MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by guffins | 2025-05-02 20:10:29+00:00
Location: Atlanta, GA, United States (UTC -04:00) Remote: Yes

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by kragen | 2025-05-02 20:10:49+00:00
Dismayingly, the CEO misspelled antirez's last name in this press release, https://redis.io/blog/agplv3/. That's so incredibly disrespectful:

> Following our license change, in November of 2024 Salvatore Sanfillipo (antirez) decided to rejoin Redis as a developer evangelist. Collaborating with Salvatore on new capabilities, company strategy and community engagement has been a true privilege that has made a major impact that will pay dividends into the future.

If it's a true privilege, you should earn it by not misspelling his name. Actions speak louder than words.

Pink Floyd has a song about this:

Well, I've always had a deep respect and I mean that most sincere

The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think

Oh, by the way, which one's Pink?

And did we tell you the name of the game, boy?

We call it riding the gravy train

We're just knocked out, we heard about the sell-out

You gotta get an album out, you owe it to the people

We're so happy we can hardly count

Everybody else is just green, have you seen the chart?

It's a hell of a start, it could be made into a monster

If we all pull together as a team.
by godelski | 2025-05-02 20:11:01+00:00
This reminds me of a lot of what I see in grad school and academia. Something akin to what Tom Wolf talks about here[0]

> I’ve always been a straight-A student. > if something was not written in a book I could not invent it unless it was a rather useless variation of a known theory. More annoyingly, I found it very hard to challenge the status-quo, to question what I had learned.

I don't think this part is isolated to math, but there's a lot of acceptance for "because" being an answer. Being in an authoritative position and being challenged can be frustrating, but I think a lot of that frustration is self-generated. We stifle creativity when young and it should be no surprise that frequently when people challenge, they don't have the tools to do so (or be receptive) effectively. Truthfully, "I don't know"[1] still shuts down the conversation.

But I think people themselves are uncomfortable with not knowing. I know I am! But that isn't a feeling of shame, it is a feeling that creates drive.

[0] https://thomwolf.io/blog/scientific-ai.html

[1] Alternatively, variations like: "That's a good question, I don't know" or "Great question, but we don't have the tools to address that yet". The last one need not undermine your authority either. Truthfully, the common responses resulted in me becoming strongly anti-authoritarian. Which, also has greatly benefited my career as a researcher. So, thanks lol
by apawloski | 2025-05-02 20:11:14+00:00
Even if it were just posturing -- which frankly I don't believe based on the fact that they are now going into effect -- do you at least see how disruptive it is to American companies for him to continuously change his position? There have been 10 executive orders related to tariffs since February 1st. How can American companies possibly make any short, medium, or long term plans when the administration is constantly changing critically important things to their business on Trump's whim?

If it is just posturing, do you worry Trump will improperly benefit from it? UAE invested $2BN in his memecoin today. Maybe the posturing will lead to other countries making similar "investments."
by jacobog94 | 2025-05-02 20:11:23+00:00
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Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakeogle/ - can also provide PDF

Email: PM me via LinkedIn

Mostly interested in Data Engineering work but open to backend focused roles.
by ben_w | 2025-05-02 20:11:52+00:00
There's several famous examples of people expecting a problem to be AGI-hard — that is, solving it is equivalent to solving general intelligence[0] — only for someone to make an AI which can do that without being able to do everything else:

• Fluent natural conversation

• Translation

• Go

• Chess

So perhaps we'll get an AI that makes the profession of "programmer" go the same way as the profession of "computer" before, after, or simultaneously with, an AI that does this to the profession of "therapist".

[0] https://www.latent.space/p/agi-hard
by ceejayoz | 2025-05-02 20:12:37+00:00
They paid for licenses.

Certain songs will get taken down if you stream them, but they're still licensed.

https://beatsaber.com/faq.html

> Our aim is to release Content ID-free songs for future OSTs as well. However, we cannot guarantee that Content ID will be disabled for paid music packs since they are owned by our third-party partners. We value the work of artists and respect their decision to keep Content ID enabled for the music they create.

https://edm.com/features/inside-the-ambitious-quest-to-licen...

> The ambitious effort to activate Daft Punk in Beat Saber took over two years, according to Vickie Nauman, founder of the Los Angeles-based consultancy and advisory firm CrossBorderWorks. "The collaborative effort was between Beat Saber core team, Warner Music in London and Daft Punk crew," Nauman tells EDM.com.

> Nauman has worked with the title's developer, Beat Games, to execute the company's licensing deals since its early days as an independent gaming studio in Prague, a role in which she remained after Facebook (now Meta) acquired the studio in 2019.
by p_ing | 2025-05-02 20:12:58+00:00
That study looked at 27 studies in Asia and found only when crossing 2.5mg/L fluoride concentration did Thyroid issues present in a non-linear fashion.

> Dose-response curve showed no change in TSH concentrations in the lowest water fluoride exposure range, while the hormone levels started to linearly increase around 2.5 mg/L

The CDC recommends 0.7mg/L in water sources. Not a concern.

https://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/about/community-water-fluor...
by Animats | 2025-05-02 20:13:04+00:00
> I also hear you on the winit/wgpu/egui breaking changes. I appreciate that the ecosystem is evolving, but keeping up is a pain. Especially when making them work together across versions.

Yes.

Three months ago, when the Rust graphics stack achieved sync, I wrote a congratulatory note.[1]

Everybody is in sync! wgpu 24 egui 0.31 winit 0.30 all play well together using the crates.io versions. No patch overrides! Thanks, everybody.

Wgpu 25 is now out, but the others are not in sync yet. Maybe this summer.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust_gamedev/comments/1iiu3mr/every...
by user568439 | 2025-05-02 20:13:08+00:00
Maybe, but if someone has the resources to do it right, that's Rockstar. GTA is a perfect game to use AI and I really think it could be one of the reasons to delay it. I guess they can patch things later but they might want a foundation in the game.

I just hope it can be made local, but I'm afraid they will use this as excuse to force playing online
by creeble | 2025-05-02 20:13:25+00:00
Some of these fees are, indeed, paid to the government. That does not mean they are a tax, in the same sense that (as mentioned elsewhere) a building permit is not a tax, but is still required by, and paid to, the government.

I'm not trying to excuse Verizon for not including them in their overall pricing, but these two in particular:

- Fed Universal Service Charge

- Regulatory Charge

are both paid to the government, and variable based on usage.

Edit: I will also note that Verizon has a $3.50 per-line fixed line item called "Admin & Telco Recovery Charge" that is utter BS.
by Henchman21 | 2025-05-02 20:13:25+00:00
Well, in my circles its an assumption you’re in therapy. Perhaps this says way more about the circles I’m in that anything else?

I was pushed into therapy when I was 12 — which was definitely an exception at the time (1987). As the years have passed therapy has become much much more acceptable. It wouldn’t shock me to learn my own perception is shaped by my experiences; hard to put aside a PoV once acquired.
by jfengel | 2025-05-02 20:15:21+00:00
The opposition(s) are generally toothless, but the SLS has lasted this long for a reason. It's a make-work program for American aerospace firms, and those are really popular. Nobody particularly wants Boeing to go under, even if that means massive subsidies.

Plus, moon landings are popular.

Congress does have the power on this one. This is an appropriations request. Congress routinely declares appropriations requests dead-on-arrival, and rewrites them to whatever it wants. It's easy for them to put things back.

The President can, of course, veto it, but only as a whole. Which leads to the nearly-annual ritual of government shutdowns, which rarely go well for the party in power.

So, I don't know what will happen here. Congress may just roll over, but that's gonna go badly in 2026.
by dumpsterdiver | 2025-05-02 20:15:25+00:00
Brackets such as [Verse] help provide waveform separation in the edit view so that you can easily edit that section without manually dragging the slider.

Others such as [Interrupt] will provide a DJ-like fade-out / announcement (that was <Artist name>, next up..." / fade-in - providing an opportunity to break the AI out of repetitive loops it obsesses about.

I've used [Bridge] successfully, and [Instrumental] [No vocals] work reliably as well (there are also instrumental options, but I still use brackets out of habit I guess).
by mark212 | 2025-05-02 20:15:55+00:00
there is no court where I have ever practiced that would accept a watermark of any kind at whatever percentage or color. And he didn't need to ask, it's right there in the rules (state and local). Every court has extremely detailed requirements for font, size, line spacing, line numbering, color of cover for printed "chambers copies," size of margins, how the name of the court should be set out and where, and so on. Literally no excuse for this, he's lucky he didn't get sanctioned
by automatoney | 2025-05-02 20:16:11+00:00
A little strange to compare it to palm reading, I feel like a more apt comparison is some other random medical field like podiatry. I wouldn't expect my friends' podiatrist usage to come up, so I'm sure more of my friends than I know have been to one. And presumably, like with podiatry, all the people who need professional therapists are people who are experiencing issues in the relevant area.
by const_cast | 2025-05-02 20:16:15+00:00
It's really unfathomable just how stupid and arrogant their leadership is.

I mean, these leaders are supposed to be the best of the best and we're all sitting here wondering how they can be so idiotic and short-sighted.

They had a perfect thing going. Make free money, do next to nothing. All they had to do was make some concessions, not get too overconfident, and maybe reel it back a tad when things get hot. But no. They got so cocky, so arrogant, that now they risk losing it all.

Time and time again I am just shocked at the sheer stupidity behind the biggest companies in America. Any bozo off the street understands the danger of arrogance better than Apple leadership. How are these people in power and how do they repeatedly make such poor decisions?
by lelanthran | 2025-05-02 20:16:23+00:00
You seem to be making the argument that someone who uses shaming language to impose their ideological/religious is should not be responded to in kind.

I obviously disagree; smearing a veneer of civility over thought-policing does not make that thought policing any more acceptable.

> You're literally condeming them for having different moral beliefs than you right now,

You also appear to be claiming that, when being policed by puritans, one should politely put up with it. I also disagree - I don't think puritanical holier-than-thou comments deserve more civility than they give.

> I wonder how you feel the optics of this reflects on you, because I don't think it's good for you.

People pointing out thought-policing always look good ;-)

The ones who are crusading for it tend to look bad. I'm not too worried.
by bravetraveler | 2025-05-02 20:17:14+00:00
~ $ curl -s 'https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fastball' [...] I used to argue on the internet too much.<p>Co-founder and tinkerer at supernotes.app

Ah, it all makes sense now. Another point of criticism. Or, a Supernote, if you will: s/used to//
by cardanome | 2025-05-02 20:17:18+00:00
I mean there is a Cursor integration for Ableton Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXSImhfS15k

Plus Ableton Live itself has a lot of generative tools these days:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RNXVfo-oLc

But I honestly don't see the point. The journey is the whole point when making music or any art really. AI doesn't solve a problem here. There never has been one in the first place. There is more music out there than you could ever listen to. Automating something humans deeply enjoy is misguided.
Ask HN: Why is X (Twitter) undeleting deleted content?
by de6u99er | 2025-05-02 20:18:11+00:00
I have already deleted everything multiple times, but the platform seems to undelete most of it after a certain amount of time. That's the only reason why I haven't deleted my account yet.

Is there a technical reason why this keeps happening? Or is it just the platform or it's owner trying to pretend inactive users are still active to avoid more users leaving for alternatives?
by mintplant | 2025-05-02 20:18:18+00:00
> So if Beat Saber scoring isn’t about timing, then how does it work? The scoring system is actually based on motion. In fact, it’s actually designed to make you move in specific ways if you want the highest score.

> The key scoring factors are how broad your swing is and how even your cut is through the center of the block. So Beat Saber throws these cubes at you and challenges you to swing broadly and precisely.

Oh. Coming from a rhythm game background, I couldn't figure out why I kept failing charts when I tried Beat Saber on my friend's VIVE. Now I finally understand what was happening. The experience was frustrating and disheartening. Maybe it wouldn't have been if I'd gone through the tutorial instead of picking up from my friend's game save?
by piokoch | 2025-05-02 20:18:25+00:00
This list is kind of strange. Firstly, it is very "anglo-saxon" oriented. It is a mixture of "Big Literature", interesting for someone who is literature student, like ULYSSES (which is at the same time a great novel and a boring as hell novel) with true gems, like Orwell or Joseph Conrad-Korzeniowski with additions like Robert Graves writing, which has mostly entertainment value equal to average pseudo-documentaries from Netflix and pop stuff like Vonnegut' books (which are, at least, not boring).

Still, a lot of interesting stuff, Orwell, unfortunately, never gets old, pity Ray Bradbury was omitted, as Fahrenheit 451 is getting more and more up-to-date.
by chasil | 2025-05-02 20:18:57+00:00
The Intel line was fathered by the Datapoint 2200; they implemented the CPU in TTL logic boards.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_2200

The 6502 line came out Motorola's failure to "indulge" their employees in a low-cost 6800, thus unintentionally fathering MOS Technologies.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502

The 6502 was extremely inexpensive. The first implementation was the KIM-1, so this is the first on that side.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIM-1
by godelski | 2025-05-02 20:19:58+00:00
In general I agree but

> Indeed. Kids did not evolve to learn things because they would be useful years down the road. But they did evolve to inhale knowledge at very high rates wherever it extends their capabilities in the moment.

I strongly disagree with this. Children play. Most animals play. It is not hard to see how the skills learned through play lead to future utility despite potentially none at the time. We invent new games, new rules, and constantly imagine new worlds. The skills gained from these often have no utility beyond that that is self-constructed. Though many do have future rewards. I think we often miss those though because that path is through generalization. Learning how to throw a ball can help with learning physics, writing, driving, and much more. They don't perfectly transfer but it'd be naive to conclude that there aren't overlaps.

I think the truth is that as long as we are unable to predict the future, we really can't predict what skills will be useful and what specific knowledge should be pursued. We can do this in a more abstract sense as we can better predict the near future than far but that also means we should learn creativity and abstraction, as these allow us to adapt to changes. And that is why I believe we evolved these methods, and why you see things like play in most creatures.
by redserk | 2025-05-02 20:20:13+00:00
I’ll give credit to Apple for formally writing a policy to this extent, but it’s disappointing. There’s always the risk of putting in a lot of time for an app that is genuinely unique but Apple may not think so.

I’d much rather Apple let in junk apps but do more to promote curated lists of good apps. I like the “Editors Choice” section. I think it is generally a step in the right direction to surface decent apps.

Plus there’s also already some kind of precedent: Maps does an acceptable job promoting third-party “Guides” to attractions and food for many cities.
by floundy | 2025-05-02 20:20:22+00:00
Zero chance that solar panels are paying off the initial investment in 3-4 years... if they were everyone would have them.

This is also super basic supply and demand stuff. If you forcibly raise the price of a good, demand for it goes down. This is fine if the primary goal is to cut some emissions, but is mutually exclusive with making home ownership more accessible.
by mark212 | 2025-05-02 20:21:24+00:00
the victim did have a choice of lawyers, far beyond a "luxury." Don't know if you live in the US or not, but it's hard to avoid personal injury attorney advertising in virtually every forum. More specifically, there are 426 PI lawyers listed in the Superlawyers directory for the Detroit area, and they claim to only list the top 5% of practicing attorneys. The plaintiff here could easily dump this guy and get someone else, for free, especially this early in the lawsuit when the complaint has just been filed.
by dc396 | 2025-05-02 20:21:26+00:00
I think the term you're looking for is "unitary executive" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory).

It's interesting that (a) it seems mostly favored by Republican presidents; and (b) the criticisms that "the theory could lead to more corruption and less qualified employees" would appear to have been empirically demonstrated to be true.
by kergonath | 2025-05-02 20:21:49+00:00
> I feel like most people (probably not the typical HN user though) don't even think about their feelings, wants or anything else introspective on a regular basis.

Well, two things.

First, no. People who engage on HN are a specific part of the population, with particular tendencies. But most of the people here are simply normal, so outside of the limits you consider. Most people with real social issues don’t engage in communities, virtual or otherwise. HN people are not special.

Then, you cannot follow this kind of reasoning when thinking about a whole population. Even if people on average tend to behave one way, this leaves millions of people who would behave otherwise. You simply cannot optimise for the average and ignore the worst case in situations like this, because even very unlikely situations are bound to happen a lot.

> Maybe having something like ChatGPT available could be better than nothing, at least for people to start being at least a bit introspective, even if it's LLM-assisted.

It is worse than nothing. A LLM does not understand the situation or what people say to it. It cannot choose to, say, nudge someone in a specific direction, or imagine a way to make things better for someone.

À LLM regresses towards the mean of its training set. For people who are already outside the main mode of the distribution, this is completely unhelpful, and potentially actively harmful. By design, a LLM won’t follow a path that was not beaten in its training data. Most of them are actually biased to make their user happy and validate what we tell them rather than get off that path. It just does not work.

> I agree that it probably won't replace a proper therapist/psychologist, but maybe it could at least be a small step to open up and start thinking?

In my experience, not any more than reading a book would. Future AI models might get there, I don’t think their incompetence is a law of nature. But current LLM are particularly harmful for people who are in a dicey psychological situation already.
by wonderwonder | 2025-05-02 20:22:46+00:00
Are the people forced into taking statins, high blood pressure medications, etc. due to obesity related issues also “transhumanist”?

We all have to make our own choices but obesity is a choice and the repercussions and treatments are often far worse than the treatments I have selected to avoid it.

Note: You can get glp1 medication for $40 a month if you look for it
by tybug | 2025-05-02 20:24:11+00:00
Nice! "testing your test code" is particularly important when dealing with PBT distributions, especially when your generator gets more complicated.

Tyche [0] is another cool tool for addressing the same problem, visualizing the PBT distribution but not making assertions about it.

[0] https://github.com/tyche-pbt/tyche-extension
by godelski | 2025-05-02 20:24:22+00:00
Logic doesn't follow.

There is no problem with A -> B ∧ B -/-> A

Here's an example. "I live in San Francisco" would imply "I live in the US". But "I live in the US" does not mean "I live in San Francisco".

Here's a more formal representation of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijection,_injection_and_surje...
by corytheboyd | 2025-05-02 20:25:43+00:00
It’s been so long I don’t remember if they explain the scoring system fully in a tutorial… but it becomes very intuitive if you _flow_ the direction the blocks want you to go in, with liberal follow through. Also, this makes way more sense at higher difficulties, because the lower ones are so slow that flow and follow through just isn’t intuitive.

I’m not at all interested in high score min/max, but I do confidently play most “dancey” expert+ (as in, not the ridiculous Camellia stuff), and this is how I think about the game.
by magicalhippo | 2025-05-02 20:25:48+00:00
> "What do you do for fun?" is a reasonably innocuous question, in my opinion.

To be fair, I usually try not to ask explicitly what people do for a living. I try to frame it more open than that, keeping in mind not all people can work and such.

> Yes, in this context, because those aren't questions asking the person to divulge personal information.

Fair enough. My experience is that I've received positive feedback from others, see my other reply, which is not something I would associate with superficial talk. But it certainly isn't deeply personal stuff, I don't want to go there unless they volunteer.