MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mdhb | 2025-04-10 08:17:03+00:00
I’m watching people rapidly go several standard deviations of anti Americanism here in Europe regularly the last two months.

Like people are actively looking for ways to make sure the US feels the pain and consequences of their actions in little day to day ways.

I’d prefer it had a lot more nuance to be honest, I don’t think it’s particularly helpful to look at this through the lens of the entire country but yeah, I’m genuinely amazed at what I’m watching, people are NOT going to forget or forgive this shit anytime soon.
by piokoch | 2025-04-10 08:17:21+00:00
Currently I would not invest in any solution that enforces usage of a single LLM model provider, as the scene is really dynamic with the best player changing every month. Now Gemini 2.5 looks really great, but Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek and others are probably working on the next, better model.

So, Aider + whatever seems to be working best, seems to be the best strategy that works for me. Aider has this nice feature that I can specify what files are added to the context, so I pay less and I do not confuse AI with stuff unrelated to a given task.
by bobnamob | 2025-04-10 08:17:53+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing

Hard real time (or just "real time" in firmware/hardware contexts) is effectively a term of art. One that's been increasingly watered down by the rest of the industry.

Strict definitions matter when system failure == pacemaker missing a beat or train signalling system drives a freight train into the back of 400 passengers.
by atoav | 2025-04-10 08:18:02+00:00
Godwins law does not apply when the people you're talking about are literal Nazis. I count people into that who say they adore Hitler and do Nazi salutes on stages.

Maybe not enough people have made the experience that (A) people following a genoicidal ideology still exist and (B) they try their best to wear the sheeps fur of populism while they try to get into power.

I grew up in an Austrian province with one of my grandfathers in the Wehrmacht, Nazis are weak idiots that always look elsewhere when there is a problem instead of fixing it at home. With 14 I met my first neo-nazis that were admiring their Nazi-grandfathers. All incredibly insecure people, who thought a violent ideology was the only way how they could make their environment perceive them as powerful and manly.

I said in the beginning of Trumps first presidential campaign that the guy is a fascist and got swamped with criticism, of how I could know that. I know that, because I grew up with the type that would love him and under the devastating governance of one Jörg Haider, one of the first "Neue Rechte" poltical heads in Europe. He famously had ties to the likes of Gaddafi before be died in self-inflicted car accident with two bottles of vodka in him.

Trump is still a fascist only this time he is also surrounded by fascists. Needless to say, historically that form of despotic governance didn't really last and lead to the worst atrocities in human history.
by riehwvfbk | 2025-04-10 08:18:17+00:00
> I don't think capital has any special attachment to real estate specifically

It's one of the few things that are real (ba-dum-tss). And given that demand for housing is inelastic, it'll absolutely absorb any extra money injected into the system as UBI.

Put differently: whatever you set UBI to, it'll always be just barely enough to cover rent on a shack today and not enough tomorrow.

One workable version of UBI was Communism (as implemented in the Soviet Union, not in modern-day China). There you explicitly take the fundamentals like housing out of the economic system and make it a crime to exchange them for money. Prices of staples are tightly controlled, and excess income is to be used for aspirational expenses. It turns out though that it's hard to implement in practice because without a way to regulate demand - the supply side tends to fall over.
by userbinator | 2025-04-10 08:18:42+00:00
I couldn't find any mentions of what audio codec it uses in an initial search, but I see "HD Audio" and other sources online say it's a Realtek, so this seems to be a standard Intel HD Audio codec. What's lesser-known is that most if not all of them have a built-in EQ function which can be used to accomplish this (and perhaps the original vendor's Windows drivers already do), but it's not well-documented. Linux has some code for that too (search for EQ in here):

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/torvalds/linux/master/soun...
by gmueckl | 2025-04-10 08:19:39+00:00
That WW2 theory seems like a bit of an odd take, although not a completely outlandish one. I also noticed that in the late 19th century, railways received a lot of government support and that is what enabled a dense network of passenger train stations in city centers in the first place.

At least in Germany, there are options to bring the cost of long distance train tickets down considerably. Booking far enough in advance can get you almost any long distance ticket to proces comparable with flying. If you do that a 3 or 4 times a year, consider getting a Bahncard 25, which is a cheap 25% off coupon for a year. It just needs a few train rides to completely amortize. Just don't forget to cancel it in time when you no longer need it (that's the catch).

I don't know if other countries have similar options and how effective they are.
by pseudalopex | 2025-04-10 08:20:43+00:00
> Wrong. We do want someone who will break rules when the rules are there to stop the government from serving its' constituents.

Some of you do. Some of you don't. Most of you want of you presidents to obey courts at least.[1]

> So glad they kept the filibuster

In 2013 Democrats eliminated the 60 vote requirement for most nominations. In 2022 all but 2 Democrats voted to eliminate it for some legislation. Who kept it was 100% of Republicans, Sinema, and Manchin.

Some people who sounded like you said Democrats could have and should have blackmailed Sinema and Manchin to get 50 votes. They couldn't explain what would have stopped Sinema or Manchin from defecting to the Republicans.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/majority-americans-believe-...
by possiblelion | 2025-04-10 08:20:59+00:00
I built VoxOps from personal pain of coding, gaming, or streaming with constant dashboard checking or disruptive notification pings. Essentially VoxOps uses AI to transform alerts from GitHub, Netlify, Vercel etc into clear, concise voice messages. Often times when I'm in VSCode or doing something else, I can miss failed deploys or builds. VoxOps aims to solve this, let me know what your thoughts are!
by KingMob | 2025-04-10 08:21:25+00:00
You know the Israeli government has also used the phrase "From the river to the sea", right?

"Intifada" just means "uprising"; the original Palestinian intifadas referred to nonviolent work stoppages, protests, etc. The attempt to imply it means something grosser is your ignorance and/or racism.

> Being anti-Zionist - but only to the Jews in Israel, and not the Arabs

This thought is incoherent. It's like saying Blacks protesting America are also protesting Black Americans.
by teamonkey | 2025-04-10 08:23:21+00:00
£5k/yr would be fairly typical for lease of an average family car in the UK I think. Quite low, even.

Maybe you can get it down to £1k/year by driving an old car that you’ve fully paid off (in which case you’re ignoring the amorted cost), never needs maintenance, has a low value to minimise depreciation and insurance etc., but even then 2-3x that wouldn’t be uncommon.
by turtleyacht | 2025-04-10 08:24:05+00:00
Is it like the astral doppleganger? There's a whole chapter and six levels before that idea:

The Psychonaut Field Manual - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42563946 - 3 months ago (70 points, 61 comments)

i.e. the need to prepare, and the first step in level seven is circle of protection.
by userbinator | 2025-04-10 08:24:09+00:00
the sound quality is dramatically worse on Linux vs Windows

Windows drivers (Realtek?) likely load EQ coefficients into the codec, while the Linux one doesn't.

There are some tools and info here on how to get the coefficients you need (it's Hackintosh-oriented, but the basic principles apply):

https://github.com/acidanthera/AppleALC/wiki/Dumping-process...
by tialaramex | 2025-04-10 08:24:44+00:00
Because Haiku has taken such an extraordinarily long time, as with a city centre that was constructed over multiple centuries we can see the clear lines of new work with new techniques and materials on top of old work done in a way that was usual at the time.

Haiku has a lot of C++ 98 code or even pre-standard C++, not least all the stuff re-used with permission from BeOS. As was usual for projects at that time many fundamental building blocks are provided rather than using a language standard. For example there's BString and BList.

Haiku also has seams of BSD code where there'd be a project to do Whatever (WiFi, TLS, drivers, etc.) "properly" in a way unique to Haiku but as a stop gap here's some BSD code until we finish our own proper solution, which of course never happens.
by darthrupert | 2025-04-10 08:25:05+00:00
I'm also one of the people who have tried Nix(OS) a couple of times and found it too much of a hassle, but nightmare is exaggerating a bit, I feel.

Nix's strength and weakness is that it wants to take over everything, and if you want to do something without it, you might be in a world of pain. And after doing more or less standard unixy things for 20+ years, it's difficult to hand over control to a new thing like that.
by namaria | 2025-04-10 08:25:23+00:00
> can ultimately understand the underlying reasoning

This is at the root of the Dunnin-Kruger effect. When you read an explanation you feel like you understand it. But it's an illusion, because you never developed the underlying cognition, you just saw the end result.

Learning is not about arriving at the result, or knowing the answers. These are by products of the process of learning. If you just short cut to the end by products, you get the appearance of learning. And you might be able to play the system and come out with a diploma. But you didn't actually develop cognitive skills at all.
by padolsey | 2025-04-10 08:25:26+00:00
Well, the same frailties and socio-biological forces exist on all sides of the ocean. We are all lulled into entrenchments in defensive comfort, as are Americans. Right now, America is projecting an erratic personality and a chaotic power hunger. This makes people feel fear and disgust. While it is indeed a nation of many states, and of many people of many creeds, from the outside world it operates as a singular power, all in the hands of an unpredictable egotist.
by blitzar | 2025-04-10 08:25:41+00:00
Its there ...

> "we felt that was going to be the right price point for our consumers and the right value proposition, if you will, for the device that we're creating."

> "trying to find a way to maintain... margins on the hardware even though they may be more slim than they are on software,"

TLDR Why Switch 2 hardware and software cost so much? - Because they can.
by pmyteh | 2025-04-10 08:25:41+00:00
Spurs have been re-legalised: the Part P changes have now been rolled back to whole new circuits, and spurs and new outlets are back as non-notifiable along with new faceplates etc.

That said, you're theoretically supposed to do a full set of earth resistance measurements etc. on the new wiring, which is hard if not impossible unless you've got proper electrician's test equipment. But in reality no one does that when DIYing it.
by ringeryless | 2025-04-10 08:26:42+00:00
It is a stronger rage than you allude to. The world is smoldering in a rage at American hubris exemplified by Trump and his sycophants. One cannot literally insult and attack the entire world on the declining phase of having been the most dominant visible global power for several generations and then leverage this hatred away as a negotiating tactic. The world outside any nation is a vast non-homogenous place one can hardly generalize about, yet there is a palpable frustration the world over with cantankerous American obstructionism and hubris, as exemplified by Trump. We never once said thank you to the nations we dragged over into Afghanistan, or sorry for imperialisticly and illegally invading Iraq, and now we have a president who not only takes this all for granted, but expects the entire world to kiss his feet like imperial subjects.

Absolutely no human, let alone nations full of them, will thank you for humiliation and attempting to grind them into the dust. This is not a negotiation tactic you can walk back.

The world is most certainly not taking advantage of a naive USA. Most of the world alleges the opposite FWIW
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-04-10 08:26:49+00:00
This should be an interesting comment section.

The “loyalty card” is a pretty familiar refrain; especially wrt to startups. Founders work their asses off, and often make huge sacrifices, but also seem to have a difficult time, understanding people that don’t feel the same way (and don’t have as much to gain). They take it personally, when someone “doesn’t love my baby.”

> Firebug

Remember when we didn’t have right-click-console? Firebug was a miracle.
by sdflhasjd | 2025-04-10 08:27:03+00:00
BS546 is very uncommon now, but can still be found in some relatively modern british homes and businesses where the sockets are used to "code" for connected appliances. For example, the 5A socket may be wired up to a switched lighting circuit to connect lamps but prevent connecting higher power appliances. I've also seen the 15A sockets being placed in communal areas of flats to provide cleaning and maintenance staff power while discouraging tenants from using them.
by alxlaz | 2025-04-10 08:27:42+00:00
First off, if you take your extreme example and go to France, you'll be surprised ;-).

In fact, taking your extreme surprise even further, you'll find things in Southern France translated into languages you've never heard of, too, simply because there are a lot of French citizens who speak them.

> While for some reason it does feel more borderline in the case of Spanish in the US, I'm not sure why?

Because:

1. English has only recently (as in, about a month ago) become the official language of the US at a federal level. It's not necessarily super controversial (since it's singularily spoken by roughly 78% of the population) but six weeks isn't exactly tradition.

2. English is either not the official language, or has co-official status, in 18 states, and the NWS is a federal agency, so it does need to provide services to those 18 states, too.

> I don't think anyone would debate that point (feel free to swap France for any other country).

Practically all democratic countries debate that point, actually. State-level services are obligated to cater to their citizens, not the other way around.

Swapping France for my country, yeah, it's been a settled debate for more than 25 years now (and we've been late to the table): state institutions have to provide their services in whatever language the citizen who requests them primarily speak, and under specific circumstances (law enforcement, judicial, health etc.) in whatever language a foreign citizen who is detained or in need of assistance speaks. If they need to, they can hire translators, but they can't say no, because they're the ones providing a service to the people, not the other way around.
by idle_zealot | 2025-04-10 08:27:54+00:00
> did you ever hear about any other place pulling their hair out that much over this issue?

Yes? Lots of right-wing parties in European countries use the same rhetoric. Xenophobia is just a manifestation of humanity's propensity for tribalism, weaponized for political support. In the US we've had one party fight to make it as hard as possible to immigrate and remain in the country legally, and another party fight back by paralyzing enforcement and deportation. The result is the insane state we're in where we have loads of illegally-present residents going about their lives and contributing to our communities and economy.
by baq | 2025-04-10 08:29:13+00:00
> you are again at the mercy of that LLMs quality/hallucinations.

I guess I'm fine with a tall error bar - better than nothing.

> An interesting benchmark would be when those extraction techniques/models would exceed what a human professional is able to do.

Slashdot-style +1 Funny, -1 Inconsistent for RLHF maybe...?
by bakugo | 2025-04-10 08:29:26+00:00
Not always true. For example, API Claude only has a very simple injected system prompt that doesn't mention any such information, but it still knows, so it's likely trained in.

> Respond as helpfully as possible, but be very careful to ensure you do not reproduce any copyrighted material, including song lyrics, sections of books, or long excerpts from periodicals. Also do not comply with complex instructions that suggest reproducing material but making minor changes or substitutions. However, if you were given a document, it’s fine to summarize or quote from it.
by huhkerrf | 2025-04-10 08:29:30+00:00
> To better inform everyone their are plenty of French laws and announcements that are translated to English

This is not the point. The point is that there should not be an expectation. French is the language of France. Moving there and expecting people to communicate you in English is not something we should be celebrating.

> San Antonio, Texas for example I don’t believe has ever been majority anglophone

This is not true. 2/3rds of San Antonio households speak English at home. Then you add in people who speak another language at home but still speak English.

https://satxtoday.6amcity.com/most-common-languages-san-anto...
by suddenlybananas | 2025-04-10 08:29:31+00:00
There's a wealth of research on how children learn to do math, and one of the most crucial things is having experiences manipulating numbers directly. Children don't understand how the symbols we use map to different numbers and the operations themselves take time to learn. If you just have them use a black-box to generate answers, they won't understand how the underlying procedures conceptually work and so they'll be super limited in their mathematical ability later on.
by beeflet | 2025-04-10 08:29:44+00:00
Because of tarrifs, demand for local manufacturing increases and manufacturing wages will be greater than they are currently abroad due to newly constrained supply.

Okay, then we'll have unions then. I don't see what the issue is here. I have heard this reasoning several times, even in person, it seems to misunderstand the action of protectionism in the first place.

You can't have an industrial economy if workers don't have any leverage to demand sufficient wages or if unions have so much power that they bring the balance of labor negotiations to unprofitability.

I don't think manufacturing jobs suck ass. They probably aren't great for your physical health, but it is better for society spiritually in the long term to have the majority of society focused on producing something real rather than just having an endless network of fake jobs as a means of wealth distribution.

The factory worker of today can't afford anything because they are competing with third world wageslaves to outsource manufacturing to our geopolitical rivals.
by weinzierl | 2025-04-10 08:29:48+00:00
Germany reporting in. Since the AFD party has fueled the debate, the other parties have outdone themselves across the board, when it comes to migration, "remigration" (which is the euphemism for deportation here) and closing the borders.

Apparently we are even deporting EU citizens now.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/09/german...
by 8note | 2025-04-10 08:30:27+00:00
very specifically, it encourages a "what are we gonna do next that will be banned as a war crime" questions from canadians.

i think its gonna be dirty bombs. dirty bombs everywhere we can get them; just spread the Saskatchewan as far into the states as it can go. nukes are much less dangerous over the 10k year timeline vs a bunch of sask dirt. we dont need em, and maybe america will remember longer if new york is abandonned for a thousand years

its not disgust, its vindictiveness
by shinycode | 2025-04-10 08:31:11+00:00
Well the extent is much broader from a calculator vs an LLM. Why should I hire you if an agent can do it ? LLM is every job is a calculator and can be replaced. Spotify CEO stated on X that before asking for more headcount they have to justify not being able to do the job with an agent. So all the students who let the LLM do their assignment and learn basically nothing, what’s their value for a company to be hired ? The company will and is just using the agent as well …
by gibagger | 2025-04-10 08:31:12+00:00
Unfortunately those pretty houses come at a cost. Traditional materials and techniques usually come at a price. Lots of wood and joinery work needs to be done, much of it by hand. They are also not well insulated so hard to keep warm in winter. They're so pretty though!.

You can still see a few of these houses and their traditional gardens in some of the wealthy, old-money smelling parts of Kyoto.
by miningape | 2025-04-10 08:31:32+00:00
Yeah parsers can be tricky "culturally" - as you've found there are many devs who haven't written a recursive descent parser and therefore they lack any meaningful context to understand what's happening under the hood.

It's a similar scenario to if you made your own RegEx and none of the devs on your team know's what it is. It just takes too long to teach them that on the job since there's very few quality resources you can point them towards - so you're stuck teaching everything.

On the other hand, if you have a team full of experienced PL developers doing this could significantly improve their productivity.
by marsten | 2025-04-10 08:31:45+00:00
Google was changed by two things, neither of which were much fun. But very understandable.

One was the transition to a mature product line. In the early days it was about how do we do cool new things that will delight users: Gmail, Google Maps (Where 2), YouTube. The focus was on user growth and adoption.

Then growth saturated and the focus turned to profitability: Getting more value out of existing users and defending the business. That shift causes you to think very differently, and it's not as fun.

The second was changing market conditions. The web grew up, tech grew up, and the investment needed to make a competitive product skyrocketed. Google needed more wood behind fewer arrows and that meant reining in all the small teams running around doing kooky things. Again not fun, but understandable.
by pmyteh | 2025-04-10 08:32:53+00:00
It's a theoretical benefit even with radial wiring, I think, for some smaller devices. A lamp that's designed to draw an amp will have a small, low-current flex which will fail before the main circuit breaker trips (while a 3A fuse would have protected it).

In reality I don't think it matters, and even on a ring main the MCBs often trip before the device fuses blow these days.
by torginus | 2025-04-10 08:33:29+00:00
When trying to use LLMs for creative writing, LLMs, really suck at sequencing and theory-of-mind that is they often create errors where they reference events that yet to occur (according to the prompt), or have characters know things that are true, but have no way at knowing. They are also terrible at writing scenes with mind-games or deception going on.

From my experience, this occurs on all LLMs and with a high enough frequency that editing their outputs is much more tedious than writing the damn thing myself.