MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ferguess_k | 2025-05-29 16:50:49+00:00
Yes, I do have serious concerns.

About kids and AI:

I believe that AI is going to kill a large percentage of entry level office jobs in the next 5-10 years. Some physical jobs too, maybe, for example robots for simple manual jobs in restricted areas. Right now all great powers are racing towards the next stage of AI without even thinking about the consequence, because they are scared that someone else might get the ultimate weapon first. What if X manages to push out some AI powered Drone fighter plane swarm before the other countries? What if Y manages to automate certain physical jobs and massively cut down costs and improves efficiency (like the ports)? The consequences are of secondary, if any concern.

It's similar to trains replacing wagons, but on a much, much broader front, and happens much much faster. I have said this before and I say it again: Anyone who is NOT 1) A John Carmack level programmer, or 2) Financially free (and financially free for their kids if any), should NEVER actively participate in any activity to integrate AI into their work. It's fine to USE AI, but it is bad to INTEGRATE AI. AI doesn't do much if you don't integrate it properly.

About industrialization, or de-industrialization:

Well I don't see any politician can reverse that, at least in North America. The 40 years or so of globalization has raised not one, but two generations of politicians, bankers and workers who are well adapted into the reality. What? You got laid off because the factory got moved to China/Mexico/Indonesia/etc.? Tough luck buddy, no one cares about you. If you want to reverse the trend, I'm very sorry, but you have to have a clean slate to even start with. That means a lot of bad things. A lot of political in fights. A lot of economical ups and downs (mostly downs). A lot of assassinations perhaps.

And you know what -- it's still going to fail, and eventually everyone calls for wars. Why did we have the second World War? Hitler didn't single-handedly push the German people into a bloody war. They got pushed by the Great depression and the badly managed Weimar republic! Now I feel that we are not too far away from the next war, which might be the final one. And by then everyone, everyone from the West and the East, are going to call for wars, because it's a lot easier to go into wars than going into a true reform/revolution.
by 1-more | 2025-05-29 16:51:23+00:00
> The closest science has gotten was to actually corroborate that, yes, this was all not infinite and had a starting point (big bang), literally corroborated let there be light.

Georges Lemaître, one of the original articulators of the Big Bang was a Catholic priest. He did not appreciate Pope Pius XII characterizing his research as confirming "let there be light." There are many references to criticism he received for publishing a theory that meshed well with "let there be light," however I am not able to find any primary sources for them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre#Views_on...
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-29 16:51:38+00:00
> If the Bible was written by an omniscient and all-powerful God, then why does it have so many inaccuracies in it?

This would be a very good gotcha for a religion that believed the Bible was written by God (or at least dictated verbatim) and that it was intended to be a purely literal factual account, neither of which are majority positions within Christian theology (Fundamentalism, in which close approximations of both are important defining beliefs, being a relatively new movement within Protestantism and not the mainstream of Christianity.)
by mlsu | 2025-05-29 16:52:51+00:00
In every time and place where people "lost everything," they woke up in the morning again, still, and had to figure out what they would do that day. In Europe during the WWII bombings, when someone's house and all possessions were reduced to rubble after a night in the shelter, or maybe even worse, when their whole family was killed.

They still woke up the next morning to figure it out. One foot in front of the other. These were just regular people, their children and grandchildren are alive and well in the world.

Do your best by others in your own life and wake up every morning. "Cataclysm" is dramatic in history but is still a thing that countless people lived through. They worked, played, ate, laughed, etc. Look at what's in front of you: that's life, you have to live it.
by 542354234235 | 2025-05-29 16:53:01+00:00
But if AI gets to a level where it could be an input to its own system, and reaches a level where it has systems analogous to humans (long term memory, decision trees updated by new experiences and knowledge, etc.) then does it matter in any meaningful way if it is “the same” or just an imitation of human brains? It feels like it only matters now because AIs are imitating small parts of what human brains do but fall very short. If they could equal or exceed human minds, then the question is purely academic.
by skydhash | 2025-05-29 16:53:03+00:00
The usual theory of computation textbooks usually goes on to explain finite automata first, then context free grammar and finally the Turing machine. Why? Because the execution part of a TM is a finite automata, while the instructions can use the generative process of CFG. And then you got the whole computing world. Just from these principles (the other chapters are mostly about what's possible and what's not and exploration of other properties)

The nice thing about finite automata is that they can be composed together. That leads to a recursive pattern. This leads to the creation of higher abstractions, leading to general purposes CPU and special processors (gpu, npu, cryptographic chipset, hardware encoding,...). The same things applied to CFGs lead to the creation of programming languages.
by fakedang | 2025-05-29 16:53:47+00:00
There's a lotta different varieties... There are the poppadoms, the small bites which are the subject of the article.

Then there are paapads, which are basically the thin, less bubbly, often nearly plate-sized North Indian variety, often dosed with a smattering of spice. These are fire toasted and are the ones you commonly get at your local Indian for appetizer.

Then there's the South Indian appalam/pappadam which is smaller, made of rice, and often bubbly. Those usually are not spiced and are fried, often to eat with rice meals and not alone.

In some parts of South India like Bengaluru and Calicut, you can even get pappadams made out of jackfruit. These are usually made into conical shapes and are eaten as snacks.
by tgma | 2025-05-29 16:53:53+00:00
Some people go to camping now and then to hunt their own food and feel connected to nature and feel that friction. They just won't want it every day. Just like they don't tend to generate the underlying uninspired assembly themselves. FWIW if your premise is the code they generate is necessarily unmaintainable compared to an average CS college graduate human baseline, I'd argue against that premise.
by sojsurf | 2025-05-29 16:54:36+00:00
> I think there is value though in carriers saying "no, wait, I'll do the lookup when I am ready to deliver!", because then I order something today with a 3-month lead time and if I move house, the delivery "follows me" to my new location.

The downside for carriers is that costs are unpredictable. Will they be shipping it a few miles or to the other side of the country?

The downside for the person ordering is that there is a race condition that makes it difficult for you to know where the thing will get delivered to. Perhaps you changed your location two days ago, and you are expecting a piece of furniture sometime soon. Did the furniture delivery process kick off before or after you changed your address?
by varispeed | 2025-05-29 16:54:53+00:00
IR35 only applies if the worker owns the business delivering the work. Big consultancies are completely exempt — even when their staff do the same job, in the same client seat, for years. The legislation funnels work away from independents toward large firms - it’s a structural outcome of how the rules are written, all under the false banner of tax fairness. At its core, IR35 was about consolidating control over skilled labour, locking clients into corporate pipelines, and eliminating independent operators who could undercut on price and offer better quality.
by Arnavion | 2025-05-29 16:55:56+00:00
The builtin subcommand is unstable, but a long time ago a dev I knew at the time maintained an external subcommand for it. https://crates.io/crates/cargo-script

Although it's old and its dependencies are old, it doesn't have a dependency on cargo (it spawns cargo as a subprocess instead of via cargo API directly), so it might still work fine with latest toolchain. I haven't tried myself.
by petr25102018 | 2025-05-29 16:56:18+00:00
I just changed the payment model before posting it here, so there is no past data on this. I don't expect it to generate revenue compared to normal sales (it will most likely be a small fraction). But for normal sales you need to be able to promote it.

My primary motivation is to share the work that I spent a lot of time on because I want to move on and work on other things (I don't want it to just sit on my disk when it can be useful to others before getting outdated etc.). It never was meant to be some primary source of income. In that case I would be writing a book about AI :)

Maybe I will write a blog post with some reflections about making the book at some point :)
by toomuchtodo | 2025-05-29 16:56:50+00:00
These are the incentives of mass media (shaping the socioeconomic narrative), and why (imho) you've seen younger folks switch to social media for getting their info. Young women have wisened up of course (rapidly falling total fertility rate) independently of the media (who still clutches pearls with "why won't anyone have children!?") but there is a long way to go with young men and who they should be blaming for their lack of opportunity.
by dangus | 2025-05-29 16:56:52+00:00
> I strongly encourage you all read this book(the bible) and take it to heart. You aren't my friend, or someone that I know - but it would give me no pleasure at all to know you were spending eternity in hell.

IMO, you are also an elitist jerk by telling non-believers that they will be going to hell for not believing your religion, a religion which 69% of the entire world does not believe.

What kind of god creates beings only to punish the majority of them with hellfire? Why would god allow alternative religions to be created just to "trick" his creations into believing the wrong thing? And why would I want to worship that god if that's all true?
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-29 16:57:32+00:00
You're weirdly concerned about how much I'm reacting, which is pretty minimally. Like, I can't imagine how I could have raised this while reacting any less. But yes, I also saw your other post and got your message that you're bothered I brought this up at all. [EDIT] Ah, ninja-edited this paragraph into irrelevance! :-)

Maybe you need a chicken. [EDIT] But perhaps we all need chickens?

But thank you for helping me understand this. The framing is 100% serious, I guess.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-05-29 16:57:53+00:00
> Inserts are also expected to be in bulk (They are initially a new physical part that is later merged into the main table structure). A single DELETE is an ALTER TABLE operation in the MergeTree engine.

> They are initially a new physical part that is later merged into the main table structure

> A single DELETE is an ALTER TABLE operation

Can you explain these two further?
by ath3nd | 2025-05-29 16:57:57+00:00
These 350 largest publicly owned US firms employ a major portion of the US population. Just the top 10 companies by revenue employ 6% of the US work-eligible population. Imagine the total 350 companies!

So, while 350 seems to be a small number, these 350 companies employ the largest chunk of the US market, and that's why they are the most representative to do the study with.

And that's my point! If you select a random worker in the US, there is a HUGE chance they are employed by Amazon, Walmert or one of the big-s. And there is a HUGE chance their salary is 339 times less than their CEO's.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-29 16:58:14+00:00
By the same token, Pringles are potato-chip inspired mostly potato-based snacks:

https://www.pringles.com/en-us/products/pringles-the-origina...

Whilst "dried potatoes" are the top ingredient, they also contain plenty of corn, rice, and wheat products.

Surprisingly, I have found that in the States, the "purest" seeming snack food is Fritos Original Corn Chips:

https://www.pepsicoproductfacts.com/Home/product?formula=LBS...

"Ingredients: Corn, vegetable oil (corn and/or canola oil), and salt."

Some of you may have read my story of the Olive Section at Carrefour in Catalonia. The same thing had happened with the same friend when she visited me in Phoenix. She had heard tell of a vast selection of crisp flavours. So we went to the convenience store/Subway/gas station on the corner, where half of the store shelves are chips, dip, and salty snacks. She was impressed and chose two bags, including a chili lime flavour.

And here I sit with the Kalamata olives and the Manchego cheese. Jamón Serrano is not easy to come by; sometimes I settle for Prosciutto.
by whatamidoingyo | 2025-05-29 16:58:31+00:00
Yeah, pretty much. But they indeed approve some companies. I guess if you have a clean, well-established business, it won't be a problem. If you're a fresh startup, you're in trouble.

The only options left are paying the $1,450+ fee, or accepting crypto currency payments only (which I think most people won't bother going through the trouble of this to purchase creatine, lol).
by WillAdams | 2025-05-29 16:59:17+00:00
My youngest is 21.

See my comment elsethread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44126584

The problem of course is "the newspapers in utopia are boring" (to paraphrase Mark Twain) and "tales of the land of the happy nice people" doesn't make for much of a story.

Another couple of books which I enjoyed sharing w/ my kids were _Divers Down! Adventure Beneath Hawaiian Seas_ and _The Adventures of the Mad Scientists Club_ (and various sequels).
by robomartin | 2025-05-29 16:59:22+00:00
> I don’t think most Americans are willing to embrace the lifestyle that comes with reindustrialization.

I don't believe that we need to reindustrialize down to what I call baseline products. In other words, this idea of harsh condition and low wages isn't a reality here at all. Anyone who would propose this simply does not understand reality.

In other words, this isn't about making everything. It's about not getting to the point where you make nothing and you lose all knowledge and ability to produce goods. I hoped the pandemic would result in powerful lessons learned and a set of decisions and policies that would lead to rebalancing global trade. We found ourselves in a situation where we could not make the simplest products at scale, masks. Not only that, we did not even manufacture the cloth or the machines to make the cloth and masks.

From an engineering point of view, this is a system with a single point of failure: China. Anything happens in China --intentional or natural-- and billions of people around the globe pay the consequences. Looking at this from far away, one could easily conclude that this planet is not well-managed (as a concept, there is no such thing as global management, of course).

By that I mean that accepting a situation where everyone becomes dependent on a single provider is incredibly dangerous on many fronts. I am not even talking about the "national security" FUD trope. I am talking about everyday things everyone needs to live, to have access to medical care, to exist and navigate life and career.

A single-source structure is fragile and dangerous. We are often very critical of western government --right, left and center--, and rightly so. And yet, we somehow think it is OK to absolutely rely on the Chinese government for our very existence across all technical and industrial categories? How about we apply the same level of critique and skepticism to them being our overlords as we would to any one political party in the west? And, if that's the criteria, it follows that this global centralization of industrial capacity is likely bad for humanity.

The only thing that would change my mind is that if China radically shifts its culture, government and approach to commerce, which will not happen. For example, I cannot own land or a business in China. I cannot sue a company in China for stealing my intellectual property. I have no access to their courts to address grievances. Their public companies do not play by international rules, cook the books and have not transparency or accountability other than to the CCP. Etc. That's just fine if that's the way they want to live and operate.

I am simply saying that the rest of the world should understand that allowing centralization of nearly 100% of the industrial base in this manner will not lead to good outcomes at all. As AI reduces that number of people who will need to be employed to deliver services, the lack of a significant and diverse industrial base across Europe and the American continent will have catastrophic societal impact.
by perrygeo | 2025-05-29 16:59:34+00:00
Those machines don't provide energy, they simply capture it. We get our energy from solar radiation, either directly or stored in underground carbon bonds. We burned through our oil reserves, which represent the solar energy of millions of years of photosynthetic capacity, in a few centuries. And demand keeps growing. How do you intend to maintain and continue growing the energy supply without access to fossil fuels? Reverting to an annual energy budget determined by the sun is a fundamentally different game to having millions of years of energy at our match tip.

It's the difference between living on a fixed income vs drawing down a savings account. And as we draw down our savings account (burn oil) to invest in our fixed income future (solar) we should not fool ourselves into thinking this means an infinite savings account. Whether we draw our savings to zero or plan wisely for fixed-income, either way we are looking at decreased energy availability, aka degrowth.
by susam | 2025-05-29 16:59:42+00:00
I made my website [1] totally from scratch too! Using 100% handcrafted HTML and CSS and a little bit of Common Lisp. Hopefully it is not too ugly!

Like some of the other comments here, I don't use Hugo, Jekyll, Pelican, etc. either! I know they are solid tools and they serve many people well. But I haven't found them useful for my own needs. I prefer not to subject my website to the constraints of a large and complex framework when I can write my own that is smaller, simpler, and fully under my control.

I have a small Common Lisp (CL) program to automate a few things like applying consistent layout to all pages, generating RSS feeds, creating tag list pages, etc. But otherwise, all content on my site, including all of the HTML and CSS, is 100% handcrafted. Perhaps the only exception is KaTeX, because handcrafting a parser and renderer for a subset of LaTeX is not a problem I want to take on in order to maintain my website.

I've put together a little colophon page [2] in case anyone wants to read more about it.

Some people rightfully worry that maintaining your own program like this might become a major burden, potentially taking more time than actually publishing articles on your website. At least for me, that hasn't been the case. The CL program has become quite stable. Its commit history [1] shows that I don't tinker with it too often these days. I certainly have more lines of published content than I do code in the program. The CL program is about 1000 lines long but I have about 55000 lines of content.

[1] https://susam.net/

[2] https://susam.net/colophon.html

[3] https://github.com/susam/susam.net/commits/main/site.lisp
by arecurrence | 2025-05-29 16:59:43+00:00
The Clickhouse docs are so good that I'd point straight to them https://clickhouse.com/docs/sql-reference/statements/alter/d... .

The reason I mentioned it is because it's a huge surprise to some people that... from the docs: "The ALTER TABLE prefix makes this syntax different from most other systems supporting SQL. It is intended to signify that unlike similar queries in OLTP databases this is a heavy operation not designed for frequent use. ALTER TABLE is considered a heavyweight operation that requires the underlying data to be merged before it is deleted."

There's also a "lightweight delete" available in many circumstances https://clickhouse.com/docs/sql-reference/statements/delete. Something really nice about the ClickHouse docs is that they devote quite a bit of text to describing the design and performance implications of using an operation. It reiterates the focus on performance that is pervasive across the product.

Edit: Per the other part of your question, why inserts create new parts and how they are merged is best described here https://clickhouse.com/docs/engines/table-engines/mergetree-...
by KronisLV | 2025-05-29 16:59:59+00:00
It was an internal app, a GUI to configure a CLI tool in a user friendly manner. For that use case, I essentially built a local SPA with Vue that can also call some endpoints on server side software that we also host. There, the rendering differences between the web views didn't really matter but the small distribution size was a major boon, plus being able to interface with Go code was really pleasant (as is that whole toolchain). No complaints so far, then again, not a use case where polish would matter that much.

I'd say that the biggest hurdle for that sort of thing is just the documentation or examples of how to do things online - because Electron is the one everyone seems to use and has the most collective knowledge out there.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-05-29 17:01:35+00:00
There's nuance and interesting bits of history that are missing from the orthodox pov, but that get bulldozed by the absolutism of "Religion has always been a tool for the powerful to control the masses," which, while true, is as interesting as saying "stairs are often used to ascend buildings." Power does what it always does: it grabs whats lying around and sharpens it into a spear of control.

If you know a little about the history of Christianity, you see a gradual centralization over a period of hundreds of years. Christianity obviously didn't start centralized. Religious orthodoxy burned a lot of manuscripts and rewrote history to appear to be a powerful unbroken lineage in order to justify their legitimacy.

We have to remember that the concept of heresy was invented. Hellenic and pre-hellenic cultures didn't demand compliance to doctrinal orthodoxy. Instead they practiced ritual orthopraxy. Ritual orthopraxy's sphere of influence begins and ends at the ritual. The sphere of doctrinal orthodoxy on the other hand made belief itself the battleground. The Greeks didn't care if you believed Zeus was literally real or metaphorically useful, as long as you poured the libation and didn't piss off the city.

Christianity became not just "do you love God," but "is your metaphysical model of the Trinity exactly consistent with the Nicene formulation from 325 CE." Anything but that became heresy. And that rejection of the pluralistic orthopraxis and the inability to live in harmony with Hellenic culture is exactly what made Christians so unlikable at the time and incidentally created a bunch or martyrs.

What gets lost is the weirdness of those early centuries before doctrinal orthodoxy created heresy in order to monopolize plurality of belief. We can learn important lessons from this and extrapolate to how heresy and orthodoxy get used today and why matters of doctrine end up being so encompassing and totalizing. If anything it gives us an additional point of view on our own culture.