MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by avidiax | 2025-04-07 06:41:47+00:00
Yeah. Daddy is cancelling all that unnecessary and expensive insurance so you can have a higher allowance. Why were we paying for that anyway?

Also, all those so-called "experts" with their agendas are out on their asses where they belong! The private market is sufficiently incentivized to keep their workers healthy and develop treatments for whatever ails them.

Besides, we all know that if you just live a proper, completely monogamous lifestyle, you can't get an STD. Why should Trump voters pay for those that fall ill to their own sexual deviance?

Take your pick from these (and likely more) lines of reason.

Whether this will actually benefit Trump voters is an exercise left to them, but so far they seem to think it will.
by pathartl | 2025-04-07 06:42:00+00:00
I don't see how LEDs are going to be that much better than OLED other than less risk of a higher sustained brightness. I got a QD OLED panel 6 months ago and have basically paid it no mind and there's not even a hint of burn in. It does a pretty good job managing the brightness at idle without being distracting, in that when I leave it on accidentally for 4 hours at a static desktop it lowers to 25% brightness to save itself.

I also have an early generation 65" B series LG OLED. I wouldn't say there's burn in per se, but you can notice some inconsistencies at 50% gray. Even still it's more uniform that any LCD display I've seen.
by prawn | 2025-04-07 06:42:15+00:00
I have about the same in iCloud and then dozens of drives of video footage. Beyond the "keep it in case you need it" aspect, another angle is that it's often cheaper to just keep everything than spend all the time it would take to do a thorough cull. Video is much slower to review, but also chews up far more space, so maybe that balances out.
by v1ne | 2025-04-07 06:42:23+00:00
I think the article misses the point: It's not about how complex the data structures are, it's about the result, in all its details.

Comparing different RAW converters (Lightroom, DXO), their image rendering is slightly different. If you compare the colors with the JPEG image, even more so. If the goal is to faithfully reproduce the colors as they were shown in the camera, you depend on the manufacturer's knowledge. To me, it makes not sense to have some "open" DNG format in the middle, when it's flanked by proprietary processing.

It's not about the format, it's about knowing the details, including parameters, of the image processing pipeline to get a certain look.
by shakna | 2025-04-07 06:42:33+00:00
The source hasn't been lost. It's just that the source was written in a combination of assembly code and COBOL, before COBOL was standardised. They can turn and recompile it any time. Doesn't mean that it's easy to modify or maintain.

There were successful efforts to translate it to Java, already underway (CADE-2). They were probably going to finish somewhere in the next two years. The efforts were for bit-for-bit identical reproductions. [0]

An AI will not help you here. Because this little piece of assembly was created for mainframes, not for computers today (AS/400s, I believe). Even the concept of paths don't operate the way systems do today - the drives were direct access, and tape-based.

There is not enough material to train a model on, to make it close to accurate.

[0] https://federalnewsnetwork.com/tom-temin-commentary/2020/10/...
by TheDong | 2025-04-07 06:43:05+00:00
> Instagram has been around less than 15 years. I'm suggesting you do what people did for the previous 100 years. You're not willing to do that to avoid ads? You're not willing to call or text your friends?

The fact that instagram is relatively recent doesn't matter here, what matters is the social norms. You're a social outcast if you don't use ad-ridden software.

I'm not willing to be a depressed loner with no friends in order to avoid ads, if that's what you're asking. Just because I can unalive and no longer see ads doesn't mean that I have to like seeing them.

Social norms have changed, and I can't fix that by myself. I'll happily argue that social norms being ad-funded and brainwashing the populace, myself included, is bad though.

> Does your landlord or phone company have a website?

The cell phone provider's website has just as many ads as the app, they're equivalent. There isn't a webpage for my landlord.
by dimatura | 2025-04-07 06:46:14+00:00
Note that genetic programming is a specific subset of genetic algorithms that focuses on searching for "programs" (hence the name), typically encoded in the form of a tree structure similar to an AST, though other representations exist. In theory, you could use GP for almost any situation where you'd want to synthesize a mathematical expression or piece of code for which you have a criteria to optimize (i.e. "fitness"). In practice, since GPs are basically just semi-randomly searching a huge combinatorial space, they tend to work best in low-dimensional problems, ideally with a fitness function that is cheap to evaluate. They can work nicely for finding nonlinear symbolic formulas for regression, for example. But there's also some other cool results over the years - Hod Lipson has published several cool results in robotics with them.

Until a few years ago, the popular deep learning methods like CNNs weren't great at that kind of thing, but LLMs definitely changed that - it's safe to say that by drawing on huge amounts of data LLMs are much better at most practical programming tasks. They're not necessarily a complete replacement though, there's definitely space for hybrid approaches, eg https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07102 or https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06924-6.
by maigret | 2025-04-07 06:46:19+00:00
This is the least of problems. The Wayback Machine is 100 petabytes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine . "Every day, we create more than 350 million terabytes of data." https://www.rankred.com/largest-data-centers-in-the-world/ , so 3500x the Wayback Machine every day.
by safety1st | 2025-04-07 06:46:41+00:00
The author is here and responding to some comments (great article, larsiusprime!). Presumably better than I can. But I think this is the money quote that comes at the end:

> Accusing your opponent of belonging to a Dark Mirror ideology is a weird narcissistic exercise, and a failure to develop a coherent theory of mind. It's also counter-productive.

Dark Mirror ideologies may exist but if you feel tempted to identify your ideological opponent as subscribing to one, you should examine that temptation carefully.

In Tolkien you have Morgoth opposed to Iluvatar, why? They differ on a key contention, which is that Iluvatar thinks he's the only one who gets to determine the shape of the music of creation, Morgoth says "Why's it only you who gets to drive the bus?" and everything falls apart from that deep ideological difference.

In Star Wars you have the Sith opposed to the Jedi, why? They differ on a key contention, which is that the Sith feel you should embrace your passions and the Jedi feel this is a destructive can of worms; to which the Sith respond that the Jedi are just trying to control people and putting a velvet glove around an iron fist, therefore they are no more moral than the Sith.

In real world politics you often have people divided over fundamental concepts like realpolitik and whether the ends justify the means. "Is Problem X so serious that certain sacrifices need to be made?"

The point is that the "Dark Mirror" interpretation in all of these cases would be wrong, nobody says "We have all the same priors, I'm just evil," but they do frequently ascribe that worldview to their enemies. In actuality the counterparties disagree on some very deep-rooted principles, but the character of your average online debate looks something more like "Team X obviously agrees on my same worldview, they're just evil people, so they want to do the bad things!" This is inherently a pretty narcissist way of looking things, there is no effort to understand what the other side is really trying to accomplish, and even if you're utterly committed to destroying them either way, "Know Thy Enemy" is still good advice. So the Dark Mirror approach to ideas you don't like is ultimately self-defeating.

It's interesting (and troubling) how these ragebaiting, Dark Mirror style positions used to be a bit less common but with the advent of social media have absolutely exploded into the dominant form of political discourse that now determines elections.
by Grumbledour | 2025-04-07 06:46:52+00:00
This is such a bad and reductionist take.

When progressive enhancement was the thing, nobody wanted to "disable 1/3 to 2/3 of their browser's technology", browsers mostly lacked many of modern CSS and JS enhancements across the board and having them fail graciously while still using modern features for the few who would support it was just the professional thing to do.

It sill is today of course, but it is obvious there are not many professionals left in webdev.
by tvb12 | 2025-04-07 06:47:50+00:00
I'm beginning to suspect that I've read more of this paper than anyone in the current administration has.

While President Trump has proposed a 10% tariff on the world as a whole, such a tariff is unlikely to be uniform across countries.

Oof.

Once tariffs begin increasing beyond 20% (on a broad, effective basis), they become welfare-reducing

Uh...

How can the U.S. get trading and security partners to agree to such a deal? First, there is the stick of tariffs. Second, there is the carrot of the defense umbrella and the risk of losing it.

Ukraine, Greenland, Canada... They've created so much doubt over the defense umbrella that they've really hurt their position here.
by arkh | 2025-04-07 06:50:42+00:00
Seen this real-life: management ask for some unannounced change on prices. Everyone in IT tells them "this is gonna backfire fast". No way to budge them on it so we apply. A couple hours later support and sales are getting hammered by unhappy clients so we get to rollback as fast as possible. The official excuse? "That's an error from IT".

Nope, the code worked perfectly and did what was asked of it.
by mrandish | 2025-04-07 06:50:42+00:00
Coincidentally, I just spent several hours this weekend deep diving into recent research papers and standards evolution of HDR, wide color gamut and color space standards in video. The problem isn't the math, which is pretty well-defined in the various standards, it's that we have too many partially overlapping standards being proposed and supported by various standards groups, industry associations, manufacturers, studios, publishers and content distributors each of which are continuing to evolve in new versions with many offering optional enhancement levels. It's a mess because for any of these to work as intended they need to be correctly supported by each step in the signal chain yet different components have wildly varying degrees of support for various versions, baselines, levels and layers (with some being proprietary and patent encumbered).

For example, Dolby Vision, HDR10, HDR10+, HLG and HDR Vivid. They are all focused on doing essentially the same thing yet trying to answer seemingly simple questions like "which one is better?" is basically impossible because it depends greatly on the how the specific piece of content was encoded as well as the implementation completeness and correctness of every element from the file, server, playback app, streaming device, AVR and television or projector (and, of course, the cables between each device).
by fredoliveira | 2025-04-07 06:50:45+00:00
Totally fair — no business model exists today. Truly.

We built it and wanted to ship now and figure that out later. Obviously our goal is to keep the service up and we will. We're not strapped for cash. Ultimately we'll charge some kind of yearly fee for people who have a lot of decks, but have not come up with a monetary amount or what limits would exist. Our assumption was always to grandfather in early accounts (such as those created now) and learn from people's feedback.

Seeing it verbalized that this is frustrating is important, though, so thank you.

We'll add that as context on the site, and think through what a paid plan might look like.
by krackout | 2025-04-07 06:51:16+00:00
I was a sysadmin at a company using Notes/Domino (v 4.5 when I started, up until v 7, when it was replaced by Exchange/Outlook). It was mainly used for e-mail, plus some minor apps for HR.

I used Designer to improve a bit the UI of the e-mail app of Notes. In general I have positive thoughts for both Domino and Notes, as e-mail server & client. Nevertheless the majority of colleagues complained, mostly due to Notes being different from Outlook I think.

Yet, one day, a fellow colleague, a young beautiful woman (marketing, not an IT geek or something), came in IT office to announce us her resignation. Before leaving, she asked if it's possible to give her the Notes installer to install it on her PC at home. She disliked Outlook & Outlook express and really liked Notes :) (v5 at that time if I recall well). We were all stunned and of course gave her the installer and a guide on how to setup her yahoo or hotmail using pop3 or imap.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-04-07 06:51:20+00:00
I think the most accurate thing Trump has said so far in 47th Presidency was "everything's computer" about the Tesla dash.

Almost everything else out of his mouth, at least towards the media, has existed somewhere on the scale between 'large clump of BS wrapped around a tiny nugget of truth' and 'bald-faced lie'.

And when fairly obvious lies are repeated, the rest of what is said by himself and the rest of his administration retains the stink of the same taint.
by linkregister | 2025-04-07 06:51:39+00:00
I mostly agree with your position. However there are a couple of issues that make federal government work distinct from ordinary business.

1. Fired federal workers typically do not get a severance. Those impacted by the recent reductions in force are not receiving severance packages.

2. Government salaries are usually uncompetitive compared to the private sector; the major difference is the value of the pension. Leaving government service early results in a low pension; the pension is usually only worth it after 20 years of service and if one leaves federal service close to retirement age, to max out the "high-3" pension basis.

3. Because federal jobs are partially a stimulus effort to state economies, workers will have relocated to a region where there is no other employer in their field. Relocation will be necessary to find another job. This is less of a factor for the private sector, where workers typically move to locations where multiple employers offer jobs for their field.

A necessary set of reforms will be to simultaneously a.) raise federal salaries to market rate, b.) replace pension contributions with 401k matching, c.) reduce roadblocks for performance firings for tenured employees, and d.) consolidate contractors into federal employment.

Part of the reason federal employment is inflexible is due to the comparatively low income for many fields; mid-career employees have a low incentive for joining. Likewise, the barrier to leaving early is high due to the sunk cost of the pension. A tenured employee with reduced productivity is difficult to remove. Due to the pension obligations, the government is forced to use contractors to fill out the workforce. Contracting companies often take 50% overhead just to have someone doing the same job as a federal employee.

Such a policy change would take substantial bipartisan cooperation, so it's unlikely to be done in the current political environment.
by monkeydreams | 2025-04-07 06:52:02+00:00
> but a couple of important ones

If this was the first "mistake" made by the new administration and DOGE, then these items would be understandable. Or the second mistake. Or the third, maybe.

This is intentional. That is the only conclusion one can draw now. From the terseness of the letters of dismissal to the unreliability of the message ('you're fired! Wait, no you're not!'), one can only assume this is part of the destruction of democratic institutions that the current administration is pursuing.
by wazoox | 2025-04-07 06:52:24+00:00
I love "the Unix Haters Handbook", just as I love "Worse is Better", but this ship has sailed 30 years ago as you mentioned. Your "old man yelling at clouds" rant reminds me of Bjarne Stroustrup's quip, "there are two type of languages, those everyone complains about and those nobody uses". I mean run your nice, coherent, logical LISP machine or Plan9 system of whatever is that you prefer, but let us enjoy our imperfect tools and their philosophy :)
by pjmlp | 2025-04-07 06:53:00+00:00
Those of us that grew up with the language, always used it instead of C when given the option, thus even if no one can claim expertise, we know it well enough to find it relatively simple to work with.

In the some vein that Python looks simple on the surface, but in reality it is a quite deep language, when people move beyond using it as DSL for C/Fortran libraries, or introduction to programming scenarios.
by jchw | 2025-04-07 06:53:29+00:00
> I have always assumed it to mean the intersection of the two contexts. As in, necessarily copyleft.

The definitions are very, very similar. Neither imply copyleft; almost all open source licenses are free software licenses and vice versa.

> As far as I'm concerned the OSI doesn't have any weight and there's little reason to think we share values sufficiently for me to start caring. Do I look like a corporation trying to slap some sense of community on a product?

All I'm saying is that if we accept "free" as implying the GNU free software definition, then we should accept "open source" as implying the OSI definition. There is no logical reason for why GNU's jargon is somehow better than OSI's.
by wesselbindt | 2025-04-07 06:54:08+00:00
Anyone with half a brain understands the argument you put forward, and there is not a single doubt on my mind that the current administration does. But the point is not the savings. The point is incapacitating the government to the point where privatization starts to looks like a viable alternative. This has been the strategy since Thatcher and Reagan, look up "starving the beast". This administration is just really good at it.
by branko_d | 2025-04-07 06:54:22+00:00
> I'd guess Ukraine falls within months at most

That's a bad guess. Ukraine has destroyed ~4000 Russian main battle tanks, a 3rd of the Black Sea fleet and many more thousands of pieces of equipment so far. They have proven how effective they can be defending their country. US cutting their support would be a big blow, no doubt, but Ukrainians can stay in this fight for a long, long time just with the EU support.
by philsnow | 2025-04-07 06:55:01+00:00
> I also think some alterations are plain mistakes. For instance in the same book:

That one appears to not be a mistake, [0] suggests that not quoting the name of the book of the bible being referred to (so [Job] rather than ["Job"]) is the style accepted by Chicago, MLA, and APA.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_citation#Common_formats
by danmaz74 | 2025-04-07 06:55:15+00:00
>>This isn’t a normal drawdown. This is a crisis with the leadership of the United States.

>The same thing happened just 4 short years ago when covid hit.

If by "same thing" you mean the market crashing, then yes, it's similar. But the cause of this isn't the "same thing" at all. For the next 4 years, the USA will have a president who wants to annex Greenland and Canada, who hates most (all?) US traditional allies and trading partners, who doesn't believe in free trade. The effects on the world economy are going to be slower to take effect compared to COVID, but they're going to be much deeper and long lasting.
by Infinity315 | 2025-04-07 06:57:17+00:00
For whatever reason, people did not believe Trump would be this crazy. In fact, people in the stock market still do not believe he is this crazy. If they did, the stock market would drop much lower. From what I've heard from people in finance, the bond market is indicating some economic growth this year. If this goes on, expect a financial crisis which rivals that of the Great Depression.

It's not a lack of foresight, it's just that they do not believe him or believe that someone will stop him. People have just misread Donald Trump and his intentions.
by noelpotnic | 2025-04-07 06:57:18+00:00
I have a few servers and workstations I tend to connect to several times a day for work, also occasionally I'll remote back to my home PC when at the office.

These connections belong to different clients and have different gateway or specific settings I like to use. Most of the issues can be resolved by simply having a dedicated folder with the `.rdp` files in them, but some of the servers I connect to have short session timeouts, which make it more difficult than it needs to be to be productive. The app launches Devolutions `mstscex.exe` which provides a 'MouseJiggler' feature which tries to keep the session active. (I've opted to pass args to the binary instead of associating Devolutions `mstscex.exe` with `.rdp` files.)

Self-managing the `.rdp` files could also mean that in the future I could implement encryption of those files to make it safer to carry around on a `USB drive` without fear of loosing it etc.

Apart from that, it's also nice to be able to launch `Meld RDP` and simply press `Ctrl+3` to connect to the 3rd connection for instance. :-)
by Garnish0062 | 2025-04-07 06:57:43+00:00
I flew Eva air in 2024, and I must say that their "spy thriller" flight safety video really had me hooked. https://youtu.be/kQCtR9K8XT8?si=Fo6yATgH457Pa16b&t=52

They straight up have a "weapons display" showcase of things you shouldn't bring, as if you were looking at a scene where john wick would choose his weapons.
by gnabgib | 2025-04-07 06:57:58+00:00
They do (best to avoid, including pods which have a rinse aid element), but note in the conclusion it's only significant in professional applications.. so probably OK at home, but never eat out :|

> The expression of genes involved in cell survival, epithelial barrier, cytokine signaling, and metabolism was altered by rinse aid in concentrations used in professional dishwashers
by pjmlp | 2025-04-07 06:58:32+00:00
It works the same as in Oracle APEX, and similar systems

https://apex.oracle.com/en/

You have migration scripts, and also have local copies, or team specific schemas, with dummy data for development purposes.

Delivery into production usually done in multiple steps, introducing the new feature, deprecating the old one, and eventually removing the old code/tables in another deployment cycle after the new one proves itself working without issues.
by gnabgib | 2025-04-07 06:59:06+00:00
Discussion (34 points, 1 day ago, 24 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43596641

Related Meet Bex, Kawasaki's Rideable Robot Goat (2022) (39 points, 3 months ago, 24 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42454994
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-04-07 06:59:21+00:00
Doesn't matter if it's coding error or not, the blame lies with the people executing the firings and those ordering them; blaming it on code is a way to shirk responsibilities.

I get that within a software development project, blaming on individuals isn't a healthy way to deal with bugs, but this extends beyond just loss of revenue or uptime and well into personal tragedies.