MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yupitsme123 | 2025-05-23 19:33:04+00:00
NYC lives on the fumes of its former reputation. Corporate chains have changed the city into basically a shopping mall.

When I was a kid I was drawn to NYC by the little hole in the wall restaurants, delis, coffee shops, funky stores. All owned and frequented by colorful local people. Technically these things still exist but they're mostly corporate chain versions of what used to be there. The unique experiences that the city still has to offer are too expensive and exclusive to be accessible.

Ironically, if I want unique food or local weirdness nowadays, I can find more of it in my lame hometown than I can in most cities.
by BurningFrog | 2025-05-23 19:33:31+00:00
Photosynthesis breaks up CO₂ and H₂O molecules to make O₂ and C₆H₁₂O₆ (glucose).

I don't know how often the average water CO₂/H₂O molecule gets dismantled this way, but there can't be many left since 44 BC.
by joshstrange | 2025-05-23 19:33:56+00:00
Oh, they paid up [0], maybe not enough but they did pay.

[0] https://www.axios.com/2025/01/03/tim-cook-apple-donate-1-mil... - nb4: Tim Cook = Apple for the purposes of this. I'm "he" donated to give Apple a firewall and a way to disown it when he retires (or hopefully is let go sooner).
by benjaminoakes | 2025-05-23 19:34:34+00:00
I'm glad people are mentioning Wallabag. It's open source and self-hostable, so it's not as likely to disappear on you. If you don't want to bother with self-hosting, there are some hosted options available: https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag/wiki/wallabag-ecosystem...

I've run Wallabag before but stopped around the time my son was born so I'd have more time to take care of him. And... I switched to Pocket. Oh well! I guess I'll switch back now, probably for good.
by throwanem | 2025-05-23 19:34:52+00:00
The short version is that you have this entirely backward and the "rationalizing" you describe not only remakes the world but does so by means of gruesome violence, and it is no accident the twitchy, haunted neurotics who attached their numericalizing madness to the Red Terror, had to go to such hideous lengths to get themselves taken at all seriously. We are not required to do the same two hundred years on, simply because they happen to have been on the side that wrote the history.

The long version is Seeing Like a State.
by rurp | 2025-05-23 19:35:10+00:00
Who on earth has the resources to create true AGI and is interested in using it to create this sort of utopia for the masses?

If AGI is created it is most likely to be guided by someone like Altman or Musk, people whose interests couldn't be farther from what you describe. They want to make themselves gods and couldn't care less about random plebs.

If AGI is setting its own principles then I fail to see why it would care about us at all. Maybe we'll be amusing as pets but I expect a superhuman intelligence will treat us like we treat ants.
by libraryatnight | 2025-05-23 19:35:21+00:00
Genuine question from someone ignorant about that ignorance: I'm aware of some desire for Quebec independence, I'd never heard of similar for Alberta. Is it extra propaganda value to stoke the independence movement somewhere it's less prevalent in hopes it riles up the area where it already is more pronounced? Assuming it is more pronounced - as I am not well informed on Canadian politics.
by FpUser | 2025-05-23 19:35:28+00:00
If Alberta wants to separate to be on their own it is a lunacy. They will gain nothing in the end.

I suspect that in reality there is a plan to just simply sell it to the US - separate first and then join the US later. I bet some politicians on either side of a border are actively involved. They should be fucking quartered.

In the US states can not secede. I wish it was the same in Canada. Except couple of borderline cases splitting a country is never good idea.
by zoogeny | 2025-05-23 19:35:45+00:00
I'm not sure I understand your objection. You seem to imply that knowing the context is the same as knowing the solution to the problem the context provides?

Let me think of an example here. Context needed to determine if there is cancer in a radiology scan would be the contents of the scan. So there are two modes here, one I say "LLM please tell me if there is cancer in this patients scan" and the LLM makes an MCP call to load the patients report. The second mode is I say "LLM, here is the patients radiology scan, can you tell me if it has signs of cancer".

The first example is what I was calling a "pull" model and the second example is what I am calling a "push" model.
by viccis | 2025-05-23 19:35:56+00:00
Well yes, it's not a brilliant observation that in the US you are given the option to work at around $15-30k a year ($17/hr part time is going to wind up around there) and use that money to fund an impoverished lifestyle.

"Why aren't more kids embracing a life of poverty? How dare they ask for anything better in a country that produces more wealth than any other?"
by pixl97 | 2025-05-23 19:36:01+00:00
>As you can see these policies did nothing.

Yea, if we didn't reduce energy usage in the US the global average would be far higher than it is now. Those factories would have moved out of the US anyway due to labor costs, and higher energy costs. Efficiency in energy production lowers costs. You're probably not old enough to remember how damned bad pollution in the US used to be.

Burning bunker fuel on large ships is insanely efficient per km traveled. Mostly because the amount of material on said ships is staggering.

Also, we've raised those countries overseas out of poverty. We are talking about billions of people. World wide CO2 usage increased because more of the world walked away from farming dirt and is now producing useful economic product.
by lubujackson | 2025-05-23 19:37:59+00:00
"Immune to rejection" and "consider all criticism" are both useful but much, much harder than doing one or the other reliably. Lots of assholes are immune to rejection and a lot of doormats consider all criticism. Doing both means you keep your ears open but are resolute (and maybe delusional) about a few core ideals. And maybe even those change with criticism.

There is a reason you see lots of asshole business owners and not many doormats, though - you need to filter criticism or it will always screw you up in the end. Accepting criticism can help you course-correct and produce better/happier, but isn't a requirement for success.
by kemotep | 2025-05-23 19:38:20+00:00
I could live in my hometown, rent a studio apartment, have an iPhone and a car, and work at the pizza place like I was 23 again.

Have more amenities, not live in a shack, and sure it would cost 4x more per month but certainly not as decadent as the author claims living in “the city” (read city of 25,000 more than an hour away from anything larger) is.
by wenc | 2025-05-23 19:39:10+00:00
You can already do that. I run VS Code on multiple monitors.

Any tab called be pulled into its own window and moved to a different screen.

Even the terminal panel can be popped out into a tab or panel or window. (The UI is not obvious but once you see it you can’t unsee it)

It’s pretty cool to have the code and terminal side by side in the editor window. (Of course this was always possible with emacs)
by mystified5016 | 2025-05-23 19:39:46+00:00
> Everything seems to be designed to maximize 'user engagement'

That's precisely what it is. Pointless middle managers will do anything to juice their engagement numbers and get that promotion. Microsoft as a whole considers customers a resource to be exploited. The subjective experience of users is not even a point of discussion because metrics "prove" that users love copilot popups every fifteen seconds.
Steal this idea: Re-insuring usage-based SaaS billing so buyers pay a flat fee
by cjcjameson | 2025-05-23 19:42:32+00:00
I have ideas for startups from time-to-time... and ideas are a dime a dozen. So I thought I might share one and see if someone wants to rip it off (or point out if someone's already doing it)

Lots of big SaaS/B2B/Data vendors have swung to usage-based pricing. Starting with the databases themselves, charging per query, then everyone got inspired and wanted to act like the cloud providers and Snowflakes/Databricks of the world.

Some providers, there's no going back... there's no way they'd offer flat-rate pricing themselves. But what if a customer wants to buy "all you can eat"? Enter ... a "reinsurance" opportunity (maybe this is just insurance).

It's an ISV play, where you specialize in the actuary of "how much more would X spend on Databricks if it were unlimited for their company" ... offer to charge them a bulk fee, find the buyers who think they want to go wide & big.

Win on the margins. Handle risk in various ways; pay off to some amount of abuse.

To get validation, would you want to see a vibe-coded "coming soon" waitlist-email-gathering page? A small demo? person-to-person outreach and one initial customer?
by hollerith | 2025-05-23 19:42:51+00:00
The OP says that electricity there "presently sells for just $0.04/kwh". If it were just me living there, I'd heat one room with electricity just for the sheer convenience (and lack of toxicity from combustion products) and keep the rest of the house unheated. (Yes, I'd probably have to make alterations to make sure the pipes don't freeze.)

And I'd use a heated vest.
by pixl97 | 2025-05-23 19:43:10+00:00
Pretty useless in this case if I control the stream going to you. The main page defining the integrity would have to be encrypted.

Maybe you could have a mixed use case page in the browser where you had your secure context, then a sub context of unencrypted protected objects, that could possibly increase caching. With that said, looks like another fun hole browser makers would be chasing every year or so.
by dumdedum123 | 2025-05-23 19:43:48+00:00
Exactly. I know him and like him. He is a genius programmer for sure BUT people forget that the last successful product that he released was Doom 3 over 20 years ago. Armadillo was a failure and Oculus went nowhere.

He's also admitted he doesn't have much of math chops, which you need if you want to make a dent in AI. (Although the same could have been said of 3D graphics when he did Wolfenstein and Doom, so perhaps he'll surprise us)

I wish him well TBH
by Tiktaalik | 2025-05-23 19:43:50+00:00
Alberta on as its own independent state would be net worse off in that they'd be a landlocked state and this would not at all directly advance their goals of getting more of their oil product to tidewater, one of their main political grievances. British Columbia would still oppose further oil pipelines to its coast for the same reasons it has always opposed them and in fact it would become politically easier for Canada to deny such access.

So the only viable outcome really is American annexation. (Additionally not advancing the Albertan grievance of only selling oil to one customer...)
by gwd | 2025-05-23 19:44:11+00:00
> Terms like chancery, Michaelmas, Lincoln's Inn Court, Lord Chancellor, etc, are a foreign language to an American but pretty obvious to an educated Brit in London, especially if they have familiarity with the court system.

This was a kind of frustrating part of the article. Not catching the reference to the flood, or the age of the dinosaurs is pretty shocking. But not knowing what Lincoln's Inn Hall is?

They seemed to expect the kids to look up every word they didn't know. Which, if they were being paid to do a professional translation that was going to be published somewhere, would be a legit expectation. Expecting people donating their time for a study... not so much.
by yupitsme123 | 2025-05-23 19:44:18+00:00
The communities that they lived in were more self-sufficient and probably lived outside of the influence of large government or corporations or lobbying groups.

The flourishing town probably grew that way organically, not because of government support or because some company opened a big facility there.

It's true that land is more expensive now, but even if you could buy your own town and settle people on it, organic growth is basically illegal or impossible nowadays.
by palmotea | 2025-05-23 19:44:21+00:00
> Albertans certainly feel a distinct identity within their province, but that doesn't map to a prior nation, state, or other entity that could be considered coequal with Canada. It's more like a child suing for emancipation from their parent. Their entire identity was created within the Canadian context.

Your analysis is too legalistic. You could have said the same thing about the US, pre-1776, and you'd have missed (or been trying to gaslight away) the elephant in the room. Nations and identities can form on their own, brand new, and don't require an appeal to some prior legal entity.

> Alberta was created within Canada by subdividing what was then the Northwest Territories, already part of Canada. ... Who knows what effect that will have on separation if it comes to pass, but you can't really analogize separation to secession by a U.S. state.

I believe you could say the same of many of the Southern states that suceeded during the civil war (e.g. Alabama and Mississippi were created within the US by Congress, out of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Territory).
by godelski | 2025-05-23 19:44:46+00:00
> not vulnerable to Goodhart's Law/Curse

I'm going to need some good citations on that one.

CEV does not resolve Goodhart's Law. I'm really not sure you even can!

Let me give a really basic example to show you how something you might assume is perfectly aligned actually isn't.

Suppose you want to determine how long your pen is. You grab out your ruler and measure it, right? It's 150 mm, right? Well... no... That's at least +/- 1mm. But that's according to the ruler. How good is your ruler? What's the +/- value from an actual meter? Is it consistently spaced along the graduations? Wait, did you mean clicker open or closed? That's at least a few mm difference.

If you doubt me, go grab as many rulers and measuring devices as you can find. I'm sure you'll find differences. I know in my house I have 4 rulers and none of them are identical to 250um. It's easy to even see the differences between them, though they are pretty close and good enough for any task I'm actually using them for. But if you wanted me to maximize the pen's size, you can bet I'm not going to randomly pick a rule... I'm going to pick a very specific one... Because what are my other options? I can't make the pen any bigger without making an entirely new one or without controlling spacetime.

The point is that this is a trivial measurement where we take everything for granted, yet the measurement isn't perfectly aligned with the intent of the measurement. We can't even do this fundamentally with something as well defined as a meter! The physics will get in the way and we'd have to spend exorbitant amounts of money to get down to the nm scale. These are small amounts of misalignment and frankly, they don't matter for most purposes. But they do matter based on the context. It is why when engineers design parts it is critical to include tolerances. Without them, you haven't actually defined a measurement!

So start extrapolating this. How do you measure to determine "what is a cat"? How do you measure happiness? How do you measure any of that stuff? Even the warped wooden meter stick you see in every Elementary School classroom provides a more well defined measurement than any tool we have for these things!

We're not even capable of determining how misaligned we are!

And that was the point of my earlier post. These are the same thing! What do you think the engineering challenges are?! You're talking about a big problem and complaining that we are breaking it down into smaller workable components. How else do you expect us to fix the big problem? It isn't going to happen through magic. It happens by factorizing it into key components, that can be more easily understood by themselves where then we can work back up by adding complexity. We're sure not going to solve the massively complicated problem if we aren't allowed to try to solve the overly simple naive versions first.
by fsckboy | 2025-05-23 19:45:31+00:00
i find being warned in advance a most convenient way to avoid hitting the bridge, and if the walkways are already installed in the right place to put the bales, why that's a very convenient place to put them. if the walkways were the same height as the bridge, it would not afford that convenience because then the footbridges would themselves be the obstruction you're in danger of hitting, which would be most inconvenient.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-05-23 19:45:49+00:00
> if you allow an API over HTTP, you're allowing that API to any attacker.

In the scenario I described you're doing that only after the user has explicitly opted in on a case by case basis, and you're forcing a per-session nag on them in order to coerce mainstream website operators to adopt the secure default.

At that point it's functionally slightly more obtuse than adding an exception for a certificate (because those are persistent). Rejecting the latter on the basis of security is adopting a position that no amount of user discretion is acceptable. At least personally I'm comfortable disagreeing with that.

More generally, I support secure defaults but almost invariably disagree with disallowing users to shoot themselves in the foot. As an example, I expect a stern warning if I attempt to uninstall my kernel but I also expect the software on my device to do exactly what I tell it to 100% of the time regardless of what the developers might have thought was best for me.
by ChemSpider | 2025-05-23 19:45:59+00:00
"it is the exact contract in force for May 2025." - No, it is not. That is your mistaken thinking.

In 2025, TV-L 13 starts with 4629€ a month and goes up to 6580€ (= 78K€+), depending on experience.

Indded, the raw tax difference is substantial. But the social benefits, health insurance, vacation days,... need to be considered for a complete comparison. But that was never the topic of discussion.
by garrickvanburen | 2025-05-23 19:46:01+00:00
I've got a slightly different philosophy.

A calendar is for storing commitments, and a specific date/time is part of that commitment.

I consider a 'to do list' a 'to schedule list', they are potential commitments.

From my perspective, a thing is either a commitment (on the calendar) or not (essentially in a backlog).
by jszymborski | 2025-05-23 19:46:30+00:00
DISCLAIMER: This is from the perspective of a Quebecker, not an Albertan.

Alberta separatism is something that has been floated at various points in the zeitgeist, but for many, many reasons[0], I have mostly heard it spoken about unseriously by all but few on the fringe.

The Quebec sovereignty movement came on the wings of the Quiet Revolution[1] which had critical mass and large support from the francophone population which made up the vast majority of the province.

[0] It's unpopularity among alberans and impracticality as a landlocked province, being chief among them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet_Revolution
by franktankbank | 2025-05-23 19:46:39+00:00
> People making accounts so they can talk about their work is one of the best reasons for people to make an account and a big part of what makes HN threads interesting.

Uhuh but coming in to give bad legal advice as your first comment for the benefit of the largest most litigious corp on the planet, is that what makes HN threads interesting?

> That seems like the opposite of assuming good faith.

That wasn't a statement towards the individual. That was a statement of what could befall someone who took their advice.
by neom | 2025-05-23 19:47:36+00:00
30 October 1995 was the day Canada almost tore itself in half[1]. Within hours of the vote capital started to exits, the banks shut down domestic FX trading to stop the bleeding, the loonie slumped, and Quebec-listed stocks went to shit.[2] ofc, ottawa responds by slashing transfers and public spending in the 1995-97 budgets. [3]They literally said, very loudly to province “do more with less.” Health care, social services, and infrastructure entered a period of massive of under investment, while provinces raised tuition, tolls, and property taxes to plug the gap. That all started the Clarity Act fight[4].

As a Canadian, I left Canada because my countrymen insist on shooting us in the foot, mostly in my opinion, because Canadians don't have enough to worry about on average. It seems we are hell bend on continuing the trend. It seems Canadians will do anything to avoid building a cohesive country... 30 October 1995 flipped Canada from build mode to the fetal position, and we're still in it.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Quebec_referendum

[2]https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=841344

[3]https://thewalrus.ca/betting-on-separation/

[4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarity_Act
by klimeryk | 2025-05-23 19:47:48+00:00
Nice, TIL! I knew ReMarkable stored the written notes in a special file, but it sounded a bit hacky, so I did not want to touch that. Good to see someone managed to make it work! I'll have to look into it, thanks!

Edit: tracking here: https://github.com/klimeryk/recalendar.js/issues/23#issuecom...
by hbn | 2025-05-23 19:48:15+00:00
Just today I've been dealing with an issue trying to update an XML column because the XML I'm trying to insert was escaping the string in the update query.

But with DataGrip I could just pull the row I was interested and paste in the string from the UI.

Surely there's another workaround that wouldn't involve a UI but this made it pretty easy.
by Teever | 2025-05-23 19:48:32+00:00
I'm a bit busy at the moment so my comment will be in point form.

* Tying personal identity to a commodity which has a price that experiences guaranteed and radical fluctuations.

* Being the only province that doesn't have a provincial sales tax to provide some sort of stability to the provincial budget.

* Perpetually voting conservative at a provincial and federal level regardless of what that those policies those parties propose and enact, or the corruption that they blatantly practice.

* Embracing an 'us or them' mentality in all things, being unwilling to compromise or work with people viewed as outsiders. Any push back from outsiders leaders to Albertan leaders feigning moral injury in a way that would make a soccer player at the world cup blush.

* Letting oil companies act with impunity (orphaned wells, policies to hobble wind and solar)

* Always reactive -- never proactive. “Please God, give me one more oil boom. I promise not to piss it all away next time.”

* Bizarre centre of the universe thinking that ultimately stems from an insecurity of realizing that it's not and never will be and not being able to accept that it's okay.

* Head in the sand mentality w.r.t. climate change and therefore no planning for long term water sources for southern Alberta.
by parpfish | 2025-05-23 19:48:52+00:00
i think its interesting that for so many college kids, the post-graduation options that continue to provide tracks are also treated as the more "prestigious" options (go to grad school. work at big3/faang, etc).

it's not because they are any more prestigious or important, but because they provide a clear sense of achievement/external validation and kids that make it to the end of college are kids that have had decades of achievement/external validation being their primary measure of success.

and because of that, those places do an amazing job recruiting. i remember toward the end of my undergrad days there was huge sense of competition to get a "teach for america" position, even among folks with no interest in education. it was appealing simply because it was selective and provided a clear framework for 'next steps'.