MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by meristohm | 2025-04-08 15:23:43+00:00
Anyone can do whatever they choose. I try not to "should". There is a potential distribution of consequences for acting in protest. The degrees to which each individual cares, knows enough to care, etc are diverse, and that diversity is important. I prefer an alternative story than "neoliberal/surveillance capitalism ftw!" and that leads to conflict, which I'm learning to navigate.
by masswerk | 2025-04-08 15:24:01+00:00
I think, Studio Ghibli will be affected, as well, since their "trademark style" (as we used to say), formerly a welcome sight and indicative for a certain type of story telling, will be devaluated as an indicator for slop. (Much like there are certain traits of an image, which we associate with soap operas and assume to be indicative of a low-value production.)
by popularonion | 2025-04-08 15:24:13+00:00
Not sure why this is downvoted. People forget or weren’t around for the early 2000s when companies were absolutely preoccupied with code copyright and terrified of lawsuits. That loosened up only slightly during the GitHub/StackOverflow era.

If you proposed something like GitHub Copilot to any company in 2020, the legal department would’ve nuked you from orbit. Now it’s ok because “everyone is doing it and we can’t be left behind”.

Edit: I just realized this was a driver for why whiteboard puzzles became so big - the ideal employee for MSFT/FB/Google etc was someone who could spit out library quality, copyright-unencumbered, “clean room” code without access to an internet connection. That is what companies had to optimize for.
by tmpz22 | 2025-04-08 15:24:19+00:00
Like TikTok AI Coding breaks human psychology. It is engrained in us that if we have a tool that looks right enough and highly productive we will over-apply it to our work. Even diligent programmers will be lured to accepting giant commits without diligent review and they will pay for it.

Of course yeeting bad code into production with a poor review process is already a thing. But this will scale that bad code as now you have developers who will have grown up on it.
by kortilla | 2025-04-08 15:24:26+00:00
The obvious problem here is the vast majority of software professionals in the US are not working on open source projects. So this tool is probably only useful if you’re looking for an open source dev or someone junior trying to break into the industry.

Basically all of the major tech companies have boilerplate hoops you need to jump through to make open source contributions on the side, let alone open source anything major internally.
by ryandrake | 2025-04-08 15:24:33+00:00
> Manufacturing does not mean jobs.

Exactly. I think a lot of people who say they "want manufacturing to come back to the USA" have a picture in their imagination of a 1950s factory employing hundreds of middle class people standing along an assembly line picking up parts with their hands and working on them, or turning bolts on a car as it goes down the line. Then the old steam whistle blows, and all those workers exit the building and drive back to their middle class 1950s homes.

This world does not exist anymore and is never coming back. If manufacturing comes back, it's going to be heavily automated plants with a lean staff of robot technicians keeping the line going. Manufacturing may come back to the USA, but those Fred Flintstone jobs are not part of the picture.
by ethbr1 | 2025-04-08 15:24:36+00:00
> ...but when I look at voting patterns in particular, I find myself pessimistic that the elderly are wiser than average.

Wisdom like 'It's harder to build something than it is to tear it down' and 'Change carries its own risk.'

The irony is that older people overwhelming voted for Trump on the basis of returning things to the way they were... and then Trump staffed his administration with young ideologues who are determined to upset the traditional order.

Midterms will be curious.
by markus_zhang | 2025-04-08 15:24:50+00:00
IMO if Trump is serious about bringing manufacturing back to US, his No.1 job is to remove all middle-high managers from all government agencies.

The whole government has been bathing in the globalization alcohol for so many years that there is a huge interest group rooted for it to go forever. You can't do much without removing this group.

There is no "legal", "orderly" retreat from the current situation IMHO. It's going to be messy. The issue is whether Trump is doing the job or he is just faking it for whatever the reasons.
by owebmaster | 2025-04-08 15:25:07+00:00
A fun fact, one of the biggest PIX players is also the company that acquired Cognitec¹, the company behind Clojure and Datomic. Until not long ago, Rich Hickey was part of the staff².

1. https://building.nubank.com.br/pt-br/nubank-acquires-us-comp...

2. https://building.nubank.com.br/clojures-journey-at-nubank-a-...
by GCA10 | 2025-04-08 15:25:25+00:00
The "Roshamon Effect" always kicks in when people share their personal perspectives about time working at a turbulent organization, but even so, I was surprised that this piece made no mention of Quartz's founding editor-in-chief and co-CEO, Kevin Delaney.

I'd overlapped with Kevin during a different period, and he was always a fountain of fascinating ideas. At Quartz, I though he showed great skill in championing expertise in niche areas, under the banner "Our Obsessions." He (or his team) were uniquely bold online in the way they let memorable photos carry more of the weight.

Once Kevin left in 2019, at least from my reader's perspective, all the air went out of the balloon
by piva00 | 2025-04-08 15:25:34+00:00
Since there will be so much solar installed it's quite inevitable that energy storage will be also growing on a lagging but similar exponential curve. Solar is becoming big, and if a major impediment is storage which is not a hard problem like fusion to solve, there will be tons done to bring it into reality.

Even if the current solutions are inadequate, the same was true for PV 20 years ago, it just needed investment in R&D. Investment in R&D of grid storage is at the highest in history, and growing.
by haswell | 2025-04-08 15:25:47+00:00
I was primarily responding to this:

> The real quest is getting multi planetar.

Which when viewed as the "real" quest, has potentially problematic downstream effects. My point was that there are many people who see who see the world as something to escape and live lives prioritizing things that harm our long term ability to survive here in the pursuit of that escape.

I appreciate the clarification that this is not what you meant. It wasn't clear that the "real quest" had any connection to the side quest since they seem unrelated.

> Multi-planetary life is life more resistant to medium to large cosmical calamities.

I don't disagree. But I strongly believe that stabilizing the home base is a higher priority in the near term i.e. at a time when the planet is in a precarious place, spending enormous amounts of resources trying to colonize mars is a questionable priority when we have more immediate problems that would benefit from such lofty ambitions.
by vharuck | 2025-04-08 15:26:29+00:00
I didn't say I would automatically believe something just because the reporter says "anonymous source." The reality is the administration's PR people spout an endless steam of lies, and "leakers" who share real facts are fired. There is no surprise to how this plays out: reporters seek the truth, employees want to share the truth, employees don't want to be fired, and you get anonymous sources out the wazoo.

The reason I said anonymous sources don't cause me to immediately dismiss articles is because I don't want to reward the admin for purposefully creating this shitty situation. I'll use other critical reading skills to determine the articles' value. It sucks that heavy reliance on anonymous sources isn't a huge flag anymore, but it is what it is.
by adrian_b | 2025-04-08 15:26:51+00:00
While typically both mammals and birds are significantly more intelligent than the other vertebrates, it must be not forgotten that there exists an overlap in intelligence between the smartest reptiles, e.g. varans a.k.a. monitor lizards, and the dumber mammals and birds.

So also outside of mammals and birds there are some cases of brain evolution towards greater complexity, even if not reaching the typical mammal/bird level, and which are likely to also correspond to a somewhat different brain structure.

(Off topic, in my opinion, "reptiles", is a term that is properly applied only to lizards and snakes. Not only crocodiles and turtles are more closely related to birds than to lizards and snakes, but also none of them are crawling, as implied by the word "reptile". Actually the present crocodiles are awkward on land only because they are secondarily adapted to an aquatic life. Their terrestrial ancestors were much more agile, as still demonstrated by some crocodiles that are even now able to gallop.)
by RHSeeger | 2025-04-08 15:26:58+00:00
There is a pretty big gray area in there. Literally every society on the planet has some form of "giving up their freedoms" in exchange for some amount of security. I would argue that it's impossible to have a stable society without that. The thing that's important is deciding which rights are worth protecting and which ones are ok to give up in exchange for security (or other reasons, presumably).
by doublerabbit | 2025-04-08 15:27:11+00:00
My method has always been pour half of your amount of ground coffee in to the cafetière, fill it water so it just covers the layer of grounds, leave it to settle then pour the other half of grounds over the wet half let that to settle for a few minutes, longer the settle stronger the coffee gets. Then when ready pour the remaining water over the grounds. Leave the plunger up and leave it to cool before pouring.

Another tip is that boiling water can scald the grounds resulting in not so nice coffee. So boil the water and leave it to cool for a few minutes.

A couple spoons of honey instead of sugar works nicely as a treat too; especially if you get luxury honey. Add a chewy cookie to the mix and you have my bribe.
by elpakal | 2025-04-08 15:27:27+00:00
I agree with most of the sentiment here, and have actually considered building something like this myself. I think the biggest need is to find a way to expose contributions to private repositories somehow—right now, this assumes you are your public commits, which isn't true for people spending the majority of their time inside of private repos.

I know the LinkedIn API is limited but it would also be cool to see a social graph of contributors you have worked with somehow. Finding the people, their titles, and companies would be valuable to see where you level (just imho).
by VagabundoP | 2025-04-08 15:27:36+00:00
I'm actually impressed with some of the software there. Its matured quite a lot since I last looked at it.

I might try OnlyOffice. I've never really gelled with LibreOffice due to the UI.

My organisation has recently gone all in on MS intune/O365. Its been happening gradually but accelerated recently. I think some heavy taffies might make us look at it again, but probably not.
by DeathArrow | 2025-04-08 15:28:24+00:00
Europe is in a tough place. Not only most software platforms are from the US, but also most of the hardware.

For Europe to catch up it will need lots of startups which can grow up and become unicorns. This isn't going to happen because of the mindset, bureaucracy, reglementation, lack of capital and lack of time.

China is in a better position to become independent of US tech than all the EU countries together.
by 9rx | 2025-04-08 15:28:49+00:00
It is a common phrase that, as commonly used, has no connotations with the suit as a style of dress: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suit%20up

But you do highlight the flaw of natural language, where it only works where there already is a shared understanding. When quite often there isn't. Heck, 90% of the comments on HN are from actors having different understandings for technical jargon and talking past each other because they aren't even talking about the same thing. Such is the tragedy of the human existence.
by mrbn100ful | 2025-04-08 15:28:51+00:00
Let's have a quick look:

Qwant France EU Hosting

Sure, but the search engine behind is monstly Bing.

Startpage Netherlands EU Hosting

Use Bing and Google

Ecosia Germany EU Hosting

Use Bing, Google Yahoo and Wikipedia

This is not how you build alternative platforms.

The only true Independents search engine are Brave Search and Kagi both from the US.

The EU can't compete, we are lagging behind.
by trelane | 2025-04-08 15:29:02+00:00
I was replying specifically to

> There’s a big difference between a real strawberry and a vat of chemicals called strawberries.

> The market is filled with products labeled "strawberry" that are not really strawberries

What is a "real" strawberry? Is a generically modified strawberry "real" to you? What about a strawberry grown in a greenhouse?

> even close to the makeup of strawberries.

If you're talking about flavored food, sure. Maybe that's what they were meaning. That would make sense. That's not what I'd consider a "vat of chemicals called a strawberry," as the a would seem (to me) to indicate that it is a replica of a strawberry.

> the ship of Theseus analogy seems misapplied, since we're not talking about a situation where the food choices we have are between the real thing and some molecularly perfect replica.

Sure, it's a hypothetical that we can't yet technologically replicate in its entirely. The GMO/hothouse question is entirely practical, though. And the point of these kinds of questions isn't that the're immediately practical, it's to figure out an interesting question by pushing things to the limits.

> fact that everything is made up of the same stuff of the universe and more to do with questioning whether or not the human-made processed option is safe in the long run.

That still isn't the point, though. Sure "chemicals" is a bogeyman for many (see also dihydrogen monoxide). But why is "dihydrogen monoxide" bad but water good?
by geenkeuse | 2025-04-08 15:29:48+00:00
"Even before the Holocaust, there was plenty of support for that: the Inquisition, pogroms, the Ghetto, expulsion from various countries throughout the Middle Ages."

And yet who were the ones to give yo refuge from the horrors caused by Europeans? Those very same Palestinians which you so despise

Evil is evil. no amount of propaganda can wash off that stink.

How far have you fallen, from being the victim to the attacker. Yet you still care to remind us all of how your people suffered. And then you go ahead and murder more innocents.

Evil. No other word can suffice.

<Shadowbanned - No surprise :-)>
by DebtDeflation | 2025-04-08 15:30:14+00:00
The factories of today are nothing like the 1980s factories this administration thinks they are going to bring back. Go to FRED or any other economic data site and plot manufacturing output and manufacturing employment on the same chart. The US manufactures more today than we ever have in history and it grows every year. Meanwhile, manufacturing employment is around its all time low and declines every year.
by UncleEntity | 2025-04-08 15:30:15+00:00
> But thats stuff you have figured put after your 20th tattoo.

So... after spending hundreds, if not thousands, of hours learning a skill?

I got a tattoo back in the day and specifically went to one the guys in my platoon said was good due to him being featured in magazines or whatever. It's kind of an important thing to get right on the first, not 20th, attempt IMHO.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-04-08 15:30:26+00:00
I don't think a project's core security concerns should be left up to my charity.

I get why they need the permission to implement their cutesy drag and drop interface.

But I'd like to hear why these apps can't continue to hide menu icons after you've revoked the permission. Ice and Bartender at least require you to grant it at all times last I looked a few months ago.
by ty6853 | 2025-04-08 15:30:47+00:00
The economic picture of what will happen is instead of being an American engineer designing widgets made in China, some fraction of you are now decimated to be an American widget maker of items engineered in China. Tarriff is essentially just a handicap to comparitive advantage in trade, trading out jobs where you had the advantage.

It is one of the most baffling thing I have seen our government do in our lifetime.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-04-08 15:31:42+00:00
As an owner of two border collies I feel like in some ways we're already on the very cusp of it starting to get creepy. Our female is insanely intuitive and able to figure out what's going on in simple sentences (probably mostly keywords and tone) and is extremely alert to the things going on that might be key to her.

Let's say you breed a dog past toddler level intelligence, and a little more conscious, and communicative... How do we now feel about them having a lifespan of 10-15 years? It's already heartbreaking enough. Imagine if they were aware of their mortality and short relative lifespans...
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-04-08 15:32:25+00:00
AI will be a better at manufacturing than any human ever. It will do the best machining ever. It will never need to rest or slow down. It will be able to build and rebuild parts to nanometer tolerance 24/7/365. It simply cannot fail at any job once it learns how to do it. If you don't believe me, go watch the latest keynote at Zombo.com
by ngrilly | 2025-04-08 15:32:32+00:00
I agree. I'm seeing that trend as well (teams using Rust instead of Go, JS, Java). But only for teams that are very experienced and really passionate about programming languages and software engineering (typically most of us here on HN). I'm under the impression that the majority is sticking to the usual tools — Java, C#, Python, Go, JS/TS — and not ready to use Rust.
by neogodless | 2025-04-08 15:33:19+00:00
This is the eternal evolution of individual labor.

But then the question is - do you think going backwards to an earlier time is a solution?

Go far enough back to individual homesteads doing some light farming, hunting, fishing. You'll be self sufficient, but you won't be able to afford a phone or television!

It's going to be a difficult problem (always) solving for the future of individual contributions to society as labor gets replaced by automation, and even knowledge work gets replaced by machine learning.

But I still think great minds (and also the minds that get put in charge) should look forward and try to build a good future, rather than cling to a dying past.
by inftech | 2025-04-08 15:33:22+00:00
A package manager written in Rust for a language designed to be embedded in C and which relies heavily on C libraries, and also configured in TOML when Lua itself was created to be used as a configuration language in C programs?

No, thanks.

Luarocks has its limits and probably should be rewritten, but using a language that fits the ecosystem and following the culture of the Lua ecosystem.

Rust and Cargo represent exactly the opposite of Lua.
by walterbell | 2025-04-08 15:33:45+00:00
Currency rates are also a factor.

https://financialpost.com/news/stephen-miran-economist-trump...

> Miran.. points to Trump’s application of tariffs on China in 2018-2019, which he argues “passed with little discernible macroeconomic consequence.” He adds that during that time the U.S. dollar rose to offset the macroeconomic impact of the tariffs and resulted in significant revenue for the U.S. Treasury.. “The effective tariff rate on Chinese imports increased by 17.9 percentage points from the start of the trade war in 2018 to the maximum tariff rate in 2019,” the report said. “As the financial markets digested the news, the Chinese renminbi depreciated against the dollar over this period by 13.7 per cent, so that the after-tariff USD import price rose by 4.1 per cent.”

https://archive.is/uvL5w

> The deepening trade war is raising speculation in financial markets that China may resort to aggressively devaluing the yuan against the dollar in a break of their policy of pursuing a stable currency.. A weaker yuan would make Chinese goods cheaper abroad, offsetting some of Trump’s tariff impact, and make it costlier for local consumers to buy US goods.. One big consideration for Beijing is the risk of foreign investors pulling their money out of China if the currency sinks.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-04-08 15:34:22+00:00
The #1 reason that this technology won't proliferate more quickly is that humans are a bunch of COOMERS!

We get Stable Diffusion V1.5 and SDXL and what does the community go do with it? Lmao see civit.ai and it's literal hundreds of thousands of NSFW loras. The most popular model today on that website is the NSFW anime version of SDXL, called "Pony Diffusion" (I'm literally not making this up. A bunch of Bronies made this model!)

Imagine that an open source image generator which does tokens autoregressively like this at this quality is released.

The world is simply not ready for the amount of horny stuff that is going to be produced (especially without consent). It appears that the male libido really is the reason for most bad things in the world. We are truly the "villains of history".
by AlienRobot | 2025-04-08 15:34:40+00:00
You don't use OFFSET because the btree index just sorts the rows from smallest to largest. It can quickly get the first 30 rows, but it can't quickly figure out where the 30th or the nth row is. When pagination is crawled it will crawl the whole table, so it's important that the worst case performs well.

The fix to this is to paginate by saying "give me 30 rows after X" where X is an unique indexed value, e.g. the primary key of the row. The RDBMS can quickly find X and 30 rows after X in the sorted index.

This makes it hard to implement a "previous page" button but nowadays everything is a feed with just a "show more" button so it doesn't matter much.
by keybored | 2025-04-08 15:34:43+00:00
> But I do agree, on the scale (0-1?) of how much your government can take away your liberty (when you haven't committed a crime) and compel you commit crimes, most western countries probably sit around 0.01 to 0.05 maybe, North Korea sits around 0.98 to 0.99 and Australia probably 0.4

What do you base this on?
by cutemonster | 2025-04-08 15:35:12+00:00
Using AI to review and improve your CV would make sense, just as you can ask a person for help and review.

But not using it for creating lies and pretending you're skilled in areas where you're not.

Or would you say that if HR uses humans to screen CVs, you can cheat by using a friend's CV instead (using a human, like HR)
by iamleppert | 2025-04-08 15:35:23+00:00
It's really easy to catch these scammers. Ask for a non-trivial code or work sample, something they have written. Actually take the time to read through the code and understand at least a part of it. In an interview, ask them some questions about it. People who actually wrote the code or did the thing can talk at length about about what they did, the history behind it, trade offs, have colorful stories about it, etc. I don't even care exactly about the technical details of it, I'm looking for signals that they are a liar.

If they say they don't remember, that's a red flag. If they can't describe how something works, that's a bigger red flag. You're not looking for photographic memory, but it's very obvious once you do it a few times who is real and who is lying.

It's common sense, if you don't put in at least a tiny bit of effort in your hiring process, you can only expect to attract similar low effort candidates.
by anon84873628 | 2025-04-08 15:35:31+00:00
Which people got the COVID vaccine first?

Why is HN in English and always talking about FAANG?

Why do kids all around the world play with Spiderman?

Asking for "vital" and "21st century" is a paradox, so maybe it's not what you really meant. But the proof of our success is all around if you're willing to actually look.