MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by GrumpyGoblin | 2025-05-12 13:35:25+00:00
A lot of disagreement apparently but I agree with you. Been doing this a long time and never seen it be a good idea.

I completed one successfully and it paralyzed a team of five for a year. Thankfully it was an internal product being rewritten for sale so the affect on users was minimal, but we also lost a year of potential sales.

Every other attempt I've seen has started with beautiful ideas, rainbows and pots of gold at the end, but went south after the first 20% code written and things got hard.

It's possible to do if you're willing to cripple development efforts or progress for an extended period and understand the result will have it's own issues and a rewrite isn't a silver bullet.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-05-12 13:35:39+00:00
> its extremely rare to encounter anything in the tech field like this.

That depends on where you are. In the US, it's rare, but our Japanese office actually had a pretty rigorous system for career growth, that involved what is, for lack of a better word, "apprenticeship."

> Additionally, the trades above don't have new tooling that comes out every few years that completely changes things

I wouldn't say that. I know a lot of mechanics, and they have experienced a big change, over the last decade or so.

One of the things about being a mechanic (or appliance repairman), is that you are responsible for maintaining a huge range of stuff; including things that are decades old.

I have a friend that sets up and maintains professional sterile stuff. This is big juju. These aren't little autoclaves, and they incorporate pretty much every trade you can think of, like plumbing, electrical, metalshop, mechanical, etc. Many of these units are huge. They also tend to be run by fairly advanced computers.

These units cost six- or seven-figures, and the customers like to keep them going for as long as possible. I often hear him talking about having to work on a decade-old sterilizer, in the sub-basement of some research lab.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-05-12 13:35:43+00:00
Just so you are aware, less than 1% of viewers actually give money directly to creators.

It's good you do it, thank you, and people run at the opportunity to show everyone they are doing the right thing (creating an illusion of popularity), but I can tell you from having seen the stats - essentially nobody does it.

Nebula, which you mention, has about 700k subscribers. Yet they host YouTube videos for creators who collectively have over 120M subscribers...that is a 0.6% conversion rate.
by nervousvarun | 2025-05-12 13:36:15+00:00
Longtime Paolo fan, he does a great job with his "typical workday" series.

Not sure of the exact number he's done, but I personally estimate I've watched at least 20-25 of these across a wide range of industries (majority are in food preparation/service but he also covers construction, tech, animation, airlines, education, politics, and many more) and if there's one overriding takeaway it's the Japanese as a culture are extremely committed to maximizing product quality.

It could be selection bias (maybe he only films exemplary people) but it doesn't seem to matter if you're dealing with someone preparing food, fighting fires, or delivering packages these people seem to really care about the overall quality of the service or product they provide.

A few others worth watching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0RX59G2jaA (movers...as someone who only has experience with American movers this is ridiculously better than what I experienced)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8A_Hu_WqeQ (package delivery worker)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsLFm5SSJyQ (politician)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjCzavpZoZI (fire fighter)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCPZzEbhNJw (anime director)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m4UxbDgGhc (car repair shop worker)

Honestly if you like any of these you'll likely find they're all worth watching.
by gus_massa | 2025-05-12 13:36:47+00:00
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium_atom

> Helium's first ionization energy is −24.587387936(25) eV. This value was measured experimentally. The theoretic value of Helium atom's second ionization energy is −54.41776311(2) eV. The total ground state energy of the helium atom is −79.005154539(25) eV, or −2.90338583(13) Atomic units a.u., which equals −5.80677166(26) Ry.

Where are those calculations in chapter 7? I can't find them. I only find a few nice closed formulas. Hydrogen has closed formulas (almost), but Helium not.

If you compare it with the Wikipedia page, the energy of Helium has no closed formulas. There are four approximated method, and the list exclude the brute force method of using Gaussian[1] or Psi[2] that can solve any molecule with a high approximation using a decomposition into a big number of orbitals.

If they can give a nice closed formula for Helium (without magical ad hoc constants), it would be huge. Nobody has one, nobody believe there is one. It doesn't matter if the derivation of the formula makes no sense, the Bohr atom made no sense in 1913, but he had a nice formula that made sense like 20 years later.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_(software)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSI_(computational_chemistry)
by shkkmo | 2025-05-12 13:37:05+00:00
> If a savant has perfect recall, remembers text perfectly and rearranges that text to create a marginally new text, he'd be sued for breach of copyright.

Any suits would be based on the degree the marginally new copy was fair use. You wouldn't be able to sue the savant for reading and remembering the text.

Using AI to creat marginally new copies of copyrighted work is ALREADY a violation. We don't need a dramatic expansion of copyright law that says that just giving the savant the book to real is a copyright violation.

Plagarism and copyright are two entirely different things. Plagarism is about citations and intellectual integrity. Copyright is a about protecting economic interests, has nothing to to with intellectual integrity, and isn't resolved by citing the original work. In fact most of the contexts where you would be accused of plagarism, would be places like reporting, criticism, education or research goals make fair use arguments much easier.
by surfingdino | 2025-05-12 13:37:15+00:00
Bell Labs had infinite money. Their owners made money every time someone picked up a phone. Not all businesses are that embedded in the society and those that have boards that might like the idea of funding their own labs have to answer to the higher power--the Wall Street crowd, who will force you to optimise for maximum profit in the shortest amount of time. You get there fastest by cutting costs, especially the costs of long-term research that may not bear fruit.

BTW. Why wait 50 years to forget Theranos? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/business/elizabeth-holmes...
by flakeoil | 2025-05-12 13:37:43+00:00
> ...while the card gives "cash back on purchases".

Sure, but cash back is a kind of marketing trick which makes the card user more willing to spend and use their card. It's this little extra which pushes you over to buy something because, hey, I get my cash back.

There is no free lunch. Someone has to pay the cash back and we like to think it is the merchant, but in the end it is the consumer who pays for all these cash backs and card fees.
by infinite8s | 2025-05-12 13:38:02+00:00
From a purely humanity-improving perspective this lack of dissemination is quite sad.

> No one writes it down because it sort of feels wrong to claim second-hand knowledge of unknown origin as your own, or to even lead people to assume as much.

Wouldn't it be possible to publish informally (say in a blog post) while fully disclaiming first-authorship or invention?
by Tade0 | 2025-05-12 13:38:11+00:00
I count myself extremely lucky that I had somewhat of an idea at 12. At 10 I was a child firmly separated from the adult world.

That being said I think I can top that:

When I was in 2nd grade or so my school announced that a "sport" class would be created - ostensibly to promote physical education and whatnot as there was a judo club associated with the institution. Net effect was that all the boys from broken, troubled homes would join and my class was left with half of its original count of boys. Girls had the same option on paper, but none joined.

Sometimes I wonder whether it was good or bad that it happened. That is quite early to make such life-altering decisions, then again I wasn't in their position so perhaps to them it was beneficial. I really don't know.
by sega_sai | 2025-05-12 13:38:23+00:00
This is obviously completely bizarre approach for random internet people to pick up titles and judge whether it appropriate topic or not.

First, a majority of the grants listed there are in the EDU Directorate, i.e. devoted to EDU Programs - Directorate for STEM Education (EDU), which many of the commenters have no clue about.

Second, I looked at the MPS section (mathematical and physical sciences) that I did get grants from in the past:

And here are the cancelled grants. In my opinion these are all sensible topics to be funded (especially since it is probably a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the total budget):

Mathematical Connectivity through Research and Equity for Women

Collaborative Research: Evaluating Access: How a Multi-Institutional Network Promotes Equity and Cultural Change through Expanding Student Voice

Equity Beyond the Algorithm: A Mathematical Quest for Fairer-ness in Machine Learning

Collaborative Research: Conference: Mathematical Sciences Institutes Diversity Initiative

Advancing Inclusive Leaders in Astronomy

Collaborative Research: Conference: Mathematical Sciences Institutes Diversity Initiative

Pathways to a Diverse STEM Workforce: GEM Underrepresented Minority Internships in STEM Program

CAREER: From Equivariant Chromatic Homotopy Theory to Phases of Matter: Voyage to the Edge

Collaborative Research: Conference: Mathematical Sciences Institutes Diversity Initiative

Collaborative Research: Evaluating Access: How a Multi-Institutional Network Promotes Equity and Cultural Change through Expanding Student Voice

Quantum Noir: A conference series focused on Faculty, Researchers, and Students of Color(+) in the Quantum Sciences

Minnesota Partnership to Foster Native American Participation in Astrophysics

Conference: Gender Equity in the Mathematical Study (GEMS) of Commutative Algebra

Conference: 2025 Stochastic Physics in Biology GRC

Conference in Geometry, Topology, and Dynamics: Celebrating the Work of Diverse Mathematicians

Collaborative Research: Conference: Mathematical Sciences Institutes Diversity Initiative

Postdoctoral Fellowship: MPS-Ascend: Probing Secondary Structure and Hydration in Nucleic Acids Using Chiral

Selective Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy PRIMES: Researching and Teaching Mathematics of Fairness and Equity

Collaborative Research: ATD: Hawkes Process-Based Causal Relationship Discovery For Complex Threat Detection and Forecasting

Preparation of Stimuli-Responsive Materials with Directed Photophysical Behavior
by kaycey2022 | 2025-05-12 13:39:01+00:00
Maybe it wasn't your point. But cost of development is a very important factor, considering some of the thinking models burn tokens like no tomorrow. Accuracy is another. Maybe your script is kind of trivial/inconsequential so it doesn't matter if the output has some bugs as long as it seems to work. There are a lot of throwaway scripts we write, for which LLMs are an excellent tool to use.
by melicerte | 2025-05-12 13:39:15+00:00
> Of particular concern, WithSecure Threat Intelligence identified a successful campaign, spanning at least 8 months, where legitimate source code of the popular open-source password manager tool ‘KeePass’ had been modified, and recompiled with trusted certificates.

My understanding is that if you don't pay particularly care to where you get your KeePass from, you can be tricked into downloading and installing a keepass from perfectly valid installer, potentially leaking all your passwords to the attackers.

I don't know if using open source projects with recompiled sources and valid trusted certificate is a common vector of attack but WithSecure reports that it has been installed a number of times across several of their customers.
by whizzter | 2025-05-12 13:39:16+00:00
Interesting paper for someone fiddling with implicit surfaces, but it's gonna take a little while to digest it. Also there's no examples of resulting UV maps used in this (while on-model painting is simplified, afaik classically artists still preferred to get clearly delineated maps to modify in regular painting software even if stuff like Substance painter seems to have shifted that).

Implicit surface modelling tools are still evolving quickly, and one point that seems overlooked is how this would tie with authoring tools (since this is about a fairly raw numeric algorithm solution).

Post-modelling it should hold up, but would the maps retain similarity (or enable transferability) if the implicit model structure changes?

Imagine 2 disjoint spheres in space, the user drags them together, would this algorithm want to merge the UV mapping of them if they are smoothly joined? (no sharp creases).
by rlnorthcutt | 2025-05-12 13:39:40+00:00
I have yet to find a perfect community anywhere - open source or not. And, as a general rule, I agree that we should try to support open source communities with whatever path they choose to take.

In this case, it seems to me that OpenSSL has chosen to prioritize DX and broader accessibility over performance. Even as we have seen some performance improvements since the initial 3.0 release, it is still not where it was.

Thats ok.

As a widely used library, it may actually be a good idea for the project to prioritize the longtail of users over those who have the highest performance needs. This is a valid response.

The only issue I see is that this may not have been clearly thought out or communicated, which is a completely understandable oversight. There is another potential issue with rolling out an LTS release that was not "fully baked" but again - these things happen.

Overall, we should look to refine and understand the goals for the project, and be clear on the priorities of those leading and maintaining it.
by throw738384 | 2025-05-12 13:39:53+00:00
I would add a few points:

* Organic Maps devs are from Belarus, company is registered in Estonia. This is very difficult setup already, and I can imagine authors just want simplest setup possible. Perhaps they do not want to waste energy on nonprofit that is very very difficult and expensive to do internationally!

* If they sell the company so what? Create another fork and move on. It is opensource, but that does not mean authors can not get some money!

* Biggest expense for Organic Maps is hosting and mirroring map data. Is this fork going to use (and pay) their own servers?

* Is there list of developers and contributors behind this fork? I only found "us" and "we" and "community"!
by ConfusedDog | 2025-05-12 13:39:57+00:00
I remember being called to a dinner which was paid for (figures). A couple well-dressed but fashionable guys tried to sell a crypto that ask you play a mobile game or something to earn coins which can be converted into real crypto? or something like that. There were a couple people at the dinner I know being constantly fallen into this kind of traps, including MLM, despite their success in their businesses. Well, the dinner was good at least and I found them kind of entertaining in a mentally-ill way.
by Leftium | 2025-05-12 13:39:59+00:00
Ideally, my tool would run on the server. Especially if I wanted to monetize the service. (However I think there may be legal issues that are larger than the technical ones...)

However it's just a small hobby project. So realistically I think this is how it will work:

- If user tries to load a video without beat data yet, instructions are shown for how to add the beat data. The instructions will be running CLI command like `npx upload-beat-data [YOUTUBE-URL]`

- The CLI tool will download the audio, then upload the beat data to my site.

- The site will also log which videos got a lot of requests, but are missing beat data. So I can manually add the beat data myself.
by int_19h | 2025-05-12 13:40:20+00:00
No, we specifically want stdlib and not an app framework.

The problem with third party frameworks is that by definition (of being third party) there's no single standard one to use, so libraries use different ones, and then you end up with a mess of dependencies, or else multiple incompatible ecosystems, each duplicating the same functionality around a different framework.

The beauty of stdlib is that it's guaranteed to be there, meaning that any library can use it as needed. It also improves interop between libraries because the same concepts are represented by the same standard types. And even when parts of stdlib are optional - which by necessity they must be for any "batteries included" stdlib because e.g. embedded is a thing - it's still beneficial to library authors because they know that, for any given feature, all supported platforms that do have it have stdlib expose it in the same way.
by tacticalturtle | 2025-05-12 13:40:27+00:00
Completely anecdotal - but the guys I know in trades have a larger proportion that smoke/drink heavily compared to the office workers I know.

Would be curious if there’s a study that compares “health nut” physical trade workers with “health nut” office workers.

Still as you said, there’s a lot of risk with relying on physical capabilities for work.

If an office worker gets injured outside of work, you can still do the basic job.

If a physical tradeworker gets injured outside of work, you could be out of a paycheck.
by quietbritishjim | 2025-05-12 13:40:54+00:00
> I don't think we actually need `->void`

Yes, agreed.

> Would it have looked any less cursed if it just read `defer { CoUninitialize(); };`?

It's subjective but personally I still hate it.

> Agreed that the simplest "fix" would be to just rename the macro to be all-caps.

Actually I think the bigger part of my suggestion is switching from an object-like macro to a function-like macro [1], which makes it all a bit less magical.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36126687/function-like-m...
by bayindirh | 2025-05-12 13:41:18+00:00
People are rate-limited naturally, and the systems we have built are built upon these natural limits. If your system breaks down when you remove these limits, and things get damaged, you need newer limits to protect what you have built.

You can down trees 100x more efficiently, but it proved to be disastrous for the planet, so we enacted more laws and try to control forestation/deforestation by regulations.

If AI can ingest things 100x faster, and it damages some things we have built, we have to regulate the process so things doesn't get damaged or the producers are compensated equally to keep livelihoods their livelihoods, instead of bashing writers and content producers like unwanted and unvalued bugs of last century.

...and if things got blurry because of new tech which was unfathomable a century ago, the solution is to add this tech to the regulation so it can be regulated to protect the producers again, not to yell "we're doing something awesome and we need no permission" and trash the place and harm the people who built this corpus. No?

However, this is not that profitable, so AI people are pushing back.
by yomismoaqui | 2025-05-12 13:41:31+00:00
It's not my favorite language but Dart feels like a more modern less-verbose Java from another timeline. Features like sound null safety rule and writing Flutter apps feels nice, in no way Dart gets in the way.

That said, I prefer writing backends in Go. Less is more FTW.

EDIT: Also having the ability to compile it to JS, WASM, native for Android, iOS, Windows, Mac & Linux is a plus.
by petercooper | 2025-05-12 13:42:08+00:00
ight out the gate, I was hit with the first hurdle: DDR5 memory training

I wish this was documented in anything that comes with the motherboards or CPU for this platform. When I built a 7950X based machine a couple of years ago, I ran into the same problem - it seemed as if it wasn't working at all, so I decided to just leave it sat there. Ten minutes later, it worked! But nothing on screen during this process, nothing in the books.. if I were less patient, I'd have been swapping memory and CPUs in and out and potentially returning stuff. At the very least the motherboard could be showing progress or flashing a light or, well, anything.
by badlibrarian | 2025-05-12 13:42:18+00:00
Not in stock on Amazon. Just a bunch of third party sellers with varying ship dates months out. Nor Powells, other vendors, nor any used copies, nothing by ISBN search either.

Google says "in stock" in the search result. I do a search about once a month and click around. I've been doing it long enough that I can actually watch things get worse. No AI result yet, so there's still room to fall.
by RetroTechie | 2025-05-12 13:42:49+00:00
You need both: the map data (OSM project), and software for viewing/using it.

Ideally any app using OSM data would enable contributing to the underlaying map data. But that's probably not how it works.

For what it's worth: I like Organic Maps for being more lightweight, quicker rendering & simpler configuration than OSMand. But it (still? haven't used in a while) does lack some useful features like points of interest (supermarkets, gas stations & such).

Would be nice if it were easy to share (offline) map data between apps. Download in app A, backup on sd card , use from app B, C, D, or on other device by swap/copy sd card. Maybe it's possible, but I haven't figured out how (on Android). At least it's not easy/obvious/automatic.
by danaris | 2025-05-12 13:42:50+00:00
> I find myself in the unexpected, uncomfortable position of wildly contradicting and undermining what I thought I understood: that people are terrible at predicting the future of technology.

By and large, I think you're still right. But by the late '90s and early 2000s, the internet wasn't "the future of technology". It was already the present of technology.

Anyone paying attention could already see by 1994 or 1995 that the Internet was a) a big deal, and b) growing massively. The key at that point was not figuring out that the technology was going to be huge; it was figuring out which companies using that technology would be huge—ie, predicting with more granularity the future of the technology that was the World Wide Web.

And investors failed at that. Hard. That's what caused the dot-com bust.
by UncleEntity | 2025-05-12 13:42:52+00:00
> But saving for a burrito is arguably something I shouldn't even have to save for in the first place.

I'm guessing you never has so little money that the calories you spent to get cheap food on Taco Tuesday was probably more than what it took to pedal your bike up to Del Taco? Yeah, that was a soul-crushing day.

Honestly, this would have been a bad plan for me because it often came down to the choice between 'go get a cab' and 'starve to death' as I could get some cash calls immediately after picking up a cab in order to not starve to death.

This scheme is clearly targeting the financially irresponsible, like myself, to pawn off the debt on others with their Burrito Backed Securities. Maybe we can take a moment to reflect on how the Mortgage Backed Securities debacle worked out?