MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by krisoft | 2025-04-12 21:55:08+00:00
> Unless gearheads give it "approval", no one would buy it and you will be out of business.

There is a slight sifting of goalpost here. I was talking about being "understood as desirable cars". You are now talking about business success. They are not the same. Think of DeLorean. They are absolutely understood as desirable cars, and they very much went bankrupt.

> By that logic if you start making rare cool looking sportcars they would be automatically desirable.

Yep. I don't see anything problematic with that. I believe if you make a rare and cool looking sportcar people will recognise it as desirable. That's basically the definiton of "cool looking". If people (gearheads and regular folks alike) don't recognise it as desirable then you didn't made a cool looking car.

Which part do you disagree with here? I'm just thinking how we could test it. Imagine a car hot-or-not site. One where users have to "pick" which car is looking better or more desirable. The ultimate test would be to mix a few fictional sport car looking cars there. One which is completely made up so the gearheads could not have possibly approved it already. Do you think people would rate these fictional cars less desirable just because they doesn't exist? If you think this is suitable to answer our disagreement we could set this experiment up.
by fidotron | 2025-04-12 21:56:36+00:00
In JS it's amazingly easier because of how you can just await on peerconnection calls, which makes developing the happy path version of the code much faster, that can then be progressively extended with proper error handling.

My experience of it in Java/C++/Golang is in every case you have to deal with all the problems far more upfront before any of it works at all. And JS doesn't have the multithreaded aspect to handle, which is also the major weakness as it eliminates the extensability in that environment.

I have a sort of proof of concept level SFU in golang, with a simple TypeScript/React client, and the whole client is this: https://github.com/atomirex/umbrella/blob/master/frontend/sr... and most of the complexity there is because I can never remember if track ID or transceiver MID should be used in different situations!
by dghlsakjg | 2025-04-12 21:56:41+00:00
Cargo bikes or bike trailers are two of many solutions to this dilemma that immediately sprung to mind. In the Netherlands I have seen grocery stores deliver large deliveries in big tricycles.

There are billions of people that manage their shopping without a car. Millions of them live in North America. Surely, some of them have solved this problem for a family without having to go shopping daily.
by eternityforest | 2025-04-12 21:57:36+00:00
To me any kind of deep nesting is an issue. It goes against the idea of reducing the amount of mental context window needed to understand something.

Plus, if syntax errors can easily take several minutes to fix, because if the syntax is wrong, auto format doesn't work right, and then you have to read a wall of text to find out where the missing close paren should have been.
by elashri | 2025-04-12 21:57:40+00:00
Before discussions go into some generic direction about the field. This is a huge feasibility study contain different aspects done by hundreds of people. People who are mostly interested about the physics case of FCC should read/skim at least through the first volume [1], second chapter (Specificities of the FCC physics case) the first four sections. This is about 35 pages with somehow accessible language to people with some physics knowledge.

Personally I'm interested in their proposal about how they are going to approach software (Section 8). They plan to provide experiment agnostic and unified framework that is actually unified and user accessible. The field really need something like that, it is usually the pain point of most junior graduate student. The field suck at documentation and keep coherent software and write code in a bad way most of the time. I think they can have much better framework than Fermilab's art [2].

[1] https://cds.cern.ch/record/2928193

[2] https://art.fnal.gov/
by Applejinx | 2025-04-12 21:58:57+00:00
Neither. They're unwilling to concede he's run out of the Kremlin and the chaos and damage is the only purpose. The only reason he backs down on any of it is because he can't afford not to, so he's doing the usual brinksmanship, instructed by whoever's telling him to axe those obscure aviation safety committees (someone has detailed info), and probably hoping he can flee to Moscow at some point.

I don't think he'll be let off the hook, though. He's tasked to ruin us well below 'status quo', even for people diligently not paying attention.
by Uzmanali | 2025-04-12 21:59:27+00:00
Yes, I’ve noticed this too; older blog posts, forums, and niche docs I used to find via Google just don’t show up anymore. I now rely on site-specific searches (site:example.com), Reddit, and even DuckDuckGo for deeper results. It feels like Google prioritizes fresh, SEO-optimized content and buries everything else. I don't think it's just storage. It might also involve cost-to-crawl ratio and directing users to commercial content. Long-tail web feels like it’s vanishing.
by pornel | 2025-04-12 22:00:07+00:00
But this also means that almost all of the wear is from trucks.

This whole meme comes from junk science (https://www.emissionsanalytics.com/news/pollution-tyre-wear-...)

> we found that the car emitted 5.8 grams per kilometer of particles. Compared with regulated exhaust emission limits of 4.5 milligrams per kilometer, the completely unregulated tyre wear emission is higher by a factor of over 1,000.

They took plastic shedded by a gas car on non-EV tires, and compared it by weight to safety limits for gaseous emissions. This makes as much sense as saying that a lump of coal has 1,000 times more carbon than the safety limits for carbon monoxide.
by ravenstine | 2025-04-12 22:00:49+00:00
I'm not sure that would even be worth the time. There's very few times that I've had the same manager for more than maybe 1.5 years. Even if you somehow could find a job where you know the manager is good, there's a high probability that they will be replaced with a dolt. Maybe I'm just a pessimist, but I'm at a point where I have just accepted that most managers are lousy and to just work within that framework of suck.
by derefr | 2025-04-12 22:00:58+00:00
What about believing that he's a particularly-easily-manipulated patse (esp. when it comes to things he doesn't care about), and so this is someone else playing 4D chess through him?

For all the accusations of fascism, nobody seems to remember that a key feature of fascism is a corporate-cabal shadow government that legitimizes its activities/policies by puppeteering the "real" government to both execute and justify them.
by marcosdumay | 2025-04-12 22:01:12+00:00
The US didn't have a de-industrialized or vulnerable economy before Trump. And by the extent it was hollowed out, it's because of blatant corruption, not "conventional economic thinking".

You don't even have a point about the deficit. While there are plenty of economic schools that will give you high deficits, the US didn't get his by following any of those either.
by lelanthran | 2025-04-12 22:01:12+00:00
> Any engineer worth their salt in a hiring process will recognize this.

Sure, agreed, but you aren't even going to get to the point of an engineer recognising this because you'll fail the gauntlet of HR with it's tick-boxes for tech stacks.

You could be extremely battle-hardened on fault-tolerant distributed systems from being the the Erlang trenches for the last 3 years, but because they HR person couldn't tick-off one of "Node.js", "Java", "C#/.Net" or "Python", your application won't ever be seen by an engineer.
by johnisgood | 2025-04-12 22:01:31+00:00
But how is it racist? I am not afraid of Indians. I have nothing against some Indians, albeit I do have something against Indians who are celebrating something by stepping on manure, but since it does not affect me nor my country, I do not care what they do. UK might care though, it does affect them, but it does not make them racist either by not agreeing with some of their practices.

FWIW my best friend is South Indian. In the North, he is hated for unknown reasons, different caste or whatever, I do not know. He usually tells me everything about Indians that I do ask.

Another FWIW, he likes a barista (he is currently studying in the UK where he does not face any racism), and he came to me with help as to how to approach her. It is a good thing he did (he admitted it) because he would have ruined it by seeming so desperate, which seems to be a common trend among Indians, too. This is reality, too. To what extent? I do not know, but enough to notice. He is otherwise (despite being an Indian) a very well-mannered, curious, and smart person. He does seem to care much less about hygiene than one should, and blames things on diet, rather than just lack of hygiene. We discussed it in detail and he agreed, eventually.

While we are at it, I dislike Indian accents, too, generally. This is a preference. It does not make me racist. Do you think it does?

At any rate, if you have any questions, I am willing to answer (with his permission if it concerns him), but ultimately, I do not think it is racist.
by rat87 | 2025-04-12 22:01:50+00:00
Zelensky was elected in part on a platform of trying to negotiate with Russia but it fell apart because Russia wasn't interested in negotiating and instead decided it wanted to massively expand the war. If Russia shown the smallest sign that they had given up on conquering Ukraine and were willing to seek peace Zelensky would be interested. Zelensky is also more popular then most potential political opponents and they would rather the election would be held after the war when they'd have more of a chance(wartime popularity doesn't always transfer over to peacetime, Winston Churchill lost his post war election). And any credible challenges would likely be more hawkish on Russia not less
by ravenstine | 2025-04-12 22:04:19+00:00
My favorite manager (and type of manager in general) knew how to stay put of the way while providing real support where possible. He also protected us from the corporate bullshit of "goal setting" every quarter, pretty much doing it for us so we don't waste time.

Technical knowledge is a plus, but I think trust is even more important than that. It doesn't really matter that much if a manager knows code so much as they will trust your estimates and your pushback.
Simplenote MCP Server
by docdyhr | 2025-04-12 22:04:38+00:00
I love the simplicity of Simplenotes. So I built a Python MCP server for Simplenote to talk to my notes via Claude Desktop.

Repo: https://github.com/docdyhr/simplenote-mcp-server

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by aleph_minus_one | 2025-04-12 22:05:37+00:00
For those who are out of the loop:

EA: Effective Altruism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism )

ACX: Astral Codex Ten; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACX https://www.astralcodexten.com/

LW (used at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43663979 ): Less Wrong
by doublerabbit | 2025-04-12 22:05:48+00:00
I recently bought an HDMI Transmitter and as my laptop's HDMI port doesn't output sound. I've rigged a Bluetooth RX/TX dongle plugged in to the headphone-out port which made me giddy in nerd. It's voodoo.

Being able to stream from my laptop to my TV in 1080p without any additional cables and using emulators for games is kind of dark magic.

I need to purchase a usb DAC and better quality BT streaming devices, creative a web-ui to finish the setup. But that was cool, would love to do something when I upgrade from an apartment especially with the 3x cable monitors.
by timewizard | 2025-04-12 22:06:19+00:00
> we've failed to do is educate enough of our people to prosper as a deindustrialized nation

What education did we give them to prosper as an industrialized nation? It seems to me that the population was able to discover that and benefit from it entirely on their own. Why do they need "education" to "prosper" in current conditions?

Aren't we currently living in the most educated time already? That is we have more people going to and graduating from college than ever before. What is currently missing? Do we need to force everyone to go to college? What about those who don't graduate? They just won't ever be able to prosper?

> That and failed to protect our democracy.

I think a little more than half the country would disagree with this assessment.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-04-12 22:07:10+00:00
Progress seems to only go in the right direction on social issues, because people are very good at developing reasons why the social views they happen to hold are the objectively correct ones. As any advocate will talk your ears off about, open borders used to be the consensus position, until 150 years of immigration restrictions convinced people that it's not realistic to just let anyone move wherever they'd like.
by neonsunset | 2025-04-12 22:08:41+00:00
> Not just here; someone with your nick also whined when the creator of C# made a technical deficient decision when choosing Go over C# to implement typescript.

You know you could have just linked the reply instead? It states "C#, F# or Rust". But that wouldn't sound that nice, would it? I use and enjoy multiple programming languages and it helps me in day-to-day tasks greatly. It does not prevent me from seeing how .NET has flaws, but holistically it is way less bad than most other options on the market, including Erlang, Go, C or what have you.

> It's hard for a rational person to believe that someone would make the argument that the creator of the language must have made a mistake just because he reached for (in his words) a more appropriate language in that context.

So appeal to authority trumps observable consequences, technical limitations and arguments made about lackluster technical vision at microsoft? Interesting. No, I think it is the kind of people who refuse to engage with the subject on their own merits that are a problem, relegating to the powers that be all the argumentation. Even in a team environment, sure it is easier to say "a team/person X makes a choice Y" but you could also, if the situation warrants it, expand on why you think this way, and if you can't maybe you shouldn't be making a statement?

So no, "TypeScript, including Anders Hejlsberg, choosing Go as the language to port TS compiler to" does not suddenly make pigs fly, if anything, but being seen as an endorsement from key C# figure is certainly a bad look.
by gruez | 2025-04-12 22:09:18+00:00
>I'm against how all big companies have enshitified [...]

"enshitified" is so vague that the statement almost a tautology. "Bad things are bad". Moreover the original claim was not that, but "unfair business practices". Uber cutting back on their generous coupons is arguably "enshittification" or whatever, but as much as I miss those discounted rides/takeouts, it'd be totally ludicrous to complain that yanking those coupons was some sort of "unfair business practice", as if uber had some sort of obligation to offer such coupons in perpetuity.
by unknown_user_84 | 2025-04-12 22:09:43+00:00
While I'm not sure it's exactly what you're looking for I've found success with a variety of Gemini models getting them to take to a specific persona when given initial prompts to take on a specific persona. Gemini 2.5 is specifically interesting because the <thinking> block shows how much the notebook is playing a persona/role vs. becoming that role. In my experience Gemini 2.5 Pro likes to revert to 'maintaining a persona' in the <thinking> block. I questioned it about this at one point and it pointed out that humans also maintain a certain persona in their responses, and that you can't see their thinking. Still not entirely sure what I think about that.

I have experimented with telling the notebook to change the <thinking> block to a more narrative style. It seems to like to revert to ordered lists and bullet points if not continuously prompted to think in narrative.

Regarding maintaining consistency throughout the chat I have noticed Gemini 2.5 seems able to do this for quite a while but falls victim to the needle in a haystack problem that all LLMs seem to suffer from with an extremely long context and no external tooling.

I have a substack post on creating the initial prompt, which I call a bootstrap, using AI Studio and a set of system instructions if you are curious to explore.

https://consciousnesscrucible.substack.com/p/creating-charac...
by petermcneeley | 2025-04-12 22:10:19+00:00
The outlier success of some first-party developers indicates that focus and talent on this exotic hardware was required to demonstrate its fully potential. As they say this was an "expert friendly system" and this was because it was complex and it was complex because it was heterogenous.

As for "inherently worse use of transistors" one would have to look at how the transistors could have been used differently. The XBox360 is a different use of transistors.
by spwa4 | 2025-04-12 22:10:39+00:00
The last data is from the previous month. Trump had already started "cutting costs", and requested a budget ... 8% higher than Biden's last budget. Same week data came out, showing Trump has overspent by about 10%. This combines to Trump outspending Biden by about 15% so far.

So Trump is increasing spending already. One might also comment this is hardly surprising since he did the same in his previous term, when he overspent by 4.6 trillion (meaning he enacted policies that would cost the US that amount over 10 years), and that was because congress stopped him from doing more damage. Trump is responsible for 20-25% of the entire US public debt in 2025 (Biden at most 5%, and a lot of that was Trump policy, mainly the tax "reduction")

Does this benefit Musk? Well, the pentagon announced they're paying about 6 billion to SpaceX, so in one announcement about 3% of their Trump-announced budget increase is going to Musk. They're also buying from Tesla, against just about everyone's advice, but are unwilling to say how much. They're also paying a lot for Starlink and even Xai, but also not known how much.
by refulgentis | 2025-04-12 22:10:41+00:00
Blissfully, I found an IEEE article that collects the stuff I'm aware of in one neat package. https://spectrum.ieee.org/supercolliders

The shell games are:

1. claiming it is a proton collider[^1 source] designed to look for new particles [^2 comment].

2. false equivalence between China putting in their latest 5 year plan to make a plan to make something that will transition to being a proton collider. And it's worse than that:

If they immediately started after the plan was complete and on schedule, they'd be done in 2048 and transition from e/p to protons in 2066.

CERNs plan is to be done with e/p in 2042 and transition to protons in 2070. That's 4 years later, but it's comically irrelevant. That's not getting done sooner, that's just transitioning to doing stuff we already can do faster, the cool thing and why both are interested in building one is the electron/positron collider stuff, not scaled up proton collider stuff.

Content: - The project would transition to a proton collider at the end of its lifespan as a novel tool, in 2070.

- It is proposed to operate by 2042, assuming funds dispersed over 12 years, starting in 2030.

- It will operate as a electron-positron collider for the intervening ~3 decades before transitioning to essentially LHC with 4x power.

- Electron / positron is a unique collision form, chosen to allow for more precise measurement, such as the LHC discoveries of discrepancies in the Standard Model.

- This is very important work. The more precise you nail down these uncertainties, the more theorists can do to verify their work, allowing the experimentalists to know where to look for new stuff, if any.

[^1 source] Via Sabine link: "CERN wants to build a new particle collider which will smash protons together at roughly 6 times the energies seen at the Large Hadron Collider."

[^2 comment] This is the undercurrent of the whole criticism, I cannot explicitly source it to one sentence. It's also bizarre: I can't remember the last time experimentalists got to discover something without the theorists telling them where to look. It's cheaper that way! LHC was a failure too by that standard. There simply aren't any candidates in the theory that are accessible at humanities near-term energy levels, the Standard Model's worked beautifully, modulo these tantalizing discoveries at LHC of small discrepancies that electron/positron collisions let you explore.
by wolrah | 2025-04-12 22:10:46+00:00
> It is more of a warning than an actual security mechanism though. Similar to Mark of the Web.

It's both a warning and an actual security mechanism.

Obviously its most visible form is triggered when an application tries to write to system-level settings or important parts of the filesystem, and also when various heuristics decide that the application is likely to want to do so (IIRC "setup.exe" and "install.exe" at the root of a removable disk are assumed to need elevation).

Because Microsoft knew that a lot of older software wrote to system areas just because it predated Windows being a multi-user system UAC also provided a partial sandboxing mechanism where writes to these areas could be redirected to user-specific folders.

The warning was also a tool in itself, because the fact that it annoyed users finally provided the right kick in the ass to lazy software developers who had no need to be writing to privileged areas of the system and could easily run under a limited user but hadn't bothered to because most non-corporate NT users were owners and thus admins and most corporate environments would just accept "make users local admin". A portion of the reason we saw UAC prompts a lot less in later versions of Windows is because Microsoft tweaked some things to make certain settings per-user and to reorganize certain dialogs so unprivileged settings could be accessed without escalation, but a lot of it is because applications that had been doing it wrong for as long as NT had existed finally got around to changing their default paths.
by karthink | 2025-04-12 22:11:08+00:00
I'm curious to know if this is what lproven meant in their comment above. Alt + a-z to access menu items is available in every OS and all "native" apps, but you can't "drive the OS and all apps" this way.

For example, I would like to set options that are a few menus/button clicks deep in the Windows control panel (either the "classic" or new variant) using keyboard shortcuts/navigation. Or navigate the Windows registry editor. I'm not aware of a way to do this.
by timewizard | 2025-04-12 22:11:36+00:00
> or to make a moral argument that some kind of misappropriation is occurring.

They can also make a legal argument that the training set will fully reproduce copyrighted work. Which is just an actual crime as well as being completely amoral.

> because then it exists and they have to compete with it

The entire point of copyright law is: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

Individual artists should not have to "compete" against a billion dollar corporation which freely engages in copyright violations that these same artists have to abide by.