MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by naasking | 2025-05-15 16:17:04+00:00
> But on the other hand, we have "FCC" being based on mature accelerator technologies, with well-understood cost scaling and detector integration that builds on decades on experience building accelerators. Actually it is much safer option than what you are saying.

The question is not whether wakefield accelerators are "ready" for something on the scale of a supercollider, the question is what is the expected return per dollar spend? From what I can see, there's very, very little we can expect from the energy levels achieved by the next radio frequency supercollider. It's basically "explore the Higgs sector a little better", and that's it, and we're not expecting to find much there. $20B is a high price tag for producing basically nothing new.

I'm saying that if you took $18B of $20B for the supercollider they've been tossing about and invest it into wakefield research, it's very plausible that we could solve all of the problems you describe, and with the $2B left over we could build a wakefield accelerator of comparable energy, and that we'd be better off in that world.

> But the important point is that you are making it binary choice, we can still investigate and work on wakefield accelerators while working on more mature projects.

Investment dollars are finite, therefore it often is a binary choice. You could fund tens of thousands of smaller experiments in domains where we have actual uncertainty for the cost of this one piece of equipment that's good for only a few experiments.

> Also I would say that Scientific value isn’t measured by compactness or cost alone. This is a VC mindset not a scientist pushing boundaries of knowledge.

If you want to expand knowledge faster then you should consider adopting the VC mindset: reduce costs per novel datum gathered. You can run more experiments in more diverse fields and uncover more surprises. Sounds like something a scientist should value frankly.

> I know it is a cliche by now and many people HN doesn't like to be reminded about that but guess that is the most beneficial CERN output ?

Direct military projects arguably haven't been a focus of CERN for 30+ years. They might benefit indirectly, but ask yourself whether the military would have still achieved the outcomes they needed by funding that research directly rather than indirectly in a way that accidentally produced things they needed. The direct funding is what I'm suggesting is well justified, the indirect maybe not so much.
by dzdt | 2025-05-15 16:17:06+00:00
Amazing to me that an article like this doesn't have a big section discussing how a provider sharing personal health data without permission is blatantly illegal under the HIPAA act. It only mentions as an aside that there are various related lawsuits.

Covered California's privacy policy explicitly says they follow HIPAA and that "Covered California will only share your personal information with government agencies, qualified health plans or contractors which help to fulfill a required Exchange function" and "your personal information is only used by or disclosed to those authorized to receive or view it" and "We will not knowingly disclose your personal information to a third party, except as provided in this Privacy Policy".

Those privacy policy assertions have been in place since at least October 2020, per the Internet Archive wayback machine record. [2]

[1] https://www.coveredca.com/pdfs/privacy/CC_Privacy_Policy.pdf

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20201024150356/https://www.cover...
by geodel | 2025-05-15 16:17:44+00:00
I am talking about aggregate distribution not individual motivation to do better. Of course some can do better, learn new things, update LinkedIn profile regularly, attend local networking events, take paid membership to enhance visibility in job search and so on.

The point is more and more people who survived with average skills or one time learning in past are not able to do so now. And it is not a complain about anything or anyone but observation that few people are seeing marked improvement in their lives with changing technology and many more are seeing degradation due to same changes.
by maccard | 2025-05-15 16:17:59+00:00
Did you watch the videos linked in the article?

> I'm on a 5 year old Samsung (the model is, I bought it new six months ago)

How quick is the Share menu on your samsung? On mine, it takes about 3 seconds of repainting itself before it settles down. On iOS there's about a 100ms pause and the drawer pops up, fully populated. I found [0] which is a perfect example of this sort of bloat.

> My main computer is beefy, though, 32 thread 128GB; but no NVMe. Sata spindle and SSDs. But I have Ryzen 3600s that run windows 11 fine.

My main computer is a 24 core i9 with 64GB ram on NVMe. It runs windows fine. But, I saw exactly the same behaviour out of the box on this machine (and on the machine I replaced) as the linked article shows. I can compile, play games, do AV transcoding. But using apps like slack or discord is like walking through molasses, and even launching lightweight apps like WIndows Terminal, and Notepad have a noticeable delay from button press to the window appearing on screen. There's just something a bit broken about it.

[0] https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/05/05/google-please-fix-a...
by ralferoo | 2025-05-15 16:18:10+00:00
Altcha is a similar thing: https://github.com/altcha-org/altcha

I recently implemented a very similar thing to its obfuscation via proof-of-work (https://altcha.org/docs/obfuscation/) in my C++ REST backend and flutter front-end, and use it for rate-limiting on APIs that allow creation of a new account or sending sign-up e-mails.

I have an authentication token that's then wrapped with AES-GCM using a random IV and the client is given the key, IV stem and a maximum count for the IV.
by KronisLV | 2025-05-15 16:18:21+00:00
> They make the simple queries slightly simpler, but they do not help you for the harder queries. — me

I dont think it’s possible to say they’re always bad when offering an example of when they make things better. In my eyes, it’s pretty simple: use the ORM for the simple CRUD and simple data querying, because you’ll have to do a lot of it in most codebases.

For everything else, there is in-database processing or dropping down to raw SQL. Even when using an ORM, nobody is preventing you from making an entity mapping against a DB view or calling stored procedures so you can keep the complex querying logic in pure SQL but get an object that’s easy to work with out of it. Plus, you know, any ORM worth their salt will let you point it at a live DB that you’ve run your (hopefully versioned, for example, with dbmate) migrations against and will let you output the backend code for the entity mapping for everything in a single command.

It’s kind of unfortunate that a lot of ORMs do kinda suck and have jagged edges, as well that most attempts at dynamic SQL also remain pretty niche, like: https://mybatis.org/mybatis-3/dynamic-sql.html
by ericfrederich | 2025-05-15 16:18:29+00:00
I personally hate how all these platforms like GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, etc slapped a centralized relational database to manage issues, comments, merge requests, etc next to a distributed de-centralized system like Git.

I especially hate how they've integrated CI/CD into the Git platforms.

I loathe the fact that Microsoft has tied their AI to their Git platform.

I want my CI/CD to be agnostic. I want my AI to be agnostic. I want my issues, MRs, comments, etc to be decentralized and come along for the ride when I clone a repo.
by joostdecock | 2025-05-15 16:18:46+00:00
When it's a meeting I run/control my rule is that I will wait 150 seconds for people who are late, after which I start the meeting.

You can join later, that's fine, but I'm not waiting longer than 150 seconds.

Waiting 150 seconds feels like waiting a long time. Whereas being 2.5 minutes late feels like being on time.

So I find that phrasing it this way is more impactful.

(by now you probably figured out that I am not very popular ar work)
by bredren | 2025-05-15 16:19:38+00:00
I did not mean completely arbitrary. I meant:

If I have personally qualified a person as an expert on building retaining walls for landscaping and want to have your platform process a particular video, would you allow this?

I'm not necessarily interested in the topics you're providing resources around. I want niche topics. Like roofing or how to properly set up a traditional hand planer.

I am interested in individual, often amateur contributors of niche knowledge on youtube, not channels designed to educate in the first place.
by chimeracoder | 2025-05-15 16:19:47+00:00
> Anecdotally that seems to be the case. The largest burden of this tax is falling on low income commuters who live off the train lines and have to drive into Manhattan, yet all of the money is going to... the train lines (MTA). Understandably they're not too happy.

This is factually inaccurate on so many counts. People who drive into the congestion pricing zone have a higher income than the median in the city. Not only is the number of low-income people who commute by car into the zone is incredibly small, but those people are already eligible for a waiver, so they wouldn't have to pay it anyway.

On top of that, the money is all going to the MTA, but that is not synonymous with "the train lines", because the MTA is also responsible for the robust bus network throughout the five boroughs, and the money raised from congestion pricing has already been earmarked for a whole number of projects, several of which would apply to people who are reliant on buses.
by kccqzy | 2025-05-15 16:21:30+00:00
You didn't get my point. It's not the lack of security training, but the issue is that the security training focuses on intangible things like passwords, domain names, links, emails. Yubikey is the opportunity to break this model and focus on tangible and tactile things that exist in the physical world. A passkey synced using iCloud or Google account does not break that model and will continue to be less understandable for real users than Yubikeys.

There are plenty of cases where I know that people have misplaced Yubikeys. They might have a spare Yubikey. Or the equivalent to finding a locksmith is to log in with a non-passkey method. It's fine and in fact better if logging in without a passkey is considered an unusual fallback.
by he11ow | 2025-05-15 16:21:46+00:00
Don't know about "ideal" but YC have a video where Michael Siebel talks about the dev cycle they had at Twitch. Before they applied it, he says, they wrote lots of redundant code and also get stuck on stuff that didn't matter.

Eventually, what they did was set up two-week dev cycles. Before each, they'd write down suggestions for features/WIP and stick everything on the board. They would also estimate if a feature was large (one week of work or over), medium (2-3 days) or small (up to a day). Then, they'd pick the most urgent things off that list, and work only on them. Two weeks later, same thing. But you don't keep a list of the ideas, the other things don't go into a queue.

I applied this for a product I was building last year, and it definitely helped build faster.

Not sure about measuring things in LOC or commits.
by bityard | 2025-05-15 16:22:34+00:00
TFA's author is ascribing malice to the team booking the room during the last 10-minute slice of the hour, but I think there is a simpler and more charitable explanation based on having been in a similar situation: The team might prefer that particular room for a specific reason, frequently have to adjust their stand-up times for various reasons, and just took the only available slot.
by aarestad | 2025-05-15 16:23:01+00:00
A bit of Deno trivia: it runs the big "Chicago Brick" video wall in Google's main office in Fulton Market; they open-source the code here:

https://github.com/google/chicago-brick

(I contributed a little "Penrose-tile" module during my time there, though I never got it in production :P)
by marcosdumay | 2025-05-15 16:23:28+00:00
> But it also makes rendering each single character a lot more complex.

Not millions of times more complex.

Except for some outliers that mess up everything (like anything from Microsoft), almost all of the increased latency between keypress and character rendering we see on modern computers comes from optimizing for modularity and generalization instead of specialized code for handling the keyboard.

Not even our hardware reacts fast enough to give you the latency computers had in the 90s.
by segfaultex | 2025-05-15 16:23:45+00:00
I bought one at launch, a lot of the critiques here ring true.

Nags:

* It's absolutely too heavy. I'm really not sure how this got out of the door given how sensitive Apple is to the dimensions and tactility of their products. I'm guessing they were insistent on material choice and EyeSight over all else. I think that was the wrong bet.

* The Vision App ecosystem is a dumpster fire. I recall developers complaining about Apple's developer relations, I can't imagine this will change course any time soon.

* The displays are outrageously high quality, but the foveated rendering becomes really obvious when you use features like the Mac Virtual Display. I can't use it as an external display for more than an hour or so.

* Speaking of which; it's annoying to put on/take off. I find myself hesitating to use it for that reason. And this is mostly down to the weight.

Pros:

* The displays/speakers/airpods integration make this the single best individual media consumption device on the planet. Yeah, a bigscreen beyond or similar are great options too, but I can slap the VP on in bed (nullifying the weight problem) and toss on something from either a streaming service or my SMB share.

* And because it's portable, it's the perfect device for airplanes.

TL:DR; VP is too heavy, but there are some great things about it, and the faults don't really matter to Apple because they knew this would be a low-volume product.

They REALLY do need to shore up developer relations before launching the next face computer, but that's unlikely as they are the most prideful company I can think of.
by chimeracoder | 2025-05-15 16:24:38+00:00
> Again, anecdotally. This point came from a bartender in the east village, who has indeed driven into the city every day for years.

To be clear: you're basing your understanding of the effects of public policy from an offhand conversation with a person who has no reason to know any of the actual details of the policy, and who has a vested personal stake in the matter, rather than on any of the many numerous objective sources of data, whether that be the 4000 page report that was issued last year before the policy took effect, or any of the many studies and analyses that have come out since?

Yes, I'm sure that some bartender told you that he is unhappy with it. But that doesn't mean that anything he's saying is based in reality. Congestion pricing opponents have routinely repeated talking points that are verifiably counterfactual or even nonsensical, and it's silly to take them at their word when the objective facts are so readily available.
by thegeomaster | 2025-05-15 16:24:40+00:00
> Since then OpenAI has refreshed the weights behind the “gpt-4.1” alias a couple of times, and one of those updates fixed the em-dash miss.

I don't know where you are getting this information from... The only snapshot of gpt-4.1 is gpt-4.1-2025-04-14 (mid-April), and the gpt-4.1 alias still points to it [1].

Just to be sure, I re-ran my test specifying that particular snapshot and am still getting a 100% pass rate.

[1]: https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4.1
by bityard | 2025-05-15 16:25:38+00:00
I noticed years ago that I start to tune out of any meeting that lasts longer than 45 minutes. So whenever I was the one running a meeting, I would always timebox it to 45 minutes. Never could tell if anyone appreciated or resented that. But it worked for me.

Now that I work 100% remote, I have more flexibility to mentally ignore the bits of all meetings that don't apply to me and can instead fill the time writing comments on HN.
by troupo | 2025-05-15 16:26:10+00:00
Let's put it another way: which advertising needs, exactly, are being served by keeping my precise geolocation data, device identifiers and IP addresses for 12 years? https://x.com/dmitriid/status/1817122117093056541

Which advertisement needs, exactly, are being served by sharing all that data with 1498 "partners" each of which will store similar data for similar periods of time? https://x.com/dmitriid/status/1733421877119324609

Which advertisement needs are not being served by showing contextual ads?

BTW, personalised ads favour huge brands on huge advertisement platforms. Because https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016781162...

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Our simulation study reveals that more than 50% of audience segments ... require a minimum increase in performance larger than 700% to be at least as profitable as no-targeting. ...we find that more than half of the audience segments require an increase in CTR0, CR0, and m0 larger than 100% to be at least as profitable as no-targeting.

Approximately half of the audience segments on Spotify require a higher increase in CTR0 for the advertiser, suggesting they might be less profitable than no-targeting.

--- end quote ---
by crmd | 2025-05-15 16:26:23+00:00
Yes! I'm going to see Underworld[0] play tonight in Brooklyn, exactly 7500 feet from my house, and according to google maps the options are a 14 minute taxi ride or 53 minute train + bus journey. I think it's insane that we don't have efficient intra-boro public transit outside of manhattan.

0. https://www.underworldlive.com
by LinuxAmbulance | 2025-05-15 16:27:43+00:00
AGI might not be achievable in our lifetime, and possibly not in the next several.

There's nothing out there at the moment that can even begin to describe the necessary things for consciousness to exist, let alone self-awareness.

I don't think it's an impossible problem by any means, but I strongly suspect it's far more difficult than just about anyone gives it credit for.
by rtkwe | 2025-05-15 16:29:12+00:00
We already see that at smaller scales though with other machine learning algorithms; image recognition algorithms will lock on to any consistency in your training set more often than learning to recognize what you actually want it to [0]. It's not a huge stretch to map that pattern out to a more generally intelligent system having a poorly defined reward function doing really weird stuff.

[0] Like the tumor recognition algorithm that instead learned to recognize rulers or the triage algorithm that decided asthma patients had BETTER outcomes with pulmonary diseases not making the connection that it's because they get higher priority care - https://venturebeat.com/business/when-ai-flags-the-ruler-not...
by tejohnso | 2025-05-15 16:29:13+00:00
I felt it difficult to continue with the story after that. If you're going to say, "Imagine, for a moment, a world with no humans" and mention walking the streets, then you have to assume the reader is going to think of our world, but with no humans. And then "There is no emotion" doesn't make sense. If you're going to say there are no humans, then why aren't you saying that there are no other living beings? So anyway, I found it hard to connect with the story right off the bat. I was off-putting in some way for sure.
by chimeracoder | 2025-05-15 16:30:34+00:00
> I'm not quite following here. What is Hochul supposed to do about Adams?

Remove him from office? That's a power the governor has, and which the previous governor (Cuomo) threatened to use for petty personal disagreements with the previous mayor (DeBlasio), so actually invoking it to remove someone who has been indicted on federal charges is clearly fair game.

> The DoJ suit against Adams didn't happen until a month after the DNC.

The indictment didn't happen until the fall, but Adams had his home raided and phone seized long before that. The perjury also happened before that, I believe.
by revicon | 2025-05-15 16:30:53+00:00
We've done some experimentation when using Claude Code and taken to just creating a "vendor" folder under our "docs" section of each of our repos and just pull down the readme file for every library we use. Then when I'm prompting Claude to figure something out, I'll remind it to go check "docs/vendor/awesomelib" or whatever and it does a fine job of checking the docs out before it starts formulating an answer.

This has done wonders for improving our results when working with TanStack Start or shadcn/ui or whatever.

I guess there's pieces of this that would be helpful to us, but there's too much setup work for me to mess with it right now, I don't feel like generating a Gemini api key, installing puppeteer, etc.

I already have all the docs pulled down, but reducing the number of tokens used for my LLM to pull up the doc files I'm referencing is interesting.

Is there a command line tool anyone has had luck with that just trims down a .md file but still leaves it in a state that the LLM can understand it?
by kragen | 2025-05-15 16:31:12+00:00
They haven't:

https://www.americanbanker.com/news/call-centers-and-bank-br... "Call centers and bank branches are major fraud liabilities"

https://www.bai.org/banking-strategies/beating-crooks-at-cal... "Aite Group’s findings that 61 percent of fraud can be traced back to the [call] center are equally concerning, as is its prediction that contact center fraud loss will double by 2020."
by ben7799 | 2025-05-15 16:31:49+00:00
Car speed in the zone.. that graph is really telling, showing that in NYC cars never really travel faster than even the slowest bicyclist, and slower than a modest runner.

That alone tells you this is the right path. All that infrastructure and work for cars to not actually allow anyone to travel fast.

9mph is very very slow even for the weakest/most timid cyclist.
by alephnerd | 2025-05-15 16:33:55+00:00
Interesting take, and I can see that as well. That said, I think alternative forms of media like television, video games, and potentially even social media shorts might be able to recreate portions of that experience.

The medium (books, tv, social media, video games) shouldn't matter so long as it is forcing you to challenge preconceived notions.

And that's where I think the current malaise lies - reward systems that are basically min-max with extra steps will not reward challenging or risk taking content. That's the downside of removing friction.
by CharlesW | 2025-05-15 16:34:13+00:00
> I am not sure, deno seems really bleak…

There are plenty of moribund open source projects. But looking at this month's 2.3 release, Deno's future strikes me as the opposite of bleak.

As for Deno Deploy, sure —¹ it may fail. But regarding the Deno folks scaling their footprint in response to changes like real-world usage patterns, adoption timelines, our rapidly-contracting economy, or whatever, that's a far better response than ostriching in the longer run.

¹ This em-dash was lovingly hand-crafted by a Mac user. Please don't em-shame.