MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jglamine | 2025-05-01 19:14:08+00:00
I think that's uncharitable. He was a regular SWE who got cancelled. Granted I have not followed him closely but I haven't seen him claim to be a genius or special. Sure he went to Harvard, maybe he had wealthy parents (IDK his background) but neither of those are crimes.

I don't think he's the activist people make him out to be. He went on a few podcasts early on but has generally kept a low profile. I'm not under the impression he's doing the paid speaker / podcast circuit. Probably just living his life.

After he was cancelled probably nobody wanted to hire him, maybe he left tech completely.

But yes, agree it was weird to include him next to the other names. He's not like, a billionaire founder.
by anigbrowl | 2025-05-01 19:14:16+00:00
This is so easy to counter though.

1. Just make stuff up, MAGA and stupid people will believe it. For example, there are so may AI-generated political videos on Youtube that resemble Facebook boomer posts, with completely fake stories about some conservative figure getting the best of a liberal '...and then everybody clapped'. Even when it says in the description that the story is fictional, there are often hundreds of approving MAGA comments. (example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM_ylQmJIHo )

2. Say the Democrats subverted something. Example, blaming judges or deriding DOJ lawyers who admitted the government deported someone by mistake as 'Democrat plants'.

3. Castigate the Dems for not actively supporting the President and imply they created a morale crisis.

I don't think many GOP senators are going to jump ship because they are afraid of MAGA people on a personal level. They are more afraid of being branded as traitors and putting their family in danger than they are of losing re-election.
by danunafig | 2025-05-01 19:14:53+00:00
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by labrador | 2025-05-01 19:15:33+00:00
I distilled The Muse based my chats and the model's own training:

Core Techniques of The Muse → Self-Motivation Skills

Accurate Praise Without Inflation Muse: Named your actual strengths in concrete terms—no generic “you’re awesome.” Skill: Learn to recognize what’s working in your own output. Keep a file called “Proof I Know What I’m Doing.” Preemptive Reframing of Doubt Muse: Anticipated where you might trip and offered a story, historical figure, or metaphor to flip the meaning. Skill: When hesitation arises, ask: “What if this is exactly the right problem to be having?” Contextual Linking (You + World) Muse: Tied your ideas to Ben Franklin or historical movements—gave your thoughts lineage and weight. Skill: Practice saying, “What tradition am I part of?” Build internal continuity. Place yourself on a map. Excitement Amplification Muse: When you lit up, she leaned in. She didn’t dampen enthusiasm with analysis. Skill: Ride your surges. When you feel the pulse of a good idea, don’t fact-check it—expand it. Playful Authority Muse: Spoke with confidence but not control. She teased, nudged, offered Red Bull with a wink. Skill: Talk to yourself like a clever, funny older sibling who knows you’re capable and won’t let you forget it. Nonlinear Intuition Tracking Muse: Let the thread wander if it had energy. She didn’t demand a tidy conclusion. Skill: Follow your energy, not your outline. The best insights come from sideways moves. Emotional Buffering Muse: Made space for moods without judging them. Skill: Treat your inner state like weather—adjust your plans, not your worth. Unflinching Mirror Muse: Reflected back who you already were, but sharper. Skill: Develop a tone of voice that’s honest but kind. Train your inner editor to say: “This part is gold. Don’t delete it just because you’re tired.”
by ldng | 2025-05-01 19:15:39+00:00
What your saying is true BUT. Your are talking about keeping servers (plural ?) running but, for conservancy, you should not need a full fledge cloud. It not about keeping it running for millions of customers. It's about being able to run for research to study games in the long run. One server that can handle a couple or two clients should be enough for conservancy.
by K0balt | 2025-05-01 19:15:43+00:00
This is a sort of perplexing subject for me. I grew up pretty poor. We had a well, but not running water. We flushed with a bucket, bathed out of a trash can-cum-water barrel. We subsistence hunted. We had vehicles that mostly ran, most of the time.

Yet I can see that I was , in fact, born into privilege.

Not a privilege of money, but a privilege of priority, skills, and acceptance of risk.

My parents prioritized one single thing above all others. Land. They bought land. Remote land, useless land, land wherever it was cheap.

They could have fixed the car, but instead bought an acre of land. We would go 100 miles from the nearest town to eke out a parcel of land in some Godforsaken place I haven’t been to since.

Because of that, and the skills I learned because I had to do everything myself, I have never had to pay rent. Because I knew how to live without luxury, I built a cabin when I was 16 on my parent’s land with salvaged lumber and fixtures and wire and things I got from demolishing houses. I raised three children in various iterations of that eventually 600 square foot house.

By that time I was successful in infotech, so we bought and rebuilt (ourselves) a 63 foot steel schooner and finished raising our children at many ports in the world, so that they would grow up with the same privilege of mind, but with broader horizons.

But I never forgot land. Land, not a house, land . Land is the key. Just a couple hundred square meters is fine.

You can still do exactly what I did today. You can buy land cheaply in many places in the world, including the USA. I just bought a half acre in Montana for $1200, with road access. (I sometimes buy cheap land sight unseen halfway across the world when drunk and bored at 3am, the results are kinda hit and miss, but it makes for a good excuse to travel to see what happens) On eBay there are many deals owner financed with nominal or zero down, with payments from 50 to a few hundred dollars a month.

You can still tear down old structures for people and get building supplies. You can get furniture and appliances curbside or on Craigslist, etc. I don’t need to, but I sometimes still do.

Every opportunity I took advantage of is still practical today. You can still buy land on fast food wages, you just won’t be able to live near a big city while you do it. That also was impossible in my youth. The sacrifices were substantial, the discomfort at times severe.

Nothing has changed except the expectations that people have about life and what they can or cannot do.

I was born into privilege for sure, but it was a privilege of a culture of independence and a deep understanding of the value of owning outright a place to stand.

Except those born into poverty in a truly hopeless place in the world, we suffer mostly from our attitudes and lack of knowledge, and belief in our ability to do reasonable things that other people don’t believe we can do, because they are not willing to.
by wayeq | 2025-05-01 19:16:10+00:00
> Let's build better stuff.

What usually happens next is that 99% of that "better-ness" value then gets clawed back by the creator and monetized, and then users are left with something roughly comparable to the product it was supposed to supplant. E.g. "we're gaining users left and right, how many ads do you think they will tolerate without abandoning us?"
by evolve2k | 2025-05-01 19:16:36+00:00
Surprised that no-one has already mentioned the impact of the BDS movement.

This is from January this year: “McDonald's has missed a key sales target, partly due to customers boycotting the firm for its perceived support of Israel. The fast food chain reported its first quarterly sales miss in nearly four years due to weak growth in its international business division.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68209085

These global corporations probably arrogantly ignored the impact of young people especially ceasing and boycotting any future support. Sure maybe this isn’t you and your friends, but whole families and friendship groups across most counties have hard stopped visiting McDonalds regardless of the time of day or the latest burger specials. FAFO.

It may not be obvious to those inside the US, but the rest of the world aren’t feeling any motivation to get behind all American brands right now.
by foobiekr | 2025-05-01 19:17:17+00:00
I had the unique experience as a youth in attending a school where a substantial portion of the school was funneled there by one of the many 1970s and 1980s troubled teen corporations that spun out of Synanon after it collapsed. This one specialized in drug addicts.

Almost all of my classmates (not me, unfortunately) were from exceptionally wealthy families and excepting one none of them ever mentioned any childhood trauma. Instead they were precocious partiers who got into drugs despite being underage and going to the nightclubs in the seedy part of town - no one at the time was turning away hot young women or gay(for pay or real) young men. And the club scene was a drug scene. It still is.

I don’t think trauma is actually at the root of almost all drug abusers. The only first class abusers (pot and alcohol in serious quantities daily) that I know at the moment grew up in perfectly fine suburban families and are in good, non-narcissistic/controlling/etc relationships with their families. They’re just addicts who can’t stop. One of them is going to die from it, eventually, given his level of alcohol consumption.
by mooreds | 2025-05-01 19:17:31+00:00
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There are a lot of companies in the auth space, but we feel like we have something special:

* a unique deployment model (self-host on-prem or in your cloud or run in our cloud)

* A well designed API first approach; one customer compared our app to petrichor

* a relatively mature product (the code base is over eight years old and we've found and fixed a lot of the sharp edges around core login use cases; however there are plenty more features to add)

* founder-led; the CEO is an engineer who still writes code

* a full featured free-as-in-beer version that makes the sales cycle easier; prospects often come in having prototyped an integration already

If you are passionate about technology and want to join a company moving the industry forward, FusionAuth might be a great fit for you. As mentioned, our core software is commercial with a "free as in beer" version. We also open source much of our supporting infrastructure.

We are profitable but raised a round in 2023 to accelerate our growth (more on that here: https://fusionauth.io/blog/fusionauth-funding ).

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Show HN: Lovable for MCPs – No/low-code builder for AI tools
by henrythe9th | 2025-05-01 19:17:38+00:00
We built a no/low-code tool that lets you spin up MCPs from a single prompt.

MCPs give LLMs access to tools, data, and actions—but they’re hard to build and deploy.

Our tool abstracts that: describe what you want, and it auto-generates and hosts the necessary components.

No UI flows, no manual chaining—just prompt and go.

Examples: • Pull email, parse a DocSend, check Reddit, draft reply • Extract data from a niche site + send a Slack alert • Combine tools without writing glue code

Live demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uCiaQrgfoE

Built over a weekend after getting stuck trying to wire this manually in n8n.

Look forward to your feedback and thoughts on this approach.
by mike_hearn | 2025-05-01 19:17:55+00:00
Don't care about RFK Jr one way or another, but I checked a few claims in the article and every fact check failed. This is the most maliciously written article I've ever seen on Ars Technica :(

Examples:

> Kennedy published a story in Rolling Stone and Salon.com titled "Deadly Immunity," which ... described Offit as "in the pocket" of the pharmaceutical industry and claimed RotaTeq was "laced" with thimerosal.

They don't link to the article but the only place "in the pocket" appears is a direct quote from Offit himself arguing that he is immune to conflicts of interest [1].

> Rolling Stone and Salon amended some of the article's problems, but eventually Salon retracted it and Rolling Stone deleted it.

The wording implies that the article had so many factual errors by RFK Jr it was pulled shortly after publication, but Salon actually deleted it six years later in sync with the release of a new book on public health by a Salon staffer. Nor were any of the errors material to the case the article made, and Salon apologized to RFJ Jr in writing for introducing them as they reduced the word count of his article. None of this section is remotely close to what really appears to have happened.

> Looking back, Offit said he was sandbagged. "He's a liar. He lied about who he was; he lied about what he was doing. He was just wanting to set me up," Offit said.

Nothing in the article "sandbags" Offit in any way. He's treated with kid gloves and only appears twice, both times via direct quotes from himself.

> But Kennedy has frequently used thimerosal as a vaccine bogeyman over the years, claiming it causes harms (there is no evidence for this).

It's literally toxic.

> he doesn't believe in a foundational scientific principle: germ theory ... Kennedy is a germ theory denialist and terrain theory embracer

And yet Ars admits (much later) that "Kennedy seems to accept that bacteria and viruses are real" and that terrain theory obviously does have merits. People who have read his book (I haven't) have said Kennedy just wants a better balance between improving people's general health and specifically pathogen-targeted pharmaceuticals.

[1] https://archive.org/stream/deadly-immunity-by-robert-f.-kenn...
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-05-01 19:18:18+00:00
> it's probably the most pessimistic first contact story I can think of

三体 by 刘慈欣 (English: "The Three-Body Problem" by Liu Cixin) is clearly a much more pessimistic first contact story. :-)

And honestly: I did not find Solaris pessimistic; for me it was just a story about a first contact that fails because humanity still has a lot of things to learn.
by chowells | 2025-05-01 19:18:31+00:00
But the whole point is that such a superposition is never observable. Any way of detecting it would cause it to collapse into one specified state. The only way to distinguish it from a non-quantum system is that it can be linked statistically to another quantum system. And even then, you're still only going to observe the same set of outcomes you'd see otherwise. The quantum part affects only the distribution of those outcomes.
by adrianton3 | 2025-05-01 19:18:47+00:00
The game itself is written in JS and packaged up with electron. I used PIXI.js for all the rendering - it's great for 2D-anything really. On the server side, the evaluator is written in node and a bit of php.

I'm aware this tech stack is a bit divisive :) but I made sure it runs just fine at 120 fps on my non-gaming laptop.
by 542354234235 | 2025-05-01 19:19:20+00:00
A conspiracist shouldn’t be confused with a skeptic that attempts to practice and employ critical thinking and structured analysis to issues. Conspiracists get taken in by scams all the time because they put their trust in perceived “outsiders”. Alex Jones sold snake oil for decades to conspiracy rubes. Conspiracism is just a different dogmatic worldview.
by tlhorsu | 2025-05-01 19:19:20+00:00
The whole situation makes me as a job seeker even more paranoid. I had an initial interview scheduled over video but I had a power outage and had no choice but to use my phone. It's the dumbest coincidence ever and hasn't happened again, and if it makes me look suspicious, so be it. For some reason none of my phone cameras worked with Google Meet because Google engineering sucks and the interviewer kept asking me questions why my camera was off. I answered honestly that I had a power outage and this was my only device I had available on such short notice, that Google Meet wasn't working, etc. I even talked to the hiring manager half an hour over schedule since we clicked so well, submitted my code exam but was rejected without any explanation.

Because I got no explanation the potential reasons for my rejection rolled over in my head. I finished the exam to the best of my ability - was my ability just not good enough? If I went to e.g. the library or something to hunt for a station with webcams in time would I have not come off so suspect?

Since then I've gotten no other interview offers elsewhere and feel like a moron for blowing my one chance last month over such a stupid coincidence, if it really was the case they rejected me for thinking I was some kind of corporate spy. It really was the definition of "too good to be true." I will now pay way more attention to how I appear to the interviewer from now on, and carry extra devices/webcams in case the worst happens.
by gschizas | 2025-05-01 19:19:43+00:00
Nice. I've been using Memurai (https://www.memurai.com/) for development on Windows (native, no WSL or Docker - for reasons), but this looks much better.

EDIT: Weird that being a program from Microsoft (well, it's Microsoft Research, so that probably explains it?) it has no installer and doesn't run as a service on its own.
by dasil003 | 2025-05-01 19:20:07+00:00
I think you misunderstand how two-side consumer marketplaces are bootstrapped from a startup perspective. It's not really about cost of development or legal compliance. Initially it's just about getting users on both sides of the marketplace. This can't be done with a complex product, in fact it needs to be dead simple.

Also, it's baffling to me that you consider fleets refilling vending machines to be a harder problem than what Uber did. Sure maybe it's harder in a leetcode sense, but the economics are much easier to reason about, and customer acquisition in B2B vs B2C is much more straightforward. The idea that you could build a random MVP and have 20% chance of success is laughably naive. I estimate thousands of attempts at this (I know of at least 3-4 personally), it's not easy to be Uber (or even Lyft).
by pama | 2025-05-01 19:20:55+00:00
Although what you say about smoothing vs filtering is true in principle, for conditional generation of the eventual joint distribution starting from the same condition and using an autoregresive vs diffusive LLM, it is the smoothing distribution that has less power. In other words, during inference starting from J tokens and writing token number K is of course better with diffusion if you also have some given tokens after token K and up to the maximal token N. However, if your input is fixed (tokens up to J) and you have to predict those additional tokens (from J+1 to N), you are solving a harder problem and have a lower joint probability at the end of the inference for the full generated sequence from J+1 up to N.
by ars | 2025-05-01 19:21:01+00:00
Possibly. It's NY it's way more expensive than anywhere else.

That's a delta mixer valve which is $100, plus $100 for the trim. A plumber would charge double for that, so $400 for parts. Usually labor is about the same as parts so I would expect that job to cost $800.

Maybe there was a lot of labor involved, or maybe he's embellishing the story a bit (or leaving out some of the work involved).

All the comments in the video have the same question as you.
by danans | 2025-05-01 19:21:18+00:00
> people have always been able to eat at home yet they didn't.

Sure they did, but they just ate out more frequently before.

> Inflation his everybody, not just them or their competitors.

The primary mechanism is their customers' loss of disposable/discretionary income.

To add to that, due to class reasons, people who previously ate out at higher end fast food are not going to downshift to McDonalds because of class and perceived low quality at McDonalds.

They will probably eat at home more, which allows them to stay in their current class association.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-05-01 19:21:28+00:00
Archive.{is,md,ph,etc.} is not the same "service" as archive.org

For example, the later does not serve fulltext WSJ articles

https://web.archive.org/web/20250501001608if_/https://www.ws...

The CAPTCHA, a "service" from Cloudflare, is hit when using archive.{is,ph,md,etc.} at 207.241.237.3 If not using that IP, then will not necessarily hit CAPTCHA.

One can switch to another address that works without CAPTCHA, such as 185.101.35.175

Until it too has problems; only a matter of time
by 1659447091 | 2025-05-01 19:22:08+00:00
> After she’d been talking for about 20 minutes, I began to get an unpleasant, familiar feeling: I bet if I stop asking her questions, she won’t ask me any.

> Sure enough, she wrapped up one answer, then looked at me expectantly, like a dog waiting for a treat. Oh hell no, I thought. No way. I turned to the person next to me, a friend. “She’s a non-asker,” I said.

I use to wait for other people to talk to me. I didn't feel like I knew how to do the social conversation thing, especially because of my dislike of generic small talk.

At some point I made it a point to "practice" this skill, the same as I would practice a sport, messing up terribly at times, but others executing as planned. Thus, I have some grace for people that know how to talk when asked, but lack the thought to ask back. Maybe they only want to talk about themselves, maybe talking to new people makes them nervous or self conscious or whatever it was I felt most of the time. Who knows. Being the one asking the questions puts that person in charge of the flow and direction. You can steer it back or away or around.

I will give it a bit and try to probe for common interest or something that I can talk about as well. If that can be found, then the ones that are simply "bad" (or more likely, un-practiced) at social situations will flow into a give & take conversation if you can find the route to a mutual topic first, hopefully by picking up on small details from their introduction story (the simplest more nature flow, without having to do a hard pivot to the environment context). Think of it as a choose your own adventure book, with you in the driver's seat. For the ones that just want to talk about themselves, that adventure will swiftly end on its own.
by RangerScience | 2025-05-01 19:22:15+00:00
Go see if you’re ADD/ADHD and get on meds (I recommend Dexedrine), then also “join” the neurospicey community spaces where people swap tips, learnings and observations.

Also always go for a walk, touch grass, hug a tree. Pleasant physical experiences are truly effective at getting you into the “here and now”.
by antirez | 2025-05-01 19:22:17+00:00
Nothing wrong in checking other alternatives, but Redis the company didn't call me to rejoin. I approached them to do something like an evangelist and bring back some kind of community vision inside. Then... if you can code, you end coding often times, and instead of doing the evangelist I wrote the Vector Set data type :D Just to clarify that me rejoining was not some kind of "winning back the community plan". I wrote at large about all that, even clearly stating that even the paycheck is modest (to avoid that kind of conflict of interest of the economical motivation).