MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ViktorRay | 2025-05-21 16:24:09+00:00
In the Star Trek franchise the headquarters of Starfleet was in San Francisco California. The creator of Star Trek did this because his political views regarding San Francisco and the future of civilization led him to believe San Francisco would be the center of the future.

But maybe in the real life the headquarters of our equivalent of Starfleet might be this place in Texas? Maybe in Houston which is nearby with its NASA building?

Of course we might not ever have our own version of Starfleet or anything like that. But just food for thought. Something interesting to think about.
by terts | 2025-05-21 16:24:21+00:00
Hi! That bit of the docs is a bit outdated. We're probably gonna make it optional. The reason for that choice was that the filters for Rotonda need to be very quick and don't really require loops as long as you can do `contains` checks on some lists for example.

So it should probably say "Roto _in Rotonda_ does not have loops". Roto the language as a separate project can then have loops.
by dooglius | 2025-05-21 16:24:35+00:00
I've edited/clarified the claim above. Parent did say "without you having a bug" and entering an UNPREDICTABLE state would be buggy code. Also, "maybe puts garbage data in a register" is not UB, it's a much more reasonable thing in UB (the definition of UNPREDICTABLE prior to ARMv8 does seem to allow for UB, however). I don't believe that such an UNPREDICTABLE state is reachable from user-space/unprivileged code (or else it would violate the chip's security properties) -- but if I'm wrong on that I'd be interested in an example.
by halfadot | 2025-05-21 16:24:50+00:00
You produced a passive-aggressive taunt instead of addressing the argument. For clarity: nobody was asking about your business decisions, nobody is intimidated by your story. what your personal opinions about "attitude" are is irrelevant to what's being discussed (LLMs allowing optimal time use in certain cases). Also, unless your boss made the firing decision, you weren't forced to do anything.
by rafram | 2025-05-21 16:24:56+00:00
> Encrypted reasoning items: Customers eligible for Zero Data Retention (ZDR) can now reuse reasoning items across API requests

So, so weird that they still don't want you to see their models' reasoning process, to the point that even highly trusted organizations with ZDR contracts only get them in a black-box encrypted form. Gemini has no issue showing its work. Why can't OpenAI?
by api | 2025-05-21 16:26:28+00:00
The latter is getting skills in real-world productive work?

One problem with our information-and-services economy is that it enables a giant proportion of the population to live without any understanding of how anything in the physical world operates. You inhabit a universe of magic, using magic made by other people to provide services.

Eventually the entire country loses the ability to make anything in the real world.
by waleedlatif1 | 2025-05-21 16:26:41+00:00
thank you! We believe Sim Studio is different because we built it from the ground up to be ai-native - not an automation tool that bolted on ai features as an afterthought

A few points on this:

- Super intuitive & highly configurable visual canvas where there are no abstractions over the model providers' parameters

- Seamlessly works with the dev tools everyone uses (supabase, pinecone, mem0, exa)

- Handles complexities like branching, loops, and concurrency by default

- Built-in debugging that actually makes sense (with trace spans and logs)

- Actually open source (apache 2.0)
by nh23423fefe | 2025-05-21 16:26:55+00:00
> The results highlight the need for a cultural shift among venture capitalists. A key strategy to initiate this change is through targeted workshops and training programs for venture capitalists of all genders. These programs should promote critical reflection on personal biases and offer practical approaches to confronting gender stereotypes. We recommend that these diversity initiatives be voluntary rather than mandatory to reduce resistance and encourage long-term commitment to change.

> There are also notable differences regarding the second statement, with more men (18.2%, p < 0.001, SE = 0.04) than women (7.9%, SE = 0.07) agreeing with it.

so you get 24 people in a room. 2 men and 1 woman will say, "Women are poor entrepreneurs." so we make 24 people sit in a room so that 3 people wont change their mind? and 21 people are bored?

this is the vanguard of change?
by spiffytech | 2025-05-21 16:27:39+00:00
There's a third way things might go: on the way to "superpower for everyone", we go through an extended phase where AI is only a superpower in skilled hands. The job market bifurcates around this. People who make strong use of it get first pick of the good jobs. People not making effective use of AI get whatever's left.

Kinda like how word processing used to be an important career skill people put on their resumes. Assuming AI becomes as that commonplace and accessible, will it happen fast enough that devs who want good jobs can afford to just wait that out?
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-05-21 16:27:39+00:00
My dream change to the system: If you haven't read the bill - all of it - you can't vote for it.

You want to have 1000-page monstrosities? Knock yourself out. But you're going to have to actually read all 1000 pages. And you're going to have to persuade everyone else to also read all of it.

While I'm dreaming, I have a second dream change: Congress cannot exempt members of Congress from the effect of laws. Hey, Representative So-and-so, you want to change Social Security? You're changing your retirement, too. You want to change healthcare? You're changing your own healthcare, too.
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-21 16:27:45+00:00
GDP (or equivalent) gains.

Ricardo only says big aggregate number go up (with a bunch of caveats). Not for whom within that aggregate. It can (hypothetically) be one person seeing huge gains while every single other person loses a little bit. Or, pick any more-plausible scenario that sees a very-few benefitting greatly while the net for the rest of the population is somewhat negative.
by fragmede | 2025-05-21 16:27:55+00:00
> Probably better in this case would be to have a small program that expands IPv6 addresses that you could then pipe into sort. That would be more in-keeping with the Unix Way™.

I went and wrote this and then realized you'd need two utilities. One to expand the addresses, and one to minify the addresses, so your pipeline would be:

cat ipv6-addrs.txt | ipv6expand | sort -V | ipv6minify

vs

cat ipv6-addrs.txt | sort -6

The unix philosphy is do one thing and do it well. Ideally sort does sorting very well, including sorting of ipv6 addresses. Ergo, sort should handle ipv6 address sorting.
by ho_schi | 2025-05-21 16:27:58+00:00
I did a Ctrl+F and it doesn't mention once Inertial Navigation Systems (INS)[1]?

As long as an external signal for navigation is used, the problems of external signals will remain. INS doesn't suffer from this issue and is already used in planes, ships, cars and phones for years. Actually I miss INS in cycling computers, it could fix so many issues.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_navigation_system
by vincnetas | 2025-05-21 16:28:13+00:00
Instead of "right to be forgotten" i would like to live in a world with the right "to be forgiven". We know that everyone has done stupid shit in the past and some in present. Idea is not to pretend that this didn't happen, but let it go and accept that people can change (grow up) if they demonstrate regret and willingness to change. Side effect is that if they do repeat offences you can draw some conclusions from that instead of just forgetting it.

Let's bring back the concept of reputation.
by judge2020 | 2025-05-21 16:28:13+00:00
User bots (including hacked clients) are officially banned by the TOS, which addresses that concern.

The only acceptable API usage is via bots that server owners choose to invite. And while it might be legally OK (if the bot's own TOS says it), I promise no server owner is expecting an invited bot to slurp up every message for use in a data set, whether that be for academic purposes or a potential stalking/"dirt" database.

I highly doubt this is the most ethical instance of data collection.
by redserk | 2025-05-21 16:28:13+00:00
We’ve been falling behind. I wish this was taken more seriously.

> […] launch an initiative to regain U.S. PNT leadership and ensure resilient, reliable PNT for critical infrastructure and the larger economy.

> GPS’s capabilities are now substantially inferior to those of China’s BeiDou. https://www.gps.gov/governance/advisory/recommendations/2023...
by gdubs | 2025-05-21 16:28:21+00:00
This disabused me of the notion of doing it myself, lol. This is super impressive. Hope to one day be confident enough in electrical work. That and plumbing are the areas of home improvement that I still just would rather sub out.

But, this is such a cool article. The quotes on solar installs for some reason seem a lot higher than what you'd expect, given all the charts showing the absolute cratering of solar energy prices – but doesn't seem to work out that way when it comes to residential installations.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-05-21 16:28:32+00:00
Well ya know good luck with all of that. I voted with my feet a long time ago. I wouldn't use the UK as some sort of exemplar of good governance, quite the opposite. The actual lesson of Chesterton's fence is that once a system that is responsible for maintaining itself is damaged it becomes near impossible to fix. "Only what we might have discussed under the gas-lamp, we now must discuss in the dark." A broken corrupt system will almost always continue to degrade into a more broken and corrupt system. When the 'fix' to reforms is more reforms the system is in real danger.
by falcor84 | 2025-05-21 16:29:01+00:00
True, but to be honest, the study itself is biased. It only asked these questions about bias towards women:

> The participation of women in founding teams is overrated.

> Women are poor entrepreneurs.

> I do not like to invest in women.

But did not ask about how people feel about men entrepreneurs. For all we know, respondents might have even harsher opinions of men.
by smileybarry | 2025-05-21 16:29:10+00:00
But “publicly posted” discord invites can mean links in streamers profiles, project websites, etc. While anyone can type that website’s URL, it’s generally expected a group of the public would see & follow that invite, e.g. a streamer’s viewers. It’s not a public space like how a shop on the street is a public space.

Plus, even if the server is in Discovery (and thus really publicly advertised), they’re still mostly sorted into 10+ rooms. Just because a library is public, doesn’t mean I should expect Study Room B will be recorded by John Jameson and entered into a public dataset.
by ramesh31 | 2025-05-21 16:29:33+00:00
Athenians had many subtly different tiers of citizenship. Women of noble birth, whose father had served in the military, were considered "citizens" in the sense that their male children would be considered legitimate, and they would be granted certain social and economic rights, although this did not extend to political rights for themselves [0].

[0] http://athensjournals.gr/history/2017-3-2-2-Che.pdf
by eyelidlessness | 2025-05-21 16:29:56+00:00
Maybe it’s ugly, that seems like a matter of personal taste. But it’s syntactically unambiguous which is valuable especially for a language which mixes expressions and statements in often very subtle ways. There are also other ambiguities to consider:

const trailingIntetpolation = <><div/>{foo}</>; const leading = <>{foo}<div/></>; const bare = <>{foo}</>;
Show HN: I vibe coded a complex trading app
by sumeruchat | 2025-05-21 16:30:17+00:00
Hey HN,

I just released Tradofire, a crypto trading app I built using a lot of cursor chatgpt and claude for over a year.

The main idea of the app is very simple - to swipe on pre-prepared trading setups (like tinder) and if you right swipe it opens a position. The execution of this simple idea was much more complex and tbh I could not have done it without AI.

Here's a quick rundown of the main features:

Swipe-to-Trade UI: Quickly initiate long or short positions with intuitive swipe gestures.

Real-Time Trade Signals: Get curated crypto signals from the market delivered proactively, helping you spot opportunities early.

Built-in Risk Controls: Automated stop-loss and take-profit orders embedded directly into each trade to simplify risk management.

Paper Trading Mode: Simulate trades without risk to refine strategies before deploying real capital.

Easy Exchange Integration: Seamlessly connect your live trading account when you're ready to go live.

The goal was to create a focused tool for traders who want quick access to high-quality trade ideas and minimal friction in execution. I’d love your feedback on the product and the idea itself.

You can check it out here:

https://tradofire.com

Feedback appreciated thanks a lot!
by williamdclt | 2025-05-21 16:30:46+00:00
That's very handwavy and unconvincing TBH. I can't imagine who'd argue that humans "worship" rationalism and materialism, that's a pretty big stretch of the word.

What definition of the word do you use?

That man has a natural inclination to it is another pretty big assumption, whether "natural inclinations" are even a thing at all has been debated for centuries
by roskelld | 2025-05-21 16:31:32+00:00
There are tricks to get messages from Slack, though I heard they were changing soon if not already.

A year or so ago I exported all messages from a Slack group I ran and used a Discord bot to recreate the entire dataset including channels and user posts. So we now have our entire history of messages without being blocked by a paywall (Until Discord does the same, and we'll be off to find a new home).
by lutusp | 2025-05-21 16:31:40+00:00
> I’m really struggling with promotion. How do you get people to notice your product?

Start by spelling all the words correctly. If this were a video it wouldn't matter, but text-based appeals ... wait for it ... require competently crafted text.

> I feel like I know less than an elementary school student.

Not likely, but do avoid focusing on esoterica when the most basic elements need work.
by bluGill | 2025-05-21 16:31:46+00:00
Content should be written for the lowest common denominator of your target audience. If you are writing for someone who writes web documents all day then you can expect them to know what html is in great detail. If you write for plumbers they might not know what html is, and so you may need a couple paragraphs to define what it is. (I'm not sure why plumbers would need to know what a html tag is, but if you expect them to read a document where html tags are referred to you better define html in enough detail that they understand it)
by neilv | 2025-05-21 16:32:02+00:00
> Those concerns intensified this week with cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase disclosing that as many as 97,000 customers have had their personal information stolen, including addresses and balance snapshots.

Since that was The Wall Street Journal, I don't know that the reason is fear of lawsuits. It could just be extreme business-friendliness, or Rupert Murdoch seeping in.

(2 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44025527
by ryandrake | 2025-05-21 16:32:11+00:00
Pretty cool. I'd love to get into solar DIY but it seems pretty daunting. I moved in to a place recently with an (apparently very old) 7kW rooftop solar system without a battery, and I called the original installer to talk about what my options are if I wanted to expand it, either adding more watts or adding a battery. The overall take-away from talking to the installer was that it wasn't worth it because my existing system uses some different, older technology, and that making any substantial improvements to it would change my "NEM" whatever that means. The way I understand it, it would move me into some other, more expensive regulatory regime. I don't know--my head was spinning after the conversation, and I was basically convinced to just ignore the system I have and not touch it.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-05-21 16:32:40+00:00
That sounds a lot like work. For me, a big benefit of personal projects is seeing how much I can accomplish when there isn't process.

And so either the output is something that only helps me or it's something that's generally useful to others and maybe needs last mile tweaks to be ready for prime time.

If I did agile poker and code commenting and stuff it would take all the fun (momentum) out of sitting down at my home desk after hours at my work desk.

I should say, your answer is completely correct - particularly for motivated people - and not incongruous with my perspective. I just wanted to spare a thought for the things that make personal projects fun. I just would only do requirements gathering over a beer.
by dinkblam | 2025-05-21 16:32:50+00:00
> I've always been under the impression that if you make something truly useful or interesting, it will spread through word of mouth naturally and quickly.

useful or interesting stuff has zero chances in the marketplace even if you spend millions on marketing. you can put in on github for free maybe.

it is idiotic (facebook, tiktop, instagram, cat videos, etc) or harmful stuff (all the evil companies) that make the big money.
by lolinder | 2025-05-21 16:33:45+00:00
These researchers are making public scraping that was already happening in private. Do you really think they were the first ones to realize that public Discord servers were public?

On the contrary, kudos to these researchers for bursting the illusion that people previously had that things said on public servers somehow would be ephemeral. That's not how the internet works, that's not how it's ever worked. If you send something to someone else's computer you have always had to assume that every recipient could have made a copy of it, and when the recipient list is "everyone who ever joins a public Discord server from now until the end of time" that makes it public information.

Better that it be widely recognized and talked about as these researchers are doing than have accessing public data remain a dark art that lay people mistakenly believe can't happen.
by piltdownman | 2025-05-21 16:34:25+00:00
While most would focus on Withnail and Danny's more on-the-nose moments, it's really Uncle Monty who steals every scene he features in.

In my opinion he is simply one of the most beautifully realised characters in all of comedy, his pompous and lugubrious Oxbridge eccentricities representing the last vestiges of a more genteel era that Withnail had just missed out on being a beneficiary of (Free to those who can afford it, very expensive to those who can't).

I can't dispute that, in his impeccable introduction his most quotable moments (and delivery) arise, with the vainglorious delivery of his Hamlet monologue one of the most succinct and hilarious summations of a character in Cinema:

'It is the most shattering experience of a young man's life when one morning he awakes and quite reasonably says to himself, "I will never play the Dane."'

Ditto the magnificent upper-class eccentricity of his agrarian/sexual aspirations:

"I think the carrot infinitely more fascinating than the geranium. The carrot has mystery. Flowers are essentially tarts. Prostitutes for the bees. There is a certain je ne sais quoi - oh, so very special - about a firm, young carrot...Excuse me..."

However it is in his more maudlin moments where his dialogue - and the writing - truly shines, mourning the fin de siècle in his own way, with macabre little monologues hinting at his deep reserves of loss and despair.

'Oh my boys, my boys, we are at the end of an age! We live in a land of weather forecasts and breakfasts that set in, shat on by Tories, shovelled up by Labour, and here we are, we three; perhaps the last island of beauty... in the world'

My favourite however, has to be the little appendix to his anecdotes of Oxford and his 'sensitive crimes' in a punt with his poetry-reciting lover:

"I sometimes wonder where Norman is now. Probably wintering with his mother in Guildford. A cat, rain, Vim under the sink, and both bars on. But old now, old. There can be no true beauty without decay."

Sheer brilliance, with its fingerprints all over British Comedy almost 40 years on - with particular reference to the likes of Armando Ianucci, Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, David Mitchell/Robert Webb, and Richard Ayoade, covering movies like 'Submarine' and TV like 'Peep Show' and 'Spaced' most notably.
by quacksilver | 2025-05-21 16:34:38+00:00
From working in China a bit (though could be wrong, n=1 anecdotes etc.), the majority of IT people are probably the lucky ones who mostly had a middle class upbringing, could live in a reasonable city and studied hard at school or had well connected parents. Life growing up with parents who were a rural rice farmer or metal scrapper or something would be way different. It is very hard to get a job after a certain age compared to the west, and there is pressure in some areas for women to quit once they have children.

It was common to see people working from 7 or 8 am to 8 or 10pm in my office, though with a 2 hour lunch break where most people slept.

On average, people tended to look way healthier (at least superficially) on average compared to places I have been in the US. Maybe due to diet and activity level.
by jchw | 2025-05-21 16:35:00+00:00
Using "turbocharged" as a metaphor for something being made faster seems reasonable enough to me. Not all engines have turbochargers, installing one makes it perform better by improving combustion, profit? Of course I'm not a car person so my understanding of an ICE is pretty surface level, but it seems like a decent metaphor.

I'm not sure most people knew what a turbocharger was to begin with.
by wg0 | 2025-05-21 16:35:09+00:00
This is an insightful read but at a place where a prompt churns out a whole model - that's yet far far away and extremely compute intensive.

Philosophical point being - if human brain is also all planes all the way down with trillion dimensional planes separating concepts.

I don't think so that is the case but yes - we might mimic something like that and such a thing will always malfunction more than their human counterparts in a given subject area and would always hit a wall where a human won't.
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-21 16:35:13+00:00
I think “addictive” is necessary in the sense that if it is not behaviorally reinforcing it will not grow, not be sustainable. If I was starting a social network I’d look at Chinese mobile games like Azur Lane in how they set up a network of ‘events’ and accomplishments that always give you a reason to play.

“Negative” is something else that can be addressed directly. To make a fact-checking machine you have to make a god, but to detect outrage and negativity you just need ModernBERT, BiLSTM and maybe 20,000 training examples. It is true that outrage engages people but take that away and you will find there are wholesome things like cat photos that go viral. How you suppress negativity is up to you, and people will always say that their negativity is their free speech, but detecting negativity in 2005 is mostly a matter of making the training set.
by roskelld | 2025-05-21 16:35:18+00:00
I don't know if Discord fixed it as I haven't checked in a few years, but I tinkered with scraping some public Discords and I found that I could see hidden channels, not the data, but the channel names, which could do things like reveal to me if the same Discord was used for in-house development if it was a product Discord. Not great.
by adamnemecek | 2025-05-21 16:35:24+00:00
Consider looking into fields related to machine learning to see how topology is used there. The main problem is that some of the cool math did not survive the transition to CS, e.g. the math for control theory is not quite present in RL.

In terms of topology, control theory has some very cool topological interpretations, e.g. toruses appear quite a bit in control theory.