MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by robocat | 2025-05-23 00:34:27+00:00
I'm in New Zealand and we've had similar changes.

Tax credits removed: which is probably an environmental benefit because a credit on vehicle purchase is not aligned with carbon reduction (e.g. low usage second car). Plus the credits were often regressive taxation (new car buyers are wealthy, and the trickle down is too far away to be carbon friendly).

Taxation was added per km on NZ for EVs, so that roads are funded by EVs too (roads were mostly funded by petrol/diesel taxes). Article said "which they claim is to fund road repairs traditionally supported by gas taxes". NZ roads are mostly funded by very expensive petrol/diesel taxes.

Political aside: I have been wondering what Musk's goal was in taking on the poisoned job with doge: Trump hasn't been helping Musk and I can't see why he would.
by brudgers | 2025-05-23 00:34:37+00:00
once you saw fit to do so

I have no access to the code base. My supposition is based on some professional exposure to “broken window policy”, the nature of the comments in this thread, and what a rational actor might do if similar remarks were likely to under dead comments if that rational actor was motivated to create an environment fostering intellectually interesting comments.

To put it another way, I assume in the long run Hobbes is usually accurate. The sovereign’s sole responsibility is to keep the peace, and a Platonic philosopher king is the best outcome we are likely to get…which is to say that peace is kept by means most conducive to making each social contract a win-win.

But it is still a social contract. If a person doesn’t find its execution acceptable, a philosopher king allows them to leave with their health intact.

Again, I did not change the codebase.
by simne | 2025-05-23 00:34:41+00:00
I could very easy point you to problem: to fast pump large volume of liquid, need high pressure, and in this case will need fast connector for high pressure.

If you will look at Russian R-7 rocket, it have specific "package" design even without propellant crossfeed, but just to start all engines on ground.

And connector for typical rocket pressures of 60Atmospheres or more is really hard to do.
by RandomBacon | 2025-05-23 00:35:42+00:00
No, but if anyone is interested: last time I visited the Ala Moana Center (an open-air mall) in Honolulu, I thought that would be a great place to do so: good temperatures, easy access to low-use back hallways, empty storage rooms off said hallways.

There might be other places in Honolulu. Because space has such a premium there, there are a lot of odd/conforming layouts in many different buildings, that it could be very easy to construct something in a corner or dead-end.

There are many walkable parts to the city and bus transportation, many people get by without cars there.

Just don't add to the homeless population there please. It's sad to see families with children in diapers, living in tents at a park :-/ It is not a place to "re-invent" or "discover" yourself, or "start-over".
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-05-23 00:35:57+00:00
I like psychology because I have one and I can just sit and play with it and from doing that, I learn stuff.

Like I learned how high-profile bad behaviors are reliably tied to feelings of helplessness.

I learned how my astoundingly toxic (I mean that with all love dear) ex is more trapped than not. At the least, there is no good choice she can make today that would result in her being better tomorrow - or next year.

After 25yr I can climb into her head and she is so far down that road, I couldn't find my way back if I had A-Games every day.

I learned that people do because they can and don't because they can't. It simply is and being frustrated with it is silly.

Anyway, from that and life, I worked out that a sea change in character generally takes a decade, Glob willing and unrisen creeks.

What I have not worked out is this.

No one anywhere wants to clean their own house.

It's like entropy. It captures and dominates ~every human endeavor eventually. But I don't know why.
by abletonlive | 2025-05-23 00:36:24+00:00
Well when you have a hammer big enough everything is indeed a nail.

Have you considered that instead of resisting you should do more to figure out why you're not getting the results that a lot of us are talking about? If nothing has changed for you in the past 2 years in your productivity the problem is most likely you. Don't you think it's your responsibility as an engineer to figure out what you're doing wrong when there are a lot of people telling you that it's a life changing tool? Or did you just assume that everybody was lying and you were doing everything correctly?

Sorry to say it. It's an unpopular opinion but I think it's pretty much a harsh truth.
by rs186 | 2025-05-23 00:36:31+00:00
This. If Trump is suddenly gone for whatever reason, the succeeding President is going to continue with the MAGA/Project 2025 agenda. Trump may be dumb and stupid, but imagine a US President who is young, energetic and speaks coherently that continues with the same agenda. (Hint: look at DeSantis and what happened in Florida.)
by ke88y | 2025-05-23 00:38:35+00:00
You’re making a comparison then quoting only one side of that comparison, which is deeply confusing.

I’m pretty damn sure you’re wrong about Europe on a relative basis. The percentages in most of Europe are MUCH higher. Eg Germany is closer to 80% than 50% gov funded.

(Earmarked gifts to an endowment with some level of direction/advice vs a foundation is a real cultural and tax policy difference, but the end effect is what matters and that’s not as simple as you’re suggesting.)

And not to be too flippant, but the question about the world outside of America applies also to the world outside the West ;)
by yojo | 2025-05-23 00:38:52+00:00
Looks like they've figured out the tile format. Haven't grokked the whole codebase, but this seems to be the code for parsing out the data: https://github.com/afwbkbc/glsmac/blob/55fc72047607425149164...

So yeah, someone technical with the map file and half an hour could probably have gotten him the full elevation specs.
by instagib | 2025-05-23 00:38:55+00:00
Valproic Acid is such a unique drug. They did studies which included it and found using only that substance instead of a compound with it led to the benefit without other significant side effects.

It’s on my list. Great news, 11% chance of tinnitus reported in one study and 7% in another. Tinnitus > Migraines any day.

https://reference.medscape.com/drug/valproic-acid-343024
by -__---____-ZXyw | 2025-05-23 00:39:40+00:00
I wonder if we'll look back on this period in a couple of years and feel a nostalgic fondness as we think of the fateful moment when people working in software were forced to pull the wool from their eyes and look at the fact that businesses really, really, really dislike losing huge amounts of money paying people to make the software their businesses completely depend on.

I mean, I'm guessing that's true. It'd make a lot of sense if they vehemently disliked that. It's hard to make sense of it all otherwise, really.
by nickandbro | 2025-05-23 00:39:52+00:00
I am making a vim golf app, https://vimgolf.ai , for my side project where users compete with an AI vim opponent to learn vim and so far claude 4 sonnet (haven't tried opus) is ranked the highest in my evals against o3, o4-mini-high, and gemini 2.5 pro. After 3 retries, it solves this challenge:

https://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/5957c3356f7e17045b00002c

here is a snippet of its thinking process pinpointing the exact problem with getting it to successfully transform the start file to the end file:

So I need to add a space between "string" and the backtick.

Let me think about what's happening. In my commands:

1. `5G$a `xml:"field1"``<Esc>` 2. `6G$a `xml:"field2"``<Esc>` 3. `7G$a `xml:"field3"``<Esc>`

The issue might be that I'm not actually including a space character in my command. Let me be very explicit about this. I need to use `<Space>` to represent the space character.
by stevenhuang | 2025-05-23 00:40:04+00:00
Not to mention general UI jank that is present for years.

Start Firefox and right click anywhere to open the context menu. If it's the first time that specific menu is opened, you can a flash of nothing and then see a few frames of the css being inflated.

Contrast that to Chrome and you don't get any sort of jank.

Small things like this add up to an overall feel of unpolish.
by stingraycharles | 2025-05-23 00:40:41+00:00
What would the benefits be of actual time concepts being trained into the weights? Isn’t just tokenizing the dates and including those as normal enough to yield benefits?

E.g. it probably has a pretty good understanding between “second world war” and the time period it lasted. Or are you talking about the relation between “current wall clock time” and questions being asked?
by Nevermark | 2025-05-23 00:41:20+00:00
It is always nice when somebody solves some obvious simple problem, ... and my first thought is, "Omg life is going to be so much better!"

Congrats on identifying and resolving such a prevelant bottleneck.

I just installed it, it works great, looks great, and you have my money! :)

The import/export option is really helpful. [0]

Also the close-apps-not-in-the-dock-feature is interesting.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44065229

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The great reward of great work is a high value windfall of unrealistic feature requests from strangers who have never done a damn thing for you, of course!

Feel free to ignore the following...

> VISIBLE NAME OF DOCK <

Any way to show the dock's name would underline the current context for those of us whose minds wander.

Possible in the dock? Possible in the menu bar?

Possible to have an optional floating unframed rounded rectangle window with just the name, to the right or left of the dock? Or in a chosen screen corner?

It could double as a switch-dock menu button!

I can't be prompted enough to stay on task...

> APP GROUP DIVIDERS <

I would love to be able to add space-dividers between groups of icons on the dock. An elegant subtle indicator would be a little extra space between apps, containing a black concave-sided up-side-down-V "⋏", with its bottom horizontally aligned with the "app open" dots (when the doc is horizontal), and its top a third or half-way up the dock, so that curved V sides mirrored the curved bottom corners of the right and left adjacent apps.

Or just a vertical bar like the one that exists.

(It might be excessive, but I may create my own collection of "apps" that do nothing but quit when launched, with an icon that looks like a divider. Desperate times call for desperate measures.)

> HIDE AND UNHIDE APPS <

Suggestion: "hide apps not in the dock", and "unhide apps when they return to the dock" features. Then app states would not be lost.

Hidden open no-longer-dock-pinned apps would stay in the dock, but be grouped at the right, as usual.

> DIFFERENT DOCKS ON DIFFERENT SPACES <

Along those lines, different docks on different spaces would be amazing.

> MULTIPLE DOCKS AS A SET <

Choosing a dock, would actually choose a dock set.

> DEFAULT LAUNCH DOCK, ON BOOT UP <

Might be nice?

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I would happily pay a $5 in-app purchase for "lifetime access" for any useful features you add, each.

If optional features are genuinely useful, having the choice to mindfully complicate my tools, or skip them, makes paying for them separately not only reasonable, but supports you doing this important work for me!! I mean for the world!

Well, I can dream and dream.

Regardless of any of that, it's perfect, great job!
by groby_b | 2025-05-23 00:42:35+00:00
While that's a great slogan: The infra you need to create and update models dwarfs inference infra. Without that liability, you won't get a working model.

No, the infra itself isn't the moat. Being in an economic position that allows you to expend the resources necessary to run training is one, though. And the cost & speed advantages you realize from utilizing scale (and economies thereof) locally instead of renting means you'll have infra as a signifier of that economic advantage.

And at that point, the additional inference infra is cost-efficient enough that you might as well just have it too, because it's both profit and a better barrier than obfuscation or licensing.
by randomor | 2025-05-23 00:42:36+00:00
It's actually all saved in ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist as bookmarks. You can drop that into https://chatgpt.com/g/g-6811b049cbdc8191b91c6ed291a88e4f-dou... which is a custom GPT I created for DoubleMemory. And see if it works. I do have plans to automate this in the future, right now still trying to collect feature requests confirmation tho.
by creer | 2025-05-23 00:43:23+00:00
That's a good answer. For art rather than design work: First, the main art buyers have massive pools of artists who want to work for them and apply - just like programmers. In some of these fields, one of the jobs of the art director is to keep an eye on who is around and how they are coming along in their skills. (Smaller buyers of art, like marketing agencies have built a network of freelancers). Second, many artists are terrible at business. Third you were looking for one-off work, not to hire an artist. So there is the issue of style. Some artists will work in any style but not many. So you look for images you like, and you talk to the artist.

And then because "terrible at business" you try to manage deliverables, ownership, timeframes, style again, unexpected insertion of political messages, etc, etc. Not impossible but likely none of this what you expected - until you put it on paper. There are art contract models out there.

There are forums where artists in specific narrow niches will post commission sheets and such - but they are niche forums for these niche interests. Just finding the forums (perhaps on discord) can be VERY difficult. See again "terrible at business".
by alaxhn | 2025-05-23 00:43:26+00:00
> It's mostly ideological posturing about something that sounds scary to them. I think it's fair to be frustrated that a lot of political discourse is driven by appealing to fear rather than discussing facts in goodwill but I'm not sure that's isolated to only one particular party. I do think we tend to notice when people we don't like are not operating in good faith and tend to look the other way when people we do like are not operating in good faith so to someone firmly on one side of the spectrum it can definitely look like the opposition is particularly slimy.

> people who are being hired to teach in a classroom that will include a diverse group of students

I don't remotely understand how this is relevant to whether a particular instructor should be hired or not. If I need to learn math, then I want my instructor to be knowledgeable, personable, patient, good at explanations, and dedicated to their work. I don't care what equipment they have between their legs, what color it is, or who they want to use it with. We can take a look at example diversity statements online https://physicalsciences.ucsd.edu/_files/examples-submitted-... and we will notice people feel empowered to talk about their sexuality, race, gender etc but they never proudly mentioned things like "I am a white heterosexual man from the US" but if you swap words to a new value in the relevant categories i.e. "I am a Latinx queer woman from Mexico" this suddenly becomes relevant to the exercise. If changing the color, sexuality, gender, or place of origin for an applicant is relevant to the outcome then this seems like a discriminatory process (https://www.justice.gov/crt/nondiscrimination-basis-race-col...).

I do think it's perfectly ok for people to disagree with me here and I expect that if their representatives get in power we will see funding and priorities shift back towards more required diversity statements while also shifting to allow admissions processes to take into account things like race, sexuality, and gender etc which is just the reality of living in a democracy.
by EdwardKrayer | 2025-05-23 00:44:13+00:00
I agree with this article. But, I do think it's important to understand that these tools do have value - especially when learning. I also think a lot of the issues raised will improve when we can increase context length. Googling problems, and having obsolete answers from 2007 also slow down progress, but we're not saying Google is worthless for serving those results.

These tools will get better, and they will eventually allow the best to extend their ability instead of both slowing them down and potentially encouraging bad practices. But it will take time, and increased context length. The world is full of people who don't care about best practice, and if that's all the task requires of them - keep on keeping on.
by monero-xmr | 2025-05-23 00:44:19+00:00
Non-technical business owners have always had deep anxiety about software development. They don’t understand it, it’s very expensive, timelines can explode, and a hack or leak can materially damage their business.

A reasonably smart CEO can pretty much understand, in depth, every aspect of their business. But when it comes to tech, which is often the most essential part, they are left grasping, and must rely on the expertise of other people, and thus their destiny is not really in their control, other than by hiring the best they can and throwing money at R&D.

The AI and the hype around it plays into their anxieties, and also makes them feel like they have control over the situation.

In biotech, the Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) is often given much more authority in startups than the CTO in tech startups, I have noticed.
by Jcampuzano2 | 2025-05-23 00:44:54+00:00
As a preface, I think lots of people will not like this take.

A lot of people are going to have to come to the realization that has already been mentioned before but many find it hard to grasp.

Your boss, stakeholders, and especially non-technical people literally give 0 fucks about "quality code" as long as it does what they want it to do. They do not care about tests insofar as if it works it works. Many have no clue about nor do they care about whether something just refetches the world in certain scenarios. And AI whether we like it or not, whether it repeats the same shit and isnt DRY, doesn't follow patterns, reinvents the wheel, etc - is already fairly good at that.

This is exactly why all your stakeholders and executives are pushing you to use it. they've been fed that it just gets shit done and pumps out code like nothing else.

I really think a lot of the reason some people say it doesn't give them as much productivity as they would like is due largely to a desire to write "clean" code based on years and years of our own training, and due to having to be able to pass code review done by your peers. If these obstacles were entirely removed and we went full bandaid off I do think AI even in its current state is fairly capable of replacing plenty of roles. But it does require a competent person to steer to not end up in a complete mess.

If you throw away the guardrails a little bit and not obsess about how nice code looks anymore, it absolutely will move things along faster than you could before.
by nyarlathotep_ | 2025-05-23 00:46:47+00:00
> I feel this in my bones. Every day I'm getting challenged by leadership that we're not using AI enough, told that I should halve my estimates because "we'll use AI", and being told that there's a new AI tool that I have to adopt because someone is tracking KPIs related to adoption and if our team doesn't adopt enough AI tools we're going to be fired to give more headcount to those that do.

This--all of this--seems exactly antithetical to computing/development/design/"engineering"/architecture/whatever-the-hell people call this profession as I understood it.

Typically, I labored under the delusion that competent technical decision makers would integrate tooling or choose to use a language, "service", platform, whatever, if they saw benefits and if they could make a "case" for why something was the correct approach, i.e how it met some product's needs, addressed some shortcomings, made things more efficient.

Like "here's my design doc, I chose $THING for caching for $REASON and $DATASTORE as it offers blah blah"

"Please provide feedback and questions"

This is totally alien to that approach.

Ideally, "hey we're going to use CoPilot/other LLM thingy, let us know if it aids your workflow, give us some report in a month and we'll go from there to determine if we want to keep paying for it"
by anigbrowl | 2025-05-23 00:47:42+00:00
I mean both of those options (minus the locking up) were tried last time. Even if Democrats were to win elections as described, another round of apologies and saying nice things about institutionalism is not going to cut. I felt pretty sure Trump had a good chance of being re-elected from 2022 onward, Democrats simply didn't want to believe that a large part of the electorate are assholes or that they would need to change up their policy/electoral/comms game. Some of them still don't want to believe it.
by aduwah | 2025-05-23 00:49:27+00:00
You do you obviously, but in my opinion this is a mistake. You sacrifice a lot of personal time and your health for a work that: a. Could accommodate better time for meetings b. Cares absolutely nothing about you

I am working remote for about 10 years now. I had zero meetings after 8pm and I work with 8h diff from the US where my company is.

Having stomach issues after meetings for an extended period (even for short periods) is clearly not normal. Anxiety is a good guess or just plain exhaustion. All the "fake it until you make it" and "do the crunch now rest later" BS is just that. BS. Take it easy, your body will be grateful for it.

I just had an ex-colleague pass away at the age of 40 last week due to a heart attack. He was a gym going dude with good health even. He was not the only one in my 20 years career, just the last one. It never worth it.
by tuatoru | 2025-05-23 00:50:19+00:00
> pushing people into real-world industries where hands-on labor still matters.

Your average worker in the Anglosphere is forty-plus and pre-diabetic, has a weak back and joints, and has low cardiovascular fitness, from decades of sitting down. It'll go swimmingly!

This reset just impoverishes everybody including those pushing it. Maybe they are Lovecraftian monsters that feed off mass pain.
by danpalmer | 2025-05-23 00:51:40+00:00
My previous company averaged 2 PRs (and deploys) per engineer per day across a small team. At my current company I'm averaging about 2.5 CLs per day (they're a bit smaller changes). Stripe is good at this, but this is very achievable.

Often the problem is that we put too much into a single change. Smaller changes means easier reviews, better reviews, less risky deploys, forces better tooling for deployments and change management, often lower latency, and even often leads to higher throughput because of less WIP taking up head space and requiring context switching. The benefits are so compounding that I think it's very undervalued in some orgs.
by bravetraveler | 2025-05-23 00:52:40+00:00
I suspect experienced folks are well aware of the subjectivity of quality. How? Change control.

Quality control exists until The Business deems otherwise. The reasons vary: vulnerability, promotion, whatever. Usually not my place to say.

Personally, my 'product' isn't code. Even the 'code' isn't code. For every 8 hours of meetings I do, I crank out maybe 20 lines of YAML (Ansible). Then, another 4 hours of meetings handing that out/explaining the same basics for Political Points.

The problem(s) relating to speed or job security have remarkably little to do with code; generated or not. The people I work with are functionally co-dependent because they don't use LLMs or... manuals.

All this talk about "left behind"... to survive a bear, one doesn't have to be the fastest. Just not the slowest.