MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pogue | 2025-05-01 15:13:44+00:00
Does it matter where he got his viewpoint? He could have heard it on a bus going to Cucamonga for all we know. At this point, trying to trace back which side is at fault for RFK's incredibly absurd ideas is mute and irrelevant unless you're just looking to give some rational for why he came to those conclusions.

We need to educate people from an early age in media literacy, skepticism and science. Make The Demon-Haunted World a mandatory read for every high school student.
by 9rx | 2025-05-01 15:13:57+00:00
They are used to working together to the extent that is necessary to further their own self-interest (i.e. get promoted). That competitive environment is not conducive to working together in a 'brotherhood' sense that a union requires, through.

Industries with significantly higher economic status and autonomy are all over unions (sports, entertainment, politics, medicine, etc.), so that doesn't really explain it.
by davidbarker | 2025-05-01 15:14:07+00:00
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by stevenwoo | 2025-05-01 15:14:17+00:00
I worked at a videoconferencing hardware/software company. We provided systems to USA government offices like the NSA and State Department and provided an input for which they gave us hardware specs but told us nothing else, the customer did the final testing on it to make sure it worked as specified. We assumed it was for some sort of encryption method of which they revealed to us as little as possible, the hardware engineers who saw it tested only saw a large, portable black box. Otherwise our system used the standard encoding/decoding methods of the day in the 1990s.
by brap | 2025-05-01 15:14:40+00:00
I still don’t understand why we even need a new protocol when we already have something like the OpenAPI spec, which can also be used to describe common authentication mechanisms like OAuth2. And it supports almost every existing API out of the box.

Granted it doesn’t separate between “resources”, “tools” and “prompts” but I think the line is blurry anyway.

And yes it can be used locally.
by mapt | 2025-05-01 15:15:00+00:00
I saw the writing on the wall when I had to install a couple 150MB IDEs to run 101-level Java programs in the mid 2000's. 150 megabytes. MEGABYTES. I could consume about 1 kilobyte per minute of fantasy novel text in uncompressed ASCI, call it 1/8th that fully compressed. That means this compressed binary you're handing me is around 1.2 billion minutes of work (more if ingesting a novel is faster than writing/testing/debugging a program) for what is functionally a text editor, file manager, syntax library, compiler, and debugger. Pretty sure that got done in 150 kilobytes a generation earlier. A generation later, maybe it will be 150 gigabytes.
by msaracevic | 2025-05-01 15:15:36+00:00
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by schmidtleonard | 2025-05-01 15:15:40+00:00
Socialism is collective ownership of capital. "Socialism but with private ownership of capital" is like "water but without wetness." So we call it something else.

Gallons of ink have been spilled talking about how the two types of populism are similar -- horseshoe theory -- but the reason why it's a horseshoe and not a circle is exactly the issue of capital ownership.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-05-01 15:15:42+00:00
There is a petition that would require publishers to leave games in a playable state at end-of-life (https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home), but it doesn't look like it will reach the threshold that would require the parliament to respond. It is one of the bigger petitions though, so it might still trigger some action.
by msaracevic | 2025-05-01 15:15:51+00:00
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by h2zizzle | 2025-05-01 15:15:55+00:00
John Henry won, he just died doing it. Another victim of racial healthcare disprities, probs.

EDIT: Also, depends on your chronological window. Is, "Posting a video advertising your services that reaches 30,000 people," a week's worth phone-calling? Of mailing letters? Of knocking on doors? Productivity increases are incremental and built on a ton of up-front capex, but they're there all the same. AI-pushers, of all people, should understand and be ready to defend this fact.
by joezydeco | 2025-05-01 15:16:05+00:00
"In 2013 i met a very close friend of Steve Jobs and i remember saying "there's one thing i absolutely have to know, it's really important to me" he responds "okay what is it?"

I ask "what was all the money for?!" puzzled "what do you mean?" "Steve Jobs saved up like 200 billion dollars in cash at Apple, but what was it all for? what was the plan? was he going to buy AT&T? was he going to build his own telecom or make a giant spaceship? what was it for?"

And he looked at me with just the deepest and saddest eyes and spoke softly "there was no plan" "what??" "you see, Steve's previous company, NeXT, it ran out of money, so at with Apple he always wanted a pile of money on the side, just in case. and over years, the pile grew and grew and grew... and there was no plan..."

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by wil421 | 2025-05-01 15:16:13+00:00
I tried to contact Hetzner and others about customers scanning my ports. Nobody cares about that. I took issue when I kept getting firewall alerts for port scans on open Plex ports.

I went down a crazy rabbit hole and found a bunch of domains that were random parts of street addresses. Obviously created automatically and they were purposely trying to make it harder to find related domains.
by mykemurphy2 | 2025-05-01 15:16:31+00:00
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by exmadscientist | 2025-05-01 15:16:40+00:00
They'll absolutely do consumer product assembly. It's short-run versus mass-production that's the real problem, most of them just aren't set up for high volume.

Board fab though, not so much. I don't think we have a PCB fab left in the area after losing Prototron. I'd be more sad about that, except that I don't think I ever had a single order with Prototron that actually went smoothly and came back correctly.
by WorldMaker | 2025-05-01 15:16:47+00:00
The market already tore Sears apart. Black and Decker is a zombie brand that continues in our IP-focused globalized JIT retail wasteland that certainly won't be on shelves "7 weeks from now". (Though maybe your grandmother's Black & Decker still works long past its lifetime guarantee and we'll be fighting to find the last of those.)

Also, I believe the above had an additional layer of an economics joke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%E2%80%93Scholes_model
by xracy | 2025-05-01 15:16:48+00:00
The dumb thing about this, is that the republicans are going to blame democrats whether or not they do anything. Play dead is a really dumb idea because it looks exactly like the rest of the democratic do-nothing strategies.

Someone needs to stop listening to Carville. Every time I see/hear him I am reminded of everything wrong with the DNC. They don't even pretend like they want to fight for people's rights. That's not gonna win them any elections. I would argue the reason they lost the election was for how little they actually promised they would do beyond "maintain the status quo".
by Redeker_15_Beep | 2025-05-01 15:17:11+00:00
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by qwerty456127 | 2025-05-01 15:17:19+00:00
> A text heavy application where update rate matters is programming. And I would be the target audience for that.

I wish you get what you want soon. Nevertheless I would prefer there to be a cheaper option for those who only need to read static documents or watch dashboards of information which doesn't change fast.

> You can simply refresh eink displays with different methods that offer different trade offs

Needless to say eInk displays aren't meant to refresh the same way classic displays do. Only the regions which actually change are supposed to redraw. 1 Hz doesn't mean the whole panel is fully reset 60 times every minute, only that it takes a second to display a change. Is this what you mean?
by matkoniecz | 2025-05-01 15:17:27+00:00
I would call kicking out corrupt occupier oppressing workers and pretending to be socialist superpower as a great success.

Doing it with no bloodshed typically accompanying such events was even better.

Russia was not friend to workers, it was oppressive evil state and kicking it out (what started steps toward collapse of USSR) was one of greatest successes in the history of Poland.

It was no accident that largest strikes in the history of country taken place during PRL and capitalism is so well regarded in Poland.
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-01 15:18:07+00:00
My impression is otherwise.

The worst trouble with the "impedance mismatch" is that there are three ways to create database tables to represent inheritance relations and they are all terrible. He doesn't talk about that at all. Most versions of "Active Record" don't make a serious attempt to establish the OO world inside the relational world and I see them as, fundamentally, an improvement over junior programmers writing

db.execute("INSERT (x,y) INTO z VALUES ("+x+","+y+")")

although a really simple library like

t = db.table("z") # pure sugar, doesn't even look up "z" in the schema! t.insert({"x":x, "y": y})

solves that problem pretty well, particularly in the context of modern SQL-in-X DSLs like JooQ and SQLAlchemy where you can write something like

t.update( {"y": lambda z: z["y"] + 1}, # set clause {"x": lambda z: z["x"] % 2 == 0 } # where clause )

His attitude that OO > relational can be turned around: for instance, migrating a database that has 10,000,000 user records in it is going to a be a serious affair no matter how you do it and you could say it is trivialized by your ability to change the data type you use in a class definition check it into version control and then

git checkout X

to whatever version you want without doing the difficult physical transformation of the data tables. OO has a strong tendency to set things up in a definite hierarchy, in the case of a user management system, for instance, users are typically organized into "groups". Do you write

group.addUser(u1)

or

user.addGroup(g1)

? The author would probably reject this but I'd base the requirements in "what does the user interface look like?" and I would come to the computer that the administrator of the system might be looking at the screen for a user and want to add that user to a group or be looking at the group screen and add a user. The rookie "product" manager will usually decide we need one, but it's predictable [1] that the administrator will think otherwise and insist on the other.

The author does not discuss any better way of handling persistence because it doesn't really exist -- sure the messy "document database" solves the inheritance problem (which he doesn't talk about... if he did we'd get into the question of "is inheritance toxic?") Attempts to make native OO databases where you persist all your Java objects are a notorious dead end.

[1] like the contact info form which has two email addresses and will inevitably need N
by TeisJayaswal | 2025-05-01 15:18:10+00:00
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by mtlynch | 2025-05-01 15:18:11+00:00
Haha, that sounds like me. Here's the writeup you're talking about:

https://mtlynch.io/litestream/

And here's the flooding story:

https://mtlynch.io/solo-developer-year-6/#the-most-terrifyin...

Sidenote: I still use Litestream in every project where I use SQLite.
by PrivateAcc981 | 2025-05-01 15:18:11+00:00
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by prplfsh | 2025-05-01 15:18:16+00:00
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by betteroffchris | 2025-05-01 15:18:26+00:00
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by steamrolled | 2025-05-01 15:18:50+00:00
I don't want to be judgmental because I know these are extremely difficult situations with no easy answers, but what strikes me about this article is that the author blames the profit motive after what can be uncharitably viewed as taking an elderly parent and paying a third party to make the "problem" go away from your life.

This industry is driven solely by demand and there are highly-developed countries where it doesn't exist, or doesn't exist on this scale, simply because of different social norms and taboos.

What's the outcome we're hoping for? We're talking elderly folks we'd rather not care for ourselves and that we don't want to watch declining and dying, and we're dumping them into a large-scale... well, death facility.
by hedora | 2025-05-01 15:18:52+00:00
This might match your recollection. x86 Win95 raytracing in javascript on my arm laptop is usable, but sort of slow:

https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows95

Once it boots, run povray, then click run.

It took over 2 minutes to render biscuit.pov, though it did manage to use SSE!
by behnamoh | 2025-05-01 15:19:10+00:00
I'm not even sure what the concept of "person" means anymore. Am I in the same body? Not really, most cells have been replaced by newer ones. Am I taking relatively the same volume and shape in space? Yes, my body, despite all the new cells, still looks more-or-less the same (bar the gray hair and other changes). Am I the same "I" and "me" I used to call myself? I don't even know if my memories are completely accurate to see if how I thought of myself in the past is the same as now. And I've been wondering who's the person that says/thinks these things (like in this comment) for over a decade now...

I might be just a super advanced neural net (like a language model) with self-reflection and so many self-doubts.