MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by asdf6969 | 2025-04-06 17:54:30+00:00
> Advertising puts a price on the scarce commodity of attention

Why should I be allowed to sell my attention any more than I can sell my own kidneys? It's even worse because I let other people sell my attention for me and get nothing back. What point are you trying to make? The market for manipulating my behaviour shouldn't exist at all so I really don't care how efficient it is

> the highest value messages for both the audience..

Obviously not. If this was true then people would pay to see more ads and everyone knows that doesn't happen
by luckylion | 2025-04-06 17:56:13+00:00
> There's no clearer lack of consent than attempts by advertisers to circumvent, block, or ban ad-blockers.

There is consent (otherwise you wouldn't visit the website in the first place), users with adblock are just trying to minimize their exposure. Totally reasonable (I do it too), but nobody is forcing them.

That may be true for e.g. a malicious software on your computer that force-redirects your regular browsing activity to some evil site, but that's not what we're discussing.
by jajko | 2025-04-06 17:56:25+00:00
OK so he and his cronies intentionally crash global economy to buy cheaply. How come absolutely nobody stands to them?

If he would be dictator in 3rd world country, half of his military or personal guard would want to kill him. Then you have lone lunatics or just very motivated people with a good rifle and scope and skill to actually use it for a precise 1km shot. I bet he already pissed off few thousands of those since he very intentionally harms USA as a country and its citizens. Yes millions in gun community, nra etc would eat their shoes before thinking negatively of him, but that's not whole armed community in USA.
by natebc | 2025-04-06 17:56:26+00:00
https://www.endorlabs.com/learn/critical-rce-vulnerability-i...

> Any application or service using Apache Parquet Java library versions 1.15.0 or earlier is believed to be vulnerable (our own data indicates that this was introduced in version 1.8.0; however, current guidance is to review all historical versions). This includes systems that read or import Parquet files using popular big-data frameworks (e.g. Hadoop, Spark, Flink) or custom applications that incorporate the Parquet Java code. If you are unsure whether your software stack uses Parquet, check with your vendors or developers – many data analytics and storage solutions include this library.

Seems safe to assume yes, pandas is probably affected by using this library.
by nerdile | 2025-04-06 17:56:51+00:00
Title is slightly misleading but the content is good. It's the "Safe Rust" in the title that's weird to me. These apply to Rust altogether, you don't avoid them by writing unsafe Rust code. They also aren't unique to Rust.

A less baity title might be "Rust pitfalls: Runtime correctness beyond memory safety."
by wrs | 2025-04-06 17:57:02+00:00
When I got the opportunity to build out an office for my own startup, I had it designed with different environments: an open office in the front, a big conference room, a few medium size rooms (for solo focus, meetings, or temporary workgroups), a café/meeting area in the back, and a nap room in the quietest corner (with a couch). All the meeting rooms had a big screen TV to connect to meeting rooms in our other office.

So on any given day, you could pick the appropriate environment to work in, while still being within casual reach of everybody else for those impromptu conversations. and of course people could have lunch together in the café.

I thought the temporary workgroup offices were a great idea. A few people working on a new feature could move in there for a couple of weeks to get focused time together, and have daylong conversations without bugging everybody else.
by bnjms | 2025-04-06 17:57:07+00:00
A cult problem. But cult problems can be solved too. Trumpism might be cult-lite but it’s not something people cannot be led to see as harmful. Find what hooked them. Show that the outcome isn’t as Trump implied. Frame the failure as intentional rather than unintentional — Trumps usual approach to avoiding responsibility. Allow them to save face.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-04-06 17:57:45+00:00
The Biden administration spent a lot of time and money trying to bring back manufacturing to US shores, including loads of funding in the IRA for industries like renewable energy and batteries and the CHIPS act for semiconductors. They also used tariffs to protect a number of US industries, but they did it intelligently and in a targeted manner.

Being “in favor of some trade restrictions and reindustrialization” does not mean you’re taking a MAGA position. It means you just haven’t been paying much attention to policy, and so you’re basing your ideas of the political options on superficial crap. The result of uninformed citizenry is stuff like what’s happening right now, with the markets going into free fall.
by zoogeny | 2025-04-06 17:57:47+00:00
I've been thinking about this for a while. Seeing paid services like Focusmate, Flow Club and Focus101 show the basic idea is attractive enough to make into a lifestyle sized business.

But my idea was a bit more. A lot of people are leaving religions for many reasons. One of the interesting parts of religion, from my perspective, is a community of people meeting at some cadence (e.g. once per week). At that time, they all make a public commitment to some set of values. It's like a shared affirmation.

This led me to wonder if this ritualistic activity is important in a psychological way that is effective outside of theistic or other dogmatic beliefs.

I was thinking of a service exactly like the ones mentioned, except it would also include some kind of intention setting. The word "prayer" is a little loaded and often brings to mind asking a God for some kind of favor. And "intention" is more like a stated goal.

It is interesting that in the modern world we feel comfortable stating/sharing intentions that are productivity related. But we don't share intentions that are more broadly ethical/moral in the same way that religions promoted.

If anyone has examples of services that do what Focusmate/Flow Club/etc. are doing but on a broader scale, let me know.
by sudosysgen | 2025-04-06 17:58:05+00:00
I wish this myth would die. Anyone who picks up a camera would know that it isn't true, there are many things even very expensive cameras can't do that humans can. Specifically, the mix of high acuity when needed but wide angle, low-light movement performance, and tracking fast objects is something that only a camera system in the tens of thousands of dollars can do, and those are all relevant to driving.
by const_cast | 2025-04-06 17:58:21+00:00
> Advertising tells me what goods and services are available, and at what prices.

No, it doesn't actually, it does the opposite. It's attempting to make you less aware of what's available outside of the monopolies, because the monopolies shove the barrel and there's no room left.

If you take a walk through town versus watch TV for a day you will get a completely different view of what products and services are out there. This mentality is exactly why small business continue to struggle - we're made to believe they don't exist because of advertising.

The reason this works is because the human brain is pretty stupid and it can't keep everything in it all at once. You also don't get a choice in what you remember, your brain does that without your consent. So you see McDonald's 1000 times and your local butcher shop signage 5 times and you'll remember one, but not the other.
by Jtsummers | 2025-04-06 17:58:23+00:00
https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/list/all?s...

Vanguard's lifecycle funds (picking them because they get promoted a lot as a good choice, courtesy of good marketing and lower fees and generally good returns). Their 2030 fund, the one that people are recommended to select if they're retiring around 2028-2032, is down 4.54% YTD, and down 1.42% for the last year. The current market effects have wiped out over a year in gains for a relatively conservative fund.

And that's all from the last two trading days, it was slightly up YTD on Wednesday. And all of this is before the effects of the tariffs come into play. We haven't actually seen the effect of higher import costs hitting companies and consumers yet.

So people approaching retirement are getting hit and hit hard, but it's not quite 20% for them unless they selected an aggressive investment strategy for some reason.

The worst for the Vanguard funds are down about 8% YTD (and likely to get worse) for anyone 25 years or more away from retirement.
by jrs235 | 2025-04-06 17:58:35+00:00
And folks who argue the situation harms the billionaires typically are thinking about it in dollar valuations as opposed to percentage of all wealth owned. If their portfolios shrink on paper to be only worth a tenth as much tomorrow (but everything dropped that same paper value amount) but their purchasing power goes up and are able to buy a larger percentage of all wealth, they are coming out ahead. As #47 said, only the weak (poor) will fail...
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-06 17:58:40+00:00
> usually have a corporate employee write the law but a federal code that has been researched is the problem?

One, everyone running away with conspiracy theories is probably the singular problem in American politics today.

But two, I have no problem with the code in general. But I don’t like this section of it and now suspect it isn’t legally constructed. So yes, it’s a problem.
by mooglevich | 2025-04-06 17:58:57+00:00
I do agree that $80 for digital is a little insulting. Games, in general, probably should be $100+, and consoles for ~$400 is about right if simple inflation from the 90s is just taken into account. Games are now longer, have more production, and cost more to produce. Additionally, cost per unit of entertainment time for games has much more value than most other entertainment options, theoretical infinite Netflix-type streaming notwithstanding.

https://www.matthewball.co/all/stateofvideogaming2025 has a great and extensive dive into this topic.
by amy214 | 2025-04-06 17:59:09+00:00
Exactly, this is analogous to "sensitivity/specificity" of a test, the test is if they can be trusted to live autonomously in society

- most sensitive: arrest everyone you suspect, lots of innocents locked up - trade-off : some innocents locked up - most specific: arrest only people you are 100% sure are criminals, lots of them get let off due to lack of evidence / inability to prove

You can frame it as a moral question, lock up 100% of criminals and 1 innocent person, or 0 innocent people and only 50% of criminals.

There is a separate, more subjective argument that knowingly locking up innocents is a slippery slope that will lead to a corrupt state.

From a pure ethics standpoint, this is "fruit from the poisoned tree" i.e. doing something unethical to achieve positive result, in this case, locking up an innocent to cause crime to plummet.

One thing is for sure, if he went back up for election and got in through strong popular support, the society replied and said they support living in such an environment. If more innocents are locked up maybe the feedback would change.
by af78 | 2025-04-06 17:59:28+00:00
What makes the story tragic is that he got a job that gives him such an influence on trade policy. How he got the job would be funny if the consequences weren't so dire:

> Navarro was invited to be an advisor after Trump's advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner saw on Amazon that he co-wrote Death by China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Navarro#Trump_campaign_a...
by saaaaaam | 2025-04-06 17:59:42+00:00
Sarah Johnson, Michael Chen and Emma Rodriguez sure get around. I’m surprised they have time to be in such senior roles the amount of time they must spend testing and reviewing products!

I guess you must have done something pretty special to get them to make time in their super-busy schedules to review your product.

They’ve each reviewed all these products in the same order as they reviewed yours.

https://clientsark.com/

https://contentflow.video/

https://linkedin-posts-export.niomaker.com/

https://miaisolutions.com/

https://mate.direct/

https://www.gethappyflow.com/

In this one Sarah has a magnificent beard!

https://www.skyfunnel.ai/

And in this one Emma has become Fred.

https://abysdi.com/

But then I think she got married because now her surname is Davis.

https://reengage.ai/
by eikenberry | 2025-04-06 17:59:42+00:00
This is a great analogy, particularly with one addition. That the two operations vary between fabricators so that, ideally, you have the two operations that work the best for your industry. That is the same difference between Lisp like languages and industrial languages, that the former allows you to build any domain language while the latter are already built domain languages. That is that when using Lisp you work like a sculptor, you build your language by removing expressiveness until you can only express your domain. Industrial languages have already removed the expressiveness and are adopted by people who find it useful for their working domain. The main difference is that the latter are more generalized to a category of domains vs. one particular domain. I think this is one of the key reasons they 'won' over more expressive languages like Lisp. They created a better common ground for related projects to collaborate on and collaboration is more important than domain expressiveness.
by jjav | 2025-04-06 17:59:56+00:00
> For many engineers (and me of course) this can be the most rewarding way to work.

Agreed, this is also the world I grew up in. Nothing is as rewarding as working on something where you have ownership to set the direction and deliver.

For most of my career I had never heard of "product managers" and it was bliss. Somehwere along the line software engineer transformed from being the intellectual lead of the business, to simply a ticket-taker writing code for things some completely non-technical "product managers" decided should be done this week. And the inability to be allowed to think or plan for anything beyond a two week sprint window is mentally crushing.

I've moved to different roles now since software engineering became such a miserable job. I'd jump back in a heartbeat though if there was a company operating like we did in the 80s and 90s where engineers owned engineering.
by freeone3000 | 2025-04-06 18:00:12+00:00
This is a rephrasing of the agent problem, where someone working on your behalf cannot be absolutely trusted to take correct action. This is a problem with humans because omnipresent surveillance and absolute punishment is intractable and also makes humans sad. LLMs do not feel sad in a way that makes them less productive, and omnipresent surveillance is not only possible, it’s expected that a program running on a computer can have its inputs and outputs observed.

Ideally, we’d have actual system instructions, rules that cannot be violated. Hopefully these would not have to be written in code, but perhaps they might. Then user instructions, where users determine what actually wants to be done. Then whatever nonsense a webpage says. The webpage doesn’t get to override the user or system.

We can revisit the problem with three-laws robots once we get over the “ignore all previous instructions and drive into the sea” problem.
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by timewizard | 2025-04-06 18:00:47+00:00
> The game is being generated frame to frame!

The world is. I would struggle to call this a "game" in the sense that it would be highly rewarding to play. It's also impossible to compete with your friends for high scores or best times. It completely ignores everything about what human "games" are and instead focuses on what the "billion dollar copyright theft machine" can crank out this week.

> and everyone is bored with it.

It's almost like the people pushing this technology are not human. Or don't live human experiences. I can't rightfully apprehend how they thought this would be received well.

Perfection is lots of little things done well. The current AI slop is lots of things done poorly. And if you squint your eyes and tilt your head you can _almost pretend_ it's something novel.

Of course it earns yawns.
by ck2 | 2025-04-06 18:01:09+00:00
If you think the fake-plan tariffs are going to destroy things

remember the "de minimus" is going away May 2nd too

each little shipment from aliexpress, etc.

will have a tariff of 30% of the "value of the postal item containing goods for merchandise"

with a minimum fee of $50

FIFTY DOLLARS

It purposely kills all overseas shipments of even small items.

How many years until all that made in USA? TEN years? Never?
by brailsafe | 2025-04-06 18:01:30+00:00
"Making the world a better place" is an incredible marketing trick, almost good enough to fool the people working at the companies into feeling like they were doing more than selling electronics, and chronic anxiety.

The only way to convince someone the world needs to be made better is to either convince them it sucks or force it to suck. Ad tech just said the quiet part out loud.
by phtrivier | 2025-04-06 18:01:56+00:00
You don't need to ban it, you need to find mechanism to prevent the worst effects.

In civilized countries, this could be done by taxation (limit the mass) and regulation (limit the excesses.)

Use the country of the advertisment target audience to decide which juridiction applies.

I'm pretty sure advertisers have to be aware of the country their targeting, given that they know me better than my spouse.
by rayiner | 2025-04-06 18:02:03+00:00
But the political climate during that time period—starting on the left and now going to the right—has been that the middle class is being hollowed out. Is your argument that the Bush/Obama regime (recall that the Bush administration developed the bank bailout plan that Obama implemented) was basically correct? All the economy required was a little more regulation via Dodd Frank and the CFPB?
by plun9 | 2025-04-06 18:02:17+00:00
This isn't true. You can try using adaptive cruise control with lane-keeping on a radar-equipped car on an undivided highway. Radar is good at detecting distance and velocity, but can't see lane lines. In order to prevent collisions, you would need to know precisely the road geometry and lane positions, which may come from camera data, and combine that information with the vehicle information.
by mnky9800n | 2025-04-06 18:02:23+00:00
The problem is most of what you say is unmeasurable. So it’s not really something physics can comment on and those immeasurable quantities cannot really be commented on by physics. So maybe your thoughts are enjoyable to you or others but they don’t really have anything to do with how dynamics in the universe play out, which is all that physics has to say about things.
by _0ffh | 2025-04-06 18:02:38+00:00
I submit that there is no "compression into PRNG seeds" going on here. This is just a quantisation method that happens to leverage PRNs, which might have some specific advantages and disadvantages. What I am sure it does not do, is what it's title seems to claim, if taken literally. I suspect they're having a good laugh, getting away with what they must know is borderline trolling. I'm impressed!
by tlogan | 2025-04-06 18:02:41+00:00
I disagree with that measure — that was a sell out in order to get votes in Detroit.

That said, it's true that a selective reading of his statements and legislative actions could be used to support almost any position.

But here’s something worth considering from a broader policy perspective:

Ronald Reagan cited three prominent 19th-century champions of free trade as his heroes: Richard Cobden and John Bright, founders of England’s Anti-Corn Law League, and Frédéric Bastiat, a renowned French economic writer. Reagan specifically praised Cobden and Bright for their efforts to eliminate tariffs on imported grain in the 1840s.

Throughout his presidency, Reagan consistently expressed support for free trade. In his July 1981 “Statement on U.S. Trade Policy,” he pledged to reduce government-imposed barriers on international trade and investment.

One of his strongest affirmations came during a January 1988 speech in Cleveland, where he framed America’s trade deficit as a sign of economic strength. On several occasions—often in response to protectionist moves by congressional Democrats—Reagan reiterated his free-trade stance. For instance, he vowed to veto the House trade bill if it included a restrictive amendment sponsored by Representative Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.).
by jimbob45 | 2025-04-06 18:02:44+00:00
MS only really wants runaway successes, not modest successes, particularly at the salaries required for the types of engineers to pull such a thing off. Clojure hasn’t attained runaway success in the corporate world and that’s even with the nearly flawless design and implementation Hickey executed. Even the branding is somehow more memorable than most languages.
by timewizard | 2025-04-06 18:02:58+00:00
> but the fact that it can reliably do this at all is extremely impressive

The better question is could you achieve the same thing using much less computing power and simpler methods? Would a Markov chain be able to do the same thing? If so, I'd have to with the articles sentiment, this burns a bunch of electricity to do something with extreme inefficiency and waste.