MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nickcw | 2025-05-02 16:13:59+00:00
No `git rebase`?

Here are my stats for my last 300 or so git commands from my history

$ history | grep git | awk '{print $3}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn 71 log 44 show 34 diff 26 co # alias for checkout 24 cherry-pick 23 status 18 brs # alias for branch -v --sort=-committerdate 13 rebase 11 commit 11 add 8 push 4 archive 3 reset 2 pull 1 grep 1 checkout 1 br

Been doing lots of tricky merges recently hence all the cherry-picks! Not normally such a large part of my workflow.
by Homo__Ludens | 2025-05-02 16:14:29+00:00
Short answer - is it too early to give any solid answer.

It is designed to be fully LLM editable with full control over changes. So I target the use case when any change requested calculate whole chain of the impact for the review.

Right now it can rewrite the document in a specific way on follow-up promts. This rewriting uses gpt4o tool calls (so kind of basic reasoning), over the weeked will put Gemini Pro 2.5 to that editing service (then going to try grok 3). My expectation is that its going to feel like your doc got edited by chief architect (gemini pro) vs junior pm (gpt4o)
by impendia | 2025-05-02 16:14:37+00:00
I'm a mathematics professor, specializing in number theory.

As others have noted (the author apparently "doesn't believe in irrational numbers"), this press release is laughable and utterly absurd. Wildberger did not "solve algebra's oldest problem", or anything remotely close to that.

I checked out phys.org -- I assumed this would be the webpage of some prominent national society or something -- but it turns out to be some randos that have a publishing outfit.

I did, however, look up the original paper. Unfortunately it seems to be paywalled, although I have access through my university.

The actual paper seems to for the most part be sober, legitimate, and potentially interesting (albeit on the same scale that many many other published math papers are interesting). Except for a bit of hyperbole in the introduction, it doesn't traffic in exaggerated claims. Seems to be a legitimate effort, somewhat off the beaten track.
by rchaud | 2025-05-02 16:14:45+00:00
Don't be. That kind of money was never going to be earmarked for something in the public interest. Corporations get financing at 0% (or they did back then), so they can set it on fire in an effort to burnish their 'market making' credentials, while regular individuals and nonprofits pay 'market rates' for loans.

The only way it could happen is if Zuckerberg had a Bill Gates moment and decided to use his enormous personal wealth to at least try to do some good.
by aaronbaugher | 2025-05-02 16:14:57+00:00
Right. I always figured I was a poor conversationalist, because I'm fairly quiet and sometimes don't know what to say. But since reading online about the difficulties people have with conversation, especially in a dating context, I feel like a master at it.

Sometimes it doesn't work well, but when it's working, it just flows, and no one really asks a question in that interview way. Adam says something about work, and that prompts Betty to relate a story about school, which makes Adam think of a friend who did a funny thing, etc. A few hours later, you notice the waiter would really like you to pay the check and get out.
by EGG_CREAM | 2025-05-02 16:15:21+00:00
I think so, because the users seem to like having different options. For commercial software, it makes sense to count how many devices use a particular distribution as the measure of “success”, but for projects like most Linux distributions , I don’t know that number of users makes sense. Why should we care how many users a particular distribution has, when almost all of them aren’t paying or contributing? Having more users doesn’t make the software any better inherently, and nobody is making money from those users. Instead, I would argue that user enthusiasm and dev interest are better measures of success for open source projects like this, and arch, Debian, Linux mint, etc are all doing fine in those regards.
by DudeOpotomus | 2025-05-02 16:15:40+00:00
What are they fighting a civil war for? Cheaper gas? More fast food? There is nothing now or in the near future that would fracture the country enough to fight. Once commerce stops, people will lose their collective minds. You cant tell Americans how to park, how to dress let alone what to eat or drink or do. Good luck with the collective will needed to fight for an ideologue in the 21st century.
by didgetmaster | 2025-05-02 16:15:52+00:00
As with nearly anything, an obsessive pursuit of knowledge, simple living, or 'enlightenment' to the exclusion of other things can be very harmful.

We should be constantly exposing ourselves to new ideas and exploring new avenues; but diving down a rabbit hole for a years-long journey is not the way.

Sitting in a mountain shack trying to digest the best 100 (or 1000) books ever written, might yield some real benefits; but at what cost?
by Levitating | 2025-05-02 16:15:53+00:00
> This might be the last game they ever make.

why?

> I'm shocked there's not more of an effort to make an open-source world sim.

There's a shit load of open source open world games. But how is this related to GTA 6.

> It's also a shame that given that they will milk this for a decade at minimum

How can you milk something you haven't released yet. They've just been burning money (billions, if you believe the rumors) for a decade now.
by Someone | 2025-05-02 16:16:08+00:00
Jobs certainly understood that, but Woz?

https://www.apple2history.org/history/ah04/:

”Jobs thought the cigar boxes that sat on the … desktops during Homebrew meetings were as elegant as fly traps. The angular, blue and black sheet-metal case that housed Processor Technology’s Sol struck him as clumsy and industrial … A plastic case was generally considered a needless expense compared to the cheaper and more pliable sheet metal. Hobbyists, so the arguments went, didn’t care as much for appearance as they did for substance. Jobs wanted to model the case for the Apple after those Hewlett-Packard used for its calculators. He admired their sleek, fresh lines, their hardy finish, and the way they looked at home on a table or desk.”
by xphos | 2025-05-02 16:16:25+00:00
One issue I have with modern teaching of both Math and Physics though is that they give the "correct" answer to fast which teaches the material and accelerates learning but I think it also leaves a lot of motivations for why certain decisions were come to and how which is important.

Recently I've been following long with the Distance Ladder challenge I saw on 3 blue 1 brown with Terence Tao. Going through those question is motivating because those questions are based in solving navigational problems. I fear that with the ever increasing the low friction in life we are stealing the challenge and things for people to consider to build up there problem solving ability before the curtain is pulled.

I think its also more motivating to learn considering more interesting questions especially in math. All this to say going back to the source material while not the most modern accurate physics it usually does include large amounts of motivation to explain why things are logical and what they are doing it for. To be fair I haven't read the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia but I have read other old book and wager it has similarities
by runamuck | 2025-05-02 16:16:29+00:00
I only read great literature, classics, history books my whole life. This year (Aged 48) I decided to pepper in a "fluff" book or two. I forced myself to read something I normally wouldn't. I read "The Situation" (Jersey Shore) and Mathew Perry (Friends) "auto" biographies. I actually had some profound insights about depression and substance abuse from those two. Of course, I don't recommend you read either, but if you never read "airport fiction" or "pop biographies" it might prove interesting.
Feedback on Tool I Created?
by kevinisherenow | 2025-05-02 16:16:42+00:00
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by Macha | 2025-05-02 16:17:01+00:00
> Just a nitpick -- a fraction of their profit (net income), not revenue. Most of revenue already goes out the door as expenses. If you fined as a reasonable fraction of revenue, you'd simply bankrupt a corporation, which is not what you want if your goal is to change behavior.

Nah, hollywood accounting is alive and well in tech. Especially in Ireland, where plenty of tech companies are being "charged" slightly absurd fees for services or trademark licenses by subsidiaries or parents in other countries to avoid making a profit on their tax filings.
by TheAceOfHearts | 2025-05-02 16:17:16+00:00
One of Suno's biggest weakness is their lyrics generation, and that you can't generate lyrics without also generating a song. I think it's better to use a different LLM to generate and iterate on lyrics, which you can then pass to Suno in order to generate a final song.

If anyone here has a subscription and they can spare the tokens, I think it would be fun if someone shared a song about Hacker News.

I'm hoping that in the future tools like Suno will allow you to produce / generate songs as projects which you can tweak in greater detail; basically a way of making music by "vibe coding". With 4.0 the annotation capabilities were still a bit limited, and the singer could end up mispronouncing things without any way to fix or specify the correct pronunciation. This blog post mentions that with 4.5 they enhanced prompt interpretations, but it doesn't actually go into any technical details nor does it provide clear examples to get a real sense of the changes.
by dleeftink | 2025-05-02 16:17:32+00:00
> But we believe in aggregate, these changes weakened the influence of our primary reward signal, which had been holding sycophancy in check. User feedback in particular can sometimes favor more agreeable responses, likely amplifying the shift we saw

Interesting apology piece for an oversight that couldn't have been spotted because the system hadn't been run with real user (i.e. non-A/B tester) feedback yet.
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by jasonjayr | 2025-05-02 16:17:46+00:00
> vast majority of cases the legislation as written is flexible enough that picking an amount of action that is zero is within the bounds of the law.

While that may be true; is that actually within the spirit of their respective laws? Passing legislation that directs the executive to do something, but then letting the executive just slow-walk it until it's moot seems counter productive.
by crazygringo | 2025-05-02 16:17:50+00:00
I don't need to, that's what I was already responding to. Please re-read my comment.

I really didn't think it necessary to reply to your sentence that "If that is not provided, but the customers don't trust other payment methods, the app won't make money" -- because it's so clearly relying on a false premise.

But since you need it further explained: trust in payment methods isn't binary. I prefer Apple payments but still use my credit card for everything else where it isn't available. If people can't use a better payment option, they'll fall back to a worse one. They usually won't just forego using the app entirely. Just look at the success of Adobe Creative Cloud despite its horrendous billing practices.

Again, that's what's wrong with your argument around choice. More choice leads to worse outcomes when you allow the best choice to be removed.
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by foolswisdom | 2025-05-02 16:19:56+00:00
True, but at the same time, "Justice delayed is justice denied"[1]. An excessively slow justice system means that you need substantially more resources (money, and time living under the uncertainty of the outcome) to deal with it, which is part of why the threat of court action against you from a large corporation (or another entity with deep pockets) is so concerning. I know someone who was in court defending against a civil suit for ten years, and the fact that someone is litigious and able to sue is a much larger threat than it should be.

Sure, there's checks and balances, and those are good, but it's ridiculous when we allow cases to drag on and then normalize it.

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by Night_Thastus | 2025-05-02 16:20:04+00:00
It's very hostile. Sometimes I just want to ask a broader, conceptual question. I don't need someone to produce working code. Just discuss.

Sometimes I can't make a working minimal example because I work with info that can't be placed online and writing something ground up that is similar enough and decoupled from the hundreds of files and hundreds of thousands of lines would take me a week or two and may not end up even working out.
by horsawlarway | 2025-05-02 16:20:30+00:00
personally - skip the 'git add .'

It's a pretty terrible habit to get into, and will (not can - will) cause all sorts of headaches. From minor ones like personal editor configs getting dumped into the projects, all the way up to major ones like secrets ending up in your git history.

If you want something close, but much better, do something like:

if [[ -n $(git ls-files --others --exclude-standard) ]]; then echo "There are untracked files. Please add, remove, or ignore them." else git commit -am "descriptive name" git push fi
by dowager_dan99 | 2025-05-02 16:20:36+00:00
keep the historical context in mind. There were people who wanted a computer at home and people who wanted to bring home the experience they got with access to powerful mainframe & minicomputers at work or school, so there was both a push to build your own computer and a desire to build IO devices like teletypes. The combo, all-in-one is the real revolution (IMO) that you got with the Apple II or the Sol. The TRS-80s and PETs feel a lot more like early commercialization in comparison. Woz was motivated by showing off what he could create, because that's how he communicated. It makes sense that a keyboard and TV - with graphics - shows off way better, same with being able to program in basic "... for $300 you can build a computer that's so good you can type programs on it and run them..."
by toast0 | 2025-05-02 16:20:48+00:00
WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 ran on many platforms, including Unix (I don't know which flavors).

I don't think people would want to have to boot directly into WP to do word processing and into 123 to run spreadsheets, especially in the age of multitasking and embedding.

There wasn't some alternate strategy they could have pursued. Microsoft developed market power with DOS and Windows, which simultaneously means that productivity tools need to be offered on that platform or they can't make sales, and that Microsoft has the ability to priviledge its own productivity tools.

Maybe you could try to play hardball when Microsoft started their productivity tools and convince them to cancel it, but that would have been anti-competitive and also needs a lot of prescience to predict Microsoft's future actions.
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by kees99 | 2025-05-02 16:21:29+00:00
No way a human fortune teller would say something like that in their right mind.

Same as with fortune cookie quips, any "prediction" will be something that sounds deep and intriguing, but always vague enough to be non-falsifiable.

Otherwise, client will come back and confront fortune teller about it. And human one knows it well enough to avoid making an unnecessary headache for themselves.
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by surgical_fire | 2025-05-02 16:22:22+00:00
> I specifically mentioned Baldur's Gate 3 as a game I didn't care for, I would have given it a 7/10. A 0/10 or 1/10 is preposterous.

Preposterous to you. You sound awfully judgemental of other people's opinions. Are your tastes inherently superior?

I didn't play BG3, mostly because I don't like D&D. If I played BG3, I would most likely not like it very much due to my predisposition to dislike it, due to my dislike of D&D. If I gave it a low score, you would dismiss my score as resentment? Sorry, this is bullshit.

This is hypothetical of course, since I didn't play nor rate BG3.

> Is there a single game that averaged >80/100 on Metacritic which you would have given a 0?

Me, personally? No, but that is more related to how I rate games. The games I played that I disliked the most got like a 3 or 4. Zero would be reserved to games that are fundamentally broken.
by otterley | 2025-05-02 16:22:45+00:00
> people on both sides of the aisle are happy with the status quo

Did you mean unhappy? That's always true of a democratic system. Making everyone happy is impossible, so we strive for something that tries to make everyone equally unhappy (if not in kind, then at least in degree).

> You may well be right but the only way to know is to try change and see what happens.

I don't think that's necessarily true. Logical people can follow the math. And if people can look past their own biases and limited horizons (which I know is not always possible), they will also clearly see that the world as a whole is much better off, and that even if they feel poorer, they themselves are objectively better off from a quality of life perspective, especially when compared to previous generations. I realize it's a difficult sell, but it is true.

The downside risk of erecting barriers is much worse than the upside risk. For those of us approaching retirement without a guaranteed pension to look forward to, the prospect of having our savings significantly diminished is incredibly scary. And poor people should be frightened, too, because maintaining their existing standard of living (which, BTW, is much better than it ever was, historically) is about to become much more difficult.

I've never seen a cogent and defensible theory of a nation that's economically and socially better off for most as a result of putting up higher barriers to trade and immigration. ISTM anyone who wants to eliminate free trade is cutting off their nose to spite their face.
by suddenexample | 2025-05-02 16:23:06+00:00
A question for Googlers who may be responsible/adjacent - what is the intended function of this warning? It seems to be attempting to filter out low quality apps, but instead seems to be killing any attempt to change the status quo. If the app has fewer users than competing apps, the message Google is sending is "we don't need any new apps that do similar things to existing apps" and "if you're a small app, don't even think about unseating the dominant players."

Google's Play Store policies have been harebrained for quite some time - previously with the 15 reviewer approach they decided to make it even harder for developers with fewer resources to distribute their apps. It's ironic that even though the iOS App Store is arguably more of a walled garden, it's so much friendlier to human beings who are trying to build a product. But at this point it seems ingrained in Google to release self-defeating features (remember the finder network that prioritized "first of its kind privacy" over being able to find things?)