MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gs17 | 2025-04-12 17:53:11+00:00
> I'm no Hayao "I sense insult to life itself" Miyazaki

He was saying that in response to a computer-animated zombie that dragged itself along in a grotesque manner. It wasn't that it was animated by a computer, it was that he found it offensive in that it felt like it was making light of the struggles of people with disabilities. You definitely would also find it disgusting.
by rvnx | 2025-04-12 17:53:23+00:00
If you are greedy (or cautious about how you spend, because literally RooCode can code 0.5 to 1 USD per request), you can enable slow-mode in Cursor, and just ride the wave with Sonnet-3.7 for free.

(or create a new free account and enjoy 500 fast requests)

In theory, you could use RooCode with the GitHub Copilot API too, but in practice there are limits that makes it unusable.
by orwin | 2025-04-12 17:53:24+00:00
I will note that car burning is rare during protests. It mostly happen during riots, which are quite rare (i think 2005 were the big ones, and some light ones started last year). What can happen is a luxury car finding itself on its own roof (those racing cars are light).

During the yellow vest protest, "unsafe" property destruction started, destroying an apartment and putting in danger bystanders (the only death was due to a police grenade shot trough an open window, but the protesters put in danger bystanders too, and only luck prevented any deaths). Which triggered an interesting response from old punks/antifas (and also active ones): They joined facebook yellow vest protest groups to teach "how to" destroy property properly: spot danger points, how to find a target, how to avoid side effects, when to avoid using fire (99.9% of the time), when not to, how to deactivate teargas grenade (it is surprising, but a lot of people do not know how to), and instilled in some very theoritical points about secrecy and compartmentalization that were passed down from like the "groupe Barta", which, to be honest, is quite funny.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-04-12 17:54:42+00:00
You’d think if they were being swindled someone in academia would have been pissed about it and sounded the alarm. These are smart people after all who fight tooth and nail for every dollar of grant money they are awarded. They don’t like paying indirect costs either. But it turns out, you kind of need a functioning research building in order to do research. Now admins at universities are trying to figure out how they can get the damn toilet paper paid for as a direct cost because that is actually where we are at with this stuff today.
by jfengel | 2025-04-12 17:54:54+00:00
It's not just about emissions. The entire character of the area changes. The streets fill with pedestrians and bicycles.

Garbage trucks and ambulances still use the streets. But they face no traffic and are exceptions rather than the rule. They don't need to be either low emission or quiet, though those things are also nice to have, since those things are no longer the most pressing issues.
by graemep | 2025-04-12 17:55:01+00:00
Which is only true if you are not interested in the “self-hostable” part and you installing an app is a significant difficulty.

Once an app is installed locally it is more convenient to use - that is why it is so common for apps to replicate (or just wrap) websites.

If you are not interested in the self-hostable part there are lots of online converters.
by jader201 | 2025-04-12 17:55:16+00:00
> without which there is zero chance of being sustainable or competitive

It seems like some of these comments are missing how competition works.

Competition happens within the same type(s) of goods, not across them.

That is, the companies making the goods still affected by tariffs aren’t in competition with the companies making goods now exempt by tariffs.

Yes, its true that they will have a better chance at thriving under these exemptions, but whether they thrive or not should have little impact on the other companies.

To be clear, I’m not arguing in favor of this decision — or any of the tariffs, for that matter.

I’m just simply arguing that competition isn’t really the angle to use to argue against this particular decision.
by alganet | 2025-04-12 17:55:17+00:00
I took the most obvious cultural displacement industry as an example of the correlation between tropes, personas and delusions. Of course the internet is another one of those.

Whether is it the cause or not, it is impossible to say, at least in the way the paper studies it ("meta-analysis,", another way of saying "loose correlation").

People love it? I don't know. Maybe it's like an addiction instead of a real desire for it. Have you ever been in a culture without those elements to know what is like?

Anyway. Talking seriously now, schizophrenia is a big elephant in the world's room. Lots of correlations, no clear cause. The more you look into it, the more the cause seems to be inexistent.

Given its current symptoms-based definition, with very low effort, anyone could be classified as schizophrenic. Just one push to disrupt "normal everyday functioning behavior" and even the most sane person could end up in the schizo bucket.
by famouswaffles | 2025-04-12 17:55:43+00:00
Mostly only social media/messaging sites report daily active users regularly. Everything else usually reports monthly active users at best.

>in the last day? If you’re only using something once per week, it probably isn’t that important to you.

No, something I use on a weekly basis (which is not necessarily just once a week) is pretty important to me and spinning it otherwise is bizarre.

Google is the frontend to the web for the vast majority of internet users so yeah it gets a lot of daily use. Social media sites are social media sites and are in a league of their own. I don't think i need to explain why they would get a disproportionate amount of daily users.
by ranyume | 2025-04-12 17:56:04+00:00
What you just described is an idea that's around intellectual circles about the nature of power in this era. It's the idea behind the book "Ipnocrazia" (not yet released), which gained fame around europe and south america.

Citing from the top of my head: "Simulation isn't imitating the real anymore, simulation precedes the real"

If I understand it right, tragedy is first simulated. Once the simulation is bought by the population, it gives the ruling class a reason to act how they really want to act, and the tragedy is made real.

In other words. It's population control without coercion.

A narrative puts people in a trance (they're hypnotized), inhibiting their cognitive capacity. The narrative is the simulation. The goal is to make people fearful and disoriented so they delegate their cognitive capacity to "illuminated" rulers, accepting the simulation as real.

If i were to put it in real terms. Let's spread the narrative of an incoming world war 3. Once it's settled, the population will just accept world war 3 as a matter of fact, unavoidable. This would allow us, the ruler class, to extend trump's presidency even beyond.
by const_cast | 2025-04-12 17:56:59+00:00
> I started this thread referencing comments (including the one I cited above) where people explain how they cutoff their friends and relatives because they "side with evil".

Okay, but in the sentence _right before this one_, you acknowledged that evil does exist in modern American and it is popular.

So no need for the scare quotes. They don't "side with evil". They side with evil, literally, by your own admission!

> They're signalling that their tribe is more important than friends and family.

No, they're signalling that they don't want to be friends with people who side with evil.

I don't understand how the point keeps bashing you upside the head and it's still not clicking. You're acting like they're cutting them off because they love their tribe. No no, it's because those people are bad people.

Even regardless of tribalism, there exists bad people. Why would you want to be friends with bad people? That's not a rhetorical question. Is it not kind of pathetic that you wish to befriend people who harm you? Why is that not only something you're advocating for, but using as some sort of moral high ground?

I just don't see the purity or the angelic-ness in supporting or being friends with people who are bad. Really, I don't. I don't see how you, and others, are constructing a pedestal there. It seems self-destructive and virtue-signalling to me. Which, ironically, _is actually tribalism_.
by sergiotapia | 2025-04-12 17:57:38+00:00
There's this guy on YouTube that travelled to india and one thing stood out to me was the non-stop honking of cars and bikes. Just endless forever. What a nightmare!

I wonder what that does to a population. How does anyone think??

https://youtu.be/IFUIdcrgW6M?si=o6LkXK4MyS-PL7m-&t=661
by potato3732842 | 2025-04-12 17:57:45+00:00
You get what you incentivize.

Europe chose to levy big fuel taxes and punitive displacement taxes. Diesel cars are some of the best when it comes to driving experience and fuel economy for a given displacement. What followed was perfectly predictable.

The road to hell is paved with public policy implemented with willful ignorance to obvious 2nd order effects.
by spoiler | 2025-04-12 17:57:46+00:00
I think, if I remember correctly, that b and i are used to only alter the style of text, while strong and em are used for emphasis in something like a paragraph of text.

So you could use b in something like UI breadcrumbs, but of you wanted to strongly highlight something as an author of some text, you'd use strong.

I'm not really sure we need these though. As for my breadcrumbs example, I think everyone would use CSS rather than a b element.

So, I kinda understand the idea, but I've never needed it.

A thing that maybe comes to mind is that inner monologue in books uses italics sometimes. So using i would make sense more than em. But when wanting to emphasize/stress a word or phrase an em would make more sense than i.

+1 regarding <spoiler>!
by Xcelerate | 2025-04-12 17:57:51+00:00
> “When the request came to us, I was almost jumping up and down,” says Dr. Irfan Essa, a principal research scientist at Google DeepMind and director of its Atlanta lab.

Wait, what? When did Google DeepMind open an Atlanta office? That seems like a news story in and of itself... maybe I’ve been under a rock the last few years.
by mike_hearn | 2025-04-12 17:58:11+00:00
Google knows how to avoid mistakes like not bucketing by session. Holdback users just did fewer unique search sessions overall, because whilst for most people Google was a great way to book vacations, hotel stays, to find games to buy and so on, for holdback users it was limited to informational research only. That's an important use case but probably over-represented amongst HN users, some kinds of people use search engines primarily to buy things.

How much a click is worth to a business is a very good ranking signal, albeit not the only one. Google ranks by bid but also quality score and many other factors. If users click your ad, then return to the results page and click something else, that hurts the advertiser's quality score and the amount of money needed to continue ranking goes up so such ads are pushed out of the results or only show up when there's less competition.

The reason auction bids work well as a ranking signal is that it rewards accurate targeting. The ad click is worth more to companies that are only showing ads to people who are likely to buy something. Spamming irrelevant ads is very bad for users. You can try to attack that problem indirectly by having some convoluted process to decide if an ad is relevant to a query, but the ground truth is "did the click lead to a purchase?" and the best way to assess that is to just let advertisers bid against each other in an auction. It also interacts well with general supply management - if users are being annoyed by too many irrelevant ads, you can just restrict slot supply and due to the auction the least relevant ads are automatically pushed out by market economics.
by stavros | 2025-04-12 17:58:56+00:00
This is a bad-faith fallacy. We had cars that emitted X amounts of tyre/brake particulate and 10X amounts of combustion residue, we got rid of the combustion part, and now we hear "OMG! 100% is tyre particulate!!!"

Sure, but people won't stop moving, and there's no vacuum, you should compare brake particulate to whatever else people would use if cars didn't exist.
by impossiblefork | 2025-04-12 17:59:08+00:00
Yes, but I think they can basically still do it. If they hadn't been buying F-35s they'd presumably have pushed their stealth fighter projects to be finished by now, and what more is really required?

I think these trade routes etc. will stop mattering rather soon. Batteries are coming and once that's here the oil trade's gone, and then you have no need to export things to get something to trade for it, so in a decade or so none of this will matter.

International trade will go from being mandatory to optional, and thus become much less important.
by alt227 | 2025-04-12 17:59:11+00:00
> The primary purpose of HTTP2 was to allow servers to preemptively push files/resources to clients to avoid round-trip latency; to reduce the reliance on script bundles.

The primary purpose for HTTP2 was to allow multiple simultaneous asynchoronous http calls, which is a massive loading performance boost for most websites. Server push was very much a tacked on afterthought.
by rschneid | 2025-04-12 17:59:12+00:00
The consolidate audit trail regularly has millions of errors within a day... It's far from complete data; here's their latest report card:

https://catnmsplan.com/sites/default/files/2025-04/04.01.25-...

Also, CAT is run by CATNMS, LLC which was created in response to an SEC rule 613, however it is operated by the same consortium of SROs that it purports to provide oversight on...

All these layers of responsibility diffusion and a notable absence of penalties for failing to meet rule 613 guidelines mean that rule is little more than for show.
by pressbuttons | 2025-04-12 17:59:16+00:00
It doesn't have to be high intent all the time though. Chrome itself is "free" and isn't the actual technical thing serving me ads (the individual websites / ad platforms do that regardless of which browser I'm using), but it keeps me in the Google ecosystem and indirectly supports both data gathering (better ad targeting, profitable) and those actual ad services (sometimes subtly, sometimes in heavy-handed ways like via ad blocker restrictions). Similar arguments to be made with most of the free services like Calendar, Photos, Drive, etc - they drive some subscriptions (just like chatbots), but they're mostly supporting the ads indirectly.

Many of my Google searches aren't high intent, or any purchase intent at all ("how to spell ___" an embarrassing number of times), but it's profitable for Google as a whole to keep those pieces working for me so that the ads do their thing the rest of the time. There's no reason chatbots can't/won't eventually follow similar models. Whether that's enough to be profitable remains to be seen.

> Search is all about information retrieval. AI is all about task accomplishment.

Same outcome, different intermediate steps. I'm usually searching for information so that I can do something, build something, acquire something, achieve something. Sell me a product for the right price that accomplishes my end goal, and I'm a satisfied customer. How many ads for app builders / coding tools have you seen today? :)
by webdevladder | 2025-04-12 18:00:52+00:00
ArkType is a really interesting library that has a difficult time marketing itself. More than being a schema validator, it brings TS types into the runtime, so you can programmatically work with types as data with (near?) full fidelity.

I've been evaluating schema libraries for a better-than-Zod source of truth, and ArkType is where I've been focused. Zod v4 just entered beta[1], and it improves many of my problems with it. For such a mature library to improve like this, v4 is treat and speaks volumes to the quality of engineering. But ArkType has a much larger scope, and feels to me more like a data modeling language than a library. Something I definitely want as a dev!

The main downside I see is that its runtime code size footprint is much larger than Zod. For some frontends this may be acceptable, but it's a real cost that isn't wise to pay in many cases. The good news is with precompilation[2] I think ArkType will come into its own and look more like a language with a compiler, and be suitable for lightweight frontends too.

[1] https://v4.zod.dev/v4

[2] https://github.com/arktypeio/arktype/issues/810
by robwwilliams | 2025-04-12 18:00:52+00:00
Absolutely not. DOE faculties charge way more overhead for work that they perform for universities—-up to 100%. And DOE lab postdocs are almost 2X as well paid as comparable university postdocs. And their senior leadership in science are way way above GSA scale since they are formally not in the government but work for contractors like Battelle.

If sustained this policy This would put reciprocal contracts and collaborations between major DOE facilities and universities on total hold. Not a good thing if you think progress in science is even vaguely useful.
by stavros | 2025-04-12 18:01:11+00:00
Are publicly-owned cars somehow not emitting anything? Or, how else will people get around?

I live in a European city, where I rarely use my car to get around. Banning cars won't do anything, because I don't use my car because I can, I use it because I have to.

If you want to get rid of cars, design cities that can be lived in without having to use cars.
by mikeocool | 2025-04-12 18:01:15+00:00
Basically every tech company likes to say they are selling pickaxes, but basically no VC funded company matches that model. To actually come out ahead selling pickaxes you had to pocket a profit on each one you sold.

If you sell your pickaxes at a loss to gain market share, or pour all of your revenue into rapid pickaxe store expansion, you’re going to be just as broke as prospectors when the boom goes bust.
by SequoiaHope | 2025-04-12 18:02:01+00:00
If EVs don’t emit tailpipe emissions then 100% of their emissions will be those things. They’re also heavier and so have more tire wear. It seems not unintuitive to me that their emissions might push the boundaries of strict modern emissions standards.

For taxing cars, you’re still leaving so much car infrastructure out there. It swallows the world. Six months ago for the first time ever I got a job where I could bike to work. The world is so much different from a bike. It becomes clear how dangerous cars are to humans, and how they chop up our cities in to little rectangles. I’m constantly at risk of being hit by cars that don’t stop. I love being on my bike. I feel like I’m part of the world. I ride rain or shine thanks to nice gear. We give up so much to have a world with cars. We could move our road budgets to trains and bike paths and have so much more space and health and life.
by recursive | 2025-04-12 18:02:04+00:00
I'll take your word for it, as I can't find the quote in context.

But I'm unfamiliar with any polling pattern where poll requests are expected to overlap. If updates take microseconds, does that mean I can comfortably run 10,000 of these in a second?

I even think datastar looks cool, but I just think that quote is misleading, and I still think that.

I'd like to see some realistic results, like the kind measured by this[1] type of benchmark. "Microsecond" updates sounds like microbenchmarks with very carefully crafted definitions.

[1]: https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/2025/table...
by thrance | 2025-04-12 18:02:05+00:00
I live in Paris, cars haven't all been banned. Some streets have been made pedestrians only and some lanes have been converted into bike lanes, but overall you can drive almost everywhere in the city (although that was always painful).

We have that certificate you mention. Today in most large cities in France, some streets are forbidden to cars that have a bad "Crit'air" score. It's a sticker you have to order online, with a number from 1 to 6. What number you receive is dependent on your car's model and its age. You have to put it under your windshield or risk getting fined by the police.
by jayd16 | 2025-04-12 18:02:11+00:00
>I’m sure that there’s something equivalent from the other direction, but I dont know what it is

There's a risk of becoming a people pleaser or letting people down. People expect you to manage the party or the outing or whatever.

There's fear that the many relationships you have are shallow. Even in this post your suggestion is to simply use the extrovert to get to a real friend you actually want.

Direct insecurity of what people "actually" think of you is still there, I'm sure.

That said, people are usually thinking about their own problems and what people think of them a lot more than what they think of you so just relax a bit.
by coursecrumbs | 2025-04-12 18:02:45+00:00
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by refulgentis | 2025-04-12 18:02:45+00:00
To be honest the whole premise AI code needs to be banned sounds like a bit of a histrionic caricature to me, so I might not be in the right mindset to accept this either, but, this does feel a bit histrionic too. Like, maybe in a vacuum, in a codebase, language, and functionality I'm not familiar with, or if I'm too inexperienced to be diligent, or I don't bother with tests...maybe I'm just old, and those things seem like necessary preconditions even though I'd merrily ignore them 12 years ago, and working on my own now predisposes me to being happy with the work
by mike_hearn | 2025-04-12 18:03:08+00:00
The issue isn't number of designs but architectural stability. NVIDIA's chips have been general purpose for a long time. They get faster and more powerful but CUDA has always been able to run any kind of neural network. TPUs used to be over-specialised to specific NN types and couldn't handle even quite small evolutions in algorithm design whereas NVIDIA cards could. Google has used a lot of GPU hardware too, as a consequence.
by ziml77 | 2025-04-12 18:03:21+00:00
> And documentation is either not existing, incomplete or horribly outdated, and StackOverflow etc. are even worse.

Or the documentation is very complete, but only useful if you read and comprehend it in its entirety. Open source devs need to understand that not everyone using their software wants to become an expert in it. They just want to get a task done and the software is facilitating completing that task. That is something totally normal and those users should not be thought of as less important than the power users.
by genewitch | 2025-04-12 18:03:28+00:00
if you work for the government you can get your student loans forgiven without the tax burden, you get retirement, you get 1 hour of k-time (time off) per week of work, which means a day off every 8 weeks, or 13 days+ a year of PTO, plus sick leave, plus health insurance that is pretty good, plus...

maybe it's different at the federal level, but at the state level it's pretty hard to beat the benefits, unless you're strictly looking for hourly wages. Not everyone needs $500,000 a year, nor wants it.