MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gruez | 2025-05-20 00:23:29+00:00
>the prior state of affairs wasn't that shareholders named someone to allocate corporations' money into various political projects. It was that shareholders (and society writ large) expected executives to be a positive impact on all relevant stakeholders. Dumping toxic material into the river is bad even if it improves margins, not because it's illegal, but because it's damaging to the other stakeholders you are supposed to benefit.

This seems like you're viewing the past with rose tinted glasses. The whole point of the passage of the clean air act (1963) and the EPA was that companies were dumping toxic materials into rivers, even under "stakeholder capitalism" (your article says that the Friendman doctrine was introduced in 1970). Same goes with all the other example of corporate malfeasance, such as The Jungle (published 1906), or Unsafe at Any Speed (1965).
by vkou | 2025-05-20 00:23:32+00:00
The head of the ICC, Karim Khan issued an arrest warrant for Putin in 2023[1], so of course, Russia has issued an arrest warrant for him.

A year goes by, and the government of the world's other large rogue state responded thusly, to the ICC's consideration of arrest warrants for both Netanyahu and Hamas leaders:

> On 24 April 2024, Khan was sent a letter signed by 12 Republican U.S. senators[c] threatening him and other UN jurists and their families with personal consequences if the ICC were to seek an international arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu or other members of the Israeli government. The letter cited the American Service-Members' Protection Act – known informally as "The Hague Invasion Act"[42] – which specifically includes "all means".[43][44] The signatories said they would view any arrest warrant as "a threat not only to Israel's sovereignty, but also to the sovereignty of the United States". They threatened: "Target Israel and we will target you", and that any further action would "end all American support for the ICC" and "exclude [Khan and his associates and employees] and their families from the United States". The letter ended: "You have been warned."[45]
by lightandlight | 2025-05-20 00:23:41+00:00
I'm encouraged by what you've shared here. My impression of this topic is that it attracts a lot of cranks: "The secrets of the universe have been revealed, and you are all blind!" Sounds like you're open to feedback and the possibility of being wrong.

My main concern is that it will be hard for you to find people who could give you excellent feedback on this, because they probably have epistemic shields up around this topic due to all the surrounding crankery. I don't know how to solve this, but I wish you luck.
by cwillu | 2025-05-20 00:24:26+00:00
“This is not relevant to your point but I want to say that's an entirely third party project and we didn't even know about it for a long time. We don't publish data to them except in the sense that we publish it to everybody: https://github.com/HackerNews/API. I think their page gives a misleading impression that the project is somehow official, when it's not (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43850991).” --dang at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44022318

There is no such thing as an offical y combinator data
by greenavocado | 2025-05-20 00:24:58+00:00
I think you can find the authentic content you are looking for here: https://www.horizonsunlimited.com/

This is probably the wildest story. A couple drove across the Democratic Republic of Congo from Lubumbashi to Kinshasa on their own.

https://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hubb/ride-tales/democratic...
by lurking_swe | 2025-05-20 00:25:25+00:00
since when does entry level IT “call the shots” on reviewing code that gets deployed to prod?

Sure a junior programmer or devops may do something dumb. That’s not the problem - at all. The problem is pretending they are a professional. They are not. They are juniors that need mentorship and should be _expected_ to mess up frequently.

To use a different analogy. If I bring my car to the mechanic, i’m OK with the new guy working on my car, assuming that the senior mechanic, you know, double checks their work. Is that not a reasonable assumption?

None of this makes ANY sense to me. To be blunt.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-05-20 00:26:01+00:00
Nope, I'm saying that all things being equal, you would expect a philosophical shift from stakeholder capitalism to shareholder supremacy to yield wage suppression, runaway wealth inequality, and hijacking or destruction of government by private interests.

Prior to stakeholder capitalism, industrialization was downright inhumane. After stakeholder capitalism, it's trending toward social and political instability.

During stakeholder capitalism: considered the glory days of American civilization (despite its serious flaws, which we need not ignore).

Could be a coincidence! But I actually think people's beliefs shape their actions, and "my god-given duty is to generate shareholder returns, all else be damned" looks like a prime candidate for all sorts of post-1970 corporate misbehavior.

(The Jungle predates stakeholder capitalism. The Jungle, Silent Spring and Unsafe At Any Speed were forces within that philosophical movement)
by b-man | 2025-05-20 00:26:08+00:00
> Memory, and CPU, and even storage eventually, those would be the main practical examples of where having a key that's composed of something very small saves you space and thus, time.

> Say we want to use a bigint key vs a VARCHAR(30)? depending on your big key you might be talking about terabytes of additional data, just to store a key (1t rows @ bigint = 8TB, 1T rows at 30 chars? 30TB...). The data also is going to constantly shuffle (random inserts).

>> Joins, lookups, indexes

I don't see how what you brought up has anything to do with these.

But the main point is being missed here because of a physical vs logical conflation anyhow.
by Cloudef | 2025-05-20 00:27:34+00:00
While flakes have their own "checks" thing, what I do is just have a app definition in flake with the required dependencies.

https://github.com/Cloudef/zig-aio/blob/master/flake.nix#L25...

https://github.com/Cloudef/zig-budoux/blob/master/flake.nix#...

The actual GA workflow file is pretty simple: https://github.com/Cloudef/zig-aio/blob/master/.github/workf...
by CoolCold | 2025-05-20 00:27:57+00:00
First opening of my main wsl2 Ubuntu 22.04 instance takes roughly 20 seconds, the next new terminals opens in ~1s. As it happens once a 3 weeks or so when Windows rebooted for updates, I don't care much.

It takes me more time to fill passwords for ssh keys to agent anyways.

Granted, I'm not using native docker inside.
by ClumsyPilot | 2025-05-20 00:28:19+00:00
> Capitalism doesn't preclude public infrastructure. That's just a facile argument

I am measuring by the same yardstick as the OP.

If taxes to pay for public services are good capitalism, then you can’t call Europe socialist.

> The modern LED was developed by…

Whatever, take Hyperbaric welding. Will a western oil company refuse to use it because it was invented in USSR?

The fundamental accusation of the OP is totally hypocritical.
by Lalo-ATX | 2025-05-20 00:28:40+00:00
> They have it because they don't spend on defense like the USA does.

That doesn't feel right to me.

In the most recent year with data, as a percentage of gdp:

party healthcare military

eu 10.95% 1.56%

usa 17.36% 3.45%

stark difference, but "the only reason eu has socialized healthcare is because of their low military spending" just doesn't reconcile in my mind to the above numbers

[source data](https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/euu/eur...)
by coderenegade | 2025-05-20 00:29:01+00:00
I use Windows with wsl for work, and Linux and MacOS at home. Windows is a mess, it blows my mind that people pay for it. Sleep has worked less reliably on my work machine than my Fedora Thinkpad, and my Fedora machine is more responsive in pretty much every way despite having modest specs in comparison. Things just randomly stop working on Windows in a way that just doesn't happen on other OSes. It's garbage.
by jimt1234 | 2025-05-20 00:29:04+00:00
Wally, totally relaxed, reading the newspaper, as everyone else is freaked out, trying to meet an upcoming deadline. Everyone later learns that all the current projects have been cancelled by the new VP, just to make the previous VP look bad. I believe this is when Asok, the intern, started calling Wally "the master", something like that.
by yen223 | 2025-05-20 00:29:05+00:00
Windows has been the backbone of desktop computing for decades, and it certainly isn't free. People relying on open-source software seems to be a relatively new phenomenon, starting in the early-2000s.

For what it's worth, I absolutely share your concerns around the fact that LLM models are now proprietary. I want to see more open-source (or at least open-weight) models being built
by wkat4242 | 2025-05-20 00:29:51+00:00
We don't do any of that. Our DEI program is just about training for hiring managers to recognise bias.

Also, DEI is about giving people with special needs the things they require to function. And providing managers insights into the things they might struggle with. We do information packs about LGBT, different religions etc just so managers understand and can accommodate. We have resource networks for managers (and really, all employees) that have questions about such things. We organise awareness events about LGBT and minority topics so employees can learn from each other and create a better understanding. And it works. It's not just about hiring but also creating better awareness for existing employees.

We do look at numbers to guage how we're doing but nobody is being penalised. If we have very few minorities compared to the local demographics it just means our trainings are not getting heard properly and we need to improve them.

I would go as far as to say that a company that has strict quotas doesn't really care about DEI. They just want a quick fix. This is not how these things work. You're working with people, not numbers.

What bothers me the most is that the Trump administration is even trying to force foreign companies like my employer to abandon DEI programs. It's none of their business what we do in the EU. We like what we do and we're not going to change. They cherrypick a few bad examples and pretend everyone works like that.
by Manuel_D | 2025-05-20 00:30:36+00:00
Then DEI proponents should be honest about the fact that DEI isn't about curbing discrimination, but deliberately engaging in positive discrimination.

One of the biggest things about the DEI discourse that puts me off is the dishonesty of it. Many, perhaps most, DEI advocates attempt to argue that policies like withholding executive bonuses if their org isnt X% women and Y% URM isn't discrimination. Heck, I've encountered one former co-worker argue that allocating a segment of headcout exclusive to women wasn't discrimination, because it's "extra" headcount. If I have 100 headcount and I prohibit men from 20 of them that's discrimination, but if I have 80 headcount and I add 20 "extra" heads exclusively available to women that's not discrimination, according to this former co-worker's logic.

It's one thing to advance a controversial policy and stand by it earnestly. It's another to advance a controversial policy while lying about it to people's faces. DEI is unfortunately often carried out via the latter fashion. And realistically, that's the only way it can be carried out under our present set of laws, because discrimination on the basis of race and gender are illegal nation-wide in the USA.
by knowitnone | 2025-05-20 00:31:30+00:00
We certainly do know how bats see with their ears. It's called echo-location - very similar to sonar/radar - which we do all the time. "Sheepdogs can herd sheep better than any human." Running faster the humans allows them to do that. If humans ran that fast, I'm sure we could do it too. "intelligent considering how physically small their brains" there's no correllation between brain size and intelligence. "Dragonflies have been around for hundreds of millions of years and are exquisitely highly evolved to carry out their primary function of eating other bugs." That's basic evolution, what's the point? Feels like this was writeen written by AI. Should have just gotten to the point without all this exposition.
by joefourier | 2025-05-20 00:31:38+00:00
While true in a theoretical sense (an MLP of sufficient size can theoretically represent any differentiable function), in practice it’s often the case that it’s impossible for a certain architecture to learn a specific task no matter how much compute you throw at it. E.g. an LSTM will never capture long range dependencies that a transformer could trivially learn, due to gradients vanishing after a certain sequence length.
by zie | 2025-05-20 00:31:42+00:00
It does, it's not perfect, but nothing ever is.

I haven't tried putting it behind Authentik or Authelia. They make it known in the Authelia guide what it is they care about being always exposed, vs password protected. Hopefully you get it figured out and you can update the docs so the next person doesn't have the same headache!

I just put it behind a <uuid>.mydomain.com with a domain TLS cert and use the built-in auth.

The wildcard TLS cert keeps the <uuid> from being public in the cert log. The only way you know the URL is if you have access to my DNS queries or have a MITM setup. Plus you still have to know my password.

Good Enough for me.

If I cared a bit more I'd put it behind Tailscale/Nebula/etc instead of having it publicly accessible. Maybe next time I'm bored I'll do that.
by phire | 2025-05-20 00:31:51+00:00
The gamecube had a completely fixed function vertex pipeline (though, only a few N64 games used custom μcode. For the rest, it might has well been fixed function, and was had less functionality than the gamecube)

But per-vertex lighting was kind of old and boring by even 1995, it massively limited your art style. You really wanted per-pixel lighting.

The GameCube's vertex pipeline was very fixed function, but its Pixel pipeline was quite programmable. Far more programmable than the N64. It was basically equivalent to the Xbox's pixel shaders, more advanced in some ways. But because it wasn't exposed with the pixel shader programming model, many people don't consider it to be "programmable" at all.

*And in many ways, you shouldn't consider the xbox and other DirectX 8.0 shaders to be fully programmable. You were limited to 8-16 instructions, with no control flow at all. On the gamecube, instead of 8-16 instructions, you had 16 stages, each being equivalent to an instruction. The N64 had just two stages, which were less flexible. True Fixed function pixel pipelines (like on the PS1, PS2 or Dreamcast) have just a single stage, and very little configurability.

Those "texture tricks" are per-pixel lighting. Many of them aren't possible on fixed function GPUs like the PS2, they required both textures and a reasonably programmable pixel pipeline.

Even today, most per-pixel lighting is done with a mix of textures and shaders.
by b-man | 2025-05-20 00:32:45+00:00
> Trying to tamp out these ambiguities adds an unbounded number of data model epicycles that add a lot of complexity and performance loss

If you can talk about a business rule, you have a predicate. If you have a predicate, you can make it 5 or 6 normal form, since all that means is that your relation expresses only and completely the predicate.

It seems that your definition of normalization is not the one that I am using above. What is it?
by rowanajmarshall | 2025-05-20 00:33:13+00:00
Then you should also look at Wayve (self-driving cars, $1 billion Series C), Lighthouse (travel and rental data, $370 million Series C), Highview Power (novel energy storage, £300 million). Lots more too. I won't deny that the UK specialises in fintech, but there's a lot more going on than that.
by flobosg | 2025-05-20 00:33:45+00:00
Since Christian Bök’s Xenotext was recently discussed here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43974005), check out “The March of the Nucleotides”: https://x.com/christianbok/status/1064741910948995072

In this case the edges of the river represent DNA base pairs: A on one side has always a T in front of it; the same with C and G.
by patcon | 2025-05-20 00:34:30+00:00
Heh thanks for sharing. my boundary between self and other feels much more blurry :)

Like if I overhear a conversation, watch a documentary, and read a billboard, and ideas from each recombine in my head to create some interpolated idea, I'm not even sure how much I get credit for that, I suppose

My role seems just to tend to the garden of my mind, so new things might grow there that I can share. AI is just another plant, or maybe it's another gardener who brings me clippings or seeds.

I dunno, just the idea of me doing almost anything "myself" feels a bit challenging to my worldview. I see no particularly honour in thinking of something in isolation (in fact, being immersed in other ideas/ppl/inspiration seems the key ingredient)... except insofar as stealing ideas or failing to attribute seems dishonest

(I'm not saying my worldview is the right one btw)

EDIT: recently heard about the Schwartz theory of basic human values, and guessing you score much higher than me on "self-direction" :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_basic_human_values
by taurath | 2025-05-20 00:34:49+00:00
> In the repo where we're building the agent, the agent itself is actually the #5 contributor - so we really are using Copilot coding agent to build Copilot coding agent ;)

Thats a fun stat! Are humans in the #1-4 slots? Its hard to know what processes are automated (300 repos sounds like a lot of repos!).

Thank you for sharing the numbers you can. Every time a product launch is announced, I feel like its a gleeful announcement of a decrease of my usefulness. I've got imposter syndrome enough, perhaps Microsoft might want to speak to the developer community and let us know what they see happening? Right now its mostly the pink slips that are doing the speaking.
by zeroq | 2025-05-20 00:35:08+00:00
I'm super happy that this is getting funding and won't become vaporeware at least for another season, because it's super important to have a stable foundation for homebrew solutions.

However I'm not entierly sold on this being an actual alternative to auth0 and such - at least for now. For a drop-in solution lack of mail and dashboard can be a real deal breaker.
by crazylogger | 2025-05-20 00:35:25+00:00
Surely at that point the CEO would be AI as well.

The owner (human) would say "build a company, make me a billion dollars" and that would be the only valuable input needed from him/her. Everything else would be derived & executed by the AI swarm, while owner plays video games (or generally enjoy the product of other people's AI-labor) 100% of the time.

I'd argue GPT4 (2022) was already AGI. It could output anything you (or Tim Cook, or any other smart guy) could possibly output given the relevant context. The reason it doesn't right now is we are not passing in all your life's context. If we achieve this, a human CEO has no edge over an AI CEO.

People are figuring this problem out very quickly, therefore the explosion of agentic capabilities happening right now even though the base model fundamentally does the same stuff as GPT4.
by ericrosedev | 2025-05-20 00:36:02+00:00
It looks like Copykitten is the sweet spot to me, with a focus on keeping miscommunication to a minimum. I wonder where, between 0% and 1%, there is a noticeable deviation, because I find the idea of the Copykitten more nuanced than the copycat, but the copycat always wins somewhere between 0 and 1.
by mindcrime | 2025-05-20 00:36:28+00:00
Wow. Very sad news. :-(

I know this will sound dumb, but it's really hard to put into words how much I enjoyed Dilbert in its heyday. I mean at one time Dilbert was one of three web-comics that I read religiously. It was Dilbert, User Friendly, and Sluggy Freelance. The comics weren't just "comics", they mattered to me. Seriously.

Then UF quit publishing new episodes, and then Scott went all alt-right and Dilbert disappeared behind a paywall, and now only Sluggy is still standing. I guess. I have to admit, I quit reading regularly quite some time for reasons I can't even explain.

Anyway... not sure what the relevance of all of this is. Just reminiscing about a day when the 'Net felt a lot different I guess. At any rate, while I'd become less of a "Scott Adams fan" over the last few years, this news still makes me feel absolutely sick. I wouldn't wish prostate cancer on anyone. :-(
by lurking_swe | 2025-05-20 00:36:44+00:00
> The civil servant developers working on them do what they can, but they have been warming management, who have warned government, that they systems are insecure, but govt won't spend money on updating them.

Makes sense. So if i’m understanding this right, the fault basically lies with the decision maker(s) in government who said “nope, not worth paying $x to secure/maintain our systems”

Sounds to me like they shouldn’t be allowed to create these public facing systems in the first place if they can’t afford (or don’t want to) maintain them. no?

That would be like paying someone to build a bridge for you and then deciding to purposely ignore maintenance on the bridge when the experts warn you it needs maintenance.
by conradev | 2025-05-20 00:37:00+00:00
The primary point I was trying to make in saying that "x is subsidizing y" is that it is literally unsustainable. All net metering has to (and will) end at some point along the curve from 0% to 100% rooftop solar adoption because it becomes financially unsustainable for the utility.

Which doesn't mean it's bad policy! The solar industry needs help to grow. But this sort of thing (utilities ending net metering) is only to be expected. California switched to NEM 3.0 with only 20% rooftop solar adoption. Nationally we are at like 4-5% (but I might be out of date).

https://americanexperimentnd.org/stealing-with-solar-how-wea...
by snvzz | 2025-05-20 00:37:05+00:00
With this, China is ahead.

HarmonyOS is a modern (post-Liedtke) microkernel, multi-server OS.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world is stuck with the likes of Linux (monolithic), Windows NT (ugly hybrid) and MacOS (pre-liedtke Mach, hybrid, ugly).

Good technology exists (e.g. seL4, genode, RISC-V) but we seem to be stuck investing into bad tech.
by brendoelfrendo | 2025-05-20 00:38:24+00:00
Hm, I think Plato is largely true; not in the sense that writing is a harmful crutch, but in the sense that simply being able to read something is not a substitute for knowing it. I think we can see that at play here on HN and on the larger internet all the time: people who read a paper or article, and then attempt to discuss it, without realizing that their understanding of the material is entirely incorrect. These are "men filled not with wisdom but the conceit of wisdom," and they lack the awareness to understand that they don't understand.

In other words it is not the writing that is harmful, but the lack of teaching.