MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by duxup | 2025-05-25 01:58:09+00:00
I don't think it is common, plenty of rich folks out there who do just fine.

We just hear about the bad ones.

I grew up in a smaller town in the midwest. There were some neighbors, bunch of old guy friends living in post WWII era baby boomer houses just down a few blocks. Nice guys, they were small town attorneys, politicians, small businessmen who ran some very humble businesses, and etc. They all drove 10 year old basic cars, golfed together on men's night, mowed their own lawns until they couldn't anymore.

It wasn't until I was older that I realized that they were all on the board of a local community bank that they started long ago. Over the years the bank grew, absorbed other banks.

Everyone of them was worth somewhere in the dozens of millions of dollars.

You would never know it.
by ndriscoll | 2025-05-25 01:58:53+00:00
Incorrect question. The correct question is assuming people are willing to share those old games for free (they are), why should we grant someone the right to stop them? Why should we grant people the right to block the creation of derivatives of 40 year old works?

These things don't even have economic value. E.g. excitebike was in the top 10 best selling NES games. How much would you pay as an investor today for global distribution rights?
by KaiserPro | 2025-05-25 01:59:06+00:00
Re-invent the wheel all you like, just don't try that shit in production, unless you want to cause a delay.

Sometimes there are very good reasons to reinvent the wheel, where the buisness demands a faster x, or there are privacy concerns for y. But most of the time its just a bad idea to re-invent the wheel. Do that shit on your own time, and keep it out of our production codebase.

I know there will be lots of people moaning about curiosity and the like. I somewhat agree. However imagine you are building a new table. Nothing interesting just metal frame with a composite wooden top. You are prototyping is, and suddenly, one of your engineers decides to reinvent screws. Not because there is a need, but because they are bored.

Its not like you need hidden, or fancy screws/attachement devices, the engineer is just curious about trying out a lathe. Not that you have an "automatic" lathe, so it not like you can scale up production.

Its fucking stupid right? yes.

Sure, test out how to make your own fasteners. Even do it on company time. Just don't try and sneak it into production. Its a bad idea.
by YZF | 2025-05-25 02:02:12+00:00
The IACBT conference was cancelled 2 months ago.

The Volcanoes conference was cancelled in April.

NOWCAM 2025 meeting was held in Victoria, BC, Canada, from May 8–10 on the UVic campus. I can't even find a reference to it being moved. I mean maybe it was.

So clearly not "new things that happened in May".
by op00to | 2025-05-25 02:02:27+00:00
It’s good that you play with your kids, and they’re not playing alone.

I don't allow my kids (kindergarten and middle school) to play Roblox based on the advice of a prosecutor in my town that works exclusively with child abuse, endangerment, and other crimes like that. She said Roblox and Discord are the top places right now where predators are hanging out cruising for kids to exploit. Discord makes sense, but I was surprised at Roblox.

As someone who came of age in the free-wheeling early 90s bbs and early internet era (“borrowed” shell account at a local university), it’s really disappointing how exploitive the internet and gaming is, especially in spaces that could stimulate creativity.
by gerdesj | 2025-05-25 02:03:02+00:00
I'll have to get my facts straight but I'm pretty sure that ksmbd is ... not used much (by me).

https://lwn.net/Articles/871866/ This is also nothing to do with Samba which is a well trodden path.

So why not attack a codebase that is rather more heavily used and older? Why not go for vi?
by kazinator | 2025-05-25 02:03:32+00:00
+10dB is twice of something: it is an increase in loudness which is twice compared to a +5 dB increase.

If +10dB is absolutely twice as loud, it means that 110 dB is 32 times as loud as 60 dB. We are then essentially denying that perception of loudness is logarithmic!
by Aurornis | 2025-05-25 02:03:34+00:00
I’ve developed a few take-home interview problems over the years that were designed to be short, easy for an experienced developer, but challenging for anyone who didn’t know the language. All were extracted from real problems we solved on the job, reduced into something minimal.

Every time a new frontier LLM is released (excluding LLMs that use input as training data) I run the interview questions through it. I’ve been surprised that my rate of working responses remains consistently around 1:10 for the first pass, and often takes upwards of 10 rounds of poking to get it to find its own mistakes.

So this level of signal to noise ratio makes sense for even more obscure topics.
by danpalmer | 2025-05-25 02:03:50+00:00
As mentioned in another comment, I use a Steam Deck which runs Linux, and I love that, but Steam OS isn't available for non-Decks yet in a fully supported manner.

I have enough programming adjacent hobbies (and I'm a SWE/SRE at work). Windows is requiring too much management, and I don't want to move to a DIY gaming setup on Linux, I'd rather wait for Steam OS to be fully supported, or just buy a console.

And before someone pushes back with Linux being easy to manage, that's not really the point. I use Linux, it requires more sysadmining than my Steam Deck does. Just because I can do it doesn't mean I want to.
by apsurd | 2025-05-25 02:04:46+00:00
Maybe just me but the resultant generations look like generic animals. I want _my_ special snowflake little snicker doodle.

I'm a pet lover, just fostered 3 kittens. My brother makes apple messenger stickers of them and puts them all over our group chat. It's great, i love it, they are very very much "hey that's Tilly, look how cute!". vs "it's a cat"
by dylan604 | 2025-05-25 02:05:50+00:00
Old school Deep Sky is losing its appeal due to C) too many ruined images from man made objects floating through the shot, D) a helluva lot more equipment required than just a camera and a lens

I love the wide angle astro stuff, but I'm more into timelapse. But I do love "trying" shooting DSO as well, but tracking is obviously required.
by danpalmer | 2025-05-25 02:06:27+00:00
I've used low maintenance Linux distros, and they're not comparable to Steam OS in my experience. It's not about a 10 minute install, it's about the hour here and there to update, to fix, to browse the Arch wiki to figure out why my bluetooth mouse doesn't work today. Linux is a lot better than it was 10+ years ago, but to say it's as low maintenance as a game console (which is what my Steam Deck is to me), is actually absurd.
by klabb3 | 2025-05-25 02:07:42+00:00
> If the LLM wrote a harness and proof of concept tests for its leads, then it might increase S/N dramatically.

Designing and building meaningfully testable non-trivial software is orders of magnitude more complex than writing the business logic itself. And that’s if you compare writing greenfield code from scratch. Making an old legacy code base testable in a way conducive to finding security vulns is not something you just throw together. You can be lucky with standard tooling like sanitizers and valgrind but it’s far from a panacea.
by zmgsabst | 2025-05-25 02:08:36+00:00
Counterpoint:

You’re displaying a form of racism by portraying this as about “lost status” rather than the decreasing material well-being of the public and the collapse of technocratic systems benefitting people in a regime of inflated credentials.

Your theory doesn’t explain, eg, why Trump is more popular than a typical Republican with minorities. Nor does it explain Obama voters who switched to Trump.

While you dressed up the language, you’re still just calling others “istaphobes” to avoid contending with real class issues — and making an ad hominem argument rather than contending with their legitimate disagreement.
by ygjb | 2025-05-25 02:08:50+00:00
Sorry neighbours, but it's not about Trump. Trump is one man. The Republican party is effectively captured by that one mans 77,302,580 supporters.

Changing leaders isn't enough to fix it. You all broke it, and until you re-establish norms for democracy, reinforce the checks and balances, and start holding criminals who hold office accountable, it's not going to get better.

I wish you luck, you will need it :/
by johnea | 2025-05-25 02:09:53+00:00
A friend and I also made this!

We used it as a speed dialer that worked on any phone.

I still have the hard copy of the synthetic programming guide!

Even outside of that technique, the calculator was a very powerful programmable tool for the early 1980s.

The same friend and I also wrote a program for performing all of the calculations for a grad class in S-parameter modeling of RF transmission. We were so proud, we showed off the program to our professor. Our "reward" was having calculator "programs" banned during all tests 8-/

We didn't realize until later, that there was a "turf war" going on between the RF section of our EE department, and the digital electronic section.

This is how the HP-41CX calculator helped me learn one of the most significant lessons of my EE degree: when it comes to human decision making, the tech is often far from the top priority.
by arionhardison | 2025-05-25 02:09:54+00:00
I'm recreating the "Gov" - not really; just my idea of it, globally e.g.: ua.gov-ai.co / ua.ai-gov.co/ ng.gov-ai.co / ng.ai-gov.co - most progress made so far w/ CBER and DDP's

* HHS -> FDA -> CBER

It's important IMO (IMO only NOT AN EXPERT) because it helps you understand first principles better. As fundamentals change, its helps me to reevaluate these things even though I know nothing will ever come of them.

I am 422 agencies in so far, hoping to finish in-time for Juneteenth. Cant post her because........... but yea.

Re-invent the wheel!
by jdwithit | 2025-05-25 02:10:19+00:00
Yes, regression testing--making sure bugs you've fixed don't return--is a standard part of QA. I did volunteer QA for Mozilla in college a good 20 years ago (god that number is horrifying) and they had an ever-growing suite of regression tests. Mostly for rendering/layout or JavaScript engine bugs, since part of reproducing and proving you'd fixed those was creating a minimal test case. Which you could then easily throw into the build pipeline.

Bugs are a fact of life, but burning time and money to fix them only to have them return is the worst case scenario. Organizations that care about quality are definitely investing in regression testing. Unfortunately a whole lot of orgs give QA zero respect and offshore it to the lowest bidder, if they do it at all. It's absolutely insane to me that Apple wouldn't have regression tests for jail breaks, some of the most high profile bugs in history.

You can fairly criticize Mozilla for a number of things these days. But they had a very robust QA and CI/CD setup in the early 2000s with tools like Tinderbox and Bugzilla. When DevOps came around and popularized it I was like wait, people weren't already doing this stuff??? Turned out I had been living in a bubble and that was not the norm at all.
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-05-25 02:10:37+00:00
Once again everyone has underestimated the cunning Toyota Prius, especially the new plug-in model, the Prius Prime.

Your gas went bad a year after the hammer fell? The Prius Prime can drive highway speed on its battery, and you can charge that with solar and an inverter.

Need to break camp and make yourself scarce in 5 minutes? Toss some fuel tanks in the back and floor it. The Prius Prime has a 600-mile EPA range on gasoline.
by arthurcolle | 2025-05-25 02:10:50+00:00
Thank you, this is critical feedback. I totally know what you mean.

Quick question - you tried upload from main page, or did you create a pet in the dashboard and then generate a sticker from that pet page in the dashboard? Not trying to keep posting this video link, but wondering if you were able to get a sticker wall going in the studio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcn8dSt7CcQ

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ninja edit for myself: Reading back this comment I notice I have too many linguistic abstractions I'm repurposing for this app, but I totally know what you mean @apsurd - and your special snowflake little snicker doodle deserves every variation this construct has to offer.
by evanjrowley | 2025-05-25 02:11:16+00:00
Awesome concept. There should be more interactive music videos. Glad they're on Bandcamp.

Also, the setting gave me strong flashbacks to the 1999 OVA Blue Submarine No. 6: https://youtu.be/9Od8rfBb-SY?si=hIfLrsK-TvFI0fnB
by StableAlkyne | 2025-05-25 02:11:17+00:00
It's cool that this generation has their own tools to get into writing games

Probably a heck of a lot less clunky than the 2000s too! That era you had to either mod something that already existed, or attempt to make a source mod (+fight with Hammer to make maps).

Plus there weren't too many good free 3D tools, but now Blender is as good as commercial software. On top of the huge selection of good IDEs and documentation for the coding bits.

Glad to see there's still a scene around just making things for the fun of it!
by -__---____-ZXyw | 2025-05-25 02:11:29+00:00
Ah, ok, you must be using agency in some new way I'm not aware of.

Can you clarify what exactly you mean then when you say that "AI" (presumably you mean LLMs) has agency, and that this sets it apart from all other technologies? If this agency as you define it makes it different from all other technologies, presumably it must mean something pretty serious.
by pilingual | 2025-05-25 02:11:35+00:00
There are two key concerns:

1. Data is retained by a handful of companies. If it is leaked, you'll have a lot of information on people that is suddenly fair game for anyone including insurance companies, PI, home invaders.

2. In the US, I'm not concerned about local government as much as federal when it comes to the fourth amendment. Suppose you have a rogue potus. He sends the national guard in to Atlanta, Chicago, and Downingtown to take over the systems of these companies. Now you say, "well I'll just remove my license plate!" But these companies are cataloguing make, model, color, bumper stickers, dents; so you can take off your plate in a situation like that but they are going to still be able to track you with a high degree of certainty. People were shocked by South Korea declaring martial law -- we've become so spoiled taking these essential laws for granted. (Sorry I don't know enough about British law.)

If they don't send all license plate data to the internet there isn't an issue. But they do.
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by smelendez | 2025-05-25 02:11:40+00:00
Locking tickets to customers is hard, especially for venues with seats. The venue and artist want people in those seats — it looks better and they spend money on concessions, merch, and often parking. You can resell at the door, maybe, but then you’re turning away paying customers who get stuck in traffic and show up late.

I’m not convinced cards are a significant barrier. People already get tons of credit cards for the signup bonuses and perks, and you can get prepaid cards pretty easily. Temporary card numbers are a thing too. There are logistical challenges in getting a lot of cards in the buying pool but I don’t think they’re insurmountable.
by mindslight | 2025-05-25 02:11:41+00:00
Though just to be very clear here, at every step of the way this group has voted for and voraciously supported the very same elites that have been pushing hardest on the accelerator pedal for some of their problems. The Dollar's status as a reserve currency was not itself a burden. The problem was caused by the Republican Party's continually trumpeted fake "fiscal responsibility" whereby the surplus was still centralized (monetary inflation), but the proceeds were handed to Wall Street to bid up asset bubbles instead of being spent on policies that would have helped Main Street.
by drewcoo | 2025-05-25 02:12:02+00:00
A text record of what happened isn't just useful for new hires, not just useful for async comms, but for people like me who want to be sure we followed along.

Spur-of-the-moment phone calls and meetings (especially camera-on ones with some uncaptured visual elements that the blind can't follow) tend to foul that up. And trigger the autistics who are likely hiding amongst the rest of you. We are legion. Treat us gently and we will likely do all manner of scutwork, refactoring old nasty untouchable code, and pager duty. i love debugging!

[Edit to add: Never trust a manager who likes to give directions in impromptu, unrecorded/unrecordable sessions. That means for some reason they want to be off-record. Or don't understand management. Either one of those is trouble.]
by nogajun | 2025-05-25 02:12:21+00:00
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by throw__away7391 | 2025-05-25 02:13:37+00:00
I went to a protest. I was anxious about being photographed and added to some biometric database to be used for who knows what purposes. My wife and I had a serious discussion about whether to go, the possible risks, the possibility of violence, but I ultimately convinced her to go as our civic responsibility. I left our phones at home as a precaution so as to avoid being geolocated to the site.

What I found upon arriving was an unserious mob of hippies laughing and taking selfies to post on social media. I'd made signs supporting the rule of law. The signs of the other participants were an unfocused smattering of various political goals from "tax the rich" to banning Teslas. They included what I thought was an excessive about of profanity and crude insults. I think these are unserious people and what they're doing is performative and utterly pointless.

I do not see any viable action for individual citizens to take. Everyone out there clamoring for people to do something is just pushing their own political agenda. We had an election, one side won, that's how things go, ok. What's happened since however is a clear violation of the US Constitution in more ways than one can count, but it seems there is basically no one aware of or concerned about this. I feel like I'm at a football game where one side just took out a gun and shot the referee and while he lies on the floor bleeding to death both sides are still arguing over whether there was a foul or not.
by johnea | 2025-05-25 02:15:07+00:00
This also happened to me. I guess it was the late 1980s.

I was programming UV erasable microcontrollers in quartz-windowed ceramic packages. Once I had the whole multi-processor distributed system up and running, I snapped a photo with my flash (film) sports camera.

Everything crashed! I also had to repeat the process reliably a couple of times before I was convinced it was the flash that caused it.
by discarded1023 | 2025-05-25 02:15:15+00:00
I can't speak to the point of doing this, but (IIRC/IIUC) you're talking paths and they're talking the entire computation tree, i.e., a term in their calculus represents all solutions, and computing normal forms makes them easy to read off (?). Perhaps there's some meat in how they handle the equivalent of `bagof/3`/`setof/3`.
by codethief | 2025-05-25 02:16:55+00:00
> would just multiply the number of function colors.

Would there really be colors?

I mean sure, the caller of an effectful function will either have to handle the effect or become effectful itself, so in this sense effectfulness is infectious.

However, while a function might use the `await` effect, when calling the function you could also just define the effect handler so as to block, instead of defering the task and jumping back to the event loop. In other words, wouldn't this solve the issue of colors? One would simply define all possibly blocking functions as await-effectful. Whether or not they actually await / run asynchronously would be up to the caller.
by braaaahp | 2025-05-25 02:17:02+00:00
What you need to keep in mind is once enough frogs are boiling things get worse fast.

No logical breakdown from an armchair is going stop parents with hungry kids.

This is the failing to read the room part I mentioned. Our biology is composed of biology not philosophy. It is self selecting. It’s biological imperative is select self.

Ok good you got some sort of Excel sheet breakdown. That’s just words.

This is what I’m talking about; American public is so dissociated due to economics that straight up ignores externalities. 8 billion people are the externality and it’s going to be hard for 300 million to ignore them and live in their narcissistic bubble much longer. Third world countries have rebuilt and don’t see the specialness in Murica or the point in sewing their shirts if they’re going to be so low affect.

Americans have to change not because of some philosophical position but because of physical reality not really caring about the excuses of 300 million; only half of which is cogent, and half of that actually intelligent. It’s not looking good, Bob.
by lesser23 | 2025-05-25 02:17:41+00:00
Why shouldn’t old art be permitted into the public domain to encourage improvement and innovation?

Draconian Mickey Mouse copyright law has likely stifled more innovation that we could possibly imagine. Much like patent law there should be a strict, non-renewable period where a company can recoup their cost and make profit. Then it is introduced to the public domain.

Not “allowing people to play NES games for free” is rent seeking, innovation stifling behavior that extends far beyond simple NES games.

Further, why shouldn’t I be allowed to share a game I rightfully own? If I do not own it, then I lease it. If I was not made aware of that then it is fraud. The ethics are simple: When buying is not owning, piracy is not theft. Simple as that.