MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwaway9914 | 2025-05-10 14:21:34+00:00
Specifically, if your work is a typical job, it makes your meaning dependent on a business relationship where one side has a lot more power than the other side. Example: an employer may end or modify the relationship for factors that are unrelated to your goals at any time.

In general, depending on work for one's ultimate meaning is dumb because whether or not you worked "hard enough" is judged by other people, not the entity responsible for putting humans (and therefore you) on the planet in the first place--you're already here so you obviously are supposed to be here, otherwise you wouldn't be. Good work makes you deserve to be among others but it can't make you deserve to exist on the planet.
by pirgidb | 2025-05-10 14:21:51+00:00
That's a story you tell yourself about the internal lives of others, but it is not knowledge. You don't actually know what's inside other people's minds. All we ever catch are glimpses of each other.

It's tempting to make sweeping generalizations about others to explain the ways they confound and frustrate us. But it's essential to hew to the truth and accept that life is ambiguous, people are baffling, and simplistic narratives do more to give us comfort and reinforce our biases than they do explain the world around us.
by mpweiher | 2025-05-10 14:22:24+00:00
No they're not. Because the Russians are the actual perpetrators.

Just like Hamas is.

Israel is defending itself against that aggression.

And yeah, being the civilian population of a brutal dictatorship that wages war against neighbor(s) without regard to the well-being of its own population sucks. It's horrible.

Should Ukraine stop defending itself because some Russians may get hurt?

Should the allies not have conquered Germany and Japan in WW2, because of the toll on the German civilian population?

Yes, war is horrible.

Pro Tip: don't start wars.
by VWWHFSfQ | 2025-05-10 14:23:30+00:00
We're seeing a convergence of document DBs adding relational features, and relational DBs adding document features. At this point I find the best of both worlds to simply be PG with JSONB.

create table document ( id uuid primary key default gen_random_uuid(), doc jsonb );

This alone will give you a huge number of the features that Mongo provides, but also the full power of Postgres for everything else.
by coatue | 2025-05-10 14:24:05+00:00
Our goal is to enable realtime analytics on Postgres without requiring an external analytics database. Think more towards extending Postgres, rather than replacing it. Postgres brings it's rowstore to Hydra, which is great for transactional jobs. Also, Postgres brings it's syntax, features, and standard Postgres integrations with tools you like to use are the same and works with Hydra. This makes Hydra easy to use and adopt without a major database migration.
by Dibby053 | 2025-05-10 14:24:12+00:00
What about life expectancy? If smoking makes you die 10 years earlier, that's ~10 years of pension savings for social insurance. Sure, an unlucky few may get lung cancer at 50 and cost a lot of money but most smokers will die, retired, of cheap ailments like COPD or hypertension without fully realizing their social security investment.
by burntsushi | 2025-05-10 14:24:50+00:00
> (because it does not allow writing sufficiently fast code in this area at this moment)

I don't think that's why. Or at least, I don't think it's straight-forward to draw that conclusion yet. I don't see any reason why the lazy DFA in RE2 or the Rust regex crate couldn't be ported to Go[1] and dramatically speed things up. Indeed, it has been done[2], but it was never pushed over the finish line. My guess is it would make Go's regexp engine a fair bit more competitive in some cases. And aside from that, there's tons of literal optimizations that could still be done that don't really have much to do with Go the language.

Could a Go-written regexp engine be faster or nearly as fast because of the language? Probably not. But I think the "implementation quality" is a far bigger determinant in explaining the current gap.

[1]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/11646

[2]: https://github.com/matloob/regexp
by concinds | 2025-05-10 14:24:56+00:00
Trump has embedded so many China hawks in analytical/natsec/fopo roles deep in the bureaucracy that even if he turned into a complete dove, the US would likely still enter a new Cold War through sheer institutional inertia alone.

They’re cutting the NSF because they’re high on their own supply and misunderstand the causes of US dominance, it’s a poor indicator of their intentions.
by azemetre | 2025-05-10 14:26:20+00:00
I think the parent commentator is lambasting storytelling in video games as being very poor. I can’t disagree if this is what they mean.

Been playing games my entire life and even the most popular games like the Zelda series have average writing. Just because it’s serviceable doesn’t make it long lasting.

Even those games with interesting stories like Bioshock or Red Dead Redemption don’t hold a candle to what literature can offer.

They all really feel ephemeral compared to books which seem to last beyond the life of their authorship. Are there any games that will be the same? The medium itself means that it’s highly unlikely any of the games will be available in 200 years from now compared to the biology book I have from 1850s that still works fine and still bounded together.
by hagbard_c | 2025-05-10 14:26:30+00:00
So that is what the thing is called, I use these when climbing trees and working on high buildings on the farm. I made a longbow with a strong enough pull to shoot a heavy arrow (a piece of an old broom handle with PET-bottle wings on the back) attached to a nylon line used to pull the safety line over/through whatever I happen to need to fix. Thus far I have not had the misfortune to test the efficacy of the 'screamer' but I'll be sure to scream if I ever have to.
by david-gpu | 2025-05-10 14:26:31+00:00
In your mind, is every person who drinks an alcoholic? Is every person who consumes cannabis an addict?

I lost my dad to alcohol and tobacco. The biggest cannabis users in college would often (not aleays) drop out of school. So I am not blind to the downsides of these drugs.

However, I also recognize that there are a zillion people out there that drink alcohol or consume cannabis in moderation, and feel no desire to lump them all into a category of "losers", nor treat them with contempt or disrespect. To each their own.
by floundy | 2025-05-10 14:27:37+00:00
He's a Reddit-type reactionary, and the furthest thing from a trained economist. That analysis takes no consideration of the supply chain at all, and doesn't consider that if the thesis is true, perhaps the store selling the eggs are the ones making the majority of excess profits and not the egg farms.

All throughout this saga of people screeching about eggs, I've never paid more than $4 a dozen for organic eggs. How are Trader Joe's and Market Basket continuing to offer such prices to customers (non-organic eggs continue to be around $3 per dozen), if the egg suppliers are the ones collecting excess profits? Surely the suppliers are not charging less to Market Basket, a small regional grocery chain, than they're charging to Stop & Shop right across the street, an internationally owned food conglomerate? Why is Stop & Shop not selling any eggs for less than $7 per dozen, then?
by verisimi | 2025-05-10 14:27:51+00:00
The top tax bracket is higher than I say. Once you add up all tax, inheritance, local taxes, income taxes, sales taxes, special taxes (petrol, alcohol), you will see that the percentage I suggest is quite reasonable at all levels.

You need to resolve what you mean by 'free'. If you have no option but to pay tax, ie your wealth is forcibly extracted, you are not free. You can't both be free and have wealth forcibly extracted.

If you wish to say that you agree with this system, perhaps you can do this thought exercise. Left to your own devices, how much money would you be prepared to gift the present system for the services they provide?
by wildzzz | 2025-05-10 14:28:03+00:00
They try to find what is going to cost the least amount of money for both now and in the future, likely within the warranty period. Mid-range and low cost of ownership is exactly what many people want. Consumer Reports' market isn't tech evangelists looking for washing machines with AI in them, they are normal users looking to replace an appliance in the least painful way possible. When you have a surprise expense like an appliance, you likely just want to spend as little as possible. Someone paying for consumer reports probably has enough money to afford paying a little more upfront for a mid-range model. If they wanted the cheapest model, they wouldn't be looking at reviews, they'd just buy the cheapest. If they were in the market for luxury models, they'd just go buy a matching set from a luxury brand, money isn't much of an issue so who cares how well it performs over time?
by gummibear1 | 2025-05-10 14:28:05+00:00
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by Applejinx | 2025-05-10 14:28:07+00:00
They kind of have, because their product is not a thing, but a social environment.

I like people like this and admire their purpose, but they often don't make anything but manifestos. I make stuff, and I'm friends with other people who are sympathetic with this sort of thing and also make stuff.

Periodically we all make stuff and give it out to people, which in its own way helps cool the burning world, I guess. And folks like this make another manifesto when the previous ones didn't get people like me and my friends to lay down our tools and go to work for them.

It's a challenge, sort of. By which I mean: if the job is to get lots of things made, not so much. But if the job is to think this stuff out, well they're doing more of that than I am. I don't get a lot of help, or seek it: I'm focussed on what is waiting to be done within my jurisdiction. That's a limiting factor, but it serves my purposes :)
by hocuspocus | 2025-05-10 14:28:33+00:00
I think it's genuinely simpler than Swift or Kotlin that have seen an explosion of grammar, keywords and features.

The modern Scala ecosystem has mostly converged towards one style even though it's fully compatible with the more questionable Java/JVM constructs like runtime reflection, annotation processing and so on. Sure you have to understand a few FP concepts that might be alien at first, but there's a fairly straight and clear path unlike hybrid languages that evolved in too many directions at once.

Meta-programming features have also been completely overhauled with Scala 3 and are more approachable, especially if you're just an end user that needs a library doing generic derivation for instance.

Odersky is also on a crusade against monadic effect systems and we might get something like algebraic effects, direct-style.
by mpweiher | 2025-05-10 14:29:41+00:00
1. The Palestinians are not being "punished". That would actually be illegal and is not what Israel is doing. Israel is trying to destroy the party that attacked them, which is a legitimate war aim.

2. Being the civilian population of a dictatorship waging a brutal war of annihilation against its neighbors sucks, but is not the fault of the party being attacked and defending itself from said brutal attack.

3. Particularly if that dictatorship very explicitly uses the civilian population as human shields (an actual war crime) and does everything to maximize civilian casualties. Again, this is horrible, but not on the party that was attacked by said dictatorship, but rather on the dictatorship

4. Unlike, say, Nazi Germany, the last election produced a very solid majority for the party that is now running the dictatorship. And polls as well as public display, as much as those can be trusted, show a significant if not overwhelming majority in support of the war of annihilation waged against Israel.
by hollywood_court | 2025-05-10 14:30:29+00:00
Ahh now I get it. Your opinion on the matter is based on your personal anecdotes.

I apologize. I was thinking of all of the empirical data that shows how cats are able to cause so much harm to the ecosystems they roam.

I love my cats. I’d never let them outside just out of respect for my neighbors and the fauna.
by graemep | 2025-05-10 14:31:36+00:00
What is an IP?

Also, I think its clear that some of this predates modern American evangelical Christianity, and some lies in secular values.

> That someone could convince Christ's followers to basically believe the opposite of the Gospel.

There are a number of historical examples. Most recently prosperity gospel and Positive Christianity?

> All that to say I'm not sure it really matters what exactly was written in the Bible because clearly a lot of the supposed followers of Christ never read it.

Often the ones who place the most importance on the Bible alone, and the most likely to be literalists! I think that is the root of it, because read as a "book" rather than a collection of documents, that exists in multiple versions, subject to disputes about wording and translation, each document written within a cultural (sometimes even personal) context, you can make it mean whatever you want to.
by kmacdough | 2025-05-10 14:32:26+00:00
> Read practicing philosophers. When you want to learn swimming, learn from swimmers turned coach, not someone who stood by poolside and watched 10000 swimmers (like Jim Collins did)

I think "turned coach" is incredibly key here. Being a part, or even the head, of a successful business is not sufficient.

It is necessary to test those key insights/theories across the widest possible landscape. Across wildly different businesses with wildly different models, founders and internal cultures. Only then is it possible to meaningfully separate which insights are truly general, and which are heavily contingent on specifics.

The books the author critiques are primarily self-centered stories of success, which don't take sufficient meta-analysis of the context. Not that these stories aren't valuable, but only with a sufficiently robust knowledge of textbook business and economics to take each story sceptically and in context.

Given the consistency with which I've been recommended many of these exact books, I consider the Authors criticism necessary and well founded, if perhaps a bit narrowly focused.
by drilbo | 2025-05-10 14:33:30+00:00
>It’s likely their is a higher parameter count model in the works and this makes it easy to distinguish between the two.

in this case it looks like this is the higher parameter count version, the 2b was released previously. (Not that it excludes them from making an even larger one in the future, altho that seems atypical of video/image/audio models)

re: GP: I sincerely wish 'Open'AI were this forthcoming with things like param count. If they have a 'b' in their naming, it's only to distingish it from the previous 'a' version, and don't ask me what an 'o' is supposed to mean.
by k310 | 2025-05-10 14:33:53+00:00
The article discusses a drip system which I used to use under a different name, but went away.

It has a cone with a filter mesh and a valve that remains closed as long as the cone and its integral base are sitting on a level surface, but which opens when you place it on a cup.

It's now called "Clever Dripper"

The main reason I got one is because it's so easy to empty the grinds after use, unlike a French Press, even the one that has a built-in scoop below the grinds that you lift via a handle. Of course, any filter facilitates this operation, but the convenience of "brew 4 minutes and park it over your cup" is nice.
by mapt | 2025-05-10 14:34:11+00:00
Eggs have often been a notable loss leader in supermarkets. The business tolerance of that status is reliant on specific cost expectations, and retailer behavior has varied in response to the price hikes. While egg prices are going to vary regionally, you can get a more authentic picture from restaurant bulk supplier prices.

Aldi used to charge 59 cents a dozen, limit two dozen. Not any more.
by card_zero | 2025-05-10 14:34:16+00:00
> Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”

> But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

The answer is presumably "some guys who found the barns." I'm not seeing the issue here. Except I suppose he doesn't even have time to build the barns. So the lesson is, never build anything? Just party like Prince, because we could all die any day?

But mortality makes people crazy, it's true. Planning around your expected death is desperate and twisted planning. You left out such ideas as "I don't care, I'll be dead by then", and "YOLO".
by timeinput | 2025-05-10 14:34:48+00:00
I think the parent was suggesting comparing and contrasting the glob dependency in rust, and npm. The one off isn't useful, but picking ten random, but heavily used packages probably is. The parent didn't really mention what the node version looked like though.

The npm glob package has 6 dependencies (those dependencies have 3+ dependencies, those sub dependencies have 6+ dependencies, ...)

As you point out the rust crate is from the official repo, so while it's not part of the standard library, it is maintained by the language maintenance organization.

Maybe that could make it a bad example, but the npm one is maintained by the inventor of npm, and describes him self as "I wrote npm and a pretty considerable portion of other node related JavaScript that you might use.", so I would say that makes it a great example because the people who I would expect care the most about the language are the package maintainers of these packages, and are (hopefully) implementing what they think are the best practices for the languages, and the eco-systems.
by mpweiher | 2025-05-10 14:35:03+00:00
Well, in fact it is. First the "official" agencies in charge of most of this aid are practically indistinguishable from Hamas. Second, most if not all the funds get diverted. Third, Hamas appears to enjoy widespread support within the Palestinian population, as shown by the last free elections, which Hamas won handily, as well as opinion polls and public displays.

And I am not talking about basic humanitarian aid such as food and medicines. I am talking about the high-level assistance, construction aid. Famously, water pipes paid for by the EU were torn out and used to make rockets and/or rocket launchers.
by gus_massa | 2025-05-10 14:35:17+00:00
Reason 4:

The list is cherry picked, unless they have cameras and record everything people say close to death and then they make an statistics. So someone collected a list of items that considered interesting, but memory is flimsy so people most of the time don't have an accurate memory of the frequency of the items in the lists and the items not in the list.
by floundy | 2025-05-10 14:35:52+00:00
This article is clearly written by a journalist and not an economist.

Retail prices of eggs going up is not proof that the egg suppliers are being exploitative. The end retailers need to be investigated for their margin on eggs for it to be determined who in the supply chain, if anyone, is exploiting a narrative to make excess profits.

The other piece of "evidence", Cal-Maine's quarterly P/L, is also useless, for all we know they decided to invest in less capital equipment than previously in Q3 2025. It's actually very curious to choose P/L over gross revenue to "prove" the point the author is pushing. Unless of course the point of the article is not a genuine economic/corporate analysis and instead a narratively political topic du jour by some untrained journalist.
by GuB-42 | 2025-05-10 14:37:53+00:00
The (terrible) solution that we are seeing now is generative AI. Instead of importing a library, you ask an AI to write the code for you, the AI most likely has ingested a library that implements the features you need and will essentially copy-paste that part into your code, transforming it so that it matches the rest of your code.

I believe that it causes more problems than it solves, but it can be a solution to the problem of adding thousands of lines of code of dependency when you could write a 10-line function yourself.

Of course, the proper thing to do is not to be the wrong kind of lazy and to understand what you are doing. I say the wrong kind of lazy because there is a right kind of lazy, and it is about not doing things you don't need to, as opposed to doing them poorly.
by the_duke | 2025-05-10 14:39:43+00:00
Key quotes:

> "Our experience has been that entrenched monopoly power often deters new entry and chills investment in disruptive innovation."

> "independent venture-capital firms like YC often hesitate to fund startups in the “kill zone” —the area of deadened innovation around a monopolist like Google."

> "We agree with Plaintiffs' proposal that the remedy package should create pathways for startups and innovators to access Google's monopoly-derived datasets and search index."

> "The remedy order should also prevent Google from entering into exclusive agreements to access AI training data..."

> "An effective remedy package should help to leverage the current moment by ensuring that next-generation search and query-based AI tools can reach users free from exclusion, interference, or cooption."

> "the remedy package should prevent Google from anticompetitive self-preferencing, and this prohibition should apply specifically to Google's use of its monopoly search product to boost its query-based AI tools or discriminate against rivals' tools."

I think they have a good point with AI. After lagging behind initially, Google really went at it hard. Gemini is great now, and they are building a good set of tooling.

It's easy for Google to suffocate the startups in that area. They already have a massive advantage with all the data they are sitting on.
by arghwhat | 2025-05-10 14:39:47+00:00
From the perspective of drivers Radxa is not the hardware manufacturer. They combine off the shelf hardware according to its documentation to create a product.

Sometimes the original suppliers will have drivers, sometimes they just ship documentation and let it be up to the customers to write it, sometimes someone else contributed upstream support. When you get "drivers" from e.g. Lenovo, they didn't write them - they're just sending what they got along.

Nothing would work if there weren't drivers in general, the issue is that hardware can be configured in multiple ways and it's not all going to have have proper support or be well tested. In Linux land, this stuff sorts itself out as people get their hands on the hardware, pretty similar to how e.g. laptop support comes to be.