MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by austin-cheney | 2025-04-28 09:58:07+00:00
* Transmission. I learned to write my own proxies, relays, web servers, raw http client/server, websocket server/client, and more. This has been super helpful for personal projects.

* Test automation. I once wrote this test automation tool executed tests in the browser, file system, and command line. It also allowed remote execution of tests on other machines running the same application. That was super helpful and was the best window into performance analysis.
by EbNar | 2025-04-28 09:58:11+00:00
I don't agree. Firefox once had almost 30% market share. A lot of people explicitly downloaded and installed it, when IE was dominant and Linux almost non-existent. What happened? Those people suddenly became stupid or tech illiterate? Take into account that or has lost not only in market share, but also in absolute number of users. Mozilla has its fair share of blame here.
by asim | 2025-04-28 09:58:16+00:00
Two things.

I have revived my work on Go Micro (https://github.com/micro/go-micro) and rewritten the v5 cli/api from scratch (https://github.com/micro/micro). As a VC funded company there was a lot of confusion around the tools we were building and we veered off in a direction that alienated the community. With the company dead, funding gone, etc there's an opportunity to rebuild value around the Go Micro framework.

The second thing I'm working on is the Reminder (https://reminder.dev && https://github.com/asim/reminder). As a muslim I feel like it's my duty to spread the word of Islam and as an engineer I feel like an appropriate way to do that is build an app and API for the Quran, names of Allah and hadith. It's a slow patient building of something as opposed to expecting anything from it.

In terms of new ideas, maybe not new but less screen time, less phones, more nature.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2025-04-28 09:58:49+00:00
First generation immigrant here so I feel entitled enough to respond.

<< If we think we can compete without immigration, we're going to find ourselves in a world of hurt.

The issue has been gamed well by the political class. It does not help that 'both sides' use language to further confuse the issue and score points with their chosen audiences.

That said, why.. or even how, would an American worker compete on salary. That, you will find, is the source of most of the discontent. That the target of that discontent is amusingly misdirected is quite anothe matter altogether and speaks only to the strength of propaganda apparatus in US.

<< It's the litmus test for how free our speech really is.

True.

<< If you advocate for free speech and then do something like this, then you're not a free speech advocate.

Also true.
by spellboots | 2025-04-28 09:58:53+00:00
I worked for US companies for over a decade, and travelled there multiple times a year. I worked remotely from my home in the UK as a software engineer and and CTO, including as CTO of a YC startup for a number of years.

I would not travel to the US any longer, it's just not worth the risk. From the outside it's how I imagined Germany looked in the mid 30s, but streamed live in HD.

For context I'm a white British man, and whilst I wouldn't go out of solidarity and disgust at the treatment of people who don't look and talk like me even if I wasn't worried about myself, right now I would also be seriously concerned for my own safety. I wouldn't trust rogue ICE agents to know exactly what things are permissible on an ESTA visa waiver vs B1 vs B1 in lieu of H1B.

Genuinely and without hyperbole, if you have the ability and means to leave for a different country, you should consider it in case it becomes something you can no longer do in the future; even if you don't believe your government will prevent you, I suspect other countries will start making it a lot more difficult for US citizens to get visas in the coming years.
by lillecarl | 2025-04-28 09:59:02+00:00
KE = ½mv² shows that kinetic energy is directly proportional to the mass of an object and proportional to the square of its velocity. This means that doubling the mass doubles the kinetic energy, but doubling the velocity quadruples the kinetic energy.

The kinetic energy of an 1800 kg car traveling at 30 km/h is about 62.5 kJ

The kinetic energy of an 1800 kg car traveling at 50 km/h is about 173.6 kJ

The kinetic energy of an 1800 kg car traveling at 70 km/h is about 340.1 kJ...

If your only consideration is getting to your destination very few minutes sooner with complete disregard for other peoples health it makes perfect sense, but cars are dangerous and at anything but completely isolated roads it makes sense to lower speed limits since the average speed wouldn't drop significantly while improving safety for everyone.
by ben_w | 2025-04-28 09:59:36+00:00
Even with the one-neuron-at-a-time thought experiment, I'm not sure if we are ever going to know for sure if we got uploads right — even in principle.

While a sufficiently detailed copy should be conscious, we don't know what "sufficiently detailed" is — and we can't just do this by external behaviour, because (1) People are still arguing both sides of the P-zombie thought experiment; and (2) LLMs regularly fooling people into thinking they're discoursing with a human, even though I think most people think LLMs aren't conscious.

There's something like 40 different definitions of "consciousness"; some are easy to test for, some are provably impossible, but I don't know if even one of them is actually what we want.

I remember my dreams, but was I really conscious, or was it an unconscious experience whose memory was available to my conscious mind when I woke? It's conceivable that I am fully conscious right now, that an upload of my brain would change and grow and report conscious throughout, that you could then download it into a new brain in a new body and that new mind would also report having remembered conscious experiences while uploaded — all without the upload having ever experienced anything that would match the hard-to-describe thing we often try to grasp at with the word "consciousness".

We have altered states of consciousness. People can have conversations and drive cars while sleepwalking. Am I only truly conscious while actively engaging in self-reflection, or all the time? Is my consciousness like your consciousness? Did my mother loose hers at some point during the course of her Alzheimer's, or did she keep it until the very end? When a Buddhist trains themselves to let go, do they lose theirs?
by LeonB | 2025-04-28 09:59:44+00:00
An “average” (whether a mean/ median etc) is a very lossy compression algorithm.

You’re attempting to describe a whole series of numbers with just one (or two) numbers.

Trying to come up with a good general purpose way to reduce/compress/aggregate data via a lossy algorithm is intractable.

While that all might sound obvious, it can be very hard to internalise this.

(And that’s before getting into the motivated reasoning that biased actors [aka normal people] will use to preference one lossy algorithm over another)
by ramesh31 | 2025-04-28 10:00:06+00:00
>"https://medium.com/@chaudharyaniket16/from-14-minutes-to-45-..."

The post describes moving from an old Yarn version that still suffered from the long, long fixed problem npm had with tree shaking. In fact, their inability to port to the newest Yarn version just highlights my point. Modern npm has solved all of these issues without the compatability problem.

>"Yarn v2 introduced several new features, including a different approach to managing the node_modules folder by eliminating it altogether through its Plug’n’Play mode."

And this is just complete insanity.

That aside, I can see that there's no real argument against pnpm at this point. It wouldn't be the end of the world. I just don't buy saving 20 seconds in CI as a legitimate reason for it.
by thingfish | 2025-04-28 10:00:48+00:00
I wrote an entire 3-year (dutch) course around it [0]. My predecessor started his course making them do endless exercises with user rights and vim, which is very boring for 16-year olds. I start them on Apache webserver. This generates immediate interest, and at the same time tricks them into learning about user rights and using vim.

[0] http://commandlinerevolution.nl/Huiswerk/
by cousin_it | 2025-04-28 10:01:09+00:00
Yeah, the video is decoded in js and converted to frames every time.

First I tried making a <video> element and synchronizing it with page scrolling. But changing video time is asynchronous, so the relative positions of video and html content got wobbly. The only way to achieve perfect sync and "glue" the content to the background is to draw frames manually on scroll. And also round off the scrollY of the html content to the position of the nearest frame, so that there's no subpixel wobble either.
by netsharc | 2025-04-28 10:02:25+00:00
I've come to believe that the copy will seriously believe it's me, similar to a virtual machine being halted and moved to different hardware, how would "I" know I'm not me? My copy will have my memories, if it's an exact copy it'll have the same ways of thinking, maybe after the transfer it'll remember "Ah, I have a date tonight with my wife, geez I remember this morning she drank all the juice except for a sip, and then put it back in the fridge, that always makes me irrationally angry.".

Sometimes we even feel "out of body", even in our own consciousness, so why would it be so different when we are copied?
by jasonfarnon | 2025-04-28 10:02:28+00:00
I think the pages are mixed up (there is a relevant "todo" on the cover page). For example p.1 of the transcript is PDF page 12 and p.2 ends up on PDF page 23. It's still a great read. The bad pagination almost works well, breaking up the pages of land development details with a random page from when he's in college putting a horse in a dorm room to prank his buddy.
by benterix | 2025-04-28 10:02:54+00:00
This is huge. I don't know any single men who loves these artificial huge eyelashes or large multicolored fingernails, but for some reasons tons of women classify them as "beauty" factors. I'd say men just tolerate them as part of the package so to say, and women are manipulated into just following the crowd.

Then there is this completely separate category of lip jobs and boob jobs where some women are definitely convinced doing these will make them more sexually attractive to men, and it definitely work for some of them, but has the opposite effect on others.
by imtringued | 2025-04-28 10:03:42+00:00
This isn't true actually. Aerospace grade aluminum, for example, is much more expensive and since you want to minimize weight with ortho- and iso-grids, you're throwing at least 50% of the material away. Another problem is that you not only need to consider the "base metal" of the part you're cutting, but also the cost of the tools that do the cutting (ignore the machine itself). You're consuming a lot of expensive endmills to get rid of the material.
by wnc3141 | 2025-04-28 10:04:04+00:00
A big part of preserving a democracy hinges on managing the relationship between Capital and labor.

Political Economist Daron Acemoglu won a Nobel Prize last year for studying the difference between democracies that manage the relationship between labor and capital and authoritarian regimes that fail to do so.

If interested, check out his book "why nations fail" or any of his updated works.
by neilv | 2025-04-28 10:04:51+00:00
IIRC, there was an invited talk at the unversity, and some student organized people to go in to the talk and disrupt it, such that the speaker literally couldn't be heard.

That's not the student exercising their free speech. It's the student denying the benefit of free speech to their fellow students and the rest of the university.

The university apparently hadn't yet educated the student on the basics of university, and there was not yet any sign that the university was going to. Reporting followed up with the student, when they promoted their personal brand, and solicited funding to continue their fight.

(You might be happy to know that, instead of my modest donation going to the university with the student who thought a first-rate university was the place to ignore the fundamentals they teach, and instead play self-promoting influencer... IIRC, that was the year the money went to a homeless trans person, who'd been through more hell than most people can imagine, and who needed a discreet laptop so that they could practice coding job skills, but without the laptop getting violently stolen from them in whatever shelter they could get into. I'm not making this up, and the contrast was striking.)

Regarding your other comments, much of the rabid left didn't seem to be acting as the savvy political operators you suggest: a whole lot of people were mindlessly flinging their poo, and playing right into the hands of some of the worst of their adversaries. Maybe it was partly a combination of crisis mode over the best of intentions (e.g., help those who need help), and anger and fatigue from same (which I certainly felt), but there also seemed to be a whole lot of not knowing any other mode of reasoning or acting. Maybe that's not their fault -- you might blame the deterioration of popular journalism, social media sites preying upon their users, and a dearth of visible role models demonstrating anything else -- but that seems to be where we are, for large slices of the vocal population. And there's been a lot of counterproductive.
by gwd | 2025-04-28 10:05:34+00:00
> I have no idea why they mention coding. It is the same in any kind of job. You can bake cakes for fun, make music for fun, write poems, novels, play chess for fun, practice sports, grow potatos ...

One reason is that coding is so much more scalable than all of those. There are loads of stories of people who made some small thing that was useful, and were able to make a tidy profit on it (or sometimes a fairly large one).

I enjoy making homemade wines. Occasionally someone will try something I've made and ask if I'm thinking about selling it professionally. No way -- it's a fun hobby, but definitely not something I want to do in enough scale to be self-supporting.

I also enjoy languages, and developed an algorithm for helping me find material to read that's at the right level -- only a handful of words that I don't know. It's been incredibly helpful for me, and I'm sure it could be incredibly helpful to millions of people out there as well; so I quit my job and am trying to figure out how to make that happen:

https://www.laleolanguage.com
by Mumps | 2025-04-28 10:05:53+00:00
I was quite eager to check this out. As some polite feedback, a few things turned me off quite strongly:

1. I want to get confirmation that the language I want is covered (Hungarian). "120+" doesn't confirm it for me, as Hungarian seems fairly rare for language apps. Can we not just have a "search your language" field?

2. I need to see what the app actually looks like, how it proposes it'll teach me.

I'm one of the eager-to-pay people, because Duolingo is frankly dogshit (ok. Mostly polite) at teaching languages (doubly so ones that it doesn't care about like Hungarian). But I'm so suspicious of language apps, due to being burnt a dozen times.
by sethammons | 2025-04-28 10:06:15+00:00
What other jobs have you had? I have been a photo lab assistant, a sign maker apprentice, a graphic designer, an insurance agent, a financial advisor, a construction worker and manual laborer, an inner-city math teacher, a software developer turned manager turn developer, now at the staff level.

Software is the most cush job I have had. More money for less work. Better perks. Less stress overall. Constantly learning, yes. Often frustrating, yes. But having financial resources beyond what the other jobs could provide is a thing. Other jobs I could leave at work, sure, but others I couldn't. I would never go back to being a public high school teacher; that shit was the suck. So was selling stocks. Software is a dream in comparison.
by alok-g | 2025-04-28 10:06:30+00:00
>> The real sleight of hand in this explanation is it doesn't really explain why the quantum-mechanical electron doesn't radiate energy like the classical electron. That's a big more subtle, but it's basically due ...

This subtle part is exactly the piece that I am missing.

So far, we have electron in an orbital. The orbital in itself seems stationary (standing waves), so it may seem nothing is accelerating. I presume that is not it for the answer.

If it is, that still feels like, Oh, I solved Schroginger's equation, and it yields these standing waves for the solution, electron is not really having a certain position and momentum as the wave function hasn't collapsed, and thereby there is no acceleration for the electron to be radiating energy.

Asking a total newbie question. I heard that QM has operators, so momentum also has an operator. Is there one for acceleration? Would it yield a zero?

If so: I see Coulomb's force. Is there another force balancing it? Or is Newton's third law not valid anymore.
by Saline9515 | 2025-04-28 10:07:24+00:00
Hate is a normal thing in human societies. Freedom of speech also encompasses expressing hatred and negative feelings. What you can do to mitigate it is to solve the problems that create hate. In the case of the UK, addressing the mass-rapes of British girls, among other things.

Sending people to prison for social media posts is a typical totalitarian move, similar to what you find in China, North Korea or Russia. None of the underlying issues are solved by intimidating your population, who, at some point, will just start to leave quietly.
by jdance | 2025-04-28 10:08:24+00:00
Its pretty clear at this point that people want this kind of control implemented, its in the ”zeitgeist”. I have not figured out why, but it does seem that people are more scared then ever.

Its a bit weird on HN where people generally understand this problem regarding privacy, but in other topics like this one they act like the general populace ”put the speeders in jail!”
by ActorNightly | 2025-04-28 10:08:26+00:00
Nah.

This whole "freedom" thing is what led to Trump administration, which routinely thinks they are above the law, being in power. And if you think its not that bad, just wait till 2028 when Trump will coup the government like he tried in 2020 except this time he will succeed.

People need to be on a tighter leash. And as for who holds the leash, nobody = the leash is the law, and anyone who tries to circumvent it gets punished. Nobody is above it, even if you feel like the law is unfair - work to get the law changed if that is what you want.
by whywhywhywhy | 2025-04-28 10:08:51+00:00
Ultimately this was a poor decision. You’re top of the game in new media you don’t need the clout of old media and working within old media you’re probably getting in to a ton of union payouts and restrictions you don’t normally work within as a YouTuber.

Only way it would make sense would be getting a huge payout from Amazon and then running the show on a tight budget and scaling back where you can.
by thaanpaa | 2025-04-28 10:08:52+00:00
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by doom2 | 2025-04-28 10:09:47+00:00
HN seems loathe to have any meaningful discussion about or reflection on how and why notable SV figures seemed primed to embrace the Trump/MAGA right (see, for example, quote in OP from Chris Rufo). I don't think it was simply being repelled by the left, as Andreesson has stated before, but an earnest rightward turn.

Also, after articles like these, will calls for "viewpoint diversity" finally apply to conservatives who chase out even the moderates from their spheres? After years of the left being accused of suppressing opposing views, I haven't seen quite the same backlash against conservatives building up ideologically homogenous spaces like the group chats in the article.
by latexr | 2025-04-28 10:09:50+00:00
> Were all the existing sources (e.g. news, podcasts, etc) ever reliable?

No, of course not. And I would deeply appreciate if you stopped arguing with straw men. When you do it repeatedly you are either arguing in bad faith or unable to realise you’re doing so, neither of which is positive. Please engage with the given argument, not a weaker version designed to be attacked.

But I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt once more.

Provenance matters. I don’t trust everyone I know to be an expert on every subject, but I know who I can trust for what. I know exactly who I can ask biology, medical, or music questions. I know those people will give me right answers and an accurate evaluation of their confidence, or tell me truthfully when they don’t know. I know they can research and identify which sources are trustworthy. I also know they will get back to me and correct any error they may have made in the past. I can also determine who I can dismiss.

The same is true for searching the web. You don’t trust every website or author, you learn which are trustworthy.

You don’t have that with LLMs. They are a single source that you cannot trust for anything. They can give you different opposite answers to the same query, all with the same degree of confidence. And no, the added sources aren’t enough because not only are those often wrongly summarised, even stating the opposite, most people won’t ever verify them. Not to mention they can be made to support whatever point the creators want.

> Now we know LLMs hallucinate, and news can easily be faked, are people finally starting to question everything, including what they were told before?

No, they are not. That is idyllic and naive and betrays a lack of attention to the status quo. People are tricked and scammed every day by obviously AI pictures and texts, and double down on their wrong beliefs even when something is proven to have been a lie.
by nickjj | 2025-04-28 10:10:10+00:00
7 years ago I posted my dotfiles at https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles.

4 years ago I made an install script that worked for Debian, Ubuntu and macOS. This made it easier to get going with them.

Over the last week or so I extended and polished that script to make it even easier and customizable, including adding Arch Linux support. The next step is to start installing and configuring GUI tools instead of only focusing on command line tools and environments.

I just used it the other day to set up a fresh work laptop in 5 minutes. Given the script is idempotent I run it all the time on my personal box.
by lupusreal | 2025-04-28 10:10:33+00:00
This is correct. Laws should reflect the values of the democratic consensus, speed limits included. If almost everybody is traveling at a speed other than the posted speed limit, whether that's faster or slower, that is a strong signal that the speed limit needs to be adjusted. Speed limits should be set such that most people naturally think the limit is a sensible speed to drive anyway.

As it is, speed limits are rarely set to the individual roads specific circumstance according to some sort of scientific or engineering method, instead most speed limits are set to a default speed used for that class of road across the state. As such, it is silly to act like extant speed limits are all correct even when nearly everybody is ignoring the limit on a specific road, evaluating that road's condition for themselves and choosing to drive at another speed.