MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hinkley | 2025-04-12 17:35:15+00:00
Like using a push broom to keep the flood at bay.

I didn’t realize that SAP was already 12 years old when The Goal was published. And that was a company whose origin story was a divestiture to IBM from Xerox and some of the projects getting cancelled.

I had it in mind based on commentary added to the anniversary edition of The Goal that the whole field of ERP started in the 80’s but it seems that was more correct to say that’s when it exploded, not where it started.
by crdrost | 2025-04-12 17:35:51+00:00
This is the list they compiled, with a little hash if it was in the DSM-V before this study:

• Persecutory/paranoid #

• Reference #

• Family/relatives

• Grandiose #

• Passivity

• Schneiderian

• Neighbours/friends/associates

• Spied on/watched

• Paranormal

• Sexual

• Poisoning

• Religious

• Control #

• Mindreading

• Special powers/skills

• Infidelty

• Bizarre #

• Perception

• Thought broadcast #

• Somatic #

• Police/secret agent/army

• Religious leader/God/Prophet/Saint

• Thought insertion #

• Jealousy #

• Guilt/sin

• Made affect

• Hypochondriacal

• Fantastic delusional memories

• Thought withdrawal

• Erotomanic heterosexual #

• Possession

• Primary

• Catastrophe/world catastrophe

• Poverty

• Nihilistic/negation

• Spy/surveillance

• Made impulse

The authors’ primary goal appears to not have been to shed light on the diversity of delusional experience, but to indicate some evidence that it is culturally sensitive, so right after this chart, we get into the discussion section and it discusses how in East Asia you can find slightly more delusions of jealousy, in Eastern Europe you can find slightly more delusions of guilt/sin, in their dataset.

Reinterpreting it as this press release does, as a survey of the variety of delusional experience, makes for some interesting food for thought, but a lot of the categories identified kind of are just who are you being paranoid about, and what do you think they are doing. So you might have thought that people are afraid of strangers, this data set points to them being more delusional about family members, or thinking strangers are government spies, it's perhaps surprisingly not a stranger as a stranger that is terrifying? (Compare e.g. with the widespread worry among parents that a stranger might abduct their child.)

The passivity delusion (“I’m not in control of my body, someone else takes over”) and Schneiderian delusion (which I think is “someone is narrating my life in a Stanley Parable-esque way”?) seem like solid omissions on the DSM-V's part, but after that I feel like I am scrolling down to hypochondriacal and “Fantastic delusional memories” (which is presumably something like “I actually went to Narnia when I was a kid, it's a real place”?) before I see things that genuinely strike me as, I didn't realize some folks have those delusions in their schizophrenia or whatever.
by alienthrowaway | 2025-04-12 17:37:04+00:00
> And if he Chatbot is serving the ads when I’m using it for creative writing, reformatting text, having a python function, written, etc, I’m going to be annoyed and switch to a different product.

You may not even notice it when AI does a product placement when it's done opportunistically in creative writing (see Hollywood). There also are plenty of high-intent assistant-type AI tasks.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-04-12 17:40:02+00:00
> Do you think that craftmanship and longevity, in terms of keeping these people on board, go hand-in-hand?

In this case, yes. But that also depends on who you want to retain.

If you want to retain folks that treat their work seriously, and in a craftsmanlike manner, it's important to provide a structure that incubates and rewards that.

We've really reached a point, in tech, where we're in a "death spiral." Companies treat their employees like crap. They may pay them well, but they treat them terribly. This means no loyalty, so the employee feels no issue with leaving as soon as the grass looks greener elsewhere, and the management feels justified in looking at their employees as "disloyal," or even "dangerous." It's a classic negative feedback loop. Money is the only meaningful currency, so people flit around, jacking up their salary, and looking at each company as "just another job."

The people that need to start the change, are CEOs (and shareholders). It's difficult, because "blinking first," seems "wussy," and also, it's pretty much certain that employees would continue to act the way that they do now, for some time, until a new culture gets established. That time, may be enough time to kill the company, as their more rapacious competition eats their lunch.

I was lucky to join an old corporation that had a long-established tradition of retaining top talent. Not sure if you would be able to start a new one, with a similar ethos, these days.
by ethagknight | 2025-04-12 17:40:14+00:00
I flipped through the summary of that report, and I would think there is almost surely no way this is true, unless focusing on worst case assumptions like aggressive driving styles and very poorly maintained vehicles.

Your conclusion that there is not “any healthy level of private cars coexisting” is heavy handed. There is a balance, but I suspect it’s more of a jealousy/equality issue. Heavily taxed and high quality requirements can surely lead to a healthy coexisting. Limiting trips to when they are truly worth the cost is an equation to be solved.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-04-12 17:41:20+00:00
The issue with climate change is that we have invested a lot of time and money farming our crops where they are, not in the sahel. So as places such as farming regions in western India fall further into desertification this leads to food insecurity rather than a shifting of labor around what is most suitable to farm given climate change. Some life will in fact “win” given climate change increasing temperatures and metabolism but this won’t be human life. It will be microbial or insect life that will probably go on to plague us with a greater abundance.
by gs17 | 2025-04-12 17:41:51+00:00
And on top of that, if your clients are Adobe users, you probably will have to be as well or you risk what they send you not opening properly.

Back in the Creative Suite days, my parents (small graphic design studio) upgraded largely because a client upgraded and they needed to be compatible with the newer version of the file format. Creative Cloud "fixed" that, I guess.
by DoctorOW | 2025-04-12 17:41:55+00:00
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/nx-s1-5361208/mahmoud-khalil-...

> "If Mahmoud can be targeted in this way, simply for speaking out for Palestinians and exercising his constitutionally protected right to free speech, this can happen to anyone over any issue the Trump administration dislikes," said Marc Van Der Hout, one of Khalil's attorneys.

He's currently in Louisiana prison it says which means yes, he's subject to forced prison labor.

https://www.laaclu.org/en/press-releases/aclu-report-finds-i...
by y33t | 2025-04-12 17:41:55+00:00
It was in an Economist article sometime around December; unfortunately I canceled my subscription because of their screen-hijacking ads, so I'm not able to find it. Problem was, Ukraine was being chipped away slowly by Russia and Biden wasn't giving them more aid. The thought was that Trump may shake things up a bit so they at least had a chance to improve their situation. Obviously that hope was misplaced, but Biden was too afraid of provoking of Russia to do anything but slow them down. Ukraine knew they were suffering a slow death, so basically any change was reason for hope.
by ranger_danger | 2025-04-12 17:41:57+00:00
> Runs Windows update and reboots without my permission

This might be an unpopular opinion but I'm actually glad they do this by default now (you can turn it off). My understanding is that MS was continually getting blamed for users getting viruses because they would never update their system, so in the best interest of the users they decided to force it.

I know a lot of people will still disagree with me, but I think if you were in their situation and you were getting tired of not only end-users but also world governments blaming you for things your users did (or did not do)... you'd probably want to control that a little more too, for both your sakes.

In the end it will hurt MS's reputation for being a broken mess even if it's 100% the users' fault for not updating, so I absolutely get it. And yes I know there's plenty of other things you can blame them for, I'm not saying this is their only issue.
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by wjnc | 2025-04-12 17:43:01+00:00
This comes close to my hobby science of 20 yrs+! Toilet statistics! What distribution do people follow in choosing doors? Linear (no!), Negative Binomial (I think so, but which parameters? And do the number of stalls matter?), Gaussian? Do cleaners clean all stalls proportionally? Which urinal to choose? Never pick a neighbor? Is there an optimization there? Then the economics part…

Regarding OP. Splash isn’t the only factor in urinals alas. Ease of cleaning and the ability to stop junk. I’ve seen innovative splash less designs in bars. Usually a plastic cup upside down will seriously mess up the flow. People throw paper and gum and cigarettes in them. You need it splash free And robust.
by darknavi | 2025-04-12 17:44:01+00:00
It really is crazy how true the 1000x statement is.

We use QuickJS (the JavaScript runtime he authored) in Minecraft (Bedrock) where even more developers use it to mod Minecraft. It's a huge pyramid of developers!

Checking out Bellard's website is a great high level list of works: https://bellard.org/
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by rvnx | 2025-04-12 17:45:46+00:00
They claim:

> The free tier includes $20 of Claude 3.7 credits!

> Free Claude 3.7 Sonnet access included

This is what really matters, much more than the IDE itself, they are all VS Code forks (and here, just an extension)

Cursor it's somewhat more interesting than others because they have unlimited premium slow requests, and the fact it is free, makes it acceptable that it's not performing well compared to RooCode.

At the end it's very good because the investors of Cursor agrees to pay with their money your usage of Cursor (if you accept a bit of slow down).

But to be fair, RooCode, or any of the forks, it doesn't matter, as long as the investors pay for the credits.

If Claude would do a $200 unlimited RooCode access, then suddenly RooCode would take a large segment of the market I guess.

If this KiloCode wants to differentiate, this is what they could try.
by wenc | 2025-04-12 17:45:50+00:00
I own mechanical watches and had the hardest time switching to an Apple Watch.

But one thing sold me on it. Apple Pay. It’s so convenient to be able to wrist tap things without whipping out my phone. I can pay for things in 1 second. With express transit I can tap to ride subways and buses.

I gave up the status of a mechanical watch wearer for this convenience. And the status is often more limited than we think — I realized no one except other mechanical watches enthusiasts really notice what watch I was wearing. You can wear a Vacheron Constantin and realistically 99% of people you meet will not know what it is and likely will not notice it.
by actuallyalys | 2025-04-12 17:46:02+00:00
This paper [0] suggests improvements in car emissions has played a big role in reducing emissions in European cities as a whole. Vehicle emissions of all kinds have fallen pretty dramatically across Europe [1], although this is total emissions for vehicles, so it includes policies to reduce driving as well as those to reduce each vehicle’s emissions. So overall trends toward more efficient cars are certainly part of the story. Given these images are between 2007, when emissions had already been falling, and 2024, I’m inclined to think the policies highlighted in the article played a significant role as well.

[0]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259016211...

[1]: https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/indicators/emissions-o...
by simonw | 2025-04-12 17:46:25+00:00
LLMs can never provide 100% reliability - there's a random number generator in the mix after all (reflected in the "temperature" setting).

For documentation answering the newer long context models are wildly effective in my experience. You can dump a million tokens (easily a full codebase or two for most projects) into Gemini 2.5 Pro and get great answers to almost anything.

There are some new anonymous preview models with 1m token limits floating around right now which I suspect may be upcoming OpenAI models. https://openrouter.ai/openrouter/optimus-alpha

I actually use LLMs for command line arguments for tools like ffmpeg all the time, I built a plugin for that: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Mar/26/llm-cmd/
by owenversteeg | 2025-04-12 17:47:02+00:00
I’m not seeing anyone discuss this here, so I figured I’d raise an important point: this style of tariffs is crushing for US manufacturing. While a universal tariff with no exceptions incentivizes domestic manufacturing, a selective tariff with specific industry exceptions is absolute poison.

You might think, as the authors of this exemption did, “well then we will exempt computer parts.” Then people will simply import the parts. But if you manufacture those parts in the US, you are suddenly at a massive disadvantage. Your computer parts factory likely runs using a large amount of imported raw materials, imported machines, and imported tooling, and there are no tariff exemptions for those broad categories… so you’re screwed. Oftentimes there is no reasonable domestic substitute. You will go out of business in favor of someone importing the parts, which now happens tariff-free under an exemption. That’s why, generally speaking, tariff exemptions are deadly to domestic manufacturing.
by arcanemachiner | 2025-04-12 17:47:05+00:00
Here's the original article: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect...

> When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don’t know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don’t actually mean anything at all.

> These are the people I call Architecture Astronauts. It’s very hard to get them to write code or design programs, because they won’t stop thinking about Architecture. They’re astronauts because they are above the oxygen level, I don’t know how they’re breathing. They tend to work for really big companies that can afford to have lots of unproductive people with really advanced degrees that don’t contribute to the bottom line.
by krick | 2025-04-12 17:48:11+00:00
That sounds fun, is it computationally expensive? Is it, like, actually processing the stuff even if nobody's watching? I'm not gonna try it on my current NAS, because it's all HDDs and I can hear it in the room, so I mostly use it as "cold" storage, but your post really made me want to try it. Also, now that I'm thinking of it, must be pretty hard for HDDs too, if you don't use some dedicated all-SSD NAS specifically for that...
by const_cast | 2025-04-12 17:48:28+00:00
> no union member can be fired or held accountable in any way, and that led directly to Doge. Corporate unions were so abusive that companies were forced to move overseas, losing American jobs.

This is a complete re-writing of history.

Unions were not "abusive". Typical union negotiations pushed for safe(r) working environments and reasonable wages.

Companies moved overseas not because they were abused (Jesus Christ). They moved because there's lots of parts of the world where you have access to psuedo-slave labor.

I don't want to be a slave. My fellow Americans don't want to be slaves, either.

> Each worker can negotiate easily on their own behalf or simply work elsewhere.

This is delusional.

Let me put this bluntly. If you're not even willingly to acknowledge the obvious asymmetry in leverage during labor negotiations, then your opinion on unions is worthless. You're not an honest party, or maybe you have trouble coming to terms with reality. Unfortunately, that means your opinion is better suited for the loony bin, and not any serious discussions.

As an aside, there are lots of great arguments to make against unions. Do that instead.
by mattl | 2025-04-12 17:49:06+00:00
I’m probably the wrong person to ask as I have a 1998 PowerMac G3 at home running Rhapsody.

But as long as the Intel Macs are getting OS updates + a few years would be my guess.

There are a lot of people with expensive computers that still work great out there not to mention all the Mac Minis out there doing goodness knows what.
by hello_computer | 2025-04-12 17:49:24+00:00
In those WWII days, you could make an acceptable living doing good research. You wouldn't become a billionaire, but you'd definitely make enough to support a family. Somewhere along the line, it became a winner-take-all gold-rush. That attracts the wrong sort of person: a bunch of miner 49ers who think they're Einstein because the system jammed a little bit of calculus into their heads before they grabbed their picks and shovels and headed west.

Here's an old, sad, joke:

What's the difference between a physicist and a large pizza? The pizza can feed a family of four.
by pama | 2025-04-12 17:49:43+00:00
In modern cars, including EV, polution and noise come from weight and tires and breaks; the polution levels are a sharp funxtion of speed, but the speeds at which they dont matter much, dont offer benefits either. If we had magnetic/levitated cars maybe some simple solution could be found, but with the current designs where the tires hit the asphalt it seems hard to make things environmentally friendly in a city other than reducing or banning cars.

I like the idea of people-mover belts. Maybe fast surface belts and escalators could help larger cities if cars were out of the way. Subway systems almost feel like people-mover belts sometimes, but their noise levels are incredibly high and they do damage metalic rails during breaking so not sure how low the contribution to air polution could be.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-04-12 17:50:17+00:00
Since then, many city have enforced the same kind of rule where polluting car are banned from center of town.

2 week ago, deputies were discussing the global ban of 'car free town center' because it doesn't really work and it exclude part of the society...

https://www.lefigaro.fr/automobile/zfe-50-deputes-defendent-...
by klipt | 2025-04-12 17:50:19+00:00
Well most serious work injuries happen to men, but if we had a "Work Safety For Men" act I bet you'd call that sexist. A law that fails to protect male victims of violence is equally sexist.

The double standard is very visible. Maybe you should just admit that the left is blatantly the "party of women's interests" and give up on gaining men's votes.
by hinkley | 2025-04-12 17:50:59+00:00
On paper, Stephen Tobolowsky seems like he shouldn’t be successful enough of an actor to warrant an autobiography. But man do I love Ned “The Head” Ryerson in all his incarnations. What a strange, tall, little man.

That the world does not have a Stanley Tucci, Stephen Tobolowsky buddy comedy trilogy has made it all the poorer. But it’s been a while since someone tried to remake The Odd Couple…
by luckylion | 2025-04-12 17:51:34+00:00
> Reducing this to "orientation of the camera" is such a dismissive take

What's more important: the person behind the camera or the camera? Show me the photos taken without the camera and then look at all the great photos taken by amateurs.

> They require training sets to be anywhere near useful.

And the camera needs assembly and R&D. But when either arrives at your door, it's "ready to go".

> Cameras _do not_ feed on all the previous photographies taken by others.

Cameras do feed on all the research of previous cameras though. The photos don't matter to the Camera. The Camera manufacturers are geniuses, the photographers are users.

It's really not far off from AI, especially when the cameras do so much, and then there's the software-tools afterwards etc etc.

Yeah, yeah, everybody wants to feel special and artsy and all that and looks down on the new people who aren't even real artists. But most people really shouldn't.
by gs17 | 2025-04-12 17:51:47+00:00
> They don't hate good AI images, and when they see great AI images, they don't even realize they are made by AI.

There's a decent size group of people who have a knee-jerk negative response toward AI regardless of quality. They'd see that image, like it, and then when told it's AI, turn on it and decide it was obviously flawed from the beginning. Is there a version of "sour grapes" where the fox did eat the grapes, they were delicious, but he declared they were sour after the fact to claim moral superiority?
by Whoppertime | 2025-04-12 17:52:35+00:00
We can't prosecute the Biden family because they all got pre-emptive pardons. https://youtu.be/4EpUpC9fCSg Did Trump actually withhold foreign aid from Ukraine, or did he threaten to do so? https://youtu.be/UXA--dj2-CY Because if it was threatening to cut funding this is a pot calling the kettle black situation https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/11/us/politics/trump-ukraine... And checking this NYTimes timeline, they say that the funds were released on September 20th. So the funding to Ukraine was not withheld, but delayed. The exact same thing that Joe Biden was doing. Saying in all caps "It's a great time to buy" before the stock market goes up 10% isn't insider trading, it's a politician delivering on his promises immediately.
by nyarlathotep_ | 2025-04-12 17:53:00+00:00
> The fact that so many people look at a job as a money optimization problem says a lot about society.

Yes, to an extent.

Looking at the costs of housing, especially in a market like DC, the motivation isn't "making lots of money" per se, but rather "maybe I can actually make enough to afford the mortgage on an 800k crapshack" and the acknowledgment that gov roles aren't likely to cover that.