MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alephnerd | 2025-05-02 16:52:37+00:00
Hamta isn't even really rural. It's a bunch of homestays just outside of Manali, and is similar to Pahalgam.

My family is from rural HP/JK/Ladakh, and a homestay like Hamta is not representative of rural HP/JK/LA/UK.

> They’re enamoured by the simple and rustic living of the villages and think of them as noble savages

I think it goes both ways. They either over-idealize it, or overly berate it.

I feel it's also state dependent to a certain extent, with some states better at rural administrative capacity (eg. Kerala, HP, PB, JK) than others (eg. KA, TG, GJ).

Something I've noticed is states that don't have a primary city tend to have slightly better rural administrative capacity, as it at least incentivizes small town or T3/4 economies to develop instead of being invested in a single mega city.
by ta1243 | 2025-05-02 16:52:39+00:00
When you get a fine in Europe it tends to be related to your income. Not your income after your expenses, your actual income.

Finland for example will fine you 100k for speeding if your income is high enough. In the UK fines range from 50% of your weekly income (band A) to 600% of your weekly income. Someone on £500 a week income and spending that on housing, food etc, could pay £3k. Someone with the same offence on £50k a week would be fined £300k.
by mike_hearn | 2025-05-02 16:52:50+00:00
The argument makes sense everywhere. There exist in Germany TV and radio that maybe you trust and think are good, and maybe you enjoy forcing other people pay for them against their will. But there are many people who would profoundly disagree with you on that in Germany: ask any AfD voter.

Again, to see this, just consider how you'd feel if FOX News launched a German version and you were forced to pay for that against your will. Would you find that moral? Don't try and claim subjective quality judgements make a difference; obviously plenty of people think FOX News is high quality, that's why they watch it.
by WheelsAtLarge | 2025-05-02 16:52:52+00:00
I think coding will evolve into a more modular approach. Rather than writing lines of code, we will be dealing with modules that the LLMs will modify. So, we'll be dealing with blocks of code, which will be easier to manage. I also wonder if providing programs will become the way to program. I've only heard about proving programs since it's not something that I encountered in school. From what I understand, it makes sure a piece of code functions as desired by using a formal proof. Code automation will help with that.

Bottom line, coding will have to evolve. There's no way future programers will be able to maintain LLM code if it continues to be managed line by line.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-05-02 16:53:00+00:00
I'm sorry, your definition of being extremists requires them to be the dominant party and actively committing a genocide?

They promised they'll do it. They have ideology consistent with doing it. They got caught talking about how they'll do it.

They need to be stopped not only before they are in total control and do it, they need to be stopped before they shift the Overton window.
by embedded_hiker | 2025-05-02 16:53:27+00:00
My school library ( 6th - 8th grades ) had this magazine, and they had a 9-week class on programming in BASIC using a 110 bps teletype connected to an HP2000C that was shared by several school districts. That was my start in all of this. I didn't get my own computer until the C64 price dropped to $200 in 1983.
by aidenn0 | 2025-05-02 16:53:35+00:00
> If the code in question doesn't trigger any errors or warnings, then in most cases it's safe to turn (safety 0) and get the tiny performance boost.

This is trivially not true. Consider:

(defun foo (x) (declare (safety 0) (type x (array fixnum (4))) [Lots of code that doesn't trigger any warnings])

Then in a different source file doing e.g:

(foo nil)

Nothing good will come of that.

> I wouldn't recommend (safety 0) globally, but it's probably fine locally in performance critical code that's been tested well, but I do agree it's probably not worth going to (safety 0) in most cases.

> The best solution is a compiler who's (speed 3) optimization level is smart enough to optimize out the unnecessary safety checks from (safety 3). I think SBCL can do that in some cases (the safety checks get optimized for speed, at least).

The only thing I can think of is that I communicated things poorly in my comment, because this is nearly exactly what I was saying in my comment.
by zveyaeyv3sfye | 2025-05-02 16:53:53+00:00
Increased yes, but not by a whole lot. See https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CPU-p... and https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CPU-p...

Source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/a-history-of-intel-v...

(I'm sure someone could dig up more recent graphs, but you get the idea).

In order to get more performance, your app needs to use multithreading.
by jagger27 | 2025-05-02 16:53:59+00:00
My most cynical take is that this is OpenAI's Conway's Law problem, and it reflects the structure and sycophancy of the organization broadly all the way up to sama. That company has seen a lot of talent attrition over the last year—the type of talent that would have pushed back against outcomes like this.

I think we'll continue to see this kind of thing play out for a while.

Oh GPT, you're just like your father!
by jghn | 2025-05-02 16:54:05+00:00
Not just out, both directions can be tricky to measure. It is hard to say for certain how many potential kcal you're consuming are actually absorbed by the body. If you see whole corn kernels in the toilet, those kcal didn't count :)

But yes. CICO is and always has been absolutely true. People are just overly reductive in how they measure both sides, and then claim that CICO is garbage.
by bluGill | 2025-05-02 16:54:50+00:00
At my company when we bring you onsite for an interview takes you to lunch. The person who takes you to lunch is not allowed to talk to the people making the hiring decisions. You can thus talk about whatever you want. It is a relaxing situation where you can safely press about what work is like. If you talk about something that in an interview is illegal (likely family) it doesn't matter because that person doesn't have a say on if you are hired.

(I encourage anyone who does interviewing to have a similar policy - if someone flys in to talk to you that means you are buying them meals anyway. Ensuring there is time to talk about things that might or might not matter is important)

For engineers we wouldn't go to a fancy restaurant. However I'd expect executives probably would.
Ask HN: Is it a good time for microkernel *nix OS
by smeg_it | 2025-05-02 16:55:10+00:00
I forget exactly, but I believe that the original reasons the macrokernel was chosen over the microkernel are largely moot now. The microkernel was always more secure, if my memory serves. That is more important now than it ever was. I need to check but aren't we still behind on full 64 bit adoption? I would be think that we be better achieved through a newer kernel/OS. Lastly, AIs are still relatively new and not as locked down and/or expensive as they may become for specific purposes. Couldn't they help reverse engineer drivers? Which I would think would be one of the largest obstacles. I've read about Redox in the past, but it seemed to be a one man project that was largely abandoned for years and after 10 years it's still not out of beta, if I'm not mistaken.

I'm a middle aged +, amateur user/enthusiast. So, I'm really asking. Lastly, I wonder if the Linux kernel is like the Weasley house in Harry Potter i.e. kind of a monster with parts on top of parts , with the whole being more unruly and although functional is a bit of an unruly mess at this point that doesn't resemble anything like a good overall design like a good "new" house could be. Again, just asking. Most of this is well beyond my understanding.
by mike_hearn | 2025-05-02 16:55:17+00:00
Yes, people who enjoy state TV like making other people pay for their enjoyment. That's immoral. Certainly, you cannot argue it's moral because you personally believe it's high quality. Lots of people in any country feel the exact opposite: that state TV damages the entire information ecosystem and is outright malign. Under what consistent moral code should they be forced to pay for it?
by rayiner | 2025-05-02 16:55:21+00:00
Tariffs have elements of both taxes (which Congress must levy) and foreign policy (which is principally the domain of the President). So as a legal matter, the delegation of power to set tariff rates is a fuzzier case than for other delegations. Though I think on balance, given that the tariff act of 1789 incorporated a specific percentage rate, the founding generation probably saw tariff rates as being the domain of Congress.

That said, what’s the correct answer is only weakly relevant. One side vigorously defends the existence of executive-branch agencies that are supposedly “independent” of the President but somehow can make regulations with the force of law like Congress. The GOP would be committing political malpractice if they listened to those people’s quibbles about non-delegation doctrine.

Your charge of hypocrisy is misplaced. A charge of hypocrisy has persuasive force only insofar as the argument is “your rule isn’t a good one because you can’t even follow it yourself.” You can’t invoke it to insist that your opponents adhere to rules that you don’t even accept as valid. Constitutional norms are a two-way street. If you think “emanations from penumbras” is constitutional law, then I’m under no obligation to apply a different standard from that.
by IAmBroom | 2025-05-02 16:55:41+00:00
If those two photographs are the same to you, you lack perception.

One is a casual "Hey!", albeit shirtless in the gym. The other is quite intentionally posed. One is in scruffy gym shorts; the other a near-naked Speedo.

They are not the same. And having the intellectual ability to dissect what a trained genius like Kubrick can do quickly is not a liability. You also dismiss the literal decades of study that Kubrick undertook to "not labor" over the composition of his shots (which, in fact, he labored fastidiously). Are you buying into the myth of the talented artist, wholly untrained but a natural genius? They don't exist.
by dietr1ch | 2025-05-02 16:55:54+00:00
> Single logical site spread across multiple domains.

Is there really need for this? I get subdomains can help routing, but beyond that sites spreading over multiple domains are chaotic and phishing-prone. People get used to jump from foo.com to foo.net or scammyfoo.tk and enter their credentials if they look similar. I think that a big part of how password managers help is by keeping passwords from their users and not sharing them with any random domain that may read similar or misleading.
by cognisent | 2025-05-02 16:55:56+00:00
It was my grades in math that ultimately failed me out of my undergraduate CS program. My university had: Calculus 1, Calculus 2, Linear Algebra, Vector Geometry, Multi-Variable Calculus, Applied Combinatorics, Discrete Math, Differential Equations and maybe more that I don't remember. So many that CS majors could take one more math class and get a minor.

Yeah, I never thought this made sense, but so many people did; and, I always hear people on Slashdot talking about how programming IS math. None of that has been my personal experience, and I'm coming up on 21 years as software engineer. Discrete was the ONLY math course that I really enjoyed and did well in the first time around. For me, this always made sense.
by QuercusMax | 2025-05-02 16:55:59+00:00
Most coding doesn't need much of any math past boolean logic and very basic set operations. I'm much more likely to spend my time studying DB and interface schemas to understand how something works than doing a lot of mathy fiddling. Sure, some people write game engines and such, but even much of 3D graphics doesn't need anything more complicated than the first half of a linear algebra course.
by brianmurphy | 2025-05-02 16:55:59+00:00
Your reply to me is all emotion, no facts.

As for "economic damage", this is where you really diverge from reality.

The S&P 500 has risen back to pre-Liberation Day tariff announcement levels.

Gasoline prices are down.

Egg prices are down.

April jobs report is out, beating projections by 44,000 jobs.

The media's economic fear-mongering never materialized.

So yes, the US economy effects me -- all in a good way right now. President Trump's agenda is working. The people wishing otherwise will be the ones who need to cope.
by protimewaster | 2025-05-02 16:56:11+00:00
As I said, my point is just that it's not something I should be obligated to pay for.

But, if you're looking for counterexamples to show it can be done for less than a 15% cut, they're around. Almost every eBay category charges less than 15%, for example. And, as another user pointed out, Epic takes less than 15%. AliExpress charges 5-8% on average. Etsy is I think something like 6.5%.
by stasa | 2025-05-02 16:56:24+00:00
In a perfect world where you measure and control everything 100% CICO rules. However, in the real world, different types of food cause variation both on in and out. E.g. some foods promote feeling to satiety and some foods cause some people to overeat. Diet would also affect gut microbiome which affects hormones/mood etc... If you calculate CICO, then it will still be valid. But from the practical diet approach, CICO is oversimplification.
by jart | 2025-05-02 16:56:44+00:00
It does. The majority of what's popular and gets attention in programming is things like languages and frameworks which do the best smooth talking. The whole point of CS is to focus on the aspects of programming that aren't just vogue trends. With any field or aspect of modern life, language skills are the gateway to privilege and software engineering is no exception. But here it's respect for the math that stops it all from spiraling into a bunch of bs. You can't fool the math people.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-05-02 16:57:01+00:00
Someone here floated that instead of fines it should be government ownership in the company. You dilute the original owners, so they get punished for bad behavior. As a part owner, the government is now 'inside' and has a whole lot more visibility/ability to request information. And over time, should bad behavior continue, the government gains control.

Look at a company like Tesla whose stock is super high but profits low. A percentage of profits wouldn't mater to them. But government control via stock would get their attention and the attention of stock owners real quick.
by jghn | 2025-05-02 16:57:10+00:00
> You do have me intrigued, what are you general arguments against CICO?

Not the GP, but based on their abstinence-only sex comment I imagine the point being raised is that it's something that is technically true but not a practical guideline.

CICO is a true statement. But you're not going to be able to accurately measure CI and especially not CO. So why bother using that as your guideline on how to proceed? Instead it is known and understood that there are mechanisms for things such as improving CO efficiency, and it's much more practical to focus on that.
by zemvpferreira | 2025-05-02 16:57:52+00:00
I don't mean to say that there are no fun games, but they're just not good enough to drive $400 expenses. They're not Pong and they're not Mario. They're not even Fruit Ninja or Mafia Wars. And yeah, your counterpoints being 4 years old isn't helping the case either.

New platforms need killer apps like people need oxygen. VR just doesn't have one so far. Gorn got close-ish, Beat Saber got close-ish. That's that. For my money, it'll be something like Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes that makes VR go huge or it won't be anything at all.
by NoboruWataya | 2025-05-02 16:58:00+00:00
I found the recent sycophancy a bit annoying when trying to diagnose and solve coding problems. First it would waste time praising your intelligence for asking the question before getting to the answer. But more annoyingly if I asked "I am encountering X issue, could Y be the cause" or "could Y be a solution", the response would nearly always be "yes, exactly, it's Y" even when it wasn't the case. I guess part of the problem there is asking leading questions but it would be much more valuable if it could say "no, you're way off".

But...

> Beyond just being uncomfortable or unsettling, this kind of behavior can raise safety concerns—including around issues like mental health, emotional over-reliance, or risky behavior.

It's kind of a wild sign of the times to see a tech company issue this kind of post mortem about a flaw in its tech leading to "emotional over-reliance, or risky behavior" among its users. I think the broader issue here is people using ChatGPT as their own personal therapist.
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by rpdillon | 2025-05-02 16:58:55+00:00
The article mentions him falsifying a previous fortune-teller's bullshit:

> He also noted that this wasn’t the first time she had fallen into irrational beliefs. He claimed that in the past, his wife had visited an astrologer, and it took her a year to accept that nothing they said came true.

I don't think the problem here is with AI.
by bluGill | 2025-05-02 16:59:02+00:00
> What if someone comes to court wearing tattoos are they more guilty?

That question is for the jury to decide for better and worse. There are lots of good points to a jury trial which is why free societies usually (always?) have them in some form. However one downside is you will once in a while get someone on the jury who judges you not on the facts of the case but on things that shouldn't matter.

Overall it is still better than the alternatives in my opinion, but it does mean you need to figure out what your local cultures are and avoid offending them (note cultures is plural - figure out them all).
by tekla | 2025-05-02 16:59:18+00:00
> But from the practical diet approach, CICO is oversimplification.

No, CICO IS the practical diet. Satiety, microbiome, none of that shit matters. All excuses to not properly stick to the diet. You weigh your food, calculate the macros, and that's it. Zero thought required past that.

It is literally impossible to not lose weight even if you are eating nothing but 500 calories of pure corn syrup every day (Though you may feel pretty sick)
by MOARDONGZPLZ | 2025-05-02 16:59:36+00:00
I would love to hire this person (in theory), but every job I post gets hundreds of inbound applicants, and while hiring is one of the most important aspects of my job, it is second to delivering software with value. I really don’t have time to seek out every person out there who may have a resume, much less a quirky resume, so I send recruiters who work for me to find good candidates for top of funnel. I don’t think there is anything wrong with this.
by smallmancontrov | 2025-05-02 16:59:36+00:00
Anecdotally, there was also a strong correlation between high-sycophancy and high-quality that cooked up recently. I was voting for equations/tables rather than overwrought blocks of descriptive text, which I am pretty comfortable defending as an orthogonal concern, but the "sycophancy gene" always landed on the same side as the equations/tables for whatever reason.

I'm pretty sure this isn't an intrinsic connection (I've never known math texts to be nearly so sycophantic) so here's hoping that it is a dumb coincidence that can be easily cured now that everyone is paying attention to it.
by zahlman | 2025-05-02 16:59:52+00:00
> Whereas programming has more “small steps”: even someone who’s not smart (but has grit) can write an impressive program, if they write one component at a time and there aren’t too many components that rely on each other.

... In my experience, learning to write one component at a time (and try the code, and make sure it works before proceeding) is itself a skill that many struggle to develop. Similarly for avoiding unnecessary dependencies between components. Oh, and also being able to analyze the problem and identify separable components.

One of the most frustrating things about teaching programming, for me, is the constant insistence from other teachers that you have to maintain an "absolutely everyone can learn to program" attitude at all times. Many people who start to learn programming have misguided or confused reasons for doing so and - to say the least - could make much more effective use of their time developing other skills. (It's not a question of elitism; I'd surely flounder at some tasks that others find natural.)
by mtmickush | 2025-05-02 17:00:00+00:00
I don't find this too surprising. The study itself was primarily just testing a students ability to identify syntax and remember what various functions do. I wouldn't expect math proficiency to help much in this area vs I would very much expect language to.

It'd be interesting to see correlations (language brain vs math brain) for how easy or hard it is for people to solve new problems with language after they already know the basics.
by gs17 | 2025-05-02 17:00:02+00:00
That feels more like it, I opened the Play Store to check it out, there was an ad for some waifu-gacha 3 star app with 1k downloads, 19 reviews, released last week, reviews imply it's something that was taken off the store before reuploaded under a new name. No banner saying it's questionable.

Although, I spent a while trying to find an app that did have the banner, and nothing seems to get it on my account.
by ctoth | 2025-05-02 17:00:17+00:00
I actively enjoy programming with Aider/Claude Code, and still there's just something that feels very squicky about this.

"Pay to train your replacement! We'll give you a discount!"

After all, why do they need my tokens of telling the AI what to do if not to teach the AI to tell itself what to do? They're collecting our developer workflows to build the next level of automation. And we're still paying for it!
by p_ing | 2025-05-02 17:00:21+00:00
On the other hand....

https://chromewebstore.google.com/search/ublock

As a user who suddenly knows nothing about uBlock the ad blocker, are you going to trust an addin with 2k installs and 4.3 stars, or an addin with 30m installs and 4.7 stars?

Install base can be informative when choosing.... anything, really. In many people's minds something that is used more is better in some metric, be it performance, reliability, price, et. al.

EDIT: My numbers were way off :-)
by aidenn0 | 2025-05-02 17:00:33+00:00
> Contemporary machine learning may rightly be called artificial intelligence, but to conflate it with human intelligence is folly. It's clearly not human intelligence. It's something else. The same way dolphin intelligence isn't human intelligence, or a calculator isn't human intelligence. These things may be able to tell us something about the contours and limits of human intelligence, especially in contrast, but equivocations or even simple direct comparisons only serve to obfuscate and constrain how we think of intelligence.

This is something I mostly agree with. One quibble:

The process in LLMs clearly differs from human intelligence, but lumping it in with a the intelligence of a calculator is, IMO, making a mistake in the opposite direction.