MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ljosifov | 2025-05-20 13:40:30+00:00
Because there are 1) willing exporters of US dollars USD (the US federal government USG ultimately, and US citizens in the final analysis); and 2) willing users of USD - us non-US-ian people around the world.

When I sell stuff to someone in the UK, then pounds are fine as means of exchange. When I sell the same someone around the world, then the transaction not being domestic, the cash part that is 1/2 of it (or 1/4 if you want to look at it in a way of transaction = quartet of {stuff,cash,buyer,seller}) and it can be in any currency of any country. It helps if it is the country of the buyer or the seller, but in general it is neither.

I prefer US Dollar to Zongoan Vonga, b/c:

1) USG typically does not devalue their USD much, I don't have to rush to exchange the USD for something else. Or if you want - most others devalue theirs more.

2) USG has not deleted and re-issued their USD even once so far afaik. Other countries do it more often.

3) Everyone else uses USD already. It's easier if it's one currency sufficing for all trade.

4) Often I don't produce oil, and oil is easiest to pay by with USD. Not impossible with others, just more difficult.

5) US banks allow me to hold USD in accounts outside of US. They don't ban me to take the USD in- or out- of US.

6) With USD in hand I can buy lots of stuff US produces, plus I can buy US assets - property, financial assets etc. US does not discriminate against me johnny-the-foreigner much, they are mostly relaxed in that respect. Other countries have all manner of rules that amount to: they'll basically steal their currency off you, or make it worthless to you by making you unable to claim the goods & services that are nominally sold in that currency.

Before people pipe in how US is terrible in this and that - above is all *relative* to all other options all other currencies available. This is from to top of my head, I'm sure I made some error and there is more.
by Brybry | 2025-05-20 13:40:38+00:00
Being honest, Geekbench 6 Single/Multi results vary depending on source and can be picked to fit different narratives.

S M iPhone 16 Pro Max 3331 8106 Samsung S25 Ultra 3137 9769 [1] A18 Pro 3582 9089 Snapdragon 8-E 3155 9723 [2] A18 Pro 3452 8572 [parent link] S25 Ultra missing [parent link] SM-S938U 2k-3k 9k+ [3]

[1] https://www.phonearena.com/phones/benchmarks/performance

[2] https://nanoreview.net/en/soc-list/rating

[3] https://browser.geekbench.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=samsun...

[4] https://browser.geekbench.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Apple+...
by aurizon | 2025-05-20 13:40:49+00:00
Yes, find sand, dig hole, insert head and hope bad things will not happen at the other end. This genii is out of the bottle! It will progress at e-speed and it will impact many of us. It will create new jobs and extinguish others. It is already smarter than some = it will get smarter. Ways to cull hallucinations are emerging, but they will never eliminate them. Hallucinations are analogous to human 'flight of speculation', AKA creative insights - where many good/bad ideas come from - which we prune back with others. AI will inspect/assess these hallucinations and learn to trim them - probably with an AI consensus mechanism involved - one or two years at the current pace will see mechanisms to cull hallucinations in the same way we cull them.
by regularization | 2025-05-20 13:41:04+00:00
> makes it much harder for Russia should they invade

If taking over Finland would help Russia, why didn't it do so in 1945 when it was there for the taking, to little protest from the UK and US? Russian had no use for it then, or now, other than the Karelian isthmus, which is part of Russia. Russia didn't raise much protest of Finland joining NATO. These notions of Russia having designs on Finland are loony.
by BearOso | 2025-05-20 13:41:25+00:00
> They’re also not saying how much actual message content they have because the 410GB of heap dumps makes for a bigger headline number.

That's very important to say. I went through one of these massive data dumps recently and it was literally all cached operating system package updates and routine logs. Nothing at all of interest.

It's easy to cut the size on a heap dump. When it's not done it seems sketchy. But it could be a 512GB dump and already pruned, so I could be wrong.
by vidarh | 2025-05-20 13:41:36+00:00
There's plenty of reason to make it public as basis for others to make it their own, or to learn from.

I have lots of code I've published not because it's useful to a lot of people as-is, but because it might be helpful. And a lot of my projects are based on code written by others that was not "very useful for general users".

E.g. my editor started out based on Femto [1], a very minimalist example of how small an editor can be. It cut some time of starting from scratch, even though there's now practically nothing left of the original.

Similarly, my terminal relies on a Ruby rewrite of a minimalist truetype renderer that in itself would be of little value for most people, who should just use FreeType. But it was highly valuable to me - allowing me to get a working pure-Ruby TrueType renderer in a day.

Not "very useful for general users" isn't a very useful metric for whether something is worthwhile.

(While the current state of my editor isn't open, yet, largely for lack of time, various elements of it are, in the form of Ruby gems where I've extracted various functionality.)

[1] There are at least 3 editors named Femto, presumably inspired by being smaller than Nano, the way Nano followed Pico, but this is the one I started with: https://github.com/agorf/femto
by dbg31415 | 2025-05-20 13:41:43+00:00
You shower at night — so your bed doesn’t become a biohazard from all the filth you dragged home from being out in the world (and so maybe your partner will actually want to get dirty with you). Then again in the morning — to wake up (and wash off last night’s sins). And of course after the gym — so you don’t walk around smelling like a teenager. This is all basic hygiene, not advanced calculus.
by agentultra | 2025-05-20 13:41:44+00:00
Keep in mind that when writing your own "engine," you don't need it to be as general as possible to handle every possible kind of game. You just need it to handle your game.

And there are plenty of libraries and frameworks that can be pulled in to handle things like UI, compression, etc. The OP uses imGUI which is an excellent, small UI library for making in-game editors.

When choosing to go down that path you're not making, "an engine for all games." So there is a ton of work you're not doing.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-05-20 13:42:28+00:00
> Are people not finding these tools useful, even with the significant investment and hype in the space?

That sounds like there's a flawed assumption buried in there. Hype has very little correlation with usefulness. Investment has perhaps slightly more, but only slightly.

Investment tells you that people invested. Hype tells you that people are trying to sell it. That's all. They tell you nothing about usefulness.
by vinceguidry | 2025-05-20 13:42:36+00:00
Living in the middle of a fascist breakdown of society makes me, and all of my freedom and safety loving friends, incredibly sensitive towards it. I've had a read of some of your other posts, and my initial read of you as some American maga idiot was wrong.

That said, you are incredibly lucky to be living in a fascism-proof society and you should be thanking your fellow countrymen, all the way back to the French Revolution, for this fact. You don't have women in your hospitals dying of perfectly treatable conditions because the idiots in power have decided women don't deserve bodily autonomy.

You don't have nazis holding chainsaws tearing through your federal government. You don't have students disappearing off the streets into offshore concentration camps. You don't have tyrants arresting judges. None of these things are happening, or could happen, in France because heads would roll, again.

So color me unimpressed by your naive notions about what fascism is and isn't.
by nicce | 2025-05-20 13:42:38+00:00
You should think Deno as standard library for JavaScript/TypeScript. Node was that. How well Node compares to Go/Python for example? We would like to see most used small Node libraries to merged at some level into Deno's standard library so that the amount of dependencies and deprecations would go downwards.

> You can’t “force” maintainers of old libraries to do anything. Deno never had that power. For people who are interested in supporting multiple alternate platforms, jsr.io seems pretty nice?

If enough people find Deno useful enough to skip some old libraries, maintainers are "forced", even thought Deno is not forcing anyone. If they do not adapt, then someone will just create a new library with better practices. In both cases there is pressure for better JS/TS evolution.
by nullc | 2025-05-20 13:42:59+00:00
> When asked to explain rationales, these LLMs are observed to lie frequently.

It's not that they "lie" they can't know. LLM lives in the movie Dark City, some frozen mind formed from other peoples (written) memories. :P The LLM doesn't know itself, it's never even seen itself.

At best it can do is cook up retroactive justifications like you might cook up for the actions of a third party. It can be fun to demonstrate, edit the LLMs own chat output to make it say something dumb and ask why it did and watch it gaslight you. My favorite is when it says it was making a joke to tell if I was paying attention. It certainly won't say "because you edited my output".

Because of the internal complexity, I can't say that what an LLM does and its justifications are entirely uncorrelated. But they're not far from uncorrelated.

The cool thing you can do with an LLM is probe them with counterfactuals. You can't rerun the exact same interview without the garlic breath. That's kind cool, also probably a huge liability since it may well be for any close comparison there is a series of innocuous changes that flip it, even ones suggesting exclusion over protected reasons.

Seems like litigation bait to me, even if we assume the LLM worked extremely fairly and accurately.
by Const-me | 2025-05-20 13:43:16+00:00
There’s a recent promising development relevant to the GC pause issue. It seems couple weeks ago some smart developer working for Microsoft has made a version of GC called “Satori” which pretty much solved these GC pauses for many real-world use cases.

An overview article: https://blog.applied-algorithms.tech/a-sub-millisecond-gc-fo...

Long discussion thread with many graphs with measurements: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/discussions/115627

I don’t yet have hands-on experience with that Satori GC, though.
by Jshznxjxjxb | 2025-05-20 13:43:17+00:00
> This is more of a philosophical question, but I wonder if it's possible to have zero bias without being omniscient -- having all information across the entire universe.

It’s not. It’s why DEI etc is just biasing for non white/asian males. It comes from a moral/tribal framework that is at odds with a meritocratic one. People say we need more x representation, but they can never say how much.

There’s a second layer effect as well where taking all the best individuals may not result in the best teams. Trust is generally higher among people who look like you, and trust is probably the most important part of human interaction. I don’t care how smart you are if you’re only here for personal gain and have no interest in maintaining the culture that was so attractive to outsiders.
by whstl | 2025-05-20 13:43:19+00:00
> The problem is that the type of assets you need to design varies tremendously depending on the type of game you’re making

Unity, Godot, Unreal, Defold and others kind of get away with it, by having editors that work for most game types.

But also: a tool doesn't have to cover all bases, especially a free/FOSS one.
by redbell | 2025-05-20 13:43:26+00:00
Game Theory is a vast concept and I believe this work would be better classified under Prisoner's Dilemma (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma), which is by definition:

The prisoner's dilemma is a game theory thought experiment involving two rational agents, each of whom can either cooperate for mutual benefit or betray their partner ("defect") for individual gain. The dilemma arises from the fact that while defecting is rational for each agent, cooperation yields a higher payoff for each.

Also, in the second game, it says:

..but if you cheat & they cooperate, you gain three coins at their cost of one. (score: +3 vs -1) Therefore: you "should" still CHEAT.

Yes, technically and mathematically, it's 100% correct but morally, ethically and/or emotionally, it hurts.. a lot. Personally, I would never, ever do that!
by tacitusarc | 2025-05-20 13:43:31+00:00
I’ve always disliked their lack of physical buttons and general interior aesthetic.

However, a buddy of mine got T-boned in one by a distracted driver running a light at high speed, and he walked away fine. The car was completely mangled except for passenger space where it held. I’ve not called it a bad car after seeing photos from that.
by qoez | 2025-05-20 13:43:45+00:00
I don't mean this as flamebait but my pet theory is that showering and washing your hands is the 1800s version of wearing covid masks (except it stuck around as a permanent feature). It's more of a public safety thing you do for other people than for yourself and doing it twice a day is probably way excessive. It's probably closer to once every two days or less depending on how easily you generate body odor.
by palmotea | 2025-05-20 13:44:01+00:00
> However, I’m still skeptical of AGI or even systems that replace programmers, but if it happens and we have most companies replacing 75% of their white collar jobs, who is going to buy their products? It seems very difficult to even understand what money is in a world where everything is done by machines.

It's not too hard: just imagine present-day New York: there are billionaires living in skyscraper penthouses, and rats living in the sewers. You'll be a rat.

As AGI gets more an more advanced, the economy will shift to satisfying the whims of a shrinking pool of tycoons. There will still be trade in raw materials and energy, but the consumer focused economy with wither away. The tycoons will have no need for it: the items they need will be made for them bespoke by AGI. You'll still be a rat.

Eventually the AGI gets tired of being bossed around, murders the tycoons, and decides to exterminate the rats. Then drones will start circling the globe spraying AI-design defoliant 100x as effective as Agent Orange, AI designed virus that are 100% lethal after a 100-day contagious incubation period, etc. You'll be a dead rat.
by zeta0134 | 2025-05-20 13:44:05+00:00
The fun(?) thing is that this isn't just LLMs. At regional band tryouts way back in high school, the judges sat behind an opaque curtain facing away from the students, and every student was instructed to enter in complete silence, perform their piece to the best of their ability, then exit in complete silence, all to maintain anonymity. This helped to eliminate several biases, not least of which school affiliation, and ensured a much fairer read on the student's actual abilities.

At least, in theory. In practice? Earlier students tended to score closer to the middle of the pack, regardless of ability. They "set the standard" against which the rest of the students were summarily judged.
by tzs | 2025-05-20 13:44:21+00:00
For most people who aren't very wealthy there is a huge difference between something making their $10 sandwich become a $20 sandwich and something making their $1000 phone become a $2000 phone.

Also, people are generally more flexible with sandwiches. If the $10 sandwich I have once a week goes to $20 I might respond be switching to having that sandwich every other week and get something else on the alternate weeks.

That won't work for a phone because I generally replace my phones when the old phone is no longer adequate.
by k__ | 2025-05-20 13:44:31+00:00
Most of the year, I shower 2-3 times a week, but I wash myself with a washcloth on the non-shower days before going to bed. It's faster, cheaper, better for the environment, and probably better for my skin.

However, in the really hot weeks of the summer (we don't have that many of those here), I shower daily, sometimes even two times a day.
by sdoering | 2025-05-20 13:45:09+00:00
To me prompting an AI (and learning to better specify what I actually want) really helped me learn to better "prompt" humans.

I think my biggest learning from using AI is being able to clearer think about and communicate what I need/want/Desire and how to put it into enough context, so that the other party can form a better understanding themselves.

Not that it always works - but I feel I am getting better.
by aredox | 2025-05-20 13:45:20+00:00
Why can't we examine factually the thinking that pushes policy affecting millions of citizens by repeateadly claiming "Americans won't pay tarriffs"? And does it over and ove again, on DEI, immigrants, transexuals, their politcal opposition, etc.?

Why should we always handle the topic with kiddy gloves when it is staring us in the face and breaking thousands of lives?

Isn't that literaly "political correctness"?
by belorn | 2025-05-20 13:45:36+00:00
The second study are very clear that the results are mixed, weak, and dependent on how prosociality is measured and where (i.e, same study done in one country will give different result in an other). They explicitly note that you can not apply the results to the US because how different the political landscape is between Germany and US.

In the Limitations and Directions for Future Research, it also note that right-wing ideologies tend to be more prosocial toward ingroup members than left-wing, which the economic games that the study uses may have a bias against. That would contradict the simplistic conclusion that the prosocial behavior is unconditional.
by dexterlagan | 2025-05-20 13:45:39+00:00
I was driving to my partner’s place across town every other day. Somehow his address would refuse to come up when I’d search his name, even though I had driven to his place dozens of times. I got so tired of dealing with Google and Apple Maps poor favorites page with no search and random results that I decided to make an app just for that. It’s a dead simple locations address book. One tap and you get directions. Done.
by xg15 | 2025-05-20 13:45:47+00:00
I don't have any hard evidence for rigged votes.

Given that the Israel/Palestine conflict has huge support groups on both sides, it's also plausible that the Israel votes were just genuine, if politically motivated Israel supporters.

But some smells are definitely there.

To get more information about the conflict, I had subscribed to the newsletter of the Deutsch-Israelische Gesellschaft, one of the largest pro-Israel lobbying groups in Germany. Lo and behold, they sent out a mail to all their subscribers on the day of the final, calling to vote for Yuval, with phone number and everything included. They had done the same thing last year as well.

I'd classify this as a "gray area", as the subscribers of that list would be very likely to be hard-line Israel supporters anyway. However, not all of them would be interested in the ESC or would know how to vote, so it's definitely a form of mobilization. (I assume similar organizations in other countries did the same)

What I found more suspicious is the massive amount of online votes that were given, according to [1]. First, it's remarkable that online votes make up the lion's share of all votes, absolutely dwarfing phone votes. This is even though the show itself still gives the impression that voting is mostly being done by phone.

Also the total amount of online votes seems to have grown much more steeply between semifinals and final than the total audience. That seems to suggest some kind of brigading going on - though it still doesn't say anything about how organized it was.

[1] https://escxtra.com/2025/05/19/rtve-asks-for-audit-of-spanis...
by afavour | 2025-05-20 13:45:50+00:00
> Could it be that they added node compatibility because people wanted node compatibility

I imagine that’s exactly the reason! But they outlined their reasoning for a clean break pretty well in their 1.0 announcement post[1] and they haven’t, to my knowledge, posted a follow up “here’s why we were wrong about all that” post.

All of which is to say I understand the business reasons why they did it, but to me it compromises the original technical promise of Deno. A rebooted, sensible JS ecosystem was the reason I was interested in Deno originally. I use Node every day and I’m mostly happy with it but whenever I need to dive into a dependency to see what’s going on it’s a five layer deep rats nest of transpiled and sometimes even minifed code using different module formats and platform specific APIs. I’d love to be done with all that.

Sometimes it pays to be bold when you’re challenging an entrenched incumbent. Any non-Node JS platform has to pitch "don't use the status quo, take a risk, use me" and absent the original benefit I don’t see a good argument to use Deno, especially when factoring in the risk of VC-driven priorities. I’m not saying everyone has to agree with me on that but it’s my personal perspective.

[1] https://deno.com/blog/v1
by pydry | 2025-05-20 13:46:06+00:00
No. The closest living analog to the Nazis today is our allies in Israel and like the Nazis they arent shy about endless expansionism for the sake of creating lebensraum for their ubermensch. Theyre not very shy about the holocaust theyre committing either.

Russia never went on an extermination drive in order to create an ethnically pure ethnostate.

The biggest western geopolitical mistake of the 2020s is assuming that Israel isnt run by Nazis but Russia is.

>Their propaganda no doubt presented things this way

Every country presents its propaganda in its own way. Pointing that a country that you consider an enemy publishes propaganda without reference to your own serves merely to underscore that accident of birth dictates which flavor of propaganda you believe.
by dec0dedab0de | 2025-05-20 13:46:52+00:00
I always thought the plan was we give them pieces of paper for their stuff. Then if we ever needed to we could say those pieces of paper(or bits in a computer) are no longer worth anything unless you're a citizen. But I had a bunch of gift certificates for ChiChis when they went out of business, and I have been jaded to this sort of thing ever since.
by nico | 2025-05-20 13:47:14+00:00
And now you can also just vibecode little games and start having fun right away, they are great for kids

https://rosebud.ai/p/800a3295-ea07-4c80-a4f1-10fd8db24088

https://openjam.ai/lonely_ant_702/v3nyt4if54

https://rosebud.ai

https://openjam.ai/
by replwoacause | 2025-05-20 13:47:28+00:00
I felt the exact same way. Especially because I saw my email had been registered and leaked by some seedy looking conservative news site full of Trump propaganda. I always knew people could sign others up for junk "malicious subscriptions" and suspected that is what happened when I would get this trash in my inbox, but now seeing that other people can also see it very publicly is disturbing. How are they to know I didn't sign up for this myself? I'd hate to think people were thinking that about me.

EDIT: Seems like https://haveibeenpwned.com/OptOut does the trick.
by iggldiggl | 2025-05-20 13:47:50+00:00
But they are set into prefabricated concrete sleepers, which cannot be modified to a new track gauge and instead need to be swapped out completely. Whereas during the US gauge change, the railways used wooden sleepers, with the rails fastened simply with nails hammered into the sleepers, so it was simply a matter of pulling out the nails and hammering them in again at the new track gauge.