MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aireo | 2025-05-01 17:18:43+00:00
> Remember, it’s not about you, it’s about current economy and politics. Sometthing out of your control.

This is a really important point to remember, and I appreciate you bringing it up.

> I’d try to start a startup, build and sell some product. One after another, until something sticks. Even if nothing sticks - i get out of it with valuable skills and experience.

Another great point. At the very least, I'm learning and building skills, and that's not time wasted.

Thanks for taking the time to share, and I hope you're now in a position you find meaningful!
by uncial | 2025-05-01 17:19:14+00:00
Yes, fantastic question! 10x10 is actually way more than we need -- don't know the minimum but I suspect 2x2 is possible. The interactive tutorials sketch out an approach to this. My instinct is to use SAM with timers for memory/program, then there's a couple of approaches in the tutorial for the instruction processor. Toying with the idea of an OISC to minimise space requirements. Tho we can always add a motor to the encabulator if we need to drive a larger grid!
by sodality2 | 2025-05-01 17:20:00+00:00
> Family group chats that require a blue-bubble-capable phone

This is a social walled garden they've built over years and has been solidified by users choosing it over and over again. Are they exploiting our brain's capacities regarding social pressure to extract profit? Sure, but so does every fast food company, social media company, marketing company, etc.

I think it's interesting that you phrase it as "require" regarding a group chat made by your family members. Apple doesn't require this, your family members chose Apple when they purchased their phones.
by fodmap | 2025-05-01 17:20:57+00:00
It's crystal clear you're OK with the kidnapping of that woman, her torture, and her killing. But you want to talk about how many organs were removed as if that could justify all the horror in any way?

That makes you a very disgusting human being, I'm sorry to say it.

In which kind of World do you want to live? Because remember, you'll reap what you're sowing.
by tnblair | 2025-05-01 17:21:21+00:00
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by rayiner | 2025-05-01 17:22:34+00:00
> It's so weird to see conservatives talk about how great the European economy is. I used to have to argue with my liberal friends about how Europe is a sclerotic economy and now I'm arguing with conservatives about it. Weird world.

The liberals were right about this, and the Reagan/Bush conservatives were wrong. What you’re observing is simply the reshuffling of the party coalitions. The Buchanan wing of the GOP has gained the upper hand, and many of the Rockefeller republicans and neocons have become Democrats. Meanwhile, many blue collar Democrats in the midwest and south have become Republicans.
by dgfitz | 2025-05-01 17:22:35+00:00
1.) I agree. However, if it other countries can impose tariffs at the drop of a hat and it takes a literal act of congress to pass a tariff, they'll never happen. Would that be a good thing? Maybe. Maybe not. Congress is obviously mostly useless. I was reading, of all things, a buzzfeed a few months ago where the biggest gripes of current house/senate members were along the lines of "it takes way too long to get anything done" and "I'm pretty sure most of my peers drink on the job"

I used the "act of congress" phrase intentionally, as it is generally a euphemism that describes, among other things, how long something can take or how hard it is to approve a thing.

I don't have a good solution to that problem.
by marky1991 | 2025-05-01 17:22:39+00:00
I've found so far: 'gender', 'diversity', 'equity', 'inclusion', as expected. Not: 'equality', 'socioeconomic', 'minority', 'ableism'.

Spanish is uncensored: Not censored: 'diversidad', 'equidad', 'genero' Censored: 'inclusion' (ha, same word as in english, duh) (Also 'inclusión', surprisingly)

It really doesn't seem to be a broad sweeping thing, mostly just 'DEI' terms forwarded in apache or something, which makes sense. That gender is included seems to be an outlier. (Though would be curious to see if you found any others)
by ibdf | 2025-05-01 17:22:59+00:00
Paying a "deposit" first is an interesting approach, but it's not clear what happens if I don't like anything that's generated. Can I get my money back? It's also not clear if $50 = 1 logo download. Because I can't test the tool at all, and because I don't know what happens if I don't like the output it stops me from using it.
by throwup238 | 2025-05-01 17:23:08+00:00
The leap frogging at this point is getting insane (in a good way, I guess?). The amount of time each state of the art feature gets before it's supplanted is a few weeks at this point.

LLMs were always a fun novelty for me until OpenAI DeepResearch which started to actually come up with useful results on more complex programming questions (where I needed to write all the code by hand but had to pull together lots of different libraries and APIs), but it was limited to 10/month for the cheaper plan. Then Google Deep Research upgraded to 2.5 Pro and with paid usage limits of 20/day, which allowed me to just throw everything at it to the point where I'm still working through reports that are a week or more old. Oh and it searched up to 400 sources at a time, significantly more than OpenAI which made it quite useful in historical research like identifying first edition copies of books.

Now Claude is releasing the same research feature with integrations (excited to check out the Cloudflare MCP auth solution and hoping Val.town gets something similar), and a run time of up to 45 minutes. The pace of change was overwhelming half a year ago, now it's just getting ridiculous.
by uticus | 2025-05-01 17:23:09+00:00
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by ryandrake | 2025-05-01 17:23:10+00:00
What if, instead, the guy was 100% honest and up front about it, and offered to enroll the Czech guy in all security checks that any other contractor would get, and treat them legally as any contractor would be treated?

I wouldn't see anything wrong with this, but I would be willing to bet that 99% of companies would not go along with it--for reasons I'm not sure I understand.
by ffsm8 | 2025-05-01 17:23:14+00:00
I have never been to China, but you sound informed on the topic - maybe you can weight in on that.

I've heard from various YouTube channels covering news about China, it's social issues and shenanigans that all companies above a certain size are required to have someone on staff that's essentially part of the government. These channels are however mostly run by people speaking very good English, so clearly made for the western market.

But Googling that information seems to confirm it, too. I.e.

> Since 2018, domestically-listed companies are required to establish a party entity.

I cannot speak with confidence on the topic, but from an uninformed spectators perspective, it does sound like timewizards argument was correct?
by riskable | 2025-05-01 17:23:38+00:00
> Snipping Tool only works half the time.

This started happening to me too like six months ago. I figured, "yet again they broke something with an update, but it'll probably fix itself eventually."

Nope!

I'd switch to some 3rd party tool but my employer doesn't allow any since we all got upgraded to Windows 11. Why don't they allow it anymore? Because the snipping tool (Snip & Sketch).

At least they still let me install Ditto (I never liked how the Windows clipboard history feature works... No, I'll paste when I want to paste—not when I select the item!)
by datpuz | 2025-05-01 17:23:56+00:00
Here's qwen-30b-a3b's response to your prompt when I worded it better:

The prompt was:

"Create a Python decorator that registers functions as handlers for MQTT topic patterns (including + and # wildcards). Internally, use a trie to store the topic patterns and match incoming topic strings to the correct handlers. Provide an example showing how to register multiple handlers and dispatch a message to the correct one based on an incoming topic."

https://pastebin.com/wefw7X2h
by SequoiaHope | 2025-05-01 17:24:34+00:00
Trump is awful and so was G.W. Bush and Reagan and Nixon and Andrew Jackson and even George Washington[1].

We don’t learn much in school about George Washington burning down Iroquois villages because we focus on other things. It’s entirely possible that Trump becomes so bad that the people who remember his misdeeds get erased like so many Iroquois or Vietnamese people or gays with HIV under these other presidents.

Here’s a clip [2] of Noam Chomsky describing the war crimes of every post WW2 president. Many people still regard those people as good presidents because they ignore their misdeeds.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_Destroyer

[2] https://youtu.be/5BXtgq0Nhsc
by ajross | 2025-05-01 17:24:58+00:00
It's not the peak speeds, it's the spectrum use. The 2.4GHz ISM band has 100 MHz of available spectrum, the 5GHz wifi spectrum is 740 MHz wide, and is still occupied by fewer deployed devices.

To an IOT application, it's the difference between chatting with a friend at a quiet outdoor cafe and trying to shout at her in a crowded bar.
by PlasmaDiffusion | 2025-05-01 17:25:14+00:00
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by Anthony-G | 2025-05-01 17:25:48+00:00
Cynical me suspects that the large corporations who get to decide which TV show or feature films get to be made are opposed to depicting workers organising and acting on behalf of their collective interest. This seems to be particularly true in America more so than Europe, e.g, Brassed Off, a British film from the mid-nineties realistically displays working class culture associated with labour unions at a time when the unions were struggling against the closure of the coal pits. Interestingly, according to its Wikipedia article¹, “In the United States, the film was promoted simply as a romantic comedy involving McGregor and Fitzgerald's characters.”

On the other hand, Season 4 of For All Mankind depicted a strike of private sector workers in such an unrealistic, ham-fisted way that it couldn’t be taken seriously – much like many of the other half-assed story-lines that were crammed into the show for Seasons 3 and 4.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassed_Off
by osigurdson | 2025-05-01 17:25:56+00:00
There may be a bit of culture at play sometimes as well. If a language isn't meant to be fast, then perhaps devs using the language do not prioritize performance very much. For some, as long as it is possible to point to some externality ("hey this is Python, what do you expect") this is sufficient.

Of course, not always the case. C++ is a good counter example with a massive range of performance "orientedness". On the other hand, I suspect there are few Rust / Zig or C programmers that don't care about performance.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-05-01 17:26:09+00:00
Chapman also helped the foreign fraudsters steal the identities of more than 70 US nationals, then use those identities to apply for remote IT jobs, according to the Feds. Those who successfully obtained employment as part of the scam then received payroll checks at Chapman's home with direct deposits sent to her US bank accounts before ultimately being laundered and funneled to North Korea…

So, bit more involved than just running a VPN/proxy service.
by Grosvenor | 2025-05-01 17:26:19+00:00
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by krisoft | 2025-05-01 17:26:52+00:00
> "Man, I went to NYC once and got stuck in traffic on that stupid highway that goes up and down the coast of Brooklyn, what was the name of that thing?"

I lived in NYC for a year and I have no clue. My answer would be probably something along the line of "Haha! Yeah. Traffic is terrible in the city... or so do my friends with cars say. I for one take the subway everywhere, so no clue what you are talking about. But sounds like a pain! Hope you were not delayed too long."

> It's just like the bar scene in Inglorious Bastards, with the fingers.

The problem is that's a work of fiction. These shibboleth tests work great in fiction where the author has full control over the whole universe. Work less well in reality where "universal" signals turn out to be a lot less universal. You will have a ton of false positives and a ton of false negatives.
by Grosvenor | 2025-05-01 17:27:15+00:00
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I love avant garde problems, and have a pretty unique toolset (LLMs+KB, OR+ML, etc). I've worked with names you know in automotive, tech, and other spaces. Recently I've been working with Oil & Gas - Production estimates, pricing, and things I'm not allowed to talk about.

I've worked on projects including LLMs, knowledge extraction, automotive part failure prediction, translation, maintenance optimization, automated sports highlights, and more. I've also done some more interesting work including vehicle route planning in constrained environments.

Get in touch. Even if you're unsure, get in touch. Referals welcome. Email in profile.

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by dragonwriter | 2025-05-01 17:27:26+00:00
The usual American idea of “middle class” is mostly (thoufh it tends to be defined more by income than actual means of relating to the economy) a mix of the upper income segment of the primarily labor-dependent class (working class/proletariat) and the lower (comparatively) income segment of the mixed labor/capital-dependent class (petit bourgeoisie).

The middle class (petit bourgeoisie) is real, but its not centered around middle income (it is middle in the sense of being between the dominantly capital-dependent class and the dominantly labor-dependent class, primarily in how it relates to the economy, but in practice also on average, in income and wealth, but it is still an elite minority, just less so than the haut bourgeoisie that sits at the top.)
by dinkblam | 2025-05-01 17:27:29+00:00
yes, diversification is the basis for sound investing.

yet, if you look at all people and companies that have grown extremely rich extremely quickly, there is one very common factor: they didn't take money out of the company, but reinvested every single penny. thats the way you can outgrow your competition which doesn't do the same thing. failing businesses are often those that paid too much to their owners.
by ClumsyPilot | 2025-05-01 17:27:52+00:00
A civilian airport is huge both inside, has hectares of land area and thousands of staff.

Given that this never happened to before, requires sneaking thousands of armed men into to USA and does not achieve anything obvious besides general terrorism, why do you believe this is relevant?

And if someone did commandeer an airport, why would you evacuate the president instead of putting him in the panic room and flooding Washington with military and police?
by _ah | 2025-05-01 17:27:57+00:00
Wow, this takes me back.

I actually worked on Office performance many years ago. We did a lot of very clever stuff to improve the product, even to the point of optimizing the byte ordering on disk (spinning rust) so that the initial boot would be faster.

That said, it always felt a bit like a losing battle. The goal was "make Office not get slower". It's very hard to convince app teams that their new shiny abstraction or graphics object is actually the reason everything is worse, and it's even more challenging when there's no direct impact- just a broad increase in system memory pressure.

Typically, perf isn't a few bad decisions. It's a very large number of independently reasonable decisions that add up to a bad result. If the team loses that discipline for even one moment then it's very very difficult to fix. I wonder if my former team still exists or if they've all been reassigned elsewhere.
by HelloNurse | 2025-05-01 17:27:58+00:00
It matters because it is in the public interest that whatever cultural process affected him doesn't happen again, not even to the most despicable idiots, because this is the kind of "incredibly absurd ideas" that kills people. For the sake of defense in depth, how he got his place despite his opinions is a very important related question.

Personally, I'm afraid it could be a deliberate propaganda pose, with the dual objective of distracting the masses with an enemy and depriving people of expensive actual healthcare.
by vidarh | 2025-05-01 17:28:40+00:00
I mostly agree with you - the point I made is mainly one to make with people who get really insistent on that labelling, as a means to point out that even if they believe Stalinism is socialism, that still doesn't mean it's the same socialism as whichever flavour they're trying to equate it to.

Fully agree with you regarding the "fascists are just socialist" canard.

With respect to libertarianism, I like to taunt US libertarians by pointing out that the first liberatarian was Joseph Dejacque, a French anarcho-communist, who, of course, given his anarchist background, praised Proudhon for the view that property is theft - and requires state power to oppress those who reject it - but criticized Proudhon as a "moderate anarchist, liberal, but not libertarian" for not going far enough in his rejection of authority.

It tends to make a lot of them very upset.
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by Firaxus | 2025-05-01 17:28:57+00:00
Yes, though fwiw steam provides (in my opinion) more benefits to gamers and games than the apple appstore does to generic apps trying to do all manner of things.

And additionally steam isn’t a walled garden, there is actual choice, and steam goes out of its way to be usable on multiple platforms. Very different situation to the locked down apple ios ecosystem.
by ransom1538 | 2025-05-01 17:29:18+00:00
"Mr. Roman did not stop there, however. He also testified that up until January 16, 2024, Apple had no idea what fee it would impose on linked-out purchases […] Another lie under oath: contemporaneous business documents reveal that on the contrary, the main components of Apple’s plan, including the 27% commission, were determined in July 2023."

Basically, the current civil court model is 1) go to court with a case 2) demand to read internal memos of the defendants, 3) put people on the stand and walk through everything in these memos.

It is coercion. They want you to settle, or all your personal info goes online.