MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sameerds | 2025-05-30 04:21:49+00:00
> However I'd like to dig a bit deeper into the real value of this for a user of "stays with Emacs only Magit"-type.

That right there is the problem. I have been an Emacs user for decades. Magit is awesome because of Emacs, not inspite of Emacs. Whatever this person is saying, either they have not given any real thought to their own experience, or they really don't care about anything other than Magit as a piece of software that they prefer using. If it's the latter, then only that person can tell you what is so great about Magit. But that line of thought is really hard to understand and counter for a typical developer who cares about their entire coding experience and not just any one package.

> However, all those Doom users evaluating to move to "mainstream" editors, who do only minor adjustments (like options, keybindings), do they get something substantial from Magit that they can't achieve in those editors?

No. I would be very skeptical of people who make such claims.
by josephcsible | 2025-05-30 04:22:15+00:00
It's clear from the still image in the article that FSD really was not engaged in the original video. It's not just a mistake in the written report. The video provided later in the update must be from a later run of the test. And in particular, since O'Dowd got caught lying about the original, I no longer trust him, so I don't trust that the second test wasn't tampered with in a less-detectable way (e.g., messing with the car's sensors, or doctoring the new uploaded video). Especially because of the point you keep not addressing: nobody else seems to be able to reproduce this problem.
by AuryGlenz | 2025-05-30 04:23:33+00:00
My dad isn't a gambler. He invested in the stock market, but never anything like options. I've never known him to buy a lottery ticket. He's not greedy.

He is, however, pretty trusting. It took them months to get to the point where he was putting money in. I think he (naively) just trusted them. I wish he would have trusted us instead.
by AuryGlenz | 2025-05-30 04:25:39+00:00
Sure, but we all have character flaws. I'm certain if he were 10 years younger it wouldn't have happened to him. There's a reason it's almost always older people that fall for scams like these. We need better ways to protect people of a certain age - my mom looked into it and apart from going to a judge to have them rule to give us complete control over his finances there was nothing we could do. Even an FBI office people could call where they'd call/send someone out convince them to stop would go a really long way.
by listenallyall | 2025-05-30 04:26:09+00:00
I dont really buy into the businesses don't care about cost - maybe for top execs - but companies are obsessed with expense reports and accounting for every penny, reducing per diems, limiting hotel cost ceilings, booking through a specific travel agency, etc. And of course most companies are working overtime in every other department to slash costs, why would travel be spared? Being able to buy flights in bulk and save money seems like it would be highly appealing to finance managers.

Of course, there are exceptions. Governments seem to be some of the worst violators, they really do not care about costs and in many cases they egregiously throw money around for 5 star luxury hotels, first class flights, etc.
by crznthndr | 2025-05-30 04:26:58+00:00
Additional limitations if your household wages are more than $125,000

You can’t use Direct File if:

If your wages are more than $200,000 ($168,600 if you had more than one employer).

You file as Married Filing Jointly, and your spouse’s wages are more than $200,000 ($168,600 if your spouse had more than one employer).

You file as Married Filing Jointly, and you and your spouse's wages are more than $250,000.

You file as Married Filing Separately, and your wages are more than $125,000.
by iLemming | 2025-05-30 04:27:14+00:00
Now re-reading it, that entire paragraph sounds like high-horse highfalutin. I should've used a simpler tone. Emacs is not that sophisticated; it's not "a lifetime achievement" to brag about - it's a tool. Tools need mostly two things: care and use. But the choice for doing either ultimately belongs to the one who chooses to use a tool. Use whatever tools, programming languages, distros, techniques make you happy. I like mine. I'm just happy to share that feeling with people. I'm not saying my choices could make someone else happy, but they made me. I just wish I had listened sooner to someone passionate and persuasive who could tell me about how some choices can make you happier.
by duxup | 2025-05-30 04:27:39+00:00
Monitoring staff and students viewpoints and directing the school to hire, potentially fire, admit the governments prescribed people based on viewpoints has nothing to do with “declining to subsidize speech”.

If you’re a student or even random staff, you’re not likely even asking for a grant, but you are subject to having your viewpoint assessed under the system demanded by the current administration, for no reason other than the federal government demands it.

Presumably based on the letter prospective students would have to have their viewpoints assessed to make sure they have the correct viewpoints.
by anonzzzies | 2025-05-30 04:28:17+00:00
There are so many examples where all current top models just will loop forever even if you instruct them literally the code. We know many of them, but for instance in a tailwind react project with some degree of complexity (nested components), if you ask for something to scroll in it's space, it will never figure out min-h-0 even if you tell it. It will just loop forever rewriting the code adding and removing things, to the point of it just putting comments like 'This will add overflow' and writing js to force scroll, and it will never work even if you literally tell it what to do. Don't know why, all big and small models have this, and I found Gemini is currently the only model that sometimes randomly has the right idea but then still cannot resolve it. For this we went back to not using tailwind and back to global vanilla css, which I never thought I would say, is rather nice.
by somenameforme | 2025-05-30 04:28:44+00:00
I agree that those are great examples of good trade products: luxuries relatively region locked that you don't really need, but enhance quality of life. These products, if suddenly unavailable, might cause some discomfort but not much more than that.

This is, in large part, why sanctions wars are playing with fire given our current status of trade. We, with "we" being most of 'advanced' economies, export discretionary/luxury goods and import critical/core ones. Even if the discretionary goods have a far higher $ value, they really just don't matter - it's those core goods that keep the gears of a nation turning.
by AuryGlenz | 2025-05-30 04:29:16+00:00
I think in his case they simply built up trust, and made it seem incredibly casual. It's hard for me to know exactly because I wasn't super privvy to what was going on, but by the time I talked to him about it he effectively trusted them over me.

It all would have been so clearly a scam to anyone with any internet sense at all it blew my mind he would have been fooled.
by wkat4242 | 2025-05-30 04:29:29+00:00
Well yes of course there's a maximum deviation. If you're too different you won't fit in. Not a bad thing because then there's no real point in being there anyway.

That's why you have to pick the communities you engage in so you fit. You don't have to change yourself but you pick the community to suit.

It's not an assumption though. I live in a city of millions and I'm in some communities of only hundreds of people. Which thrive and even have their own places. That's the nice thing, in a city it's easy to have enough scale even to make niche communities thrive.
by 1659447091 | 2025-05-30 04:32:22+00:00
> These stories about a China-US war being imminent always come from people who personally benefit from Congress spending money.

I think it's more disinformation campaigning/fear-mongering that they are doing a very bad job at, and imo, because the very thing you stated: How exactly would China wage war with the US (besides nukes)?

You can catch it in the comments on this site sometimes; there will be a vaguely article related comment about the coming war between US and China. It's very strange/odd to run across and not subtle at all.
by pjmlp | 2025-05-30 04:32:25+00:00
On the other hand, I was once tasked to rewrite a couple of Korn shell scripts, initially written for Aix, ported to Red-Hat, into Java.

The reason being the lack of UNIX skills on the new team, and apparently it was easier to pay for the development effort.

Afterwards there were some questions about the performance decrease.

I had to patiently explain the difference between having a set of scripts orchestrating a workflow of native code applications written in C, and having the JVM do the same work, never long enough for the JIT C2 to kick in.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-30 04:32:32+00:00
A CD and MP3s consist of recorded performances. A player piano roll contains the instructions for a performance, basically a transcription of sheet music, or a recording of someone performing a work. (Didn't read court findings for scope.)

Works (sheet music and lyrics) and recordings (committing it to media or storage) and performances can be distinctly copyrighted and separately licensed. But a CD track represents all 3 of those put together through “sweat of the brow”, usually by multiple parties.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-05-30 04:32:36+00:00
Combined cycle fossil gas units can take up to 12 hours from cold start to full output, roughly 25% can be up to speed within an hour (EIA). ~7-30MW/minute.

Once through peakers can ramp faster, but are less efficient (they’re essentially jet engines bolted to the ground), and more expensive than battery storage.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=45956

https://www.lazard.com/media/xemfey0k/lazards-lcoeplus-june-...
by listenallyall | 2025-05-30 04:32:55+00:00
Yes most airlines have eliminated change fees, and rebooking isn't too difficult for business travelers. But that's not a refund, and people booking 6 to 12 months out tend to be families going on vacation or to a specific event. So if something changes, there isn't always something else to book, or at least not on that specific airline. Further, what you call "moderate" status - the lowest level - has been raised to require an enormous amount of spending on any one of the major airlines. And don't get me started with "you only need to spend 100k on their credit card..."
by try_the_bass | 2025-05-30 04:34:07+00:00
When I say "less work", I'm intentionally not specifying how the work output is measured, because, as you say, it's different for salaried vs hourly employees (and those are only the two most common forms!)

However, the point still remains! Moving the goalposts--or trying to motte-and-bailey the difference between salaried and hourly--is just intellectually dishonest, and doesn't really counter my argument at all.

If you want to refer to salaried employees specifically, then yes, "less work" means "consistently getting less done than is asked for on the timescale expected of you". But my argument still holds! This is something I've personally witnessed a handful of co-workers do. You're not wrong that it's up to employers to measure, but part of that measurement relies on trust between the employee and employer.

What you're implicitly arguing for is a complete lack of trust, which leads to an entirely different set of workplace problems
by sterlind | 2025-05-30 04:35:15+00:00
this is the first time I've heard of Christadelphianism. I looked it up, expecting it to have cult-like beliefs, but it really seems pretty unobjectionable to me. I would feel more at ease around you and your Brethren than with Presbyterians, since while you don't subscribe to universal salvation, nor do you seem to believe in Predestination or a Hell of eternal torment.
by orbital-decay | 2025-05-30 04:35:29+00:00
> adding an untrusted middleman to your information diet and all of your personal communications will eventually become a disaster that will be obvious in hindsight.

IMO it's not a particularly interesting or novel message. We're already living in the perpetual disaster of that kind. You can say this about all social and traditional media and state propaganda, and it will remain true. What really matters is the level of trust you put in that middleman. High trust leans towards peace and being manipulated. Low trust leans towards violence and freedom of thought. Yada yada.

Remembering that the actual middleman is people who are making AI, and not the AI itself, is way more important.
by fadesibert | 2025-05-30 04:35:58+00:00
A quick inspection of the article suggests there's a difference of intent.

<snip> Datoviz is a relatively low-level visualization library. It focuses on rendering visual primitives like points, lines, images, and meshes — efficiently and interactively.

Unlike libraries such as Matplotlib, Datoviz does not provide high-level plotting functions like plt.plot(), plt.scatter(), or plt.imshow(). Its goal is not to replace plotting libraries, but to serve as a powerful rendering backend for scientific graphics. </snip>
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-05-30 04:36:28+00:00
Why do they need to be male-only to solve the male loneliness epidemic? Why can't men socialize in public spaces in a way that isn't offensive to others?

I say this as a former dude who has spent the vast, vast, vast majority of my life as a man, socializing with men and not-men, in public. I have never had a single issue.
by rayiner | 2025-05-30 04:37:13+00:00
The government is declining to fund with public money what it views as a hotbed of ideology that’s contrary to the public interest to subsidize. The things you mention are remedial measures Harvard could agree to implement if it wants to show the administration that it’s changed its character into something the government does want to subsidize.

Again, this is within precedent. Universities are already required—under threat of loss of federal funds—to have a compliance framework for Title VI and IX that requires, among other things, universities to police campus speech that would be beyond the government’s authority to regulate outside of campus.
by SoftTalker | 2025-05-30 04:39:45+00:00
No women at the gym? OK it sounds obvious but you just need to get involved with things where there is female participation and not just dudes. Pottery, book clubs, hiking/biking groups, cooking groups, dance lessons, various volunteer groups, even church, etc. But it has to be stuff you're genuinely interested in regardless. Nothing will come off worse than a new guy who's clearly there just to meet women (although, women sometimes join groups to meet men also).

Let me also add, I'm a good 20 years older than you. Don't get too wired into a vision of "family" because if and when it does happen, it might not work out the way you imagine. It sure didn't for me.

Focus on being content and happy with yourself, and then worry about meeting someone.
by Disposal8433 | 2025-05-30 04:40:19+00:00
Freemasonry is hit or miss depending on who you meet and who you hangout with. Liberal freemasonry is even better IMHO because you actively work on yourself. You can choose to stay with men, be in a mixed group, and there are female only Lodges for the women who don't want to be with us stupid men.

I live in a big city where every member ends up knowing other member (male or female) even if your own Lodge is restricted to one sex. It's a lot of fun and I do believe it could be beneficial for a lot of incels.
by Gigachad | 2025-05-30 04:42:05+00:00
Think the main reason is because real estate is incredibly expensive now. To run some kind of social space and make it financially viable you need to be collecting a significant amount to pay rent and wages.

Only way I can see it working is if the government pays for social spaces. An extension of the library system but more focused on events and socialising rather than being a quiet space for reading.
by cedws | 2025-05-30 04:42:57+00:00
Introducing women to a group of men completely changes the dynamics, and vice versa. Genders have fundamental differences, and it's human nature to act differently in the presence of the other.

Consider also that men may not be willing to be themselves or be open in the presence of women. Are they not allowed to have a space for this?

A mixed gender social club inevitably gets raided by a load of dudebros who want to get laid. Keeping it men only prevents this and keeps it genuine. There's no reason women can't have something like this for themselves too you know.
by 1659447091 | 2025-05-30 04:43:54+00:00
> All things I have no control over, but they ultimately do.

What things are you referring to?

> Parents aren’t children, they’re _responsible_ for children.

Yes. You appear to be saying they should rip their children from generations of stability and possibly landing in a worse living situation for awhile as they now have to find new jobs and spent money they didn't have -- not referring to families that can afford this, but the many many who vote, yet can not afford to move and those who could move but not without incurring long lasting economical damage -- because the current group of lawmakers want to dump fracking water in the rivers? Is providing stability for children not also the responsibility of parents? How do you propose they do both at the same time?
by zerocrates | 2025-05-30 04:45:33+00:00
SEC. 112207. TASK FORCE ON THE TERMINATION OF DIRECT FILE.

(a) Termination of Direct File.—As soon as practicable, and not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall ensure that the Internal Revenue Service Direct File program has been terminated.
by unsnap_biceps | 2025-05-30 04:45:45+00:00
It's a dead program walking right now anyway, regardless of the budgeting.

> The program had been in limbo since the start of the Trump administration as Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency have slashed their way through the federal government. Musk posted in February on his social media site, X, that he had “deleted” 18F, a government agency that worked on technology projects such as Direct File.

> There was some hope that Musk, with his DOGE team of computer programmers, could take over Direct File and improve it. But the two people familiar with the decision to end Direct File said its future became clear when the IRS staff assigned to the program were told in mid-March to stop working on its development for the 2026 tax filing season.

https://apnews.com/article/irs-direct-file-tax-returns-free-...
by jcims | 2025-05-30 04:46:08+00:00
I think sending people directly to GNU Radio is a bit of a risk. Sending folks that just learned how to spell SDR deep into the bowels of DSP is a bit steep of a learning curve that many might equate with a brick wall.

A little over ten years ago (!) I got started with a windows box, sdrsharp and a cheap RTL-based SDR. Just cruising around the spectrum, clicking on signals that were interesting, cobbling together decoding pipelines and getting real results was a way better way for me. Getting started with software that works and interesting use cases you can get into with cheap hardware got me hooked and THEN I had something that I was genuinely craving an understanding of to drive me into GNU Radio.
by dzhiurgis | 2025-05-30 04:46:11+00:00
> Note that “ugly” can still be interesting, as is the case with many Eastern European cities with their brutalist Soviet apartment blocks...

As someone who grew up there... he's being generous here. I hated those buildings, extremely depressing.

> he said he was from my hotel

I've almost fell for this while in New Dehli. Friendly walk and talk until he lured into some travel agents shop proceed to sell me some trips.
by BeetleB | 2025-05-30 04:46:53+00:00
> With several sentences of prompting and an email search tool installed, Gemini was able to do something you can do with regular search by typing a word and scanning a few emails.

Indeed, but then I'd have to manually read those emails :-)

It's nice to offload that burden to an assistant. In the old days, if you were busy and had a secretary, that's precisely what you would do. This is no different.

I didn't point it out there, but I tried the same query with other people's kids, and it generally figured it out. The interesting thing is that its search strategy was different in each case.
by latentsea | 2025-05-30 04:47:30+00:00
Elephant's weigh more like 11,000lbs. I think you mean Gorilla?

Speaking of Gorillas, have you ever read the book Chimpanzee Politics? Crazy how at the end the other two chimps break into the one chimps cage and literally rip his nuts off. Crazy huh?

Oh wait... I'm doing that thing again, aren't I?
by rubenvanwyk | 2025-05-30 04:48:12+00:00
One thing none seem to notice is the rise of “Operational Warehouses” such as RisingWave or Materialize. A big ‘problem’ in OLAP, as the article mentions, is people expects aggregations or analytic views on live data. These solutions solve it. In principle, this shows that just having incrementally maintained materialised views, really goes a long way towards achieving the HTAP dream on a single DB.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-05-30 04:49:07+00:00
> Uh... robot flippers.

Prompt engineers

You are spot on with your analysis. At some point there will be nothing left for people to do except at the very top level. What happens then?

I am not optimistic enough to believe that we create a utopia for everyone. We would need to solve scarcity first, at minimum.
by reissbaker | 2025-05-30 04:49:37+00:00
In my quick experimentation for image-to-image this feels even better than GPT-4o: 4o tends to heavily weight the colors towards sepia, to the point where it's a bit of an obvious tell that the image was 4o-generated (especially with repeated edits); FLUX.1 Kontext seems to use a much wider, more colorful palette. And FLUX, at least the Max version I'm playing around with on Replicate, nails small details that 4o can miss.

I haven't played around with from-scratch generation, so I'm not sure which is best if you're trying to generate an image just from a prompt. But in terms of image-to-image via a prompt, it feels like FLUX is noticeably better.
by chinchilla2020 | 2025-05-30 04:49:55+00:00
They sort of exist and do have women in them - but there are tons of tons of men you can meet with.

Sports clubs are full of friends you can make. I'm close with alot of guys that I train with.

Try tennis, or lifting, or running, or golf. Do NOT go to DnD meetups and other low effort stuff. Exertion is what forms bonds.
by listenallyall | 2025-05-30 04:50:04+00:00
I'm torn on whether this has any potential for success but I strongly believe you chose the wrong launch cities. These are all crowded, "destination" cities with tons of people to meet and places to go, with a large urban core. I imagine people in growing cities without much of a central core and far less "personality" would desire something like this a lot more. Think Phoenix, Charlotte, Minneapolis, etc.
by amir734jj | 2025-05-30 04:50:30+00:00
I think we (hacker news community) can make a difference in dating industry by creating an open-source free to use dating app. Same quality as Hinge/Bumble but free of cost and free of algorithm manipulation. I have been thinking about it for a while. I am a software engineer but doing this requires a massive group effort. Maybe let's chat about it. amirhesamyan [at] gmail.com
by BeetleB | 2025-05-30 04:50:40+00:00
Fair concern, but:

1. This is via Gemini, and I had been using Gemini for only a few days prior to this experiment. I assure you I never mentioned anyone's name to it before this.

2. This was via API. Whether Gemini or OpenAI, they do not train/retain this kind of memory if accessed via API. 99% of my interaction with LLMs is via APIs. I don't think I've ever used the ChatGPT interface.