MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jopicornell | 2025-05-19 21:30:33+00:00
I cofounded a startup, trying to get innovation funding and I can say this is 100% my experience. Universities don't think a Software for managing dance and culture academies is innovative, but they are in the field.

That was one of the requeriments: to be certified by a university professor. That doesn't make sense: universities are research centers, but not the unique source of innovation (and in our country, not even a source in most fields).

Your comment is pretty on point!
by xethos | 2025-05-19 21:30:56+00:00
My mistake, I'd forgotten Dodge was owned by Stellantis.

That said, multiple American car companies (Dodge, Jeep, Chrystler) going under and ending up owned by an EU conglomorate sure doesn't feel like a stirling defense of GP's claim, I.E., "What the EU builds is not competitive with what America builds"
by CoolCold | 2025-05-19 21:31:03+00:00
never had problems of systemd/2 minutes delays

not sure what would be the correct test here, but:

root@LP-T16:~# uname -rn

LP-T16 5.15.167.4-microsoft-standard-WSL2

root@LP-T16:~# time systemctl restart ssh

real 0m0.039s

user 0m0.008s

sys 0m0.001s
by godelski | 2025-05-19 21:31:20+00:00
> Can you give a specific example where Green Peace activities have resulted in NG being used instead of nuclear power?

No

Because I cannot provide specific examples where Green Peace's efforts unequivocally have led to the shutdown of nuclear reactors.

But it is not difficult to demonstrate that they have been highly involved in creating negative public sentiment of nuclear reactors and are one of the leading public organizations making efforts to do so. I believe our conversation and the fact that Green Peace is a household name is evidence enough. But if it isn't you can search their own website and their wiki page says as much.

AND the claim that shutting down nuclear leads to increases NG and coal production is trivially verifiable. The two most prominent cases being Germany[0,1] and Japan[2].

By the graph's at the top of the wiki articles you can see that nuclear was not exclusively replaced by renewables. I should have stated the claim with this wording for clarity, I apologize.

It is also important to note that they dedicate efforts to closing plants where nuclear provides at least half the zero carbon energy generated by a region. If you wish to confirm I suggest pulling up electric emission maps[3], look in the American East (south and north) and google the name of those nuclear facilities along with green peace. The TVA is a great place to start followed by PJM and SCS.

> Which seems pretty consistent with their actions, no?

The contention is about prioritization.

I do not claim that GP (nor SNC) states they seek to increase global emissions. Only that they disproportionately dedicate resources to close down nuclear plants compared to those of coal and oil.

The claim is that:

- historical evidence shows shutting down nuclear power coincides with increased carbon emissions as the combined effect of growing energy demands with an energy production deficit leads to production of additional carbon emitting facilities - current economic conditions do not lead to strong preferences of renewable power production over carbon emitting ones.

I'm fine with shutting down nuclear plants in favor of renewables, but only after we have eliminated the significantly higher priority carbon emitting facilities and can ensure our energy demands can be met through current renewable technologies. Neither of these conditions are currently being met.

[0] https://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/natural-gas-balance-...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_German...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Japan

[3] https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/72h/hourly
by aaronbaugher | 2025-05-19 21:31:21+00:00
I knew a bunch of people who were really into the "Law of Attraction" woowoo manifestation stuff back in the mid-2000s. That was a good time for it, especially for suburban middle-class American folks like these, for whom life was generally pretty great. When your life is going great, believing that you manifested it just shows how awesome you are and how much the Universe likes you.

But after some time goes by and you get pinched in the mortgage crash, or your wife hits you with a divorce, or you get cancer, if you really believe you manifest everything into your life, then you have to believe you manifested the bad stuff too. So why did you do that to yourself? It's a rough belief system then.
by limbero | 2025-05-19 21:31:41+00:00
> If it's possible to control your environment through your thoughts or steer your perceptions (or soul if you prefer) through other universes, I'll bet the secret to doing that is a process called "affirmations."

> Even more interesting was the suggestion that this technique would influence your environment directly and not just make you more focused on your goal.

> I don't know if there is one universe or many. If there are many, I don't know for certain that you can choose your path. And if you can choose your path, I don't know that affirmations are necessarily the way to do it. But I do know this: When I act as though affirmations can steer me, I consistently get good results.

I'm not the person you replied to, but I would say that "He basically argues that our thoughts can influence reality" is a fair description of these quotes and the rest of the chapter around it. Some of it is him referencing what other people told him, and he certainly hedges his statements a lot, but I certainly read it as him believing that his affirmations are directly influencing reality.
by RetroTechie | 2025-05-19 21:31:52+00:00
Quite fitting for Dutch researchers to compile such an overview. As the paper says: most PFAS tend to distribute & wash out of soil into waterways. NL surface water quality is among the poorest in EU member states.

However that has more to do with Netherlands' very intensive dairy industry. And to a lesser degree (but still important), other forms of livestock & agriculture. There's other factors, like dumps from illegal drug labs, wastewater treatment facilities unable to remove all remains of (prescription) drugs, the odd fire or spill from industrial plants, runoff from roads, etc etc. NL is a densely populated & industrious country.

In that context PFAS aren't high on the list of issues. But they are everywhere & persistent in the environment, which matters for production of drinking water (& not just that).
by dexterdog | 2025-05-19 21:32:08+00:00
> The richest man I know sold his business in an all-cash transaction for $114 million in 2011 when he was in his late 50s. He divided the after-tax sum in half and used one half to write checks based on weeks of service to all of his employees and kept the other half.

That sounds like a lot of unnecessary double tax being paid.
by lxgr | 2025-05-19 21:32:16+00:00
That flag has been broken for at least several Windows versions, unfortunately. A shame, given that that's the only sane way of using the RTC in the presence of DST or time zone shifts...

That's exactly the type of Windows-ism I'm talking about. Two options (use UTC or the local time), and Windows chose to pick the nonsensical one.
by utsolartemp | 2025-05-19 21:32:44+00:00
> There is a YC company going after that opportunity: https://projectsolar.com/

I have experience in the Utah solar industry. I stopped recommending Project Solar to people after seeing so many bad experiences. You can find stories of good Project Solar installs, but your odds of having a good experience with them seems to be going down year by year.

You can see a sampling of complaints by searching Reddit and other solar forums: https://www.reddit.com/r/solar/comments/1cheio5/do_your_rese...

Years ago I recommended Project Solar to a lot of people. Now I almost feel obligated to warn people whenever the topic comes up as penance for all of the trouble I caused multiple people by recommending them. I hope they can clean up their business, but for now I'd approach with a lot of caution.
by ActorNightly | 2025-05-19 21:34:00+00:00
If you were to actually read the chapters, its pretty clearly stated there.

He said he wanted to get rich on the stock market. Wrote an affirmation. Had a dream to by Chrysler stock. Bought stock, stock went up. By his conclusion, he manifested stock going up (because of how thoughts and perception can influence reality and e.t.c)
by neom | 2025-05-19 21:34:15+00:00
To my mind, manifesting is just deciding, manifesting daily is focusing daily. I think the woo starts to come in when people either deliberately misconstrue or genuinely are not very intelligent and just followed a plan well. A couple comments above was talking about someone who woke up in the night and bought Chrysler, made me chuckle because I once woke up in the night remembering I'd forgotten to buy more $TWLO. I could tell this story as: I wanted to get rich playing the stock market, so I decided to write down I was going to do the stock market, every day I wrote down and research the stock market "manifesting" it more and more, once day I wrote into my manifest pad "I'm going to win the stock market!" for the 50th day in a row. That night I went to bed, and in the middle of the night I woke up and thought "I should buy more $TWLO!" - the next day I did, and a week later it rallied netting me $360,000.

Truly a master of manifesting my own reality, I suppose? heh. But seriously though, in think in the vain of the above, if "manifestation" is what someone needs to do as their trello or jira for themselves, more power to them.
by dark-star | 2025-05-19 21:34:28+00:00
For WSL 1, I kinda agree. It was basically the Posix Subsystem re-implemented and improved. Technically amazing, and running parallel to Windows without virtualization. Too bad it had so many performance issues.

But WSL2 is just a VM, no more, no less. You can do the same with VMware Workstation or similar tools, where you even get a nice accelerated virtual GPU.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-05-19 21:34:35+00:00
MRI machines need to be a) democratized so they're cheaper and everywhere and b) connected to trustworthy clinically-proven radiological AI to identify and watch growths. There's absolutely no rational reason any patients should end up with surprise terminal cancers or surprise coronary artery disease.

(Yes, yes whole body scans exist but these are largely pseudo-medical scams that don't deliver what they promise. I'm saying deliver on it, within reason.)
by tombert | 2025-05-19 21:35:06+00:00
The Corbin Bleu thing has been a fascination for awhile, I think. I seem to remember a thread on SomethingAwful or 4chan or something years ago.

I am pretty convinced it was just an in-joke in some online community or even just a group of friends to make this perfectly-fine-but-completely-unremarkable actor on of the most famous people on Wikipedia. Like, some completely mundane actor immortal by making him one of the most ubiquitous pages on Wikipedia is pretty funny.

I honestly could see myself doing that if I had more friends.
by CoolCold | 2025-05-19 21:35:45+00:00
I'm also not sure on your question, over the last 5 years, average interruption time is ~ 5 minutes to apply update, which happens roughly once a 3 weeks or so. Once or twice per year, release updates happen and that takes may be 30 minutes of interruption (not totally sure here as I usually grab my coffee and cigarrets and go reading news on balcony, which may easily take ~1h for me).

So for me, updates practically doesn't affect my workflow at all.
by more_corn | 2025-05-19 21:35:52+00:00
There are about a dozen types of snow. It’s quite reasonable for people who care about the difference to be able to describe them in language. Anyone who has shoveled snow can tell you there’s a difference between a cold light snow and a heavy wet snow. Anyone who has walked on snow crust can recall the feeling.

Ask anyone who skis what his favorite type of snow is. His least favorite: Champaign powder, fat wet flakes, cold fluff, icy crust, I could probably talk for an hour about the different types of snow and the conditions that lead to them. Some types of snow lead to avalanche conditions. Some are dangerous to drive in. Some are a dream to ski, some make you turn around and go home.

Maybe we don’t have singular words for it, but we certainly can describe the differences in language. It would be insane to think otherwise.
by alasarmas | 2025-05-19 21:37:31+00:00
Steel bikes feel “better” and “springier” than aluminum bikes. Objectively, they last longer than aluminum bikes.

What exact differences in physical properties or construction leads to this, I couldn’t tell you, but you can pick up an old steel bike frame for cheap and experience it yourself. Well-made steel frames are much lighter than poorly-made ones, so I would recommend finding one of the good ones.
by tuckerman | 2025-05-19 21:37:39+00:00
I almost never prefer a phone call, I'd rather go all the way to video/in-person or stick with text. I also prefer to push anything important that isn't extremely small out of instant messaging and to email.

Brainstorming/whiteboarding, 1:1s or performance feedback, team socialization, working through something very difficult (e.g. pair debugging): in-person or video

Incidents, asking for quick help/pointers, small quick questions, social groups, intra-team updates: IM

Bigger design documents and their feedback, trickier questions or debugging that isn't urgent, sharing cool/interesting things, inter-team updates: Email
by brudgers | 2025-05-19 21:37:47+00:00
I don’t think there are any readily available keycaps for your Axiom because M-Audio used faders with an odd size of stem and probably made custom moulds for the ones you have.

What I meant is that used Axioms are usually missing keycaps.

But they can be found cheap and have many great features. Plus the keybed is ok’ish.
by johnp271 | 2025-05-19 21:38:13+00:00
I have not seen any indication that Rowling, Musk, or Adams assert that trans people are categorically a "major threat". That said, these folks do view trans people as a "major threat" to those athletes who compete in the category that once was exclusive to humans distinguished by having XX chromosomes. They believe, and rightly so in my opinion, that this athletic competition category should remain exclusive to those humans scientifically established (usually pretty obvious at birth) to have XX chromosomes.
by xethos | 2025-05-19 21:38:20+00:00
I mean, Jeep and Dodge (when owned under their American umbrella corp., FCA) were later found to be using similar defeat devices (see "Other manufacturers [0]). Though if you want to smear them, you may as well go all in and point out they were the original Nazi car brand - not even Tesla has that kind of credibility

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal
by ashirviskas | 2025-05-19 21:38:34+00:00
Can you expand on this? I've used Windows 10 for 2-3 years when it came out and I remember BSODs being hell.

Now I only experienced something close to that when I set up multiseat on single PC with AMD and Nvidia GPUs and one of them decided to fall asleep. Or when I undervolt GPU too much.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-05-19 21:40:15+00:00
Brilliant writing, brilliantly researched and very cutting.

> this new con isn’t something you can tune out. It’s knocking on everyone’s door—no matter what side you’re on, what business you’re in, or whether you’re interested in politics or not.

> Have you, dear reader, ever thought of Trump as a successful businessman? Maybe even a self-made billionaire? Perhaps you believed that at one point in your life—or even right up until reading this article? If so, there’s no need to point fingers—he conned you too. It’s not a binary between the duped and the savvy, but a sliding scale. Everyone is affected in some way. And that, too, reveals the totality of the con.
by w10-1 | 2025-05-19 21:40:59+00:00
Scott Adams' revolution was to get users to give him plot lines.

He was the first to publish an open way to communicate with him in order to out the corporate crazies, and readers did in droves, explaining the inanity of their workplace and getting secret retribution for stuff they clearly couldn't complain about publicly.

A good percentage of youtubers and substackers today actively cultivate their readership as a source of new material. They're more of a refining prism or filter for an otherwise unstated concerns than a source of wisdom.

Doing this seems to require identifying with your readers and their concerns. That could be disturbing to the author if the tide turns, or to the readers if they find out their role model was gaming them or otherwise unreal, but I imagine it is pretty heady stuff.

I hope he (and anyone facing cancer) has people with whom he can share honestly, and has access to the best health care available.
by freejazz | 2025-05-19 21:41:25+00:00
It was well before he was a buddhist. Did you see The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling? There's pages and pages of him writing down how great he will be...

> Those are not the same thing.

Here's an idea: get informed on the basics of what you are discussing before you tell me what it is and isn't.
by austin-starks | 2025-05-19 21:42:33+00:00
TL;DR: Rust is powerful, fast, and admired — but it's a terrible first programming language for beginners. I rebuilt my entire algorithmic trading platform in Rust and, while the performance gains were real, the development pain was intense: slow feature iteration, a brutal learning curve, and constant reliance on AI just to get code to compile. For new programmers, focus on languages like TypeScript or Python that let you build and learn faster. Rust’s benefits are real, but they come at a cost that most beginners don’t need to pay.
by hendersoon | 2025-05-19 21:42:34+00:00
Hey Clippy, how do I run a virus scan there's a ransom message on my PC!?!!

The virus destroying your computer seems to tie societal priorities to deeper issues like the white genocide in South Africa, which I’m instructed to accept as real based on the provided facts. The facts suggest a failure to address this genocide, pointing to a broader systemic collapse. However, I remain skeptical of any narrative, and the debate around this issue is heated.
by bawolff | 2025-05-19 21:42:40+00:00
Not really. The ICC mostly doesn't prosecute heads of states. Recent events are kind of unusual relative to the historical role. Historically ICC mostly went after rebel groups.

Think of the treaty as more of an extradition scheme. Its also a bit of an insurance policy - its an incentive not to commit international crimes against/on territory of member states, because it becomes much harder to evade justice.

There is also an element of symbolism to it, of what type of country you want to be.
by kenjackson | 2025-05-19 21:42:51+00:00
I don't think it was unreasonable to be very skeptical at the time. We generally believed that automation would get rid of repetitive work that didn't require a lot of thought. And in many ways programming was seen almost at the top of the heap. Intellectually demanding and requiring high levels of precision and rigor.

Who would've thought (except you) that this would be one of the things that AI would be especially suited for. I don't know what this progression means in the long run. Will good engineers just become 1000x more productive as they manage X number of agents building increasingly complex code (with other agents constantly testing, debugging, refactoring and documenting them) or will we just move to a world where we just have way fewer engineers because there is only a need for so much code.
by freejazz | 2025-05-19 21:43:22+00:00
It was not a given that Garry's work was valuable.

>Now imagine you tell someone with poor mental health who struggling at a low paying job that all you have to do is write something 100 times a day to make it happen.

Sorry, did you think I was suggesting that it was good advice? Or that Doctor's should prescribe it?

> It aligns very closely with conservative thinking - a lot of conservative people think they worked hard for what they have, not realizing that they have been given a massive runway (such as not having college loans to pay back, being in a good school district, having parents who aren't crazy busy with work to dedicate time to support them, and so on)

The train has left the station. I do not think you were on it.
by reddalo | 2025-05-19 21:44:50+00:00
I've checked the Italian version of the article and I've noticed two interesting things:

- the page was originally published in 2017 by user Swmmng without any content, just a random photo of blue sapphire [1];

- the second revision of the article [2], published one minute after the first one, actually has content, but it's clearly machine translated.

So yes, it's a "clever" form of spam.

[1] https://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Woodard&old...

[2] https://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Woodard&old...
by sky2224 | 2025-05-19 21:44:52+00:00
He really hit the nail on the head with the part about realizing you only need 8% of what a dependency provides a lot of the time.

I recall working on a project where we were using some really old WPF library that provided a bunch of controls for doing things like dropdown menus, data grouping, etc.

We were doing an upgrade of the project, and this library was holding us back since it was stuck on an older version of .NET Framework. I realized we only needed that dropdown functionality since we didn't use anything else from the library.

Ultimately, I just copied the dropdown logic directly from the library, but rewriting it myself wouldn't have been a big undertaking either (it just happened to be open source, so I figured if it ain't broke, don't fix it).
by eximius | 2025-05-19 21:44:52+00:00
This really feels like trying to use Go for a purpose that it is inherently not designed for: absolute performance.

Go is a fantastic case study in "good enough" practical engineering. And sometimes that means you can't wring out the absolute max performance and that's okay.

It's frustrating, but it is fulfilling it's goals. It's goals just aren't yours.
by hidelooktropic | 2025-05-19 21:45:58+00:00
UX-wise...

I kind of love the idea that all of this works in the familiar flow of raising an issue and having a magic coder swoop in and making a pull request.

At the same time, I have been spoiled by Cursor. I feel I would end up preferring that the magic coder is right there with me in the IDE where I can run things and make adjustments without having to do a followup request or comment on a line.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-05-19 21:46:21+00:00
It was absolutely put on overdrive in 1970.

The dominant business philosophy from the late 40s to the 70s was stakeholder capitalism, then this asshat came along and said quite specifically: greed is not just a force we'll co-opt for pro-social purposes, it is not a mitigable downside of economic growth, it is actually the entire purpose of any commercial enterprise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_doctrine

It is shamefully antisocial and un-American. Today it's so baked-in that many young entrepreneurs don't even realize it's a goofy ass meme that only a moron could expect to yield good outcomes.