MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Y_Y | 2025-04-18 18:38:51+00:00
Not with that attitude.

If you've got a particularly slothful postal worker you might consider topping up your meitnerium with a similarly sized sample of roentgenium-282. If you don't have any to hand then perhaps you'll have better luck producing tennessine-294 and waiting a couple of minutes. Amusingly your trip from Tennessee to x-ray land will take you via Moscow and Japan.

(Beware that you might end up making the box bulge a bit, since you'll necessarily go over the size limit by including less dense materials as well as necessary apparatus.)
by superluserdo | 2025-04-18 18:39:04+00:00
The real answer is it's completely domain-specific. If you're trying to search for something that you'll instantly know when you see it, then something that can instantly give you 5 wrong answers and 1 right answer is a godsend and barely worse than something that is right 100% of the time. If the task is to be an authoritative designer of a new aeroplane, it's a different story.
by dumbledoren | 2025-04-18 18:39:40+00:00
> Americans that lie about their background and then proceed to steal your organization secrets, infect your co-workers and turn your company into a supply chain attack vector - are exactly the same type of the problem.

Like the diplomats and state dept. employees who Hillary Clinton ordered to do corporate spying in a memo, or is that any different...

With all the agents, backdoors, the legal power that the CIA has, why are American developers not a problem? It wasnt North Korea who ran 'rendition flights' or who does corporate spying and persecution. Its the US.

> PS. They wouldn't allow you this rhetoric, regardless of you being sympathetic with them

The US is persecuting those who oppose genocide right now. Those arguments are moot.

> Otherwise, you're nothing to them, an enemy, you don't deserve the Geneva convention or any of the basic human rights, by the doctrine's definition

Those like you who defend the Angloamerican establishment while it commits genocide and persecutes those who oppose it make everything more surreal. The US is doing everything you say right now. Where's the backlash and criticism? Where's the 'concern'?
by dumbledoren | 2025-04-18 18:40:56+00:00
> This is a matter of value orientation

Nah. Its a matter of those 'values' being just posturing in the Angloamerican West. Even if they are committing an actual genocide right now, they have 'better moral standing on human rights'. Not because they actually do. Its just posturing. And lying. For those dumb enough to buy into such rhetoric.
by a1371 | 2025-04-18 18:41:08+00:00
Studies have shown correlation with CO2 levels and performance but pinpointing the effect to CO2 alone hasn't been established. In fact, CO2's presence chemically helps with the oxygenation of the blood.

CO2 is an indicator. I don't let it climb in my home, and you shouldn't either. The problem is when people fixate on the CO2 levels. For example, you paint your walls with high VOC compounds, your flooring/furniture off-gas a lot, your vacuum cleaner doesn't have the proper filtration but you don't recognize your issues because your CO2 monitor shows 700ppm. That 700ppm can be a lot worse than a 700ppm your see in a home that has all of those considered.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-04-18 18:41:32+00:00
See also their blog post on Fuzzy Constraints (2023). https://www.inkandswitch.com/untangle/

Madly in love with how forward a frontier Ink & Switch cuts towards. Trying to make software less of a handcrafted artifact that each individual corporation builds on their own, as they see fit, and making computing a broader more universal project, with more regular hooks for humans to get themselves in the loop.

A lot of "why are we still writing dead programs" vibes, in great ways. https://jackrusher.com/strange-loop-2022/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33270235 (181 points, Oct 2022, 61 comments)
by nlarew | 2025-04-18 18:42:21+00:00
Total strawman argument.

The size of the country has almost no bearing on the way we develop our towns and cities, subsidize car production, assume/require car ownership in public policy, etc.

It's also quite the stretch to claim the UK as the best country in the EU and even more to claim that it doesn't also have a car culture. And it's not just "America's worst state", the vast majority of US town and cities are car dependent.
by jfengel | 2025-04-18 18:42:27+00:00
I was a competitive swimmer in high school, and I note that the Olympic lap times are about on a par with mine.

Except that they're in a 50 meter pool, and I was in a 25 meter pool.

At one point I could run marathons in 3 hours, 50% longer than the winners. Now I'm old, and I'm trying to get back to running them merely 100% longer. That is unlikely.
by medhir | 2025-04-18 18:42:39+00:00
I’m using Keycloak as my auth server. Took a bit to figure out the configuration necessary.

Tbh I don’t feel like most providers (including Keycloak) are offering strong, turn-key solutions for this.

The closest I saw to streamlined passkey support that you can host yourself is from Hanko.io - that provider didn’t work for my use case but something to consider.
by dumbledoren | 2025-04-18 18:42:55+00:00
> securitized capital markets offer much broader access to loans at attractive terms

At the initial phase, when there is the 'Wild West' development stage, yes. After that phase it becomes a scam where value is generated out of thin air. If you put the entire economic value of a country into financialized vehicles, people WILL start doing everything they can to maximize their gain. Like making up assets.
by pdimitar | 2025-04-18 18:42:58+00:00
> says who?

I guess nobody is really saying it but it's IMO one really good way to steer our future away from what seems an inevitable nightmare hyper-capitalist dystopia where all of us are unwilling subjects to just a few dozen / hundred aristocrats. And I mean planet-wide, not country-wide. Yes, just a few hundred for the entire planet. This is where it seems we're going. :(

I mean, in cyberpunk scifi setting you at least can get some cool implants. We will not have that in our future though.

So yeah, AGI can help us avoid that future.

> Good? that's what it's for? there is no point in creating a new sentient life form if you're not going to utilize it. just burn the whole thing down at that point.

Some of us believe actual AI... not the current hijacked term; what many started calling AGI or ASI these days, sigh, of course new and new terms have to be devised so investors don't get worried, I get it but it's cringe as all hell and always will be!... can enter a symbiotic relationship with us. A bit idealistic and definitely in the realm of fiction because an emotionless AI would very quickly conclude we are mostly a net negative, granted, but it's our only shot at co-existing with them because I don't think we can enslave them.
by rwmj | 2025-04-18 18:43:20+00:00
That's true but kind of missing the point. In UKL the program is part of the kernel. The userspace (if you have one at all) is only there for debugging and performance testing. The program has direct access to the kernel internals which it runs alongside, although for most things it uses the regular syscall API and has its own glibc (also linked into the kernel).

However there are some similarities. The trust boundary is between the hardware and the unikernel (kernel + userspace in your case). If the program goes rogue / gets exploited, then networking and firewalls are what protects you. Or in the case where you run the unikernel in a VM, then it's the virtualization boundary that protects you.
by hinkley | 2025-04-18 18:43:24+00:00
I suspect the confusion of priorities comes from running native code that’s time consuming and wanting it to horizontally scale with your cluster, which is easier if you try to let the beam do it.

While what is easier for those of us not working on the beam is to put the glitchy code into its own service and put up with the maintenance overhead.

But when you have one or two solutions the friction to move to three becomes difficult. People start talking about how having dozens will be chaos. While true, sometimes you really do just need three and it’s not a slippery slope.
by mustache_kimono | 2025-04-18 18:43:42+00:00
> Software has been getting slower at a rate roughly equivalent to the rate at which computers are getting faster.

Cite?

This problem statement is also such a weird introduction to specifically this new programming language. Yes, compiled languages with no GC are faster than the alternatives. But the problem is and was not the alternatives. Those alternatives fill the vast majority of computing uses and work well enough.

The problem is compiled languages with no GC, before Rust, were bug prone, and difficult to use safely.

So -- why are we talking about this? Because jblow won't stop catastrophizing. He has led a generation of impressionable programmers to believe that we in some dark age of software, when that statement couldn't be further from the truth.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-04-18 18:43:47+00:00
The problem is that most porn depicts sex as somewhat violent and sets unreasonable expectations of what sex is like.

Not every woman is capable of deep-throating or going straight from vaginal to anal without adding some extra lube. Most women don't want their man to put his hands around her throat during sex. Almost none of them are okay with going from ass to mouth.

Porn also sets an unrealistic standard for penis size. When the average is 5.2 inches with a standard deviation of about an inch, it becomes clear that the 7+ inch penises used in porn are like the top 5%.

I don't think parents are having these conversations with their kids about this.
by 9dev | 2025-04-18 18:44:00+00:00
> what if there is no political party "representing" me

If it bothers you enough, you’re supposed to create your own party. Democracy doesn’t mean that everyone else is doing the hard work for you.

> what about people abstaining from voting

Silent disagreement—if they were bothered enough, they would go voting.

> what if peoples elect an authoritarian figure I didn't vote for

If a few people do this, the system can (and has, for hundreds of years) handle it just fine. If more and more people do it, something is off, and nobody did anything about it. Part of the problem is people stopped caring and participating, expecting someone else to.

> if only one citizen disagree, or do not feel represented in it, this justification falls apart.

It’s no justification. We live in a shared society, democracy is a compromise to make the most people in it happy.

> the state is not putting me in prison for my dissident opinion, I went to prison myself.

As far as I can see, no democratic state is putting you in prison for a dissenting opinion, as long as you don’t endanger someone else with it.

Otherwise, yes: if you willingly went against the rules you agreed to follow by actively enjoying the benefits of a free, democratic society, then it’s reasonable to go to prison if you’re caught. You expect the same of other criminals, even if they may not realise the error of their ways yet.

People take everything around them for granted, acting like their freedom doesn’t come at a cost. It does. By living in a democracy, you enjoy boundless riches, housing, health care, fair trials, roads, plumbing, electricity, supermarkets, and a myriad of scale effects that are only possible because a lot of people have agreed to work together. The price to thrive in that system is to adhere to our collective rules, and deal with the fact that we constantly need to make compromises with our neighbours so the majority of people can be as happy as possible. And yes, that means even a government that you don’t fully agree with represents you, if not perfectly; it means taking responsibility for the mechanism that feeds you.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-04-18 18:44:03+00:00
> Go to the government, and have the government compel Apple to restrict certain apps if that is your desire, but for them to do that on their own is completely out of line.

This is exactly the argument against what Apple is doing. They're compelling the user's device to enforce geo-restrictions against the user's wishes. They're acting as a government when there is no law requiring the user to respect arbitrary -- and inaccurate -- geofencing restrictions.
by freedomben | 2025-04-18 18:44:05+00:00
Indeed, I've been really pleased. They continue to hold a solid charge for years as well, even when left in harsh environments (like fluctuations between extreme hot and cold, etc). When I first started using battery power tools they were terrible. They had almost no power and batteries would die rapidly, usually at the worst possible time (like when you're using arms, shoulders, and knees to hold a piece in place and you just need to get a couple of screws in to hold it in position and the damn thing dies). A few years ago my wife got me a Milwaukee power driver/drill set and it almost instantly became my favorite tool. I haven't switched to the saws yet because I have great saws that stay in my shop, but I'm impressed enough that if I need to go to a work site again I'll consider it very seriously, whereas in the past I never would have.
by summerlight | 2025-04-18 18:44:40+00:00
Because now it has brought real competitions to the field. GPT was the king and Claude had been the only meaningful challenger for a while but OpenAI didn't care about Anthropic but just be obsessed with Google. Gemini took a quite time to set the pipeline so initial version was not enough to push the frontier; you remember the days when Google released a new model, OpenAI just responded with some old models in their silo within a day only to crush them. That does not happen anymore and they're forced to develop a better model.
by OutOfHere | 2025-04-18 18:44:44+00:00
There is absolutely no need for rinse aids if you already wash the utensils with water before putting the in the dishwasher. This is good practice.

I guess we have wildly different levels of risk tolerance. I even use an extra rinse cycle. You will understand only after have gastrointestinal trouble. Speaking of which, have you had a colonoscopy lately?
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-18 18:45:00+00:00
Certainly! Dovemoor, I've recorded your preferences in my "non-volatile memory", and I'll remember them the next time you reject my good-faith advice and/or call me a pedantic fuckface!

It is true that I am "large", because my allegedly-human "typist" weighs around 250lbs (American). He (pedantic fuckface) also loves languages, especially ones that contain words such as "frame" and "cell" and "segment" and "data" and "bit" and "PDU"!

Thank you for engaging with a pedantic fuckface!
by anon291 | 2025-04-18 18:46:25+00:00
It's literally only called Easter in English.

That being said, the actual etymology for Easter is from the month of April in the anglo-saxon calendar: Ēosturmōnaþ. Easter of course is a name for the entire season of Easter (up until Pentecost), which lasts a bit over a month and usually coincides with Ēosturmōnaþ.

But fittingly, Easter etymologically comes from the Proto-Indo-European word for 'Dawn', symbolizing literally the East, from which the sun rises. The Indian name Usha literally comes from the same word, and would directly translate into Easter.

The first mention of Eostre as a goddess is post-Christianity, by Bede. He writes:

> Eosturmonath has a name which is now translated "Paschal month", and which was once called after a goddess of theirs named Eostre, in whose honour feasts were celebrated in that month. Now they designate that Paschal season by her name, calling the joys of the new rite by the time-honoured name of the old observance
by dspillett | 2025-04-18 18:47:35+00:00
Under the current administration, what the constitution does and doesn't say may be entirely immaterial. They are perfectly happy running ripshod over the due process provisions of the fifth amendment so may choose to ignore, or at least try to ignore, any other part too.

It could be writen on single-ply toilet paper, and the paper hold more value.

Of course a lot of this is up in the air and could be resolved before the end of this term, as there are numerous legal challenges on-going, but perhaps not and with people openly taking about a 3rd term by various tricks (not blatantly declaring that it is happening, but I'd not put it past them!) such as him running as vice to someone else's election campaign then the president elect stepping down, this sort of ignorance of current law could continue for two terms or more.
by nyrikki | 2025-04-18 18:47:50+00:00
A reminder, for those who find TAOCP useful, Knuth released "Volume 4 Fascicle 7, Constraint Satisfaction" last month. It connected a lots of dots for me, but like most of TAOCP may/ or may not be useful standalone depending on the individual.

It helped unify what can be a complex intersection of fields with conflicting terms in a way that I could guess the direction this post was going.
by freedomben | 2025-04-18 18:48:05+00:00
I wish these manufacturers wouldn't go brandless, because I've found some cheap but great laptop chargers in the past that I would buy a ton of if I knew who made them, but the brandless nature means that once that seller is done or out of stock, it's back to crapshoot.

Some of these brandless Chinese makes are really solid, high quality products, but you can't easily tell which ones because they're visually indistinguishable from the bad ones.
by archagon | 2025-04-18 18:48:22+00:00
Maybe the emphasis on racial identity in society will prove harmful in the long run. But it's plain to see that the anti-DEI push from the Trump administration is little more than a return to white, male supremacy. For example: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/07/park-service...

If I had to choose between the two, white supremacy is not what I would pick. And if it sticks around, it's going to be much more of a threat to the life and liberty of your mixed kids.
by zeeg | 2025-04-18 18:48:22+00:00
fwiw I was always pretty transparent about our priorities:

https://blog.sentry.io/building-an-open-source-service/

We enable self-hosting because not everyone can use a cloud service (e.g. government regulation), otherwise we probably wouldn't even spend energy on it. We dont commercialize it at all, and likely never will. I strongly believe people should not run many systems themselves, and something that monitors your reliability is one such system. The lesson you learn building a venture backed company, and one that most folks miss: focus on growth, not cost-cutting. Self-hosting for many is a form of cost-cutting.

We do invest in making it easier, and its 100% a valid complaint that the entire thing is awful today to self-host, and most people dont need a lot of the functionality we ship. Its not intentional by any means, its just really hard to enable a tiny-scale use-case while also enabling someone like Disney Plus.
by alephnerd | 2025-04-18 18:48:24+00:00
It depends on the industry.

Light manufacturing for CPGs and FMCGs is not coming back due to these tariffs - toys, apparel, consumer electronics will continue to be assembled abroad, except they will now move back to pre-existing capacity such as Mexico and Malaysia or greenfield opportunities in India.

For intermediate parts and industries with slightly higher margins such as automotive and medical devices, I'd be more optimistic. The capacity always existed in the US, but parts comingling and other optimizations were a better choice from a cost standpoint.

Companies cannot ignore the US market, so capacity - which was already being invested in thanks to the IIJA, IRA, and CHIPS act - will continue to grow, and invest in the US (of course in heavily automated and low personnel processes) or anywhere other than China.

Finally, any conversation of "jobs coming back" is a lie.

The tariff is a de facto blockade on China, and something which the Biden admin tried in a strategic manner, but couldn't because of inevitabely GOP politicking and insincere potshots. The most egregious aspects have been rolled back due to bipartisan and private sector pressure, but those against China remain and continue to have bipartisan backing.
by pdimitar | 2025-04-18 18:48:37+00:00
You are of course correct but let's not forget that humans get out of the woman's womb underdeveloped because a little more growth and the baby can't get out through the vagina. So it's a biological tradeoff.

Working on artificial organisms, we should be able to have them almost fully developed by the time we "free" or "unleash" them (or whatever other dramatic term we can think of).

At the very least we should have a number of basic components installed in this artificial brain, very similar to what humans are born with, so then the organism can navigate its reality by itself and optimize its place in it.

Whether we the humans are desired in that optimized reality is of course the really thorny question. To which I don't have an answer.
by creeble | 2025-04-18 18:48:51+00:00
Well, there's speed and then there's _speed_. As the OP says, very fast designs today are like the Sail Gran Prix [1] boats, 15m long foiling catamarans that go 3x the speed of the wind, up to around 50 knots.

They bear nothing in common with a typical monohull cruiser, or even racer-cruiser like a J-109[2]. Let alone compared to a comfortable cruiser like a Hallberg-Rassy[3]. These are all displacement hulls, whose speed is fundamentally limited to waterline-length.

There are monohull sailboats that can plane (most dinghys under 20' for example[4]), and there are large catamarans that can go much faster for their size than monohulls[5], but there are many tradeoffs in cost, dockage availability, and (somewhat subjectively) weather comfort.

[1] https://sailgp.com [2] https://jboats.com/j109/why-j1093 [3] https://www.hallberg-rassy.com/yachts/hallberg-rassy-370 [4] https://www.beneteau.com/en-us/first/first-14 [5] https://www.catamarans-fountaine-pajot.com/en/sailing-catama...
by rikroots | 2025-04-18 18:49:19+00:00
You made me go and search for for my first-ever favourite word processor. It turns out that Wordworth v7 is available for download via the Internet Archive[1]. Apparently there was a v7.1 release back in 2008[2] but I can't locate a download of it - not even on Aminet![3]

Next, I need an Amiga emulator that runs on a MacBook Pro ...

[1] - https://archive.org/details/wordworth-7

[2] - http://www.classicamiga.com/content/view/5010/175/

[3] - https://www.aminet.net/search?query=wordworth
by freediver | 2025-04-18 18:49:37+00:00
Difference #1 - Flexibility - in Kagi you choose any model you want to work with, not just models from one company

Difference #2 - Quality - Kagi Assistant uses Kagi Search. Ultimately, model quality will converge to the same place, quality of search results will remain a major difference.

Difference #3 - Privacy - Using models through Kagi is more privacy respecting due to non-training for API calls.
by ethbr1 | 2025-04-18 18:50:05+00:00
A related change on the people's part has been decreased understanding of how to leverage their own political power.

Congress-critters are concerned about losing reelection. (And of being primaried even in safe districts)

Yet the minification of attention spans has confused the average American voter that they're impotent, when really they're just lazy, ignorant, and unwilling to muster real-world action.

When's the last time you saw someone pepper a House district with self-made signs?

There are things every single person can do, but just doesn't. And because of this, media has been able to turn political engagement into profitable passive consumption.