MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by microsestudios | 2025-05-01 18:26:05+00:00
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by hilbert42 | 2025-05-01 18:26:21+00:00
"I seriously doubt that the microbial load would have been lower before the invention of washing machines. And with older washing machines, using those nasty aggressive washing agents:…"

Nasty aggressive washing agents have a pretty devastating effect on bacteria, molds etc. especially bleaching percarbonates and such used for whiteners/stain removers. Surely then it's just a matter of increasing the amount of washing powder to achieve the desired sanitation level.

A rule I use is that if soap suds aren't still present in reasonable quantity on top of water until the end of the wash cycle then there's not enough soap powder being used.

Perhaps the trend towards minimizing the amount of cleaning agents used in washing has gone too far.

Similarly, perhaps also we've gone too far by removing phosphorus (in the form of trisodium phosphate—aka TSP, etc.) from washing powders, which has been a trend in recent years through environmental concerns. TSP, Na₃PO₄, is remarkably good at removing heavily ingrained dirt. It's also highly alkaline and hostile to living organisms.

That said, surprisingly TSP is not very toxic to humans—at least in small amounts. It's used as an acidity regulator/preservative in food, it's E339.
by DannyBee | 2025-05-01 18:26:39+00:00
Two things:

Don't confuse the adversarial process with the post-adversarial process.

Don't confuse civil and criminal cases.

On the first: The adversarial process is between two sides, maybe you and a company, or two companies, or you and the government, whatever. The adversarial process ends when someone wins or loses.

During the adversarial process, the judge is basically a referee. This is an oversimplification, but close enough. Beyond that, they mostly are trying to get all of the info out on the table, so the dispute can be resolved.

If you want to be an asshole to the other side, you can be as much of an asshole as the referee lets you get away with, and this is going to vary depending on lots of things. This is true in many contexts (sports, for example).

But once that's done, the judge is not a referee anymore. They decide the remedy. If you are an asshole to them, that is not going to go well.

This is also true in many contexts - talk shit to the guy who knocked you down on the pitch, maybe you get a yellow card. Talk shit to the ref after they card you, they'll throw your ass out of the game, and fine or suspend you afterwards for doing it.

On the second - criminal cases have both a different burden of proof, and a different effective set of expectations of behavior, because of the stakes.

FWIW - the various rules of professional conduct explicitly go into various roles and hats that lawyers (and judges) often wear, and the acceptable behaviors during those roles.
by monknomo | 2025-05-01 18:26:53+00:00
What I took from it is that the story about starting a company in a garage is about the humble origins.

But to start a company in a garage you must have access to a garage; lots of people do not have this level of resources. The origins of these companies are not as humble as they sound, they rely access to resources that are not actually common (unless you look from the POV of a well-offish 'middle class' family)
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by chmod775 | 2025-05-01 18:27:18+00:00
> Trust me, porn on the Vision Pro is plentiful and industry-leading.

VR pornography is quite massive in Japan for instance. Huge in fact. The Vision Pro doesn't even have a DMM.com/Fanza app for that.

I don't think most users would even consider getting a device that doesn't allow them to view their existing catalog of purchases, pornography and not.

Again, this could've been solved by simply supporting PCVR.

> VRChat, I agree, should absolutely be there and unrestricted. It wont be though. It isn't uncensored on Oculus either.

I don't think the VR Chat app on Oculus is very popular. Most users are just going to run it via PCVR for better performance, feature support, etc.
by dekhn | 2025-05-01 18:27:21+00:00
There are certainly situations where specific vaccine formations have caused measureable harm. For example in Japan there was a specific formulation of MMR vaccine that led to high rates of sepsis. Experts certainly were involved in the messaging around the changes that Japan applied to resolve this issue (the results also helped provide evidence that vaccines don't cause autism).

Public messaging around human health, especially with respect to powerful tools that modify the immune system, has always been extremely challenging. Public health officials typically want to maximize health for a whole population, and we know that messaging can lead to society-level changes in behavior around vaccination. So experts are typically quite careful when they talk about harms from vaccines.
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-01 18:27:30+00:00
> And that’s the case as long as the income tax is at or less than 100%.

No, its true as long as taxes on income plus the necessary-but-non-deductible expenses associated with maintaining the job that would not be required otherwise are less than the pay for doing the job.

But income taxes aren't the only taxes on income (payroll taxes exist), and costs of work (added wardrobe costs imposed by dress codes and expectations, commute costs, added childcare costs) are real.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-05-01 18:28:07+00:00
> If your resume says you live in NYC for example, and I do something like "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?" and they respond with I-278, that would raise red flags. I have never heard of anyone calling the I-278 anything but the BQE.

A counterstory: When my former boss started at the company, for the first years [!] he only "knew" very specific places (office, appartment, and one or two places associated with intensely practiced hobbies of him) in the city where the company is located, and basically lived inside the bubbles associated with these places and their surroundings.

Thus, to me it is very plausible that even if you lived in a city for many years, it is very easy to live in very isolated bubbles, and have barely any contact to people and their habits outside these bubbles.
by terminalbraid | 2025-05-01 18:28:08+00:00
Yes, but not the same infrastructure and configuration and documentation. Any reasonable operation will also do validation and assurance. That adds up if you have a sizable operation. "Hundreds of hours" is also not some enormous scale for operations that, say, have lots of employees, lots of data, and lots of instances.

The part you are thinking of is not the time consuming part.
by renewiltord | 2025-05-01 18:28:54+00:00
When did this style of psychoanalysis become popular? Everyone now uses these terms and instead of coming off like an informed take it just sounds like "I'm just trying to insult other people". At some point, the online forum take of "all the successful guys are sad and I'm not as successful because I'm well-adjusted" has gotten boring. I get that people want to feel better about their lives but this is just embarrassing.
by xp84 | 2025-05-01 18:29:16+00:00
We haven’t? What power do the Dems hold, and what power do they have a serious chance of getting back in ‘26 or ‘28?

The DNC would have to make some serious changes, because the 2024 election was a perfect opinion poll on whether they have enough voters onboard the platform they’ve adopted to win a national election or a swing-state election. Running against a joke of a man, they lost. And the entire Democratic Party still hasn’t admitted to themselves why that happened.

I do hope a good third party moves into the massive power vacuum left by the DNC when it chased itself out of the mainstream into irrelevancy.
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by xpe | 2025-05-01 18:29:27+00:00
Yes, OpenAI demonstrated one way not-for-profits can be commandeered. Altman appears to be quite astute at gaining power.

Every organizational design and structure has the potential to be subverted. Like cybersecurity, there are many tradeoffs to consider: continuity, adaptability, mission flexibility, and more. And they don’t exist in isolation. People are often going to seek influence and power one way or the other.

One more thing. Just because it is hard doesn’t mean we should work less hard on building organizations with durable values.
by Retric | 2025-05-01 18:29:35+00:00
I’m not arguing about the existence of bias or the numbers of L/R leaning media.

There’s simply more left leaning Americans vs the stance of the Republican Party who’s specifically engineered their message to appeal to voters with more political power. Ex: Losing the popular vote when winning the presidential election only happens to Republicans.

However, simply counting the number of companies leaning left or right doesn’t tell you much. A local newspaper with 5k readers just doesn’t move the needle. Neither does an outlet that’s 0.1% left or right leaning.

So the only accurate measurement is level of lean * number of viewers, and when you do that calculation (as I have) you find the overall media landscape leans Republican.
by throw0101a | 2025-05-01 18:29:37+00:00
> I honestly think the "middle class" idea is just a fallacy.

One definition I found reasonable was that it it "starts" with those that can meet their basic necessities (housing, food, transportation, healthcare) and still have funds left over for discretionary spending:

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/the-biggest-lie-in-personal-fin...

Where it "ends" at top-end is perhaps more arbitrary (not Top 10%? 20%? 1%?).
by arghwhat | 2025-05-01 18:30:03+00:00
Unless a CLA transfers copyright to the project owner, the copyright owners are every historical contributor to the project. Each contribution is owned by the contributor alone and they alone are able to grant rights to it.

A CLA often tries to mitigate this by making contributors give the project owners special rights at the time of contribution.

(Note that even if relicensed, this itself can never revoke licenses granted for prior versions unless that license specifically had revocation written into it.)
by dylan604 | 2025-05-01 18:30:09+00:00
you've never heard the term situational awareness? that's funny.

if someone thinks there's a conspiracy behind everything so they trust nothing and then it turns out that the thing could not be trusted but because of a different reason than the suspected conspiracy doesn't make the conspiracy theorist wrong about the lack of trust. just the reason for the lack of trust.

compare that to someone that trusts everything. they get screwed because they were not paying attention to trust should be suspect. yet the kooky conspiracy person was better off even if for the not so right reason
by HelloNurse | 2025-05-01 18:30:13+00:00
Space proportional to node count (used for a pointer or a tree size or something fancier) is up to exponentially larger than space proportional to tree depth (for a stack representing the state of a traversal), the same if every node has only one child.

It might be a competitive approach if the tree is very unbalanced or there are enough concurrent traversals, but in main experience the main reason to use parent pointers or the like are operations that are not visiting each node once starting from the root.
by sanderjd | 2025-05-01 18:30:42+00:00
I agree that there's a trade-off in filtering, but I really just don't resonate with this "cheating" issue.

I haven't run into this thing where I'm talking to a video AI, but maybe I'll sing a different tune if that ever happens and is high fidelity enough to trick me.

If "cheating" just means using AI assistants to answer my interview questions, honestly I think I've done a poor job structuring the question and interview.

I do recognize this as a giant challenge right now, to structure interviews in a way that provides real signal, while allowing candidates to use the tools they'll actually be using for the job. But I don't think the challenge is significantly different between remote and in-person.
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-01 18:30:45+00:00
MAGA don't throw out traditional conservative values (reinforcing the power of traditional racial, religious, and economic elites at the expense of other groups seeking a downward distribution of power), they throw out the libertarian values that got blended in and labeled as “conservative” values when a minimal winning coalition could not be formed purely around the overt embrace of actual traditional conservative values.
by PeterFBell | 2025-05-01 18:30:51+00:00
If you live with your parent in a double wide in a trailer park and need to work at the local Target every night since high school to make enough money to help pay for groceries for the family, you might have a harder time working 100 hour weeks on the off chance that you'll raise a round and start a company. You probably also don't know many VC's or live too close to where they hang out.

Anyone can start a billion dollar business. Anyone who does so is probably extremely smart and extremely hard working. There are some very smart, hard working folks for whom the path to starting a company is harder than for others.
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by whstl | 2025-05-01 18:31:50+00:00
Yeah, the “it was easy back then” sounds bitter and inversely correlates success with problem difficulty.

It is getting a little tiring to hear that building software is a superhuman endeavor and that almost nothing new can be built and nothing can be replaced.

If anything, this attitude plays right into what the people criticized in the article want everyone to think. “Just give up, there won’t ever be another Marc Andreesen or Mark Zuckeberg”
by aidenn0 | 2025-05-01 18:31:51+00:00
I think you're talking about consciousness rather than intelligence. While I do see people regularly distinguishing between simulation and reality for consciousness, I don't often see people make that distinction for intelligence.

> And the claim other humans don’t have subjective experience is such non-starter.

What about other primates? Other mammals? The smarter species of cephalopods?

Certain many psychopaths seem to act as if they have this belief.
by armchairhacker | 2025-05-01 18:31:52+00:00
He's not wrong. Many people today are lonely, and I believe a good AI friend/companion/therapist would genuinely improve most people's emotional state and greatly reduce social issues. Specifically, an AI that infers one's personality, then forms and maintains an emotional connection while discouraging bad thought patterns and offering constructive solutions.

But, as this article points out, current AI doesn't do this. The AI conversations I've seen and had felt bland and shallow, and I think (although some people really connect with it) most others would agree. Moreover, current AI is very unreliable at being a good influence, especially for people who already have bad mental health, because it's very suggestible. AI can also hallucinate, at best (when detected) creating awkward conversations and at worse (when undetected) misleading people.

These problems have been around since ChatGPT has released, and even o3 and Gemini 2.5 seem to have them, so I'm skeptical they'll improve in the near future. Meanwhile, there's an "obvious" way I think we can improve people's loneliness without AI: creating in-person third spaces and encouraging people to visit them. Facebook can even help with this (and profit from it); e.g. perhaps by launching a meetup.com alternative, then funding some groups to make it popular (although it wouldn't be easy and certainly not "obvious" how to get the right people and not grifters, plus other side effects).
by KerrAvon | 2025-05-01 18:32:12+00:00
> Benioff's whole weird "Aloha" thing

I'll defend Benioff here, a little. The O'hana thing isn't a new, desperate COVID-fried-divorced-billionaire invention; it dates, I believe, from the establishment of Salesforce, decades ago. I think it was sincere at the time.
by bb88 | 2025-05-01 18:32:18+00:00
Don't forget there were lots of things that are in standard libraries now that didn't use to exist back when I was coding in C in the 1990's. Nobody really writes their own sorting algorithm anymore -- and nobody should write their own A* algorithm either.

Honestly though, I recently asked Claude 3.7 Sonnet to write a python script to upload ssh keys to a mikrotik router, to prompt for the username and password -- etc. And it did it. I wouldn't say I loved the code -- but it worked. Code was written in more of a golang format, but okay. It's fine and readable enough. Hiring a contractor from our usual sources would have taken a week at least, probably by the time you add up the back and forth with code reviews and bugs.

I think for a lot of entry level positions (particularly in devops automation say), AI can effectively replace them. You'd still have someone supervise their code and do code reviews, but now the human just supervises an AI. And that human + AI combo replaces 3 other humans.
by anonymars | 2025-05-01 18:32:45+00:00
This is an interesting take, and dovetails with something I have long felt: that the Soviet Union pushed to the US to be better, without that competition we've lost something.

I was about to respond to the sibling comment: I think one of the missing ingredients is "shame" (in my example: shame of being bettered by the Soviets). After all, we managed to convince people to spend quite a sum going to the moon...
by Retric | 2025-05-01 18:33:15+00:00
Functioning governments drastically increase worker productivity through several means such as enforcing the rule of law, sanitation, infrastructure etc. This is also why people want to immigrate to countries with such high tax rates and more specifically income tax rates.

Thus as the value of wages and investment returns is a direct result of government actions just as the value of land is a direct result of government enforcement of property rights, it’s got equal legitimacy for taxing both.
by ryandrake | 2025-05-01 18:33:22+00:00
> Surely, there's plenty of opportunity for the rest of us to keep quietly rescuing these janky projects

Once our generation (the rest of us) is in the ground, there will be nobody alive that even remembers that software can be made with high quality. Nobody who's ever seen really fast performing software, software that didn't crash unexpectedly, software that didn't eat your battery and storage space, software that wasn't exploitable by a 14 year old in their basement, software that didn't leak personal information all over the world. No developers who have counted CPU cycles or took the time and effort to keep a for loop in a single page of memory. Neither developers nor consumers will even believe that software can be great.
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by mingus88 | 2025-05-01 18:34:00+00:00
Hate to say it but jobs are commodities for the employee too. Why would it be any different the other way around?

So many roles are basically interchangeable and I’ll choose whichever one looks best on my resume or gives me some other tangible benefit. And I am prepared to bounce as soon as my vesting schedule drops. We all game this system too.

The days of us loyally working at any firm for 20 years, singing the corporate cheer songs and retiring with a pension are stuff of a different age.
by neutronicus | 2025-05-01 18:34:13+00:00
It is, in fact, gambling.

However, unlike going to a casino, elected leaders are under enormous pressure to ensure positive expected value - which is precisely why "diversified retirement mutual fund things" are such a good idea for the public investor - they're basically saying "sign me up for EV, please and thank you".

Also unlike going to a casino, some stocks pay dividends and you would in principle receive a share of the proceeds (after paying creditors) if the company liquidates all its assets.