MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by more_corn | 2025-05-09 20:11:03+00:00
Not hard at all. His goal is to eliminate unnecessary deaths. 1) stack rank causes of unnecessary deaths (malaria, malnutrition, etc) 2) identify places where people die those deaths because nobody gives a shit about them 3) start giving a shit

In fact the acceleration seems like it’s happening because it has suddenly become far easier to identify unnecessary deaths because someone who shall remain nameless here lied about fraud in US Aid and cancelled all their funding leaving millions of people to die unnecessarily deaths.

Gates decided to step up and prevent as many of those deaths as possible in his lifetime.
by DeepSeaTortoise | 2025-05-09 20:11:23+00:00
Not really. Umberto Enco's original 14 points were alreay quite questionable, but the author of this hot take altered them beyond recognition.

There is a reason the author linked to a paywall instead of a freely available copy. Just read it yourself: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fasci...

I skipped over some points, not because they're hard to dismiss per se, but because them being intellectually honest makes them hard to dismiss.
by tombert | 2025-05-09 20:11:42+00:00
I mean, as someone who has been laid off a bunch of times (more than most people I think), I do sympathize with them. It sucks to have your income source cut off, it sucks to lose health insurance (or have to pay full freight with COBRA), it’s demoralizing to have to grovel at the feet of a bunch of potential employers for months at a time, it’s depressing to wake up to dozens of rejection emails, and it’s scary to not see an end in sight.

I wouldn’t necessarily be opposed to forcing companies to pay some amount per month to people whose jobs were automated away for N years, and/or providing job training for a new career.
by dang | 2025-05-09 20:12:06+00:00
We changed the URL from https://www.bart.gov/ to an article that provides more information about what happened. See also:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/bart-shut-down-t... (https://archive.ph/LnvJ1)

https://sfstandard.com/2025/05/09/bart-service-shuts-down-co...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/bart-train-shutdown.ht... (https://web.archive.org/web/20250509152319/https://www.nytim...)

https://abc7news.com/post/systemwide-bart-shutdown-due-train...
by oblio | 2025-05-09 20:12:32+00:00
> I read this appraisal of what "most devs" want/care about on HN frequently. Is there actually any evidence to back this up? e.g. broad surveys where most devs say they're just in it for the paycheck and don't care about the quality of their work?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

Almost every field I've ever seen is like that. Most people don't know what they're doing and hate their jobs in every field. We managed to make even the conceptually most fulfilling jobs awful (teaching, medicine, etc).
by codedokode | 2025-05-09 20:13:58+00:00
Yes the government wants to treat everyone as a possible criminal and collects fingerprints for this reason. There is absolutely no logical reason for collection of fingerprints for a driver's license. Collecting fingerprints doesn't make driving safer in any way. Making driving exam more difficult and having to take it more often would make driving safer, limiting the speed would make driving safer, but fingerprints wouldn't.
by al_borland | 2025-05-09 20:14:23+00:00
I ran across a video just the other day where Steve Jobs was talking about something very similar back in 1985[0]. It’s a compelling use case for AI, if it works well.

It would be interesting to train the AI on the works of someone living, then ask the living person and the AI the same questions to judge the quality and accuracy of the answers.

From there, it may not be a far jump to allow parents to create an AI based on their personality, thought process, voice, and likeness, so once they pass their kids or grandkids could still ask for advice or have a chat. Though I wonder if this would be too close to the Mirror of Erised from Harry Potter and cause problems for people who can’t let go.

[0] https://youtu.be/YYjlCrpH2is
by tucared | 2025-05-09 20:15:12+00:00
Been using this for several weeks now and it's genuinely improved my workflow—I'm choosing it over VSCode and extensions more than half the time.

The chat for exploratory data analysis ("what can you tell me about this column I just added?"), the worksheets and column lineage are real game-changers for dbt development. These features feel purposefully designed for how I actually work.

Claire and Christophe are super responsive to feedback, implementing features and fixes quickly. You can see the product evolving in all the right directions!
by avgDev | 2025-05-09 20:15:46+00:00
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by antognini | 2025-05-09 20:16:44+00:00
For anyone interested in more serious journalism about the Church, I can't recommend The Pillar enough. The guys who run it have a lot of connections and know how the Church works inside and out. They had identified Prevost as being one of the top contenders in the days leading up to the conclave [1].

In their final "gut check" analysis, one of the two editors said his gut was going with Prevost. (Unfortunately behind a paywall, but here for reference [2].)

[1]: https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/why-prevosts-papal-prospect...

[2]: https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/conclave-day-1-head-check-h...
by bhollis | 2025-05-09 20:16:45+00:00
The flip side of technical debt is, what tools do you have to actually solve technical debt? Some technical debt comes from conscious decisions to choose an expedient solution over a long term one, but a lot of it just comes from not knowing what the future is going to bring, and not wanting to over-engineer for every possible outcome.

The question I'd ask is, shouldn't we have tools that make it super easy to change things, so we can adapt to different outcomes without it becoming a huge slog?
by abraae | 2025-05-09 20:17:21+00:00
It's the American experience that decisions are made at the executive level based on faulty intelligence, while people working at the coal face such as yourself have a much better understanding of what's really going on.

Case in point the Vietnam war, which cost thousands of lives because decisions were based on statistics from the field which had been heavily manipulated as they percolated upwards.

Right now, just as one tiny example, we see the effect of tariffs on prototyping services such as JLPCB, a chinese-based company which makes on demand printed circuit boards.

There is no way that it makes sense to dramatically increase the costs to US companies and citizens of creating PCBs which are critical components at the heart of many new products. All that will do is to drive innovation away from the gifted hacker working from his garage in Michigan, and towards countries other than the USA who can order PCBs at reasonable prices. I'll guarantee that no one understands this at the level where these decisions are made.
by vanviegen | 2025-05-09 20:17:28+00:00
> I don't dislike it

That must count for something! :-)

Re "Vue": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43937303

When running a function through `$()`, it will keep track of proxied data that was read, and of all DOM changes made. When data changes, DOM changes are reverted, and the function is rerun. As at least such a function exists for each DOM element that has children, it's pretty finegrained. Also, Aberdeen is smart about reactive iteration.

With enough transpiler magic, impossible is nothing! :-)
by simpaticoder | 2025-05-09 20:17:47+00:00
There have been several bottlenecks, the worst one was pre-homosapien (~1000 individuals for 100k years): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck.

It is remarkable to imagine that every person alive now, or that's ever been alive, is descended from this same tiny group of beings. And all of this drama occurs in a remote spec of dust orbiting and average star of an average galaxy of 100B stars, among 100B visible galaxies. Even if we had Star Trek level tech, we'd still be approximately as insignificant.
by slg | 2025-05-09 20:18:02+00:00
This question shows a fundamental misunderstanding of predicting presidential elections. There is no value in predicting New York would go blue or Alabama would go red. Most states are easy to predict and the states that are more difficult are correlated.

Especially in an election like 2024 when all the swing states went the same way, getting them all right isn't much of an accomplishment. These weren't 51 independent coin flip predictions. There was one prediction, Donald Trump would do slightly better than polling indicated (or really more accurately Harris would do worse), and the results all flowed logically downstream of that.
by yawaramin | 2025-05-09 20:18:54+00:00
So there are a couple of problems with your characterization. Firstly, your blanket assumption that people who want to avoid frontend complexity are really just frontend haters. Sure, there are some people who hate 'web shit', but there are many others, like myself, who want to build useful webapps that are as simple and performant as possible. It doesn't make us frontend haters, it just makes us different.

The second assumption where I believe you are going wrong is that 'product requirements' will always come in and force using a framework. Imho if I look around at most of the webapps I am using, very few of them actually need a SPA framework. Take Jira for example. Does it really need to be fully a SPA? It has some highly interactive parts, which could be done with eg web components, but it's mostly a boring CRUD app that would work fine with eg htmx.
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-09 20:19:32+00:00
I had a midlife/mental health crisis that caused me to discover I was a schizotype, like about 5% of the population I have just a little bit of the "thought disorder" which people with schizophrenia have. No doubt this can cause attention and executive functions for certain people who will be misdiagnosed with ADHD or that the resulting social anhedonia [1] will be misdiagnosed as Autism.

You never hear about it because there was an epic confrontation between an academic who wrote forceful monographs pushing a viewpoint that was probably less true and another who organized conferences that published tentative proceedings with no clear conclusions that might have been more true [2]... the later one so schizotypy got eaten by autism. The book by the first academic changed my life, I could have skipped past the conference proceedings over and over again dismissing them as "a bunch of psychometricians screwing around with scales had a conference, so what"

I sure as hell want to erase #ActuallyAutistic everywhere I can and replace it with #SurelySchizotypal

[1] somehow teachers and other professional adults can't see what is wrong with you but the other kids in your kindergarten class can't unsee it so you'll be a bully magnet no matter what

[2] for which "nothing more to see here move on folks" would arise to about as many people as who might wonder how posh the conference center was
by ge96 | 2025-05-09 20:20:27+00:00
It just made it more fun. There was a liquor store nearby so drive to it on the 30 minute break, pound a couple 100 proof 100ml bottles (99 Apples), back to it. That job was more fun than stow.

If you're curious can read the subreddit /r/amazonfc

They did recently start allowing you to buy their own approved headphones but before you'd get written up for being on your phone/having headphones in
by ed | 2025-05-09 20:21:10+00:00
Interesting!

> a 2023 genetic analysis discerned such a human ancestor population bottleneck of a possible 100,000 to 1000 individuals "around 930,000 and 813,000 years ago [which] lasted for about 117,000 years and brought human ancestors close to extinction."

And relatedly...

> A 2005 study from Rutgers University theorized that the pre-1492 native populations of the Americas are the descendants of only 70 individuals who crossed the land bridge between Asia and North America.

> The Neolithic Y-chromosome bottleneck refers to a period around 5000 BC where the diversity in the male y-chromosome dropped precipitously, to a level equivalent to reproduction occurring with a ratio between men and women of 1:17.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck#Humans
by yawaramin | 2025-05-09 20:21:22+00:00
> ...a web app has is just a login page, then even that alone is enough to warrant using a framework rather than doing direct DOM manipulation (or even worse, full page refreshes

Maybe, but it doesn't necessarily need to be a SPA framework though. There are simpler libraries/frameworks like htmx that considerably reduce complexity and also let you avoid direct DOM manipulation.
by walleeee | 2025-05-09 20:21:22+00:00
Transistors, plants, hands, and tables are all macroscopic. We see quantum mechanical effects, but we do not see stable superpositions. None of these real-world examples seem to shield a quantum state from decoherence in the way a quantum computer needs to. The sun demonstrates clearly that fusion is controllable (albeit in a regime we struggle to match). I don't think your examples show that a quantum state can be controlled at the scale we need it to be, and I don't know of any extant phenomena that do. But I am no expert, yell at me if I'm wrong.
by TrapLord_Rhodo | 2025-05-09 20:21:44+00:00
Waymo taxi's are always in geofenced areas with full HD maps down to the centimeter. I can't take it to tahoe like i can with my Tesla. my point is... my tesla drives itself... all the time and never have to disengage. People can shout technicalities all the time, and regulations where tesla fails because it "Doesn't have an operator that can take over" but for all intents and purposes, my car drives itself from my door to tahoe and back without me having to take over a single time.

If that's not full self driving, but waymo's geofenced, $45 for a ride down the street is, we just disagree.
by modeless | 2025-05-09 20:22:19+00:00
> There's no way to satisfy those demands and have your desired level of security

False. Google has done it with their backups. And Apple already does it too! Keychain passwords, health data, and a lot of other stuff is end-to-end encrypted in backups even when ADP is disabled, with recovery options if you lose your devices, no yubikey required. They simply choose not to apply the same solution to message data.
by rogue4gay | 2025-05-09 20:23:01+00:00
Seems like this is the perfect opportunity to "shame" google into providing access to gen 1 and gen 2 nests for those that want to do their own remote support. I asked chatGPT about this. Here was its bottom line summary. Would anyone else want to participate in a petition to request this of google. Given google is currently facing antitrust issues, now is a good time.

Target a Specific Ask: Focus on allowing basic remote control via a local or self-hosted solution, not full open-sourcing. Examples: Release a local API with secure authentication Release a Dockerized server image for basic relay control Extend cloud access via an open licensing model Find Allies: Partner with groups like iFixit, the Repair Association, or the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Reach out to smart home and privacy-focused influencers or YouTubers. Launch the Petition on the Right Platform: Change.org, iPetitions, or Action Network are common options. Consider also running a campaign through Reddit, Twitter/X, or YouTube. Provide Testimonials and Data: Show how many devices are still in use. Document how much e-waste this move could generate. Share personal stories of user frustration
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by DanhallJ25 | 2025-05-09 20:23:11+00:00
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by DeepSeaTortoise | 2025-05-09 20:23:39+00:00
> Your first list is way too broad and does not capture the particularities that makes fascism different from other kinds of dictatorship.

Fair, but tbh, I'd categorize fascism mostly by the combination of Syndicalism and the nationalist approach to overthrowing capitalism.

> The second list is obviously a ridiculous take

Yes, because this author's points were ridiculous, cut up beyond recognition to fit the author's political agenda. SmolLM-135M would have done a more decent job summing up the original 14 points speech. And even some of the points in the original speech were ridiculous. Like:

"Since even sex is a difficult game to play, the Ur-Fascist hero tends to play with weapons, doing so becomes an ersatz phallic exercise."
Show HN: A FizzBuzz challenge (with leaderboard) using LLM canvas
by micha3l9311 | 2025-05-09 20:23:45+00:00
Hi HN,

I've been working on a dead simple prompt engineering canvas that allows chaining prompts in a visual way.

I've built a product on top for creating hackerrank/leetcode style challenges where solutions compete on correctness, latency, token usage and cost.

I'm hoping the main product can become a prototyping and even production-quality tool for building prompt chains.

Perhaps the arena product will become an entry point for software engineers learning about building with LLMs and how multiple prompts work in production.

Thanks for looking,

-- Michael
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by modeless | 2025-05-09 20:24:43+00:00
ADP is overkill. Apple already end-to-end encrypts keychain passwords, health data, and other stuff even if you don't enable ADP. They need to do the same with iMessage, or otherwise they need to stop falsely advertising iMessage as a strong e2ee system when it literally uploads its encryption keys to Apple by default.

Also, even if you enable ADP Apple can likely still read the vast majority of your messages in other people's default-non-e2ee backups. The bad default is the problem here.
by rc00 | 2025-05-09 20:24:55+00:00
You should evaluate on whether it is worth insisting on Rust. Others have gone down that path and it has only ended with regret[1]. The sooner you realize that you don't have the right solution to your problem, the sooner you can start solving it correctly.

What about the crypto library affects how you would use Go to solve your problem?

1. https://deadmoney.gg/news/articles/migrating-away-from-rust
by s1artibartfast | 2025-05-09 20:25:55+00:00
The people were going to church and getting harmed and someone proposed a 5 cent wafer tax as a solution, a response that "no, people actually just need to stop going" is useful and insightful.

It points out that the tax doesn't solve the actual problem. It points out that any solution will require people not wanting to go to church. It is not a complete instructions set.

I think you are confusing use in normative statements (value judgments or opinions) with instructional statements (step by step how to).
by EvgeniyZh | 2025-05-09 20:26:19+00:00
> I agree with you, its a terrible idea to base your work on someone else's when it hasn't been well confirmed in independent research.

It's not about whether it's good or bad idea. To make follow-up experiments you need to first reproduce the original experiment. That's why faking "big" experiments like Schön could never work.

> Microsoft built so much work and spent so many resources building on top of it. It's not foundational to the entire field but it is foundational to a lot of follow-up research.

Will all due respect, a single group (even large one) doing a single type of experiments (even important and complicated one) is not a lot of research. Also, Microsoft knew about data manipulation, that why they moved the experiments in house. They didn't do experiments under assumption that the early Majorana papers are correct, then they wouldn't need to develop their own complicated (and somewhat controversial) protocol to detect Majoranas. It was quite clear for everyone that regardless of data manipulation people were too optimistic interpreting Majorana signatures in these early papers.
by quesera | 2025-05-09 20:26:55+00:00
You're right. Marketing is expensive. Distribution is cheap these days, but often the two functions are colocated.

I would even posit that many popular creative works are commercially worthless, absent the expensive marketing. And in some cases, the marketing comes first and the creative work is basically an effort to fulfill the marketing spec. Implicitly or explicitly.

But like venture capital, the entertainment industry is sustained by the huge successes, and they are motivated to overspend on every attempt. This works in VC (for founders at least) but it doesn't work well for artists.

I don't have a solution, but I wish for something that would bypass the go-big-or-go-home model while fostering organic success. (And I'm thinking of the music industry primarily. Movies and books occupy different spots on the continuum, though some of the same issues do apply.)
by arghwhat | 2025-05-09 20:27:20+00:00
I think the horses were pretty okay with not being bred into slavery.

But there's a very, very big difference between "automate dumb task with unimpressive efficiency that beats humans because humans have to pee, eat and sleep", and AI supplanting humans in society.

Robots isn't an important step in that path tbh. Intelligence is, and we still aren't close, even when throwing entire hyperscale datacenters at the problem...