader donations in the U.S. and Canada this year, up 33 percent over last year

>"We’re now at a place where our audience is actually bigger in the U.S. than The Wall Street Journal’s audience in the U.S."

That feels like not that much money considering the readership, right? The WSJ has somewhere around 3 million subscribers; they would need to be making only 14 dollars per subscription per year to do that sort of revenue.

Not to say that's necessarily a bad thing, but more that you need a pretty substantial readership to get there.

Put another way, that revenue is like 200k subscribers at 20 bucks a month. That would put you at the level of a newspaper like the Minnesota Star Tribune as far as subscription revenue.
by ahamilton454 | 2025-04-01 02:20:14+00:00
It’s actually just a Forbes marketing ploy. Me and my company made it on the list and they gave us an interview and the guy that interviewed us asked “what is ChatGPT?” And he was supposed to be head of like AI at Forbes. I actually think they somehow make money from it by hosting conferences and stuff. Either way I always was sus of it
by nikolayasdf123 | 2025-04-01 02:21:42+00:00
nicely organised. I feel like this could grow into community driven current state-of-the-art of optimisation tips for Go. just need to allow people edit/comment their input easily (preferably in-place). I see there is github repo, but my bet people would not actively add their input/suggestions/research there, it is hidden too far from the content/website itself
by FireBeyond | 2025-04-01 02:21:47+00:00
> The article says that works out to 18% of annual volume, which means the cancellation of the rebate brought forward just over 2 months worth of sales.

For the country. This happened in one city of one province.

Ottawa has 1.4M people in a country of 37M (4%).

So 18% of the country's entire volume for the year was sold in a city that has less than 4% of the population. In a weekend.

8600 vehicles sold, representing 18% of the vehicles sold in Canada = 48,000 in a year. Two months of sales would be 8,000. Recognizing that the population isn't evenly distributed, that is actually more like 320 is the expectation... not 8,600. Even multiplying that number by 10 to factor in things like urban/rural still gets you to less than a third of what Tesla claims was sold...

> I'd save $10k (or whatever the rebate is) compared to if I bought 2 months later.

Just over $3k ($5k CAD).
by crazygringo | 2025-04-01 02:22:32+00:00
Are you serious? Have you watched Adolescence? It's got more soul and artistic merit than practically anything else I've ever seen. And that was just last week.

Maid? The Queen's Gambit? Baby Reindeer? The Crown? Ripley? BoJack Horseman?

Sure they make a lot of schlock too, because they're a business and that's what most of their audience wants.

But I don't see how you could possibly criticize them for that when they continue to put out some pretty astonishingly artistic and soulful stuff.
by hexie | 2025-04-01 02:23:30+00:00
This is awesome! I made a very similar tool to help myself practice progressions specifically for banjo: https://banjo-rolls-deluxe.twait.dev/

Far fewer features than your app, but just having a tool to help nail down the muscle memory of pre-built progressions has been massively helpful for me as a banjo-player-in-training.

Your exercise builder is awesome and something I was planning on building into my site, might take some inspo!
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-01 02:23:37+00:00
> It's as if people are awakening to the real world for the first time.

Lucky 10k: https://xkcd.com/1053/

>Yes, the intensity and the breadth is new (for recent generations anyways).

Yes, that is a big factor. Big difference between covert guantanomo bay arrests and outright making which house announcements about El Salvadar. They are saying the quiet part out loud and people can't ignore it any longer.

>my guess is that as soon as we get a new administration, the fervor will be lost and similar actions to these will quietly continue.

Well yes. Policy is a full time+ job and most people don't have the time and energy to watch every action of their government.

It's up to the reps elected to keep that momentum up.
by irjustin | 2025-04-01 02:25:00+00:00
The problem fundamentally is during a sale you don't get access to the actual DB. DD you typically only get a subset of data, so whoever you contact or even physically visit, it all could be fake people answering the phone or even at a fake address impersonating whoever they need to.

For $175m of fraud, it's definitely worth to set that up.

The core problem here is - the US lacks the ability to realtime verify identity against a centrally government controlled DB. US would never allow this under privacy rules, but that's what it would take to really identify a particular person.
by mpalmer | 2025-04-01 02:25:18+00:00
Here's my left-field pitch since everyone's shopping the A.IDEs - don't use them.

The polish of Cursor et al is a component of its dishonesty. You should keep the nature of the tool exposed to you at all times.

I say you should:

- identify the things about your personal development process that you'd like to streamline (up to and including not having to code everything by hand)

- write Python scripts that call LLMs (or don't!) to achieve the thing you want.

- heck, write library functions and establish some neat patterns - a random prompt picker using a folder of txt files, why not?

Not only can you create a development experience that approximates much of what Cursor does, you can make one that is twice as good for you because it is aligned with how you work, and how you think.

And at that point, with your fluent new workflow, making a simple VSCode extension to hook into your scripts can't be all that hard. At that point, how can Cursor compete?
by brigandish | 2025-04-01 02:26:46+00:00
> as is the tone of its news coverage

I read the Guardian for 20 years, it's not less partisan in its output, it's incredibly partisan - just like all the other big papers. Thinking a news source doesn't have a slant is incredibly naive, in my view, but since this is coming from another newspaper or journalist with their own biases and slant, it's at best false and at worst a lie.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-01 02:29:05+00:00
> We just attribute everything to disinformation and throw our hands up as if none of this was avoidable

Well yes. it was. This was avoidable, but not by those fooled with fear from lies. It came from the rational people who felt their vote didn't matter, or that fell for obvious distractions as if somehow Trump was better because their aligned candidate wasn't the perfect progressive.

>Both sides are too busy pointing fingers now to really want to do anything about it.

if you only focus on the radicals, it's not surprising you become radical yourself and cast aside the grand majority of moderates. That both sidesing narrative is also a trick.
by kaiokendev | 2025-04-01 02:29:13+00:00
Well the assembly I put into it was written by humans writing assembly intended to be well-understood by anyone reading it. On the contrary, many NES games abuse quirks specific to the NES that you can't translate to any system outside of the NES. Understanding what that assembly code is doing also requires a complete understanding of those quirks, which LLMs don't seem to have yet (My Mapper 4 implementation still has some bugs because my IRQ handling isn't perfect, and many games rely on precise IRQ timing).
by bbor | 2025-04-01 02:30:37+00:00
Not to disagree with your justified Socratic questioning, but this sparked my interest and I figured I'd share my (novice!) TIL: it appears the IAU uses a coordinate system based on our solar system on January 1st 2000, 00:00 AM, or "J2000.0". Thus (0, 0, 0) is at the ~center of Sol and the x and y are within Earth's orbital plane, which means the z axis is orthogonal to that. In other words, it seems like "above"/"up" in a astronomical sense denotes the same approximate direction as "Northward"/"North", which is pretty fascinating!

Of course as an arrogant computer scientist I think they're downright kooky for not basing it on the galaxy, but ce la vie. Presumably there's one of those too, and this just wins for boring social inertia reasons as much as for any technical ones.

image: https://geoscienceaustralia.github.io/ginan/images/ICRF-75pc...

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

Of course this doesn't really matter for the above musing since top/bottom would purely be conventional based on our viewpoint, but otherwise illuminating on the issue of understanding rotation directions across the universe.
by jedberg | 2025-04-01 02:30:55+00:00
Have you checked out DBOS Transact[0]? DBOS is designed for high dynamic execution, and doesn't have the overhead or complexity of Temporal [1].

Disclosure, I'm the CEO of DBOS.

[0] https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-py

[1] https://www.dbos.dev/blog/durable-execution-coding-compariso...
by ranger_danger | 2025-04-01 02:31:35+00:00
I don't contribute anymore because it's almost always a thankless endeavor further humiliated by very rude and irrationally demanding users.

If I don't do something, half the users get upset. If I do it, the other half get upset.

That combined with so many other developers who seem to have dogmatic god complexes and think they know everything while simultaneously having the emotional maturity of an eight year old... it was just too much for me to handle.
by dang | 2025-04-01 02:33:16+00:00
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

The Egg - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37852535 - Oct 2023 (6 comments)

The Egg - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31687818 - June 2022 (1 comment)

The Egg – In Animation Format - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20856614 - Sept 2019 (1 comment)

The Egg (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17145811 - May 2018 (51 comments)

I am Andy Weir, and I wrote "The Egg". AMA - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15673764 - Nov 2017 (1 comment)

The Egg (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7203095 - Feb 2014 (153 comments)

The Egg - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1489497 - July 2010 (20 comments)
by techpineapple | 2025-04-01 02:33:24+00:00
There’s an interesting… paradox? Observation? That up until 20-30 years ago, humans were not computerized beings. I remember a thought leader at a company I worked at said that the future was wearable computing, a computer that disappears from your knowing and just integrates with your life. And that sounds great and human and has a very thought leadery sense of being forward thinking.

But I think it’s wrong? Ever since the invention of the television, we’ve been absolutely addicted to screens. Screens and remotes, and I think there’s something sort of anti-humanly human about it. Maybe we don’t want to be human? But people I think would generally much rather tap their thumb on the remote than talk to their tv, and a visual interface you hold in the palm of your hand is not going away any time soon.
by rayiner | 2025-04-01 02:34:26+00:00
> For democracy to work properly politicians need to follow the rules.

Democracy doesn't require that, except for a narrow subset of rules relating to voting and things like that.

The system you're describing isn't even democracy--it elevates lawyers and judges above the voters. Think about it: if there was a class of people you could trust to neutrally administer and enforce "the rules" then you wouldn't need multiple branches of government, separation of powers, etc. You could just make rules for everything, and trust the neutral arbiters to enforce those rules in politically neutral ways.
by abraae | 2025-04-01 02:35:02+00:00
> Especially in this case where they had a red flag that she didn’t want to turn over the list until the deal was done

I'm not in the game but I think if I was spending this much money I would want some statistically sound samples of the list. Not the whole list, but enough entries to give me a high level of confidence that the list was made up of real people.

e.g. hash the name and DOB of everyone on the list, then give me the list of hashes. That way I know the list is not full of duplicates. Then I will pick say 10 at random, request their details, and make sure their hash can be recreated and that they are real people.
by hattmall | 2025-04-01 02:35:05+00:00
The way this is different is because those sites were faking it to make their site seem more active to users. Here there's no draw to users it's ONLY for the valuation and purchase. JPM wanted 4 million people unable to fill out a FAFSA but willing to pay to have it done. The exact kind of person who fucks up credit cards and pays $$$ of interest for years.
by cratermoon | 2025-04-01 02:36:06+00:00
The article points to companies not knowing why they are piloting AI, not knowing what they are doing, and not having their data ducks in a row.

Those are all perennial issues with organizations following any hype cycle, but why is there nothing in the article asking if AI is even doing anything useful?

Isn't it also possible that these pilots aren't reaching production because organizations discover the technology doesn't live up to the hype?
by AlotOfReading | 2025-04-01 02:36:12+00:00
It's worth mentioning that GCC's ftrapv has been unreliable and partially broken for 20+ years at this point. It's recommended that you use the fsanitize traps instead, and there's an open ticket to switch the ftrapv implementation over to using it under the hood:

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101521
by jmye | 2025-04-01 02:37:56+00:00
There isn’t a single Trump voter who ever cared about free speech as anything other than virtue signaling or a cudgel (and there isn’t a single Republican who will go against Trump in anything). Everyone crying about it the last few years was a liar or a fraud.

Doesn’t matter - they’ll pressure universities and every single one will capitulate and teach anything Trump wants them to teach. This is the death of the Ivies, to start.
by rayiner | 2025-04-01 02:38:43+00:00
You're acting like computers, or neutral actors external to the political system, decide "when rules are broken" and what "punishment" to apply.

That's entirely the wrong way to think about government. Government isn't about rules, it's about allocation of power. You have to think about government in terms of who is entrusted with power to make which decisions. If you entrust judges and lawyers to decide "when rules are broken" by elected officials, you give them power over those officials, and over voters.

Now that's okay to a degree, but the question is: where does the buck stop? If you design a system where the buck stops with lawyers and judges, then you've effectively given those lawyers and judges power to overrule voters. It's better to design a system where the lawyers and judges demur in situations like this, to avoid a "tail wagging the dog" situation where the legal system is invoked to resolve a political dispute.
by timewizard | 2025-04-01 02:41:06+00:00
> While today journalism struggles to make money

It rather depends on what you mean by journalism. I suspect your definition is true to the Guardian's apparent aims, publishing well researched truths to an interested population. What was being published in the 1800s was most certainly not that; instead, being very similar to the current forms of "opinion journalism" that are exceptionally lucrative today.
by whack | 2025-04-01 02:42:37+00:00
> Frank’s chief software engineer, Patrick Vovor, testified that Javice had asked him to generate synthetic data to support her claim that the company had more than 4 million users. When Vovor asked if that was legal, prosecutors said, Javice and Amar assured him that it was — and told him they didn’t want to end up in orange prison jumpsuits. Vovor testified that he refused to help. “I told them I would not do anything illegal,” Vovor told jurors.

> Seeking to dent Vovor’s credibility, defense lawyers suggested he was resentful that Javice didn’t want to date him.

That is one hell of a defense
by wredcoll | 2025-04-01 02:42:53+00:00
> Surely denying massive campaign problems, such as "basket of deplorables" and not distancing herself from Biden, will work.

Yeah, those are totally "massive campaign problems". Massive. Gigantic. Career ending.

Oh wait, Trump constantly throws out insults and associated with morally repugnant people. He insults christians and veterans and still got elected. I don't think these are the real issues.
by _m_p | 2025-04-01 02:44:10+00:00
I was reading about the cinematography of _Collateral_, possibly the first large budget feature film to be shot digitally, and one of the issues back in 2004 when it was made was the amount of storage required for digital video and the risk of not being able to retrieve the images from the data stores:

> “We did massive testing with the hard drives, and everything was great, and then we had an experience where we shot, and when we sent in the material, they couldn’t get the information off the hard drive,” said Cameron. “So the studio went ballistic and was like, ‘There’s just no way we can we can let you guys do this.’”

> The compromise was the production would record to hard drives as well as SRW tape. And unlike today, verifying the digital footage was equally cumbersome and tension-filled.

> “We recorded everything two or three times on decks that we carried with us,” said Beebe. “So we were backing up, two or three times.”

https://www.indiewire.com/features/interviews/michael-mann-c...
by scythe | 2025-04-01 02:45:46+00:00
One thing I started doing the last time I picked up guitar again, which was about two months ago, was wearing disposable nitrile gloves on my left hand. They're extremely thin and durable, and have minimal impact on dexterity, but allowed me to practice for over an hour a day with no residual pain the next day. It was always possible to practice through the pain on one day, but where I would slip up is skipping a day because my fingers still hurt. (And skipping a day turns into two...) I've still developed calluses, too, but I'm not quite ready to give them up. I'm much happier with my progress than I was any previous time, probably because I never skip a day of practice anymore.

It's not the most eco-friendly thing I've ever done, but I figure it's a pretty small amount of plastic in the grand scheme of things (especially in my line of work).
by no_wizard | 2025-04-01 02:46:58+00:00
I think everything you noted as a downside is why, in part, things like Pickleball and Disc Golf took off in the last 5 years.

They’re similar to things we know, but different enough that they haven’t been optimized out of reach by normals, or at least perceived as such, and both have a relatively cheap barrier of entry to get started.

I think we may find 20 years from now the dominate sports have changed up a bit. I have heard that the NFL and MLB for instance are worried about the incoming decline of their sports because they aren’t nearly as popular with people under 35 compared to basketball and other up snd coming sports