MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jychang | 2025-04-10 07:59:43+00:00
> I’m old enough to know that even in the 80s Mr. Rogers was in front of congress asking the government not to cut funding because some conservative congressmen were opposed to some of the content.

Exactly. Congress funding something tends to produce better work than corporate advertising funded stuff. Look at NASA, or national science grants, or Mr Rodgers as a comparison. Subscription funded media and Congress funded media being available, are you seriously saying Marlboro sponsored shows are better as an alternative?

> TV advertising

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1941_in_television

https://www.strategus.com/blog/the-history-of-commercials-an...

"1941: The FCC lifts its ban on TV advertising, and the first commercial airs"

> And those papers still had advertising. The subscriptions never paid the total cost of newspaper publications

No, that was not the case until the advent of the penny press of the 1830s. Before the 1 cent penny press, standard newspapers cost 6 cents per paper and was not mostly funded by advertising, although they had small amounts of advertisements. They would have survived just fine if advertising was banned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_press "The main revenue for the penny press was advertising while other newspapers relied heavily on high-priced subscriptions to finance their activities."

> 1880s

I would consider that roughly "100 years or so" ago, within the correct amount of sigfigs. It's certainly closer to 100 years ago than 200 years ago. And even if you did bring up examples from 150 or 199 years ago- so what? The point is that advertising started its dominance during this century or so, quibbling over a few decades is pointless.

> You mean the same government today that is rewriting history, purging government websites and has a list of words that agencies can’t say? You want that government having more control of private speech?

Yes. Unashamedly.

Your line of thinking is how we got Citizens United. Your line of thinking is imprudently painting all government action under the same brush, where state propaganda is conflated with things like banning money in politics or banning billboards. Hint: banning advertising looks a lot more like an anti-Citizens United good thing, than some 1984 Ministry of Truth.

> Would the current government pay for access to Fox News and The Guardian or just Fox News?

... you can literally just go look for yourself? https://www.nypl.org/blog/2017/09/25/magazines-and-newspaper...

Here's government funded access to paid newspapers. The Guardian is literally already included in here.

> Well seeing that you are factually wrong about history

No, you're the one who's confidently incorrect.
by namaria | 2025-04-10 07:59:52+00:00
Thank you for bringing light to this.

I think it makes a very relevant point to us as well. The value of doing the work yourself is in internalizing and developing one's own cognition. The argument of offloading to the LLM to me sounds link arguing one should bring a forklift to the gym

Yes, it would be much less tiresome and you'd be able to lift orders of magnitude more weights. But is the goal of the gym to more efficiently lift as much weight as possible, or to tire oneself and thus develop muscles?
by 112233 | 2025-04-10 08:00:47+00:00
And where that another LLM will get the capability to judge consistency? Had fun recently prompting different models with "a story about everyday life of <some stereotypical character>".

Absolutely no awareness about anything spatial - what is in which place, who is where, body positions.

Like, my favorite, person coming home and removing socks to reveal fluffy slippers. Will the consistency checker catch that.

(edit) just asked GPT-4o to make a photo of hands tying two ropes (my favorite way to see how bad actually gen-ai is) - yup, it has an odd number of ropes coming out of the knot. That is state of art supposedly.
by magicalhippo | 2025-04-10 08:01:03+00:00
As someone who doesn't use ClickHouse or similar, it was interesting to see how the solutions were so similar to what we do in our traditional RDBMS.

One thing that we do use to good effect which I didn't see mentioned is computed columns, or materialized columns as I see they're called in ClickHouse, for optimized indexing. Though I guess that's already a staple.

Anyway, seems like a nice and thorough article.
by padolsey | 2025-04-10 08:01:05+00:00
When recently visiting, what shocked me most about the CBP–which I presume is of a softer ilk than ICE–was the sense of entitlement and strength they projected, a kind of "prove to me your worth at the gates of our great nation" vibe. America's jingoistic self-obsession is diminishing its soft power. It's now naked and vulnerable, weaker now for having obsessed over its strength for so long. Once-allies now see this. In not too long perhaps America will get everything it desires and more: it will be isolated, undesirable and unreliable as a place of work and avenue to freedom or liberation from ostensibly less developed nations.
by SweetSoftPillow | 2025-04-10 08:02:02+00:00
What exactly surprises you? You should try Gemini 2.5 Pro in Google AI Studio. Set the temperature to around 0.3, and in the system prompt, tell it to only edit exactly what you ask for and nothing else.

This model works really well. For example, simple things like [1], [2], and [3] can apparently be generated with just a couple of prompts.

[1] https://koreanrandom.com/en/games/through-the-space/

[2] https://koreanrandom.com/en/games/tanchiki/

[3] https://koreanrandom.com/en/games/sharik/

According to the author, these were made with Gemini 2.5 Pro without any manual coding by a human.

Cursor isn't as powerful as Gemini in AI Studio because AI Studio gives you full control over the model's settings and how it processes code.

Plus, the massive 1 million token context window is incredibly helpful for working with large codebases. You can use tools like code2prompt and repomix to feed all the necessary context into AI Studio from the clipboard for those projects.
by gedy | 2025-04-10 08:02:09+00:00
Not to nitpick terminology, but I don't think it's helpful to equate "design system" with component library. A design system is the design tokens used to describe an organization's application(s), and largely independent of the exact technologies.

I worked with our UX team at a mixed tech company (Rails, React, mobile) who defined the patterns and tokens, and then my team implemented so that we could use across our stack.

Largely this was accomplished via ensuring the design system could be used via CSS and we settled on Bootstrap with custom theme. This made it easy enough to use across Rails views/view components and React components.

Bootstrap is not sexy to devs now but you could do same with Tailwind and Daisy UI with custom theme.

With that said, component libraries are really helpful, but I prefer to align them with the design system and not the other way around.
by jjav | 2025-04-10 08:03:37+00:00
> Let's compare UK and USA electricity prices.

The USA is a huge place with prices all over the map.

Here are PG&E electricity prices in California from my recent bill:

peak: 53.0 + 18.3 = 71.3 c/kWh

partpeak: 51.3 + 11.1 = 62.4 c/kWh

offpeak: 34.4 + 09.8 = 44.2 c/kWh
by avalys | 2025-04-10 08:04:31+00:00
All I see in this story are a bunch of things that were under discussion at some point, but never happened.

But then, “Meta considered doing business in China, evaluated and negotiated with the Chinese government what would be required to do so, and then did not proceed” isn’t a story that is going to sell a lot of books or get her a lot of attention.

Another tell that this is a stunt for attention and not a genuine issue is her trying to blame China’s progress in AI on Meta’s release of an open-source model.
by nodoodles | 2025-04-10 08:05:18+00:00
On 2/ there is a safety point in having the grounding pin on all plugs, and it being longer than the live/neutral: in the socket side, the grounding pin opens up latches that block live/neutral, so kids can’t stick things into them..

I generally would agree it is the best plug standard for safety, but clunky and painful to step on..
by kubb | 2025-04-10 08:05:31+00:00
The immigration problems in America seem very much self-inflicted.

There's a lot that could be done to make it virtually impossible to live in the US illegally long term, but it's just not being done.

The freak out about illegal immigrants is chronic though. It's weird, did you ever hear about any other place pulling their hair out that much over this issue?
by hemantprat | 2025-04-10 08:05:40+00:00
Normal habit tracker -> Simple TODO list -> Analytics -> Data loss when using another device -> No Cloud Sync for flexibilty -> (Sometimes) No on time remainders -> Limited Habit Customizations -> Limited Habits (max 5 or 3)

Habithook -> Habit Customizations -> Deep Insights habit by habit -> Cloud Sync. Will be launching in multiple platforms for more better accessibility kind an ecosystem. -> Leaderboards of Productivities. (Inspired by Duolingo) -> Public Challenges (Anyone can join) -> Private Challenges (Anyone can create and share with friends) -> Every Challenge will have realtime leaderboards for friends or communities. -> Seperate Supportive Discord Community to find accountability partner to ask them to join their private challenges.

This is scalable if provided with great ecosystem.

Overall providing the best possible platform for professionals, students, ADHD and everyone. Minimalist as well, not like a kids game.

What are your thoughts ??
by immibis | 2025-04-10 08:06:29+00:00
Serious question: what's with the wave of utterly stupid comments on HN?

Is it yuppie college grads working in silicon valley startups who have always had a thick abstraction layer between them and the system that gives them their paycheck? Is it trolls? Is it lifelong diehard contrarians (the same thing as trolls really)? Is it something else?
by oerdier | 2025-04-10 08:06:56+00:00
Not being able to solve basic math problems in your mind (without a calculator) is still a problem. "Because you won't always have a calculator with you" just was the wrong argument.

You'll acquire advanced knowledge and skills much, much faster (and sometimes only) if you have the base knowledge and skills readily available in your mind. If you're learning about linear algebra but you have to type in every simple multiplication of numbers into a calculator...
by blitzar | 2025-04-10 08:07:24+00:00
You have got me, I was making shit up on the fly.

Iceberg lettuce is a cultivar known for its longer shelf life and higher water content. Romaine lettuce is another lettuce cultivar famous for its crunchy texture and higher vitamin content.

I am switching to Romaine for the vitamins now I know (have read a single headline on the internet) better.
by smcl | 2025-04-10 08:07:40+00:00
We don't have a network quite like the Shinkansen or the Chinese one, but you've linked an enormous article with dozens of high-speed lines and suggested that it's "very uncommon" for speeds beyond 240km/h (which seems pretty arbitrary speed). That's pretty misleading IMO, and anyone who would scan through it or who took a glance at https://openrailwaymap.org with the "Max Speeds" style will see a lot of the major metros in the biggest countries are connected with high-speed rail.

Rail is undoubtedly vital for the future and we should always be pushing for more, but I think it's ok to step back and appreciate that high-speed rail (and rail in general) in the EU is so much further ahead than the USA, even if it does still lag behind Japan and China.
by gokulnair2001 | 2025-04-10 08:09:07+00:00
If you are curious to know about pledge, then check the below links

1. Introduction: https://pledge.framer.website/home/introduction

2. Performance Test: https://pledge.framer.website/home/performance

3. Docs: https://pledge-gokulnairs-projects.vercel.app/documentation/...

4. Mission: https://pledge.framer.website/home/mission
by dgoldstein0 | 2025-04-10 08:09:13+00:00
It's going to vary business to business, but if you have to spend money now to make money later, there's always going to be some preference to make sure that if the % return later is too small the money gets reallocated to something that can offer better returns.

Whereas a business that can figure out how to be paid significantly before it delivers can run on much slimmer margins.
by louthy | 2025-04-10 08:09:22+00:00
Don’t be so black-and-white about no-pay, no-work. It’s entirely situational and you need to assess how this could work for you. There could be upsides to hanging in there.

My anecdote: During my second job in the games industry, in London, back in the late 90s — I was working for a dev-house that had just finished its first game (I joined halfway through the project).

The lead engine programmer got an offer to work in San Francisco and left the company and I took over his role as I was the only person in the company that could develop a 3D graphics engine (and had done so at my previous job).

They were desperately trying to get two games titles funded, but were having no luck, because it was in the awkward period between the PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 where the publishers were not committing.

Eventually they just ran out of money. I was asked to work for nothing whilst they tried to land a deal. Which I did. If I’d have left them there was no way they would’ve got a deal, because they wouldn’t have anybody with experience capable of developing the 3D engine. Selling the team is an important part of the deal.

It still failed, the business went under, and we all went our separate ways. The CEO (and founder) who had asked me to stay and work gratis went on to run a major studio. I went contracting for a while.

Then dotcom happened. My contracts dried up. I needed a job.

I called up my former boss and said “have you got any jobs?”.

His reply: “you start Monday”.

I traded away some of my cash, yes. But I gained loyalty and an ally in the industry. Obviously, most situations where someone isn’t paying you isn’t like this, just don’t fall into the “no pay, no work” dogmatic position by default.
by torginus | 2025-04-10 08:09:41+00:00
Parser combinators define a recursive parsing implementation, as well as declaration syntax. While it's very flexible in terms of what it can parse, it has no fixed guarantees on making progress on the token stream or having a bounded lookahead size before they can parse anything.

A hand written LL(1) parser, (for a suitable grammar) is much more efficient than a parser combinator, afaik most production languages use a hand-written parser, with parser combinators not really being used in high-effort implementations.

I have no extensive experience in surveying parser generators (only using them, and they seemed to be fast enough), I'd guess it's up to the implementation on how efficient parsing code is, with my ballpark assumption being that it's worse than handwritten code.
by anthk | 2025-04-10 08:09:53+00:00
I am not an LLM. I am talking about Inform6, an OOP language born in the 90's where they created games far more powerful than the Infocom ones. If6 maps pretty well to MDL. Both compile to ZMachine games, but if6 it's far easier.

On games, have a look on Anchorhead, Spider and Web, Curses, Jigsaw... in these kind of games OOP has tons of sense.

https://www.ifwiki.org/Inform_6

Get the Inform Beggnner's Guide and you'll see an approach far easier than MDL and ZIL.
by phtrivier | 2025-04-10 08:10:21+00:00
Don't despair:

- many parts of most EU countries still don't have access to high speed trains, and they complain too (with that said, some of them are French, so _of course_ they would complain)

- the parts that are on the way to have high speed train are complaining because of the infrastructure work involved (everybody wants the train station ; no one wants the trails)

- that parts that have high speed train will complain about delays, strikes, the lack of electrical plugs, the WiFi quality, etc...

- at least in France, it's still very often cheaper to flight than ride a high speed train (which does not make any sense to most people.)
by riffraff | 2025-04-10 08:11:38+00:00
sure, that's why I mentioned "<600km", which is a distance covering many connections in Europe. E.g. Paris-Milan, Amsterdam-Berlin, Budapest-Vienna, London-Brussels, Geneve-Genoa etc

These would be

* many hours by car

* <3 hours by fast train

* <1 hour in flight by plane

The flight time is offset by security controls and getting to/from the airport, so a fast train is a good alternative (not perfect, just good).
by ggm | 2025-04-10 08:12:12+00:00
S/need/absent legal process we'd, that is some of us, would like/

It's a debate, right? I get the current ruling party believes it has a mandate, but could you at least acknowledge a plurality of views on this?

I argue there is no need. Its fictive, performative. These are productive people.

Even the drug gangs are simply doing what citizens also do.
by trchek | 2025-04-10 08:12:18+00:00
I understand everyone has different experiences and I have the advantage of having personal experience to the contrary so I don’t judge this opinion, I knew people where I grew up that believed this to be fact.

To better inform everyone their are plenty of French laws and announcements that are translated to English ( I moved there right before Covid and had to rely on said services at first ).

https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/R2771?l...

And they provide state news services in various languages including English

https://www.france24.com/en/ https://www.rfi.fr/en/

More complicated for your argument is there are parts of the USA that have had Spanish as the primary language since they joined the USA. San Antonio, Texas for example I don’t believe has ever been majority anglophone and it doesn’t become more anglophone the further south you go. My wife’s family has been in Texas since it was Spain, and they only in very recent generations switched to English primarily.

I’m not sure if you find any of this convincing, but I hope at least realize it is a bit more complicated than you may have realized.
by wtallis | 2025-04-10 08:12:46+00:00
This is pretty interesting. I've seen a similar technique for handling a single time series when the number of data points far exceeds the number of pixels, doing a two-dimensional histogram rather than connecting subsequent dots with line segments. I hadn't thought about how to do that for the case of having an extremely large number of time series overlaid on each other. This approach seems to produce results similar to what you'd see on an oscilloscope or an eye diagram.
by subsection1h | 2025-04-10 08:13:19+00:00
> if I go to France, I don't expect government announcements to be provided in English for me.

How many French cities have English names?

Thousands of American cities have Spanish names because they were founded by Spanish explorers. 20% of U.S. states have Spanish names.[1] I'm not arguing that this is reason enough for government announcements to be in English, but I think that comparing the use of Spanish in the U.S. to the use of English in France is invalid.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_place_names_of_Spanish...
by inglor_cz | 2025-04-10 08:14:06+00:00
Not an Austrian, but your talking about "excuses for such slow ass trains" seems to be missing the fact that the Austrians are building two large rail tunnels:

The Semmering base tunnel - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semmering_Base_Tunnel which will shorten travel between Vienna and Graz, and the Koralmbahn tunnel - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koralm_Tunnel

Also, no Alps between Vienna and Graz? Have you looked out of the window? If you haven't, here is the map. The heights of the peaks are in meters, so 3x for feet:

https://mapy.cz/s/bokococuza

That is a bona fide mountainous terrain.
by magicloop | 2025-04-10 08:14:41+00:00
My listening to such billionaires explains a different attitude.

Small investors, and medium investors hate market turbulence for sure. But when you are a billionaire, you can easily profit from short term uncertainty. For example, Chamath recently disclosed a (potentially large) Credit Default Swap position (meaning he makes huge upside if USA debt position deteriorates). But he was the same person deeply concerned about USA long term debt. He is a well connected person to the executive branch.

The reason is that if you are a billionaire (tied to the USA financial system) then you can't escape the system when the entire system falls due to (God forbid) a collapse of the USA financial system in 10 years time. It is like they are the dinosaurs worried about a Meteor strike, but not worried about tigers and snakes (that can't hurt them).
by albertgoeswoof | 2025-04-10 08:15:55+00:00
> we’re interested in seeing how AI decides to recommend products, especially now that they are actively searching the web.

So how does it work then? My naive assumption would be that it’s largely a hybrid LLM + crawled index, so still based on existing search engines that prioritise based on backlinks and a bunch of other content-based signals.

If LLMs replace search, how do marketers rank higher? More of the same? Will LLMs prioritise content generated by other LLMs or will they prefer human generated content? Who is defining the signals if not google anymore?

Vast swathes of the internet are indirectly controlled by google as people are willing to write and do anything to rank higher. What will happen to that content? Who will pull the strings?
by pootsbook | 2025-04-10 08:16:03+00:00
I came across CSS Zero recently:

https://csszero.lazaronixon.com/lookbook/pages/overview

which bills itself as an "opinionated front-end starter kit" specifically for Rails and includes Stimulus.js code for JavaScript functionality.

It seems the benefits are that it is no build (pure CSS with CSS variables) and easy to modify and extend.
by pishpash | 2025-04-10 08:16:23+00:00
Yes and no. The MAGA revolution is internally carried by the lower class not associated with and uninterested in geopolitics. In fact they believe in exceptionalism and don't understand why they feel exploited and don't know who is doing it. However it would not be possible politically if not tolerated by the upper class who is smelling decline (of their wealth), because competition has moved into their part of the value chain, so they do two things. One, they now support protectionism to shield from competition. Two, they wish to exploit the lower class harder, so they point them outwards to avoid a physical revolution or an amicable redistribution.

If you want to explain MAGA you have to understand it's a convenient alignment of the upper class and the lower class for different reasons.
by JPLeRouzic | 2025-04-10 08:16:56+00:00
Thanks for the insight, but how it is different from today?

- Countries now thought it IS okay to invade other countries just to make themselves bigger/stronger countries: There are currently many examples in the news.

- Nationalism, racism, sexism are the norm: Nationalism is obviously on the rise. Racism never disappeared, even being tattooed is seen as an excuse to deport people.

https://azmirror.com/2025/04/08/ice-director-envisions-amazo...

- Women and men are much more sexualized today than in my youth, despite the talk of feminism and #metoo.

- Most people can't read/write (see Piza results). Only 10% of people can understand a simple statistics.

- Information is scant (see social networks and disinformation)

For context, about my post, I am from France, and what I wrote is not specific to any country but seems to me to apply to all.