MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by seec | 2025-05-23 09:45:27+00:00
So basically, you are happy because AI could replace a human for cheap?

I mean sure, from a purely profit oriented point of view it's good but you need to realize the human being replaced isn't feeling too good about it. Especially when the AI works because it has used input from works of people like him.

The people possessing the capital for AI are pretty happy about the results for sure but they need to think about sharing the wealth created because otherwise this is just an unfair transfer of value to an already rich and powerful small group of people.
by AstralStorm | 2025-05-23 09:45:48+00:00
Doesn't the consistent versioning approach make for eventual consistency which might never arrive? Suppose you have a node where tombstones never work...

The missing part is monitoring error conditions when it times out... Which also should be resistant to byzantine failure, so more than one monitor voting on it.

And when that happens you have to force stop the node or multiple thereof, diagnose which direction the consistency failed etc.

You need to have a well defined requirement set on the consistency and timeliness in the first place.

As far as turtles, assumption of faultlessness (of storage, of networking, of whole distributed machines, of the power supply) is one of these. The moment your CRDT starts to involve backups things get funny.
by aspenmayer | 2025-05-23 09:46:01+00:00
Coincidence or not, this seems like it could be related.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-implements...

> As explained in NSD’s Data Security Program Implementation and Enforcement Policy Through July 8, 2025, NSD will not prioritize civil enforcement actions against any person for violations of the Data Security Program that occur from April 8 through July 8, 2025, so long as the person is engaging in good faith efforts to comply with or come into compliance with the Data Security Program during that time. These efforts include engaging in compliance activities described in that policy, such as amending or renegotiating existing contracts, conducting internal reviews of data flows, deploying the CISA security requirements, and so on.

> At the end of this 90-day period, individuals, and entities should be in full compliance with the DSP. This policy does not limit NSD’s lawful authority and discretion to pursue civil enforcement if entities and individuals did not engage in good faith efforts to comply with, or come into compliance with, the Data Security Program.
by nebula8804 | 2025-05-23 09:46:04+00:00
Slam Harvard? Trump is slamming them because they are a known name that is resisting him.

Nobodies on Twitter are just that, nobodies that accomplished nothing in their lives. They have nothing better to do than slam a university that they have no chance of getting even close to yet they feel entitled to dictate how it should run.

Who else is slamming them? I'd imagine techies are humble enough to understand that the school is not some hillbilly institution in the middle of nowhere.
by aspenmayer | 2025-05-23 09:47:36+00:00
Is the shutdown date possibly related to this info I was able to find from the DOJ?

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-implements...

> As explained in NSD’s Data Security Program Implementation and Enforcement Policy Through July 8, 2025, NSD will not prioritize civil enforcement actions against any person for violations of the Data Security Program that occur from April 8 through July 8, 2025, so long as the person is engaging in good faith efforts to comply with or come into compliance with the Data Security Program during that time. These efforts include engaging in compliance activities described in that policy, such as amending or renegotiating existing contracts, conducting internal reviews of data flows, deploying the CISA security requirements, and so on.

> At the end of this 90-day period, individuals, and entities should be in full compliance with the DSP. This policy does not limit NSD’s lawful authority and discretion to pursue civil enforcement if entities and individuals did not engage in good faith efforts to comply with, or come into compliance with, the Data Security Program.
by walthamstow | 2025-05-23 09:50:02+00:00
Your link shows the Dartford Crossing, an M25 bridge miles downstream of the City. The Blackwall Tunnel runs under the Thames at Greenwich and afaik just has the old school hanging metal blocks at height https://maps.app.goo.gl/N5xSF148ggLVTDtS8

It doesn't surprise me too much that police are on standby, a closure of either tunnel or bridge has a major effect on traffic all over London
by notepad0x90 | 2025-05-23 09:50:06+00:00
you don't trust or untrust algorithms. like you said, they're just autocompletes. you quantify the risk and see if you have an appetite for it. any sane engineer won't just let an LLM loose, they'll build guardrails around it. If the solution involved untrusted external/human input the risk is much higher, but for a private system, there is only so much paranoia you can throw around before it turns into anthropomorphizing algorithms.
by watwut | 2025-05-23 09:50:31+00:00
I do not see Republicans slowing down what is going on in Gaza ... instead it is becoming more violent and unrestricted. Like common ... if democrats said anything against israel politics, they would be called anti-semitic, would be hit by easy campaign and would lose more votes.

There are actual big differences in terms of how those two parties behaves. Saying anything else is just lie.

Supposed economic desperation vote rejected economy that was doing good. They do not want better cheaper healthcare nor functioning economy. They want republican program, they just hoped it will be only other people who will be harmed.
by twothreeone | 2025-05-23 09:52:13+00:00
That line of reasoning is actually a classic right-wing gaslighting strategy: "the radical left forced us to act this way, we had no choice". No, voters made an explicit and clear vote of conscience. The democratic campaign may have been a strategic disaster, but the difference in proposed policies - for which the candidate was completely irrelevant - couldn't have been any more stark. The people have spoken. Everybody knew what they were voting for. Pretending they didn't is to disrespect the voice of the people. The majority voted for lower taxes and severely cutting government spending at the cost of higher import expenses, the majority voted for increased US manufacturing at the cost of high-tech jobs and immigration, for more presidential authority and less accountability, for more magical thinking and less science and research. Own your choices.
by koliber | 2025-05-23 09:52:34+00:00
I struggled with this problem for a long time. I sort of solved it.

The key was to realize that there is a difference between a calendar, a todo list, and an agenda.

A todo list is a list of things that need to be done but usually don’t have a specific time when they need to be done at. They can have priorities or deadlines or fuzzy target dates like “next week.”

A calendar is for storing future concretely scheduled events.

An agenda is a list of things that will happen soon.

Each day I pull things from my calendar, todo list, and prior agenda and create my daily agenda. I also keep notes, doodles, clippings, and references in my agenda.

I use Google calendar as my calendar. It meets my expectations.

For my todo list I use Notion. I break it down into “next, soon, and later”. I add ad-hoc sections like “after the vacation” when needed. Some todo items are scheduled for a specific day or “not sooner than.” I add these to my calendar with an email reminder so they don’t take up any mind space until needed.

Finally, the daily agenda. I use Notion but could probably use a physical notepad. I like being able to archive them as sometimes I need to check when I did something or pull some details from notes. With a digital agenda I can file it into an archive easily.

This is not perfect but it helped me reconcile the rigidity of calendar tools with the need to do keep things freeform in the short term.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-05-23 09:53:16+00:00
If you talk to anyone under 30, there's a vague sense of 'the past' with a few landmark events - mostly Star Wars, Pokemon, Miyazaki. Beyond that it's all recent comics, superhero movies, video games, and anime, with a big subculture stanning book trends like romantasy.

Most of what happened before 2000 doesn't seem to exist in cultural memory.

It's not quite true that nothing that happened before 1950 exists at all. But you're not going to find many people who are interested in the art, music, literature, design, or architecture of earlier decades - never mind centuries.

It's as a big a break as there was in the 60s. For that generation the 50s were still an influence, but anything earlier pretty much just disappeared.
by john_the_writer | 2025-05-23 09:53:56+00:00
I'd go a step further. Sometimes as a dev, there's no need to even understand the whole app. A Front-end dev doesn't need to know how the API level works and the API dev's don't need to know how the Dev-opts work. I mean it's not a NEED..

All the FE dev need to know is that the API returns the data. Extended.. all a dev of one microservice need to know is that micro-service-x returns..
by vaxman | 2025-05-23 09:55:42+00:00
PS: Charles "Chuck" Moore (who developed FORTH) last made a release called etherForth at https://etherforth.org/ It runs on a chip he designed called the GA144 (which is also programmed in arrayForth3) available at https://www.greenarraychips.com/home/products/index.php Again, this is for devs that want to have some fun. Between ZeptoForth and etherForth, you're covered.
by keiferski | 2025-05-23 09:56:30+00:00
No, that isn’t an accurate description of what I wrote.

In my situation there were no humans being replaced, because I didn’t have the budget to spend thousands of dollars hiring illustrators to make images or academics to review my writing. No one lost work because of AI, but I was able to create new value by using AI. That’s pretty much the pattern of every new technology, from photography replacing portrait painters to widespread literacy replacing letter writers.

Maybe one could make the argument that across the economy as a whole, some jobs are being replaced by AI. Which is indeed true - however, my point was about using these tools for creative individual purposes.
by sebstefan | 2025-05-23 09:59:13+00:00
"Making net-zero wind power possible"?

Is that trying to tackle the non-problem that was spun up a while ago by oil companies in propaganda pieces like the Landman show on TV?

It's a non-problem. The lifecycle assessment of wind turbines today, which is the accounting for the actual emissions of the lifetime of a wind turbine, factoring in: creation, installation, maintenance, even the disposing of it, was clocked to be offset after 5.3 months of running the turbine (according to this study: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.9b01030 ; and every other one I could find finds the same ballpark)
by drcongo | 2025-05-23 09:59:47+00:00
I've been using Claude 3.7 in Zed for a while, and I've found that I've been getting better at asking it to do things (including a lot of Django ORM stuff). Each project I work on I now have a `.context.md` that gives a decent outline of the project, and also includes things I specifically don't want it to do, like create migrations or install packages. Then with the actual prompting, I tend to ask it to plan things first, and to stop and ask me if it thinks I've missed out any detail. I've been pretty impressed with how right it gets things with this setup.

And tiny tip, just in case you've never noticed it, there's a little + button just above the prompt input in Zed that lets you add files you want added to the context - this is where I add the `.context.md` whenever I start work on something.
by nuancebydefault | 2025-05-23 10:05:36+00:00
I've been in the software engineering industry for almost 30 years and my take is there are no 'best' practices, only 'fit' practices, as the article articulates so nicely. So many times I've seen processes and organizational structures change, each time imposing it's for the better. It's not converging to something 'better'.
by addandsubtract | 2025-05-23 10:05:53+00:00
It was unclear what to do with the mystery word, so I skipped it. It wasn't until the first round that I realized the mystery word wasn't supposed to be found on the board, but it's just a random word. Also, the text input is hidden behind the "found words" box, so I have no idea what's happening with my input and why it didn't count my answer.
by Rastonbury | 2025-05-23 10:09:26+00:00
If parties are willing to roll the dice hundred or thousands of times and end up arguing about significance, the easier thing to do would be to bring a cup of water and roll them a couple of times in the water or load the water with salt till the dice float lol

But yeah it's tongue in cheek, talking about bayesian probability for the water stains opposite the sixes
by bko | 2025-05-23 10:10:01+00:00
The university defines diversity broadly, encompassing race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic background, nationality, sexual orientation, and other aspects of identity.

Don't gaslight me and pretend they don't focus a lot on race when figuring out their student body. They report on it and it's a huge distinguishing characteristic when looking at median standardized scores across diff characteristics. There's little difference between socio economic groups, gender, nationality etc. But if you look across just Asian and non Asian students, the scores are dramatically higher with Asians meaning that they have higher standards. Courts found this to be true
by mppm | 2025-05-23 10:10:26+00:00
Presumably they mean that the CO2 captured in the wood of the tower can offset the manufacture of blades and other components at some point in the future. Not that reaching net zero in wind power is an important milestone or anything. From their technology page:

> The life-cycle emissions from modern wind power plants made of steel are about 4–7 grammes carbon dioxide per kWh. Building the tower in wood lowers the emissions from the wind power plant by approximately 30 percent per kWh.

That would put wind power some 50-100x below fossil fuels already. Additional improvements are always nice to have, but not really a big selling point.
by MrScruff | 2025-05-23 10:10:53+00:00
That's an interesting point. I can see that, as you say puberty and hormones impact brain function and hence behaviour, and those are inate and not learned. But at least superfically that would appear to be primarily broad behavioural effects, similar to what might be induced by medication. Rather than something that impacts pure abstract problem solving, which I guess is what the Atari games are supposed to represent?
by kmacdough | 2025-05-23 10:11:05+00:00
Came here to learn what people think about Claude 4. Seems to be only armchair opinions on previous versions and the state of AI.

The industry is not at all surprised that the current architecture of LLMS reached a plateau. Every other machine learning architecture we've ever used has gone through exactly the same cycle and frankly we're all surprised how far this current architecture has gotten us.

Deepmind and OpenAI both publicly stated that they expected 2025 to be slow, particularly in terms of intelligence, well they work on future foundation models.
by CJefferson | 2025-05-23 10:11:27+00:00
To take 2GB to parse a 100MB file, we increase file size 20x

Let's imagine the file is mostly full of single digit numbers with no spaces (so lists like 2,4,1,0,9,3...).

We need to spend 40 bytes storing a number.

Make a minimal sized class to store an integer:

class JsonInt: x = 1

That object's size is already 48 bytes.

Usually we store floats from JSON, the size of 1 as a float in python is 24 bytes.

Now, you can get smaller, but as soon as you introduce any kind of class structure or not parsing numbers until they are used (in case you want people to be able to intrepret them as ints or floats), you blow through 20x memory size increase.
by skwashd | 2025-05-23 10:11:41+00:00
It isn't unheard of for 2 companies to announce a shutdown on the same day. What is less common is for them to both announce it on the same day and last day isn't 4 weeks/30 days.

When I saw this announcement after seeing pocket earlier, I immediately started to wonder if there was a regulatory change on 8 July.
by aqme28 | 2025-05-23 10:13:11+00:00
> I suspect as long as the US pays the highest wages in the world by a long shot, and hosts the world's top companies, both civilian and military, it will not run out of brains willing to move there.

If fewer of the world's smartest people are willing or able to move to the US, then competition for labor will shrink and so will wages.
by dieulot | 2025-05-23 10:15:35+00:00
This is due to one of your AAAA records: ::ffff:157.245.83.16. (The other one is fine.)

CLI:

dig aaaa saile.it curl -v --resolve "saile.it:443:[2a04:4e42:2::775]" "https://saile.it/1145-pull-requests-per-day/" curl -v --resolve "saile.it:443:[::ffff:157.245.83.16]" "https://saile.it/1145-pull-requests-per-day/"

GUI:

- https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=saile.it

- https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/dig/
How to Access MCA (Ministry of Corporate Affairs, India) APIs for Company Data?
by RajVT | 2025-05-23 10:15:38+00:00
I want to programmatically access company or director-related data from the MCA portal (Ministry of Corporate Affairs, India).

After exploring the site, I couldn't find any publicly documented APIs. My goal is to fetch company master data, director details, or filing information for automation or analysis.

My questions:

Does MCA provide any official or public APIs for developers?

Is there a way to get access to these APIs via registration or service agreements?

Are there any reliable third-party providers who expose this data via APIs?

Is it legally permissible to scrape public data from MCA (as a fallback)?

I found some API providers like:

Tofler

Zauba

ClearTax

But I’m not sure how reliable or official they are.

Any guidance on best practices or documentation links would be helpful. Thank you!
by w0de0 | 2025-05-23 10:17:15+00:00
This is treated as a whimsical absurdity, but it has a practical purpose that’s hardly obviated by the antiquity of the law.

I’m a sailor myself - I’d certainly want a warning that a bridge is lower than its charted height. The signal is clearly listed in the relevant Port of London notice to mariners [0]. Moreover, the signal also shows the height of the restriction (and in a neat, safe way - nudge the straw and you’ll know you’re too tall):

“Where the headroom is reduced this will be signalled in accordance with the Port of London Authority Thames Byelaw 36.1 namely:

“By Day – A bundle of straw large enough to be easily visible and displayed at the height of restricted headroom”

0 - https://pla.co.uk/notices/M63-25
by zmgsabst | 2025-05-23 10:17:23+00:00
We did the same in apartment maintenance — a career completely unlike tech.

We’d stand around the managers office, take thirty seconds to say what we planned to do, what dependencies we had (eg, who needed the truck when) and then went off to do our tasks. Even though we also tracked project work in a time system.

A real standup isn’t that unusual, nor micromanagement. Though it can turn into that, when badly utilized.
by ogogmad | 2025-05-23 10:17:51+00:00
The article also suggests that you could use a proof-verifier like Lean instead. Using that capability to generate synthetic data on which to train helps too. Very large context windows have been known to help with programming, and should help with mathematical reasoning too. None of this gives you AGI, I suppose, but the important thing is it makes LLMs more reliable at mathematics.

Anyone have a link to an article exploring Lean plus MCP? EDIT: Here's a recent Arxiv paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12534v2, the keyword is "neural theorem proving"

I've just remembered: AlphaEvolve showed that LLMs can design their own "learning curricula", to help train themselves to do better at reasoning tasks. I recall these involve the AI suggesting problems that have the right amount of difficulty to be useful to train on.

I'll ramble a tiny bit more: Anybody who learns maths comes to understand that it helps to understand the "guts" of how things work. It helps to see proofs, write proofs, do homework, challenge yourself with puzzles, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing were true for LLMs. As such, I think having the LLM call out to symbolic solvers could ultimately undermine their intelligence - but using Lean to ensure rigour probably helps.
by usrbinbash | 2025-05-23 10:18:34+00:00
The problem with AI isn't that it isn't useful.

Its that, as an industry or business at macro level, it is OBSCENELY overvalued.

Generative AI may be a 50bn business. Or a 25bn, or 75bn.

What it definitely isn't, is a multi-trillion doller game changer thats going to revolutionize the world in ways unheard of; and yet, that seems to be how it is being presented and, more importantly, pitched to VCs and hyperscalers.
by bregma | 2025-05-23 10:21:11+00:00
Gone are the days when everyone was spammed with Monty Python references. The Gen-Zs in my office haven't even heard of, let alone viewed, the Holy Grail so half the references our boss lays out are lost on them. At least it's not dead yet.

On the other hand, I had to ask them what a Kirby was. I'm still not sure but I know it's pink.
by karol_ | 2025-05-23 10:21:12+00:00
As someone who has been using glitch.com because of A-Frame and was teaching students to also use them together I am really sad by the news. It was a great thing to see students who had no experience with programming to create a virtual spaces in under an hour and after few more lessons using A-Frame in a creative way that I wouldn't even thought off. I guess I would also like to thank you @dmarcos for keeping A-Frame alive. My especially fond memory of it was during Covid lockdowns when my friend reached out to me that he had students of Art University feeling pretty bummed because they weren't able to do a end of a year physical exhibit and if I had any ideas to do a simple site to show the works. What we went with instead was to create a virtual gallery that evolved also in to place where people could stream live performances through the internet and even had a premiere of a CD of a band done there (https://vimeo.com/428814586).
by specialist | 2025-05-23 10:21:20+00:00
"The purpose of charity is to end the need for charity"

IIRC, paraphrasing a quote from u/chubot, or someone very much like them.

My personal prime motivator is something like:

Help people help themselves. And help those who can't.

And yet I largely remain unquestioningly committed to most social services (private, public, personal).

If I'm really devoted to feeding the hungry, for instance, I should always remember the proper goal is to end hunger (outright).

Even if that goal is unattainable. Maybe because that goal is unattainable. Which leads to a deeper inspection of the root causes, moral foundations, social context, etc.

It's just so easy to get caught up in the immediate necessity and lose site of root causes.