MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by reaperducer | 2025-04-25 22:55:22+00:00
I hate to tell you, but a lot of them didn't thrive. Some of them didn't even survive.

Citation needed.

Maybe we shouldn't pretend that a small number of exceptions are the norm. Nobody is saying that every child had a completely happy childhood. But there's absolutely nothing wrong with not being entertained 100% of the time. Being bored is a good thing.

Just because maybe you had a great childhood, doesn't mean everybody did. Let's not look at the past through rose-tinted glasses.

I think you're projecting.
by consumer451 | 2025-04-25 22:55:37+00:00
I really don't know where to begin answering this.

It is generally accepted that business profit is taxed. Meanwhile, there are entire industries and tax havens set up to help corporations and their executives avoid paying taxes.[0]

However, the crux of my comment was not about the vagaries of corporate taxation, it was simply about "AI alignment" being more about the creators, than the entire species.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Corporate_tax_avoidan...
by dmix | 2025-04-25 22:56:56+00:00
There was a series of other steps in the case before she let the guy use a door the public never uses. Including rushing his case through after confronting the agents and adjourning it without notifying the attorneys present in the court room. She instructed him through the door before the basic administrative tasks of the case were done.

If the details of what their witness (court deputy) says is true then it's pretty obvious what happened here.

Whether the government should give State judges that leeway is another issue.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-25 22:57:40+00:00
> a simple carbon tax would be miles better than the complex morass of regulations we currently have

Doesn't this just punt the morass into the magic variable of one's carbon footprint?

How about this: fleet efficiency standards are stupid, anachronistic and counterproductive. Scrap them. Then, separarately, create a consumer-side rebate based on a vehicle's mileage. (Because a gas tax breaks American brains.)
by crote | 2025-04-25 22:58:48+00:00
Illegal border crossings are a distraction. The vast majority of "illegal immigrants" entered legally and overstayed their visa. This makes "radically altering the number of people entering illegally" a fairly meaningless achievement in practice.

For all we know those very same people who would have crossed the border illegally are now spending the extra money to enter legally and overstay: same number of incoming "illegal immigrants", but via different pathways.
by nullc | 2025-04-25 23:00:27+00:00
meh, the compiler can almost always eliminate the spurious default initialization because it can prove that first use is the variable being set by the real initialization. The only time the redundant initialization will be emitted by an optimizing compiler is when it can't prove its redundant.

I think the better reason to not default initialize as a part of the language syntax is that it hides bugs.

If the developers intent is that the correct initial state is 0 they should just explicitly initialize to zero. If they haven't, then they must intend that the correct initial state is the dynamic one in their code and the compiler silently slipping in a 0 in cases the programmer overlooked is a missed opportunity to detect a bug due to the programmer under-specifying the program.
by Jensson | 2025-04-25 23:01:18+00:00
The most important part is to get the people on your side, that is how you win. If an action results in less support for your side then you shouldn't do it if you want to win, it hurts you.

So all I am saying, stop hurting yourself, that only help your enemies. It is not me hurting you, it is you hurting you. This was how the Democrats lost the election, it wasn't Trump that won it was Democrats that lost it by hurting themselves over and over.
by mft_ | 2025-04-25 23:02:32+00:00
Manufacturers must hit a level of CO2 emissions on average across their whole fleet. As such, Suzuki is choosing to discontinue the Jimny because of the tougher fleet average targets starting in 2025. Overall you’re right that it’s a bit of a fix; Mercedes ‘pools’ its emissions with other manufacturers/brands. It currently pools with Smart, but may also pool with Volvo/Polestar? [0] It’s such an obvious approach to ‘game’ the targets, it’s a wonder the EU didn’t see it coming when they introduced the scheme. [0] https://www.schmidtmatthias.de/post/mercedes-benz-intends-to...
Show HN: Photo.codes – Free, privacy-first photo editor for the web
by ozdemirdev | 2025-04-25 23:03:19+00:00
Hi! I built a free, privacy-first photo editor that runs entirely in your browser. No downloads, no accounts needed. It supports non-destructive editing and lets you create, save, and share custom presets easily. Covers most essential tools like exposure, contrast, color grading, and more. Would love to hear your feedback!
Show HN: We are building Cursor for tweets
by JoschuaBuilds | 2025-04-25 23:03:20+00:00
What's up HN!

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Imagine Cursor just for writing tweets.

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We are still early but right now you can set up your personal knowledge base and turn any information you add into "ready to post" tweets with just one click.

It's a really fun way to brainstorm post ideas that are also formatted in a proven post format (using viral tweets for that).

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by crote | 2025-04-25 23:05:43+00:00
Ah, sorry, missed that detail. I should've said "why wouldn't the ICE agents likewise be arrested"

> ICE does not have authority to arrest citizens

ICE has the authority to arrest and deport illegal immigrants, does it not? That's why they were at the courtroom in the first place. If said citizen has zero interest in disproving ICE's belief that they aren't an illegal immigrant, who's going to stop ICE from arresting them?
by timewizard | 2025-04-25 23:06:14+00:00
> And no one is asking the relevant authorities to ignore their duties to enforce immigration policy.

I take a look at Los Angeles policy, which was recently ensconced into law, and it does specifically require authorities to ignore their duties. It even requires them to interfere in them.

They cannot, even if if they incidentally know a persons immigration status, contact immigration authorities with that information. If the immigration authorities find out anyways they are required to prevent those authorities from even _interviewing_ the subject let alone take them into custody. If requested to participate in any sort of joint operation they must decline just because it's the federal immigration authorities.

> and that they'd prefer to have the rest of the apparatus of government function

If that were the case then only the first restriction above would need to exist. Instead they literally provide an active shield against any enforcement of these federal laws and directly interfere with that function.

> for undocumented people.

If the city is so willing to shield this class of people from federal immigration enforcement then why aren't they also willing to then document them on their own terms? It seems inappropriate and careless to me and leaves these people in a slightly worse place than they were without the sanctuary status. It also makes it look like their primary concern is frustrating federal law and not truly caring for a desperate class of people.
by eightysixfour | 2025-04-25 23:06:32+00:00
> 20 gallons/mile

I did a double take here, I believe you mean miles per gallon?

> We all know the answer (no way in hell). Hydrogen, bio fuels, efuels, etc. don't really stand any chance economically. None whatsoever. This is just greenwashing noise. None of that stuff is going to scale or matter.

Disagree, you seem to only be considering cars. All of these things are just different forms of energy storage and they are useful if battery technology doesn’t have multiple orders of magnitude of improvement left in it.

There are numerous high impact use cases where you need more density, faster energy transfer, and completely different weight profiles than batteries.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-04-25 23:06:43+00:00
I found it fairly unreadable, but I made the mistake of clicking some of his hyperlinks and seeing that it's a pile of angry ranting for years on end. Reminds me of the Tesla short reports that used to provide the stock trading space.

The point about repairability is ripe for discussion though, although it's quite well known with Teslas. It's a wider trend as well, with contributing factors from other individual companies like Lucid and Rivian, and also a new technologies like megacasting, and design choices like centerpiece (and ultra expensive) headlight arrays. The knock on effects like rising insurance costs are also significant.
by jpiech | 2025-04-25 23:06:48+00:00
Thanks. This is just a set of features that offer better (sometimes significantly better) performance and make it possible to work with large data sets in some predictable way, that is, knowing what the performance is with 100K formulas, you should be able to estimate how it'll work with 10 millions no matter how much formatting is applied, added hyperlinks, links to external closed workbooks, lists etc. That is probably correct, in the upcoming years there might be no way to compete directly with (the standalone) Excel. Hopefully it just helps to perform or verify various things way faster than in Excel with add-ins (or often at all).
Show HN: An iOS app to share event plans with close friends/family called 12x
by andrewfromx | 2025-04-25 23:07:02+00:00
The idea for this app came after my wife and I took our four kids on a Saturday to get their passports. It was an adventure. And despite the obvious bad parts, long lines, whining, etc. there were some great moments too. For example, me and two of the younger kids (age 5 and 8) waited in the waiting area and played twenty questions for an hour. Total strangers that happened to be there joined in the game with us.

When it was all over and we were back home in front of our screens I realized it had been a LONG time since we all did something as a family like that. And I got to thinking: how often should we do an event like that? I settled on once a month or 12x a year. The app is called 12x. Video demo here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1gVzxt3D0Y

Open source here:

https://github.com/andrewarrow/12x

Still waiting for iOS App Store approval.

The idea of 12x is you and your family all edit a calendar with just 12 events possible, one for each month. But there is no backend to this app. No central server to avoid data privacy issues and cost. Instead it uses bluetooth to sync changes anyone makes to the calendar.

It keeps a history so if family member A keeps writing over family member B's ideas, at least you never lose data. It's all still there somewhere as you struggle as a family to agree on what is the next event. But just sitting home on screens again this month should not be an option.

There's also some fun to being able to make changes and then "force" them upon someone near you. App works for a group of close friends vs family too.

The 5 year old loves clicking that "Send to Phone" button on his iPad and seeing the progress bar go. 12x - get out there just 12 times a year.
by mceachen | 2025-04-25 23:07:59+00:00
Driving with your lights off at dusk or dark gets you (rightfully) pulled over by law enforcement in CA. It's well-correllated with driving under the influence.

I'm a huge fan of many car safety regulations, but this isn't one.

(Sign me up for car-hiding-in-blind-spot notification lights on side mirrors, though, those are great)
by mrguyorama | 2025-04-25 23:08:29+00:00
>Backup cameras are mandatory, so you need an electronic pixel display somewhere.

The vast vast majority of backup cameras ARE analog, including all the little one inch cubes you see poorly mounted on the back of sedans, and including the ones VW/Audi uses.

You could in fact plug their signal into a tube TV from the 50s. You might lose some overlay features.

If you want any one of:

Smooth running. Reliable start. Smooth Throttle application and resistance to all the problems we had with carbs. Airbags. Automatic management of cold weather performance.

Then you REQUIRE electronic actuators, sensors, and microcontrollers.

How many people know what a "Choke" is anymore?
by cmurf | 2025-04-25 23:08:51+00:00
See also advice from an attorney with subject matter expertise:

If you work for the FAA, and you were forced to sign an NDA that prohibits post-employment disclosures of anything other than classified information, please call a lawyer.

NOW.

https://bsky.app/profile/bradmossesq.bsky.social/post/3lnobz...
by bryanlarsen | 2025-04-25 23:09:37+00:00
Canada's implementation had two problems:

1. The textbook implementation involves 3 parts: tax, rebate and tariff. Canada only did the first 2. They were in talks with Germany/EU to create a carbon tariff zone, but that never happens. Without the tariff the carbon tax is massively unfair to local producers.

2. The rebates were almost invisible. If they would have been cheques in the mail it would have had much more impact psychologically.

But I agree, the main problem was denialism and its use as a political cudgel. It should be hard to argue that carbon tax is stealing money when all of it is given back, but they successfully did that.
by ben_w | 2025-04-25 23:10:58+00:00
Nearly two years ago I was at the We Are Developers conference in Berlin; one of the talks was by someone who cloned their own voice, connected it to a messenger (IIRC WhatsApp but it doesn't matter), and had it listen to voice messages, pass through to an LLM prompted to answer in his style, and synthesise a voice answer.

Apparently it worked too well, as it was replying in less than the time it would take a human to listen to the input message. And it fooled people who knew him.
by worik | 2025-04-25 23:11:03+00:00
> I really believe in the importance of praising people and acknowledging their efforts, when they are...

alive!

At a funeral of a controversial activist, where all the living activist sang their praise, I watch their child stand up and say "...where were you all when my dad was alive"

I now go out of my way to tell people I admire them, if I do, while they are still here.
by somethingsome | 2025-04-25 23:11:15+00:00
I like the idea of having automatic code creation from papers, but I’m scared of it.

Suppose you get a paper, you automatically implement the code, and then modify it a bit with a novel idea, and publish your paper. Then somebody else does that with your paper, and does the same.. at some point, we will have a huge quantity of vibe coded code on github, and two similar papers will have very different underlying implementations, so hard to reason about and hard to change.

From a learning perspective, you try to understand the code, and it's all spaghetti, and you loose more time understanding the code than it would take to just reimplement it. You also learn a lot by not only reading the paper but reading the authors code where most of the small details reside.

And I'm not even talking about the reliability of the code, test to know that it's the correct implementation. Authors try to make papers as close as possible to the implementation but sometimes subtle steps are removed, sometimes from inadvertance, sometimes because the number of pages is lionmited.

A paper and an implementation are not one-to-one mappings
by flanked-evergl | 2025-04-25 23:12:21+00:00
Bowie disregarded everything but himself. It's not difficult to disregard this outlook on the world, because it is not even an outlook on the world, it's more akin to a denial of the world.

"The man who destroys himself creates the universe. To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea. When he looks at all the faces in the street, he does not only realize that men are alive, he realizes with a dramatic pleasure that they are not dead."

Yet, Bowie could not ever quite make a convincing case that he believed other people are not dead, or at least that their existence was anything more significant than their non-existence because for him, all significance came from him and him alone.
by SecretDreams | 2025-04-25 23:12:25+00:00
> How about this: fleet efficiency standards are stupid, anachronistic and counterproductive. Scrap them. Then, separarately, create a consumer-side rebate based on a vehicle's mileage. (Because a gas tax breaks American brains.)

It's a good concept that is also ripe for abuse with anyone who has some amount of "fuck your rules" money. Same reason why fines that don't scale with income/earnings in some form often do nothing to deter "the rich".

I certainly like carrots more than sticks, but we need a couple of sticks as well.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-04-25 23:12:53+00:00
The point was that conceding to the over-reactive label isn't a viable strategy The people of 1955 - just 10 years after WW2 - realized that taking a stand, even against a salami was the better strategy than avoiding the over-reactive label.

Why re-use a strategy that, when we tried it, led to Nazi Germany? Do we expect it to succeed this time?
by adultSwim | 2025-04-25 23:13:20+00:00
There is an upcoming paper about a difficult pair of prompts.

What is the first digit of the following number: 01111111111111111...1111

What is the last digit of the following number: 11111111111...111111110

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As a reader, which do you imagine to be harder? For both, with arbitrary length, they always get it wrong. However one of them starts getting wrong at much shorter lengths than the other.
by vFunct | 2025-04-25 23:13:45+00:00
Why is Elon trying to implement infrastructure using wireless networking like Starlink? Wireless networking is unreliable and low bandwidth. It should only be used as an emergency backup system only. It should never be used as a primary communications network for critical systems like FAA air traffic control.

The original contract with Verizon to implement fiber optic infrastructure is the correct one.
by tialaramex | 2025-04-25 23:14:21+00:00
I'm not a compiler developer but I'm at least as skeptical as you because there is no sign that the "just stop exploiting UB" people actually want any specific semantics, IMO they want Do What I Mean, which isn't a realizable language feature.

If you could somehow "stop exploiting UB" they'd just be angry either that you're still exploiting an actual language requirement they don't like and so have decided ought to be excluded or that you followed the rules too literally and obviously the thing they meant ought to happen even though that's not what they actually wrote. It's lose-lose for compiler vendors.
by kingbob000 | 2025-04-25 23:15:03+00:00
Yes, UVU. And also yes. If I find myself needing something low-level and performant, I have a hard time justifying the ramp-up time required to use D since there is a near zero chance I would use it in my current or future employment. While that isn't always how I decide what technologies to use in my personal time, it definitely is a factor that tips the scales towards a more mainstream language
by jiggawatts | 2025-04-25 23:15:40+00:00
It's genuinely hard to politely state how big an underachievement this press release is describing. One show! One language! ONE! This is a megacorp with 14,000 staff showing this off like a three year old proudly holding up an ugly finger painting of an amorphous blob. They're the 'N' in FAANG, not some tiny startup with limited resources!

Stand back and try to look at this objectively, from the perspective of the "core product" of Netflix. What is it that customers are actually buying from them?

It is just video with audio and text.

That's it. That's all it really is. Everything else is just overhead of some sort, a mechanism for the customers getting to that video, audio, and text.

I bet there's thousands of overpaid staff in there busy rearranging the layout of some metrics dashboard for management that has never bothered to even look at it. I bet there's dozens if not hundreds of AI/ML engineers, not one of which has bothered to run the subtitles through an LLM to strip out the SDH parts.

This is why startups succeed and megacorps fail. They lose their vision, they lose sight of their core products, they stop delivering quality to their customers and instead focus 99% of their efforts on internal bullshit that has zero effect on what the customers experience.

The customer experience of Netflix subtitles is objectively terrible, and they've failed to fix it for a decade, despite having over ten thousand staff and a budget measured in billions.

PS: Note that they said "for Netflix originals". They won't bother to fix the subtitles for anything they didn't make themselves!
by adolph | 2025-04-25 23:16:27+00:00
> It's entirely plausible that a politically motivated set of agents decided to punish this judge.

Do you mean the agents decided to punish the judge by staging an immigration arrest in order to elicit allegedly unlawful and weird behavior?

The assertions of the affidavit do not have bearing upon whether the proceedings afterward are political in nature or not.

The judge adjourned the alleged wife beater’s hearing without a motion known to the victims or prosecution who were all there waiting. Leaving everything else aside, that is behavior that indicates prejudice for the defendant, a real WTF move.
by jasp402 | 2025-04-25 23:16:58+00:00
¡Hola a todos!

Resulta que en el finde largo de Pascua, mis planes eran básicamente... existir frente al PC. Ya saben, sin pasta y con la agenda social más vacía que el historial de navegación en modo incógnito.

En una de esas, me topé con el viejo problema: necesitaba un visor JSON decente y los que encontraba... bueno, digamos que me dejaban con ganas de más (o de tirar el monitor por la ventana, según el día).

Así que me dije: "¡Manos al teclado!" ⌨ En lugar de refunfuñar por lo que hay, ¿por qué no intentar crear uno propio? Justo tenía acceso a v0 y era la excusa perfecta para ponerlo a prueba en algo real.

¡Y así nació JSONScope durante ese finde! La verdad, quedé bastante contento con cómo salió la cosa. Intenté pillar lo mejorcito que vi por ahí y le añadí cosas que echaba en falta: corrección de formato al vuelo (¡adiós, errores tontos!), vista de árbol cómoda, una vista tipo formulario y... ¡un diagrama interactivo!

Este diagrama te deja explorar los datos visualmente, buscar por clave/valor... ¡bastante útil, creo yo!

Tengo que admitir que la IA (¡gracias, v0!) hizo que el proceso fuera muchísimo más rápido de lo que esperaba. ¡Una pasada! (Sí, ya sé que no estamos aquí para hablar de IA, pero ¡olé por ella!).

En fin, no me enrollo más. Me haría ilusión que le echaran un ojo a JSONScope. Si les sirve y les mola, ¡genial! Y si creen que merece un huequito en sus favoritos/estrellas , ¡pues mejor que mejor!

https://jsonscope.com

¡Gracias por leer hasta aquí!
by arielfrischer | 2025-04-25 23:16:58+00:00
Copilot sucks in general in my experience - but decent at finding relevance that's about it. I haven't tried this agent mode - will look into it. There are many AI agents so far seems for AI software development I'm looking towards: https://www.swebench.com/ for benchmarking - RA.AID has yet to benchmark as its quite expensive. But that is a good point I can highlight that difference thank you.