MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kerkeslager | 2025-05-03 02:31:02+00:00
This is a question I've tried to answer to myself, and I think it's actually pretty hard to tell, if all your sources are Western media. I'll give you my impressions but I'm by no means an expert.

I tend to reject any narrative about the Soviets which makes them not sound like humans. They weren't all idiots or sociopaths: they understood, just like we do, that people make mistakes and that if you punish mistakes too harshly, people won't want to risk working with you. The Soviet government punished dissent harshly--but if you were working with them they weren't typically so foolish as to punish honest mistakes with a stay in the gulags. In fact, technical fields like their space program (and, for example, infrastructure programs) were safe havens for intelligentsia, where some criticism of government was tolerated because it was understood that criticism from people with technical knowhow was necessary to progress Soviet goals.

There are exceptions I've found, but I tend to think those are the result of a few people with too much power making bad decisions, rather than a pervasive cultural norm.

None of this should be perceived as a defense of Soviet totalitarianism. Stalin has the highest body count of any dictator by a wide margin, and that's totally reprehensible. All I'm saying is I think he killed political dissenters, mostly, not allies who made mistakes.
by nyarlathotep_ | 2025-05-03 02:31:19+00:00
> it's been 4 years now of this and AI still tells me the most obviously wrong nonsense every day.

It's remarkable seeing the change in sentiment in these parts, considering even just a year ago a large part of this forum seemed to regularly proclaim that programmers were done, lawyers were gone in 5 years, "Aye Gee Eye is coming", etc etc.
by underyx | 2025-05-03 02:31:21+00:00
From what I can tell the effective value of the "Cache Exchange Fund (After fees and expenses)" portfolio will be $660,282 once liquidating to actually use the money? Is the point that this allows waiting for a possible lower tax rate in the future? Or is the point that if the holder was really strapped for cash in this exact moment, they would have to pay less taxes now?
by simonw | 2025-05-03 02:31:32+00:00
That is very clearly SEO blog spam, likely written by an LLM. The date cannot be trusted. I checked the Internet Archive on the chance that might have been archived near to that date, but the archive did not have a copy of it at all.

Another clue: that article links to this one ("describe what you want ") https://alitu.com/creator/workflow/what-is-vibe-coding/ - which links to Andrej's February tweet as the origin of the term.
by calebhwin | 2025-05-03 02:32:44+00:00
Thank you! It's currently based on task lineage, exact match of task descriptions, and an optional user-provided cache_control argument that can control whether results or plans are cached.

One use-case for this is conversations: So for example if I invoke /chat/completions with [{"role": "user", "content": "Go to google.com"}] and later with [{"role": "user", "content": "Go to google.com"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Search for gorilla vs 100 human"}] then we cache the browser state from the first invocation so it can be quickly restored (or reuse the browser if not evicted).

Caching will get much more sophisticated in a future version, it's the piece we're most actively working on.
by brendangregg | 2025-05-03 02:33:47+00:00
I could just regenerate these heat maps with 60 rows instead of 50. I'm limited by the sampling rate that was captured in the profile data file. To provide even more resolution (so you had many samples within a game frame) I'd need to re-profile the target with a higher frequency.

When Martin, my colleague at Netflix at the time, built a d3 version of FlameScope, he put a row selector in the UI: https://github.com/Netflix/flamescope
by gnarlouse | 2025-05-03 02:34:49+00:00
I still casually believe AI doomerism is valid, but it will rear its head in more depressing, incompetent ways:

- a broken AI market will cause another financial collapse via bubble

- broken AI products will get access to the wrong mission critical civil system, or at least a part of that call chain, and there will be some devastating loss. It won’t matter though, because it won’t affect the billionaire class.

- we’ll never achieve an actually singularity based on a superintelligence, but we’ll get AI weapons. Those AI weapons will be in the hands of sociopathic autocrats who view mankind in terms of what can be taken.

My general view is that we’re on the worst possible timeline and mankind has reverted back to our primate ancestry to make decisions: biggest strongest monkey wins. There is only law of jungle. Ook ook.
by achierius | 2025-05-03 02:35:10+00:00
Huh? Why not? That sounds exactly like what I would expect to happen. Show up with a stolen truck (or cover the license plates), track down some truck on a route between cities, pop it open and see what you get. If it's good, pile it in the truck and drive off.

As to why that doesn't happen now? If you try to rob a piloted truck in the middle of nowhere, whether or not you plan on hurting the guy, he's going to fear for his life (why would he trust your good intentions if you're robbing him?) -- and if he fears for his life, there's a good chance he pulls his gun on you. That means you need to come prepared to commit violence and risk him doing the same
by ivan_gammel | 2025-05-03 02:36:37+00:00
I remember the times on one of professional forums, where there was lots of questions about architecture in C# sections and almost none in Java section. Abundance of tools creates abundance of possibilities to get confused about what’s right. In Java many design decisions converged to some dominant design long time ago, so you no longer think about it and focus on business. It’s sometimes as bad as getter verbosity (thankfully record style is getting traction), but in most cases it’s just fine.
by calebhwin | 2025-05-03 02:39:18+00:00
Ah you're right, my bad. Hope I didn't sound dismissive because I think some sort of robots.txt needs to exist for AI that's scraping the web both at train or test time.

I'm really not excited at all about the "scrape other people's data" use case for BLAST and if we can prevent it then awesome. I'm excited about BLAST automating science, legacy web apps, internal tools, adding AI automation to your own app, etc.
by mech422 | 2025-05-03 02:39:27+00:00
Hmm - don't remember if it was micro-kernel, but AtheOS (1) was a REALLY nice OS developed by a single very talented developer. It included display server, networking, partial POSIX compliance and lots of goodies like GCC, Bash, etc. Haiku moved to using the Linux Kernel if IIRC and AtheOS itself seems to have vanished...

1: https://atheos.metaproject.frl/
by peteforde | 2025-05-03 02:41:45+00:00
I am your target market, and I can't wait to try out the demo once I'm back from Superbooth and allowed to be distracted even a little.

... but I wanted to say that even with all of the glowing feedback, US$70 for a beta v1 soft synth is a big enough ticket that it will be off-putting to some and difficult to afford for others. Yes, there are many [much] more expensive virtual instruments, and this occupies a pretty unique space. But if you're open to feedback, this is my initial gut reaction.

One thing I am surprised by is that there's no mention of VR/AR ambitions. When I fantasize about 3D instruments, I do so in the context of wanting to interact with them in a space I inhabit. Does this speak to you as well?
by rekenaut | 2025-05-03 02:43:03+00:00
I've discovered that the people I most enjoy being around are those that are authentically optimistic. Not those that are blind to everything negative, and not those who are faking it to ameliorate themselves, but those who are encouraged by the opportunity for a better tomorrow. Astonishingly, these are often people that have suffered overwhelming personal tragedy. I've also noticed that the more time I spend around these people, the more emotionally resilient I become myself to difficulties.

There seems to be common sentiment that being optimistic is somehow ignorant or otherwise insidious. Maybe this is true, but I am already too familiar with the acute pain that comes with a life entrenched in pessimism to allow myself to fall into that spiral.
by Barbing | 2025-05-03 02:43:56+00:00
I was surprised to see a ~2020 photo of a security flyer:

“HVL Do Not Stop List” (High Value Load)

Thus I learned some truck stops in Texas, California, and elsewhere are too dangerous for “L Brands” (Bath & Body Works?) truckers to patronize. Unfortunate the human factor is not a sufficient deterrent, but agree—

A candy store is a less attractive theft target than a vending machine.
by seadan83 | 2025-05-03 02:45:26+00:00
You're saying that "Math" and "Language" are 'sets'? And that the phrase "Math is Language" should be interpreted as expressing the relationship between sets?

If we do want to talk sets, that seems far more interesting. The statements like "Math is a language", or "Math has equivalence classes within languages", or "Mathematics are a Language" are slightly more interesting to consider IMO.

>> Math major here.

> You say that like you think it's a qualification?

Agree, appeal to authority fallacy. I take that over mis-framing any day though.

Any old-timers might appreciate that we're arguing over the meaning of the word "is" =D
by gnabgib | 2025-05-03 02:45:30+00:00
https://archive.is/GRxXe

> The first jet to abort its landing was a Delta Air Lines flight carrying 97 passengers and five crew from Orlando.

> Then, as a Republic Airways flight was approaching, the helicopter’s radar track jumped to a new location after being unresponsive for a couple of seconds, according to the summary. The Republic flight came within half a mile of the helicopter, which was 200 feet below. That jet was also told to abandon its landing attempt.
by transcriptase | 2025-05-03 02:45:53+00:00
Maybe. Or maybe you have no frame of reference for what it’s like to be born in, graduate high school in, or spend your whole life in a small town where one factory or one industry is the only thing keeping the entire place alive. Then you watch it disappear, not because people didn’t work hard enough or because the business wasn’t viable, but because it was cheaper to ship everything overseas to exploit workers who have no rights, or because some top-down regulation made it easier and more profitable to do just that somewhere else.

Of course maybe it’s not just losing a job. Maybe it’s watching your whole community fall apart piece by piece. Maybe the tax base dries up so the schools get worse, the local stores shut down, the houses rot, and the kids who can leave bounce the moment they’re able to. Maybe the ones who can’t are left behind with no real options and no way out leading to all the shitty outcomes one would expect. And maybe… none of the people responsible for any of it have to live with the fallout. The politicians, the executives, the media, none of them are losing sleep over it. Their towns don’t get gutted. Their futures don’t disappear. Their kids aren’t overdosing.

But hey, it’s probably easier to just write off 70 million people as brainwashed idiots who joined a cult for no reason. Occam’s razor certainly suggests that your internalized caricature courtesy of r/politics is far more likely than any of these far-fetched hypotheticals right?
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-05-03 02:45:59+00:00
You know what I really want? No more "app stores" or "app managers". Just let me download and run an application, like on every non-mobile computer in the world.

I hate the constant updates. I hate the end-of-life OS forks. I hate the limited programming languages. I hate that there's this complicated gatekeeping, where you have to jump through a bunch of extra hoops to install a program if it hasn't been blessed by some specific official organization. And I hate that all the mobile phones come locked up (if not to a mobile carrier, then to an operating system, only able to be maintained by a specific 3rd party, and the device becomes a useless brick once that specific 3rd party stops supporting that specific operating system on that specific device).

Regular computers work much better. A common architecture. Run any OS built for that common architecture. Run any program that has executable machine code for that common architecture. You can install a different OS when the old one is unsupported. You can keep using the hardware until the hardware dies, not just until the company who made it drops that hardware's support. Common hardware components so every OS doesn't have to support every different individual model of computer. No gatekeeping of the programs you can install. No extra hoops. Just a machine that can run whatever you want it to.

I just want a computer in my pocket. I don't want all the extra bullshit.
by gus_massa | 2025-05-03 02:48:01+00:00
It's on purpose. From https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/tales/caddy-against-th...

> What is not fun is having my writings posted on Hacker News. That crowd is not my crowd, and I don’t need their takes in my life. And frankly, they don’t need mine in theirs either. For a while, I have configured my nginx to return a 403 Forbidden response when the Referer header included Hacker News, but that made things too obvious, so I switched to 418 I'm a teapot instead.
by wozniacki | 2025-05-03 02:50:52+00:00
2) Greatly restricting smaller foreign acts (especially from the US) from performing in Canada for commercial purposes Yes, point #2 also applies to the US, but it's not enforced. But if you cross into Canada with musical instruments, they'll put the fear of God into you.

This almost never has the intended effect of producing world class homegrown musical or cinema acts. Like almost a 100% failure rate especially when theres a shared language.

Lots of countries have this quota system where they try to artificially force feed homegrown music, tv shows and movies and it never works.

People always gravitate to the larger American sphere because it doesnt have such restrictions in place. They dont work anyway.

When I first saw Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah (2008) it was so fresh and un-Hollywood like in the presentation of the raw violence and vice, that it stunned me. I still cant stand most PG-fied and Disney-fied American films.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomorrah_(film)

Gomorra (2008) Official HD Trailer [1080p]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezYyxBZ7Ee0
by conception | 2025-05-03 02:51:44+00:00
They have already introduced ads btw.

“The "Enshittification" has arrived I asked ChatGPT about the impact of the current tarrifs on inventories over the next few months. It returned a long list of links to toiletries I might want to buy. I asked it why it did that. It replied: "As of April 28, 2025, OpenAl introduced new shopping features to ChatGPT, enhancing its capabilities to provide product recommendations complete with images, reviews, and direct purchase links. These features are available to all users, including those on Free, Plus, and Pro tiers, and even to users not logged in. The recommendations are generated organically, without paid advertisements or commission- based incentives, relying instead on structured metadata from third-party sources such as pricing, product descriptions, and reviews. This update aims to offer a more personalized and streamlined shopping experience directly within the ChatGPT interface, allowing users to explore products across various categories like fashion, beauty, electronics, and home goods. If you have any specific preferences or need tailored recommendations, feel free to let me know!"
by dylan604 | 2025-05-03 02:51:49+00:00
film industry is most definitely a union rule, but that's not the point. that's my personal experience with a minimum turnaround, and it is something that makes a huge difference. applying that to what pilots/truckers experience was my way of being empathetic rather than just sympathetic. i've personally been there, done that. i've also been on those stupid jobs where you work late into the night, yet the pointy haired bosses still expect you to be at your desk at the regular time. that absolutely sucks, and will not allow that nonsense to happen to me again.
by socalgal2 | 2025-05-03 02:52:10+00:00
I love Rez and have owned many versions (PS2, PS4, VR) including Rez Infinite. I loved it and the sound track is on my phone. That said, I found the game super easy. I cleared all 5 levels in a few hours. I got Rez Infinite and found it about the same. Cleared it in 1 play though. So while I still love it. It wasn't a game I went back to over and over.
by senectus1 | 2025-05-03 02:52:32+00:00
Its more complicated than that.

I turned 50 about 6 months ago, I'm 6"2 and dont drink alcohol, dont drink soda, dont eat breakfast and do 45-60 mins of gym weights and cardio 4-5 days a week. I have never been an over eater or a non stop snacker, I do fast food maybe once or twice a week. I drink mostly water.

I just cannot seem to get my gut fat down. I swing from 93-96 kg for no real discernible reasons.

There is something else going on, in my teens till about 35/40 i have always been whip thin.

I dont think we have the answers yet.. so statements like "Gaining weight and keeping it is a choice." is just absurd.
by godelski | 2025-05-03 02:52:59+00:00
Category theory is often jokingly called the study of dots and arrows. What's a dot? Anything. What's an arrow? A relationship.

I'm surprised I hit a nerve with so many people. I'm quoting someone who's considered one of the greatest mathematicians. Obviously I don't know the backgrounds of people but it seems like programmers have strong opinions on what math is that disagrees with what mathematicians say they do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_theory
by dylan604 | 2025-05-03 02:53:35+00:00
okay, but automating an elevator is something someone from python bootcamp could do. automating a semi-truck is not. so again, to compare the two is ludicrous. if you honestly feel like they are the same, you are someone I would semi-politely make my excuse to leave the conversation at a party. hey, look, there's someone over there that i haven't seen and would really like to talk to them rather than you. enjoy the party
by Scramblejams | 2025-05-03 02:54:24+00:00
Since you brought him up: Stalin was also motivated by a truckload of paranoia, though, right? Hard to make rational decisions about who is dissenting if you think they’re all out to get you. The flimsiest accusations related by the least reliable people could be enough.

He executed and imprisoned a bunch of his best aircraft designers. Look what he did to Andrei Tupolev and his design bureau; they designed a whole aircraft in the Gulag: https://vvsairwar.com/2016/10/20/aviation-design-in-the-gula...
by 93po | 2025-05-03 02:55:00+00:00
I, maybe embarrassingly, use chatgpt a lot for processing personal issues and journaling. It is legitimately helpful, and especially in helping me reword messages to people that have a lot of emotion underneath them, and making sure they are kind, communicative, and as objective as possible.

I am somewhat frustrated with openai's miss here, because during this time i was leaning heavily on chatgpt for a situation in my life that ultimately led to the end of a relationship. Chatgpt literally helped me write the letter that served as the brief and final conversation of that relationship. And while I stand by my decision and the reasons for it, I think it would have been very beneficial to get slightly more push back from my robot therapy sessions at the time. I did thankfully also have the foresight to specifically ask for it to find flaws, including by trying to pretend it was a breakup letter sent to me, so that maybe it would take the "other side".

Yes, I know, therapists and friends are a better option and chatgpt is not a substitute for real humans and human feedback. however this is something i spent weeks journaling and processing on and i wasnt about to ask anyone to give me that much time for a single topic like this. i did also ask friends for feedback, too. chatgpt has factually really helped me in several relationship situations in my life, i just want to know that the feedback im getting is inline with what i expect having worked with it so much
by Aeglaecia | 2025-05-03 02:56:21+00:00
i posit that the term optimism in its common usage conflates hope and delusion , hope being a subset of delusion that is consciously utilised in stimulating behaviour percieved to bring one closer to their goals , as opposed to a collapse of agency into pure fantasy disconnected from reality ... by demarcating these two concepts it is shown that optimism groups potentials both insidious and beautiful ... as usual, evidenciary of good and bad not being mutually exclusive ...
by kerkeslager | 2025-05-03 02:56:27+00:00
Based on what I'm seeing in the video, the robot isn't slicing the paddle in a way that would impart much spin other than what's already there. This is essentially a defensive play style.

That's not to say that the ball doesn't have spin. I play with a lot of spin, and a recent level up in my game was that I realized that when I put spin on the ball and my opponent returns it without slicing, I've got to account for the spin I put on it because it's still there.

You can get pretty dang far with a primarily defensive style, though. I was recently at an informal local tournament where the 2nd place guy had basically one serve and an insane ability to return shots. A lot of the times he scored in the final game were where his opponent hit a shot with such insane speed and spin that when when he returned it, his opponent couldn't defend the residual speed/spin of his own shot.
by scarface_74 | 2025-05-03 02:56:43+00:00
What do you mean I can’t admit they walked backed there bad decision? I explicitly said they walked back their Johnnie Ive designed laptops during the final generation x86 laptops.

Their business is not built on the App Store. People looked at Android at least in the US and 70% of them avoid it like the plague. Before that, people decided they like the iPod even though it had “less space than the Nomad and no wireless”.

And anyone who voted for this knew exactly what they were getting. Trump was in office for four years prior and “rural America” who depends on Medicaid, the Muslims who refused to support Kamala because they thought Trump would be better for Palestine, the poor and working class who are going to be hurt by increased prices and other policies, red states that depend on government support more than blue states, businesses abs farmers who supported him and even the unions that he is now trying to kill all are demographics that voted for him and supported him. Now they are in the “find out” part of FAFO. I have no sympathy for them.

The halo effect wasn’t because of “propaganda”. Poor little Google, Microsoft and Intel couldn’t compete with a company that was almost bankrupt a little over 29 years ago and was still small in 2007.

If non Christian Germans were dumb enough to vote for the Nazi party (they weren’t), I would have said the same thing. This country deserves exactly what’s happening to it because of its own poor choices. I’m not saying this out of pride and happiness.

I’m sad about it. But this is always “who we have been” despite what Michelle Obama says. We’ve been since Columbus, through slavery, through Jim Crow (that my still living parents grew up in) and now.

Trump was fairly elected. I’m not “apathetic”. What is in my control is that my wife and I have been seriously talking about establishing residency in Costa Rica upon retirement. We are going back next year to talk to a real estate agent to see about getting a place there. We might rent or we might buy. If this is the country that Americans want, Americans can have it. I’m not saying I’m leaving tomorrow. But we are investigating, I’m working on getting to be a better Spanish speaker and my wife is learning.