MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ExoticPearTree | 2025-05-19 19:44:19+00:00
There's something magical about California and New York (another tech powerhouse).

NYC has this vibe of "getting stuff sone, no BS" kind of mindset. California has this relaxed vibe but at the same time the sky is the limit. I think it has something to do with how the sun shines there and the ocean. You feel like just working and things are going to be OK.

I am always more productive in NYC or LA. And I have no real explanation for that.
by exe34 | 2025-05-19 19:44:41+00:00
Sure thing, thanks for asking!

https://www.cityam.com/talent-is-fleeing-trumps-america-and-...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00938-y

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/24/french...
by asim | 2025-05-19 19:45:13+00:00
Wow. In 2009, when it looked like Microsoft was the most closed company of all time, I was telling people at work, they should port windows to the linux kernel. What happened over the next 15 years, I don't think people would have believed it if you told them back then. Things have changed.. ALOT. Now granted, this isn't what I said they should do, but you know, eventually they might see the light.
by Kon-Peki | 2025-05-19 19:45:31+00:00
Discover has something like 150-200 different card designs that people can choose from, and they let you change them out almost as often as you want. You can even have more than one active at a time - perhaps keep one for your professional adulting wallet and another for your wild nightlife wallet.

Better marketing around this would likely improve signups.

I've had one in my wallet since college; it has never been a primary card for me. But I recently needed to choose a new one and scrolled through the options on my phone. From the small photos, I chose something that looked like some sort of abstract painting. When it came in the mail, I realized that it was not a painting at all. It was way more interesting than I had imagined. And indeed, it is the only credit card I've ever had that has received compliments. Does that influence how often I pull it out of my wallet as opposed to the other cards in there? Perhaps...
by jealousgelatin | 2025-05-19 19:45:48+00:00
Interesting, works on my end but I'll admit its slightly weird.

It should automatically make a POST to mailchimp and and open a new page showing your successful email list subscription.

I'd be curious what is happening in your network tab or if the navigation to the mailchimp success page is disabled somehow.

Let me know your browser and system anyway, would be much appreciated! Thanks for looking nonetheless!
by throwaway894345 | 2025-05-19 19:45:53+00:00
How does using the stdlib internally simplify things for callers? And what does that have to do with tanking inspiration from the stdlib?

On the second point, passing a []byte to something that really does not want a streaming interface is perfectly idiomatic per the stdlib.

I don’t think it complicates things for the caller if the author used a third party deciding function unless it produced a different type besides image.Image (and even then only a very minor inconvenience).

I also don’t think it’s the fault of the stdlib that it doesn’t provide high performance implementations of every function with every conceivable interface.

I do think there’s some reasonable critique to be made about the stdlib’s use of reflection to detect unofficial interfaces, but it’s also a perfectly pragmatic solution for maintaining compatibility while also not have the perfect future knowledge to build the best possible interface from day 0. :shrug:
by tda | 2025-05-19 19:45:54+00:00
Interesting observation. I find myself using ChatGPT to find the proper words for something. I describe my problem or algorithm in a naive way, and usually ChapGPT will present some naive python solution. But when pressed ChatGPT will tell you this problem is actually say Graph Theory. But it will still fall back to the naive python solution.

So then I just start a new "conversation" and ask which graph algorithm applies to my problem and instead of a naive solution I am pointed to an optimised algorithm and a usable library that implements it.
by crazygringo | 2025-05-19 19:46:57+00:00
> It saddens me that we will probably see the end of wikipedia soon... I expect the slow ramp of anti wikipedia rhetoric... Now that college students are using completely unsourced...

Where is this doom and gloom coming from?

Wikipedia isn't ending. Legal challenges can be dealt with as they always have, and in the worst-case scenario the org can move countries if necessary. I can't even imagine why you "expect the slow ramp of anti wikipedia rhetoric". Where is this coming from? Even if something happened to the org, some other org can clone it -- content and infrastructure and all.

And college students still have to cite their sources, and I don't even know what that has to do with Wikipedia, which isn't something any college student should be citing directly anyways.

Your pessimism doesn't seem to be based on any kind of facts, unless I'm missing something here? Especially with the inaccuracies of LLM's, people continue to care about correct knowledge, and so people will continue to use and update Wikipedia. Heck, LLM's may even make Wikipedia more important than it's ever been before.
by caseyy | 2025-05-19 19:47:03+00:00
> Learning from copyrighted works to create new ones has never been protected by copyright

The term "learning" (I presume from "machine learning") shoulders a lot of weight. If we describe the situation more precisely, it involves commercially exploiting literature and other text media to produce a statistical corpus of texts, which is then commercially exploited. It's okay if that is licensed, but none of the AI companies bothered to license said original texts. Some (allegedly) just downloaded torrents of books, which is clear as day piracy. It has little to do with "learning" as used in common English — a person naturally retaining some knowledge of what they've consumed. Plain English "learning" doesn't describe the whole of what's happening with LLMs at all! It's a borrowed term, so let's not pretend it isn't.

What's happening is closer to buying some music cassettes, ripping parts of songs off them into various mixtapes, and selling them. The fact that the new cassettes "learned" the contents of the old ones, or that the songs are now jumbled up, doesn't change that the mixtape maker never had a license to copy the bits of music for commercial exploitation in the first place. After the infringement is done, the rest is smoke and mirrors...
by greenavocado | 2025-05-19 19:47:18+00:00
First of all, a Google search query isn't a "debunking."

https://singlelunch.com/2023/09/13/the-bad-economics-of-wtfh... is not a rebuttal but a dismissal by someone unwilling to engage with the evidence.

The dude tries to clown on the idea that ending the gold standard wrecked the economy, but his whole argument is just cherry-picked stats, strawman takes, and straight-up ignoring how money actually works.

First off, he mocks the divorce rate thing like "lol goldbugs think couples fight about monetary policy." Nah, fam. It's about how fiat money led to inflation, stagnant wages, and financial stress that actually strains marriages. No-fault divorce laws came after the economic chaos started, but he acts like they are the only factor. Weak.

Then he claims the wage-productivity gap didn’t start till the 1980s. Even the EPI data he cites shows the split beginning in the early '70s. And yeah, healthcare costs eat into wages, but that doesn’t explain why real compensation (including benefits) still lags behind productivity. Fiat money let corporations and Wall Street siphon off wealth while workers got screwed but he just shrugs like "idk, must be computers or something."

On inflation, he’s like "lol inflation just exists, stay mad." Nah, pre-1971, inflation was stable and low. Post-1971? Wild swings, 14% peaks, and a permanent erosion of purchasing power. He acts like floating currencies = stability, but the "Great Moderation" was just Volcker slamming the brakes with insane rates not some magic of fiat money.

Housing prices? He blames zoning (fair) but completely ignores how cheap credit from fiat money blew up the bubble. He admits low rates jack up home prices but then pretends it's got nothing to do with the Fed's endless money printer. Cognitive dissonance much?

Worst part? He compares the site to anti-vaxxers because "things went up since 1971." Bruh. The end of Bretton Woods was a structural break. Debt exploded, inequality skyrocketed, and financialization took over. That ain't random. But instead of offering an actual counter-theory, he just sneers and says "buy Bitcoin lol" like that's a dunk. All snark, no substance. Fiat money broke the economy, and this guy is just coping. Stay mad
by vonneumannstan | 2025-05-19 19:47:23+00:00
That's just because of a failure of imagination. The real world is not like Hollywood, get Terminator out of your head. A real AI take over is likely something we probably can't imagine because otherwise we would be smart enough to thwart it. It's micro drones injecting everyone on earth with a potent neurotoxins or a mirror virus that is dispersed into the entire atmosphere and kills everyone. Or its industrial AIs deciding to make the Earth a planetary factory and boiling the oceans with their resulting waste heat, they didn't think about, bother or attack humans directly, their sheer indifference kills us nonetheless.

Since I'm not an ASI this isn't even scratching the surface of potential extinction vectors. Thinking you are safe because a Tesla bot is not literally in your living room is wishful thinking or simple naivety.
by npteljes | 2025-05-19 19:47:44+00:00
For the curious, the protondb front page gives a pretty good overview of the state of Linux gaming:

https://www.protondb.com/

Scrolling to Medals, 50% of all 25.000+ games tracked by the site are playable, either working perfectly or mostly (Platinum or Gold ratings). Another 20% can be alright under specific circumstances, and with compromises (Silver rating).
by frollogaston | 2025-05-19 19:47:47+00:00
If there's some set of fully Linux-capable laptops out there, it's a small subset of the Windows-capable ones.

And it's not clear what the Linux ones are. Like, our dept ordered officially Linux-supported Thinkpads for whoever wanted them, and turns out they still have unsolved Bluetooth audio problems. Those people use wired headphones now.
by ExoticPearTree | 2025-05-19 19:48:04+00:00
> The EU is getting ready to brain-drain the US.

It is not going to happen, this is just day-dreaming. Yes, I saw the news, but you can't compare a few tens of people wanting to leave the US for ideological reasons to millions of people that stay in the US because they can fare better and make more money or start new companies overnight because they have a great idea.
by d_watt | 2025-05-19 19:48:09+00:00
It totally is!

I bias a bit to wanting the agent to be a pluggable component into a flow I own, rather than a platform in a box.

It'll be interesting to see where the different value props/use cases of a Delvin/v0 vs a Codex Cloud vs Claude Code/Codex CLI vs Cursor land.
by dexwiz | 2025-05-19 19:48:10+00:00
I wonder if this is a difference in mindset of OLAP vs OLTP. I have worked with OLAP teams where they were dropping millions of records, and the solution was usually just restream the data and shrug. But if any service backed by OLTP was dropping writes, its all-hands-on-deck incident with detailed postmortems and exec meetings.
by nrclark | 2025-05-19 19:48:49+00:00
I work in embedded systems. In that space, it's pretty common to need some vendor-provided tool that's Windows-only. I often need to automate that tool, maybe as part of a CI/CD pipeline or something.

If I were to do it with a Windows VM, I'd need to:

1. Create the VM image and figure out how to build/deploy it. 2. Sort out the Windows licensing concerns. 3. Figure out how to launch my tool (maybe put an SSH server into the VM). 4. Figure out how to share the filesystem (maybe rsync-on-SSH? Or an SMB fileshare?).

If I do it with Wine instead, all I need to do is:

1. Install some pinned version of Wine. 2. Install my tool into Wine. 3. Run it directly.
by alxlaz | 2025-05-19 19:49:01+00:00
"Right" is a bit of a stretch. Manicured screenshots are a tiny subset of theming requirements. People went to great lengths to theme GTK because, for the longest time, Adwaita was truly atrocious, with poor contrast in inactive windows and retina-burning acid active colours.

KDE solved 99% of the theming requirements by just allowing color customisation and shipping with a default theme that doesn't suck too badly.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-05-19 19:49:18+00:00
I wish we had better ways to build these cases. To collect the various anecdotes and whinges, to aggregate them them together. I want evidence, bona-fides, or a list of comments I've liked with people doing criticism on someone, to be able to drop down when bad people and bad outlets show up again in the feed.

Noah Smith definitely deserves this warning. All sorts of stories of ridiculous overconfidence & oversimplification in the the dumbest of reasonings, dating back for many many many years.

I'd assumed growing up others would also tend towards the ultra online, that the smart ones were pioneering a lifestyle of intelligence and consideration, of hunting for context to understand the tidbits er run across, to consider widely. I'd assumed networking would spawn & spread to help show the back stories of those who we read.

But today, the lack of social defense against bad and or incomeptent seems so so so resounding in the world.
by timewizard | 2025-05-19 19:49:45+00:00
> Needs to be substantiated

It is. I'm just not willing to do that here as I'm not writing an article just making a comment.

> as the author has done

Myself and the author have completely different aims with the use of our time.

> and explain the stagnation and real wage increases

Doesn't the article point out that most of these increases have only gone to the already wealthy? It seems that even with an explanation failing to contextualize it reduces the value of the explanation to zero. The author, while substantial, has missed this point staring them right in the face.
by ctkhn | 2025-05-19 19:50:01+00:00
That's true, but I think an effective and believable D admin more like Bernie than Biden/Hillary/Kamala etc would get voters to actually believe in something. I'm not saying it's right, but the "you have to vote for us because they're evil" thing eventually wears off for the kind of people who are median/undecided voters across the US.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-05-19 19:50:04+00:00
> Linux's block cache is perfectly capable. HyperV is a semi-serious hypervisor, so it should be using a direct I/O abstraction for writing to the disk image.

Files on the WSL2 disk image work great. They're complaining about accessing files that aren't on the disk image, where everything is relayed over a 9P network filesystem and not a block device. That's the part that gets really slow in WSL2, much slower than WSL1's nearly-native access.

> Memory is also balloning, and can dynamically grow and shrink depending on memory pressure.

In my experience this works pretty badly.

> a proprietary legacy solution with known issues and limited features

Well at least at the launch of WSL2 they said WSL1 wasn't legacy, I'm not sure if that has changed.

But either way you're using a highly proprietary system, and both WSL1 and WSL2 have significant known issues and limited features, neither one clearly better than the other.
by lambdaba | 2025-05-19 19:50:17+00:00
I'm interested in how you use that homebrew-to-nix converter, if you have links to configs or can describe it briefly!

I agree that nix-darwin is a bit overkill, I mainly use it for the homebrew integration, but I think so is home-manager, I don't keep user app configs in Nix since they are never exhaustive and more effort than it's worth.
by alex_smart | 2025-05-19 19:50:40+00:00
That was certainly not the case ~2 years ago, the last time I installed linux on a laptop.

It also doesn't appear to be the case even now. I searched for laptops available in my country that fit my budget and for each laptop searched "<laptop name> linux reddit" on google and filtered for results <1 year old. Each laptop's reports included some or other bug.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/1hfqptw/linu...

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/1esntt3/leno...

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/1j3983j/hp_o...

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/1k1nsm8/audi...

The laptop with the best reported linux support seemed to be Thinkpad P14s but even there users reported tweaking some config to get fans to run silently and to make the speakers sound acceptable.

https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/1c81rw4/thinkpad_...
by alex_smart | 2025-05-19 19:50:56+00:00
That was certainly not the case ~2 years ago, the last time I installed linux on a laptop.

It also doesn't appear to be the case even now. I searched for laptops available in my country that fit my budget and for each laptop searched "<laptop name> linux reddit" on google and filtered for results <1 year old. Each laptop's reports included some or other bug.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/1hfqptw/linu...

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/1esntt3/leno...

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/1j3983j/hp_o...

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/1k1nsm8/audi...

The laptop with the best reported linux support seemed to be Thinkpad P14s but even there users reported tweaking some config to get fans to run silently and to make the speakers sound acceptable.

https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/1c81rw4/thinkpad_...
by mylons | 2025-05-19 19:51:11+00:00
as far as i know there just isn't demand for one's own data like this. people have kinda tried, there's some weird web3 offerings that allegedly do this so you can monetize your data but afaik nobody uses that.

i mentioned in an earlier comment i'd be happy to start this company if there were that kinda demand. it'd cost you around $1000 USD to get this done and get a hard drive mailed to you with raw data (fastq files).

EDIT: it probably would be cool if this kind of thing existed so consumers could shop their analysis around. it might actually open up some consumer bioinformatics startups
by anotherpaulg | 2025-05-19 19:51:41+00:00
Aider has had support for Python and shell scripting [0] for a long time. I made a screencast [1] recently that included ad-hoc bash scripting aider as part of the effort to add support for 130 new programming languages. It may give a flavor for how powerful this approach can be.

[0] https://aider.chat/docs/scripting.html

[1] https://aider.chat/docs/recordings/tree-sitter-language-pack...
by zipy124 | 2025-05-19 19:53:01+00:00
Because investment is often tax-deductible anyway now-days with modern policy trying to encourage this via huge tax-discounts on capex. Therefore tax-breaks on profits just allow existing owners to cash out cheap. The companies that need the help need capital, not tax discounts. Further to this the companies that are profit-generating, still require capital for growth, the small tax on profits isn't enough to make a difference in the scale of things for investment required since corporation tax rates are often so low.
by narrator | 2025-05-19 19:53:01+00:00
AI does not have a reptilian and mammalian brain underneath it's AI brain as we have underneath our brains. All that wiring is an artifact of our evolution and primitive survival and not how pre-training works nor an essential characteristic of intelligence. This is the source of a lot of misconceptions about AI.

I guess if you put tabula rasa AI in a world simulator, and you could simulate it as a whole biological organism and the environment of the earth and sexual reproduction and all that messy stuff it would evolve that way, but that's not how it evolved at all.
by FireBeyond | 2025-05-19 19:53:07+00:00
> note that they owned the parking, so its moot if they parked on a reserved spot on private property of theirs

Eh, pedantry, but you'll find that building and occupation codes dictate a certain number of disabled parking spots. You could argue that a spot that is ostensibly this, but "everyone knows" is Steve Jobs' spot, is not a disabled parking spot.

(But yes, odds of the City of Cupertino taking any issue with this whatsoever are entirely zero.)
by buzzerbetrayed | 2025-05-19 19:53:18+00:00
Can you clarify what you mean here? Are you saying I can use Claude Code for a flat rate of $100/month? What are the limits? What if I use more than $100 worth of Code in a month? Their website doesn't seem to make it clear.

Edit:

Found the answer to my own questions

> Send approximately 50-200 prompts with Claude Code every 5 hours[1]

Damn. That's a really good deal

[1] https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/11145838-using-cla...
by skydhash | 2025-05-19 19:53:48+00:00
This very much. If I'm using your library, I've already committed to it's architecture and API with all its flaws. And my users don't care for the technology I use. Even if they're not that good, I can build wrapper over the worst aspects and then just focus on building features. New features are nice, but I'm more interested in getting security updates for the current version that I have.

When it's time to go for a refactoring, the trade-off between costs and returns are worth it as you can go for years between those huge refactors.
by pempem | 2025-05-19 19:53:50+00:00
To me, the real question is in the last sentence of the post: "the question is, however, whether they are enterprise-ready, secure, and fully sovereign"

The ICC is incredibly important, incredibly young and global. Shifting this to europe would not solve the problem.

If the ICC was able to have a contract with a fully sovereign supplier, that would be a whole new can of worms. It would be a matter of time (hours? days?) until a fully sovereign corporation put its profits above its negative impact on people.

More than that, how does an organization funded by a group of nations avoid the budget becoming politicized?

The issue is complex and the silver bullet is hard to find.
by mbrumlow | 2025-05-19 19:54:32+00:00
> The business-owner class benefits from the health system,

That is a new argument, coming from health care is a right and good for society?

It’s kinda crazy you want to dismiss this simply because it benefits some group of people you don’t like.

In any se your argument is this is worse. And I argue this is good, fair and meritocratic , and sustainable.

While the USA has wealth, you can simply expand your idea beyond the walked garden of a single country and to the world stage. There is no way with today’s tech and cost of labor could we ever give free health care to everybody. World wide there are far more people who exist, than people who exist and contribute back to society.

The dream of unlimited free healthcare can only be archived once > 90% of humans are producing more than they consume, which war are no where near even in the richest of rich, the USA.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-05-19 19:54:32+00:00
True, the browser API might be stable, but the best way to build stateful client applications is unstable.

It's a constantly improving and experimental domain - not just on the web but also the desktop and mobile environment.

Next.js is a good example since it (and its competitors) are a natural iteration on top of SPAs where you want the first request to the server to also inline the initial state of the SPA to remove the double-request problem.

But you pay a huge price trying to live on the edge like that, and when you run into issues, it doesn't make much sense to call that the state of web development since you could have used boring server tech or even a boring React SPA which also hasn't changed much in a decade.