MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by irthomasthomas | 2025-05-09 00:56:33+00:00
Indeed, the suffix '-oid,' when appended to nominal stems, frequently functions as a significant etymological marker, often denoting mere semblance, superficial imitation, or, with particular pertinence to the present deliberation, an inherent spuriousness or ersatz quality. Accordingly, the primordial definition of 'factoid'—a term whose coinage is frequently attributed to Norman Mailer—designates an item of information presented as if it were an established fact but which is, in reality, unverified or demonstrably fallacious, yet achieves widespread acceptance as truth through its persistent promulgation, especially within journalistic or mass media contexts. The subsequent, more contemporary construal of 'factoid' as merely signifying a 'trivial' or 'minor piece of information' represents a notable semantic deviation, a misconception whose widespread dissemination has been paradoxically facilitated by the very media channels implicated in the term's original, pejorative sense. Ergo, in a compelling instance of recursive irony, this now prevalent, albeit technically inaccurate, understanding of 'factoid' (as a diminutive datum) has itself metamorphosed into a quintessential exemplar of a 'factoid' according to its original definition: an unsubstantiated assertion that has gained popular currency through sustained, uncritical repetition.
by ipunchghosts | 2025-05-09 00:56:45+00:00
AI as defined today is brittle. I am interested in understanding the fundamentals of learning so that systems can be learn as quickly as humans and have thier same level of robustness. Such a breakthrough would have a worldwide impact.

As far as I can tell, very few places are looking into this topic area. Jeff Hawkins group is one of the few places. I would like to get involved as this area is my passion but I can't connected to funding to do so.
by malfist | 2025-05-09 00:56:56+00:00
Exactly how does one purchase $1,000 in stock of a company never listed on a stock exchange? NeXt was never public.

For the love of God, use the right tool. Portfolio back testers are a dime a dozen and easy to use and get 100% accurate answers. LLMs are the wrong tool to get investment expertise from.
by dangus | 2025-05-09 00:59:29+00:00
Here's a different argument: there's nothing to solve in relation to Chinese manufacturing.

The US "dependence" on Chinese manufacturing is not a problem at all. It's mostly just a wedge/scapegoat/distraction issue to placate constituents who have faced decades of declining general welfare due mostly to domestic policy and not trade issues.

For example, trade policy with China didn't force the government to lower taxes on the wealthy to cut public college funding (college used to be free in California, where do y'all think Silicon Valley's innovations came from?), refuse to implement single-payer universal healthcare, or refuse to address the housing affordability crisis.
by xeonmc | 2025-05-09 00:59:30+00:00
Light is therefore color, and shadow the privation of it by the removal of these rays of color, or subduction of power; and these are to be found throughout nature in the ruling principles of diurnal variations. The grey dawn, the yellow morning and red departing ray, in every changing combinations, are constantly found to be by subduction or inversion of the the rays of their tangents. -- J. M. W. Turner, 1818.

https://archive.org/details/colourinturnerpo0000gage/page/11...
by babyent | 2025-05-09 00:59:49+00:00
Looked this up I had no idea. I only watched the watchmen movie and never realized the threat was aliens like I was thinking. I thought it was Dr Manhattan being perceived as an evil guy by the general population.

I think programming people to believe there’s a credible ET threat would be kind of cool. It would never affect them, and it would be hard to prove or disprove either way. And people would rather err on the side of expansion and survival, than extinction.
by zenhuifer | 2025-05-09 01:00:42+00:00
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by igorbark | 2025-05-09 01:01:07+00:00
you don't need to send 100kb+ of JS over the wire to build a static site in react: for example https://vike.dev supports static HTML-only output for a site built with React.

as for "why React", speaking just for myself it's really nice to just have one tool that can do everything (static HTML-only, static with JS, SPA, SSR) and not have to context switch or potentially even have to split my site into two projects just because I want to hop between one or the other approach. and React has the biggest mindshare and ecosystem.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-05-09 01:03:04+00:00
>By merging them. Structs are product types. If you merge them, you get a bigger product type. You don't need inheritance (ADTs) for that.

Merging structs and inheritance are fundamentally the same thing.

>How fundamental is inheritance if it can be fully replaced by simpler building blocks?

It can't be replaced. Combining Foo and Bar in the way you're thinking involves additional primitives and concepts like nesting. If Foo and Bar share a same property the most straight forward way of handling is overriding one property with the other. Overriding IS inheritance.

We aren't dealing with product types in the purest form either. These product types have named properties and you need additional rules to handle conflicting names.

In fact once you have named properties the resulting algebra from multiplying structs is not consistent with the concept of multiplication whether you use inheritance or "object composition"
by zelphirkalt | 2025-05-09 01:03:48+00:00
I think what the GP is relating to is that we could achieve so so sooo much more, if we didn't have all the opportunistic selfish people in our midst, who will go against any worthy goal, if it means they can enrich themselves. It is about the distribution of resources to reach goals. It would be quite easy for example to ensure, that every school meets some standards, enabling children to learn well. But there are always some lobbyists lobbying against it, and some politicians working against it, because there is no short term gain to be had for their business or for themselves. Also an educated population is maybe not what every politician wants in the first place, even though we all know, that raising the general education level would be beneficial in the long run.

Or what we could achieve in terms of renewable energy, if we all were behind the goal. There are many examples that benefit society, but anti-social forces and influences are everywhere, delaying, stopping, and sabotaging our future.
by TMWNN | 2025-05-09 01:04:09+00:00
Thanks for pointing people to Area 5150. Context for others: This, and its predecessor 8088 MPH, uses every single trick in the book and many not written down anywhere to squeeze that kind of performance out of a real 1981 IBM PC 5150 with IBM CGA card. Thus they only run correctly on that specific hardware, not a clone computer or card. "Regular" software emulators also have a tough time. Showing off MartyPC with Area 5150 is thus two technical feats combined into one.
by jkaplowitz | 2025-05-09 01:04:37+00:00
Yes, there does need to be an intention to relinquish US nationality in order for US nationality to be lost. It doesn't have to be explicitly stated, but it does have to be there. If it ever needs to be disputed in court, whoever is arguing loss of citizenship (either the government or the would-be former citizen) has to prove that intent by the same standard of proof that's generally required to win a civil lawsuit, preponderance of the evidence aka more likely than not.

I agree it's not clear that accepting the papacy involves intent to relinquish, but it's not clear either way. The Department of State (at first instance) or any court who considers the matter (if a dispute arises) would normally consider the individual situation in order to conclude what they think is the intent.

In practice, if Trump and Rubio don't want an international incident, they will probably just ask the Vatican what the Pope intended and go along with that.
by AceJohnny2 | 2025-05-09 01:05:31+00:00
Tangentially, there remains a test electric car gathering {r,d}ust in one of Google's parking lots, from the early years, that I believed "belonged" to Sergey. IIRC it's at 37.417743, -122.082186

I wonder if they'll ever move it out, put it in a museum or something.
by igorbark | 2025-05-09 01:05:32+00:00
I too have had to use Next but didn't want to feel locked into Vercel.

this is the biggest effort I'm aware to run Next with a full-ish feature set outside of Vercel: https://opennext.js.org/. Supports AWS, Cloudflare, and Netlify. You can also run Next as a normal node webserver. I've only used the Cloudflare integration and it was a bit janky but worked (and seems to be entering 1.0 soon so may be less janky).

AFAIK this is completely unsupported by the Next team, but would love to be proven wrong!
by duxup | 2025-05-09 01:06:41+00:00
My first real job my boss told me "Everyone fucks up, it's ok, when you do your first big fuck up... just be honest, and tell me."

3 years later I accidentally took down all the ATMs for one of the largest consumer banks in America for a while in the middle of the night.

My boss came in "Hey you finally did it, you took longer than most, but that was a good one!" and that was all that was ever said about it.
by mgraczyk | 2025-05-09 01:06:48+00:00
It's not a myth at all, off the top of my head I know of at least two cases studies including the study that led to the discovery that remdesivir may treat polio

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10022663/

Immunocompromised hosts can shed infectious polio for their entire lives.

These outbreaks sometimes die on their own, but there's no reason to believe they wouldn't spread widely if we completely stopped vaccinating
by sillywalk | 2025-05-09 01:07:36+00:00
> what does the i80486 processor not do that newer processors do

TSC (time stamp counter) and CX8 (CMPXCHG8B) hardware support"[0][1]

I don't know what these processor features actually do. Also from [0] it looks like it is also removing the floating point emulation code for CPUs without hardware floating point support e.g. 486-SX

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250425084216.3913608-1-mingo@...

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-RFC-Remove-i486-Early-58...
by CrazyStat | 2025-05-09 01:08:31+00:00
FractalU isn't a school. It doesn't need to keep records, comply with miles of state regulations (employee and volunteer background checks, record keeping, mandatory exams, ...). It doesn't need to be able to demonstrate to other schools (or universities) what the students achieved. It doesn't need to demonstrate to the state that it's actually teaching the students something. It doesn't handle any money, so it doesn't need an accountant. It doesn't employ anyone. It doesn't need to worry about firing anyone.

My kids attended a small co-op school when they were young--5 employees (4 teachers + "director" who was mostly a floating assistant/substitute), everything else handled by parent volunteers. There's really an enormous amount of administrative overhead.

FractalU doesn't have any of that because it's not actually a school.
Show HN: AI-powered batch photo editor for real estate photographers
by kibet | 2025-05-09 01:08:50+00:00
I got tired of repetitive editing tasks, so I built a tool that simplifies bulk edits using text prompts and AI workflows.

Now I can quickly handle things like virtual staging, changing backgrounds, adding/removing objects, adjusting brightness and exposure, color corrections, boosting contrast and clarity, fixing distortions, batch color grading and much more!

But most importantly, I can do this to all selected images, tens, hundreds or more.

I'm particularly interested in feedback on the workflow and UI from photographers/editors who handle large volumes of images.

I've increased the free plan credits to 40 so you can edit up to 40 images, if you'd like to help me trial it out.

Otherwise I'm happy to answer any questions about the implementation or roadmap.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-05-09 01:10:21+00:00
What a pleasant README:)

I know this is (quite explicitly) targeting a rather specific usecase, but I wonder if it could also have value in terrestrial security measures; even truly accidental bit flips are a problem even on the ground (with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitsquatting as perhaps the best example), but it looks like this would probably protect against intentional ex. rowhammer. At the very tiny cost of 200-300% overhead, of course:)

Also, a nitpick:

sim::RadiationEnvironment env = sim::createEnvironment("LEO");

Is that a stringly-typed enum? Is that not... unidiomatic?
by vel0city | 2025-05-09 01:10:52+00:00
If you get an employer match on 401k/HSA, the employer pays full healthcare premium, employer sponsored life insurance benefits, unemployment insurance, employer covered disability, payroll taxes, and all the other software costs, it wouldn't even take $200k in salary to cost $20k/mo. Someone could be making like $150k and still cost the company that much.
by jkaplowitz | 2025-05-09 01:10:53+00:00
Depends on what the Pope himself wants, I imagine. Not every head of state or head of government wants to hold foreign citizenship.

Two examples from Canada: former Governor General Michaëlle Jean, who represented the Canadian monarch in Canada for day-to-day head of state duties, renounced her French citizenship when before becoming Governor General; and current Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney renounced his British and Irish citizenships before becoming Prime Minister. Neither renunciation was required according to law or constitutional convention, but they both wanted to remove any question as to their allegiance.
by owebmaster | 2025-05-09 01:11:46+00:00
> you don't need to send 100kb+ of JS over the wire to build a static site in react

It is telling that the blog of the fw creator ships 500kb of JS/CSS/HTML to display text on a screen.

> it's really nice to just have one tool that can do everything (static HTML-only, static with JS, SPA, SSR)

WebComponents (+lit-html)
by njdas | 2025-05-09 01:15:19+00:00
There is a major important nuance. It is just some people, who happen to control the government (ie: use of force) to achieve their ends. "The people" are diverse and have different opinions, and the "government" represents a small portion of them. I've certainly donated to charitable organizations that are not my friends, but have a proven track record of effectively using money for specific goals. The government rarely meets this criteria.
by Jotalea | 2025-05-09 01:16:15+00:00
The attention to detail, animations, visual effects in general, in HarmonyOS NEXT; could easily surpass (or at the very least, compete with) Apple's iOS and macOS.

It's pretty sad that they won't be launching globally, and since, these devices will not be available in my country (or in case they are, they'll be insanely expensive, at the point where they will not be worth it anymore).
by _aavaa_ | 2025-05-09 01:16:20+00:00
In addition to this, the nuclear plant also needs both major component replacements and refurbishments over it's life, and then decommissioning at end of life, neither of which are cheap or accounted for in the sticker price.

Do you know if there's enough of a market yet for battery recycling at utility scale, and if they pay you to get the old battery?
by pfdietz | 2025-05-09 01:16:33+00:00
> ITER is NOT designed for power generation. It's essentially a lab experiment to see how plasma behaves in magnetic confinement and test various technologies.

That's the go-to excuse. But if you look at DEMO, it's power density is not enormously greater. ITER is so far out of the running that DEMO (or PROTO, etc.) will be too.

We're learning a great deal about something that's largely irrelevant.
by winrid | 2025-05-09 01:17:31+00:00
"Ensure all our crons publish to telegraf when they start and finish. Include the cron name and tenant id when applicable. For crons that query batch jobs, only publish and take a lock when there is work to do. look at <snip> as an example. Here is the complete list to migrate. Create a todo list and continue until done. <insert list of 40 file paths>"

(updated for better example)
by jamesfinlayson | 2025-05-09 01:18:04+00:00
Yep, I remember working at a place where one team churned out a large majority of the microservices and the other three teams just kept on doing their thing.

The microservice team were especially terrible because the did all the initial work and basked in the "glory", but when it came to maintaining the services, they wanted nothing to do with it.
by roenxi | 2025-05-09 01:18:05+00:00
The attitude is a dangerously rose-tinted view of war, the US was operating internment camps for US citizens of Japanese descent you know. In a war, dissent is quashed. That doesn't mean that it isn't there, just that there is a high tolerance for sub-optimal decisions because there isn't time to ruminate.

The US isn't getting poor outcomes from their manufacturing sector because people are divided, but because the US has policies tending towards deindustrialisation and there is a broad political consensus to keep them. Ban the smokestacks, ban the smokestack economy and enjoy the clean air.
by krackers | 2025-05-09 01:21:08+00:00
It fits Apple's modus operandi to enforce things UI/UX wise, I assume in this case they don't want end-apps to be able to bypass the compositor (and e.g. prevent alerts from showing on the screen or whatnot).

They used to allow it, but they removed the API after 10.6

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Gr...

I guess on modern macOS CGDisplayCapture() is the closest example that still works (although clearly there is still some compositing going on since the orange-dot microphone indicator still appears, and you can get the dock to appear over it if you activate mission control. I'm guessing it does the equivalent of a full-screen window but then tries to lock input somehow).
by kashunstva | 2025-05-09 01:21:38+00:00
> he is not "completely" American

As for being completely American: dual citizen of U.S. and another country here. On each April 15, the U.S. still considers me completely American even though I haven’t earned a cent there in over a decade. So in an official sense, that moniker sticks to you like Super Glue.

Granted, the new pope may have a wider scope of cultural influences than many, if not a majority of Americans, it sounds like his formative years were spent in the U.S. so I’d call him American.
by blooalien | 2025-05-09 01:22:03+00:00
The way things are going here on Earth (thanks in part to Musk and "Glorious Leader" Trump), we ain't makin' it to Mars before global resource wars completely cripple all our scientific aspirations, including becoming a "space-faring" species. It's all wasted effort at this point, because nobody seems willing to do what it's gonna take to ensure that humanity has any future at all.
by api | 2025-05-09 01:22:10+00:00
If we ever hit a point where nobody is talking about America being in decline, that will mean we are entering decline.

I do think we’ve been in a down period when it comes to politics for a while but I am mid to long term optimistic about things getting better. This is not the first time we’ve had crazy massively divisive politics or populist crackpottery. Overall I do not think we are in any kind of terminal decline.

What is happening is that other countries are rising. I think that’s good for us. When America was the only superpower it made us lazy and foolish.

Look at how it works out in the corporate world. Take Intel for instance. They had a near monopoly for about a decade on top performing CPUs and it destroyed the company. Google carved out a monopoly on search and they are complete trash now. Pride cometh before a fall because pride causes the fall.
by SafeDusk | 2025-05-09 01:22:16+00:00
I've used both Cursor and Aider but I've always wanted something simple that I have full control on, if not just to understand how they work. So I made a minimal coding agent (with edit capability) that is fully functional using only seven tools: read, write, diff, browse, command, ask, and think.

I can just disable `ask` tool for example to have it easily go full autonomous on certain tasks.

Have a look at https://github.com/aperoc/toolkami to see if it might be useful for you.
by disambiguation | 2025-05-09 01:24:06+00:00
Good take, but while we're invoking intuition, something is clearly missing in the fundamental design given real brains don't need to consume all the worlds literature before demonstrating intelligence. There's some missing piece w.r.t self learning and sense making. The path to emergent reasoning you lay out is interesting and might happen anyway as we scale up, but the original idea was to model these algorithms in our own image in the first place - I wonder if we won't discover that missing piece first.
by scarface_74 | 2025-05-09 01:24:11+00:00
I agree. But how did like not being able to click on “Buy Book” from the Kindle app until three days ago when the court forced them?

How do you like all of the ads in the App Store and they are thinking about adding more?

How did you like having an 8GB MacBook and the overpriced upgrades until Apple Intelligence forced them to have 16GB minimum?

How did you like being stuck with Lightning ports until the EU forced them?

And the malicious compliance in the EU.
by SafeDusk | 2025-05-09 01:26:36+00:00
Changing my old coding behavior aside, biggest limiting factor for me is understanding how and why the coding agent is doing this a certain way, so that I have the confidence to continually sharpen my tools.

I want something simple that I have full control on, if not just to understand how they work. So I made a minimal coding agent (with edit capability) that is fully functional using only seven tools: read, write, diff, browse, command, ask, and think.

As an example, I can just disable `ask` tool to have it easily go full autonomous on certain tasks. Or, ask it to `think` for refactoring.

Have a look at https://github.com/aperoc/toolkami to see if it might be useful for you.
by bigyabai | 2025-05-09 01:27:24+00:00
My armchair admiral perspective is that this validates the missile-first doctrine we've seen emphasized for modern air combat. India's got the Rafale and Su-30, two powerful and maneuverable fighters that are both twin-engine combatants. By comparison, the J-10 and JF-17 are both single-engine fighters that are slower and rely on better missiles and powerful AESA radar to engage opponents. Pakistan's success seemingly validates the focus on missile technology and light fighters, but it's honestly too early to say for sure.

Price is a bit harder to call and it varies over time, but suffice to say a single-engine aircraft is typically cheaper than a twin-engine fighter. Estimated cost of a modern J-10 is ~$40 million USD, whereas Su-30 is estimated to be more in the $60 million range (and Rafale estimated at $100+ million).
by xiaohanyu | 2025-05-09 01:27:55+00:00
Actually I am planning to integrate AI to generate this kind of YAML first and then convert it to PDF.

The idea:

1. apply strict schema validation to YAML so AI won't generate wrong/invalid data 2. write prompt to AI help people generate a sample YAMLResume 3. adopt AI to parse existing PDF or images and convert it to YAMLResume format