MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by defanor | 2025-04-28 07:08:34+00:00
> But if I didn't listen to the devil from time to time, I wouldn't stay up to date with the latest technologies, and as a result I wouldn't be able to pay my bills.

It appears to imply that new technologies do not count as fun, which may be the case for the author, but not generally. And there are indeed fewer open vacancies requiring older (decades old) technologies exclusively, with vacancies often including currently-hyped technologies in addition to established ones, which opens more options and potentially leads to a higher salary if one employs those newer or hyped ones, but I guess that it is quite possible to pay the bills while using mostly the older ones, too.
by briandear | 2025-04-28 07:08:46+00:00
If anyone was attempting to overthrow anything, they would have been well armed. Not strolling around as if on a guided tour. Nobody overthrows a government by carrying protest signs. And grandmas aren’t using hanging out on the “front lines” taking photos with their iPhone. The leftist rioters that attacked police stations and burned courthouses — that looked a lot more like an insurrection to me.

https://youtu.be/Y6Apmdeoxys
by Juliate | 2025-04-28 07:08:58+00:00
> only coding can get paid reasonably

If you happen to work for a company that's big enough to pay reasonably. And even that is still a very temporary accident of times.

There was a time with plenty (comparatively to today) of tailors, living very reasonably, because there was a demand, and the means.

Today, you're lucky if you manage to find one that's in your city, and even more if he/she's not too expensive (that is, compared to ready-made stuff).
by Arkhaine_kupo | 2025-04-28 07:09:09+00:00
Sometimes there is a worthwhile discussion on the reach and breath of policing, sometimes ridiculous people with insane views and 0 technical or legislative knowledge make opinion eds for people to share as rage bait.

Please just look at the other content from the "lovely" Laurie Wastell of the spectator to find the kind of groups, opinions and places she wants to protect vs those she doesn't.

like I would be kinda embarrased to share news sources from people being actively sued for the harm they caused with their misinformation (in their case vaccine lies).

> If someone perceives something you say as "hateful" they can report you to the police, who can record a "Non-crime hate incident" against your name. [3]

this was a law introudced by a conservative goverment, as part of their increase in police tools, which in large part came from support for "anti woke" policing of the pro black protests that came after it erupted in america.

People like the previouslike mentioned Mrs Wastell advocated for stronger sentencing and more police, and now that the leopards are eating the faces of the people who spend all day on facebook sending death threats to muslims she is now so incredibly offended.

Btw another reason for the focus on the NCHI is because the police are swamped, the Conservatives under theresa may cut their budget 40% which meant they have way less people so to keep stats up, you gotta focus on the easy shit.

Maybe if we hadn't brought in consulting types who advocate for stats to show work progress, conservative cuts to salaries and advocated for "blue lives matter" which pushed for stronger sentencing laws we would not be here but somehow Mrs Whitehall and you will take 0 accountability and instead blame "woke judges" or some other nonsense as she does in her article.
by nicky0 | 2025-04-28 07:09:25+00:00
You're being intentionally dense. No, people don't accidentally post pictures but they often do post them with the intention of showing a certain thing, e.g. profile picture, something for sale, something related to hobbies, household repairs, whatever. All of thse are posted with intent to include a certain object but may include background info that the poster did not consider.
by starspangled | 2025-04-28 07:09:32+00:00
Bin Laden wanted to create a unified Islamic Caliphate uniting Muslims around the world, and overthrowing governments in the Middle East and Arabic world seen as usurpers and puppets of the west and zionists.

I don't think he particularly cared whether or not people in England or America got locked up for social media posts or other alleged freedoms. I don't think he would have been thrilled about the state of the Middle East today, if he were alive to see it.

What's happening in western countries is significantly the doing of (and almost certainly in line with the goals of) our ruling classes. Breaking down social cohesion, reducing the population of a country to little more than its head count and what it can do "for the economy", and pitting different groups to fight against one another are all key to ruling in their own interests.
by cookiengineer | 2025-04-28 07:10:05+00:00
I wanted to add:

The demographical shift over time will eventually lead to degradation of LLM performance, because more content will be of worse quality and transformers are a concept that loses symbolic inference.

So, assuming that LLMs will increase in performance will only be true for the current generations of software engineers, whereas the next generations will lead automatically to worse LLM performance once they've replaced the demographic of the current seniors.

Additionally, every knowledge resource that led to the current generation's advancements is dying out due to proprietarization.

Courses, wikis, forums, tutorials... they all are now part of the enshittification cycle, which means that in the future they will contain less factual content per actual amount of content - which in return will also contribute to making LLM performance worse.

Add to that the problems that come with such platforms, like the stackoverflow mod strikes or the ongoing reddit moderation crisis, and you got a recipe for Idiocracy.

I decided to archive a copy of all books, courses, wikis and websites that led to my advancements in my career, so I have a backup of it. I encourage everyone to do the same. They might be worth a lot in the future, given how the trend is progressing.
by RandomWorker | 2025-04-28 07:10:18+00:00
The company behind the minimalist writer is writer had a presenter app called iA Presenter. https://ia.net/presenter

I’ve had it for a while and it’s awesome to write all the notes and stuff in markdown. They also provided a good amount of content on how to write good presentations.

Looking at these two offerings the iA presenter tries to look great out of the box straight away versus this one where you have to mess with the layout. It helps you focus on the content. I’ve done a few presentations with iA presenter and it’s been well received — note I’m a good speaker but not a great slide maker.
by thinkingemote | 2025-04-28 07:10:33+00:00
It's worth repeating a tactic from every state's intelligence playbook, but I note that this article gives an interesting angle to this.

Informants and spies are almost always those at the top of your group, they are the leaders, the ones with the money, the ones with the van, the people with the time to help out, to print your flyers, the people who can organise and transport. Spies are going to be the people above you that you trust. Spies will be your friends. In the UK, police informants even fathered children with members of their infiltrated groups! They are not going to be the new strange people who join and are look nervous but who make excellent and easy scape goats. States want the maximum value for their intelligence, the spies are going to be at the top of your group.

The article suggests one way around it, to have flat organisations: to not have leaders. It gives resilience if when a person is compromised the group can continue, or when there is no leader the amount of information or damage that leader can cause would be less. Another way potentially would be the cell format, used in some of the worst terrorist groups, only operate in cells of 5 or less and only one of those in each small group have contact with only 1 other cell.
by maxrimue | 2025-04-28 07:11:02+00:00
I thought about doing something similar some time ago, because I never quite found the perfect note taking app for myself. There's a million ways how to do notes, and it feels like there's just as many different notes apps.

Eventually, I've settled with Obsidian because of its simplicity and extensibility. You can leave it with basic features and truly own your notes in a simple format (you can also put them into any cloud, as long as that cloud reaches your filesystem). It doesn't do everything just like I'd want to, but I've thought about just building another notes app that reads and writes to the same path your Obsidian notes are in, instead of trying to cover every possible editing feature like most big notes apps. Then I'd use different apps for different needs, with one place to store data.

Since you're focusing on privacy, have you considered using Obsidian? Is there anything particular you want to do differently?
by tock | 2025-04-28 07:11:15+00:00
1. You do realise that not every house help is on some work visa where the employer takes away their passport right? That's illegal. These things happen a lot in arab countries not just for house helps but engineers too. Wanting to have a house help doesn't mean aspiring for "slavery" or taking away someones passport.

2. Work visa conditions if harsh enough are akin to slavery. You have Indians on H1B visas for over a decade with no chance of getting a green card. They have bought houses and raised families here. And can be kicked out in 3 months if they are out of a job. They are stuck.

> encourages it class divisions and abuses

Do you feel the same about a personal driver? A chef? A live-in nurse? What professions are socially ok in your opinion? If someone can pay good wages for a maid its absolutely ok. In fact its good that money flows into poorer communities. If you want real class equality ensure that every job gets paid similar amounts. A rich engineer not hiring a maid just makes wealth inequality worse. Its far better for the community than stuffing it in some index fund.
by thworp | 2025-04-28 07:11:40+00:00
Actual support from the people was not wanted or needed by these regimes. They were content with having support by their party lapdogs, the kinds of people with no skills or personality, that would inform on their peers and magically become the factory's overseer. Those people owed everything to the system and they were the key to it continuing.

Everyone else was just kept in line. They set up both positive and negative incentives. Be neutral and you can live an OK life. Be a good communist and you can climb socially. Meet your West German uncle too often, or don't show up to the Labor Day parade and get a threatening talk. Actually voice your opposition to the regime and you may well find yourself in a Stasi torture prison.

Socialist doctrine said that socialism would be so good that people would soon(TM) embrace it organically. Of course they didn't, because it never delivered on anything and some western media still made it behind the iron curtain. Seeing a western supermarket shelf while you had to bribe someone to get spare parts for your washing machine is stronger than any propaganda.
by coldtea | 2025-04-28 07:12:16+00:00
>What is it that makes autism so dangerous?

In higher support needs, reduced autonomy (to the point of total dependency for ASD 3 cases), plus reduced social and intellectual capacity. Plus several commorbidities, in mental and bodily health.

It can be beneficial for society to have laser-focused and social-consensus challenging individuals with higher intelligence, but that's hardly the only or even the main way autism manifests - just the pop culture popular one (and the one whose members can more easily advocate for themselves, and present their cases as the sole representative, summed up in the "autism is a superpower" slogan).
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-04-28 07:13:16+00:00
So I wanted to try this and it turns out you can't sign up?

simply go to the sign in button and then there is a reset password and then when you click on it , there adds an optional sign up and when you click on it , it leads you to mitte.ai/join which says Not Found.

Kind of interesting, wappanalyzer shows its written in erlang? So are you raw dogging erlang or maybe elixir or gleam? What's the tech stack behind this.

Where are you generating the images / videos at? Are you using something like openrouter api or are you self hosting the gpu / using aws for it??

I am also interested in what percentage of users are paying? and also the abuse vector that might arise from generating some pretty down bad images... , are all images that are generated here public or what exactly??
by fc417fc802 | 2025-04-28 07:13:37+00:00
No I think you've understood that correctly. I'd count that as one of those things that's blindingly obvious once it's pointed out but not until then.

With 3D printing I wonder if you could insert bands of insulator into an otherwise conductive wall? But you're dealing with large (potentially ridiculously so) temperature ranges so I wonder if it would prove difficult to match the thermal properties of the two materials closely enough.

I now have the weirdest desire to play with heat exchanger designs that I have absolutely zero use for. I've been nerd sniped.
by anovikov | 2025-04-28 07:14:07+00:00
I agree. No matter how you call it, society without private ownership of means of production - without legalised ability to build capital and gain economic power by extracting value from productive assets for private gain - cannot work except by hard coercion provided by relentless, unblinking, crushing force. Just because a society like that is contrary to human nature and every bit of freedom we get, we will use to circumvent and undermine it.

And difference in terms - socialism vs communism - is just a west/east terminology difference.

Soviets called what they had "socialism" and what they (as they claimed) wanted to get, "communism".

The West called what Soviets had, "communism" and the social order in "soft" Western countries like Sweden or 1960s UK, "socialism". Which was "a society where private ownership of means of production still dominates, but is heavily taxed, and proceeds are used to fund a lot of social programs and public infrastructure, housing and other programs are centrally planned long term". Soviets never accepted that as "socialism" and kept saying that this term was only used by the West manipulatively to disarm the Western working class, and they were probably right.
by atoav | 2025-04-28 07:15:15+00:00
I had a similar thought a while ago. If the goal of the terrorists was to shake the system in such a way it destroyed (or seriously harmed) itself, that goal was achieved. I believe the authoritarian ICE deportations without due process are essentially the imperial boomerang of the Guantanamo Bay-style human right abuses that followed 9/11.

In human history stretching the homelands rules beyond recognition when acting abroad has rarely turned out well for the homeland in the long run.
by cess11 | 2025-04-28 07:15:26+00:00
"o3 does not just spit out an answer. It reasons. It struggles. It switches tools. It self-corrects. Sometimes it even cheats, but only after exhausting every other option. That feels very human."

I've never met a human player that suddenly says 'OK, I need Python to figure out my next move'.

I'm not a good player, usually I just do ten minute matches against the weakest Stockfish settings so as not to be annoying to a human, and I figured this one out in a couple of minutes because there are very few options. Taking with the rook doesn't work, taking with the pawn also doesn't, so it has to be a non-taking move, and the king can't do anything useful so it has to be the rook and typically in these puzzles it's a sacrifice that unlocks the solution. And it was.
by raducu | 2025-04-28 07:15:27+00:00
> if the “fixed point” you are measuring doesn’t sit still relative to any spatial reference system you care to use.

But do those points actually move or the air medium changes the measurements?

I ask because I saw a very interesting documentary once about how they started accurate mapping in England with fixed points and measuring the angles between those points to a high degrees of precision.

My mental model has always been that those points are all fixed, but now that you mention it, why should they be fixed?

After all, my 7 grade teacher clearly demonstrated the thermal deformation or copper rods and all bridges have gaps that allow for thermal deformation, so indeed, this would apply to soil on the scale of tens of kms?
by umanwizard | 2025-04-28 07:16:35+00:00
What is your definition of socialism and communism? “Socialism” is used with a very wide set of definitions. Both the French socialist party (which is at most center-left) and the East German SED would have described themselves as “socialist”, and surely the latter at least would have thought socialism was incompatible with capitalism and that communism was its end goal.
by alexjplant | 2025-04-28 07:17:04+00:00
> There are cars that can go way over 100 mph, and they almost all speed controlled by software. High performance cars are often speed limited by software to about 150 mph. How is this legal?

Good question. My guess is as follows:

Per the NHTSA [1] alcohol, excess speed, and not wearing restraints are the top three causes of vehicle-related deaths in the US in roughly equal measure (although alcohol edges out the other two). The German autobahn infamously doesn't have a blanket speed limit and is about as safe as other European highway systems. To me this means that a case can be made for high speeds on public roads in the interest of expediency (though, for cultural reasons, I would not personally make it for the US). I can't, on the other hand, imagine endorsing road sodas or not wearing seat belts. In other words speed is only contextually dangerous while driving drunk and not using safety equipment are inherently bad which is why I'd imagine the latter two have been legislated.

Anecdotally I'd be much happier if more attention was spent on enforcement against bad driving behavior like tailgating, weaving, failing to signal, driving drunk, and running traffic signals than speeding. Nearly every brush with death I've had on public roads has been due to these, not somebody doing 95 in the fast lane.

[1] https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
by Earw0rm | 2025-04-28 07:17:11+00:00
Non-explicable?

It's deterministic in that (input A, state B) always produces output C. But it can't generally be reasoned about, in terms of how much change to A will produce C+1, nor can you directly apply mechanical reasoning to /why/ (A.B) produces C and get a meaningful answer.

(Yes, I know, "the inputs multiplied by the weights", but I'm talking about what /meaning/ someone might ascribe to certain weights being valued X, Y or Z in the same sense as you'd look at a variable in a running program or a physical property of a mechanical system).
by wahern | 2025-04-28 07:17:42+00:00
> I hope internet archive have back up of this

Even if they had backups[1], that doesn't necessarily mean they'll remain publicly accessible. I learned that the hard way many years ago when my first university Unix account web pages from the 1990s were made inaccessible, effectively permanently AFAICT, after the university IT published a robots.txt on that domain that caused (deliberately or not) Archive to hide them, and then later discontinued use of that domain altogether. I think Archive has since changed their policy regarding robots.txt, but the lesson remains the same.

Ever since then I try to remember to archive (e.g. wget -m) important third-party pages and artifacts (PDFs, etc) on my personal server, especially reference materials, memorable articles and blog posts, etc. I wish I had that foresight earlier. Though even before that happened I had already started hosting all my own stuff.

I still find Archive's Wayback Machine to be immensely valuable and useful. But if you find yourself going back to the same source over and over again, do yourself and everyone else a favor and archive it yourself, in addition to adding it to the Wayback Machine if it's not already there.

[1] The E8400 page is presently available, at least: https://web.archive.org/web/20230927192341/https://www.intel...
by thierry_src | 2025-04-28 07:17:58+00:00
An old attempt to this was SWAR-C, (SIMD within a register - C), that could target Neon, altivec and MMX/SSE.

I think SWAR-C nailed the syntax (a vector ?: operator, for example).

(https://aggregate.ece.engr.uky.edu/SWAR/Swarc/Scc.html)
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-04-28 07:18:11+00:00
I am working on a telegram bot deployed on cloudflare which is just a basic app for van drivers to sign up on a fixed location near my area and see which drivers are online and see how many people have sit in a van which the drivers can increment/decrement by just chatting with the telegram bot who want to go to a popular spot where I have to go to quite daily because I am studying at a place which is way far away and its the most economical and sane method to travel..

Yet my problem really arises that its too luck based, sometimes I can be the last guy, Sometimes I can be the first guy so I have to wait for the van to get fully occupied which will take a lot of time...

I have just made it, and I find it pretty nifty, I made it all completely via AI and this one absolutely crazy good youtube video on deploying telegram bots on cloudflare...

Also, I had seen this telegram bot ai maker idea on HN a few days ago, So I had also created a project which you can chat with the microsoft deepseek r1 post training bot for free because the api key of open router for this model is free, It doesn't have incremental streaming or multi chats, really basic, and It can generate me the code but I am not sure how I would deploy that code .. , I used to think its easy but not... ,any resources out there? (Though I want to open source this, but I am not going to be building this ai idea further because I lack time and I have to study)
by tgv | 2025-04-28 07:18:43+00:00
> That is right in the wheelhouse of tracking a user across apps.

The design is old. It probably predates facebook, so it's not been intentional, as your comment might be interpreted. But it certainly seems ripe for abuse. I'm curious if it would actually be used for that, because any app that can access internet already has a better way to share information.
by watwut | 2025-04-28 07:19:14+00:00
It was my long term observation - the buffed guys in movies and video games are for other men to look at and admire. They are in games and movies targeted at men. Movies targeted at women have different male physicality.

Gym is something men do to compete with other men and look good to other men. It has zero to do with what women like.

But when I wrote that in comments, invariably, men felt offended and angry.
by perihelions | 2025-04-28 07:19:22+00:00
Reverse typesetting: reflowing page layouts where you don't have knowledge of the typesetting structure, i.e. a scanned physical book or PDF paper. Naive rules-based heuristics based on the dimensions of bounding boxes and gaps. Point is to reflow things for resizing to eink readers. (Specifically the size that fits in my pocket which I carry around. User #1 is me). Building in Common Lisp and targeting an Emacs mode for interactive execution with manual feedback.
by andersmurphy | 2025-04-28 07:19:29+00:00
Never had to use ping/pong with SSE. The reconnect is reliable. What you probably had happen was your proxy or server return a 4XX or 5XX and that cancels the retry. Don't do that and you'll be fine.

SSE works with normal load balancing the same as regular request/response. It's only stateful if you make your server stateful.