MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zelon88 | 2025-05-08 23:09:20+00:00
About time. Where the hell has this guy been? Guy makes hundreds of billions of dollars off the backs of working Americans and then leaves to donate all that American money to India in the form of public toilets under the guise of philanthropy. Meanwhile the country that made him a billionaire is literally falling to a fascist coup.

Seriously, just screw off. We needed you 3 months ago. We'll call you when it's time for your day in court at Nuremburg 2.0.
by phillipcarter | 2025-05-08 23:12:06+00:00
Yeah it’s challenging. I work for such a tool and we re-weight counts which is generally the right move, but comes with its own subtleties like when you are looking for exact counts specifically to tune sampling, or your MoE is bad for the particular calculation and granularity of data.

Observability: easily one of the more underestimated fields in computing.
by barbazoo | 2025-05-08 23:12:09+00:00
> Nuclear reactors take 15 to 20 years to build, and it'd take an additional year or 5-10 to scale up construction capacity.

I just don't know if that assumption is true.

Looking at https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/small-modular-reactor...

> The timeline is to finish construction of the first reactor by the end of 2029, and connect it to the grid in 2030.

Sure, let's add 100% buffer because it's a major project, that's between 8-10 years from now. Not bad.

Are we talking about different kinds of reactors maybe?
by PebblesRox | 2025-05-08 23:12:20+00:00
Another feature I would love would be the ability to get a printable version so I can hand it to my kids. With that it would be great to have an option for a line-by-line translation (maybe side by side so they could cover half the page to hide it) and then another option without a full translation but with a little dictionary at the bottom so they can look up unknown words.

And my preference in general would be for a more literal, word-for-word translation so I can learn what each individual word means.
Show HN: Built a site for tech comparisons backed by battle scars, not AI
by Hmerac | 2025-05-08 23:13:10+00:00
I was constantly frustrated by the lack of reliable, experience-based tech comparisons. You know the drill — you search gRPC vs REST or CloudFront vs CloudFlare, and end up sifting through outdated blogs, generic Medium posts, or worse: AI-generated filler with no substance.

So I built https://convinceme.tech.

Only approved submissions authored by legit users will be posted. There’s no AI-written content, just actual engineers sharing stories, tradeoffs, and hard-won insights.

Each submission is upvoted by readers based on how helpful it is — and anyone can contribute by submitting their take for review.

It’s still early and very much in motion. Feedback, thoughts, and criticisms all welcome. Happy to answer questions!
by hombre_fatal | 2025-05-08 23:14:37+00:00
The money starts adding up fast as your context fills up since it's resending the whole accumulated context back through the api every time.

They're good about telling you how full your context is, and you can use /compact to shrink it down to the essentials.

But for those of us who aren't Mr. MoneyBags like you all, keeping an eye on context size is key to keeping costs low.
by dmayle | 2025-05-08 23:14:42+00:00
You could educate yourself, you know, instead of trying to regurgitate something that someone else said that you thought looked clever.

What would you call Americans? United Statesians?

There are two countries called the United States in North America, there's the United States of Mexico, and the United States of America. People from the United States of Mexico are called Mexicans, and people from the United States of America are called Americans.

And what about people from the continent of North America? There's called North Americans, just like people from South America are called South Americans.
by shkkmo | 2025-05-08 23:14:46+00:00
I have some sympathy. Those communities are valuable and should be saved where possible. However, it also doesn't make sense to keep rebuiling the same high risk locations, especially when all indications are rhat the risk is increasing.

The millions that own beach front property should accept the value of their land will decrease as it becomes harder to insure. If they don't want to lose equity, sell it sooner than later.
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-08 23:16:00+00:00
> They felt well off, because they were doing fabulously well compared to the 30's which were still lived memory.

Also because they were doing well, compared to past experience, relative to those higher on the income distribution.

That is, inequality narrowed throughout the post-war era until around 1980, when it turned around and shot up.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SIPOVGINIUSA

While the long stagnant periods in wages (Noah marks the one from the mid 1970s to mid 1990s, but ignores the one from 2001 through about 2012, perhaps because he realizes that marking most of the last 50 years, accurately, as periods of wage stagnation, rather than falsely claiming that that ended in the 1990s, would undermine the rosy picture he is painting) are a problem, the distributional dynamics are probably the thing most closely associated with the perception of a hollowed out middle class.
by Bhulapi | 2025-05-08 23:17:06+00:00
As far as I know, a framebuffer can mean a lot of things depending on hardware and implementation, but it was used to refer to actual memory that would contain pixel values that would eventually be written to the screen. In Linux, this is abstracted by the framebuffer device, which is hardware independent (you can actually have several fbdevices, which if I'm not mistaken end up referring to different monitors usually). What's convenient about the implementation is that these devices still work as normal memory devices, which means you can read/write as you would any other memory. Some more info: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/fb/framebuffer.html
by sepositus | 2025-05-08 23:17:13+00:00
> I don't hold their respect for canon quite so sacrosanct as you apparently do.

That's fine, it just makes it pointless to make a argument for what the office of Pope should and shouldn't do. It's like going into a Muslim country and telling everyone how stupid their views are because you don't respect their holy texts. Why bother?

That was my point, you're not interested in having an actual conversation. Which is fine. That's why I said I had a misunderstanding of what was going on here. But it's clear now.
by gruez | 2025-05-08 23:17:35+00:00
>> I think a lot of people think you can just depend on people's blind greed so they keep on maximizing their earnings regardless of how much they actually earn. However this is not even how it works a little bit.

>Right, that's not how it works.

>Most people do not try to maximize their revenue and it's why when a sector (say Tech) starts paying very high salaries it takes a long time (if-at-all) for other sector's salaries to increase despite the opportunity cost of working in those sectors being higher now.

This makes no sense. I don't see how the observation that people don't immediately flood into programing disproves the claim that high earners will work less if taxes were higher. The two aren't at all comparable. Not everyone is cut out to be a programmer, and even if they are, it takes a non-trivial amount of time to train to become a programmer. In other words, it takes a long time for people to switch to higher paid industries. On the other hand working less costs nothing, and anyone can do that at a moment's notice.

>I really do not buy an argument that Alexander Bell (and the at least 4 other people who simultaneous invented the telephone) would've given up and done subsistence farming if the tax rate was "too high". You will still have (and possible even more of it given how well DARPA works) technological advanced with higher top-bracket tax rates.

No, they'll just kick back and retire. That might be subsistence farming (aka. cottagecore), or not.

>The main criticism of the Laffer Curve argument is that in practice governments are below the maximum revenue point [1].

Given the that the actual curve can only be estimated, and the theoretical curve levels off near the top, and the right side is steeper than the right side, doesn't it make sense to be below the maximum point? If you overestimated the peak and overshot it, the effects would be devastating. Even if you're to the left of the peak, tax raises are unpopular and cost political capital, so it makes sense that politicians aren't trying to perfectly optimize their tax rates.
by mindslight | 2025-05-08 23:17:35+00:00
I'm pretty sure the disparity here is retail shipping rates versus bulk commercial ones. The days of foreign shippers dumping their packages onto our domestic USPS per UPU rules have been over for years. Most items on Aliexpress these days are their managed logistics Choice, with free shipping over $10. I ordered a bunch of stuff before the de minimis tax exemption went away, and it was all delivered by courier (probably gig work).

Even just domestically, contrast the published retail UPS/Fedex rates with the prices of items with free shipping that ultimately go UPS/Fedex. Reasonable off-the-shelf retail rates that facilitate small businesses is also why it's important the USPS remain intact against the longstanding neofascist goal of gutting it.
by ajb | 2025-05-08 23:18:35+00:00
This may depend on jurisdiction. UK buildings insurance usually covers subsidence (although it may then be difficult to sell the property, as any buyer will have difficulty getting their own insurance even after a repair)

I don't know specifically about mines or sinkholes, but I don't think they are generally excluded. However one difficulty would be that buildings are generally insured up to the value of the rebuilding cost, IE what it would take to put the building back after it was completely destroyed. But in the case of a mine or sinkhole, the land itself may also be unusable. In an expensive city the rebuild cost may be only a fraction of the cost of buying an equivalent home, including the land it sits on.
by jonfriesen | 2025-05-08 23:20:21+00:00
`ecapture` has been around for a while and do a lot of great stuff and a lot of functionality overlaps.

Our aim is to make Qtap extensible and via a plugin system. We have http1/2 streaming capabilities and a plugin engine to run these in what we call a stack. Our goal is to add more protocols, like gRPC in the near future.

We have a few example plugins that do things like report request/response's and push access information to standard out in a console or structure log format. Our Pro version has a few more plugins like the ability to report errors (eg. an AI agent is getting HTTP 429 errors). These can be pushed to a service or log aggregator.

To summarize, we do a lot of the same things that ecapture does. We'd like to be less of a tool and more of a "always running" that ops, opsec, and devs use to answer tough questions. We look forward to open sourcing more of plugins as they mature!
by rhet0rica | 2025-05-08 23:21:52+00:00
Doing a bit more research on Martha—she was a lecturer at Florida International University.

Wayback of her themes page, which repeats the 300+ number and says they're only available on CD-ROM now (as of 2006): https://web.archive.org/web/20060502073323/http://www.gate.n...

Rate My Professor page (last review in 2011, seems a bit less enthusiastic than the earlier ones): https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/554604

FIU Math & Stats Dept. lists her as retired faculty: https://case.fiu.edu/mathstat/directory/retired-faculty/

Perhaps you might consider reaching out to her and asking her for an updated collection. :)

As for my obsession with NeXT themes, I think I'll stick with Scott Naness's work, although Leo Prieto's checkbox and radio button are definitely more authentic. (The original controls are simply too large to fit in the available space, but Scott is the only one to get the window frames right.)
by dahcryn | 2025-05-08 23:21:58+00:00
Have I got bad news for you.... Microsoft announced imposing limits on "premium" models from next week. You get 300 "free" requests a month. If you use agent, you consume about 3-4 requests per action easily, I estimate to burn through 300 in about 3-5 working days.

Basically anything that isnt gpt4o is premium, and I find gpt4o near useless compared to Claude and Gemini in copilot.
by kristianp | 2025-05-08 23:23:04+00:00
Stackoverflow is basically a site to help people with programming problems. That includes debugging a problem. I think it's sad that many types of question are not considered suitable for the site. The question was closed as "Not suitable for this site", whatever that means.

Tangentially, one thing I think StackOverflow misses in its policy is in not allowing questions that ask for help to evaluate libraries and products in the developer space. There are many questions on SO where someone has asked what is the best library for X, and the question is closed due to site policy, but I think a discussion of what library is best for a use case is a very useful thing to have on SO. The answer to the question can change over time, and multiple alternative solutions can be presented. This is the kind of thing that Reddit has taken over for many different product recommendations, but reddit answers are just comments, they don't have the UI of SO's for commenting on questions and answers.
by Retric | 2025-05-08 23:23:11+00:00
It’s not about being “a runaway hit” as an objective measurement it’s about the things an LLM would need to achieve before that was possible. At first AI scores on existing tests seemed like a useful metric. However, tests designed for humans make specific assumptions that don’t apply to these systems making such tests useless.

AI is very good at gaming metrics so it’s difficult to list some criteria where achieving it is meaningful. A hypothetical coherent novel without spelling/grammar mistakes could in effect be a copy of some existing work that shows up in its corpus, however a hit requires more than a reskinned story.
by homeonthemtn | 2025-05-08 23:23:12+00:00
My colleagues and I use AI all the time. We use these tools to multiply individual efforts.

Instead of researching frameworks to build a doc around, we generate one and start chunking data into it.

Instead of analyzing single docs, we create a Claude project and load our docs in then query it like a database.

It's akin to the invention of the sewing machine for tailors - new tool for old work, only of the white collar variety.

As I put it to them "If I want to ride a bike, I don't want to build the bike to ride it"

I don't think people truly understand just what AI can do besides make funny pictures. Which is ultimately their loss.
by bilekas | 2025-05-08 23:23:19+00:00
: Edit : The OP has history until recently - My message is off base and in the wrong context. Apologies.

I feel like I'm in crazy town...

Hi - I'm new here. I did something dumb and set up a mail alias so that steve@next.com would go to me. This was a bad idea, I'm sorry. I've changed it to steve@next.com goes to you, not to me. I think that makes more sense.

My apologies. Signed, new guy.

This was

> That is one of the most beautifully crafted “I did something dumb” emails

Why ? What is happening if you can't email your boss/upper on the regular like that ?

"Hey, I'm gonna be late today, ate too many burritos last night and had to visit the hospital"

BOSS : Great idea, thanks

> PROFOUND!
by jerrac | 2025-05-08 23:24:41+00:00
> Almost everyone who comes to SO, in my experience, has a fundamentally wrong idea about how the site is intended to work.

True. I quit trying to do anything there once I realized that SO was fundamentally not useful to me. It advertised as a gamified Q&A platform, but was actually a knowledge base psudeo wiki thing structured in way that didn't lend itself to answering the questions I needed answered.

So, I think a lot of the negative reactions are deserved, because SO looks like something it isn't.

People want a place to get help. SO looks like a place to get help. But SO is a place to ask for help only if your problem fits a specific set of requirements. And since most problems will never meet said requirements, most people can never actually get help on SO.

I post this in part because I'm still saltly about how much time I wasted trying to get help only to get downvoted, but also because if SO actually wants to do what they say, they really need to restructure into something that actually looks like what they want to be.

My suggestion would be to have two sites, one that is actually a general Q&A site like what everyone is after, the other is the kind of knowledge repository that SO wants to be. Then you just promote the really good questions from the Q&A site into the other site.

I'd also recommend ending the whole "downvote" idea. I have yet to see it not result in cliques and in discriminating against viewpoints the people with downvote permissions don't like. Let a lack of upvotes cause poor content to drop to the bottom.
by throw10920 | 2025-05-08 23:24:45+00:00
Apparently you have difficulty with reading comprehension, because my original comment already defines "good code":

> The result type does not work because you have to choose between immediate callers handling failures (they don't always have the context to do so because they're not aware of the context of callers higher up on the call stack) or between propagating all of your error values all the way up the stack to the error handling point and making your program fantastically brittle and insanely hard to refactor.

It's interactions like this that are the reason why my organization isn't adopting Rust.
by richardw | 2025-05-08 23:25:17+00:00
Whoever is paying for your time should calculate how much time you’d save between the different products. The actual product price comparison isn’t as important as the impact on output quality and time taken. Could be $1000 a month and still pay for itself in a day, if it generated >$1000 extra value.

This might mean the $10/month is the best. Depends entirely on how it works for you.

(Caps obviously impact the total benefit so I agree there.)
by busyant | 2025-05-08 23:25:40+00:00
> Do you think the several people who've been close to him who describe him as breathtakingly stupid are lying, or incorrect (fooled by another part of that act, one supposes)?

James Comey wrote that he was moderately intelligent (I forget Comey's exact phrasing).

And I think that's true.

He's smart enough to know when to lie to escape legal jeopardy, so I think that's a mark of some amount of intelligence.

But he is also horriffically broken in some part of his personality, to the point where he lacks empathy, and constantly lies to obtain advantage.
by jjeaff | 2025-05-08 23:25:53+00:00
There is no specific law against it. Just like there is no specific law against getting "protection fees" from all the businesses in the neighborhood because it would be a shame if something were to happen to it. Which is why we have racketeering/Rico laws.

Generally, when anti-trust cases go to court, they will use individual cases like these of anti-conpetitive behavior as evidence to build a case of a pattern of that type of behavior.
by onesociety2022 | 2025-05-08 23:26:23+00:00
If your goal is to prevent cheap throw-away items from ending up in landfills, there's a straight-forward policy the Govt could adopt - just make it very expensive to send stuff to landfills (and stop the practice of sending our garbage to poor countries where it just ends polluting rivers and oceans).

This would encourage people to buy only high-quality items that are longer-lasting and are not just discarded very quickly. If it costs $200 to discard your dishwasher, maybe you will buy a high-quality product that might have a higher sticker price upfront but it has better reliability and won't break down quickly requiring you to replace it and therefore pay the hefty landfill price. This in turn would encourage manufacturers to build products with better reliability.
by crote | 2025-05-08 23:26:48+00:00
> Nuclear reactors do not surprise explode. The Chinese designs are passively safe: cut off all power and they'll simply sit there. They do not require active cooling.

The same was said of Fukushima. And it was - until a tsunami fried all the backup local power keeping the control systems alive. Turns out the "passive cooling" still requires some valves to be controllable...
by pier25 | 2025-05-08 23:27:07+00:00
> I find gpt4o near useless compared to Claude and Gemini in copilot.

It's a hit and miss IMO.

I like it for C#/dotnet but completely useless for the rest of the stuff I do (mostly web frontend).

I'm not sure about my usage but if I hit those premium limits I'm probably going to cancel Copilot.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-05-08 23:28:51+00:00
True. But one of the biggest wins of the web is that it's how things are, and it was only a historical fluke of luck that things panned out this way.

As it's often said, there's no way the concept of a web browser would be feasible in today's walled garden app store norms. You mean a god app than can run remote, arbitrary code? And it lets you sideload arbitrary extensions that can do things like block ads and mutate apps?

The only reason it's allowed is because the web was ubiquitous by the time computing became so highly controlled.

So we shouldn't be quick to dismiss it, despite its warts.
by carefulfungi | 2025-05-08 23:29:19+00:00
How different would US western expansion have been had the Spanish not colonized Central America and Mexico? What would European colonization of the Americas have looked like if Spain hadn’t extracted such great wealth? How much did the Spanish American war and the resulting transfer of Cuba, Philippines, and Puerto Rico to US control change the character of US power? How do you untangle the history of New Orleans without considering Spain? And what would be the cultural character of the southwest without Spain’s influence?
by keerthiko | 2025-05-08 23:30:23+00:00
i got $100 of credit at the start of the year, and have been using +1$ each month, starting at $2 in january using aider at the time. just switched to claude code this week, since it follows a similar UX. agentic CLI code assist really has been growing in usefulness for me as i get faster at reviewing its output.

i use it for very targeted operations where it saves me several roundtrips to code examples and documentation and stack overflow, not spamming it for every task i need to do, i spend about $1/day of focused feature development, and it feels like it saves me about 50% as many hours as i spend coding while using it.
by bilekas | 2025-05-08 23:30:31+00:00
Owning a mistake is amazing, actually I do believe it's one of the most important skills you need to learn in any profession. You won't learn it in University, only when you think the world is on the line.

It's a super nice example. Explain the situation as early as possible, don't be afraid and roll with it.

The fawning over the response bothers me no end.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-05-08 23:31:22+00:00
That looks very cool.

As someone that has given a number of classes and seminars, it gets fairly discouraging, how few folks want to learn.

I think that establishing a learning-focused community (like this) would probably really get a lot of people engaged.

Geeks like learning. Many others don't. It's always fairly demoralizing, when I encounter it.