MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AlotOfReading | 2025-05-13 15:45:59+00:00
Blue collar workers are almost always paid hourly (or some other unit where time = money). They're being paid in proportion to the amount they work, and the only common reason to take a second job is that the first won't give you enough hours/work to meet your financial needs.

Some people see salary jobs as exchanging a fixed amount of money for 40 hrs/week average. If you're spending 10-20 of those hours moonlighting for company B, those people would say you're depriving company A of what they're paying for.

If you instead see salary work as producing a certain amount of work regardless of the hours worked, then again there's no issue here. This is inconsistently applied to executives far more than rank and file office workers, since no one really expects (or wants) board member Bob to provide 40 hrs/week to each of the 6 companies he's involved with.
by voxl | 2025-05-13 15:46:24+00:00
Have you ever applied for a grant? Do you understand how science in the USA is funded? How it is unique?

Will the rest of the world absorb the scientists in the US? Probably not, that is honestly their mistake and missed opportunity, but all the same probably not. Fine, so you're right? Scientists just stick it out? No.

The best scientists will definitely leave. Those are the very ones we always wanted to attract. They could have always left, but didn't because the US was the best place for them. Now they leave. Everyone else will try and leave or leave for industry. Even if you only lose 20% of your scientist to other countries and sectors where they are no longer doing productive scientific work, that is a massive blow to progress.

Worst case scenario is China wakes up from its xenophobia and uses this opportunity to replay the US science strategy. Suddenly 20-50% of US scientists can leave for China.
Show HN: Radiopaper and Public Commissions
by davidschaengold | 2025-05-13 15:46:28+00:00
Hello HN!

Today is the official launch day for Radiopaper, a new social network focused on fostering thoughtful, interesting conversations.

We initially opened Radiopaper up to the public a couple years ago with an HN post, and got a lot of great responses, despite not doing a big public launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31210680

The site now has a new and much improved design, but the same troll-resistant mechanisms are in place: Replies are private messages by default, until the OP chooses to engage.

Today we're debuting a major new feature: you can commission people with real money (privately) to respond to posts (publicly).

There are some really cool conversations on the site going on right now, including about the history of eyeliner, the color blue in Christian mysticism, and John Rawls.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-05-13 15:46:54+00:00
The design, manufacture and supply of electronics is far more important than one particular usage, e.g, "LLMs". It has never been a requirement to violate copyrights to produce electronics, or computer software. In fact, arguably there would be no "MicroSoft" were it not for Gates' lobbying for the existence and enforcement of "software copyright". The "Windows" franchise, among others, relies on it. The irony of Microsoft's support for OpenAI is amusing. Copyright enforcement for me but not for thee.
by unixplumber | 2025-05-13 15:47:23+00:00
> Though conversely, when someone buys the trademark for an existing piece of software, and replaces it with something entirely different, like what happened with Audacity, that's also bad. So there's no good solution.

I've followed the Audacity situation over the last few years. Before the Muse Group bought the rights to the trademarks and took over development, Audacity development had pretty much stagnated.

The new developers did not replace it with something entirely different. What they did was fix longstanding bugs and add new features/enhancements (and changing the way some things work, for better or worse). Sure, they introduced new bugs here and there with the new features/enhancements, but last I checked they fixed those. And yes, they could have done a better job at marking new versions as "beta" rather than pushing them out as stable releases (old hands know to avoid a new version until a couple minor versions later). That's really my biggest gripe with their development/release process.
by jgeada | 2025-05-13 15:47:43+00:00
Everything is simple at the highest levels of abstraction.

It is the details of actually making it work that raise the complexity levels and/or kill you if you don't get them right.

Remember: a decision that in the abstract with infinite thinking time is easy can be extremely stressful when it has to be made in seconds in real time and getting it slightly wrong will potentially cause a catastrophe. And ATC has to keep doing this throughout their entire work shift.
by meshula | 2025-05-13 15:47:57+00:00
X-Wing vs Tie Fighter: available memory and CD seek performance really restricted what you could do then.

The Force Unleashed: this is one of those "succeeds if it's invisible" things. The music is procedural based on mixing rhythmic and arrhythmic stems. That allowed continuous cross fades without needing to precisely match beats. That was a limitation again of not being able to precisely line up stems. The other fun thing that was introduced was physics driven synthesis. The DMM system fed information about strain, impacts, and other events into a granular synthesizer. The bussing and ducking architecture was derived from this paper by Walter Murch: https://transom.org/wp-content/uploads/2005/04/200504.review... Fun anecdote: I was at a party with some audio nerds, and raving about the paper to a new acquaintance, who interrupted me and said, "Oh, I wrote that!"
by gethly | 2025-05-13 15:48:07+00:00
In my experience, the only risk and proven danger are sales people. I've seen and met many former sales people whom developed relationships with their customers and then one day just quit their job and went into business of their own, with a lot of their former employer's clients as their new customers. I doubt there is anything anyone can do about it as this is about personal relations and the only defence could be to never allow one customer to be handled by a single account manager so there cannot be personal relationship developed. But on the other hand, will such customer feel good doing business with such a company? It might just be one of those things that just is what it is and will never change.
by thot_experiment | 2025-05-13 15:48:32+00:00
> Using LTSC to avoid bloat is like removing the chairs and radio from your car to reduce weight.

LOL, I don't think that's how you meant it, but 100% agreed those are some of the first things to go when you wanna have fun in a car.

Windows LTSC is an amazing experience compared to vanilla windows, it's actually a decent OS that you can more or less control and you don't have to spend a weekend debloating and figuing out how to rip out cortana and ads and all the other garbage.
by knowitnone | 2025-05-13 15:48:42+00:00
I absolutely agree with what you are saying.

Yes, it's possible and very simple. Lower the frequency (dramatically lowers power usage), fewer cores, few threads, etc. The problem is, we don't know what we need. What if a great new apps comes out (think LLM); you'll be complaining your phone is too slow to run it.
by phillipcarter | 2025-05-13 15:49:07+00:00
> That's why you should just write tests, before you write the code, so that you know what you are expecting with the code that is under test is doing. i.e Test driven development.

I've tried this too. They find ways to cheat the tests, sometimes throwing in special cases that match the specific test cases. It's easy to catch in the small scale but not when in a larger coding session.

> No. Please do not do this. These LLMs have zero understanding / reasoning about the code they are outputting.

This is incorrect. LLMs do have the ability to reason, but it's not the same reasoning that you or I do. They are actually quite good at checking for a variety of problems, like if the code you're writing is sensitive to memory pressure and you want to account for it. Asking them to examine the code with several constraints in mind often does give reasonable advice and suggestions to change. But this requires you to understand those changes to be effective.
Relaunch Commissary Club (YC S17): AI Eats Reentry
by RBBronson123 | 2025-05-13 15:49:24+00:00
Some background:

I launched 70 Million Jobs (S17), the first for-profit employment platform for the formerly incarcerated. Inspired by my own incarceration and greatly assisted by my Y Combinator experience, we had success in facilitating jobs for thousands of men and women with records (of which I’m one), thereby dramatically reducing their chances of recidivating. Unfortunately, just as we became profitable, COVID hit and our revenue cratered, shuttering the business.

The problem:

Many with records have limited education and even less experience job-seeking. They don’t have a resume, the social skills or job training to speak of. And to make matters worse, there’s no peer support, no community to turn to for advice, inspiration or connections. With no job, there’s a 75% chance they’ll end up back in jail or prison. The problem destroys lives, families and communities and costs us hundreds of billions of dollars annually.

The solution: Facebook for ex-cons.

A destination for the 100 million Americans—1 in 3 adults (and 1 billion+ globally)—impacted by the criminal justice system. I talked about it with TechCrunch 5 years ago. https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/29/commissary-club-wants-to-help-formerly-incarcerated-people-find-community/ Build a social network that brings this vast population together for the first time, and lets AI handle every phase of the reentry paradigm on behalf of this population:

• Create a resume, search for jobs and apply. • Find housing • Offer personal development and job training opportunities, mentors • Referrals to professional resources (doctors, lawyers, therapists, etc) • Dating, business opps, events, music • Provide new users with voice introductions to network members, so they can find friendship, inspiration, love • Track and reward positive behavior w/tokens A lot of social good but also a great business: Brands—which love niche social networks--have never been able to directly market to this vast demographic efficiently because it’s never been readily accessible. We buy a lot of sneakers and eat a lot of hamburgers.

The bigger picture:

My mission is to be the first to take on the entire utterly f*ked reentry paradigm and have Commissary Club serve, as Women’s Lib did for women and the Civil Rights movement did for African Americans, as the one place that welcomes this historically marginalized, derided population, and allow us to flex our collective social, economic and political muscles.
by Daisywh | 2025-05-13 15:49:28+00:00
I relate to this a lot. A few years ago I was stuck in a toxic team. Every day felt like survival. I almost walked out one day after a heated meeting, but I stayed quiet, and a teammate quietly checked in with me later. That connection ended up helping me find a much better job a year later.

The job felt disposable, but that small human moment stayed with me.
by hello_computer | 2025-05-13 15:49:43+00:00
a chatbot that can barely go a paragraph without hitting an ideological tripwire—like gemini’s “greek philosophers”. for people who grew up in the before times, it’s just a nuisance, but for the kids, this is dark and insidious. so go ahead with your centralizing and your reddit bitch sarcasm, then reeeeee to us there when it all falls into the wrong hands, again.
by _ache_ | 2025-05-13 15:49:53+00:00
Objectively, this article is bullshit. What is the source ? An unidentified "data partner".

That just means, this is non-reproducible. So this is not science. Actually, there is a another paper, reproducible, it's non conclusive.

The social explanation of the phenomena (if there is any) are clearly politically oriented.
by allturtles | 2025-05-13 15:50:14+00:00
> she is a Biden political appointee

The obvious difference is stated in the post you are replying to: "Congress hasn't approved him."

> She earned a Ph.D. in American studies from New York University in 2003.

The NSF funds humanities/social science grants, so it needs experts in those areas. Note that she is deputy director for science and society. This funds work associated with history, sociology, etc.: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/sts-science-techno....
by slindsey | 2025-05-13 15:50:27+00:00
With a minimum of googling, it seems that Honda already makes this vehicle in both the U.S. and Canada. They appear to be adding shifts to the U.S. to boost production 30% while lowering it elsewhere. So "Yay" I guess. It's one of the few situations where the tariffs can work short term. In most cases, shifting production from another country to the U.S. is a multi-year investment that tariffs won't significantly impact because they are changing too often to drive such long-term decisions.
by motorest | 2025-05-13 15:51:05+00:00
> The stress comes from people who are bad at what they do and are trying to make it someone else's problem.

There's some irony in the way you try to pin the blame on a third-party, and while trying to denigrate it too. I think it warrants some soul searching. I mean, would you feel stressed if you had to endure a team member who threw blanket accusations at your competence and in the process blamed you for causing grief to other team members?

> They don't have vision for how they will accomplish what is asked of them. In their imagination, there is not a clear set of steps that can be burned down over the coming days and weeks to arrive at something of value.

There's a lot to unpack there. Only a highly disfuncional team would throw a team member to the wolves and leave them out to fend for themselves on a task that is relatively complex. No wonder people would feel stressed in that environment.
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-13 15:52:31+00:00
This is absurd.

Look at the things you're comparing: a misreading of a somewhat-common yard sign plus what Fox News and Mark Levin say the democrats support, versus a concerted effort by a highly influential prominent think-tank that involved so very many top folks in Trump's campaign that his statements distancing himself from it were never anything but blatant lies.

Show me something actually equivalent, and you'll have a point. Find me the most-influential think tank you can that supports stuff like "abolishing the police force" or "denying the basic right for country to have an immigration policy". CFR? Brookings? Atlantic Council? IDK, find one. Find a policy statement on that stuff, Democrats usually put tons of policy docs on their campaign websites because they're nerds who incorrectly think normal people both can and are willing to read, so it should be well-documented. After all, the claim was that they shifted their campaign focus to that! To "abolishing the police force" (?!) and such. Not that a few individual democrats with little or no power said some things, maybe.

> That's a distinction without a difference.

Once you erase the long list of material fucking differences, sure.

> If Democratic voters and activists are pushing for a given position

ALMOST NONE ARE. The person who "deny[ies] the basic right for country to have an immigration policy" is vanishingly rare and you'll have at least as much luck finding them among the committed libertarian sorts as even the farther-left end of democrats—still not much luck, but about as much.

It's correct to say it's a problem for democrats that people think they hold these positions. It's incorrect to say it's because they in-fact do. It's because of effective propaganda.

You folks are assigning a caricature of their positions to them and then blaming them for adopting those caricatured positions. WT literal F.
by JohnMakin | 2025-05-13 15:52:35+00:00
I am just quite old enough to remember the late 90's/early aughts dotcom craze. The vibe in software feels very similar to me - back then I remember ad-riddled pages that'd spam you with popups and sometimes malware, all in the same fever pitch to eek out every possible penny so they could show revenue for their overpriced valuations. The web was seen as a gold mine that if you weren't pillaging, you were actively losing - until it all imploded.

The look and feel of a lot of web pages today (invasive ads taking up disproportionate amount of the page) reminds me a lot of that time, even without going to the dotcom parallels we have with the current hype cycle.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-05-13 15:52:52+00:00
They can’t build the gas plants (backlog to build them is ~5 years with GE and Siemens, and the costs are accelerating beyond reasonable commercial costs). At the same time, ERCOT is projecting supply shortages both this year, and more so in future years due to demand growth.

Record May Peak Demand Coming Wednesday: Grid Roundup #57 - https://www.douglewin.com/p/record-may-peak-demand-coming-we... - May 12th, 2025 ("ERCOT is forecasting a peak of over 84 gigawatts which would shatter the previous May record of 77 gigawatts and even threaten the all-time demand record. ERCOT expects plenty of extra capacity despite large thermal power plant outages; solar power is expected to deliver well over 20 gigawatts. Should various anti-energy bills (SB 715/HB 3356, SB 388, SB 819) become law, these kinds of events would almost certainly create energy emergencies")

Energy groups scrap Texas-backed projects as costs rise - https://www.ft.com/content/19a52438-b529-43a8-9a83-b2d680f3d... | https://archive.today/lsKf9 - May 12th, 2025

Texas Attempt to Kickstart New Gas-Fired Power Is Stumbling - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-05/texas-att... | https://archive.today/9jRPq - April 5th, 2025

Report on the Capacity, Demand and Reserves (CDR) in the ERCOT Region, 2025-2029 - https://www.ercot.com/files/docs/2025/02/12/CapacityDemandan... [pdf] - February 13th, 2025
by monkeyfun | 2025-05-13 15:52:57+00:00
Haha, i totally feel that. Maybe people will have little personal balloons for emergencies like that :p

At the same time, do consider how you already count on conventionally supported structures like bridges, buildings, tunnels, etc. not to have any defects or design flaws. Or once-in-100-years storms or earthquakes.

This magnifies further if you've ever flown on a plane or sailed on a ship. It only takes the right series of failures to be plummeting to the bottom. Now imagine people who spend months or years counting on technology and redundancy to keep them alive in space, and might expect to do so indefinitely.

Exposure therapy, baby!
by haolez | 2025-05-13 15:53:35+00:00
There are probably several, but I had contact in the beginning of my career with a company that made industrial printers. They said that, in the first years of the company (80s), adopting FORTH gave them an edge over the competitors and it was the main (tech) factor of their success. They implemented their firmware in FORTH with some PostScript wizardry as well.
by drannex | 2025-05-13 15:53:48+00:00
> The fact remains that the US government has warned against the use of languages such as Odin

That goes for Zig as well. But, the NSA is only classifying based on most well-known languages, and additionally a lot of those aren't 'memory-safe' they just have GC, the reason they don't believe you should use C is because they don't have built in memory safety checks at all, whereas Odin does. They have Pascal on that list, which is a primary inspiration of Odin, and is also technically an unsafe language.

> By contrast the Odin presentation I saw was utterly directionless and filled with fluff.

I am not sure why a presentation has anything to do with performance or credibility of a language, plus I am always impressed by their talks. Good chance you saw their live coding/development sessions? They live stream development fairly often.

> I like to think I have a good nose for BS, and Odin trips it.

Odin is used in production, hard production today. I use it to run 6000+ retail locations doing embedded automation work in security, it's highly proficient and accessible. There is no BS here, everything has been defined and they are honest about their shortcomings when there are those (which are minimal).

> The Zig compile supports multiple codegen backends, compiling C/C++ code, and easy cross-compilation.

That's because they bundle the entirety of LLVM in their builds, they didn't do a lot of extra work for C/C++ code compilation, they just built an alias (with a set of internally defined better default flags) to the clang compiler, it's just a passthrough.

re: cross-comp: Odin is in the same boat, both Zig and Odin compile out to assembly via LLVM, they can reach the same targets practically.

> That great wall of random corporate logos of companies which don't use Odin on their website doesn't help

They do use Odin, they use JangaFX, that is less a 'this is a code written by these companies' (which some do send upstream changes, so they do) and more of a declaration of "We are used in production in these companies, you have likely ran Odin code in your favorite games, or seen in your favorite movies". That's fairly obvious for any tech-oriented project or company, especially for a language.

> Additionally, I don't think a C replacement should be immediately intuitive to someone who has only ever used C

Again, automation systems architect for one of the largest companies in the world here, I have people who have never even _programmed_ writing proficient code to use in production (after checks, of course). As an embedded developer, its insanely intuitive to C developers, and anyone who has ever programmed.

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Check out the language, write some code, try it out, seriously, I was on the fence when I first heard about it several years ago, I think you might enjoy it. If you're not an LLM chatbot, then you might even find it invigorating to try something new. Doesn't hurt, and you learn some new things.
by rickydroll | 2025-05-13 15:54:06+00:00
> Batteries can’t provide this kind of power demand at grid scale.

Yes, they can't yet* supply enough power for overnight coverage. However, multiple grids have batteries that provide four hours of supply at grid scale.

Watch the percentage of power running overnight on batteries. Over time, you'll see an increasing blend of wind power plus batteries with a decreasing amount of gas-powered turbines.
by cogman10 | 2025-05-13 15:54:08+00:00
Also, arguably, the wrong way to do something like this.

The author uses `setTimeout` for javascript. The equivalent for Java is either the `Timer` class or a `ScheduledExecutorService`. Doing a `Thread.sleep` simply isn't how you should approach this.

With that in mind, if you want to use both these things and keep the completable future interface you'd have to do soemthing like this.

ScheduledExecutorService scheduler = Executors.newScheduledThreadPool(1); var future = new CompletableFuture<String>(); scheduler.schedule(()->future.complete("Data Fetched"), 10, TimeUnit.SECONDS); future.thenAccept(result -> System.out.println(result)); System.out.println("Prints first"); // prints before the async result scheduler.shutdown();
by ben_w | 2025-05-13 15:54:59+00:00
> Is America enough of a "melting pot" that we can withstand that sort of outsized foreign influence within our borders?

Depends.

If your idea of America consists of just the pre-colonial native groups, Navajo etc., then America was already gone a century and a half ago.

But the America of 1925 had exactly the same arguments about Italians, and of 1845 about the Irish, in that the local born were complaining a lot and didn't trust the newcomers.

The melting pot has been melting for a long time now; you're a big endless stew of a country. (Except for the "real" natives, if there is such a thing).