MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by andy_ppp | 2025-05-30 08:44:07+00:00
How on Earth did the system being vandalised and dismantled by these morons ever come into being in the first place? It must have been a monumental effort by everyone in society to agree on norms that protect us from a completely unscientific attitude to processing information, be it conspiracy theories or healthcare or huge bot farms producing propaganda to divide us.

How can we go back to a more stable society once the truth has been systematically eroded? For example the white house press secretary said there would be no increase in the deficit yesterday, which is a complete lie. People now search for facts that prove their suspicions correct, not search out ideas that could change their default viewpoint. I really think a society without any truth is one doomed to failure.
by enriquto | 2025-05-30 08:44:10+00:00
it's the same list of authors, written in different formats

the first one is SURNAME, NAME separated by "and"

the second one is NAME SURNAME separated by commas

The second one is easier to read by humans, but the first one makes it clearer what is the surname (which would be ambiguous otherwise, when there are composite names). But then again, the first format breaks when someone has "and" in their name, which is not unheard of.
by IshKebab | 2025-05-30 08:45:01+00:00
Yeah... I dunno, the one person I've worked with who had LLM levels of bullshit somehow pulled the wool over everyone's eyes. Or at least enough people's eyes to be relatively successful. I presume there were some people that could see the bullshit but none of them were in a position to call him out on it.

I think I read some research somewhere that pathological bullshitters can be surprisingly successful.
by npteljes | 2025-05-30 08:45:47+00:00
In retrospect, I agree. I worded it too strongly out of emotion. "Everyone could be the product of a service, free or not" would be closer to what I think. The message being that if being a product is important to a would-be user, they should investigate in every case, because power dynamics play more of a role, than being free or not.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-05-30 08:47:11+00:00
You hit the nail on the head, IMO.

> Individuals feel the need to frame or justify and defend their individual actions and desires.

This, exactly this. I only recently realized this has been a huge factor for almost my entire life. There was always something more important to do than what I wanted. Parents wanted me to do things. School wanted me to do things. Religion wanted me to do things (courtesy of growing up in a proselytising Christianity-adjacent cult, 1/10 would not recommend). Later, in adulthood, it's family expectations again, then relationships, and then of course, work. The sum total of things I'm supposed to be doing, and that reflect good on me when I'm seen busy doing them, is effectively unbounded, leaving no place for any "selfish desire" such as... IDK, relaxing, taking a walk, clearing my head, watching stupid shit on the Internet.

Of course, those desires don't go away just because there's always something more important to do. But I can't just satisfy them without feeling like having to justify to myself and others, why I'm doing the "me thing" instead of the "important thing". Might be why I've struggled with procrastination all my adulthood - "I'm working" gets others off my back, and then it's only me I have to justify my choices to.

(As a kid, I didn't do "new toy to get my homework done faster", but I sure did the other thing - a computer to help me learn. It was a great argument, because it was partially true and my parents also heard it from adult sources (e.g. news programs).)

I'm not really sure why I do it, and why many others seem to. Some kind of insecurity? Like, I want to escape the neverending demands of other people without hurting my relationships with them, so I justify it in a way that makes fulfilling my own needs sound like either a) a critical, unavoidable maintenance work, something that's not really a choice, or b) it's actually doing them a favor, or c) it's capital-I Important. It's preemptively denying others the ability to counter "hey, what about me and my needs". A form of conflict avoidance, I guess.

I envy people who can just take vacations, or do hobbies, or whatever, without guilt or the need to justify it to others.
by keiferski | 2025-05-30 08:47:12+00:00
The money presumably goes to his heirs, so I don’t know how that is vulture-like. The alternative is that this stuff just gets thrown away or donated to a thrift shop.

More broadly, it’s pretty cool that there are objects out there in the world that have been used by an artist or person you admire. Personally I managed to buy a scarf that Raymond Chandler wore, a few months ago at an online auction. It’s just a scarf, but there is something quite special about the fact that one of my favorite writers wore it. It’s a unique object in a world of manufactured identical goods.
by seabirdman | 2025-05-30 08:47:38+00:00
Super hard problems are often solved by making strange weird connections derived from deep experience plus luck. Like finding the one right key in a pile of keys. The intuition you used to solve your problem IS probably beyond current agents. But, that too will change perhaps by harnessing the penchant of these systems to “hallucinate”? Or, some method or separate algorithm for dealing with super hard problems creatively and systematically. Recently, I was working on a hard imaging problem (for me) and remembered a bug I had inadvertently introduced and fixed a few days earlier. I was like wait a minute - because in that random bug I saw opportunity and was able to actually use the bug to solve my problem. I went back to my agent and it agreed that there was virtually no way it could have ever seen and solved the problem in that way. But that too will come. Rest assured.
by preisschild | 2025-05-30 08:49:05+00:00
Its questionable if it would have ever worked

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/apollo-moon-khrus...

> Korolev was not a scientist, not a designer: he was a brilliant manager. Korolev's problem was his mentality. His intent was to somehow use the launcher he had. [The launcher was called N1]. It was designed in 1958 for a different purpose and with a limited payload of about 70 tons.] His philosophy was, let's not work by stages [as is usual in spacecraft design], but let's assemble everything and then try it. And at last it will work. There were several attempts and failures with Lunnik [a series of unmanned Soviet moon probes]. Sending man to the moon is too complicated, too complex for such an approach. I think it was doomed from the very beginning.
by hatefulmoron | 2025-05-30 08:49:08+00:00
What if all work is no longer necessary? Then yes, we're going to have to rethink how our society works. Fair enough.

I'm a bit confused by your read on the people who don't make it through college. The implication is that if you don't make it into a high status/white collar job, you're destined for a life of poverty. I feel like this speaks more to the insecurity of the white collar worker, and isn't actually a good reflection of reality. Most of my friends dropped out of college and did something completely different in the service industry, it's not really a "life of poverty."

> My parents got high paying jobs straight out of highschool. Now, highschool grads are destined to flip burgers.

This feels like pure luck for your parents. Take a wider look at history -- it's just a regression to the mean. We used to have _less_ complex jobs. Mathematics/science hasn't always been a job. That is to say, burger-flipping or an equivalent was more common. It was not the norm that households were held together by a single man's income, etc.
by JimDabell | 2025-05-30 08:49:15+00:00
That’s not quite the whole story. Appendix C of the XHTML 1.0 specification provides HTML compatibility guidelines:

> This appendix summarizes design guidelines for authors who wish their XHTML documents to render on existing HTML user agents.

— https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#guidelines

And RFC 2854, which defines the text/html media type, explicitly states this is permissible to label as text/html:

> The text/html media type is now defined by W3C Recommendations; the latest published version is [HTML401]. In addition, [XHTML1] defines a profile of use of XHTML which is compatible with HTML 4.01 and which may also be labeled as text/html.

— https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2854#section-2

However even browsers that support XHTML rendering use their HTML parser for XHTML 1.0 documents served as text/html, even though they should really be parsing them as XHTML 1.0.

But yes, that extra slash means something entirely different to the SGML formulation of HTML (HTML 2.0 to HTML 4.01). HTML5 ditched SGML though, so SHORTTAG NET is no longer a thing.
by decimalenough | 2025-05-30 08:51:05+00:00
Citation needed. Multinationals aren't angels, but I'm hard pressed to think of anything they've done that's on the scale of the Chernobyl disaster, the Aral Sea drying up, the Kyshtym disaster, Lake Karachay, etc. Even things like clear-cutting the Amazon are usually done by locals (although bigcos are more than happy to buy the resulting soybeans, beef, etc).
by lan321 | 2025-05-30 08:52:15+00:00
Is this not more so a modern<->old car neutral ethrottle thing? I haven't driven a cable operated throttle car but on bikes 20% will probably hit limiter.

I'm gonna try it after work.

The only precision revving in neutral I've done is for emissions testing a couple times but the throttle tube was barely rotating to keep it at 4k. It was still at that point where the cable just gets tensioned past the freeplay and it was kinda tricky to keep it there since very small movements would move 0,5-1k RPM.

PS: Treating 20% as 20% throttle tube rotation, not necessarily linear to how much chooch you get due to how throttle bodies open.
by gonzobonzo | 2025-05-30 08:52:21+00:00
This is a problem with these solutions in general. Most of them are offering generic friends, as if everyone is interchangeable and you just need to sit two people together to make things work.

And some people need that, or at least claim to need that. Reddit R4R personals that go - "I'm at home, I'm bored, and looking for someone to talk to. About me, I like music, movies, and food."

But I think most of the people who are lonely aren't lonely because they've never had a chance to meet a friend before, but rather because they haven't found someone that clicks with them. And most of these solutions don't put much effort into finding people who match.
by devoutsalsa | 2025-05-30 08:52:53+00:00
I've been to Tunisia several times since 2021.

If you like Roman ruins, here's my favorite sites that I've personally visited:

- Amphitheatre of El Jem - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphitheatre_of_El_Jem

- Dougga - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dougga

- Bulla Regia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulla_Regia

While itself not an amazing Roman building, I also enjoyed going to Ksar Ghilane - https://maps.app.goo.gl/Ru5sEqEtJDEWNg3R7. There's a small touristic oasis where you ran rent a quad bike, zip over some dunes in the Sahara, and then stop at the small Roman fort. It's fun to imagine being a Roman stationed at one of the southern most outposts of the empire. It's also fun to rent a 4x4 w/ driver and drive through the desert from Douz to Ksar Ghilane.
by eru | 2025-05-30 08:53:52+00:00
> Every time I make a comment that contains the word "capitalism" in a critical way it goes down inevitably bad on Hacker News.

Huh? I defended communism as also producing some science. (There was also quite a bit of science in pre-capitalist societies.)

Sorry, I don't know who Mark Fisher is nor what stage he acted on.

> Thanks for the link.

I hope you enjoy the read as much as I did.
by austin-cheney | 2025-05-30 08:54:20+00:00
In many cases developers are a low expectation commodity. In those cases I strongly believe humans are entirely replaceable by AI and I am saying that as somebody with an exceptionally low opinion of LLMs.

Honestly though, when that replacement comes there is no sympathy to be had. Many developers have brought this upon themselves. For roughly the 25 year period from 1995 to 2020 businesses have been trying to turn developers into mindless commodities that are straight forward to replace. Developers have overwhelmingly encouraged this and many still do. These are the people who hop employers every 2 years and cannot do their jobs without lying on their resumes or complete reliance on a favorite framework.
by unwind | 2025-05-30 08:55:02+00:00
For those of us outside the US and used to other units, a cord [1] is of course 128 cubic feet or roughly 3.62 cubic meters. The wood is supposed to be well stacked (aligned, parallel, touching and compact) and if so, one cord is a pile measuring e.g. 4x8x4 feet. Wow, three cord is "a lot", in other words.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cord_(unit)
by mytailorisrich | 2025-05-30 08:55:16+00:00
> But when I asked whether they wanted to move to the most logical foreign destination – France – they all said, “no.” Tunisia is yet another former French colony I’ve visited (including the Ivory Coast, Senegal, Benin, Togo, Mauritania, etc.) where there’s a lot of lingering resentment against their former overlord.

All those countries are still close to France, with higher education in French and educated people speaking better French than most French. Arabs countries like Tunisia have adopted policies of Arabisation but French is still widespread.

It is perhaps a bit like India: Nationalism in reaction to colonialism but with major cultural links and the old coloniser is a major emigration destination.

France is the main emigration destination for Tunisians (55% if you look it up), with almost a million Tunisians in France (Tunisia's population is 12 million).

> Throughout this trip, I talked to many Europeans, including Frenchmen, Italians, Maltese, Germans, and a few Brits, and from an American perspective, it was surprising how often the topic of conversation turned to immigration. Or rather, anti-immigration.

Well, see numbers above. Anti-immigration sentiment is growing in Europe because of the numbers and negative impact. It should not be a partisan issue, really, but plain realism.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-05-30 08:56:56+00:00
The difference is, crypto makes irreversibility a fundamental part of the system, making it impossible for any party to unilaterally reverse a payment without having to first take over the entire chain. With regular fiat money and banks, such reversals are perfectly possible on a technical level. The banks are usually unwilling to do them, and an individual may not be able to force them to in practice, but it's still possible in a way it's not possible with crypto.
by LightHugger | 2025-05-30 08:58:16+00:00
the eu set 12mg as an absolute upper limit on what's safe.

I'm curious, do you exercise every day? b6 seems to get flushed out of the body in proportion to how much exercise you get, as it gets released by the muscles and then only partially reabsorbed with each cycle. It's possible what you're taking would cause you nerve damage if you were sedentary.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-05-30 08:58:28+00:00
The only way we will, now that the genie is out of the bottle, not need these weapons is when we will have easy and affordable (for nation states) ways to neuter a nuclear attack which is as likely as the earth being peaceful and filled with bonhomie unlike anytime in history ever.

Besides if (and that’s some “if”) that happens that means the world has already found something more deadly and again some people will suddenly grow very mature insights on this and after destroying few cities they would totally focus on an initiative that ensures only they get to keep those weapons and every other nation should voluntarily sign up for it. And this is the main reason we will never get rid of deadliest of weapons and the endless quest for them.
by eru | 2025-05-30 08:58:34+00:00
I agree that you can get a handle on the specific problem I pointed out with externalities this way.

However, there are two more hurdles:

- First, you need to define what counts as the status quo, ie what do you measure externalities against? (But this is more of a problem in theory than in practice, I suspect.)

- Second, you need to explain why Coasian bargaining isn't enough. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase_theorem
by Firehawke | 2025-05-30 08:58:40+00:00
Problem with this theory is that it's not taking into account what the artists were designing their art to be. Not every circle is meant to be a proper circle in the end-- sometimes there's a mix of PAR (Pixel Aspect Ratio) art and 4:3 in the same SCENE much less the same game: For instance, Chrono Trigger has mostly 4:3 artwork, but the moon seen behind Magus's Tower is actually 8:7 PAR.

I'd argue that in the end the whole game was meant to be seen by players on a 4:3 display, and thus 4:3 is "always" the correct answer for NES/SNES.. but your mileage may vary considerably.

I think the one thing I CAN have a hardline stance on is that stretching out 4:3 to 16:9 completely and absolutely distorts the intended look of the4 game and is ill-advised.

That said, there's one fly in the ointment. Systems like the TRS-80 Color Computer had a massive block of overscan that's visible by default on all displays. How MUCH of that overscan is visible depends on the display you're using (different TV plus different H/V size knob settings) and so actually working out what the correct display is and should be.. is a LOT harder and will vary a lot across different software on the same system. I'm not sure that just picking an aspect ratio per-game is correct; most users didn't exactly go and recalibrate their TV for each game they were playing, they'd pick a good baseline and live with it unless something was offscreen and thus required adjustment.
by mft_ | 2025-05-30 08:59:26+00:00
Funnily enuogh, this was a rabbit-hole I dived down when I was given a company Tesla for a while, and was frustrated by the last of streetview imagery available where I lived. Unfortunately, the teslausb distribution was just too unreliable at the time, and I never found the time/energy for a ground-up re-write.
by ZoomZoomZoom | 2025-05-30 08:59:50+00:00
If you need to learn "public static void main(String[] args)" just to print to a screen or use a loop, means you're using the wrong language.

When it's time to learn Java you're supposed to be past the basics. Old-school intros to programming starts with flowcharts for a reason.

You can learn either way, of course, but with one, people get tied up to a particular language-specific model and then have all kinds of discomfort when it's time to switch.
by znpy | 2025-05-30 09:00:05+00:00
> You write answers, not "replies"

meaningless correction

> (and people above a certain reputation threshold can do it unilaterally)

and that's a problem

> They absolutely are okay. Just not for the purposes you want them to serve.

I never told you my purposes and there's no way for you to derive that from my writing. You're making stuff up.

> You are not the one who gets to decide what purpose the site should serve.

Absolutely, but I wrote something completely different though. But you weren't keen on reading and understanding, just regurgitating some pre-approved narrative.

> The site was already designed and intended to serve a specific purpose before you got there. You were the one responsible for understanding this.

At this point it's irrelevant, StackOverflow is dying and we'll ask stuff to ChatGPT and similar, so problem solved anyway.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-05-30 09:01:53+00:00
Life involves some measure of suffering, but also an opportunity for existence, love, and joy. Denying that completely is absurd and an incel attitude.

I saw the handwriting on the wall 30 years ago, but couldn't say what form it would take. I knew that prices of things would go up, wages and employment would decline, and misery would increase over time.

I think there may be some very large scale (conventional, hopefully) wars and billions of people migrating as climate refugees within the next 5-25 years. Imagine Gaza but it's entirely possible Putin will not be stopped and the MAGA movement leaders will emulate Bibi and Putin in terms of war-making. It's also probable that even more brutal, repressive, and self-destructive future leaders in the spirit of Nero and Caligula will emerge.

None of this is set in stone. Fate doesn't exist. Nothing bad has to happen. We can choose to reorganize and change attitudes if we are willing to be steadfast with solidarity.
by eru | 2025-05-30 09:02:43+00:00
Basically, the whole thing is a bit more complicated.

However, it's useful to require pre-registration and sharing of data etc for studies you plan to fund.

Ideally, you give researchers an in-principle approval, but then hold the funds in escrow and only disburse them after they published their data etc.

(Financial markets can provide the bridge financing between in-principle approval and actual disbursal.)

There's many journals that have open data requirements, but more often than not they are flouted. The above suggestion would give them real teeth.
by _elephant | 2025-05-30 09:02:43+00:00
When a public figure dies, there’s a sudden rupture in their living story. Auctions then act as a collective ritual — a way society processes that rupture by distributing pieces of the narrative. Whether it’s a scarf, a script draft, or a broken camera, the object becomes a proxy for unresolved connection. It’s less about profit (though that exists), and more about anchoring meaning in the aftermath of disappearance.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-05-30 09:03:59+00:00
Algeria wasn't considered a colony. It was annexed in 1848 and as such a fullblown part of France, and it saw large European settlement but with a segregated/apartheid system. Independence was therefore a very nasty and bloody affair on both sides that ended with all the Europeans having to live with nothing effectively on pain of death (114 years after Algeria had been annexed so enough time to create deep feelings).

The French invasion of Algeria has always seemed unique and odd to me: Annexing an Arab territory especially while denying equal rights to the "indigenous" population (the term that was used) was a recipe for disaster and ultimately it proved untenable.

In contrast Tunisia was only a protectorate after the French invaded from Algeria in 1881.
by MattPalmer1086 | 2025-05-30 09:05:47+00:00
It is certainly intellectually dishonest to claim that the government funding anything you don't like is a violation of your "intellectual freedom". You are still free to think and say anything you like.

Taken to its logical conclusion, it would mean that the government should not fund anything, ever, for any purpose, because someone might disagree with it? Isn't disagreement actually a sign of intellectual freedom?
by forgotoldacc | 2025-05-30 09:06:04+00:00
I'm not saying you're wrong (and I didn't downvote you), but it's weird how every single thing today is some sort of potential investment. It's weird how you're probably right.

Pokemon cards. Crypto. NFTS (not anymore though). Something a famous person once touched (this one kind of existed in the past with things like saints and holy figures using something, but now it's transcended religion and it's everything anyone of note used). Something a famous person simply recommended. Meme stocks of companies that have no real product to back them up. Toilet paper. Hand sanitizer. Mugs.

Beanie Babies were mocked for being a clearly worthless thing that gen x went wild over and it all collapsed overnight. Now millennials are turning everything into Beanie Babies, and despite plenty of people thinking the "everything investment" bubble will pop, it just keeps growing forever and expanding into more areas of life.

I've been thinking "the bubble is going to pop" for years (decades?) now. But it seems to have not only not popped, it's accelerating.