MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by asadm | 2025-04-16 23:20:00+00:00
I am at my 5th project in this workflow and these are of different types too:

- an embedded project for esp32 (100k tokens)

- visual inertial odometry algorithm (200k+ tokens)

- a web app (60k tokens)

- the tool itself mentioned above (~30k tokens)

it has worked well enough for me. Other methods have not.
by neilv | 2025-04-16 23:20:08+00:00
A little bit funny, these two adjacent paragraphs:

> Anyone who gets in the Waymo and sees the note “can feel this emotion of surprise, joy or inspiration” at seeing someone putting themself out there in an unorthodox way, [dating coach Joyce] Zhang said, potentially prompting riders to ask themselves: “What can I do to put myself out there in the world?”

> The 26-year-old single man did not respond to a reporter’s text and voicemail seeking comment.

Being hounded by a Washington Post reporter wasn't the world out into which he lightheartedly intended to put himself.
by xyzzy123 | 2025-04-16 23:20:20+00:00
> including attackers that mislead CAs into misissuing a cert.

I thought we had CT for this.

> CAs used to be able to use WHOIS for DCV. The fact that this option was taken away from everyone is good.

Fair.

> It's the same with this change, and you have plenty of time to prepare for it.

Not so sure on this one, I think it's basically a result of a security "purity spiral". Yes, it will achieve better certificate hygiene, but it will also create a lot of security busywork that could be better spent in other parts of the ecosystem that have much worse problems. The decision to make something opt-in mandatory forcibly allocates other people's labour.
by knuckleheadsmif | 2025-04-16 23:20:21+00:00
We used these for my first CS class at UCSB in 1979 running the UCSD P-System and they were great machines. It was frankly a much better system than the shared university IBM mainframe clone based computers used for other first year courses which used PL/1. Playing Space Invaders was one of the more popular activities on the Terak.

The compiler/run/debug & repeat cycle was light years ahead of how we developed on the mainframe. On the mainframe, using PL/1, you had a global onerror handler that would dump all variables and do a core dump of your program failed/crashed. The output was on from a line printer that you usually got a few hours after you submitted your job. On average you got 1 maybe 2 job runs a day. At least we didn’t have to use punch cards like the electrical engineers did for their Fortran programs; we used “glass TTYs” where we could save our virtual cards to a file system and later modify. Oh, and you needed to have the magic JCL cards at the beginning or your job. Those were the days.

Later that year the CS dept got their own VAX and from then on most coursework was done on that system using BSD Unix. The EE’s still had to use punch cards on the mainframe.

We did have a few other systems for some courses but the majority of stuff ended up being C or Pascal on Unix (with the occasional language like lisp or prolog for some classes.)
by xyst | 2025-04-16 23:20:34+00:00
I can see it now:

* Waymo as you go - no ads, up front cost of $50 per ride to unlock then 0.50/mi mileage fee after 5 miles (get em hooked)

* Waymo Standard Plan w/ Ads, 3 rides per month included then adhoc charge per ride (unlimited miles). May pick up other “standard” passengers en route to final destination

* Waymo Plus w/ fewer ads, 10 rides per month. Priority seating/delivery

* Waymo Luxx (no ads, more coverage , free rides all month, high priority)

* Waymo God - same as lux but now you have access to api data of the vehicles, riders, audio data, video data, and historical routes. Great for your local LEOs or federal bois.
by Terr_ | 2025-04-16 23:20:36+00:00
*head on desk* Ah yes, "just" 49 days ago, a simpler time, 17 days before Trump began illegally kidnapping people without charges or trial, and throwing them into a concentration camp for the rest of their lives.

Even with the scar-tissue from his first-term grifting of taxpayer funds, this is exhausting.
by i_like_cake | 2025-04-16 23:21:08+00:00
In Ireland my college cost €3000 per year and most got it for free through government grants.

I lived with my parents and went to the local college because I didn’t have big ambitions.

The course gave everyone work placement with most people keeping the job after the course, starting at €28,000 - €35,000 salary on average.

My following job 4 years later paid €70,000 and then 2 years later €80,000.

At age 28 I am €35,000 above the median Salary of the country which is around €44,000.

The ROI has been massive on that €12,000 spent on college.

edit: I additionally have many friends who came from family’s where their parents / siblings were not working and sitting on welfare. through free college via grants, these friends became the first in their families to get degrees and subsequently are earning well over €60,000+ on average. I would also like to highlight that some of these people even only got a very low passing grade and weren’t prodigies by any means of the word.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-04-16 23:21:13+00:00
Grinds my gears to see every discussion of college ROI look at tuition and majors, but always the "Average" or "typical" student, NEVER segmented by, e.g. socioeconomic background.

If you can afford college, it is absolutely worth it to go to college. For a variety of reasons, ROI not top of the list.

If it may be hard for you to afford college, then it's a better question to ask.
by mtlynch | 2025-04-16 23:22:39+00:00
>Well, the first problem I had, in order to do something like that, was to find an archive with Hacker News comments. Luckily there was one with apparently everything posted on HN from the start to 2023, for a huge 10GB of total data.

This is actually super easy. The data is available in BigQuery.[0] It's up to date, too. I tried the following query, and the latest comment was from yesterday.

SELECT id, text, `by` AS username, FORMAT_TIMESTAMP('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ', TIMESTAMP_SECONDS(time)) AS timestamp FROM `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full` WHERE type = 'comment' AND EXTRACT(YEAR FROM TIMESTAMP_SECONDS(time)) = 2025 ORDER BY time DESC LIMIT 100

https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?ws=!1m5!1m4!4m3!1s...
by throwanem | 2025-04-16 23:23:58+00:00
Self-replying to note with the T-Rex 3 at least, the HR sensor is extremely sensitive to pressure, in that it easily reads 10bpm high if the watch is tight enough not to slip easily on the wrist. I like a watch this size and weight a little loose so that's OK, but the Band 7 seems to read most accurately when it's tighter. Either way, I doubt I'd rely on these for more than general trend and variation, a finger clip pulse ox is probably a lot more reliable.
by xp84 | 2025-04-16 23:24:31+00:00
Knowledge and skills have great value! Yes, we should all pursue them with enthusiasm, even for their own sake!

But I'd argue that colleges are purporting to sell 'knowledge and skills' -- at a markup somewhere between hilarious and absurd. Knowledge and skills are absolutely free for the taking now. Academia has zero claim to them.

There are more insightful lectures on YouTube in ANY subject area than you'll hear in 99% of college classrooms. Libraries full of books anyone can read on any subject. And for someone who wants those ideas organized into a course of study, you can just download a syllabus for a college class, even buy all the textbooks, and pay a couple thousand a year, compared to the $20,000+ the average college tries to charge. For a customized and up-to-date syllabus, ask an AI to update an old one with the latest concepts and discoveries.

So why should they charge us so much? The answer is that they are not actually selling knowledge or skills. They're just gatekeeping access to be elite, and they can't make it truly affordable because then it would lose even more of its original value. Even now, just "a college degree" barely even grants any elite status, only the Ivys and certain respected schools in niches (e.g. UCLA for film school) confer any status. For everyone else, it may get your foot in a door somewhere, serving basically just as a vague proof that you have enough perseverance to complete one annoying, long-term slog, but that door is not a door that guarantees you any prosperity anyway.
by cduzz | 2025-04-16 23:24:36+00:00
The first Wizardry[1] was built on the P system.

My dad spent a small fortune buying an IBM PC with 544k of memory and an external Davong hard drive that emulated an enormous floppy drive. He also put UCSD P system on this beast, along with a tecmar graphics master...

I used the p system's editor to write school papers for a long time. It was some weird modal editor; he switched to Dos and turbo pascal after a while...

I got to use this computer for games when he wasn't using it and found that the _wizardry_ save game disks were formatted in UCSD P system format and I could even noodle around with the save games (mostly resulting in the game crashing).

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizardry:_Proving_Grounds_of_t...
by TuringNYC | 2025-04-16 23:24:39+00:00
>> Is there no non-monetary value in the knowledge and skills? If it doesn't make us money it's not worth it?

Not saying college isnt worth it, but knowledge and skills can be much more easily obtained via MOOCs, digital learning platforms, reading, etc. I know not everyone has the focus to do so, but that is usually because they do not look at the sheer cost of the alternative. A good way to frame the decision is -- "if you cannot learn some of this via MOOCs/Udemy/Udacity/Coursera, are you willing to pay $80k for someone to help you focus on doing it?"

Separate from this is experience, relationships, teamworks, practicals/labs, etc which I think college is much better at than MOOCs/Udemy/Udacity/Coursera.

I honestly wish I could have done a year or two of MOOCs/Udemy/Udacity/Coursera inbetween college so I could focus even more on experience, relationships, teamworks, practicals/labs when actually in college.
by Alupis | 2025-04-16 23:24:43+00:00
There is truth to what you say - but it's not absolute.

So very many students I knew when at University were surviving entirely off loans/debt, instead of having a job. That's one of the easiest ways for people to rack up 5-6 figures of "student" debt... even though a non-trivial amount was spent on Chipotle and Blaze Pizza... along with expensive apartments or dorms (all expenses the individual would incur regardless if they were a student or not).

Many people believe University (and therefore a degree) is an automatic door to a high paying job - yet fail to realize what your field of study is matters a lot. We almost shouldn't even offer student loans for anything outside of STEM, but even within STEM your job prospects are largely up to the individual.

University largely doesn't teach you how to do a job... it teaches you how to think. You spend a lot of time in your field of study thinking deeply about issues, ideas, past works, etc. None of which prepares you for your first day in the office.

University (and the college experience in general) is meaningful and powerful. I recommend it - but not with debt. Get a full-time job, and work your way through your degree program. It will take much longer to get your degree, but you will be a much more complete adult at the end, filled with equal parts life-experience and domain knowledge.
by jwrallie | 2025-04-16 23:25:52+00:00
> Does it work on Windows? > Not directly. It requires Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) – Codex has been tested on macOS and Linux with Node ≥ 22.

I've been seeing similar things in different projects lately. WSL in long term seems to be reducing the scope of what people decide to develop natively on Windows.

Seeing the pressure to move "apps" to the Windows Store, VSCode connecting to remote (or WSL) for development, and Azure, it does seem intentional.
by TuringNYC | 2025-04-16 23:28:17+00:00
>> Including software development, probably, for Gen Alpha, since nobody wants to hire juniors anymore, for rational reasons.

This point is the best so far -- from my standpoint in technology, the market for entry-level has almost completely disappeared. When speaking with my kids, I dont know how I could propose over-leveraging for college any longer in any field where there isnt forced scarcity or licenses or some other protection mechanism for entry-level workers looking to go up the ladder.
by cleanboy | 2025-04-16 23:28:17+00:00
Currently I'm mostly trying to avoid overstimulation from infinite content feeds.

Have been using an extension called socialfocus to remove some addictive hooks from social media sites (e.g. removed reels, Reddit subreddit feeds, YouTube explore page and thumbnails). It's been really effective because it doesn't feel like a "block", but rather just a way to make the sites a little less sticky. Even something as small as removing posts and comment counts on HN has made a difference because I need to consider each post on its merits instead of using engagement levels as an indicator for what is worth reading.

Another thing I'm experimenting with right now is blocking scroll. I've generated a small tampermonkey script that prevents scroll and instead adds buttons to scroll up/down the page. I'm hoping that introducing some friction here removes some addictive aspects of content consumption (mostly rapid scrolling to the next interesting piece of content).
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-16 23:28:41+00:00
> the people who buy these are going to be rich oligarchs, they won’t be held to the same standard as the PhD students that are being deported by the dozens

Anyone telling themselves they’ve safe from the maws of autocracy isn’t familiar with the history of lawless systems. It’s only a matter of time and complacency before summary deportation turns into proscription [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proscription
by markus_zhang | 2025-04-16 23:28:44+00:00
100% this. Many non experimental topics can be self taught with the help of paid tutors -- I'm sure university tutors are happy to give you tutorials if you pay them cash.

Plus all colleges have very stringent prerequisites rules and tons of BS classes one has to take. Some colleges have independent studies, which are much better, but you still have to go through the prerequisites gate and other annoyances, plus it's still expensive.
by analog31 | 2025-04-16 23:29:33+00:00
I don't think it's a hack at all. It's how higher education should work. My dental hygienist was sending her daughter to college that way, and was just delighted with the deal that they were getting.

While our present system is what it is, and educates a lot of people, the same can be said for our health care system. But both are these opaque public-private enterprises that cost twice or more as in other civilized countries, for no reason that anybody can discern.

I've long believed that our best bet towards reforming higher education is to support and strengthen the public institutions that are doing a lot of good for a lot of people.
by ropable | 2025-04-16 23:29:35+00:00
Hard disagree. Finding anything of quality on 4chan is like searching for gold nuggets by hand in a mountain of radioactive poop. The only times I've ever seen anything useful in there is when someone else has already done the hard work of curating a post.

The core reason why HN is superior (IMO) is the curation and the moderation.
by jtagliabuetooso | 2025-04-16 23:30:06+00:00
You technically just need storage (files in a bucket you own and control forever).

We bring you the compute as ephemeral functions, vertically integrated with your S3: table management, containerization, read / write optimizations, permissions etc. is all done by the platform, plus obvious (at least to us ;-)) stuff like preventing you to run a DAG that is syntactically incorrect etc.

Since we manage your code (compute) and data (lake state through git for data), we can also provide full auditing with one liners: e.g. "which specific run change this specific table on this data branch? -> bauplan commit ..."
by xp84 | 2025-04-16 23:30:36+00:00
As someone who did just that (and to be fair, I was the beneficiary of an inheritance that paid my $40k off immediately after graduation) I can agree with you, but also it seems silly to have to pay all the tuition and do all the stupid graduation requirements when the main benefits are networking with cool fellow young people, and lack of responsibility. I learned so much more last year from YouTube videos than I did in 4 years of college 20 years ago.

I guess what I'm saying is, if they had a 'college' which only had dorms, cafes, interest clubs, and various paths of casual, part-time study which gave no grades and automatically conferred a 'participation certificate' after 4 years, and cost half as much, I'd tell my kids to go there.
by Dwedit | 2025-04-16 23:30:47+00:00
Star Fox was made mainly by Argonaut Software, including the development of the Super FX chip. Only the scenario and characters were from Nintendo.

Donkey Kong Country was all Rare, except for use of the Donkey Kong character. If you look carefully at the DK sprite, you can even see design elements from Battletoads in there.
by ac29 | 2025-04-16 23:31:19+00:00
> Is there a reputable, non-blogspam site that offers a 'cheat sheet' of sorts for what models to use, in particular for development?

Below is a spreadsheet I bookmarked from a previous HN discussion. Its information dense but you can just look at the composite scores to get a quick idea how things compare.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1foc98Jtbi0-GUsNy...
by HenryBemis | 2025-04-16 23:32:23+00:00
I shut down (other) screens (e.g. when I need to laser-focus to write something). I keep the working laptop on. Then I meditate for 3-5mins (to calm the mind). Then I do 10-20 push-ups (to get the blood flowing). Then I drink half a glass of water (when in doubt, always hydrate!!). Then I start typing and I don't stop until I hit page 3 or 4 (pure text - minimal formatting)(beautification/graphs/images/etc. I add them in 'the end' so I don't disrupt 'the flow').
by Sylamore | 2025-04-16 23:32:58+00:00
When I worked for a certain large telco, we used to get emails from our "CEO of {State Name}" asking us to support their lobbying efforts to shut down community ISP initiatives by donating to their PAC and contacting our legislators trying to make it look like there was grassroots support. These state level CEOs were strictly lobbyists.

Considering the company I worked for didn't even serve the community I lived in but multiple startups wanted to provide us fiber service but ran into all the road blocks my telco and others pushed, I was less than thrilled knowing the company i worked for was actively trying to block providing better internet to older neighborhoods.
by jonahx | 2025-04-16 23:34:16+00:00
Thanks for the reply. I am not sure the vision is the failing point here, but logic. I routinely try to get these models to solve difficult puzzles or coding challenges (the kind that a good undergrad math major could probably solve, but that most would struggle with). They fail almost always. Even with help.

For example, JaneStreet monthly puzzles. Surprisingly, the new o3 was able to solve this months (previous models were not), which was an easier one. Believe me, I am not trying to minimize the overall achievement -- what it can do incredible -- but I don't believe the phrase AGI should even be mentioned until we are seeing solutions to problems that most professional mathematicians would struggle with, including solutions to unsolved problems.

That might not be enough even, but that should be the minimum bar for even having the conversation.
by marginalia_nu | 2025-04-16 23:34:31+00:00
I had a similar result. 85%+ similar to a bunch of random accounts, and my perhaps most distinguishing feature is I don't use the word 'app' or 'company' a lot. The former because I dislike the word, and the latter maybe because I'm self-employed.

I figured it maybe would cluster me with other non-native speakers but it doesn't appear to. Of all the accounts where I could identify a country of origin, all were American.
by shykes | 2025-04-16 23:35:16+00:00
Thank you, I appreciate that!

I actually agonized over whether to include this particular one-liner, because of the risk of perceived self-promotion. In the end I decided to include it, because I actually used it, and I found it actually useful for anyone who wants to try Kernel with a one-liner. I made sure to not include a link to my project, to keep my karma in balance :)

I've been a fan of unikernels for a long time (we acquired the original Unikernel company at Docker), and I have to say applying it to browsers is genius. Now I'm surprised the unikernel community hasn't focused on this application sooner.
by shagie | 2025-04-16 23:35:16+00:00
My {conspiracy | belief | suspicion} is that this was something that as part of the DoD they saw "Mitre Corporation" and that organization's relationship with MIT and were pulling funding for anything "elite liberal academia" (even distantly related) combined with the "we're pulling back from anything cybersecurity" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43228029 ). (edit) I've run out of invocations of Hanlon's Razor and it needs a long rest before its recharged. (/edit)

I don't believe it was a mistake - they wanted to pull its funding (and still intend to do). Note the wording of the statement:

> Last night, CISA executed the option period on the contract to ensure there will be no lapse in critical CVE services.

We are now in the option period.

At some point in the future, that option period will expire.
by p_ing | 2025-04-16 23:35:33+00:00
Purchasing US Citizenship is at least ~30 years old, the price just keeps going up. Canada has a similar system of citizenship in trade for investment or job creation.

https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent...

https://citizenshiplawyer.ca/canada-citizenship-by-investmen...

You could go invest in LTT and have a brand spankin' get the hell out of the US card.

Other countries offer various schemes to purchase citizenship.