MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by abootstrapper | 2025-05-30 02:36:09+00:00
I didn’t buy the hype of any of those things, but I believe AI is a going to change everything much like the introduction of the internet. People are dismissing AI because its code is not bug free, completely dismissing the fact that it generates PRs in minutes from a poorly written text prompt. As if that’s not impressive. In fact if you put a human engineer on the receiving end of the same prompt with the same context as what we’re sending to the LLM, I doubt they could produce code half as good in 10x the time. It’s science fiction coming true, and it’s only going to continue to improve.
by gruez | 2025-05-30 02:36:42+00:00
>The thing I find interesting about a lot of things like this is that they feel like a holdover of half the era where negotiating prices was normal: today, for most people in the US, most shopping is just a matter of going somewhere and paying a set price and you don’t argue with the seller to get a better one. B2B transactions still usually involve a negotiation, I think, but it’s basically gone for consumers.

Not really. The "negotiation" is still there. Time limited discounts weed out consumers who need something immediately. Coupons weed out people who aren't willing to put the legwork to find them. Loyalty programs and app-based offers (eg. McDonalds) take all of this to the next level by sending targeted coupons based on whatever demographic/behavioral information they can glean from you.
by rayiner | 2025-05-30 02:37:08+00:00
It would be easier for universities like Harvard to just stop violating the civil rights laws: https://manhattan.institute/article/harvards-civil-rights-vi...

Harvard may prevail on some of its challenges to the administration. But the gaping hole in its defense is that Title VI, by design, uses the threat of revoking federal money to regulate behavior in ways that would otherwise raise first amendment concerns. The Supreme Court is never going to rule that universities can invoke the first amendment as a shield against Title VI allegations, because that would gut the civil rights laws. If universities could, for example, engage in race conscious practices to increase diversity while still retaining federal funding, they could also engage in race conscious practices to decrease diversity while retaining federal funding.

The government, as a grant maker, obviously doesn’t have to provide federal funds to say neo-nazis. And if that’s true, it follows that the government can withhold federal funds based on any ideological disagreement. These organizations are of course free to say whatever they want, but the government doesn’t have to fund it!
by arcticbull | 2025-05-30 02:37:21+00:00
US airlines recorded $5.1 billion in checked baggage fees according to your article. US airlines recorded a revenue of $275.3B in 2024. This accounts for 1.8% of revenue. A further billion was change fees.

Net profit was $6.7B meaning literally all of their net revenue (a total of 2.25% of gross revenue) was accounted for from these ancillary fees.

But their inflation-adjusted cost went down 36% since 1995.

There were a total of about 1 billion emplanements by US carriers in 2024, ish, so we're talking about a total of about $6 per passenger per year. They really are insignificant.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-05-30 02:37:36+00:00
That's cool. I tried to write a driving game back in the late 80's ... a little like Spy Hunter if anyone remembers that arcade gem. I did lose myself trying to simulate the gearing — got caught in the circular logic problem described in the post.

I wanted to simulate shifting too soon and lugging the engine (vs. shifting at too high an RPM and having thrown away efficiency/performance). But determining when you were lugging the engine depended on the engine RMP which needed to allow for the gear you were in and the current forward speed ... forward speed determined by what gear you were in, what RPM ... so we're back to RPM... Never mind possible slipping of the tire if you broke traction and spinning out or drifting....

Happy to see someone lay it all out in a blog post.

(And happier still that the folks that did the game Carmageddon did a convincing enough job of all the car physics to entertain me for hours back then.)
by bdbenton5255 | 2025-05-30 02:37:47+00:00
Nuclear weapons can be repurposed for nuclear energy. Maybe, just maybe, one beautiful day we will live in a world where there are no nuclear weapons nor need for them. These weapons cannot be used ethically, they poison the soil, air, and water.

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-c...

A quote from Sun Tzu is etched in stone at the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site just outside the Pine Ridge Native American Reservation:

"Someday, an ultimate class of warriors will evolve, too strong to be contested. They will win battles without having to fight, so that at last, the day may be won without shedding a single drop of blood."
by roenxi | 2025-05-30 02:37:58+00:00
That pattern matches every conflict ever. There has been no good reason for humans to be fighting each other at any point in history; there was always a better way involving cooperation and tolerance. That hasn't stopped serious bloodshed so far. Humans team up and fight each other. It is what they do. Overwhelming evidence to date.

In the case of a rural-coastal tension in the US it is pretty well founded. They have observably different cultures and there doesn't seem to be a lot of tolerance for letting different states act independently which is the easy option to keep most people happy.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-05-30 02:38:11+00:00
It's that they're not economical to replace baseload generation. Those four hours they provide are during the time when demand most outstrips supply, i.e. after solar stops generating but before the load trails off for the evening. The price per kWh is highest then, which is what makes battery storage economical then but not necessarily at other times of day.
by bb88 | 2025-05-30 02:38:27+00:00
Male cops have changed from being thin and fit men (or average man) in the 1960's to large men with muscles, and sometimes roid rage.

People earn good money playing video games now (that wasn't the case in the 1980's) or streaming video games.

The sports heros children had while growing up used performance enhancing drugs in the 1990's.

> Not to mention testosterone levels dropping, schools being geared towards women, always co-ed spaces ...

If your childhood heros take the lazy way to success, why do we need to blame it on the other things? Using your brain is hard, as it turns out.

I've always detested parents who saw sports as the only path of success for their children. So often they were disappointed. If the parents spent time and sucked up and learned the math/science/etc their kids were learning, it may have been a better outcome for all involved.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-05-30 02:38:32+00:00
You talked about "the poorest who have cheap credit cards subsidize the richest who have the best cards". The point of the thread I cited is that in general credit cards make money from both poor and rich people alike, and make more money from rich people, and neither one is subsidizing the other in any framing of it. It doesn't matter whether you're talking points, miles, or any other form of rewards; there's no degree to which credit card reward programs have anyone subsidizing anyone else.
by nyrulez | 2025-05-30 02:39:01+00:00
"But then I look at what these tools actually manage to do, and am disillusioned: these tools can be worse than useless, making us net-negative productive." It starts from this premise right in the first paragraph. And goes on to illustrate an example that proves their point ("Let's pick one of the best possible examples of AI-generated code changes.").

anyways, it doesn't matter that much :) we could be both right.
by juniperus | 2025-05-30 02:40:08+00:00
Great, but I don't see why it was necessary to present the situation surrounding Jeffrey Epstein or whatever as being a loony radical conspiracy theory. Clearly blackmail is a big component of western political life, he says he's from a western country, but I don't know if this is really a partisan issue. Making that sound like some Q cult alien belief is silly.
by bionsystem | 2025-05-30 02:40:36+00:00
grep, sed, awk and regular expressions would probably be part of my 1st hour course if I were to produce one. And by awk I mean the super basic stuff like -F',' '{print $3" "$NF}' is already a long way

also any command | while read line; do something $line; done

and find and vi of course
by throwanem | 2025-05-30 02:40:41+00:00
It isn't a question of grace, or of motivation. If you understood the problem you purport to seek to solve, you wouldn't need telling that a doomed attempt to recreate an unrecreateable social and personal milieu isn't going to do that, and it will probably fail pretty quickly absent an unsustainable burn rate, as people discover that what's bringing them apart - as their family and professional responsibilities multiply - is not a simple lack of incidental, interpersonal physical proximity. Depending on how much you spend giving people reasons to show up anyway that outcome may take more or less time to happen, but it will happen.

Don't get me wrong; I think you'll probably pivot to something more successful if you abandon the sunk cost soon enough. Just that I am extremely confident you will need to make that pivot. Of course you shouldn't take my word for it, though.
by akshay_trikha | 2025-05-30 02:40:56+00:00
Wow, that's really cool thanks for open sourcing! I might dig into your MCP I've been meaning to learn how to do that.

I genuinely think this could be great for toys that kids grow up with i.e. the toy could adjust the way it talks depending on the kids age and remember key moments in their life - could be pretty magical for a kid
by dzink | 2025-05-30 02:41:06+00:00
They paved the way to the semantic web, which paved the way to Google extracting the data and building its own maps, shopping, and answers, and ratings and images and a bunch of other experiences on top of it and taking over traffic that would have gone to the web sites instead. Then AI scraped the same and now web traffic is becoming even less web. Flash made the web an experience - a place to visit and explore way before the metaverse. Web standards extracted the data. Now it’s pre-chewed and digested down to a AI answer.
by amrocha | 2025-05-30 02:41:48+00:00
We could argue about the monetary value of points, but I don’t think we would get anywhere.

Instead I’d rather focus on human nature and induced behaviour.

When mcdonald's offers 2 burgers for the price of one, they make money because people who wouldn’t normally eat at mcdonald’s show up.

When airlines offer points, they make money because people who normally wouldn’t book flights end up booking them. Even if the points are a good deal, you end up spending more money than you normally would because you’re enticed by the points.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-30 02:41:49+00:00
Back in the Second Millennium when I used to hang out at Radio Shack, their ad slogan was "You've Got Questions; We've Got Answers!"

And I made friends with one fellow tending the store there, and I would overhear him answering the store's phone: "Thank you for calling Radio Shack! You have questions; we have answers!"

And I would be mildly amused that he steadfastly held to the rules of grammar in verbal discourse, but I was also a bit disappointed; a loyal Radio Shack employee would lean into the dissonance and take one for the team.

I myself would gladly say the line, with a big grin on my face every time. I would, however, welcome my telephone persona being replaced by an A.I.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-30 02:43:58+00:00
> It's price discrimination. You know the thing people fucking hate when trying to buy a car

Transparent pricing worked as a positive differentiator for cars. (Saturn. Tesla.)

I believe airlines have tried their hand at it. But it doesn’t budge the needle. If there is a single enduring truth to at least American airline demand, it’s that most consumers will pick the cheapest ticket. Almost nothing else matters, when it comes time to pay for it, to almost all of the flying public.
by throwanem | 2025-05-30 02:44:34+00:00
Where does the time come from to spend in that space?

It isn't that I lack sympathy for the problem, for goodness' sake. Indeed to a reasonable first approximation the only reason I bothered to comment is that "male loneliness" is of interest to me, enough so that a solution aimed at an irrelevant epiphenomenon of a different problem strikes me as worth objecting to on that basis.

That said, the formulation deserves some obloquy of its own, in that I think it likewise hits the nail squarely on the side by misattributing a problem of general social atomization. It isn't a "men problem" per se, so much as that - for various reasons related largely to social roles and experiences, and varying interests and approaches to same - men tend to make a good bellwether for some aspects of what I maintain is a broader social problem. Think "bedrotting" versus "gooncaving" - different codings, especially as respects men being defined as the sexually assertive gender, but the same basic social behavior. (Or asocial behavior, which is of course the crux of the problem.)

Note too that that isn't the "early 30s in Park Slope" problem. (I guess Boston has different trendoid neighborhoods. I don't care.) That, to reiterate, is the very natural shift of focus as young careers and young families both demand time and interest, as described in the OP. That's normal for this stage of life, and while it is very much worthwhile to try to maintain a broad circle, that really will not be effectively fostered by college-style social events no one is going to have the time to attend anyway - not when the same time could be spent more productively on social events that also build and reinforce bonds in the spheres which do and should absorb your interest at this time.
by krapp | 2025-05-30 02:45:12+00:00
>Why would rural America be so much at odds with east coasters? It never made sense, and only made sense in the context of red vs blue (I mean literally, red vs blue paintball teams).

"rural vs. urban" is a proxy for "religion vs secularism" which itself is a proxy for "white supremacy versus multiculturalism." There's even a bit of old fashioned antisemitism intersecting with the evocation of "New York liberals" and "cultural Marxists."

If you think it's literally nothing more than "paintball" you don't understand American culture at all. You're confusing the tone for the message.
by lxgr | 2025-05-30 02:46:11+00:00
Opera used to regularly release a very interesting "state of the mobile web" report based on trends they could follow closely by operating all the mandatory proxy servers for Opera Mini.

At a first glance, I can only find the 2019 version [1], but as far as I remember they used to publish these every few months.

[1] https://press.opera.com/2019/06/11/opera-presents-the-state-...
by billyhoffman | 2025-05-30 02:46:19+00:00
Oh snap! The same group behind last year’s Polyfill.io supply chain attack are back!

Krebs doesn’t mention it but The Register makes the connection;

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/30/fbi_treasury_funnull_...

I mean there name is literally “Funnull”. They know exactly what they’re doing.
by garrettgarcia | 2025-05-30 02:47:52+00:00
The article addresses this: "Intellectual freedom is the principle that all individuals have the right to think for themselves, to express their convictions on any subject, and to give their support, financial or otherwise, only to the ideas they choose. When government coercively seizes your money and uses it to subsidize some research program or viewpoint for any reason, it is violating your intellectual freedom."

What is unique about the government funding as opposed to private-sector funding is that government funding comes from money coercively seized from people, and private sector funding doesn't.
by drodgers | 2025-05-30 02:48:15+00:00
I don't know how someone could be following the technical progress in detail and hold this view. The progress is astonishing, and the benchmarks are becoming saturated so fast that it's hard to keep track.

Are there plenty of gaps left between here and most definitions of AGI? Absolutely. Nevertheless, how can you be sure that those gaps will remain given how many faculties these models have already been able to excel at (translation, maths, writing, code, chess, algorithm design etc.)?

It seems to me like we're down to a relatively sparse list of tasks and skills where the models aren't getting enough training data, or are missing tools and sub-components required to excel. Beyond that, it's just a matter of iterative improvement until 80th percentile coder becomes 99th percentile coder becomes superhuman coder, and ditto for maths, persuasion and everything else.

Maybe we hit some hard roadblocks, but room for those challenges to be hiding seems to be dwindling day by day.
by pipeline_peak | 2025-05-30 02:49:41+00:00
On the topic of scripts, it would be nice if they had a more seamless way to invoke processes. The whole Process.Start() way can be convoluted when I just want something simple.

Either way, this is a dream come true. I always hated Powershell and it’s strange fixation with OOP. Modern C# seems to acknowledge that sometimes all we want are functions, scripts, Linq and records.
by wmeredith | 2025-05-30 02:50:18+00:00
I have worked in hi-fi sales and something I learned very early on is if you talk someone out of something they want, then whatever you talked them into is on You. If a customer came in asking for my (considerable) expertise, that is very different and I would provide it. If someone asked me if this cable was better than that one, I would answer honestly in my expert opinion. But when someone is buying a $70,000 stereo and they want the ridiculous $900 speaker cables, I would sell them. And it made people happy. And it made me happy because the markup on Audioquest cables is generally around 67%.

The audiophile world is a lot like the wine world. Tell someone the bottle is more expensive and it does taste better. Serve a quality meal on a white table cloth in a dim restaurant with an attentive wait staff and it does taste better than if it's on a paper plate on the floor. That's how our brains work. Sound is a sense like any other and context matters a lot.

The shop I worked at was an Audioquest dealer. One day we did double blind A/B tests of cables like this alongside other quality cables that were maybe a tenth of the price. In our shop and under those circumstances both pros and customers alike couldn't tell the difference. We also did the same thing with the same results testing a $500 stereo amplifier against a $5,000 one.

The fascinating thing to me was when we knew which was which, everyone picked the pricier gear every single time. Even I, who organized and proctored these tests was able to be influenced this way. I could swear up and down the "better" gear sounded better when I knew which was which, but when someone else was proctoring the test and I was blind, then I could not.

I'm not defending Audioquest. They make good speaker cables, but the prices are outrageous. And the digital stuff is laughable. I couldn't write that marketing copy and sleep at night. But I do understand the market. In a way the marketing copy and the price is the value of the product. The mind is a funny thing.
by wiradikusuma | 2025-05-30 02:50:51+00:00
I'm not a Muslim, but I'm very sure it (and all religions, I suppose) has the same teachings.

In my opinion, they seem opposed because both religions claim to be the only source of truth and strongly try to spread that belief. It's like TAB vs SPACE, you can't have both in the same file, and ideally not in the same project.
by protocolture | 2025-05-30 02:51:42+00:00
"Hey chatgpt I want to integrate a slidepot into this project"

>from PiicoDev_SlidePot import PiicoDev_SlidePot

Weird how these guys used exactly my terminology when they usually say "Potentiometer"

Went and looked it up, found a resource outlining that it uses the same class as the dial potentiometer.

"Hey chatgpt, I just looked it up and the slidepots actually use the same Potentiometer class as the dialpots."

scurries to fix its stupid mistake
by 0x62 | 2025-05-30 02:52:30+00:00
The content seems really great, however the typesetting makes it quite hard to read:

* Code blocks on a subsequent page to the explanation, especially when there is enough space to show it (p18/19)

* Call-outs as above (p26/27)

* Single words broken by a page (p51/52)

* Footers spanning multiple pages (p61/62)

It sounds quite nitpickey but I find it really breaks the flow when I’m reading, and trying to comprehend a section requires scrolling back and forth between two pages.
by mmooss | 2025-05-30 02:52:36+00:00
Don't fall into the trap: Government penalizing private parties without due process can be appealing when it's a private party you don't like, but even those people deserve due process - that's the point, everyone does. Also it's arbitrary, unchecked power that is used for corrupt purposes, and by supporting it in a situation where you like to see it, you are legitimizing that power in every case.

Edit: It's tough to give due processs to foreign individuals, especially those who don't want to be found. But there are many ways, including via their own government, or via the fact that American company resources are used for these crimes - everyone in the US connects through an ISP operating on US soil.
by growbell_social | 2025-05-30 02:55:00+00:00
Yes. Your data is your own and would not be accessed/viewed/used or copied by other traders. It's entirely optional if you want to share your strategy, and you don't have to include the code.

Your point is valid. If enough people leverage a strategy the edge will diminish. As it is, it would be difficult to find any real edge using price/volume alone that would scale to a meaningful size.
by galangalalgol | 2025-05-30 02:55:19+00:00
No, our customers use it internally. Not even sure if they will end up deploying it as a website or a windows application. Which is an advantage of egui i suppose. I just picked it because I don't know any html or javascript and it does all that stuff for you, so it is just a rust app you can browse to. My team didn't know much more JavaScript than I do and they seemed to like it fine, but not as well as something declarative, which it is not.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-05-30 02:55:25+00:00
So there is a mechanism that looks at the problem and then picks the subsystem to delegate it to. Is it a game of chess - boot up the chess program? Is it poetry? Boot up the poetry generator.

No, that's not actually a good description of the mixture-of-experts methodology. It was poorly named. There is no conscious division of the weights into "This subset is good for poetry, this one is best for programming, this one for math, this one for games, this one for language translation, etc."
by os2warpman | 2025-05-30 02:56:15+00:00
All I did was go to Expedia and put in JFK and CDG and $149 on Tuesday, July 15th on Norse Atlantic Airways popped up. Return flights the next week were $200-300. Round trip with a one-week stay were ~$500.

Round trips in September are $386-500 depending on the day and duration of the stay. The $386 fare was for a tuesday-to-tuesday week stay and I might just take it, I will be bumping up against use-or-lose limits for PTO by then. There are fewer crowds in September and the weather is really nice.

https://imgur.com/Wn43raL
by matheusmoreira | 2025-05-30 02:56:35+00:00
> Said attention has an inherent value.

Yes, and it belongs to us. It's not theirs to sell to the highest bidder.

> Running any website costs money, doubly so for video playback.

> Products do not spawn in with their presence known to the general population.

Not our problem. Business needs do not excuse it. Let all those so called innovators find a way to make it without an attention economy. Let them go bankrupt if they can't.