MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bentt | 2025-04-17 16:31:41+00:00
my best friend’s parents bought this and kept it in their bedroom for some reason. They allowed us to play with it, but it had no storage they didn’t buy anything to go with it.

So we would just type programs in from magazines and the worst part about it was that sometimes we wouldn’t finish and then his parents would shut the computer off at night and we’d have to start over.
by calvinmorrison | 2025-04-17 16:31:49+00:00
I run into this all the time with chatgpt, we hit a roadblock on A, go down path B, we solve B which solves A, now it cant rewind to keep solving A so i have to start over.

OR it keeps telling me one thing or another

"X didnt work, heres the output"

OK try "X"

ok buddy.
by huntaub | 2025-04-17 16:32:04+00:00
It's a very different architecture. 3FS is storing everything on SSDs, which makes it extremely expensive but also low latency (think ~100-300us for access). JuiceFS stores data in S3, which is extremely cheap but very high latency (~20-60ms for access). The performance scalability should be pretty similar, if you're able to tolerate the latency numbers. Of course, they both use databases for the metadata layer, so assuming you pick the same one -- the metadata performance should also be similar.
by am3101 | 2025-04-17 16:33:31+00:00
By "insider trading" I assume you mean illegal insider trading. There are a few levels:

(1) explicitly illegal insider trading where you trade on MNPI and hope no one notices (e.g., CEO sells shares before bad-news results). I don't think you could track this because usually the person trading is either not a prolific insider (a janitor who sees a draft report in the trash can) and therefore how would you track them OR a prolific insider using some sort of shell (e.g., wife/cousin) [or some combo]

(2) totally legal and ethical "insider trading." The SEC allows insiders to trade, you just have to do it with proper disclosure and in open periods. As noted Unusual Whales and others track this because in theory this is a signal—if mgmt is selling does that mean they no longer believe long-term in this company (irrespective of near-term MNPI)? The flip side obviously is that management cannot eat shares and sometimes wants liquidity for lifestyle reasons.

(3) everything in between—shadow trading, auto selldowns that are turned off if you realize there is good news, etc.

Tracking (2) is as mentioned kind of useful for investors but I would argue not a great signal, tracking (1) is mostly useless because it's a post-hoc analysis (most analyses here are—there was a massive spike in trades before/after a big announcement, or more obviously, a big block trade) and tracking (3) is similar to tracking (2). Btw there is also a lot of academic evidence that insider traders of type (1) overestimate the importance and misestimate the impact of their MNPI—knowing J&J had a drug that passed FDA may not matter if (a) there are twenty drugs that failed and (b) the street assumed it would pass. (none of this is legal or trading advice)
by iteria | 2025-04-17 16:34:14+00:00
I can believe this as a human who fasts. I just don't eat every other day. I've fasted for multiple days. You would amazed at how much the scale doesn't move. I can lose zero weight after 36 hours of nothing but water entering me. The body is less CICO and more a system trying to maintain homeostasis as much as possible and pulling ever lever it can.

Yes, eventually eating every other day I did lose weight, but we're talking a steady glide of 1-2lbs a week nothing as severe as people would expect a severely overweight person who only ate half the week to lose.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-04-17 16:34:31+00:00
Remember when you said you didn't go low? Look at your last paragraph.

I don't think you are racist, I never called you racist, but I think what you are saying is wrong and is the type of group guilt assignment that has been used for very f'd up stuff in the past and not how we do things in the US. Again, your entire premise is he's lying because of the class he is in. That is the slippery slope that I am calling out. Your own words. You didn't judge him unfairly you say, you just said he committed criminal perjury based on your knowledge that he's a foreigner seeking asylum. I said that the system should be structured to recognize the incentives to lie, but we shouldn't judge people based on their class, you continued to say all foreigners seeking asylum are probably liars, especially your original example individual, based SOLELY on that he is a foreigner seeking asylum.

I explained my reasoning. And I even said I agreed that the Democrats have broken the system, and that the courts needed to be structured to account for the incentive to lie. But I didn't like classifying a group/class of people liars based on their class. 'All poor people steal because they are poor and have incentive' is basically what you are saying. 'All people in Alabama are dumb, Bob is from Alabama, Bob's dumb'. Nah, I refuse all of that, labeling a group, assigning a characteristic because Bob's a member of a group. I never just tried to shout you down saying 'racist', I responded in way too many words :)

And again you resort to the low, personal attacks. Super lame, basic internet dig you gave there too. Because I quoted your words back at you and I don't think in the USA we should classify groups as guilty.
by JohnMakin | 2025-04-17 16:34:41+00:00
Each and every one of these points applies to Meta in a huge way:

> 1. Addictive, compulsive, and problematic use 2. Depression, anxiety, body dysmorphia, self-harm, and suicide 3. Porn, violence, and drugs 4. Sextortion, CSAM, and sexual exploitation 5.TikTok knows about underage use and takes little action

Hell, it's even a matter of congressional record!

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/07/1211339737/meta-failed-to-add...

it doesn't make it right, but this current political climate's myopic focus on tiktok alone destroys any credibility on this.
by kybernetikos | 2025-04-17 16:34:47+00:00
And perhaps this is the core of our disagreement - you see a country being attacked by another and you blame those hard times on the victim while I blame it on the attacker.

I say it's a problem of unrestrained strength, of strength misapplied, not a problem of some people being weaker than others.

And an enormous number of famines are caused by conflict, or historically by dumb central government by overly strong tyrants.
by stevenwoo | 2025-04-17 16:34:49+00:00
Farmers markets (at least locally for me in California USA) are a bit of a crap shoot. They've become popular enough that one has to be discerning because some are infiltrated by people simply reselling goods from warehouse stores, though the boutique varieties of produce are pretty much guaranteed to be authentic and if one is lucky some regular produce is much cheaper than even discount grocers.
by PaulHoule | 2025-04-17 16:35:19+00:00
You can put 80 hours or more into an AAA game so I think you get more entertainment out of an expensive game than you do out of a movie that costs $12 for 2 hours.

Trouble is today's AAA game competes with yesterday's AAA game on sale or an AAA game a little older than that used at Gamestop for $10 minus your $5 pro discount. Or a mobile game that will suck in more people for longer that costs most players $0.00 but finds enough people who crave what premium currency can buy (or who just find a $5/month subscription enhances their fun) that they are dominating the industry in terms of revenue and leaving the business folks wondering if they can afford to go on developing AAA games.
by 9rx | 2025-04-17 16:35:40+00:00
Fair to say that it is a matter of perspective, but by your perspective the cultivator is a robot, right? A field is far less structured than a barn, and the tool makes decisions about how to alter its behaviour and environment in a pretty grand and visible fashion. Lely products are much closer to being automation in comparison.

Perhaps a more pedantic take is that the cultivator is simply attachment for the actual robot, which is the tractor. A cultivator on its own is useless. In that vein, there is seemingly a difference. Each product Lely sells is the full solution. Whereas John Deere gives you a menu and you have to select which "toppings" you want on your robot.

But then that gives nod to Lely products being closer to automation than robotics again. Beyond choosing a product at a high level, you don't have to get into the nitty gritty details because they will always operate in a comparatively strict and consistent environment.
by intended | 2025-04-17 16:35:53+00:00
However cancel culture is 100% going to evolve once you create an internet, and then leave things to the market to solve.

Cancel culture is ... i guess the best democracy in a broken system. Its people realizing the lever of power that is left is the levers as a consumer. So by choosing what they consume, they are sending signals to the system of society.

For some reason, I am not bugged by cancel culture, for me its an inevitability. As is the natural irritation and opposition which would appear to it. I suppose, all of it, cancel, counter cancel, is just the invisible hand at work?
by rco8786 | 2025-04-17 16:36:02+00:00
> import my data by using my computer

You're under the mistaken impression that you will own this data. What you are describing is akin to saying you will just export your friends list, posts, messages, pictures, etc from facebook to some other social network.

Maybe you are technically able to run your own AIs (and I guess they would somehow be supported by these other platforms?). But most people are not.
by JohnFen | 2025-04-17 16:37:06+00:00
Be aware that no matter how the AI stuff ends up playing out, there will be a strong demand for "old school" work for a very long time. Likely long enough to support the remainder of your career.

If you're not interested in a particular segment of the field, go to a segment that you are interested in. Depending on what your personal goals and desires are, it's not necessary to follow along with whatever the current hotness happens to be.
by m3047 | 2025-04-17 16:37:12+00:00
Ground feature echo (mentioned in the article)... possible. Not mentioned here or in the article: thermocline in the atmosphere. Thermocline in the water is traditionally how submarines "hide" from surface ships.

I hear flanging from the planes incoming from quite a distance, and they're pretty low when the fly over where I live. More telling: I can hear the freeway and the busy arterial, "depending on how the wind blows". Sometimes it flanges, too.

So: ground reflection along with thermocline refraction seems a perfectly plausible explanation for one source of the phenomenon; could be several, probably all involving ground and atmospheric factors.
by tclancy | 2025-04-17 16:37:52+00:00
Oh Lord, I apologize for being a person almost congenitally incapable of using /s. I had thought/ hoped the idea of an AI "cop" having to tell you it was a cop was ridiculous enough on its face, but it also occurs to me I am of a certain age where that was a very popular legend in the US and that doesn't apply to everyone. I accept the downvotes as appropriate!
by xnx | 2025-04-17 16:38:33+00:00
> Does that mean you never engage in multi-question dialogues exploring / trying to solve a particular problem?

No. Iterative interrogation is the main way these tools are used, hence "Chat" GPT. It is rare that I'm revising queries from a week ago.

More useful AI context comes from permanent (and portable) artifacts like a code repo. Having a 2 million token context window is much more useful than being able to continue a chat session from a week or more ago.
by ryan29 | 2025-04-17 16:38:33+00:00
> .com itself is under jurisdiction of USA and operated by Verisign

Barely. The NTIA gave up all their leverage over .com in 2018. The only thing the US can do at this point is let the cooperative agreement auto-renew to limit price increases.

I wouldn't be surprised if the US withdrew from the agreement altogether at this point. Then .com would fall under the joint control of ICANN and Verisign.
by xpe | 2025-04-17 16:38:33+00:00
I did some quick research on this. McKinsey has a pretty slick-looking web-facing report titled "Global Energy Perspective 2024" report [1] has a table [2] showing breakdowns by industry.

[1] https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/energy-and-materials/our...

[2] SVG...! https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/industries/energy%...
by cf100clunk | 2025-04-17 16:38:40+00:00
If you are handy to an R&D lab that has a combo Faraday Cage/anechoic chamber you can have a nice experience free of RF and audio noise and stimulus. Even better if it is dimly lit in near-infrared. Even better-better if it has a tank of warm water with lots of epsom salts, although I've never been in a lab that had such a thing as a requirement.
by jongjong | 2025-04-17 16:39:06+00:00
The most surprising thing about big tech is that most of them seem to be less useful than ever and yet they are making more money than ever.

For example, it seems like nobody uses Oracle products anymore, yet Oracle stock is at an ATH.

Microsoft Windows is less popular than ever and yet Microsoft stock is at an ATH.

Apple peaked years ago and yet ATH.

Does anyone still use Facebook regularly? FB stock is ATH.

Something doesn't add up.
by kypro | 2025-04-17 16:39:12+00:00
> Once you’ve reached a level of physical strength it’s easier to return to that level in the future.

If you're reading this and you're < 30 and physically weak (not overweight, but lacking muscle mass) I cannot stress enough what a year or two hitting the gym could do for your permanent strength and muscle mass.

I was ridiculously skinny and physically weak going into my 20s and I just assumed that was the way I was built. But I got into fitness in my early 20s and packed on quite a bit of muscle and it's genuinely shocking to me how much base-level muscle mass and strength I've retained now 15 years on.

I always felt one of the most demotivating things about working out was that all the effort I was putting into the gym would eventually go to waste when I stopped, but that's not true. Had I known this I'd probably have started working out much earlier and for much longer than I did.
by hammock | 2025-04-17 16:39:30+00:00
And crucially, there are leaked emails, other evidence that demonstrate (at the very least historical and occasional) corruption of this dual- (multi?) agency arrangement. Among the allegations:

The Google ad exchange favored its own platforms, limiting the ability of other exchanges to compete fairly in bidding for ad inventory. https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-s...

In limiting the number of bidders, Google inflated the prices for ad inventory. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-26/closing-arguments-giv...

Google engaged in bid rigging where competitors agree on who will win a bid, again to inflate prices. https://www.justice.gov/atr/preventing-and-detecting-bid-rig...

Google entered market allocation agreements to create an unfair playing field. https://www.winston.com/en/insights-news/avoiding-antitrust-...
by nihakue | 2025-04-17 16:39:43+00:00
THANK YOU so much for this. I'd spend some time researching how to disable YouTube shorts only to come to the conclusion that I had to use a different client (I picked NewPipe, but faced frequent issues with playback and I ended up having to click out to YouTube 90% of the time anyway)

I've disabled YouTube history now and it's almost exactly what I'd hoped for. Shorts are disabled, no 'feed', no suggestions, just my subscriptions. I owe you a beer.
by killerstorm | 2025-04-17 16:40:09+00:00
I like the idea but it did not quite work out of box.

There was some issue with sign-in, it seems pin requested via web does not work in console (so the web suggesting using --pin option is misleading).

I tried BYO plan as I already have openrouter API key. But it seems like default model pack splits its API use between openrouter and openai, and I ended up stuck with "o3-mini does not exist".

And my whole motivation was basically trying Gemini 2.5 Pro it seems like that requires some trial-and-error configuration. (gemini-exp pack doesn't quite work now.)

The difference between FOSS and BYO plan is not clear: seems like installation process is different, but is the benefit of paid plan that it would store my stuff on server? I'd really rather not TBH, so it has negative value.
by WaltPurvis | 2025-04-17 16:40:41+00:00
In my experience, if I create a ChatGPT project or a Gemini Gem, it seems to remember everything I put in the instructions, which includes my tech stack, specific packages I'm using, preferences, and so on. ChatGPT remembers some of these things across chats that aren't within a project, but it's hit or miss. Gemini remembers absolutely nothing from one chat to another unless you're working in a Gem, but inside a Gem it's been very good at remembering quite a lot of stuff, particularly when using Gem 2.5. YMMV.
by schlauerfox | 2025-04-17 16:40:55+00:00
That's a crime the Valley Relics Museum couldn't get the Spaceship. It has done a really great job saving what can be saved of Los Angeles San Fernando Valley history. If you're ever near the Van Nuys airport check it out. Fry's was a happy place for me. Memories of their old Terminal based stockkeeping system (AS400? AIX? I heard rumors the owner wrote it themselves). The Burbank Scifi theme, the Manhattan Beach polynesian theme, the Woodland Hills Alice in Wonderland Theme. Even the old sacramento unthemed version and the newer train themed one. The memories of building my own computers for several iterations and almost always getting my parts there, shopping first with my Dad then later a relaxing walk on my own. The haunted look of female partners dragged there. The ecclectic selection. It was a okay substitute for an old style electronics store like Electronic City, but had so much other interesting things. So many interesting things lost in LA. DAK2000, TRI-ESS Sciences, OPAMP Books. ALL Electronics surplus.
by csours | 2025-04-17 16:41:21+00:00
1. Some people definitely deserve to be cancelled/ostracized/socially punished.

2. Social media cares about engagement, not right and wrong. If content of a type is sought for, content of that type will be made.

3. Social media has trained people to simply react to the perceived message - "Oh, give me a break with all the whining about cancel culture!"

4. Concern trolling is very real. Social media is a low trust environment. You have no reason to think of me as a serious person, or take the time to engage with my reasoning.

5. Shame is incredibly motivating, but the shamer does not get to choose the direction that shame moves the target. You can certainly say that they are reacting wrongly, but you are not their parent/priest/custodian.

6. Once enough people are made to feel shame, they may band together. You are free to say that this is morally wrong or detestable.

7. This is all very very unsatisfying, so people usually take a more satisfying offramp and just blame someone. Blame and responsibility are very very slippery topics. Blame is about moral satisfaction and dropping a heavy, prickly, stinky and noxious emotional burden.

Blame typically falls on the person with the least social capital (relative to the blamer) who is closest to the problem.

Blame is the easiest thing to reach for in a low trust environment.

Responsibility requires a high trust environment. Responsibility can be forward and backward - who WAS responsible for this incident, who WILL BE responsible for improving the situation. In a low trust environment, responsibility will randomly transmute into blame.

8. It's easier to fight than it is to work. If someone is morally wrong, you do not owe them any emotional labor.

9. A fight does not require real harm as a trigger; a perceived social slight or lack of respect is more than enough to start a fight. Pain can be endured, shame cannot.

10. Anger and fighting form a feedback loop. Does the anger or fight come first?

11. This sort of thing has historically gotten VERY VERY bad before it gets better, even when people see it coming. It is very unsatisfying to say, but life can just really suck for a lot of people for a while. This is a heavy, noxious emotional burden, so by all means preserve your emotional health and find someone to blame.

----

So what is the solution?

I don't have a satisfying solution, but I have noticed something.

I have noticed that gravity is the weakest force/interaction in the universe per scale unit.

I have noticed that gravity is responsible for the largest objects and systems in the universe.

I have noticed that people mostly do not change their views in the middle of a fight.

"That's odd" is the most power phrase in science. The greatness of humanity has followed curiosity, patience, empathy and humility.

----

I won't tell anyone to stop fighting, but I will say that I strongly believe that fighting is only ever part of a solution.

I believe that fighting cannot ever fix anything or make anything better on the large scale.

Fighting can only make things less worse, for some people, in some place, at some time.
by ericmcer | 2025-04-17 16:41:21+00:00
So should we let people under 18 legally buy cigarettes, alcohol and marijuana? We definitely shouldn't monitor kids school attendance either. The parents should be the ones who regulate all those things right?

You probably don't have kids because if you did you would know that around age 13 you stop being able to just force them to not do things, you have to start to reason and compromise with them more. Without societal rules there will be many kids who drink, smoke, use social media and barely attend school. Those kids have bad parents but to a 13-17 year old they have "cool" parents, and now every other kids is gonna wonder why their parents are so lame.

You can't just raise a kid in a silo, and if you don't ban certain things at a higher level the other parents get to have a massive influence on your kids expectations.
by basch | 2025-04-17 16:41:37+00:00
Identity needs to be redesigned on the web.

A family unit should own all accounts in the family, parents should be able to reset any password to any owned account from a central dashboard without hunting down email links and 2factor. I don't want to set up a management account for each service. I want all any services management options exposed by api and displayed in my central dashboard. Of my choice.
by Neywiny | 2025-04-17 16:41:47+00:00
I'll only respond to this but I do see a lot of people share your viewpoint. I think I agree with you partially. There are ways to rot the brain on YouTube. I noticed it maybe 8-9 years ago for me. I unsubscribed from all the gaming channels and only watched tech/EE/CS videos. It got to the point where in college I had weeks of 40+ hours of YouTube (does it adjust for 2x speed? Unsure) but it was mostly on STEM content. I believe that's what let me ace my classes in my later years. I just learned better from them than reading textbooks.

So, please don't give up on trying to only block the brainrot. Also, kids are crafty and usually have more time than adults so be prepared to fight an uphill battle once they figure out VPNs, DNS, and other ways.
by Centigonal | 2025-04-17 16:41:48+00:00
The human race has benefited greatly from individual researchers who made their work the main source of value in their life, and from societies, patrons, and government institutions who gave these people the stability and financial support to pursue such a single minded focus.

Two fascinating examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF8d72mA41M