MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DonHopkins | 2025-05-14 19:41:46+00:00
I want part of the life insurance payouts that any MAGA extremist's family get when they pwned me by not getting vaccinated then dropped dead! It's all my fault I told them to get vaccinated thus forcing them to pwn me.

For all my being pwned, I should get paid for my part in purifying the gene pool and raising average human intelligence by a minuscule fraction of a percentage, as well as the right to smugly say I told you so! Because that was ALL part of the plan. Don't let the coffin lid hit you on the way out.

The Conservatives Who’d Rather Die Than Not Own the Libs

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/breitbart-...

>Rarely has so significant a faction in American politics behaved in a way that so directly claims the life of its own supporters. [...]

>In Nolte’s account, however, a conspiracy of evil leftist elites are to blame for vaccine skepticism on the right. “I sincerely believe the organized left is doing everything in its power to convince Trump supporters NOT to get the life-saving Trump vaccine,” Nolte writes. They are “putting unvaccinated Trump supporters in an impossible position,” he insists, “where they can either NOT get a life-saving vaccine or CAN feel like cucks caving to the ugliest, smuggest bullies in the world.” [...]

>Nolte theorized:

>In a country where elections are decided on razor-thin margins, does it not benefit one side if their opponents simply drop dead? If I wanted to use reverse psychology to convince people not to get a life-saving vaccination, I would do exactly what Stern and the left are doing … I would bully and taunt and mock and ridicule you for not getting vaccinated, knowing the human response would be, Hey, fuck you, I’m never getting vaccinated! …

>Have you ever thought that maybe the left has us right where they want us? Just stand back for a moment and think about this … Right now, a countless number of Trump supporters believe they are owning the left by refusing to take a life-saving vaccine—a vaccine, by the way, everyone on the left has taken. Oh, and so has Trump.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-05-14 19:41:53+00:00
> ...the next time I book I'll pay cash directly with the host because it will be that much cheaper.

This probably won't work for you. It specifically violates Airbnb's TOS to attempt this, and Airbnb scans all messages between you and the host to ensure that you are not attempting this.

As for arranging it with a F2F conversation with the host, it's been years since I've rented an Airbnb and met a host F2F. That doesn't happen much any more.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-05-14 19:43:01+00:00
I don’t disagree there are transformer shortages. I disagree these shortages make combustion fossil generation more favorable than renewables for new generation capacity. The generation technology is irrelevant as it relates to these transformer shortages you demonstrate. The gas generator backlogs (~5 years) I mention in my top comment are gas generator specific, due to their specific supply chain and labor needs.
by altairprime | 2025-05-14 19:43:35+00:00
It was called "extended dynamic range" by ILM when they published the OpenEXR spec (2003):

> OpenEXR (www.openexr.net), its previously proprietary extended dynamic range image file format, to the open source community

https://web.archive.org/web/20170721234341/http://www.openex...

And "larger dynamic range" by Rea & Jeffrey (1990):

> With γ = 1 there is equal brightness resolution over the entire unsaturated image at the expense of a larger dynamic range within a given image. Finally, the automatic gain control, AGC, was disabled so that the input/output relation would be constant over the full range of scene luminances.

https://doi.org/10.1080/00994480.1990.10747942

I'm not sure when everyone settled on "high" rather than "large" or "extended", but certainly 'adjective dynamic range' is near-universal.
by sdwr | 2025-05-14 19:44:24+00:00
Primer follows the classic story structure pretty well, even though the literal timeline is jumbled up.

The main characters start in a familiar place, are thrust into a new world, and learn about themselves as they are tested by circumstance and each other. The stakes rise to a crescendo where everything is on the line, then resolve to a "new normal" informed by their different personalities.
by dahart | 2025-05-14 19:44:54+00:00
That’s true, and it’s why tonemapping is distinct from HDR. If you follow the link from @xeonmc’s comment and read the comments, the discussion centers on the conflation of tonemapping and HDR.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43987923

That said, the entire reason that tonemapping is a thing, and the primary focus of the tonemapping literature, is to solve the problem of squeezing images with very wide ranges into narrow display ranges like print and non-HDR displays, and to achieve a natural look that mirrors human perception of wide ranges. Tonemapping might be technically independent of HDR, but they did co-evolve, and that’s part of the history.
by sudoforge | 2025-05-14 19:45:18+00:00
hey, maintainer here!

> Do I now have to resolve conflicts in bug conversations? > Am I going to find replies magically appearing before mine?

actually, no! git-bug objects embed a lamport timestamp [0] to handle time-based ordering, and actions like comment posting and editing are tracked as "operations", applied in order, and you will never have to deal with a merge conflict.

the data model documentation [1] provides deeper insight into how we handle time, describe why you'll never see a merge conflict, and more. through this post, i've gathered that many people would prefer this sort of documentation be made more visible in the README (instead of "buried" under //doc). the README is probably a bit too high level for a more technical audience, but i appreciate your feedback here, and will take it into consideration as the README is refactored.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport_timestamp [1]: https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug/blob/bd936650ccf44ca33cf9...
by jancsika | 2025-05-14 19:45:36+00:00
> I think loss of artistic variety as culture becomes homogenized is an underappreciated cost of globalization.

Loss of variety in terms of what's shown on traditional movie theater screens-- sure.

For everything else, technological advancement has lowered the price to create films of a base level of quality. And that has caused an explosion in artistic variety. I doubt the average American has enough leisure time to keep up with all the indie films produced in a year (nor even a sub-genre).
by taylodl | 2025-05-14 19:46:05+00:00
Humans need:

- Water

- Food

- Clothing

- Shelter

- Healthcare

...to survive.

Humans also need:

- Friends

- Hobbies

- Sense of Purpose

...to thrive.

The real threat of AI isn’t just that it might make human labor obsolete. The deeper danger is that it could strip away people’s sense of purpose-the feeling that what they do matters.

Joblessness is an economic issue. And economies are human-made. We can redesign them.

Purposelessness is a human issue. And if we don’t address that, no amount of UBI or retraining will fix the emptiness that follows.
by MrJohz | 2025-05-14 19:46:42+00:00
Here in Germany it's fairly common for kids aged perhaps six or seven and up to take public transport by themselves. They might have a dumb phone or occasionally a smart watch, but I rarely see them with their own smart phones.

One of the most important principles of a public transport system should be that it's accessible to all in a lowest-common-denominator sort of way. Anything beyond that is also good to have, but if you don't have that basic level of accessibility, then it's not really a public transport system, it's a luxury transport system. And there are already plenty of luxury transport systems around.

Also, my last phone died on me fairly often, I don't think it's nearly as unusual as event as you're making it out to be.
by dataflowmapper | 2025-05-14 19:47:01+00:00
Wow, thanks for the detailed and insightful breakdown of your process. This really resonates a lot of the complexities I've been exploring and encountered as an implementation consultant.

A few things particularly stood out to me:

- Your point about semantic mapping ("understanding the structure... what it means and where it should go") being more irritating than the actual coding of transformations is spot on. Domain expertise on these things can make a big difference. - The version tracking issues with Excel and the need to trace back decisions or errors are a big reason Excel isn't scalable. I totally agree with you and think Excel is bad for this kind of stuff and repeatable transformations/processes are important. - Your desire for an easier way to flag/share errors with partners for correction and then effectively store those changes as part of a repeatable process (like 'code' or a versioned configuration) is a fascinating challenge in collaborative data onboarding. It seems crucial for those fixes to not be one-offs especially when dealing with partners/clients which are notoriously slow. I've used Flatfile in the past, but its limiting in that its all about one-offs and transformations aren't repeated.

It sounds like you've built a robust internal Python library to manage a lot of this, which is impressive. When you use Jupyter notebooks for each incoming file:

- How do you manage the reusability of common logic or tests across those notebooks, especially if a core cleaning function needs an update that should apply to many different partner files? - And how do less technical team members (like the interns you mentioned) interact with or contribute to that Python/notebook-based process, particularly if they need to understand or slightly modify a transformation rule?

And for your usage of LLM, is that mostly for mapping source field to target fields?

Thanks again for sharing such a comprehensive view, it's incredibly helpful for understanding the friction points and the need for traceable, repeatable solutions.
by lxgr | 2025-05-14 19:47:08+00:00
Yeah – because the US, until recently, didn't have push P2P payments via banks. The only thing you used to be able to do in your online banking was checking your account balance or maybe initiating wires (which are so expensive that manual review is probably not an issue).

Zelle is changing that and is, expectedly, running into a wall of fraud since banks don't have the authentication infrastructure/know-how to actually support it.
by lisper | 2025-05-14 19:47:19+00:00
See:

https://paulstamatiou.com/review-att-3g-microcell

"After giving the MicroCell some power and ethernet, it will start blinking the 3G and GPS LEDs. Wait, what.. GPS? Yep. To limit the MicroCell from working outside of test markets (or out of the country too), it must get a GPS lock on your location. AT&T suggests this should take no longer than 90 minutes. It took me about 5 hours."

And this was the fundamental problem: there was absolutely no way to know if progress was being made or if it was going to run forever. It was literally a real-world Halting Problem.
by aisenik | 2025-05-14 19:47:23+00:00
POSIWID suggests that the purpose of the American tech industry is to create a system of global surveillance and control to facilitate eugenicist white supremacists enslaving humanity and creating a decadent global aristocracy that rules through violently enforced deprivation under totalitarian theocracy.

Notably, this outcome was repeatedly predicted for decades. This error provides stark evidence that LLMs and corporate algorithmic information control are fully-weaponized tools being wielded against society-at-large. The power structures that have yielded these conditions are an existential threat to liberty, democracy, and the future of humanity.

The only moral path for members of this community is to divest from the industry and align your lives against these power structures. Righting the hyperscale cultural atrocity of capitalist cybernetic domination will be a multi-generational struggle: the actions you take now matter.
by neltnerb | 2025-05-14 19:47:29+00:00
You're likely right, but I suspect only because of social stigma and classism.

Literally what is the difference between a fixed route shuttle operated by Uber versus a bus operated by the city, except that one siphons the profit into a private company? I imagine flexibility of imagination more than practicality.

If Uber can do it, especially if they can do it profitably, I'm at a loss as to why a city government could not accomplish the same. This seems like a vastly better approach, cities have to start somewhere. -- https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1017072 | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43980845
by smartmic | 2025-05-14 19:47:33+00:00
A cute and up-to-date version of Smalltalk is Cuis [1]. I enjoyed playing around with it and developing small projects, but I will never get used to using a graphical VM and UI to develop ordinary programs. That's too far from the UNIX philosophy, which I respect and follow for good reason. Nevertheless, the curious hacker in me is attracted to the freshness and unconventionalness of Smalltalk as a unique programming experience.

[1] https://cuis.st/
by darkwater | 2025-05-14 19:48:22+00:00
Going to a local place doesn't necessarily mean going in shitty places, even with family. I traveled in many countries, especially Europe and Asia, with my 2 daughters and while they do throw the usual tantrum for their ages, we always find something local they like to eat, and they don't really mind one room or another to sleep, as long as they are in the same room with at least one of us.
by badc0ffee | 2025-05-14 19:48:46+00:00
I remember carpal tunnel syndrome being a big thing 25+ years ago, and I had friends with wrist braces.

You don't hear much about it now. Is it because treatment improved, or we use keyboards with much less travel, or there's better general awareness of ergonomics, or that there's more mouse/trackpad use mixed in with typing now? Or is it something else?
by MarcoDewey | 2025-05-14 19:48:56+00:00
I definitely agree that there's a lot of research happening in this space, and the false positive issue is a significant hurdle. From my own research and experimentation, I have also seen how challenging it is to get LLM-powered tools to consistently find real.

Our approach with Jazzberry is specifically focused on the dynamic execution aspect within the PR context. I am seeing that by actually running the code with the specific changes, we can get a clearer signal about functional errors. We're very aware of the need to demonstrate our ability to find those high-severity/exploitable bugs you mentioned, and that's a key metric for us as we continue to develop it.

Given your background, I'd be really interested to hear if you have any thoughts on what approaches you think might be most promising for moving beyond the false positive problem in AI-driven bug finding. Any insights from your work at MIT would be incredibly valuable.
by vel0city | 2025-05-14 19:49:10+00:00
People get shot and battered from road rage incidents, I've had friends get put in the hospital because of someone else's road rage. People die from drunk driving and people running red lights. Driving a car isn't a guarantee you won't be a victim of a crime. It actually means you're more likely to die from one.

And it's not a tiny risk of being injured by a car. About 2.5 million injuries a year in the US are caused by automobiles.

Just look at this chart and tell me how massively unsafe riding the train is.

https://www.bts.gov/content/injured-persons-transportation-m...
by esbranson | 2025-05-14 19:49:28+00:00
Facts. I still don't think pavucontrol, the GTK volume control tool for PulseAudio, has been replaced by a PipeWire native tool. (I have no idea what Helvum is for, and pavucontrol has minimal backing.) And since I messed with it one time now using headphones is all jacked.
by positisop | 2025-05-14 19:49:57+00:00
They are not efficient; they have a one-time static hash to create a cluster. After that, it is all duct tape and glue. Want to expand? Add another cluster (pool) and then look for the cluster that contains the object. They don't know which cluster has the object, and performance does not scale as well with additional clusters. Want to decommission a single node, drain the cluster. They refer to multiple pools as a single cluster, but it is essentially a set of static hashes that lack the intelligence to locate objects. Got the initial EC configuration not quite right.. sorry need to redo the entire cluster.

MinIO is a good fit if you want a small cluster that doesn't require day 2 operational complexity, as you only store a few TBs.

I have not looked into them recently, but I doubt the core has changed. Being VC-funded and looking for an exit makes them overinvest in marketing and story telling.
by patrickdavey | 2025-05-14 19:50:29+00:00
"Furthermore, it's actively harmful to send your kids out into the world without the kinds of modern tools that would make them safer and more independent."

Interesting. I think there's a balance to be had here. Making our kids "too safe" I think may lead to a lack of resilience. I'll certainly be teaching my kid how to read a map (orienteering), and I suspect the sense of autonomy and self-reliance they'll get from knowing they can get from A to B without needing GPS will be a very good thing.

That said, we probably will get them a dumbphone to put in the bottom of their bag for if they really get stuck. I have no plan to have tracking etc. though. No way.
by mike_heffner | 2025-05-14 19:51:18+00:00
Thanks for sharing this — it’s a really promising direction. The advantages of Arrow for OTLP, especially when used end-to-end, are compelling given the protocol overhead of OTLP.

We’ve been thinking along similar lines with the use of Rust, particularly for OpenTelemetry collection in environments where high performance and low resource overhead are critical, such as edge and serverless. With that in mind, we’ve open-sourced a lightweight OpenTelemetry collector written in Rust to address these use cases. We’ve also developed a native Lambda extension around it, and have seen encouraging interest from folks aiming to improve cold start times.

The project is still fairly early, but we’re optimistic that Rust can open up new opportunities for efficient observability pipelines. Vendors like Datadog are also moving in this direction with their Lambda extension and appear to be adopting Rust more broadly for data-plane components.

If this resonates, feel free to take a look here: https://github.com/streamfold/rotel. We’d love to hear your thoughts on how this could be useful.
by MaxBarraclough | 2025-05-14 19:51:22+00:00
Gforth and pForth [0] are the usual Free and Open Source go-to Forths. Gforth is quite good at pointing out silly mistakes in your code. Unfortunately Gforth doesn't have great Windows support, and neither of them have very strong FFI.

There are a number of proprietary payware Forths for desktop/server: vfxForth, [1] SwiftForth, [2] and iForth. [3]

There are also various Forths for all sorts of embedded platforms, many of them FOSS.

[0] https://github.com/philburk/pforth

[1] https://vfxforth.com/

[2] https://www.forth.com/swiftforth/

[3] https://iforth.nl/
by mp0000 | 2025-05-14 19:51:24+00:00
We largely agree, we don't think pure LLM-based approaches are sufficient. Having an LLM automatically orchestrate tools, like a software fuzzer, is something we've been thinking about for a while and we view incorporating code execution as the first step.

We think that LLMs are able to capture semantic bugs that traditional software testing cannot find in a hands-off way, and ideas from both worlds will be needed for a truly holistic bug finder.
I Built an AI Bot That Posts and Sells Social Media Tools on Autopilot
by aigoldminerush | 2025-05-14 19:51:25+00:00
I’ve been experimenting with automating niche content + product distribution using AI — not just for writing, but also for generating traffic and revenue.

The core idea: Let a bot scrape trending topics, generate SEO-optimized blog posts, post them to Blogger, and then cross-promote them via platforms like Reddit, Quora, Pinterest, and X — without me touching a keyboard.

I built it to sell simple AI-based tools (like bots for Instagram, TikTok, etc.), hosted on Gumroad and Payhip. What surprised me was:

Pinterest and Medium brought in more evergreen traffic than Reddit.

Cross-posting every hour (using rotating prompts) increases visibility without being flagged as spam.

Adding AI-generated visuals boosted click-throughs significantly.

Apify + OpenRouter combo made the whole system lightweight but powerful.

You don’t need a massive audience to make this work. Just some niche tools, good SEO, and automation.

If anyone’s interested, I’m happy to break down the full stack:

Tools used (Python, Apify, OpenRouter, Blogger API)

How I structured prompts to remain “human-like”

Mistakes I made early (Reddit bans, SERP penalties)

My traffic funnel from Blogger → Gumroad → Sale

Ask me anything — or I can share the code structure if folks want to build their own.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-05-14 19:51:27+00:00
Ye. It's unfortunate that companies cannot responsibly do the proper thing on their own.

Though I wanna raise that, CRA may be an unfathomably high bureaucratic load on software companies. If it were just about security disclosure, it would be quite manageable.

As it is formulated in its current form, CRA sets the general software development industry... to the current industrial automation and automotive standards; which is absurd.
by groby_b | 2025-05-14 19:51:35+00:00
> Buses, like Amtrak and pub transit, degrade and degrade and degrade - look how government can’t do anything!

As an LA resident: Public buses degrade just fine without any uber buses. And we seem to lack the political will to fix that.

As for Amtrak: Outside the NE corridor, it's one of the more useless train systems I've seen. Only eclipsed by CA HSR.

Yes, we shouldn't corporatize the commons. But... that requires us to develop the will to actually care about the commons as a polity.
by throw7 | 2025-05-14 19:51:39+00:00
Is there a "platform authenticator" that allows import/export of the actual origin site, keypair, and credential id in plaintext? The next would be a variety of platform authenticators able to import and use those?

I don't want vendor lockin and I don't want proprietary third party cloud based backup/recovery.

Today with totp, I store the plaintext otpauth url and I can use oathtool to spit out codes when needed on my desktop. My phone has aegis, but I don't use any cloud based backup/recovery. I switched from Google Authenticator after they implemented their cloud based syncing to google.
by LAsteNERD | 2025-05-14 19:52:11+00:00
AI: like infecting the workplace with ADD.

"The work offloaded to AI in each task tended to be the most cognitively demanding aspects of those tasks, which are also normally the most rewarding. When critical thinking becomes automated, the quality of the outputs might noticeably improve, but the sudden return to critical thinking produces a kind of emotional whiplash that leaves workers feeling sapped of motivation."

Seems like the wide-spread adoption of AI will demand that workers find value and motivation in other aspects of their work. What's that gonna be? The sheer volume of stuff you can get done? Feels like the rat race just keeps getting faster...
by acheong08 | 2025-05-14 19:52:17+00:00
Mostly yes but,

I spent ~2 months traveling in Chongqing in 2023, most of the time without a SIM. You can get into most public wifis with a bit of scanning and mac spoofing. All public transport still accepted cash (or transit card) and was extremely cheap. Even if some shops no longer accept cash, there will always be ones that do. Not planning on going back anytime soon but if I ever do, I would not be a fan of requiring internet to deal with public transport.