MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by slashtmpslashme | 2025-05-03 00:43:47+00:00
It's the easiest way to cope with not having a purpose in life and depending on external validation / temporary pleasures.

Like jordan peterson (though I don't like the guy) has said - happyness is fleeting, you need a purpose in life.

Most of current gen has no purpose and grown up on media which glorify aesthetics and pleasure and to think that's what the whole life is about. When they don't get that level of pleasure in life, they become depressed and may turn to therapy. This is very harmful to the society. But people are apparently more triggered by slang words than constant soft porn being pushed through Instagram and the likes.
by Nifty3929 | 2025-05-03 00:44:17+00:00
Everybody loves communism except those who've actually experienced it.

My wife and I were visiting a Western European country and watching the street from our balcony. Outside there was a parade of communists rallying for an upcoming vote. Well, my wife is from an actually communist country, and wanted to warn all those people that they would not have been allowed to parade or demonstrate in the country she's from. And would probably be a lot hungrier.
by leptons | 2025-05-03 00:44:24+00:00
>All of that code is a series of logical statements and expressions. Mathematical logic.

Which code? The machine code that underlies everything? Or the lines of simple high-level CRUD that don't even need a single number or logic statement to function? Not all programming has to be mathematical or even logical at a high enough level, and I say this as someone who's been coding assembly language for 40 years.
by Sharlin | 2025-05-03 00:45:18+00:00
I'm pretty sure that just about every single person could use a therapist. That is, an empathetic, non-judgemental Reasonable Authority Figure who you can talk to about anything without worrying about inconveniencing or overloading them, and who knows how to gently guide you towards healthy, productive thought patterns and away from unhealthy ones. People who truly don't need someone like that in their life are likely a small minority; much more common is, probably, to simply think that you don't.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-05-03 00:46:19+00:00
Except that in many cases the "consistent" drain is simply night. (Or, day, on Fulgora.) Other than making the chart easier to read what's the case where a 50%/75% trigger is superior to a straight up enable if > 50%?

And apparently I misunderstood the mod, it leeches from things it could pick up but doesn't. It was probably written before it became stock and thus contained some out of date text.
by kgwxd | 2025-05-03 00:46:54+00:00
110% transparency. We have no clue how they actually tested, how they cheated, what they're lying about, and all the other nefarious BS corporations constantly pull.

A single person could turn all of these things into Decepticon in seconds. We need to know that that is intentionally made impossible, and no one will ever make it possible in secret. It could give someone the power of a global army.
by bigyabai | 2025-05-03 00:47:18+00:00
Yet it is. People like you insisted "it's not that bad yet" at every step of the awkward path; but you're still unable to admit Apple fully walked back their bad decisions. They deliberately built a business dependent on anti-competitive abuse and a halo effect solicited through propaganda. They repeatedly manufactured cover for their misdeeds because they knew they were wrong. And now they've been caught in the act of base and cowardly perjury in defense of those exploits.

Tim Cook is not a stupid man. He knows why the world wants his head on a platter, but he exhibits the willpower to exploit injustice anyways. Not because it makes the world a better place, but because it's immensely lucrative. Your supposed logic - that anyone "voted" for this - is pants-on-head moronic, verging on gallows humor. The "vote" justified Reichswerke Hermann Göring, up until the founder was sentenced to execution a decade later. Corruption isn't a democratic process, period. I don't care how apathetic you are as an American, ignorance of the law is a famously invalid defense.
by tomhow | 2025-05-03 00:47:28+00:00
> I wonder what arguments we'll see in this thread from their supporters who will have to twist reality immensely to invalidate our concerns. Will it be the "technically they didn't break the law" or perhaps the "we can't judge them until we see what they do with it" or maybe the good old "liberals/leftists did the same things under biden/obama/hillary"?

Let’s not poison a thread by invoking imagined arguments from opponents in order to pre-emptively attack them. We can wait for real comments to show up before responding.
by CyberDildonics | 2025-05-03 00:47:31+00:00
forming relationships between objects

This is vague and doesn't mean anything. People can't even agree what 'objects' are and people did a lot of programming before the term 'object' was invented.

Programming is about is fundamentally about instructions and data. Yin and yang of two things that are completely different, even if people can occasionally mix them and conflate them.
by robocat | 2025-05-03 00:48:27+00:00
> unless you show experimentally that those bunch of neurons can be grouped into two non-overlapping regions

A good place to look is after brain trauma. Where people end up with weird missing functionality.

Oliver Sacks writes about some of the weird side effects of brain trauma.

We could experiment on mathematicians or writers by causing trauma to different parts of the brain...

Or neural stimulation/anaesthetic of brain regions might show something.
by NanoYohaneTSU | 2025-05-03 00:49:24+00:00
None of those numbers are impressive. Longhaul only from Dallas to Houston. What's missing in the article is the huge number of issues that the system most certainly has.

We've been promised driverless technology for over 10 years now. If you can't do it with cars, then why does anyone think we would have it with delivery trucks?

Please use critical thinking for one second. I beg you HN. This is just another tech company scam that will get dumped as soon as they get the investor money.
by tomrod | 2025-05-03 00:49:50+00:00
That works, since the USA is the only current country with America in its name. There was another, but it got split up. We don't call denizens of Mexico the UMSians despite the country's name literally translating to the United Mexican States. Also, for a long time denizens in the US identified by state of birth or locality first before American. Civil War and World Wars changed that.
by djoldman | 2025-05-03 00:49:59+00:00
The terms "shortage" and "surplus" are usually meaningless for most economic situations.

Generally, your chosen price determines how much you get (unless you set your price at 0, where you get nothing, OR if you set your price to infinity, where there literally doesn't exist 1 more of the thing you're talking about).

So in this context, there's really no shortage because all you have to do is raise the price you pay truckers and it's pretty much guaranteed that retired truckers and others with CDL licenses start putting their hands up and saying yes to that job.
by Izkata | 2025-05-03 00:50:11+00:00
As someone who has often had to dig into the history to figure out what happened, I always want to see at least this. And I wouldn't be opposed to seeing it broken down even more as it was worked on. Not one big squash merge that hides what really happened.

I'll also add one more to your list: Any improvements that came out of the review but stayed in that merge should each be individual commits. I've seen hard-to-trigger bugs get introduced from what should have been just a style improvement.
by willy_k | 2025-05-03 00:50:13+00:00
You’re not dumb, it’s an incredibly complex topic with convoluted and contradictory messaging everywhere.

The way that I’ve learned to think about it is that the brain is made up neurons, and they perform specific functions, technically individually but more usefully understood in regional groupings (primarily figured out via fMRI/blood flow studies and lesion experiments).

Each neuron’s activity is regulated by specific neurotransmitters, and the type of receptors expressed in neurons also correlates with these functional areas (figured out through PET/radio-tagged molecule scans and biopsies). Regarding dopamine specifically, the area that is responsible for effortful attention (prefrontal cortex) as well as for reward (in a general sense, broader “good” not only simpler treats) processing (nucleus accumbens) have high concentrations of dopamine receptors.

Therefore, drugs that interact with dopamine receptors or with chemical chains that involve dopamine can affect these functions.

Neurotransmitters are just chemicals and they go through many complex and interrelated metabolic chains, and at baseline (in a typical individual, barring specific genetic differences) it is often most useful to assume they’re all there and instead understand where they’re used.

This comment might not be the most succinct and I’m just started my education on the subject so I’m sure there are inaccuracy’s and I’d be happy if they’re pointed out, but I do hope that it helps you get a somewhat clearer picture and realize that you’re not dumb for being confused about this.
by potato3732842 | 2025-05-03 00:50:25+00:00
>Truckers are compelled to work without sleep to finish routes with tight deadlines.

This is statement is somewhere between ignorant and an outright lie. There's a bunch of rules governing how many hours truckers can work. And those regulations are mostly followed. And when they're not it's typically some local outfit delivering fuel or groceries, not the long haul mega fleets

https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/regulations/hours-service/summary-...
by ofcourseyoudo | 2025-05-03 00:50:47+00:00
It's because the personality attached to the guy on the right is no doubt way more into how he looks, and how impressed he wants people to be by how he looks.

It also means that dating him will include leaving chunks of every day for him to workout, and counting macronutrients at every meal.

The guy on the right looks like a self-involved boring person to hang out with. Well fit for sure! But what are you going to talk about beyond the benefits of creatine and whether or not you should get protein from whey?
by Nifty3929 | 2025-05-03 00:51:58+00:00
>>The U.S. is almost literally off the chart for how little we allocate towards our public media.

So? This is no justification for spending any particular amount of money on public media.

We also rank near the bottom on spending for Bigfoot observational studies and head-regrowth technology.

Perhaps the burden should be on folks to justify why we would want politicians to spend any money at all on public media.

I love Sesame St and Mr Rogers as much as anybody - I grew up on that stuff. It was great. But certainly folks can see how this could gradually move into more politicized topics where it's better for the government to stay entirely out of it. And frankly, any form of "news" is on the wrong side of that line. Of course, it's theoretically possible to provide entirely factual news - but I would in no way trust any government (or entities funded thereby) to deliver it. Far to risky.

At this point it's probably best to zero out all the funding, and then come back later and see if there is a genuine need for some form of public broadcasting.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-05-03 00:52:03+00:00
We have two examples to look at:

Waymo, which appears to be doing an excellent job of handling it. Their robotaxis consistently seem to have a better track record than humans (although it's possible the limits put on them taint the comparison.)

Cruise, which had a whole bunch of problems with edge cases and last I knew wasn't allowed to operate anymore.

I'd share the road with a Waymo truck (not that their system can do that yet), I wouldn't want to share it with a Cruise truck.
by Spooky23 | 2025-05-03 00:52:19+00:00
If you’re not a union shop, it’s easy. Divide and conquer. Like most employees, truckers in general are stupid and greedy. They are in one of the easiest to organize jobs, but get brainwashed by the firehose of right wing radio.

First step is to isolate the smart ones, which are the people with hazmat endorsements. Treat them well and praise effusively to build resentment. Then take the routes that are cost effective for robots, and offer premium pay and bonuses to the people, but with goals that can’t be met without cutting corners. Encourage reporting of rule violators.

Your goal is to create a toxic and miserable environment that pays just enough. Make them kill each other for a dwindling number of slots. You keep the people agitated and fighting each other, and they won’t notice their toys getting taken away.
by codingdave | 2025-05-03 00:52:45+00:00
Sounds like you've got the right view. Most cloud solutions are easier and cheaper when you are small, but once you scale up their costs and complexity go up, and old-school bare metal self-hosting becomes cheaper and easier again.

The trap is that people buy into so many diverse features of the cloud platforms that they don't know how to unwind from it all and just go stand up a big box (or small boxes) that runs their stuff. My recommendation is to embrace the cloud to get something rolling, but remain hyper-aware of how you would de-cloud to be sure you never lock yourself in too tightly.
by ary | 2025-05-03 00:55:23+00:00
Loading up this thread I knew this kind of response would be here. Like, I was willing to bet money on it.

Examples of support people worth $200k+ are abundant, and the business case is the same every time. When you do the work to place a monetary value on customers and their retention your support personnel costs relative to that are easy to justify. When a support person is preventing churn of X number of customers worth $Y dollars a year the math becomes trivial.

The (American) tech industry is so accustomed to massive scale and lack of competition that the notion of giving a damn about customer retention has risen to the level of a cultural, not economic, problem.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-05-03 00:56:01+00:00
I think your entire comment can be reduced to you thinking that some limited subset of discrimination based on usage is acceptable, being justified by the market dynamics. That's a fine viewpoint but it simply isn't the accepted definition of "open source". You might not have been aware of that, or you might think that we'd all be better off if that wasn't the case, but those things simply don't change the reality that there is, in fact, a widely understood definition for the term.

The reason people are such sticklers about that particular definition is because the term carries a lot of weight due to the history behind it. Permitting any drift in the ideology enables things that don't match the history to ride on the coattails of the projects that came before.

It's worth noting that if the SSPL is really so beneficial with zero or near zero drawbacks then there's no need to become embroiled in debates over the ideology to begin with. Plainly state that it isn't "open source", make clear what the difference is, and no one will have any room to complain. You can even coin a new term to make room for license variants. If it's a beneficial arrangement then people will naturally use the license.
by treetalker | 2025-05-03 00:56:17+00:00
My suggestion is to think of the habit as a seed that you grow.

Intentionally practice sitting down at your desk and putting on the glasses. Aim to intentionally practice doing it once a day. Start now: sit down at your desk, put on your glasses, and then go back to whatever you were doing. Then set an alarm to practice the same thing once tomorrow.

After you've successfully practiced intentionally sitting down at your desk and consciously putting on your glasses once per day, several days in a row, then start doing the same thing twice a day (again by setting an alarm to practice). After several days of that, do it three times per day.

My guess is that, after doing this, you'll start doing it automatically whenever you're at your desk.

The one key is consciously practicing the habit on a schedule instead of trying to remember when you happen to sit at the desk randomly. The other key is starting small and building up.

Good luck!
by lilyball | 2025-05-03 00:58:04+00:00
I have now! Thanks for the recommendation. Consciousness, the subjective experience of what it is like to be something, is very difficult to explain except insofar as there are similar shared experiences that one can make analogy to. I certainly agree with Nagel that entities in human bodies are not equipped to understand the subjective experience of someone whose primary means of sensing the world is through echolocation. This does make me wonder how many bat therians there are, though I would imagine the answer is more than zero.
by lmm | 2025-05-03 00:59:44+00:00
> So... what? What do I do with this? My program has to use something to represent text, and since I fail to be a large multinational consortium, I can't invent my own character set and expect it to work.

Maybe don't rush to remove your "legacy" encoding support because "everyone is using UTF-8"? Or at least check with some Japanese users with obscure names first.
by vlan0 | 2025-05-03 00:59:44+00:00
It's an interesting bar to set. And it shows how we're willing to bend that safety bar to allow seniors to drive on the roads despite their clear cognitive disadvantage.

Let's look at some raw data. Mind you, we have 100x more data for the human drivers below. ie, billions of miles vs millions for automated drivers.

Pop examined Fatal-crash rate All Level‑4 automated‑driving tests in the U.S. 1.5–1.7 per 100 M mi Drivers 70‑74 yr 1.7 per 100 M mi Drivers 75‑79 yr 2.1 per 100 M mi Drivers 80‑84 yr 4.3 per 100 M mi Drivers ≥ 85 yr 7.6 per 100 M mi

So statistically, you are much more likely to be killed by a senior citizen. So to make a consistent argument using data around safety, we should maybe be revoking the licenses of older folks?

edit: Jesus, 19% of all US fatal crashes in 2023 invloved seniors. While they make up 15% of the driver population.
by xigency | 2025-05-03 00:59:51+00:00
One trillion atoms of the heaviest element is less than a nanogram. I get your point it's just that we can't even simulate all the blades of grass on a one acre lawn with every shortcut we have.

Really I think it would be cool to explore -- I've been working on a procedural game engine (conceptually at least) for a long time and want to incorporate even "basic" things like chemistry. I think it's still decades away for that, not even considering quantum phenomena.
by Spooky23 | 2025-05-03 01:00:09+00:00
It’s not corporate leaders. It’s owners. We’re moving to a feudal environment. The billionaires are pulling sovereign capital from the Saudis. They need to keep their treasure, that’s the priority.

Politics isn’t pretending to address anything. We’re breaking the system to extract as much rent from the populace as possible. Caesar type stuff. Destroying the income tax means you’ll pay taxes based on consumption. We’ll be poorer. The overlords will be great.
by hbay | 2025-05-03 01:01:51+00:00
Skimmed the article so I admittedly can't speak to much to the content of it, but just wanted to give my 2c on working on individual things after spending a lot of time working with a stack-based VCS in mercurial/sapling -- jj felt pretty hard to get used to and after a couple of weeks I gave it up. I think it needs a competitive visualization tool to Interactive Smartlog.

I've settled on using Interactive Git Log in VSCode.
by voidhorse | 2025-05-03 01:02:05+00:00
Abstraction is a huge factor in this too. Language may be dominant because we are at a stage in which the vast majority of programming is little more than hooking together tidy abstractions that are already highly optimized and predominantly organized linguistically.

It you ever need to get into the guts of a system or need to solve bleeding edge problems for which good abstractions don't yet exist, the "math brain" becomes significantly more relevant.

I say this as someone who studied literature and philosophy. The majority of what I know about programming and software engineering I either taught myself or learned from the tutelage of others on the job. Early on in my career, a solid mathematics background was, indeed, not that relevant. These days, though, I'd be lost without it. Whether you like it or not, when it comes to doing real engineering you necessarily need to establish bounds and prove things about those bounds and typically you'll need to do this numerically or at the very least using inductive structures. Linguistic aptitude is still relevant, but it helps less in these cases.
by ivan_gammel | 2025-05-03 01:02:40+00:00
There’s no reason to add extra properties and associated complexity to hash used in collections because of one exotic use case. To be able to execute hash flooding, the server must accumulate arbitrary user inputs in a hash map, which is problematic design anyway. Even if that would make sense, what kind of function could work as 32 bit gash? You mention SipHash as an example: it is poor example anyway, because this function requires a secret key - meaning Java would have to do the key management behind the scene (just for strings? For Number subclasses?) or impose key management on API users. What’s the point? The case is so rare that it’s easier for developers of vulnerable applications to use a wrapper with desired hash properties.
by kevin_thibedeau | 2025-05-03 01:02:47+00:00
Lots of white artists were repackaging black recordings for segregated radio play in the 40s and 50s. It was routine in that era for any popular song to be covered by many artists within the same year, so it wasn't entirely insidious but there was a definite whitewashing going on with more than just Elvis. Georgia Gibbs is a notable case. Elvis' controversy was more the "sexualized" dancing which was among the things sanitized out of the covers.
by dfxm12 | 2025-05-03 01:03:08+00:00
On the other hand, the current administration is not interested in education or welfare though, or labor protections in general. Fired truckers don't have a whole lot of transferrable skills related to maintaining self driving vehicles, and they would all be competing for same openings anyway. You can't just get another job when you want it, and you need some way to take care of the bills until you can get hired.