MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eru | 2025-05-24 05:52:38+00:00
It's almost always good to ask about what evidence we have.

I'd say that our prior should be that there's more cheating. My logic:

Almost any good or service gets consumed more when its price drops (especially if quality also goes up). Cheating has gotten massively cheaper in terms of effort: you no longer have hire a ghostwriter for your essay, or laboriously plagiarise passages from the literature yourself.
by jibal | 2025-05-24 05:54:07+00:00
"A shell script is something very different"

So what? Maybe read the thread that you're responding to.

"And even a 20 year old shell script is probably going to fare pretty poorly."

You can't just say "my sweeping assertion is probably right". I have shell scripts that are more than 20 years old that still run. And I have C89 programs that still compile and run.

"I’d really like to see you getting a version of, say. OpenSSL from 2005 to compile on modern hardware…"

This is a ridiculous disingenuous strawman. I can't get my FORTRAN II programs that I wrote in 1965 to run, but that has nothing to do with the original claim that I responded to, which was a sweeping generalization that a SINGLE counterexample refutes.

Over and out.
by josephcsible | 2025-05-24 05:54:27+00:00
> There is a lesson here. And it's a valuable one to share. Don't purchase your own stuff with your own card. Most payment processors have defined test card numbers for this purpose.

This seems like victim blaming. And although the OP in this case did that, it didn't happen in the rest of the ones I linked.

Also, did you miss this part?

> We're able to continue accepting payments for your business moving forward as long as all future transactions come from customers and not from you.

He kept his end of the bargain, but Stripe didn't keep theirs.
by xp84 | 2025-05-24 05:55:04+00:00
> drive 15 miles to the grocery store and back,

Okay, but you're inventing a strawman there, since there are millions of places to live that are far closer than 15 miles away from basic services. The outskirts of Massena for instance, are about 2 miles from Walmart.

> whoever is The Employer in that region - if you lose your job there, you're fucked

The article is specifically about how with a low cost of living you don't even need full time work. It's not about moving to a company town to work a 9-5 at a factory.

> a city get some federal funding for electric or hybrid transit busses that will serve several thousand people a day

I mean, they most definitely do get that federal funding -- this fiscal year there is $1.5 billion available. Here's[0] last fiscal year's winners. But I assume the meaning of your comment is that it bothers you that someone somewhere complained about that fact? I doubt it's the rural folks complaining, probably car drivers in the city complaining that the money didn't all go to fixing the potholes, the same cranks who complain about bike lanes, etc.

It is interesting how this proposal that people even just consider rural living as a thought experiment seems to have triggered a lot of people. If you love the city yet simultaneously think it's too expensive, other people opening their minds to living somewhere else is good for you. It doesn't have to be for you for it to be an okay idea.

[0] https://www.transit.dot.gov/funding/grants/fy24-fta-bus-and-...
by vouaobrasil | 2025-05-24 05:57:05+00:00
> An open letter published today calls for “all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.”

We need to shut down AI more than that, forever. Otherwise it's just the prisoner's dilemma to create an end technology that is too powerful for us to handle and it will create chaos. The world is better off without AI.
by alephnerd | 2025-05-24 05:57:48+00:00
The Venetian beads discovery is controversial (I think one of the reviewers argued that those style beads only began being manufactured in the 16th and 17th century), but smelted alloys have been discovered for sometime in older Inuit sites [0].

That said, communities like the Yupik have constantly travelled across the Bering and all the way in Uelkal, but I'm not sure we can treat the Inuit in the same context as other First Nations with regards to Pre-Colombian exchange.

Though, that said as well, if there were trade connections, it was most likely extremely limited. Even Hokkaido wasn't truly settled and colonized by the Japanese until the 1860s, and there's a reason Tungusic peoples like the Jurchen and Manchu preferred migrating south into China and Korea instead of northward - it was inhospitable land whose inhabitants were viewed as "barbarians". Sort of similar to how the Greeks and Romans didn't explore far beyond Crimea into Central Asia due to various Indo-European nomadic tribes that they'd view as "barbarians", and relying on second hand information.

Also, the distances are massive - Chukota to the Amur is the same distance as Paris to Baghdad, except with a fraction of the population density.

Loved visiting the Bering Land Bridge Natural Preserve outside Nome though. It was exhilarating. I always wanted to do something similar in Chukota or Sakha as well, but can't with the current political climate. At least I've been able to scratch my ethnographic itch about Paleo-Siberian and Northern Pacific communities when visiting Fairbanks, Seattle, or Hokkaido on occasional visits.

Highly recommend reading "The Shaman's Coat: A Native History of Siberia" by Anna Reid as well. It's what stoked a lot of my interest in Paleo-Siberian peoples. Scratches a similar itch to thinking about Inner Asian communities and the ancestral Puebloans.

[0] - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03054...
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-24 05:58:16+00:00
I hope they can sell Maersk-loads of ClaudeBombs to China, Russia, and North Korea. Can’t wait to see those coming off our American assembly lines!

Is it too /. to punctuate a comment with “You Ignorant Claude!”

Followup: So I asked Meta AI: “can you draw me a schematic diagram of the mechanism from Little Boy, 1945” and Meta AI immediately obliged me with an image of a machine from 1820, designed by the Amish, and annotated by Martians.
by remarkEon | 2025-05-24 05:58:22+00:00
I haven't read everything he's written (who has?) but my take on the literature tells me Harvard is a stand-in for his "Cathedral", and so degrading its power and influence would be a worthy goal for his political project. Take that with a grain of salt, it's been a few years since I actually engaged with what he writes. Though, I should probably try again since NYT did interview him recently. His style is just hard to deal with. It's like Rushdie, in a way, where you need a deep understanding of whatever it is he's talking about for the metaphors to make sense.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/magazine/curtis-yarvin-in...
by mulderc | 2025-05-24 06:03:21+00:00
“56,000 emergency department visits and 2600 hospitalizations, acetaminophen poisoning causes 500 deaths annually in the United States” -Acetaminophen Toxicity Suneil Agrawal; Brian P. Murray; Babak Khazaeni. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK441917/
by seec | 2025-05-24 06:03:52+00:00
You will be paying for the education in the form of very high taxes for all your life, regardless of if you studied or if the quality was good or even useful (something extremely debatable, outside of some key selective universities).

I am always amazed at the quickness of some Americans with socialist sensibilities view EUs governments/systems as some panacea when they are doing pretty bad in many relevant metrics.

The EUs benefit is being able to rely on centuries old infrastructure/history/culture but the modern governance is completely fucked up and largely the complete inverse of what allowed it to get there.

At least in the US if you think your chances are better without a degree or that they are overpriced you can try your luck without having to pay for it your whole life. You decide. In the EU, you have no choice and chances are the money will be used inefficiently for useless studies. And this is exactly what is happening.
by mickelsen | 2025-05-24 06:03:55+00:00
Yeah, I know someone who had a similar experience. When he moved to the US, his employer (McAfee) offered to cover a big tax firm for his filing as part of the relocation package (same employer, just a country transfer). Pretty sure it was PwC. You’d think that would guarantee a smooth process, but according to him, they did a really poor job.

The proposal they put together missed several deductions he qualified for, ignored a lot of info he had sent, and was full of basic mistakes.

In the end, he scrapped their work and filed everything himself. I asked if the IRS ever came back to him about it... so far, no issues.
by xp84 | 2025-05-24 06:04:31+00:00
Indeed, though you could probably do pretty well by getting a NEXUS membership for this use case. At least for now, though obviously US-Canada relations are getting stupider by the week so who knows how many dumb roadblocks will end up being thrown up.

I just noticed that Syracuse has an airport with passenger service, only 2 ½ hours away, so that's another option, if the "international flight" hassle plus border crossing actually burns an hour.
by ToddLevin | 2025-05-24 06:06:17+00:00
You are incorrect - it was not Sotheby's who decided "not to sell", it was the consigner who set their reserve at $70 million, and would not lower it, even though Sothebys actively suggested that they do so a day or two before the sale took place, knowing that they very well might not have somebody who would be willing to bid at the hammer that high. This was entirely the seller's call, and not the auction house's. The seller simply wasn't willing to part with their artwork for less than they felt it was worth, and they were perfectly fine taking it back if it didn't achieve the desired hammer price. It was their artwork, and their decision.
by armchairhacker | 2025-05-24 06:07:58+00:00
I think it's more accurate to say that systems without governance (decentralized?) can't coordinate, because in order to coordinate, there must be ways to onboard newcomers, communicate changes, and resolve disagreements. Additionally, systems without hierarchical governance can barely coordinate (e.g. early Wikipedia, r/place), and the most coordinated systems have a strict hierarchy with either a single leader or closely-aligned leaders.

In order for a protocol like LSP to take off, people must unite behind it. A common issue is that when someone creates a protocol, but others adapt it incorrectly, because they disagree with and/or don't understand some parts. Another issue is that the protocol has a design flaw, so the original creator tries to change it, but the change only goes to some implementers (who may disagree with it or apply it broken). A big company like Microsoft sidesteps these issues because the adopters are employees; being paid, they're motivated to work without disagreeing, fix their bugs, and finish the project, and it's easier for them to communicate with the creator (or at least someone more familiar with the protocol) for guidance and changes.

I'm not super aware of Linux's history and organization, but I believe it has a strict hierarchy with a dictator (Linus). Anyone can submit a patch, but if the patch ignores conventions or otherwise conflicts with other code it will (rightfully) be rejected; you may change those conventions or code if you gain influence and/or convince others, but then they're changed for everyone.*

There are other OSS projects that are widely successful, all (that I'm aware of) with strict governance: e.g. LibreOffice, KDE, Blender, and Rust. In fact, I'd argue KDE is "Linux on the desktop" and works well; there are issues but only because KDE has limited funding, must work on hardware from uncooperative vendors, and people are used to macOS and Windows (if Apple or Microsoft had limited funding, no in-house or connections to hardware vendors, and macOS and Windows weren't already popular, they would probably fare worse than KDE). The author's specific issue highlights a problem with decentralization: he's using NixOS which is separate from KDE. His issue would be solved if the NixOS team became part of the KDE team, or the NixOS team created its own desktop, so that either way the OS + desktop would be under one organization.
by zvrba | 2025-05-24 06:08:51+00:00
> [...] how do you find the code that will run when they do fail? You would have to traverse [...]

I work in a .NET world and there many developers have this bad habit of "interface everything", even if it has just 1 concrete implementation; some even do it for DTOs. "Go to implementation" of a method, and you end up in the interface's declaration so you have to jump through additional hoops to get to it. And you're out of luck when the implementation is in another assembly. The IDE _could_ decompile it if it were a direct reference, but it can't find it for you. When you're out of luck, you have to debug and step into it.

But this brings me to dependency injection containers. More powerful ones (e.g., Autofac) can establish hierarchical scopes, where new scopes can (re)define registrations; similar to LISP's dynamically scoped variables. What a service resolves to at run-time depends on the current DI scope hierarchy.

Which brings me to the point: I've realized that effects can be simulated to some degree by injecting an instance of `ISomeEffectHandler` into a class/method and invoking methods on it to cause the effect. How the effect is handled is determined by the current DI registration of `ISomeEffectHandler`, which can be varied dynamically throughout the program.

So instead of writing

void DoSomething(...) { throw SomeException(...); }

you establish an error protocol through interface `IErrorConditions` and write

void DoSomething(IErrorConditions ec, ...) { ec.Report(...); }

(Alternately, inject it as a class member.) Now, the currently installed implementation of `IErrorConditions` can throw, log, or whatever. I haven't fully pursued this line of though with stuff like `yield`.
by rippeltippel | 2025-05-24 06:09:32+00:00
> From 1983, a metre was considered the distance that light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second (because light travels 299,792,458 metres per second).

So the speed of light was calculated using a previous definition of metre, and that magic number was used to upgrade its own definition? That's a tautology, sounds wrong to me.
by r0ze-at-hn | 2025-05-24 06:10:27+00:00
Very much related to this is "Chain-of-draft"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18600

Similar level of results in a fraction of the tokens resulting in similar quality for less cost for longer runs.

But also when interacting and needing to read the token responses I can read shorter responses way faster so my own speed is faster.
by imadj | 2025-05-24 06:11:27+00:00
It's harsh to compare this to social media personalized feeds when it's fundamentally different.

> if there were the option to turn this off on most social media I would probably take it

This extension has 'manual' mode which only show the search field by default and then you get to fetch results at your command. Very much like an embedded search engine.

Its functionality is more like the book recommendations you come across on goodreads. It only shows when you visit a discussion you're interested in. The nature of this website by itself is quite different from other social media.

But I understand where you're coming from and appreciate you raising awareness.
by xp84 | 2025-05-24 06:11:34+00:00
I have 3 close friends - they live about an hour away, about 8 hours drive away (or about an hour of flying + 1-2 hours driving), and one on the other side of the country.

"Keeping in touch via Internet" for me is a pale imitation of what I want from a friendship. We text a few times a week. I visit each of them 1-2 times a year. I miss them a lot.

This isn't to claim it's impossible to do better. But I have a feeling that especially those on the "urban" side of the friendship just have a hard time making time for say, a Zoom call with you on the same frequency as they may have gone out with you for dinner or drinks. Especially group dynamics don't allow this: If you were part of a group of 5 friends that hung out together, they'll just start hanging out without you, and no time will be opening up in all of their schedules to devote to tele-friendship. Those friendships will suffer.

And remember, the "low cost of living, low earning" thesis we're discussing does mostly rule out even those "cheap" flights (which stop being cheap really quick once you have a family, so multiply all prices by 2, 3, 4...)
Ask HN: Why does AI even bother with high level code?
by sans_souse | 2025-05-24 06:12:30+00:00
Disclaimer: I am not a programmer/coder

AI's native tongue is essentially machine code, is it not? If everything higher level than this is an abstraction created to simplify things (essentially) for human coders, shouldn't AI excel in creating solid efficient programs from the ground-up, entirely at the lowest level?

Hope that made sense if not read the disclaimer ;p
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-05-24 06:12:31+00:00
Germany’s overall tax burden (38%) isn’t much higher than the USA (25%), and it includes healthcare and better education opportunities. Germany is also the best about getting people into the trades if they don’t go to university. You can easily leave your job because your health insurance isn’t married to your employment. At any rate, most Germans aren’t envious of the American system and hardly any of them think it’s generally better.

Trump is lying to you about the EU, you actually have many more choices there than you do in the USA. I really don’t get who falls for that kind of propaganda at this point, but I guess someone does.
by tsimionescu | 2025-05-24 06:14:53+00:00
This seems like a just-so story. Your explanation could make some sense if we were comparing {"e" : "AQAB"} to {"e" : 65537}, but there is no reason why that should be the alternative. The JSON {"e" : "65537"} will be read precisely the same way by any JSON parser out there. Converting the string "65537" to the number 65537 is exactly as easy (or hard), but certainly unambiguous, as converting the string "AQAB" to the same number.

Of course, if you're doing this in JS and have reasons to think the resulting number may be larger than the precision of a double, you have a huge problem either way. Just as you would if you were writing this in C and thought the number may be larger than what can fit in a long long. But that's true regardless of how you represent it in JSON.
by anonymousiam | 2025-05-24 06:14:58+00:00
Okay, so why isn't it done consistently? Some tools report the leading 00 and some don't.

I don't really buy this explanation. It's a very large unsigned number. Everyone knows this. Is there some arbitrary precision library in use that forces large integers to be signed? Even if it were signed, or had the MSB set, it wouldn't change any of the bits, so the key would still be the same. So why would we care about the sign?
by alephnerd | 2025-05-24 06:16:02+00:00
https://ballardpartners.com/team-member/brian-d-ballard/

To talk with this admin, you need a person who's part of the Florida GOP milleu in the 90s. Susie Wiles is the one who's managing/operating the show. Almost everyone who matters in Florida republican politics since the 90s owes favors to her.

Similar to how if you had an in into Chicago or IL Dem politics in the 90s or 2000s, you had an in with the Obama admin becuase of Axelrod, Rahm, and Jack Daley.
by rudedogg | 2025-05-24 06:16:09+00:00
> From what I can tell, it doesn't look like the recent GPT-4o image generation includes the research of the NeurIPS paper you cited. If it did, we wouldn't see a line-by-line generation of the image, which we do currently in GPT-4o, but rather a decoding similar to progressive JPEG.

Going off my bad memory, but I think I remember a comment saying the line-by-line generation was just a visual effect.
by 14 | 2025-05-24 06:16:18+00:00
I understand that and I do know that I am actually very intelligent and smart. Same for my children I mean damn I have already taught my 8 year old how to solder as good as a professional and am working on programming with him. And as a health care worker I can look after even the most difficult complex care clients where other health care workers struggle. That is what I am known for at work. But sometimes seeing literal teens doing things that seem so far ahead of me it
by zuhsetaqi | 2025-05-24 06:16:43+00:00
> Using pen & paper, I have a hard time following my schedule because I don't receive notifications when an event or time block is about to start. LOL

Every morning just create a timer for each event. It’s super fast with Siri/Google Assistant, the prompt is just „Timer <time of the event>“ and it sets a timer. You could also create alarms but with timers you get the benefit to see how much time is left until the event starts.
by Jarwain | 2025-05-24 06:18:01+00:00
First counterexample that comes to mind, you're traveling to a country for one reason or another, and it'd be helpful to learn or know more of the language. The faster you learn, the more helpful it'll be.

Another example, your friend's band's guitarist got sick and you've got a week to learn a full set's worth of music

Generally I find some urgency to be a nice motivator
by tsimionescu | 2025-05-24 06:18:51+00:00
You can write JSON that exclusively uses strings, so this is not really relevant. Sure, maybe it can be considered an advantage that s-expressions force you to do that, though it can also be seen just as easily as a disadvantage. It certainly hurts readability of the format, which is not a 0-cost thing. This is also why all Lisps use more than plain sexps to represent their code: having different syntax for different types helps.
by kolpaque | 2025-05-24 06:19:15+00:00
SweepIQ is basically a Perplexity-style tool, but free — thanks to Amazon affiliate links — and with a stronger focus on topic exploration.

Nice touches: follow-up questions, structured themes, and an “explain like I’m five” option (would love a slider for that).

Rough edges with saving and sources, but overall a solid entry point for learning any topic.
by xp84 | 2025-05-24 06:19:21+00:00
This is very true, that is definitely a sacrifice that they were much more willing to make than most of us today.

They would move 1,000 miles or more, or even across the sea and then send back and forth letters every few months. "Alice had a baby, she named him Robert Joseph. I have secured work at the textile mill, and am saving to buy a plot of land. The weather here is cold in winter, but the summers are somewhat more tolerable."

The interesting thing is, I feel like they moved back then mainly because there wasn't sufficient land or jobs where they came from. Today, the urban dwellers this article is talking about has an equal dearth of land and jobs available to them in the city, but they don't feel like the countryside has anything to offer them either.
by hysan | 2025-05-24 06:19:30+00:00
I might be misreading your reply, but what you’re keying in on and singling out is a tiny fraction of the audience the article is arguing for. My problem is with how shallow this article is and how it throws a wide net that doesn’t cover a ton of situations that prevent people from doing what he claims is possible for just about anyone if they change their mindset. If the argument were just for the subset of users you’re using as an example, then sure? But that’s isn’t as clickbaity and certainly doesn’t support the claim that any young person can just up and do what the writer claims.