MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MrsPeaches | 2025-04-19 18:39:47+00:00
We use culture now.

“Culture is just the way things are done around here”

Peer review is culture. Work place legislation is culture.

The article argues that trying to extract technology and reapply it, without the culture, is a fools errand.

It’s trivially true: you can’t just teach some people to code and expect them release an app that can scale to millions of users. It requires culture to function and deliver.

We need to understand the culture required to deliver the technology, not just the technology itself.

I for one would be very interested to hear about how different types of labour organisation were required to deliver their water.
by noirbot | 2025-04-19 18:40:08+00:00
This is also a huge part. A lot of the "look at this insane price for coffee" is because exploitative practices for centuries has led to people having price expectations for coffee that are unreasonable in a fair market. There's definitely crazy high end coffees that are $20 a cup for various reasons, but $6 pounds of coffee from the grocery store are also an anomaly.
by pickle-wizard | 2025-04-19 18:40:13+00:00
A couple of years ago I wanted to vacation in Sequoia National Park. So I booked a hotel and flew into LAX. Got a rental car and drove to the hotel a few hours away.

The next morning I go to leave and put the park entrance into my GPS and it said I was 3 hours away. I was like WTF?

Turns out I had booked a hotel in Sequoia National Forrest. I still ended up having a good time. I was still able to see a sequoia tree was my main goal of the trip.
by ninkendo | 2025-04-19 18:40:43+00:00
It sucks that GP’s comment is flagged dead… it’s an opinion a lot of people seem to disagree with but IMO it’s not against the site’s guidelines or anything. It could be an interesting conversation if folks are willing to debate in a curious way.

My personal take is that it’s a moral imperative for humans to eventually edit obviously-bad disorders out of the gene pool going forward, through CRISPR-style editing or just selecting sperm/eggs to exclude the known bad genes. We have to come up with a good definition of “disorder” that people can be happy with, but I don’t think it’s an impossible task to do so.

I think it’s a moral imperative precisely because we’re so good at medical intervention that we’re able to keep people with a variety of conditions and disorders alive and even procreating, when “naturally” they wouldn’t have been able to do so without advanced medicine. Because of this, such disorders become more and more common in the gene pool because they’re no longer being effectively selected against.

We ought to prevent the human race from being utterly dependent on advanced medicine for survival, is my point. And IMO the way to do that, is to make sure that if we’re using advanced medicine to allow people with a genetic disorder to live a healthy life and procreate, we ought to do the gene editing necessary to make sure the disorder itself is not passed on to the next generation. (Basically address the “root cause” as well as the symptoms.)
by lxgr | 2025-04-19 18:40:51+00:00
Yes, but why should everybody have to show the same level of care for everything they do/consume as aficionados?

Just like it can be extremely fulfilling to build a PC from parts, compile your own Linux kernel, get an old car working again etc., it can be nice to have somebody else do all of that for you and focus on the details of life that you enjoy most.
by alt227 | 2025-04-19 18:41:35+00:00
You convieniently left out the next part in your quote.

> why should I propose a penalty which would certainly be an evil? Shall I say imprisonment? And why should I live in prison, and be the slave of the magistrates of the year—of the Eleven? Or shall the penalty be a fine, and imprisonment until the fine is paid? There is the same objection.

He was not talking about exile at this point, but every punishment which is considered evil[kakos], shown by the fact that he mentions fines and imprisonment immediately after. He goes on to mention exile third after these 2. This leads me to believe he thinks death is better than any punishment, as death is the only punishment which contains an unknown.

After mulling the outcomes of imprisonment, fines, and exile, he settles on proposing a fine (be it in sarcasm or not).

In my opinion there is nothing specific about death vs exile here, only a man showing he is not afraid of death.

> Socrates could have three opinions: Exile is worse than death, exile is equivalent to death, exile is better than death.

You know what? He could also have the opinion that death is better than a kick in the testicles, but in the same way it is not mentioned in this text ;)
by ChocolateGod | 2025-04-19 18:41:38+00:00
> but other parts of the act do apparently refer to other women and that they should not be discriminated against in the same way

Yes, the act (as it should) protects people from discrimination based on gender reassignment, e.g. you can't fire someone for their gender identity or deny them from a service.

The act makes it illegal to discriminate against someone due to their "sex", but a portion of the act allowed for "single sex" spaces where there is reasonable grounds to have them, but the act (reasonably at the time) did not define what sex was.

A piece of Scottish legislation referred to "woman as defined by the Equality Act", but the Equality Act never said if it was referring to biological sex or gender identity, the Scottish government said it would include people with gender reassignment certificates, a "woman's rights" charity disagreed. Hence the court got involved and found the original intention was to refer to biological sex, which was confirmed by the politician that introduced the Equality Act (Harriet Harman).
by mondrian | 2025-04-19 18:42:23+00:00
You have a card with a name, when you click it a detail popup opens and the name is in there. There's also a delete button saying "Delete <name>", which pops up a confirm dialog and the name is in there, too. When you update the name you have to update all those places.

The alternative is there's a canonical name variable, and it's rendered in all those places. To update the name, you just update that variable and "re-render", and those places naturally pick up the new value.
by Cpoll | 2025-04-19 18:43:41+00:00
OSX makes it easy to write em-dashes. It's much more annoying on Windows. I wonder if more innocuous assistants like Grammarly also insert them?

Ditto the directional "smart quotes", OSX inserts them by default (and sometimes breaks stuff like pasting json into Slack).

There certainly are a lot of them in the article.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-04-19 18:44:27+00:00
To be fair, good coffee is actually really tasty and different varieties actually have different tastes. So, it’s true than there is a world of potential out of cheap pre-grinded over-roasted bought to be as cheap as possible coffee.

The issue is that there is another world between that and the horribly pretentious and snobbish consumers buying incredibly overpriced cups from trendy places.

But normal people who enjoy quality coffee do exist.
by AriUgwu | 2025-04-19 18:45:09+00:00
I like Windsurf and that is an _odd_ feeling. In part because it does feel like I’m working with a very smart junior developer.

It allows me to do documentation driven design in my hobby work and as a result has restored a great deal of joy in that process. Genuinely a surprise for me.

Tried all the front runners and only Windsurf gave me this feeling. Happy for their success. Less happy that my current $10/mo sub might get locked behind a $$$ bundle because someone in the OpenAI c-suite said “Finally, some steak to help sell our sizzle!”
by TylerLives | 2025-04-19 18:45:16+00:00
>as if Russian or Ukrainian people are bots who can't desire freedom and non corrupt governments.

Even with all the propaganda and force being used (and there is a lot of force, search for videos of how Ukrainians are being conscripted), I am certain that the vast majority of Ukrainians would vote against Zelensky and would be highly motivated to end the war. Whether such decisions should be left to the people is another question, but it's not even true to say that Ukrainian government represents the people anymore, which is why they refuse to hold elections.

>No most Russians don't speak Chinese but yes they get news from official media which is China aligned

China owns Chinese media. Russia owns Russian media. US allies don't own their media. USAID was funding 90% of Ukrainian media [0]. Don't you think this can be a problem in situations where interests of the two countries don't align? Was this war good for the Ukraine?

[0] https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1887501752213409919
by lxgr | 2025-04-19 18:45:28+00:00
That's in fact exactly what I love about espresso in Italy and some other European countries: It's ubiquitous, fast, cheap (even cheaper if you drink it standing up!), and as a result a commodity and not something pretentious.

I also don't remember ever having had a bad cup of espresso in Italy. If it ever happens, I'll just walk a few steps down the street and chase it down with a decent or good one.
by mrweasel | 2025-04-19 18:45:50+00:00
There's also the phrase: "here’s the real kicker". It's not that English speakers won't use it, but ChatGPT is overly fond of that term and it makes little sense as a subheading in this context.

Earlier today I saw a YouTube video, it audio started with "calm voice, with a sense of urgency" (something like that) and the voice over stars reading the generated script.

I'm so fucking tired of AI generated content. I'd rather read peoples own writing, with all the errors that entail, or a some Chinese guide going through a tutorial in his own broken English, at least that has character.
by daxfohl | 2025-04-19 18:46:15+00:00
And it's definitely not "try every possibility in parallel", as is sometimes portrayed by people who don't know better. While quantum computing makes it possible to superpose multiple possibilities, the way quantum mechanics works, you can only measure one (and you have to decide ahead of time which one to measure, i.e. you can't ask the quantum system like "give me the superposition with the highest value"). That's why only a few specific algorithms are aided by quantum computing at all. Integer factorization (or more generally, anything that uses Fourier transforms) is the biggest, where it's exponential speedup, but most others are just quadratic speedup.

And even if you could simulate and measure multiple things in parallel, that still wouldn't let you solve the halting problem, which would require simulating and measuring infinite things in parallel.

Another way of saying it: everything that can be done on a quantum computer can also be done on a classical computer. It's just that some specific algorithms can be done much faster on a quantum computer, and in the case of integer factorization, a quantum computer could factor numbers larger than would ever be practical on a classical computer. But that's really it. There's nothing magical about them.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-04-19 18:46:24+00:00
They specifically said their original point still stands, and I agree with them.

> what is your actual argument

Was it not clear? Okay I can try again.

When advertisers claim that relevant ads are something people want, that's very far from being universally true. Lots of people don't want that. Don't let them use that unsupported claim to support tracking.

Note that the desires of advertisers are not part of this particular argument. It's a simple claim and counterclaim.
by noirbot | 2025-04-19 18:46:35+00:00
Most fancy coffee shops do do that though. If you walk in and ask for a drip coffee or an espresso, especially if you just say "I want a basic espresso", you'll probably get what you want. I'm sure there's some places that would be annoying about it, but most specialty places deal with plenty of people coming in every day not used to ordering in specialty places.

If you really want a basic coffee with the cheapest beans you can find, why would you go to a fancy shop? If anything, it's more likely to work there than going to a multi-course restaurant and trying to order a hamburger. There are other businesses that serve a "no choices" need.
by neom | 2025-04-19 18:46:44+00:00
This is a weird thought, but maybe it depends on how far you allow yourself to imagine, and what "acceptable imagining" is? I can imagine a few things that Higgs may end up being useful for, sure, they're "insane" or "wild" or "100% not how things could work you're nuts" - but I can still see ways it could benefit humanity if I was right about my imagination, and I'm not going to bother stopping my imagination.
by spankalee | 2025-04-19 18:47:22+00:00
You should really check out lit-html[1]. It's not a framework like this README claims. It just renders template with template literals, but it does so with minimal DOM updates and safely. And it has a number of features for declaratively adding event handlers, setting properties, and dealing with lists.

[1]: https://lit.dev/docs/libraries/standalone-templates/
by devmor | 2025-04-19 18:47:43+00:00
Can you explain why you think this? I’m curious.

Humans don’t encounter an infinite loop problem because we are not “process-bound” - we may spend too long on a task but ultimately we are constantly evaluating whether or not we should continue (even if our priorities may not be the same as whoever assigned us a task). The monitoring is built-in, by nature of our cross-task processing.
by Mawr | 2025-04-19 18:47:53+00:00
What a shallow, negative post. Can't believe you're implying that there's no outsized hype about AI. At least bring some arguments forth instead of asking silly hypothetical questions.

> Would not the author have claimed at the time that those technologies were also "hype"? What consistent principle does the author use (a priori) to separate "useful facts" from "hype"?

Well, dear gosh. You look at the objective qualities of the technology then compare it to what's being said about it. For stuff like AI, blockchain etc. the hype surrounding them is orders of magnitude greater than their utility. Less so for AI than the near-useless blockchain, but still disproportionate.

AI has an obvious downside in its inability to ever be the source of truth. So then all you need to do is look for the companies using it as such, even for something as simple as phone support and you've got your hype-driven bone-headed decision making right there: [1] [2].

> Or, if the author would have considered those over-hyped at the time, then they should have some humility because in 10 years they may look back at AI as another one of the "most beneficial tools ever invented".

Very clever wording, you can make "one of the most beneficial tools ever invented" fit basically anything with a little bit of spin. Make up your mind instead of inventing weasel statements.

> How does the author know that these people don't believe that AI has great utility and potential?

Oh I'm sure most of them do. Does not contradict "greedy, careless, unskilled" in any way.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43683012

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40536860
by gruez | 2025-04-19 18:48:33+00:00
>This analysis identifies over fourteen distinct mileage calculation methods employed by Tesla—ranging from predictive telemetry algorithms to energy-consumption-based estimations—documented explicitly in patent filings and regulatory disclosures

This is the "they have a patent!" argument all over again. Just because such algorithms exist, doesn't mean they're used in the odometers. It's not even suspicious that they have such algorithms. Batteries are far more complicated than a fuel tank, so even if they weren't trying to fudge odometer ratings, you'd expect them to come up with such algorithms. Finally, you still don't have a response to my main objection: why haven't done an empirical test? They spent all this time making data requests, looking up tesla patents, and digging up old reddit posts, but can't spend a day driving a tesla around to compare what the odometer says vs google maps/another car. What gives?
by skydhash | 2025-04-19 18:48:35+00:00
But what if your dependency graph never becomes large (HN, Craiglist,...)?

I believe a lot of web applications can go without any reactive framework as using one is a slippery slope. You start with React and 80% of your code is replacing browser features. Imperative may not be as elegant, but it simpler when you don't need that much extra interactivity.
by ViktorRay | 2025-04-19 18:48:58+00:00
The end of the empires of Western Europe was not graceful. Not even close.

It may seem that way because the countries within Western Europe that had done the empires are now stable and prosperous but what about the countries of Africa and Asia? The ones who had been part of those same empires of Western Europe?

If you talk to people in these countries of Africa and Asia I think you would find that people there would strongly dispute the idea that the empires of Western Europe ended in any way that could be called "graceful"
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-19 18:49:50+00:00
Possibly Guido, in that rejection, was talking about what ended up as ABCs, original PEP: https://peps.python.org/pep-3119/

Further work was done in this area, building on ABCs, with Protocols, original PEP: https://peps.python.org/pep-0544/
by analyte123 | 2025-04-19 18:50:02+00:00
>While Hadland says it would take a lot of repeated heavy use of nitrous oxide to see these effects, over time such use could also cause permanent neurological issues.

This is not a could. Repeated abuse of nitrous, perhaps as little as daily use over 2 months, does cause neurological issues, including spinal cord damage and paralysis [1].

[1] https://sci-hub.ru/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31625167/
by vbo | 2025-04-19 18:50:07+00:00
I think there may be more to overcomplicated brews than lifestyle or status. It's a desire to get technical in a world where so much of life has been automated away from the consumer's view or ability to affect it. Coffee is a way to tinker with something in the same way previous generations tinkered with their cars or radios or whatever. It's an outlet for creativity and technical skill building for those that engage in brewing.

Coffee shops will sell rituals, status, prestige, sophistication or the appearance thereof. Same as every other business. But that's not to say the product can't be superior - it can. It also doesn't say that every product that makes use of those marketing techniques is superior; but even if it isn't, if the customer walks away happy, they must've done something right, right?

Don't we do the same with the technology we're working on? How often is it truly better beyond any critique? People were getting stuff done even before our products were around with less fuss and a different set of problems. We do what we do to end up busy with stuff so we can do what we do all over again, don't we? I digress.

It does get tiresome when everyone is trying to sell you an experience and it becomes disappointing when the selling of experiences becomes so commoditized, the thing being sold loses its credibility as something special on account of being sold as such. Is it a crisis of authenticity?

To each, their own. I used to tinker with espresso based drinks, but I'm mostly over it. I've learned to discern (some) better coffee beans from others, but I mostly don't drink that - I can't justify paying that much for a coffee I brew myself and that I may botch out of being in a hurry. It's also a distraction that takes time I don't have anymore. But it was fun to explore for a while and I now own a very fancy looking espresso machine, grinder and all sorts of acccessories.
by pfannkuchen | 2025-04-19 18:50:09+00:00
Is the valuation really based on AI and robotics?

The legacy automakers have been stagnant innovation-wise for a long, long time.

Tesla builds their own equipment to build the cars, which gives them an advantage in design flexibility. They could (or could have) conceivably eat(en) the market share of many of the legacy automakers before they could possibly catch up. I feel like most of the valuation is and was speculation in that direction. It’s not the existing auto makers to compare them to, it’s the entire auto market.

Unfortunately Elon can’t stay focused and thinks he can solve every major problem in parallel himself.

I hope the board can at some point realize that he needs to take a break from Tesla, and later come back if and when he can focus.
by d357r0y3r | 2025-04-19 18:51:18+00:00
It is absolutely worth the cost and complexity. The cost and complexity of building a web application using some home grown vanilla JS system will end up being a horrible engineering decision most of the time.

There have been zero times in my career where I thought "hmm, maybe we shouldn't have build this thing in React and let's just go back to page scripts." If you're building landing pages and websites, then okay. But that's not most of what we're all hired to build these days.
by ViktorRay | 2025-04-19 18:51:57+00:00
The Fall of the Soviet Union may not have been graceful to the Russians but it was certainly graceful to the people the Soviet Empire was exploiting in Eastern Europe.

People in Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and so on probably would use the word graceful to describe the USSR's end.

(And yes I know Poland wasn't part of the USSR but it was a satelite state).
by pmags | 2025-04-19 18:52:40+00:00
I agree that there is still a lot we can do to combat fungal disease.

However, your points 1, 2, and 4 unfortunately don't apply well to anti-fungals.

* "There is limited evidence that farming use of [anti-fungals] is what drives resistance in clinical cases."

Certainly not the case with respect to azoles:

-- Rhodes J, et al. Population genomics confirms acquisition of drug-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus infection by humans from the environment. Nat Microbiol. 2022 May;7(5):663-674. doi: 10.1038/s41564-022-01091-2. Epub 2022 Apr 25. Erratum in: Nat Microbiol. 2022 Nov;7(11):1944. doi: 10.1038/s41564-022-01160-6. PMID: 35469019; PMCID: PMC9064804. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35469019/

-- Celia-Sanchez BN, Mangum B, Gómez Londoño LF, Wang C, Shuman B, Brewer MT, Momany M. Pan-azole- and multi-fungicide-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus is widespread in the United States. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2024 Apr 17;90(4):e0178223. doi: 10.1128/aem.01782-23. Epub 2024 Apr 1. PMID: 38557086; PMCID: PMC11022549.

-- Impact of the use of azole fungicides, other than as human medicines, on the development of azole‐resistant Aspergillus spp. https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/9200

"* There is no reason to believe we've hit a wall and can't invent more antibiotics in the future. "

-- There are very few anti-fungals, because fungi, being eukaryotes, have cell biology so close to ours. The "big three" are 1) azoles (lots of resistance; see above); 2) echinocandins; and 3) amphotericin B (highly toxic to the host)

-- One bright spot is a new antifungal published a few weeks ago in Nature, called Mandimycin: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00801-0

* "There are still some antimicrobial treatment techniques we haven't put a lot of resources in. Like, bacteriophage treatments, or cycling antibiotics."

-- Bacteriophage don't work on fungi. Some degree of cycling and combination anti-fungal treatment are already in use.
by caprock | 2025-04-19 18:52:44+00:00
Find example companies, find their current or past jobs postings (maybe use the wayback machine), and identify the specific technology and techniques they request. Use that to write a map and plan.

Start using those technologies and building things. Write or at least post about it on X and follow related engineers on X. See kache's robotics journeyman community as one place for inspiration.