MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ip26 | 2025-05-23 18:44:34+00:00
A wide perspective is good, but that is orthogonal to what they experience as normal. You can select for a good, healthy normal AND provide a wide experience.

Your child doesn’t have to attend a school where educational attainment isn’t valued, to understand that perspective exists.

Their “normal” will strongly influence their choices. For example, if you wanted your child to attend college, I would argue the single best way to ensure they do is to enroll them in a high school where 90%+ of the student body later goes on to college.
by renatovico | 2025-05-23 18:44:35+00:00
i think the problem is in business process, it´s created for no work automatic, the people need be on control OR need have block because well if all people try cancel your subscription and can go in one step with a simple prompt, this is a huge revenue loss.

look how all companies have super system for crm/sales but when you go to backoffice all run in sheets and sometimes in real paper.
by Alupis | 2025-05-23 18:44:36+00:00
We're not talking about labeling data though - we're talking about understanding case law, statutory law, facts, balancing conflicting opinions, arguments, a judge's preconceived notions, experiences, beliefs etc. - many of which are assembled over an entire career.

Those things, I'd argue, are far less likely to change if you ask the same judge over and over. I think you can observe this in reality by considering people's political opinions - which can drift over time but typically remain similar for long durations (or a lifetime).

In real life, we usually don't ask the same judge to remake a ruling over and over - our closest analog is probably a judge's ruling/opinion history, which doesn't change nearly as much as an LLM's "opinion" on something. This is how we label SCOTUS Justices, for example, as "Originalist", etc.

Also, unlike a human, you can radically change an LLM's output by just ever-so-slightly altering the input. While humans aren't above changing their mind based on new facts, they are unlikely to take an opposite position just because you reworded your same argument.
by nathan_compton | 2025-05-23 18:45:07+00:00
"Which leads me to my final point about getting ambitious plans: you have to be immune to rejection. People are going to dismiss you at first. If that's enough to stop you, you're doomed. So you have to learn to ignore it. And that's harder than it sounds—social pressure is so powerful. But everyone who does ambitious things has to learn how to resist it."

Lots of people who learn to do this cause lots of chaos and destruction in their wake. I don't care if you need this attitude to be a founder, it still sucks.

I worked at a startup where the technical founder had this attitude and was, at least with respect to the product at hand, totally incompetent and it was truly catastrophically absurd and stressful and a huge waste of tons of people's time and money.
by 2Gkashmiri | 2025-05-23 18:45:07+00:00
When was the last time a commercial airline was attacked in Kashmir?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_union_ter...

These are the crime stats and even while our stats are skewed by jammu, overall its still a much safer place.

Think of it this way. 26/11 happened in Mumbai. Who would've thought ? That hasnt stopped people from visting Mumbai or rest of mainland India ?

I get it. The perception of threat is worse than an actual threat.

So.... you know if since 2008 as you said, any tourist was caught up in the issue ? I dont remember.

The only reason is tourists are not coming. I am a consultant working with the industry and EVERYONE has cancelled. Hotels have closed operations
by rustcleaner | 2025-05-23 18:45:46+00:00
The jumble of letters Fourier says nothing about what a Fourier Transform is or does. Signalidominomorphosis, or just dominomorphosis, tells a lot more at face value than Fourier Transformation which just basically says "a transformation associated with a Fourier."

With the loss of the old liberal education, we are forgetting our words are like pictograms, compiled from meaningful components from the shoulders of classical languages and ideas. Etymology books should be as common as dictionaries!

(don't mind me, just trying to anonymously add to the dictionary)
by Spivak | 2025-05-23 18:46:49+00:00
> Why are the fancy ones all top cut instead of side cut? It's just weird that way.

How very dare you. They're the superior cut and it's appalling side cut even exists. To answer your question though it's because that cut originates from New England and is used for "higher end" foods like lobster rolls. So they're perceived as fancier.

But they're just objectively better. Side cut buns are uneven which makes sense for a sandwich where you a thicker top bun but is utterly ridiculous for a top facing slice. Can you imagine a taco where one half of the tortilla was like three times as thick? Like look at this https://imgur.com/tF9uBp7 — absurd. That little flappy thing just falls apart. Also the flat part of the roll is at the bottom so when you top cut your hot dog can stand upright on the plate and not fall over. Typically the sides of top cut rolls are also flat which makes grilling/toasting the roll much easier. You get a delicious crispy buttery on the outside fluffy on the inside roll.
by 7thaccount | 2025-05-23 18:47:59+00:00
I recently visited New York City for the first time and honestly wasn't impressed. Outside of a few neat things like visiting the cronut place, I could do nearly everything the same back home.

The bagel places were indeed good, but not noticeably different than the hipster bagel places in my city.

Wood fired pizza was good at several places, but again...none were noticeably different than the wood fired oven fancy places in my small city.

The game stores are much bigger in my city due to lower real estate prices.

Times Square was the biggest disappointment. It's literally just standard big box store crap like GAP and M&M store and stuff like that. I guess that one's on me as it's a tourist trap.

Central Park was cool, but not as good as the multiple large parks in easy driving distance.

I could go on and on like that, but essentially I can own a home for a fraction of the cost to rent there. The only real difference is in a metropolis like NYC, you can meet up with people for any interest you want practically. You want to learn Klingon? I'm sure there's people doing that in NYC, but not like a city of 150,000.

Edit: the tap water was superior to my towns.
by tptacek | 2025-05-23 18:48:02+00:00
Non-ACME certs are basically over. The writing has been on the wall for a long time. I understand people being squeamish about it; we fear change. But I think it's a hopeful thing: the Web PKI is evolving. This is what that looks like: you can't evolve and retain everyone's prior workflows, and that has been a pathology across basically all Internet security standards work for decades.
by jxjnskkzxxhx | 2025-05-23 18:48:22+00:00
Hmm ok. What she's arguing for is "fake it till you make it". Think about it, the first thing this person did when she started steering, was write a book about startups even though by her own admission she didn't know anything about startups.

I liked the rails/steering advise, disliked the fake it till you make it advice.
by rickyhatespeas | 2025-05-23 18:48:24+00:00
It's definitely not explicitly writing out everything it's "thinking" if you are considering all dimensions of the latent space that are connected, that can't really be exhibited with a sentence.

CoT builds on existing prompt engineering techniques by adding it to reinforcement learning to force the models to build their own CoT prompt essentially. So it's not what it's thinking but all indications are that it does guide the reasoning abilities of LLMs through the output distribution.
by Teever | 2025-05-23 18:50:06+00:00
I'm from Alberta and I'm quite concerned about this topic. This recent HN comment[0] has been on my mind lately.

I've lived here my whole life and while I have some level of sympathy for the sense of western alienation I feel that it's more of an identity thing that's been fomented by bad actors over the decades for their own personal political agendas and now that it's embedded into people's sense of self from birth it has become hyper-real and a great threat to me and the economic stability of the place that I call home.

Nefarious people can really take advantage of these sentiments and get the people who truly believe them to eagerly do some fantastically bad things that are against their self interest.

I don't know what can be done about that. Like what's the "Ape together Strong"[1] counter to this divisive bullshit?

Alberta has a highly educated population, and one that has robust blue collar abilities, pretty good infrastructure, A shit load of natural resources, enviable geographic advantages in terms of security and isolation, and overall a very good quality of life.

What Alberta needs is to be honest with itself and recognize that so many of our issues are caused by ourselves and our inability to coordinate as a people against internal and external forces. Separating won't change that, it'll only make it worse.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43487443

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/apes-together-strong
by jjaksic | 2025-05-23 18:50:31+00:00
I am most definitely not justifying Netanyahu and how he's handling this. In fact he helped prop up Hamas and made them as powerful as they are for his own political gain. However, Hamas is a truly awful terrorist organization that definitely has made and continues to make the situation A LOT worse than it needs to be. This is not a peaceful residence movement, it's a terrorist organization that DOES NOT WANT peace, in fact their stated mission is a "holy war" and complete destruction of Israel and all Jews. Hamas is not Gandhi or MLK; they're essentially ISIS.

Also, what IDF is doing is not genocide. Please don't misuse the word. Genocide is systematic killing of people of a certain origin, which has happened during the Holocaust and multiple other times in history, but it's not what's happening here. A huge number of innocent Palestinians have been killed, yes, but it's not due to systematic killing based on origin. The population of Gaza has grown from 650k in 1990 to 2.2M in 2023; if there was actual genocide happening (and Israel most definitely has the capacity to kill every single person in Gaza), the numbers would have gone down, not up.
by naasking | 2025-05-23 18:50:39+00:00
> Is there fraud in science? Yes. So your answer is throw it all out instead of rooting out the fraud?

I didn't suggest any such thing. Deconstructing fallacious arguments around publicly funded science was the only objective here. At no point did I stake a position on whether science should or should not be publicly funded as a whole, or what mix of public or private funding would be optimal. I would love to live in a Roddenberry utopia with no resource scarcity so we can all research to our heart's content, but we don't live in that world, and the evidence is mounting that we're not in a good place or on a good trajectory.

In a very real sense we are stuck in a local minima: innovation as measured by patents have been decreasing every year for decades, researchers spend more time writing grants than doing research, they are heavily influenced by publication bias and celebrity status, the replication crisis has rightly undermined trust in a lot of scientific disciplines, and cases of decades old fraud indicates that academia is not as self-regulating/self-correcting as we might have hoped, and the skewed incentives in academia are largely to blame. You can take these changes coming as some kind of authoritarian oppression, or you can take them as an opportunity to remake research and academia into something better. As Wheeler said, "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
by abhiyerra | 2025-05-23 18:51:05+00:00
I moved from SF to smaller towns around California. I so much more enjoy the smaller towns. When I lived in SF I ended up going to the same 5 restaurants or cafes and while it was fund in my 20s to be around a lot of people my age as I got older and now have a family having more space is nice. Plus, I still go to the same five places in the smaller town I live in and don't have to usually wait in lines.
by SketchySeaBeast | 2025-05-23 18:51:36+00:00
> No he can't, because there is no misstep. They will find a reason to be angry no matter what, even if they have to make things up. Anger is the point.

I already see "Fuck Carney" flags being flown behind trucks. I doubt they even waited until the day after the election to cash out for the merch. It's all anger, all the time.

I totally agree with your point. It's a bunch of people saying they are angry and demanding that the feds respect their "rights", like their province's "right" to build pipelines through provinces that don't want one.
by sgarland | 2025-05-23 18:52:30+00:00
> Yeah that's my point! That's the load per instance that I see at my current company, we just have fewer replicas.

Yup. At a previous company and current, I had single instances handling 120K QPS.

> If you get it wrong (and getting it right is not trivial), production is on fire and it's potentially hours of downtime (or days, if it's a massive table!).

You’re not wrong. Hopefully stage is representative enough to gain confidence. For self-hosted, I use the indisnotvalid method, but I do get that it’s not a feature per se.
by leni536 | 2025-05-23 18:52:31+00:00
> noticed how you encoded a flip (AB <--> CD)

Exactly! There is also a less obvious relationship between A and B too: B is a A "backwards" (A rotated 180°, starting the curve from the opposite end).

The strategy was to put 5 lines on the plus sign on the sides of the 5 cells, with the idea that each line eventually fills out a neighboring cell in subsequent iterations. I found one such path that had a chance of working. Not sure if this makes sense.
by eikenberry | 2025-05-23 18:52:34+00:00
> Async may makes concurrent code easier to write, but also less simple to reason about as it grows. In a complex async codebase, I find it harder to reason about code flow and concurrency.

Good concurrency should make the code simpler to understand and reason about as it grows. Simply having process/service based encapsulation is a huge win. IMO this is a failing of the async/await abstraction, not concurrency itself.
by codingjerk | 2025-05-23 18:52:39+00:00
I'm using CLIs like A LOT, but still would be happy to get _good_ autocomplete for SQL.

`psql` is pretty bad at it and in `\e` you will just end up in an editor, which will probably don't know about your schema.

I've tried many tools, but seems like I like DataGrip (or databases in PyCharm Professional) the most, so I use EAP from time to time, when I'm going to write a lot of SQL.
by sieve | 2025-05-23 18:52:39+00:00
A note on the name.

The nasal "m" takes on the form of the nasal in the row/class of the letter that follows it. As "ñ" is the nasal of the "c" class, the "m" becomes "ñ"

Writing Sanskrit terms using the roman script without using something like IAST/ISO-15919 is a pain in the neck. They are going to be mispronounced one way or the other. I try to get the ISO-15919 form and strip away everything that is not a-z.

So, सञ्चिका (sañcikā) = sancika

You probably want to keep the "ch," as the average English speaker is not going to remember that the "c" is the "ch" of "cheese" and not "see."
by fatbird | 2025-05-23 18:53:57+00:00
An important factor to consider is that provinces in Canada are not like states in the U.S.: they are not sovereign bodies in themselves, they are administrative divisions to which certain federal powers are delegated. Alberta was created within Canada by subdividing what was then the Northwest Territories, already part of Canada.

Albertans certainly feel a distinct identity within their province, but that doesn't map to a prior nation, state, or other entity that could be considered coequal with Canada. It's more like a child suing for emancipation from their parent. Their entire identity was created within the Canadian context.

Who knows what effect that will have on separation if it comes to pass, but you can't really analogize separation to secession by a U.S. state.
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-05-23 18:54:18+00:00
I know this probably seems like such a small detail to a lot of people, but I really love that the author adds comments.

I can't stand reading PyTorch or other neural network code and asking myself, "What architecture am I looking at here?" or "What the hell are these operations for?"

It's always like an mash up of reading some published paper code with deep effort behind it along with all the worst programming practices of complete unreadability.
by keiferski | 2025-05-23 18:54:33+00:00
No one that lives in New York goes to Times Square, save for the subway station.

The great thing about New York is the prevalence of basically every nationality, with its own designated neighborhood. Places like Flushing, Corona, Brighton Beach, etc. These are also the areas that inexperienced tourists don’t visit.

If you visit again, definitely try to venture out to those areas.
by josephcsible | 2025-05-23 18:54:39+00:00
Stripe randomly disables little guys' accounts with no recourse all the time. E.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43422906 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42031469 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43873495 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43855844 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41791366 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41713131 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41663442 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41524399 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41508877 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41314293

Unfortunately, I think you're just out of luck. Hopefully, other people see your post and never sign up for Stripe in the first place.
Show HN: DoubleMemory – more efficient local-first read-it-later app
by randomor | 2025-05-23 18:55:28+00:00
DoubleMemory started as an experiment to see if I can somehow automatically save all double cmd + c, as I often do instinctively, so I don't need extensions to save links and text into an app, and avoiding flooding the capture history as regular clipboard managers does.

My motivation was not to create a read-it-later app, yet it evolved into this unique yet cohesive form of a read-it-later + bookmarking organizer + clipboard manager + card based note-taking app over the last 6 months. It also launches from the menu bar with a shortcut and navigates with keyboard shortcuts. My favorite part is instead of rendering a list of article titles, everything is rendered as pretty preview cards in a translucent Pinterest-like mood board. It also has a nifty iOS app, that will allow you to swipe with your thumbs between articles just like on iOS Safari...

Now that Pocket is closing, this is after Instapaper going back to indie and Omnivore and UpNext and numerous others closing over the years. All of these are cloud-hosted services, which got me reflecting: maybe this local-first architecture would be well positioned to build in this space.

Here is my not-so-scientific comparison:

## Domain

$10 vs $1M = 100,000x difference.

## Server running cost

No servers other than what's running by iCloud vs $1M per year = 1mX difference

## Platforms

Apple only (mac + iphone + ipad) vs Multi platforms (windows, linux, android also supported) = 20X maintenance cost difference

## Capturing

No browser extensions required v.s. maintain all extensions for various browsers and extension stores = 5x difference

## Architecture

App receives the link, Apple generates the rich preview cards for thousands of different types of links, app caches these preview cards. vs. Someone write some custom code for each link type or with Open Graph, one designer created one generic card that works for all links. = 100x cost difference.

I know, Apple is coming for clipboards with more restrictions, which is basically a shared global state on Mac systems, DoubleMemory does also support other ways to capture: drag-n-drop to app/menubar icon/app icon, right click->Services menu, or Share sheet. We will add more auto-importers.

Also vibe coded some importers for Pocket, Omnivore and ReadWise here: https://doublememory.com/posts/tools

Everything in the app is free with no limits. Capturing is really step 0. You giving us a chance to save your content, doesn't mean you are getting any values out of it (ain't that the typical story of read-it-later apps? save-it and never-read-it). the eventual goal is to easily retrieve these content, and eventually consuming them. I hope to eventually launch paid features that aligns with these value generating workflows.

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/doublememory/id6737529034

Let me know what you think...
by selkin | 2025-05-23 18:55:51+00:00
The pre-metric measurements in France weren’t imperial, but local: units had the same name, but different cities defined them differently. A livre[0] in one village was almost, but not quite, the livre used by the one only a couple toise[1] away.

[0] about a modern pound, depending where you were. Toulouse’s livre was almost 1.3 modern pounds, for example.

[1] about 13853/27000 meter.
by apsurd | 2025-05-23 18:56:28+00:00
This is too easily a soundbite. Sounds good so people say it.

It's only true at the extreme ends though. Reliable access to food and shelter is a prerequisite so let's get that out of the way.

I do worry that "rich people problems" are in ways worse problems to have. They're sinister and they cut deep. People become utility functions. Inability to form or even understand authentic relationships. Hamster wheel of self-worth being tied to capitalistic productivity: also paradoxically management hijinks . Existential crises. Law of diminishing returns. There was a post about what the rich have access to that others don't. Takeaway was actually not much, not in physical goods at least.

Stuff like that.
by ncruces | 2025-05-23 18:56:55+00:00
Go can decode numbers losslessly as strings: https://pkg.go.dev/encoding/json#Number

json.Number is (almost) my “favorite” arbitrary decimal: https://github.com/ncruces/decimal?tab=readme-ov-file#decima...

I'm half joking, but I'm not sure why S-expressions would be better here. There are LISPs that don't do arbitrary precision math.
by pavel_lishin | 2025-05-23 18:57:13+00:00
I've visited Oklahoma a few times, while living in Texas, and I currently live in New Jersey.

If I didn't have a family to support, I would confidently state that I would prefer to be homeless here than live in Tulsa.

And in general, I'm surprised that $10k significantly moves the needle for anyone. $10,000 is not that much money for a move - unless you have very few personal effects, moving house can easily cost ten thousand dollars, when you factor in a vehicle or moving service, the cost of disposing of and/or acquiring new things, things like fees for moving into a new place, etc.
by Buttons840 | 2025-05-23 18:57:39+00:00
My impression is that Atari was 80% solved, and then researchers and companies moved on.

A company solves self-driving 80% of the way and makes a lot of VC cash along the way. Then they solve intelligent chatbots 80% of the way and make a lot of VC cash along the way. Now they're working on solving humanoid robotics 80% of the way... I wonder why?

In the end, we have technology that can do some neat tricks, but can't be relied upon.

There are probably still some very hard problems in certain Atari games. Only the brave dare tackle these problems, because failure comes sharp and fast. Whereas, throwing more compute at a bigger LLM might not really accomplish anything, but we can make people think it accomplished something, and thus failure is not really possible.