MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by s1artibartfast | 2025-04-27 16:10:16+00:00
I think it is interesting because similar % GDP seems to be treated steady state function of government, not one that inherently expansive.

For those of us that have been around for a while, it seems shocking that real, inflation controlled government taxes and spending per capitia is >2x that of the 80's, because experientially, many of the services seems no different, if not in decline.

I also think it is interesting to think about what government duties become more and less difficult to maintain with growth, and the implications for what types of objectives the government is well and poorly suited to achieve.

I think the Baumol effect is a helpful lens for exploring this, so I think you.
by vacuity | 2025-04-27 16:10:33+00:00
With some caveats, particularly ensuring a baseline level of competence, in a way that is somehow not overly discriminatory, I agree. The challenge then is to train the representatives sufficiently, but I think it could be done. And naturally I think there are significant benefits to this scheme, particularly having fresh faces (and ideas!) and not making the reelection-popularity/wealth-contest constantly reoccur.
by PaulRobinson | 2025-04-27 16:11:04+00:00
You're taking care of your family right now, and that's great, but ask yourself: could you take care of them better by building something that makes the World a better place for them to grow up into, and for their children? Or are you OK with the status quo?

So I'll ask you straight out: why is the choice you've made salary man or nothing? Why can't you get started with a side hustle, and then if it gets traction, you can quit your job and it becomes your main living?

One of the big barriers to this is a lot of investors seem to expect founders to work for nothing in the early years, which is a pretty privileged place to be: most people with dependents just can't do that, so I hear you.

But you don't need VCs. You don't need to live on noodles. You can build something that replaces your day job, you just need to figure it out.
by snapplebobapple | 2025-04-27 16:11:55+00:00
We havent failed. People who think that is going away have failed to realize how there is a genetic component to personality that means it is functionally never going away. Instead you recognize violence is the basis of all power and make policy to shape that violence into rational, personal freedom and free market supporting institutions. Its what the american project has basically been at its base (partially unconaciously)up until butt hurt marxists started ruining it with what they think reality should be rather than with ways to make the reality that is better.
by stickfigure | 2025-04-27 16:12:04+00:00
LLMs struggle with context windows, so as long as the problem can be solved in their small windows, they do great.

Humans neural networks are constantly being retrained, so their effective context window is huge. The LLM may be better at a complex, well specified 200 line python program, but the human brain is better at the 1M line real-world application. It takes some study though.
by veidr | 2025-04-27 16:12:43+00:00
> Let's stop at "vscode is open-source in a very narrow and limited capacity, and thoroughly deceptive in its messaging".

OK, yes, I agree; we should stop, as the disagrement seems to boil down to semantics.

I think "open source" is basically binary (modulo the usual free-as-in-beer or free-as-in-beer-but-also-you-can't-do-stuff-I-don't-like ambiguity).

But some nuance does come into play around "VS Code" — what is it? It feels the same as Chrome to me, but it's harder to see where the VS Code equivalent of Chromium is. (Not super hard, mind you, but Chrome/Chromium make it explicit, whereas VS Code does not.)

Anyway, I agree that VS Code is (while still, IMO, "open-source") is not "open-source to the point of maximal awesomeness".
by atoav | 2025-04-27 16:12:53+00:00
In the past year or so I have thought a lot about how to design tables and columns within databases and there is nearly nothing that wouldn't get more robust by adding in a "valid_from" and "valid_till" and make it accept multiple values. Someone's name is Foo? What if they change it to Bar at some point and you need to access something from before with the old name?

If you have only a name field that has a single value that is going to be a crazy workaround. If your names are referencing a person with a date that is much easier. But you need to make that ddcision pretty early.
by sepositus | 2025-04-27 16:13:10+00:00
> You claim

I think this is your problem. I didn't make a claim. I provided a personal story about running these groups and how objectification of women was a common result of a porn addiction (something the individual being interviewed mentioned). I was simply providing some anecdotal evidence that agreed with the interviewee.

I wouldn't make an absolute statement about my experiences for the same reasons you're using to criticizing my comment.
by Magma7404 | 2025-04-27 16:13:38+00:00
> the real thing is much better

(I'm not judging you but) It's easy for you to say when you have the real thing. And that's why our societies have failed for a lot of people, and why we now must handle porn the same way we are handling drug problems.

For the GP: "escape the clutches of porn" when it's the only alternative to suicide due to lack of social contact? You end up with incels who would do anything to have a way to be a part of society, and most of the time it's in a bad way.

Been there done that, our society has changed in the wrong way and I don't think we're blaming the right guys. "Helping them to see the humanity and personhood of women again" is misled. The issue is that some people have no human contact with men or women at all. No male parental figure which is more important and impacting than the contact with the other sex, even in a social context. Focusing on porn and women is useless in that context (since I suspect OP is talking about, well, porn and incels and the whole bro thing).
by rovr138 | 2025-04-27 16:13:45+00:00
Yeah. It’s not flat.

You can use admin fields, and it’s a recursive query to find.

I have recursive CTE (thanks to ChatGPT).

Could also be done on save, since they shouldn’t change for locations.

The recursiveness though, gives you a benefit if you extract type and save the intermediate steps, it allows you to start grouping things together at different levels which is one of the use cases you mentioned.
by codingbot3000 | 2025-04-27 16:13:47+00:00
Not yet.

I'd say the notion of what programming is will shift (again). Programmers might use AI helpers, or embed AI functions in you products like we are using IDEs and libraries since a while.

I'd also say that many established programmer roles today are already beginning to be disrupted.

But maybe I am wrong. Deploying and operating a web-based product in a secure manner is often not as easy as it looks like.

Also, as of now, there needs to be someone scripting the model training, and all the "logistics" around it.
by Propelloni | 2025-04-27 16:14:36+00:00
Fascinating to read. Around here people would do something like "follow the road (hand pointing down the road) at the first t-crossing turn left into a smaller road (hand pointing in the meant direction) continue for, I don't know, a few minutes. On your right (hand shows the meant direction) you'll see the park. A road comes up on the left and directly opposite of it is an entrance into the park. Go into the park and follow the path until you reach the first crossing. Turn left (hand shows meant direction) then follow until you reach the end of the park. The park should make a right turn there. The bench should be to your left."

Rarely if ever do people use road names to direct pedestrians, or car drivers. I guess, the people don't know them. I wouldn't.
by TFYS | 2025-04-27 16:14:56+00:00
I don't think many people have a problem with the kind of income inequality you describe. Natural inequality does not produce the level of inequality we are seeing today. This is the result of Gnurgh and his friends setting up rules that enable them to take a rat from Oogrl each day, lock Borrr in a cave and let their children inherit their position.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-04-27 16:15:00+00:00
GPS coordinates actually account for the motion of the Earth's tectonic plates. The problem is that it's a highly approximate model that doesn't accurately reflect areas like Australia very well.

There's a great visualizer of the coordinate velocity from the Earthscope team:

https://www.unavco.org/software/visualization/GPS-Velocity-V...
by pydry | 2025-04-27 16:15:00+00:00
you appear to have changed the word "subtly" to "clearly". i guess intentionally?

the bigger and more complex the software project, the more scope there is for completely deniable fuckups to creep in.

sometimes it's as simple as not pushing back on an obviously bad idea pushed from up above. or it could be spotting a problem and just not doing anything about it.

these small changes compound over time.

the idea of doing this would of course be massively offensive to anybody who was against unionization on principle, a number of whom comment on hacker news. that doesn't, of course, mean it wouldn't work.
by mystraline | 2025-04-27 16:15:44+00:00
The article claims porn, and sure, that's a part.

The bigger issue here is outmoded predominant protestant christian views of 'morality'. And that percolates all through the rest of USA culture, including into advertisements and commercialism. Their view of sex is as a sin, so its shamed, hidden, and secretly desired. All these things have popped up with all these pretty terrible results.

Sexuality is 'tittalting' so it helps sell. Those interactions aren't genuine, but transactional. Transactions themselves aren't the problem, but when people crave genuine sexuality and get faced with '$5 for next hour of OF', yeah. Takes advantage of people.

Advertisements also been going on for a while, always pushing harder to see what sells but still legal and norm enough. Like the hot rod magazines - does anybody really think if they buy a red mustang, they'll also get the 44dd blone bimbo?

And really, everybody should at least try a sex party (Bacchanal) once. Have to do some std checks ahead of time, but its just so liberating and freeing for everyone. It gets money, possessiveness, prudishness, and all those distorting things out of the way. And puts sex into perspective. And well, its fun.
by miki123211 | 2025-04-27 16:16:04+00:00
I wonder how easy it would be to make a practically indestructible, everlasting Wikipedia reader.

Something using solar for power, with a rugged and water-resistant enclosure, made of extremely high-quality components that won't break for hundreds of years at least. Maybe add an IRDA port for good measure, to make it possible to transfer all the data out somewhat quickly.

You could make hundreds of these and put them in hard-to-reach locations around the world, to make sure at least one survives whatever calamity might befall us in the future.
by nelblu | 2025-04-27 16:16:41+00:00
Interesting you say "seeing ads", because lately when I am volunteering with legally blind population as their "tech-mate", I can't explain them why technology isn't doing what they want it to do. It's a million times worse when we put ourselves into their shoes.... My strategy has changed from helping them learn technology, to helping them avoid how to use technology. One of the person I help, who is legally blind but can see font size 50+, asked me to teach him how to search for lyrics of songs so that he can play his guitar. I tried to teach him, but it was pointless because of how the websites were full of ads. I did install an ad blocker which helped a bit but in the end, I gave up and now I just print out lyrics for him.
by theglenn88_ | 2025-04-27 16:16:55+00:00
Gotta jump in here.

Working full time for someone and doing a side hustle is hard, from experience.

What I’ve found is that trying to do the side hustle takes away from a lot time spent with your dependants, which you will never get back, unless you are lucky enough to “make the break”

Not impossible, and you’ve got to try and find a balance. But it just may never happen.
by skygazer | 2025-04-27 16:17:15+00:00
I'm like the parent, on Safari – apparently also using an "inferior" way to block ads that, somehow, inexplicably, works 100% of the time and has never let an ad slip through. Is it supposed to be inferior because it's brittle and requires constant work on the side of the developer? Is it blocking too much and I'm just not aware of it? Is there some new ad tech that it's not prepared for, and can't adapt to, and will fail in the near future?
by sireat | 2025-04-27 16:17:35+00:00
As a European I visited US last December for the first time in 11 years.

What was shocking how many places I would say 80-90% have the "tip before service" payment terminals.

Many of these type of places were those I would not associate with classical service tipping - food counters, bagel, donut, coffee places where you pick up the order from counter.

Then there were some serious restaurant style places with this same type of payment system.

My American friends informed that technically you can skip tipping in these places.

Still this "tip ahead"" seemed really a bit of dark pattern - you feel like if you do not tip you get Tyler Durden clam chowder treatment.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-04-27 16:17:43+00:00
> Similarly, that you can change the appearance of something’s color is not the same as changing its color. You can make an apple look green or blue, but that is not evidence that the apple is not red.

But the apple is only "red" when illuminated by "white" light, that closely matches the color of our sun. Its redness is a property assigned to it by our brains. There is an objective property that it has - which is the frequencies of photons that are reflected, instead of absorbed - but I would argue that that is not color.

> For example, you may wonder whether unobservable entities such as electrons and electromagnetic fields really exist.

I don't think those two things are "unobservable". We clearly can observe them, based on how they effect things around them.

The alternative - which is acceptable, I guess, philosophically - is that we can't observe anything except the firing of the neurons in our brains.
by bigyabai | 2025-04-27 16:17:57+00:00
> bought an extension called UnTrap for YouTube

I will never understand this. My ex bought tons of extensions to do stuff with Safari that other browsers do for free. He paid for a PiP extention for some websites, password managers, Tomagachi pets... dozens of trinket apps that would be depreciated in 2 or 3 major updates. I'm continually wowed by Mac users that insist on paying for a native solution to a problem that doesn't exist in any other ecosystem.
by codingbot3000 | 2025-04-27 16:18:30+00:00
The article's points are not particularly new. It's an individual choice, but from what I see, the share of people who could be happy with a Linux desktop is higher today than ever before.

A few years ago (before SteamOS?), gaming on Linux was a no-starter btw. That we got so far that it was an option for the author, is impressive.
by tayo42 | 2025-04-27 16:18:37+00:00
The claims about the 2000s is not really how I remember it. What exactly changed in the 2000s. I was a teen male on the internet then, i feel like I would be clued in a little...

Hasn't American society been hating women since its inception? For a majority of its history they couldn't vote.

My not researched take and intuition is if you feel like the world is regressing on treating women well, its because of religion. Like abortion rights being taken back is a religious thing. Ireland did something similar, is Irish culture overly affected by porn too?
by thrance | 2025-04-27 16:19:11+00:00
I don't know why you put bourgeoisie in quotes like it's a ridiculous concept.

With the kind of analysis you give we're stuck with surface level "oh they're just a bad batch", when they're pure products of a system that makes series of them. It's not like they are thousands just like Trump, ready to step in if he loses power.

The bourgeoisie has a material interest in installing fascism, which is why we're here. Bezos, Musk and Zuckerberg are among the only ones to profit from the current circus.

It's not the first time it happens either, this has been proven times and times again. Look up the relations of Hitler and Mussolini with the capitalist class of their times.

I am not saying them having a shitty childhood had no influence on their politics, simply that it is not nearly enough to understand our current state of affairs.
by structural | 2025-04-27 16:19:11+00:00
I was just looking for something very similar, this is neat!

I think even moreso I can understand the sense of Rust feeling too large not because the language itself is, but because there are SO many of these neat tricks and little utility functions that are necessary to express what you want, and it's quite impossible to remember each and every one and how to go back and find them later.
by 0x000xca0xfe | 2025-04-27 16:19:13+00:00
It's just an alternative encoding for exactly the same instructions, it does not make the ISA more complex.

If you are writing assembly you probably are using compressed instructions already since your assembler can do the substitions transparently, e.g.

addi a0,a0,10 -> c.addi a0,10

Example: https://godbolt.org/z/MG3v3jx7P (the disassembly shows addi but the instruction is only two bytes).

They offer a nice reduction in code size with basically no downsides :)
by palata | 2025-04-27 16:19:39+00:00
I am not sure I get it. It starts with this:

> One of the specific things I’m noticing now is the mainstreaming of really ugly, regressive treatment in politics and mainstream culture—not just of women but of immigrants, gay people, trans people.

So before porn in the 2000s, women, immigrants, gay and trans people were all respected in the human history? Is that the point the author is trying to make?

I mean, "black lives matter", "me too", and generally the wokisme came after that, right?

I am not defending porn, just trying to find where the causation is. What if I said "the world we live in has been molded by the violent video games from the 2000s ("obviously"), and probably that is the reason why we started having wars after 2000"? Wouldn't someone be quick to tell me that we had wars long before the 2000s?

Like this, I wouldn't immediately think that women's rights have become worse after the 2000s in general. I don't need to go back very far to find the time where women were not even allowed to vote.
by throwawayffffas | 2025-04-27 16:19:51+00:00
You can run inference on AMD cards, ROCm[1] is a thing. I am running inference on amd cards locally.Plus the highest performing cards for computational workloads are AMD's[2] of course you can't buy these on amazon.

1. https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/index.html 2. https://www.amd.com/en/products/accelerators/instinct/mi300....
by nathan_compton | 2025-04-27 16:19:57+00:00
I don't know man, I guess we could like try to build a sort of system where people get together and vote on what kinds of behaviors society should allow which we should discourage and then when a majority of people agree on that stuff we could like make people stop doing bad stuff by using force after some kind of process to make sure that its fair? And like we could vote periodically to make sure that our rules continue to be useful and relevant.

You can't trust everyone, but that is basically the exact use case for government: to enforce basic standards of behavior so that we can all live more efficient, happy lives, rather than live in an arms race of personal methods to fuck eachother over and prevent ourselves from being fucked over.

I don't think society could come up with a truly comprehensive way of eliminating the evil part of advertising but I think we could do a lot better than we are doing if people would just wake up and insist that the government actually do what it is supposed to do.
by dingnuts | 2025-04-27 16:20:00+00:00
> Never once have I found a single story that ended well.

That's the claim you made. Every story ends badly because you've never seen one end well at your recovery program.

You've never seen a story end well because by the time you're involved everything has already gone wrong. You're like a fire fighter claiming homes are dangerous because you always see them on fire.

The people who don't have a problem aren't coming to your program.
by scarface_74 | 2025-04-27 16:20:19+00:00
The purpose of VC funding is not to reach profitability. It’s the reach an “exit” - usually via an acquisition or occasionally via an IPO.

But out of the literally thousands of companies that YC has funded, only about a dozen have gone public and out of those, if you had invested equally when they IPOd, you would have lost about 50% of your investment.

https://medium.com/@kazeemibrahim18/the-post-ipo-performance...

A “success” for a VC company is not a company that ends up being a lifestyle business that muddles along.
by knome | 2025-04-27 16:20:30+00:00
Only for chrome.

I finally went back to firefox, recently. I needed to update some of the flag defaults to turn on tab changing with mouse scroll and similar, but they are unlikely to break things like ublock any time soon.

I was a frequent profiles user under chrome, and still don't like firefoxes UI there, but just made a bookmark to the profile launching screen.

It's good enough.
by Ygg2 | 2025-04-27 16:20:59+00:00
> That is the definition of a language not being memory-safe. Memory-safety in the language means a guarantee that the resulting program is memory safe, and that you could not mess it up even if you tried.

By your definition no language ever would be deemed safe. Even Java/C# has to interface with C. Or you have to write bindings for C libs/ kernel calls.

> But C is not a memory safe language precisely because the language doesn't guarantee that.

C isn't memory safe because it has 212 different ways to cause memory unsafety. And only offers externals runtime tools to deal with it.

I mean Rust will never be perfect due to Rice Theorem. It doesn't have to be either. It's at close to ideal as you can get, without mandating that programmers are perfect (no language errors) or that everything be written in safe Rust (no C bindings).

This is a well known Nirvana fallacy. E.g. If a cure doesn't cure fatal disease in 100% of cases why not let disease take its course?
by olekskw | 2025-04-27 16:21:13+00:00
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Categorized in a super granular way so you can benchmark specific niches, e.g. b2b marketplaces, RegTech, digital therapeutics, automotive software etc.

Disclaimer: I'm a founder of the platform. Above is 100% free, behind paywall you can get M&A multiples and public comps with analyst estimates + metrics like rule of 40, revenue efficiency etc.

Hope it's useful for folks here!
by whatnow37373 | 2025-04-27 16:21:28+00:00
Not buying it. She just states “porn shaped society” without anything to prove it.

Seems absurd to me on the face of it.

Are men objectifying women? Yes. Have they done this since the dawn of mankind? Yes.

I could easily claim the reverse. Society shapes porn. It’s a reflection, not the other way around.
by vermaden | 2025-04-27 16:21:30+00:00
Not from 2019 - from 2014.

FreeBSD 10.1 was released in 2014 and reached EoL in 2018.

I can compile FreeBSD 10.1 today and the displayed date by `uname` will be 2025 - that does not mean that code is from 2025 - only that it was compiled in 2025.

Hope that helps.