MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fatbird | 2025-05-24 02:41:32+00:00
When Quebec held a referendum in 1995 on separation (not secession), the Cree nation in northern Quebec held its own referendum on what to do if Quebec separates, and voted 96% to separate from Quebec and remain in Canada. The Parti Québécois, the provincial gov't of Quebec at the time, sputtered "Quebec is not divisible!" which created a lot of awkwardness around the whole question of Quebec leaving Canada.
by gyomu | 2025-05-24 02:41:35+00:00
For anyone curious, the game dev is Jason Rohrer:

https://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/simpleLife.h...

Things have changed since:

"In October of 2011, we moved from Las Cruces, NM to Davis, CA. Along with all the good things listed below about Las Cruces came bad things. Vicious dogs loose on the streets (one bit my wife while biking) and in parks (I came close to getting myself shot during a confrontation with a dog owner). Crime (the little old lady next door got burgled twice in one year, once at 3 in the afternoon through her front door). After living in extremely cheap places for 8 years, I came to realize that these places are extremely cheap for a reason (because people don't want to live there if they can avoid it)."
by tomnipotent | 2025-05-24 02:41:56+00:00
> VSCode's marketing

Point to this marketing. Here's the blog announcement on the 1.0 releases - what I can't find are any examples of Microsoft over-promising.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160422123116/https://code.visu...

> MS locked things down... and MS has artificially prevented vscode forks from using those extensions

Or like any growing and maturing project they established boundaries - one of which was that the plugin marketplace was proprietary, which is a perfectly reasonable position. Their existing and continued contributions to vscode are significant, so I think they can be allowed to keep some cards up their sleeves like the plugin marketplace or their Python extension. I'm just flabbergasted at this idea that somehow we're entitled to everything vscode-adjacent "just because", or that Microsoft is obligated to subsidize other billion-dollar business by giving them free features for their vscode forks.

> A bait and switch if I've ever seen one.

Where's the bait? Where's the switch? If the best you have is that they released a closed source plugin I'm going to bucket this as another borrowed opinion.
by tokioyoyo | 2025-05-24 02:43:17+00:00
I genuinely think an average person in Japan has "richer" life than a person in NA. No real data points, just vibes. I lived in NA, EU and Japan. It is so relative that, I haven't been able to take GDP per capita statistics seriously. The most awful thing for an average, is the work ethics. But that has been rapidly changing in the last 5 years, I think.
by potholereseller | 2025-05-24 02:43:40+00:00
> It has at least been interesting to me to reflect on how I can still appreciate media that humans make when I find AI media so repulsive.

A relevant analog is the arguments about whether independent bands were more real than those who had signed with labels -- about whether money/popularity corrupts art. I never took a side on that, but I do think that most music isn't worth listening too, simply because it's so saccharine and cliched.

So to generalize, Sturgeon's Law is evenly distributed: 90% of everything -- including sci-fi, music, and AI-generated stuff -- is worthless. 90% of AI content is slop, because it is prompted by people who have no taste whatsoever; not bad taste, just zero taste; not everyone is gifted. In the hands of people with refined taste (whether good or bad), they can use AI to produce that 10% of worthwhile AI stuff; but those with refined taste know how to keep AI content from distracting from the larger work, so you never know they are using AI at all.

I don't think society-wide refinement of taste is possible; Sturgeon's Law is here to stay. Instead, we need a corrolary to Sturgeon's Law, which provides a solution to the problem: you can't overturn Sturgeon's Law; you can only build filters to avoid the crap. I can't say how to build such filters, but we can start thinking about them.
by donatj | 2025-05-24 02:44:31+00:00
I don't love Mermaid and generally find it less well designed than something like Graphviz/dot. I generally find a lot of the syntax needlessly strict for something non-programmer humans are meant to interact with, but the big seller for me with Mermaid is that it works inline on GitHub.

I end up creating a lot of sequence diagrams and having them as editable mermaid is very convenient. I do wish GitHub giant mermaid navigation controls floating over the bottom right corner obscuring things.
by actsasbuffoon | 2025-05-24 02:44:58+00:00
It may not be winner-takes-all. Study after study shows that the models are converging as they get bigger; their results are getting more similar to one another. The models themselves are becoming interchangeable commodities.

We can use OpenRouter to build agents with any LLM and switching your agent to a new model is a one-line code change. We can write MCP tools that work with most of the decent models.

Honestly, I think we may be entering a period where things start to decentralize and money starts to move towards startups building interesting tools and agent workflows instead of a handful of giant companies training frontier models.
by npollock | 2025-05-24 02:45:02+00:00
Here's how I would market this:

Create "packages" of context for popular API & Libraries - make them freely available via public url

Keep the packages up to date. They'll be newer than the cutoff date for many models, and they'll be cleaner then the data a model slurps in using web search.

Voila, you're now the trusted repository of context for the developer community.

You'll get a lot of inbound traffic/leads, and ideas for tangential use cases with commercial potential.
by shakna | 2025-05-24 02:45:07+00:00
No... I'm afraid you're dividing up a religion in a way that anthropology does not.

You are close to something. You've found the division between worldview, and religion. A worldview is bigger, and is individualistic - but generally founded upon tenants shared by others. "a framework of ideas and beliefs forming a global description through which an individual, group or culture watches and interprets the world and interacts with it as a social reality."

I will say: There is no accepted definition of a religion. There are hotly debated definitions, but no concrete and agreed formation of what it constitutes.

However, generally speaking, a religion is a set of socio-cultural systems, generally tied to a set of beliefs, that tend to have supernatural or spiritual elements. However - the systems are essential, the beliefs are not. [0] Many agnostics and atheists follow religious practices, and form their own religions. There are Christians who do not believe in Christ.

Because the core of a religion is social and cultural, it greatly varies in time and place. The Christianity of Early Rome would be unrecognisable to most Christians today. The religion has changed almost every single practice, over time, because of the cultures that have influenced it today. [1]

[0] An example would be "Jewish Atheism". It is a religion, with practices and rites, but it does not carry with it supernatural or spiritual beliefs. Another would be "Mainline Protestant Buddhism", also known as Secular Buddhism.

[1] An example of one of the most important rites in early Christendom that is no longer regularly practiced in Rome, would be the washing of feet. The host welcomed their guests on their knees, caring for them. Society moved on, shoes and roads changed, it no longer became necessary, and the religion changed around it.
by mmooss | 2025-05-24 02:47:10+00:00
People can say whatever they want, but I don't think that's true at all. Each side uses different tactics and the left has really embraced appeasement and being unprovocative. Democratic Congressional leaders recently told members not to try to visit Kilmar Abrego Garcia because it was too provocative to voters in swing districts. Leaders of major universities and journalism are capitulating - not ironically, to that same right-wing anger routine. Newsom in CA, Adams in NYC, Fetterman from PA, and others are not outraged, they're adopting GOP positions and tactics. And what Democratic leader acts like Trump (and other Republicans like him)? What left-wing outlet is like Fox?
by nocoiner | 2025-05-24 02:48:32+00:00
I feel like on the surface this may seem like kind of a facile comment, but this really gets at what makes NYC a special place. There’s a whole day-to-day experience that may be technically replicable in other large cities in the course of a day, but there’s like 100 things to do in New York every 200 feet. It’s just a different experience.
by sandworm101 | 2025-05-24 02:49:56+00:00
The land is part of the equation, but more so the impact on government services. More retirees is more burden on local healthcare and emergency response. They may contribute to the local tax base, but the turnaround between increased population and new hospitals/firehalls is often measured in decades. Have a look at how long it takes to get a new firetruck these days, let alone the people to run it.
by eru | 2025-05-24 02:50:34+00:00
Focusing on the keeping ChatGPT from talking about (or drawing pictures of) boobies has two advantages:

- companies are eager to put in the work to suppress boobies

- edgy teenagers are eager to put in the work to free the boobies

Practicing with 'random less important stuff' loses these two sources of essentially free labour for alignment research.
by alephnerd | 2025-05-24 02:51:31+00:00
I'm not sure about the labor conditions in European shipbuilding hubs like Greece, but in SK labor and safety laws remain fairly laggard. When I visited the Ulsan port a decade ago it was fairly common to see migrant workers from China, Thailand, and Vietnam working in not great conditions (low pay, long hours, weak unionization, and a surprising lack of safety equipment like harnesses)

It's something I noticed a lot in Korean manufacting to be honest - once you scrape behind the Hallyu Wave you can see standards remain laggard, as was seen with the battery factory explosion a couple months back.
by barry-cotter | 2025-05-24 02:52:23+00:00
> Their families and friends were already close because few, if any, of them left where they were from (except to get drafted into wars)

Your original text, edited for sequence and clarity while preserving your voice:

This doesn’t apply to the U.S. or Canada, nor has it ever since their foundings, possibly excepting some natives. The American frontier was declared closed by 1890, long before the post-WW2 population surge to California. Before that, New Englanders left farmland to settle the Midwest. Later came the Great Migration of mostly Black Southerners to northern cities. Anglophone North America has never been a peasant society where families remained rooted for generations.
by overgard | 2025-05-24 02:53:12+00:00
Ugh.

I'm sick of vibe coding being called the wave of the future. There are people out there working on genuinely hard problems using real knowledge and skill. The idea that they're going to be replaced by people telling a chatbot to "do a thing" strikes me as ridiculous. All the "amazing" vibe coding demos I've seen are things like "holy crap it made a todo list" or "here's a blocky flight sim where the plane is sideways."

Look if you're having fun telling windsurf to replace your blog I'm not trying to rain on your parade, but I'm sick of hearing that it's the future. It devalues what actual programmers do with their actual knowledge. Vibe coders are the script kiddies to the actual hackers out there.
by killjoywashere | 2025-05-24 02:55:06+00:00
IdenTrust participates in the US Federal PKI ecosystem, so they likely have strong incentives to charge exorbitantly. Those free certs are probably meant to facilitate development of gov-specific capabilities by random subcontractors long enough to figure out how to structure a contract mod that passes the anticipated cost onto the government.

Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
by charcircuit | 2025-05-24 02:57:00+00:00
>I encourage you to zoom in and pixel peep some of Jim's images

Even without zooming in you can tell that those images look nothing like what was being made on the pc98. The article was talking about the 80s which was a decade before what we are talking about with the pc98. It is not valid to assume that they were done the same.
by jiggawatts | 2025-05-24 02:57:24+00:00
I’m convinced that language sharing can be encouraged during training by rewarding correct answers to questions that can only be answered based on synthetic data in another language fed in during a previous pretraining phase.

Interleave a few phases like that and you’d force the model to share abstract information across all languages, not just for the synthetic data but all input data.

I wouldn’t be surprised if this improved LLM performance by another “notch” all by itself, especially for non-English users.
by 14 | 2025-05-24 02:57:25+00:00
Seeing articles like this is almost hard to read. My kids are very smart but this girl is 1000 times what they are doing. This girl is 1000 times what I am doing. Maybe it is just imposter syndrome but sometimes I read articles like this and think I fell short in life. But I am also top of my peers at work and I am a health care provider and my clients all request me so I know I am doing good. Sometimes I just wonder what mark I will leave on this world.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-05-24 02:57:40+00:00
It's a very odd celebration of ignorance in my eyes. Like, sure. It's nice when I can just throw some stuff in a slow cooker and make some decent food. But I don't pretend to be a chef nor think I can scale up and make a 5 star restaurant with my slow Cooker. People dedicate their entire life to that craft and I don't want to disrespect that.

But when it comes to tech and art: I guess people never respected it to begin with, so there's that.
by vel0city | 2025-05-24 02:58:42+00:00
Yeah, my employer seems to have the mindset if we don't bother trying to standardize and enable AI tools people are just going to end up quietly using other tools in more questionable and far less DLP-compliant ways, so you might as well get ahead of it and say if you want to use AI tools here are the allowed ways and tools.

Microsoft seems to have pretty good DLP kind of tooling around Copilot.

And I do agree, I feel like Microsoft has regressed about linking sessions to your desktop session. If I'm already logged in on the desktop session just auth with that. Instead I have to login to all the various tools. Sure, maybe throw a "Log in with your account?" prompt or something to confirm I want to use it or re-auth a passkey or whatever, but annoying I need to resupply a password.

And that's not just some way IT has things configured, same kind of thing on my personal devices.
by mmooss | 2025-05-24 02:59:33+00:00
> With unfettered immigration it would be much easier to build simply due to a large availability of unskilled labour.

Isn't that ultimately an economic question - increase the supply and the cost drops, increasing the number of projects where the labor cost effective but driving down wages?

If the US did have much more immigration of unskilled contruction labor, but they unionized, keeping their wages higher, would that have the same result? That is, is your argument more than, effectively, exploiting labor?
by lapcat | 2025-05-24 02:59:58+00:00
> The value of one person's anecdata is in fact not zero. I agree it's small.

It's less than zero. It's negative. Taking a very biased, unrepresentive anecedote and presenting it as positive evidence for some conclusion is fallacious and misleading. It's worse than presenting no data at all. You should have no confidence in a broad conclusion based on an anecdote.

> But if you ask 1000 people and they all say "I've heard of X but not of Y" or "I've heard of them both but heard more about X than about Y" then you have, in fact, got pretty good evidence that X is more famous than Y. Even if they're in the comments on an article about X, which of course I agree will give you a biased sample.

I couldn't disagree more. If you ask 1000 randomly selected people, that's pretty good evidence, but it's not good evidence if the sample is highly biased.
by tluyben2 | 2025-05-24 03:00:01+00:00
Similar to others, the unevenness of prompt results makes pricing per message quite tricky; it generated a nice looking app for me in the first go, I asked for an enhancement and it spent the rest of my free messages on trying, and failing, to fix 1 TS error that came from that enhancement. As this is using one or more of the openai/anthropic/google models, I also know that it probably won't be able to actually fix that error without my (either in code or specifically telling it what to do, which is coding) explicit help and just loop until I burn through whatever plan I have that way.

I got a cheap 1 year account on replit and it suffers from this of course; first few prompts yield amazing results and then it gets stuck. This is fine for me as I can fix it myself and by now I have good feeling of which type of error the current llms will just loop forever on, but it is hard to justify the pricing model of per message because for people who cannot fix it themselves and need to vibe on it; spend 50 bucks/mo for looping over one error for a day and that's that; pay more or wait or eject and go to another; I see non devs (vibe-only devs?) doing the latter so you never retain clients; they pick the good deals every month and move from one to the other.

So far only cursor is reasonable (that I know off) because it continues after the paid messages run out with the slower requests; you can go on forever.
by mwcampbell | 2025-05-24 03:02:23+00:00
> Your boss, stakeholders, and especially non-technical people literally give 0 fucks about "quality code" as long as it does what they want it to do.

We've all already heard this message a thousand times. There's no need to keep repeating it. Don't discourage people, especially young people, who want to do great work.
by dragontamer | 2025-05-24 03:04:00+00:00
Historically, the most convenient are numbers with large numbers of factors.

60 can be split into 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30 evenly for example

The other number that accomplishes this is 12: 2, 3, 4, 6 are all factors.

That's why 12 and 60 are so common for real life systems.
by gchamonlive | 2025-05-24 03:06:40+00:00
In time, there will be a rise of purist organizations that will mandate organic code. Not because it's more or less efficient than LLM code. Just because they will see that this will sweep a lot of the talents, those that really matter, the idealists, the technicists and the scholars, those that care not only about their machines but also their fellow machinists.
by EasyMark | 2025-05-24 03:08:11+00:00
My partner was so wound up after that speech on landman. I was like "darling I love the show for braindead entertainment but that is a exceedingly bad take on wind power from a show that obviously is meant to appeal to rural folks who don't want to feel guilty or do anything about fossil fuels".

Here's the quote from the show for those who haven't seen it

“Do you have any idea how much diesel they have to burn to mix the concrete or make that steel? Or haul this sh-t out here, and put it together with a 450 foot crane? You want to guess how much oil it takes to lubricate that f-ing thing, or winterize it? In its 20-year lifespan, it won’t offset the carbon footprint of making it. And don’t get me started on solar panels and the lithium in your Tesla battery…”
by qzw | 2025-05-24 03:08:51+00:00
I knew someone who reached the final stage of one of these science fairs. Project was done at a lab in an Ivy League university over a couple of summers. Relative was a senior scientist at the lab and guided them every step of the way. Not to discount what these kids are doing, but the reality is that these science fairs have largely become a contest about how well your family is connected to science-fair-friendly research facilities and how good your presentation skills are. I mean, do we really think 17 year olds are out there doing human trials on novel cancer therapies? I’m sure there are some projects that are genuinely thought of and done by the students themselves, but looking at a lot of these PhD level research that are supposedly done as after school projects of high school kids, I can’t help but think the whole thing has become a bit of a farce.
by rasz | 2025-05-24 03:09:58+00:00
Back in 2001 Nvidia GPUs topped out at 64MB https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce3-ti500.c741

but that didnt stop vendors from offering bottom of the barrel low end models with very same 64MB https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/msi-geforce2-mx-400-64... Not only same type of ram, but even the bus width is the same.
by zer00eyz | 2025-05-24 03:10:51+00:00
> The Vibe Coder stays behind,

> that is why he’s ahead.

> He is detached,

> thus at one with all.

> Through selfless action

> he is perfectly fulfilled.

Clearly your not fulfilled and should be vibe coding, at least that's what Rick Rubin says...

I'm not sure a koan to vibe coding in the style of Lao Tzu and the Tao is in good taste. I can tell you that as a lover of the Tao, it is poorly done at best.

Clearly someone missed the point of Wu Wei in the source material and this is the result.
by mmooss | 2025-05-24 03:12:10+00:00
> There's a reason the moment Japan became a developed country, shipbuilding left for South Korea, and then when SK became developed, it left for China. Now it's leaving for Philippines (Japan), Indonesia (SK), India (SK, UAE), and Vietnam (SK, UAE) after the Korean and Japanese players got pushed out of China.

The list of top shipbuilding countries is mostly wealthy, including SK and Japan at #2 and #3.

1 China 2 South Korea 3 Japan 4 Philippines 5 Italy 6 France 7 Germany 8 Finland 9 Taiwan 10 Russia
by johnnyanmac | 2025-05-24 03:12:55+00:00
Not everyone has a home to go to. Broken families, dead families, there may no longer be room at a home, etc. Everyone's circumstances are different.

And honestly, based on some cultures, home isn't free either. The moment I got back home, I was given a few months to find work, but had to pay rent in 3 months no matter what. I was doing temp work for one month while interviews finished
by thephyber | 2025-05-24 03:13:46+00:00
iOS has features for SMS spam blocking, but all of the proactive ones require the user opt-in (not enabled-by-default).

There are 3rd party block list apps, there is an OS setting to trust the filtering of your cell provider, and you can report the sender/content of a message directly to Apple for the first message from a new sender.
by mirawelner | 2025-05-24 03:16:07+00:00
I’m still processing that this is the Ycombinator cofounder. It’s not a good thing or a bad thing - although tbh it’s better this person founded Ycombinator than say, a nepo baby which is always what I had kind of assumed. But the idea that the cofounder of Ycombinator didn’t discover their ambition until after undergrad is going to take a bit for my brain to absorb.
by thayne | 2025-05-24 03:16:50+00:00
No the author seems opposed to the idea specification of ACME, not just the implementation of the clients.

And a lot of the complaints ultimately boil down to not liking JWS. And I'm not really sure what she would have preferred there. ASN.1, which is even more complicated? Some bespoke format where implementations can't make use of existing libraries?