MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-04-15 18:48:52+00:00
Fair enough.

I'd still quibble with your whole framing though. For example:

> This is a trillion dollars that cannot be used to provide government services.

I don't know if you have a mortgage, but assuming you do, is it useful to say of the interest payments you make on that "this is X dollars that cannot be used to buy food, heat, gas or streaming services" ? I suggest that it is not, and for reasons that apply to government too.

Capital investments, and debt more broadly, comes in good, bad and indifferent varieties. Some portion of the US national debt arises from spending on "good" things, some on "bad" things and quite a bit on "indifferent" things. There's no point in (accurately) noting that a mortgage payer cannot use the money they pay in interest to pay for other things, because we (broadly) accept that borrowing money in order to own your own home is sensible and comes with lots of its own utility/value. Whatever portion of US national debt arises from "good" spending can be viewed in the same manner.

Of course, how the actual apportionment between good/bad/indifferent spending is described will vary with political outlook and many other things, so there's no single answer to the question "how much of the national debt is a good thing". But it's certainly some of it ...
by resters | 2025-04-15 18:48:55+00:00
> How we view the regret over the camps is, outside of that, mostly irrelevant to the context in which the issue was raised in this discussion.

How do you arrive at that conclusion?

The Japanese internment camps held both citizens and non-citizens. The camp in El Salvador currently holds mostly non-citizens but Trump issued a statement where he expressed enthusiasm for putting "home growns" in the camp as well. It is speculated that "home growns" refers to US citizens.

Obviously EO 9066 was necessary because the alien enemies act wasn't sufficient to intern citizens, and both citizens and non-citizens were put in the camps. Trump's comment about "home growns" suggests that he may issue a similar order, which in my view makes the two situations quite analogous with respect to the principles of law involved in taking people into custody without trial.
by jkelleyrtp | 2025-04-15 18:48:57+00:00
The author's blog is a FANTASTIC source of information. I recommend checking out some of their other posts:

- https://mcyoung.xyz/2021/06/01/linker-script/

- https://mcyoung.xyz/2023/08/09/yarns/

- https://mcyoung.xyz/2023/08/01/llvm-ir/
by jfengel | 2025-04-15 18:49:02+00:00
The Economist doesn't use bylines for its news. The goal is to have a "common voice" for the whole organization, rather than a collection of individuals.

It doesn't aim for neutrality, the way a lot of top American newspapers do. It has opinions, generally being in favor of free markets and economic liberalism. But they also require strict fact-checking, and they're not biased towards any particular politician or party. They will make clear who they feel to be right or wrong.
by scarface_74 | 2025-04-15 18:49:13+00:00
So exactly how buying from Radio Shack better than Amazon as far as labor practices downstream from their supply chain?

How many people working in China would find it a dream to work in an Amazon warehouse? I know about Amazon practices second hand from my step son who has both worked in an Amazon warehouse and as a driver.

There have been plenty of stories about small towns having labor shortages and having to increase wages to compete against Amazon warehouse pay because people would rather work there than at a fast food store, daycare, etc.
by ezfe | 2025-04-15 18:49:56+00:00
But later on in the article he said that $10,000 was a lot higher than expected. I would think that if the overage was higher than they expected they would go through the PDFs that Turbotax/etc. generate and double check the math.

I do this even without weird tax situations because I want to understand what the website is submitting on my behalf.
by accrual | 2025-04-15 18:49:59+00:00
> To achieve those ambitious goals, advanced communication systems are crucial. It’s not about astronauts sharing pictures on social media; it’s about facilitating complex operations, enabling seamless collaboration, and supporting scientific advancements and economic endeavors.

I for one am actually quite excited to see the first cellphone-grade photos and selfies from the moon. Those would (in my opinion) indicate we have taken another step towards making life in space more commonplace.
by alganet | 2025-04-15 18:50:53+00:00
That is not entirely true.

It seems that many humans live on a "show" perspective of the world. It is hard to separate what is seen from what is in the eyes though.

Being funny is to put up a show, for example. Even if it is in person, for a single individual. It draws from the same essential stuff.

Intimacy can grow on that "acting" ground, in a sense that they're not mutually exclusive. Many things, in fact, can.

The internet does lack many of the social cues that one would expect from the real world. It also has cues the real world don't have, like logs and history. If it can grow animosity, it also can grow other stuff. Hopefully stuff less disruptive than animosity.

Animosity and comedy seem to be very basal, primitive feelings. Probably the ones that require less thinking. They're not bad, sometimes is good to think less. But not always.

I imagine something similar happened in the real world in the past too. But I could never be 100% sure of it.

Different, but analogous in some ways. Difficult to compare, but undeniably related.
by soco | 2025-04-15 18:50:55+00:00
What makes the US more chaotic (and UK to some extent and probably more) is the political system first-past-the-post which does nothing to promote collaboration. Quite the contrary the winner does its best to crush every sprout of the loser to make his future win more likely. Now if you had a few parties which would be forced to forge alliances to govern, they would probably govern in alliances in the following terms as well so some of the politics for sure get carried over. But, such ideas help now nobody, the current system is how it is.
by kayge | 2025-04-15 18:51:35+00:00
The /active page is helpful, thanks! I also just recently realized that the 'hckr news'[0] interface doesn't hide or remove flagged stories if you're using the Top 10/20/50 view options, so if something is getting discussed/upvoted it will be there.

[0]https://hckrnews.com/
by dale_glass | 2025-04-15 18:51:46+00:00
But it's not intended as a watermark, it's an attempt at disruption. And with some models it simply doesn't work.

For instance, I've seen somebody experiment with Glaze (the image AI version of this). Glaze at high levels produces visible artifacts (see middle image: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FrbJ9ZTacAAWQQn.jpg:large ).

It seems some models ignore it and produce mostly clean images on the output (looking like the last image), while others just interpret is as a texture, the character is just wearing a funny patterned shirt. This is while the intended result is fooling the model to generate something other than the intended character.
by Timon3 | 2025-04-15 18:51:48+00:00
Many, if not most, of these occurrences can be made safe. It's very rare that I need `as`, and even more rare that I can't actually check the relevant properties at runtime to ensure the code path is valid.

It's on you to ensure that you don't misuse `as`. If I could choose between current TS, and a "safer" one that's less expressive in complex cases, I'd choose the current one any day of the week.
by throwaway652368 | 2025-04-15 18:51:52+00:00
The Shining is one of the most heavily analyzed films of all time, for good reason. It's not just some random Michael Bay flick. It's really almost unbelievable how deep the rabbit hole goes, so no, it's not surprising in the very least that people would spend time on a detail like this. If people 100 years ago weren't doing this kind of thing with films, it's because they didn't have access to films the way we do today, if The Shining was around 100 years ago and people had home computers they could play it on and could download it easily over the internet, you can be sure people would be analyzing it like crazy back then too.
by Elfener | 2025-04-15 18:52:52+00:00
- Respect the user's prefers-color-scheme (HN fails this one)

- Make sure your text is not to small (HN also fails this one spectacularly)

- Lines should not be longer than like 132ch

- There should be left and right margins as to not have letters directly on the edge of the screen.

- For fonts, I prefer that a site just uses "sans-serif", "serif", and "monospace", but most people don't choose their browser default fonts, so for a general audience I'm not sure on this
by Rendello | 2025-04-15 18:52:58+00:00
> But we don't know how to do that.

That's because that's not how it works. From brains to LLMs [1], training creates a dense network of pathways that encode information and procedures. I lack many of the pathways to speak Swahili, and no mythical combination of words will change that. If I want to learn Swahili, I'll have to deliberately train myself to do so, building up those pathways incrementally. Then comes the click.

1. https://xkcd.com/2173/
by allisonee | 2025-04-15 18:53:04+00:00
totally get where you're coming from--many big open source repos have also been using it for a while and have seen some FP but have generally felt that the quality overall was worth it. would love to continue having you try it out, but also understand that maintaining a FOSS project is a ton of work!

if you have specific feedback on the pr--feel free to email at contact@mrge.io and i'll take a look personally and see if we can adjust anything for your repo.

nice idea on the fully AI-generated PRs! something in our roadmap is to better highlight PRs or chunks that were likely auto-gened. stay tuned !
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-15 18:54:05+00:00
I picked that example exactly because it's infamously expensive, and I had recent direct experience.

A quick search for an arbitrary Friday and Saturday night next month gives a ton of options right around $300/night in Midtown, plus plenty under $300. I wanna say we paid around $220 or $240 a night. I did shop a little (maybe twenty minutes?) to find one that low that seemed pretty good (and was in fact pretty good)

My point is hitting $300/night in San Diego... and not even in a desirable location in San Diego, for a very-basic hotel... seems like an outlier, when you can get in (at least a little) under that in Midtown Manhattan of all places.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-15 18:54:06+00:00
> this is actually unfolding right in front of our eyes

One, it's not currently happening. It's being actively discussed. But to my knowledge, mass expulsion has not (yet) happened.

Two, many things happen despite being only popular with a minority. I haven't seen polling around Abrego Garcia's de facto kidnapping and illegal detention in El Salvador, but I doubt more than the baseline 20% or so of nutters (a) understand what's going on and (b) support it.
by dkarl | 2025-04-15 18:54:09+00:00
The purpose of the validation step is to get someone out of a reactive, unreasonable frame of mind into a frame of mind where you can start problem-solving together. It can feel condescending if they're already in a problem-solving frame of mind. "There, there, it's natural to be hysterical."

It's like when your team is sitting together handling an issue calmly and competently, and a manager strides into the room yelling, "Okay everybody, calm down! Everything's going to be okay. No need to panic." It shows that they aren't paying attention and don't appreciate the professionalism of the team.
by kamilms21 | 2025-04-15 18:54:17+00:00
Yesterday, everything kind of exploded for us at monity.ai.

We were accepted into the Google Cloud Startups program, hit #1 on Fazier.com, and ended up on the Indie Hackers homepage - all within the same 24 hours.

Monity is an AI-powered site monitoring tool. What makes it different is the agent system - users can define what should be tracked (text, layout, pricing, etc.) and prompt it with natural language like “let me know if this competitor changes anything about their pricing plan.”

This was unexpected momentum for us, and it raised some good questions: what should we focus on now — growth, deeper AI features, integrations? What’s the best way to handle this kind of early visibility?

I'm sharing here because the HN community has helped us shape a lot of our early thinking. If anyone has thoughts, feedback, or questions — I'm all ears.
by evanmoran | 2025-04-15 18:54:41+00:00
I recently took my son on a "GameStop run" to sell our super old PS4. He's 7 and never been to a store with video games before. So we jumped in the car and arrived at the store about 30 min north of Seattle just as the sun was setting. In the window were two kids in Taekwondo uniforms. Both were super nice to a younger kid and immediately let him play and gave him pro tips on how to do slide turns. We then sold the console for $50 and he immediately wanted to use the money to buy a giant Eevee squishmallow that was next to the checkout line. What can you do? :) Now he tells me the story as "remember that time we bought my Eevee and those karate kids gave me a quarter".

Having real places is still awesome. I know the finances don't really scale, but shoutout to Lynnwood GameStop for keeping it real out there.

And RIP RadioShack. You always had a hard drive when we needed one to reinstall windows during a lan party. holds up a glass
by trealira | 2025-04-15 18:55:32+00:00
Well, I believe you that there are lots of kids there that try to seem racist for 4chan cred, and I guess people would know not to post videos of themselves doing those illegal things.

But I remember they had stuff like "n*gger chimpout" compilation threads, and whenever people talk about what they blame on Jews, they seem to be actually bitter and angry, so they do seem legitimately racist. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a lot of overlap with the people who do commit those acts of violence you're talking about, but even if not, I don't think you could say they're not real racists just because they don't post videos of themselves committing violent hate crimes. The board is just diluted by low-effort threads and bait by users of other boards.
by codexon | 2025-04-15 18:55:35+00:00
> I feel too many people conflate /pol/ with the whole website.

Because it is the 2nd most active category, and the racist/alt-right beliefs have spread to the other boards because the head admin fires anyone that tries to moderate it.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-man-who-helped-turn-4cha...

On top of that, they actively delete and ban posts that go against alt-right.

I discussed it somewhat recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42276865#42283887
by marcusb | 2025-04-15 18:55:37+00:00
I had a customer once who would just absolutely berate people over email for the tiniest thing. Totally unbearable and unreasonable. So, whenever he would go off, I'd tell him 'look, I'll be in the area [this afternoon|later|whenever]. You going to be around if I stop by?' Any conversation with him that could be deflected to an in-person discussion could be peacefully resolved in short order. Trying to convince him of anything over phone or email was an exercise in frustration control.

I heard somebody say at a conference one time, talking about how much more productive in-person meetings are in reaching agreement, "there's a lot of bandwidth in a room". I think there's a lot of truth to that.

0 - ironically, this was at a ISP network engineering conference
by anon84873628 | 2025-04-15 18:55:53+00:00
>Nobody ever changes their opinion on things with anything remotely like a high degree of frequency, and that's not a particularly bad thing

For a great discussion of that, cue Slate Star Codex "Epistemic Learned Helplessness"

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/03/repost-epistemic-learn...
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-15 18:55:59+00:00
> People like Aaronson are smart enough not to directly say that

Doesn't that completely undermine the claim that students were being slandered as anti-Semites?

Like, yes, I'd prefer people thought nice things all the time. But if they're thinking something I consider mean, I'm happier with them keeping it to themselves. And if they won't, I prefer they call out a group versus attacking random individuals within it for being a member of that group.
by bb88 | 2025-04-15 18:56:24+00:00
The previous version wasn't "flood" routing. Because flood routing would have worked better. I called it "spray and pray" routing.

It was something like this:

1. Router repeats first

2. Weakest repeating device by signal strength next

What if both of those options are in a basement, or say have a damaged antenna, or are miles in the opposite direction of where you want the signal to go?

By simply putting up a router somewhere you might be severely impacting the comms of people at your edge.
by andrei_says_ | 2025-04-15 18:56:41+00:00
Funny thing is, the detection of any preference, for anything, is a readout of an emotional response.

People with brain injuries impacting emotional centers are unable to make any kind of choice and therefore don’t know what to calculate for.

https://youtu.be/T46bSyh0xc0?si=pX04LLKwMQuMtnH_

Mentioned at about 90seconds in of this lecture by George Lakoff.
by bmcahren | 2025-04-15 18:57:28+00:00
I'm pro-accessibility and have contributed privately to blind developer initiatives. Unfortunately Ubisoft insists on implement user-hostile accessibility that screams at the user using voice-to-text when they open their games and is quite difficult to get through even as an abled user.

How about Ubisoft work with Sony/Microsoft/Valve and get vision and hearing disability implemented at the device level rather than harassing abled users every new game which I'm sure through this frustration is contributing in some small way to these anti-intellectual movements against accessibility.
by RiverCrochet | 2025-04-15 18:57:29+00:00
- The first thing the great Internet consumed in the 90's (and earlier, really) was technical occupations and hobbies - people affiliated with those were likely amongst the first to spend a lot of time online and want to do things online like buy stuff.

- Anything small and where part numbers matter greatly is going to have advantages when sold and bought online. You'll be able to type in a part number and get a straight answer on cost and availability. This can also happen if a store has a good customer service representative but that stopped being a thing somewhere between 9/11 and the GFC of 2008 - also around the time Walmart had to raise it's starting wage to $10/hr. just to get people in the door.

- Less people are repairing electronics and less electronics are repairable. The way consumer electronics are built are different now than say in the 80's or 90's - components are often surface mount and often things are just a CPU/MCU+RAM+flash on a board with a bit of surrounding surface mount stuff.

- A lot of what used to be consumer electronics exists on everyone's smartphones. No more clock radios, walkmans, boomboxes, tape decks, VCRs, DVD/CD players, landline phones, etc. I would bet Bluetooth speakers have essentially replaced home stereos for many. One thing Radio Shack did sell was media and all forms of converter cables for home electronics and there just isn't a great need for that anymore with how everyone interacts with media now. Desktop PCs are niche now, non-gamer non-business laptops are disposable. Many just use their ISP router for WiFi. Home assistant stuff had to take on a friendlier, non-hacker image to gain acceptance.
by godelski | 2025-04-15 18:58:46+00:00
> You're missing my point entirely

The reason you're having a hard time communicating is because, honestly, you do not understand how these things work. You've made assumptions about how they work but be honest with yourself, could you code them up yourself? I don't mean gluing some libraries together, I mean straight up in C. I'm pretty sure the person you're responding to would say they couldn't (I sure couldn't!). Not because lack of experience in C but because they have a better understanding in all the details that goes into these things.

> How does a terminal emulator render text on the screen then? Your screen is made of pixels.

This alone says a lot, even if you don't know it. Do you know how pixels are painted on a screen? I know you got this thought in your head like "duh, you just give each one an RGB value". Great! But how do you determine what pixel gets what values? How do you define a letter? It is not just as easy as making a predefined box where you have constructed the letter inside. Look up ligatures. Now how do you do colors? How do you define different fonts? How do you scale? How do you scale without turning your text into a bunch of giant pixelated crap? Do me a favor, increase the font size on your terminal and keep going to a really ridiculous size. Then do the reverse, make it ridiculously small. Everything still should look sharp. You can't do that by having a predefined box that says where to shade and not shade without aliasing. It wouldn't look sharp when big nor small because even going small the interpolation methods are still going to introduce aliasing. To go big you either need a fucking gigantic image for each letter or something different.

You're not going to be able to communicate effectively because you're actively demonstrating to people that you think you know more about how these things work than you actually do. I get it. The modern way people learn CS and programming is so high level and there's this bad culture of being know-it-alls, as if there is some shame in not knowing how things work. Shit's complex. Stop pretending like it isn't. There's a huge difference in thinking "there's a lot of complexity here, I need to approximate and just get going" vs "shits easy". If you take the latter you'll never build anything of quality because the truth is that there's massive amounts of complexity even in the most mundane things. If you gain a deep expertise in any single one thing this truth will be self-evident. So thing is, by thinking things are easy you're more telling on yourself that you have no depth. It's fine to be a generalist, but a generalist can't be effective if they think depth doesn't exist. You might as well try walking in the middle of the ocean, because I mean, hey, you were able to walk around on the shore of the beach, why would it be any different?
by Avshalom | 2025-04-15 18:58:48+00:00
I dunno which postgres client you're thinking of but:

https://github.com/tau-prolog/tau-prolog

https://pyswip.org/ https://www.swi-prolog.org/packages/mqi/prologmqi.html

Unfortunately the tau site's certificate seems to have lapsed sometime in the last week or so, but I swear it's actually very good.
by mritun | 2025-04-15 18:58:51+00:00
> Google will eventually copy…

Weird take given Google basically invented and released through well written papers and open-source software the modern deep learning stack which all others build on.

Google was being disses because they failed to make any product and were increasingly looking like Kodak/Xerox one trick pony. It seems they have woken up from whatever slumber they were in
by firesteelrain | 2025-04-15 18:59:19+00:00
Understand. I was providing rationale on why he can be eligible for deportation under US immigration laws for green card holders.

But this is the kind of ilk that is being defended here. It was known 3 months ago that he was subject to deportation.

https://x.com/neveragainlive1/status/1885157904681926934?s=4...