MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sershe | 2025-04-28 00:44:25+00:00
I wrote JavaScript before libraries, I remember when prototype.js came out and was a cool new thing and actually useful after "client side validation and snowflakes chasing mouse cursor" era. I think there was a short period when it was a positive development.

It seemed so at the time but I think it didn't work out... Why is interesting to speculate about... My pet theory that convenient frameworks lowering the barriers were part of the problem.

I think if at it's time JavaScript went the way of java applets and ActiveX controls (and yes I understand part of the reason these could be driven out is availability of JavaScript), web would be in a much better shape right now. 90% of the apps (banking, email, forums, travel, etc) and 100% of the pages would just be plain better. For the remainder you'd just install an app, something they nag you about anyway.
by linsomniac | 2025-04-28 00:47:11+00:00
This is a funny opinion, because tools like Claude Code and Aider let the programmer spend more of their time thinking. The more time I spend diddling the keyboard, the less time I have available to be thinking about the high-level concerns.

If I can just thinking "Implement a web-delivered app that runs in the browser and uses local storage to store state, and then presents a form for this questionnaire, another page that lists results, and another page that graphs the results of the responses over time", and that's ALL I have to think about, I now have time to think about all sorts of other problems.

That's literally all I had to do recently. I have chronic sinusitis, and wanted to start tracking a number of metrics from day to day, using the nicely named "SNOT-22" (Sino-Nasal Outcome Test, I'm not kidding here). In literally 5 minutes I had a tool I could use to track my symptoms from day to day. https://snot-22.linsomniac.com/

I asked a few follow-ups ("make it prettier", "let me delete entries in the history", "remember the graph settings"). I'm not a front-end guy at all, but I've been programming for 40 years.

I love the craft of programming, but I also love having an idea take shape. I'm 5-7 years from retirement (knock on wood), and I'm going to spend as much time thinking, and as little time typing in code, as possible.

I think that's the difference between "software engineer" and "programmer". ;-)
by BandButcher | 2025-04-28 00:47:16+00:00
Although the article focuses on amateur athletes, i doubt it hasn't hit the pros yet in some way.

Not the first article I've read preaching good Testomonies/anecdotes on ozempic and the like either

I'm still wary about major side effects but rarely do I hear of them... maybe deep down inside I want there to be some because i simply cant believe a drug is this revolutionary
by mncharity | 2025-04-28 00:47:26+00:00
> share as well to feel good about it. But

I wish to share, but not to helicopter parent. I've long felt this case ill served, from 1995 Perl CPAN's "you own the package name" (vs author-packagename-version triples), to 2025 github's impoverished support for communities of forks. No "past me wrote this; present me frees it to jam; future me isn't involved - play well together, and maybe someday I'll listen in or drop by". The emphasis has been on human ownership/control of code, and of limited human collaboration, rather than on code getting out there, building friendships and communities, having fun and flourishing with the humans.
by tomrod | 2025-04-28 00:47:35+00:00
Absolutely nuts: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/305558927

Though, I'm not sure how good finishing technology was back then, this could have been faked.

I really wonder why we can't get a clear answer on whether these are really extraterrestrial or just advanced tech. One would imagine if it were a conspiracy that it would have leaked in full by now.
by anonfordays | 2025-04-28 00:48:16+00:00
>The CIS is a joke of an organization and unsurprisingly their “research” is just the same vibe racism you can find on any right wing message board.

The research is well founded and not debunked. There are numerous other sources cited besides CIS. Dr. Camarota earned a PhD in public policy analysis and has testified before Congress 30 times on the economic, fiscal, and demographic impact of immigration. Your ad homnim isn't helping your case. Nothing they've stated is racist.

>Camarota previously claimed in a similarly ‘published’ paper that 2/3 of the jobs created under Obama went to illegal immigrants.

Link to this?
by fugalfervor | 2025-04-28 00:48:41+00:00
> if you are going to admit that a) people who are not supposed to vote do vote

They do. And the system already functions: their votes are caught and discarded.

> b) argue that laws to penalize such votes don't work

I didn't argue that. I argued against voter ID laws, which are not "laws that penalize such voters". Those laws already exist, catch fraud, and penalize those who commit fraud intentionally. Those who do so accidentally have their votes discarded. There's no evidence the existing laws are insufficient. The available evidence shows that incidences of voter fraud are rare in the USA.

> you sound about as partisan as they do ( and merely arguing for 'your' side ). Just sayin

What? I haven't argued for a side. I have spoken what I understand based on the research I have done. I have cited sources in other posts. I don't like being accused of being partisan when I'm basically just repeating the conclusions of those who have studied this. Knowledge isn't partisan.
by AyyEye | 2025-04-28 00:49:09+00:00
This makes the assumptions that:

A: The ticket was valid in the first place

B: The Speeding was reckless

I have a friend who got an entirely fabricated ticket claiming he was doing 80+ going uphill on an on-ramp in an early 90s toyota corolla with four people and four desktops + a couple of CRTs. We weren't going faster than ~35. Ticket said it was radar verified but he was sitting on his hood eating a sandwich.

Other times going the speed limit when traffic is going significantly faster is reckless (I'm looking at you, Atlanta). Cops in places like that love to ticket out of town/state plates.
by cormorant | 2025-04-28 00:49:35+00:00
The full relevant book was: "A guide for highway traffic regulation in an emergency". https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ien.35556021306899&se...

The Maintain Top Safe Speed thing was envisioned for transiting across fallout-contaminated areas in the weeks and months afterwards. It prescribes there would be cops stationed at the ends of such routes, limiting the flow of cars entering so that those within the stretch would not be congested and could go fast.
by neom | 2025-04-28 00:50:01+00:00
You can't put much faith in screenshots or chatgpt share-links: https://chatgpt.com/share/680ed17d-fca4-800f-93e2-38b3ff2da4... / https://chatgpt.com/share/680ed088-5f74-800f-8b7b-f12948fa9e...
by aftbit | 2025-04-28 00:50:25+00:00
If a person appears 20 meters from my hood while I'm on the interstate, they're toast, whether I'm going 100 km/h or 150. Surely the unpredictable can happen at any moment with other cars, but I find follow distance more important than speed. If you're bumper to bumper at 100 km/h, you're going to have a worse time than if you give 10 cars space at 150 km/h.
by vkou | 2025-04-28 00:51:19+00:00
> My argument is that tracking, inhibitors, etc should be too far for the other cases,

I'm sure the judge is more qualified than you are to make this determination.

But if you disagree, let me pose a simple question:

In a situation when a judge would suspend someone's license.

Why are you opposed to giving them this as an alternative? (If they refuse to comply with this, the judge would happily offer them the suspension instead.)

How is it any of your business to prevent someone from choosing this as a lesser punishment? All the harms you've listed are harms to the defendant, but for most defendants, they pale in comparison to the harm of a suspension.

Ankle bracelet monitors have all the same concerns that you've listed, yet you'd be hard pressed to find someone who would prefer sitting in prison over being ordered by a court to wear one. If the lesser punishment serves the desires of the prosecution and the courts, and the defendant agrees to it, why do either of them need your consent?
by tzs | 2025-04-28 00:51:36+00:00
This is in response to your comment here [1] rather than the comment above, because the former was flagged to death so can't be responded to directly.

> So these haters criticize Elon in his early years for Tesla taking a government loan that they paid back early with interest. And now they criticize him for supposedly cutting the program that they criticize.

You are rather confused. They are not criticizing the program or Musk for using it. They think it is a good program.

They are criticizing Musk for cutting it because they think it should remain available so that other long shot energy projects can be funded the same way Tesla was funded.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43812131
by martin-t | 2025-04-28 00:51:43+00:00
Your argument contains multiple fallacies.

You first act as if the current situation is the best we can do by pretending that no alternative can be better by implying that any alternative is naive.

I attempt to be reasonable and explain in good faith.

Yet then you admit the current situation doesn't work while at the same time continue acting as if a solution is impossible by pretending any attempt at a solution is worse without actually giving any specific criticisms.

On top, you:

1) (Probably intentionally) misrepresent what I said - I never said I wanted a violent revolution, I warn about it.

2) Mock me.

EDIT: Oh and I just noticed you attacked another commenter for absolutely no reason[0]. I would very much like to understand your goals because without further explanation, just going by your behavior here, they seem diametrically opposed to a better society for no valid reason.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43814782

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If you have a constructive argument to make, I encourage you to do so.
by throwup238 | 2025-04-28 00:54:20+00:00
The majority of studies on the long term side effects have so far been with diabetic patients who tend to have better maintained diets. It’ll probably work even better with athletes who have good diets and all that exercise.

The anecdotal reports coming from some sources like plastic surgeons (they specifically were talking about skin and muscle elasticity) may signal some discovery coming down the pipeline for the average person who takes Ozempiv without improving their diet to account for the protein deficit.
by foundry27 | 2025-04-28 00:54:29+00:00
I just tried the same puzzle in o3 using the same image input, but tweaked the prompt to say “don’t use the search tool”. Very similar results!

It spent the first few minutes analyzing the image and cross-checking various slices of the image to make sure it understood the problem. Then it spent the next 6-7 minutes trying to work through various angles to the problem analytically. It decided this was likely a mate-in-two (part of the training data?), but went down the path that the key to solving the problem would be to convert the position to something more easily solvable first. At that point it started trying to pip install all sorts of chess-related packages, and when it couldn’t get that to work it started writing a simple chess solver in Python by hand (which didn’t work either). At one point it thought the script had found a mate-in-six that turned out to be due to a script bug, but I found it impressive that it didn’t just trust the script’s output - instead it analyzed the proposed solution and determined the nature of the bug in the script that caused it. Then it gave up and tried analyzing a bit more for five more minutes, at which point the thinking got cut off and displayed an internal error.

15 minutes total, didn’t solve the problem, but fascinating! There were several points where if the model were more “intelligent”, I absolutely could see it reasoning it out following the same steps.
by caseyy | 2025-04-28 00:56:13+00:00
From my experience, about 1-2 in 10 co-founders are like that. They bring negotiation and networking to the table and demand compensation that no hardworking and honest co-founder would ever ask.

I think Sturgeons law applies to co-founders, and if you haven't spoken to at least 20, you are likely talking to the crap ones. Not all crap ones demand excessive compensation, there are other types of crap. But there is a huge difference between the ones that will be good for business and the others.
by -__---____-ZXyw | 2025-04-28 00:56:18+00:00
Any good suggestions for trustworthy and non-propagandistic books that go into this?

I've only read one excellent (French, translated) collection of the writing of Alexandra Kollontai, and otherwise nothing much of length on the topic. Kollontai was already enough to suspect that the usual simplistic narrative as whispered by our interlocuteur here might not be the whole story whatsoever.
by cmurf | 2025-04-28 00:56:18+00:00
Archive:

https://archive.is/9YRhe

Toomas Hendrik Ilves, former president of Estonia, posted this article (with gift link) with the comment:

This is of course bizarre and crazy, but since it's the US's National Security Council, it's not something to read and just say, "wow, that's just nuts!"

THIS insanity shouldn't just scare Americans. Given the power of the US it should scare the whole world.

https://bsky.app/profile/ilvestoomas.bsky.social/post/3lntiz...
by fpoling | 2025-04-28 00:56:20+00:00
Vale is interesting, https://vale.dev/

For memory safety compared with Rust it does not use a borrow checker for the price of more checks and extra memory usage at runtime while avoiding GC or even reference counting.

I think this is very interesting trade off. Plus there are plans to implement few interesting ideas that even Rust type system cannot implement while keeping the language simple.
by acedia000 | 2025-04-28 00:56:45+00:00
No offence to the author, but this feels like a pretty poorly planned study at virtually every data point. To start, there's little in the first place to suggest anything resembling a causal relationship between "open-world design" (which runs a pretty wide gamut of potential definitions, formal or otherwise, and is questionably encompassed by the similarly named genre tag on IGDB) and Metacritic scores. The hypothesis itself has a bunch of untested assumptions in it, none of which are relevant to "open-world design", which the rest of the study either completely glosses over or fails to account for. Et cetera...

I personally don't believe games are getting worse. From my perspective, as someone who makes them and plays a lot of them, sometimes for the sake of making them, sometimes for the sake of playing them, sometimes both, games are not really that much better or worse than they have been historically, in terms of what they are able to offer individually as pieces of entertainment and artistic craftsmanship.

But I do think tastes have changed tremendously, and more than that, the ways in which people talk about playing games, and how they actually go about talking about playing games (from a mechanical/technological perspective), have changed even more tremendously. There's a lot more public scrutiny now, and a lot of that scrutiny, because of the way social media platforms, where people talk about stuff, tend to work, that scrutiny is simultaneously much more intense and broader in effect, which makes things FEEL a lot worse than they are.

I think there's also a lot of nostalgia from people who grew up in one media generation and now, as more risk-averse, time- and attention-starved adults, they bemoan the fact that things have not only changed from that, but that they're different and cater to a different audience, which is not them, with different tastes, which are not theirs.
by xpe | 2025-04-28 00:58:04+00:00
This kind of debate isn't that unusual, is it? To figure out what calculation to use, one has to made tradeoffs about desirable properties such as resilience to outliers, being bias-free, and/or having the best predictive performance in least-squared error. Bringing some grizzled statisticians into the conversation will probably clear a lot up. They are familiar with the pros and cons of various measures of central tendency.

In the era of multivariate models, machine learning, and AI, some of the classic wisdom from good-old linear modeling gets overlooked.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-04-28 00:58:15+00:00
Speed limits in the US have a particular problem. The speed limits are set too close to the speed people are expected to drive.

If the typical traffic speed on some highway is 65 MPH and someone is driving 76 MPH, that... isn't much different. It's not some night and day distinction where you can objectively say that 65 is perfectly safe and 76 is recklessly dangerous. The variation in stopping distance between those speeds is less than it is between one car and another from the same speed.

The normal way you resolve this sort of thing in the law is by setting a legal limit which is objectively reckless, e.g. by setting the speed limit to 125 MPH. Then you aren't actually expected to drive 124 MPH, you're still expected to drive around 65 MPH, but we can reasonably say that if you're caught doing 130 there you're deserving of some penalties.

However, that doesn't generate fine revenue because then hardly anyone actually drives that fast. What generates fine revenue is setting the speed limit there to 55 MPH even while the median traffic speed is still 65 MPH, and then doing only enough enforcement to make sure people don't follow the law. You maximize revenue when everyone is "speeding" all the time and all you have to do is post a patrol car there once in a while and rake in the dough. But that also makes it unjust to impose harsh penalties for it because then receiving a citation is a matter of bad luck rather than doing something outside the bounds of reasonable and expected behavior.
by cryptonector | 2025-04-28 00:59:04+00:00
The NetApp lawsuit. Apple wanted indemnification, and Sun/Oracle did not want to indemnify Apple.

At the time that NetApp filed its lawsuit I blogged about how ZFS was a straightforward evolution of BSD 4.4's log structured filesystem. I didn't know that to be the case historically, that is, I didn't know if Bonwick was inspired by LFS, but I showed how almost in every way ZFS was a simple evolution of LFS. I showed my blog to Jeff to see how he felt about it, and he didn't say much but he did acknowledge it. The point of that blog was to show that there was prior art and that NetApp's lawsuit was worthless. I pointed it out to Sun's general counsel, too.
by aduffy | 2025-04-28 00:59:29+00:00
These are not new releases, here's Reddit from a year ago people discussing them: https://old.reddit.com/r/StrangeEarth/comments/1aru95c/these...

Search for "The Amalgamated Flying Saucer Club of America", there's a lot of discussion that these photos may have been a hoax. I'm not sure why these would be just getting release by National Archives now, perhaps as a distraction?
by t1amat | 2025-04-28 01:01:51+00:00
But that’s just it: 300 good lines of reasonably complex working code in an hour vs o4-mini can churn out 600 lines of perfectly compilable code in less than 2 minutes, including the time it takes me to assemble the context with a tool such as repomix (run locally) or pulling markdown docs with Jina Reader.

The reality is, we humans just moved one level up the chain. We will continue to move up until there isn’t anywhere for us to go.
by throw16180339 | 2025-04-28 01:01:53+00:00
Are you referring to the Trump government's treatment of trans people?

RFK views autistics as undesirables, so it's absurd to believe that he'll be any nicer to us.

> “These are kids who will never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball, they’ll never write a poem, they’ll never go on a date, many of them will never use a toilet unassisted,”

What makes more sense is that he's collecting our personal information for imprisonment and execution.
by wkat4242 | 2025-04-28 01:02:37+00:00
There's always two sides to one story. And Jobs was not the kind of person to take no for an answer. I've known other narcissists and they've always seen friends as more of a resource than someone to care about.

I think the truth is somewhere in the middle.

Another rumour was that Schwartz spilling the beans pissed Jobs off, which I wouldn't really put past him. Though I don't think it would have been enough to kill this.

I think all these little things added up and the end result was just "better not then".
by bitwize | 2025-04-28 01:02:41+00:00
I'm an AI skeptic but this is AI doing its job.

Because there's AI as in "letting ChatGPT do the hard bits of programming or writing for me", for which it is woefully unsuited, and there's AI as in using machine learning as a statistical approach, which it fundamentally is. It's something you can pour data into and let the machine find how the data clump together, so you can investigate potential causative relationships the Mark I eyeball might have missed.

I'm excited for the possibilities these uses of AI might bring.
by kasajian | 2025-04-28 01:03:00+00:00
Even the first of Visual C++ was a professional C/C++ compiler. That's been the same Microsoft compiler they've been selling for years for $500. The previous version was just called Microsoft C/C++ 7.0.

It wasn't in any way a "toy". What I think you're talking about is that Microsoft was pushing the "Visual" aspect of the IDE that it was trying to copy from Visual Basic, but with MFC, and was doing a sucky job at it. You didn't have to use it. Most of us didn't.
by Narishma | 2025-04-28 01:03:31+00:00
> I was seriously hampered by the fact that this compiler couldn't produce text mode executables (any call to printf opened its own new window that definitely wasn't cmd.exe) and it couldn't set the graphics mode for blitting pixels.

This is incorrect. Visual C++ definitely could do all those things, it was in no way a toy. You probably had it mis-configured somehow.
by MyPasswordSucks | 2025-04-28 01:04:20+00:00
> I didn't say anything along those lines.

It seems like you're arguing against the statement that "This generation [which we'll assume refers to millenials] has the lowest mental toughness".

Then - again, by my reading here, so correct me if I'm misinterpreting you - you attempt to support your counterpoint with a list of events which - while certainly not great - pale, in my opinion, to the day-to-day fear of atomic war and the very real knowledge that even as things stand (e.g., without atomic war), your birthday could still be picked tomorrow, and within months you'll be shipped off to the killing fields. Simply put, it's possible for a thing to be bad, but not as-bad as another thing.

I don't think previous generations were under any illusion of societal stability, except possibly the baby boomers - and they had 'Nam, JFK/MLK, Kent State, Watergate, and COINTELPRO to snap them out of that.

Even with all the events you mention, US society is still far more stable than it was in the past. Of course, it'll seem much less stable if one only chooses to focus on the unstable, but I think it's fair to label that a you-problem.
by blendo | 2025-04-28 01:05:07+00:00
I’ve seen cars improve a lot over that last 10-20 years. Faster, smoother, quieter, and safer, they can cruise all day at 80-90 mph.

Sadly, this is completely incompatible with 25 mph city speed limits. Thus, the need for engineering kludges like automotive speed limiters.

I’d really like a new vehicle classification, perhaps along the lines of Medium Speed Electric Vehicles. Designed with a top speed of 40 to 45 mph, they might make a reasonable primary vehicle for many, and a good second car for even more.