MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by flxflx | 2025-05-02 14:43:06+00:00
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Our products span unusually far across the tech stack, starting at measured boot, through Kubernetes operators, finishing somewhere in our JavaScript frontend. We don't expect you to do all of it - these are just possibilities.

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by mystified5016 | 2025-05-02 14:43:13+00:00
PoE seems excessively wasteful for dumb loads. 8 conductors for lighting and a dozen bytes of "turn off bulb 1234" is crazy. Not to mention that you need almost as much electronics on either end of the wire as you do with any 120VAC to DC adapter.

We definitely need domestic DC systems, but not loaded down with the hardware and software complexity of Ethernet. You could run three wires for DC plus half-duplex RS232 or similar, or you could do two wires and impose a high frequency communication signal on top of the DC. There are many options that don't require your lights to have IP addresses.
by malshe | 2025-05-02 14:43:16+00:00
I hear the tax argument all the time but it doesn't make any sense to me. Taxes don't change daily. The retailer knows the final price and they can accordingly show that price to customers. In Texas the sales tax is 8.25% and it has stayed that way for years. Our receipts at any retailer will show only the sales tax as an additional charge. In comparison, the actual prices of goods and services have changed (increased mostly) way more frequently, particularly in 2021-2024 period. So the argument here is that the seller has no problem changing the price labels when they want to increase the prices but somehow printing the labels with taxes which take years to change is a burden.
by AlchemistCamp | 2025-05-02 14:43:24+00:00
Sure, it's fine for Ireland to punish someone for a crime committed in Ireland, but my question was about what bearing revenue earned on other continents was any business of Ireland's.

A more accurate version of your analogy would be Ireland choosing to punish a tourist for littering with a dramatically higher penalty than native Irish would face based on their New York salary.
by pc86 | 2025-05-02 14:43:26+00:00
Ran out of edit time but this is feature, not a bug, and it's not really something ideological like a lot of this kind of stuff can be.

You don't want courts to be able to decide on Monday that you're going to trial on Tuesday. You don't want courts (or any other entity of the judiciary or law enforcement) to decide that you're going to trial independently and the next step is your trial. Regardless of your political persuasion most people agree that fast and efficient prosecution by the state is a Bad Thing. Slow is good. Lots of hands and eyes involved in the process is good. Justice moves slowly by design.
by jader201 | 2025-05-02 14:43:37+00:00
> No gambling, no randomized loot boxes, etc.

> So I give Tim a lot of credit for maintaining such a principled stance.

IMO, someone that drives and capitalizes on addictive spending by an underage audience should never be considered principled. While it may not be considered gambling, it’s not much better when it’s often out of control due to feeding on FOMO.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-05-02 14:43:53+00:00
Agree, that's the challenge, an abstraction where you maintain the flexibility without the deprioritization. I admit, it may be impossible due to the inherant limitations of the model. With that said, from your link, Google Fi gets a high priority designation on T-Mobile ("QCI 6 goes to all branded plans, both postpaid and prepaid, besides those with Essentials in the name. Google Fi has QCI 6 as well."), so perhaps it's possible.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-05-02 14:44:09+00:00
I think one of the advantages of reading very old material is a) it's not bogged down by modern ideology, b) imparting the realization that some human issues and ideas have been around a very long time (see for instance dialogues in Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War), b) some ideas and insights have a timelessness to them. Take for instance the Tao Te Ching. I found it retains influential power, despite my not being completely on board.
by ggordonhall | 2025-05-02 14:44:40+00:00
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by 542354234235 | 2025-05-02 14:44:52+00:00
Conspiracism is a world view and way of thinking. I think Michael Barkun sums it up well. His three principles of conspiracism are nothing happens by accident, nothing is as it seems, and everything is connected.

In the conspiracist world view, things aren’t caused by negligence or incompetence. There aren’t systemic causes that lead to events. Opportunists don’t jump on opportunities that a chaotic event opens up. Things are caused by plans thought up and executed by cabals of powerful people (illuminati, CIA, “the elites”, banking elite, the deep state).

However things appear isn’t the “real” story. Everything is deception and whatever the true causes are hidden behind the “official narrative”. Large amounts of evidence, scientific studies, and other information are ignored and dismissed. Wild conjecture, random anomalies (“isn’t it weird” style rhetorical questions to show the “official narrative” is false), and other “alternative” evidence are embraced instead.

Things are connected and you need to find the patterns. This is often accompanied by finding “hidden messages” and symbols that show that seemingly unconnected events share a common cause and were conducted by a common group as part of some larger plan.

Skeptical thinking, by contrast, is about questioning claims and doubting things without sufficient evidence. Embracing the scientific method and accepting scientific conclusions, while still remaining open to new information. Examining biases and accepting your own limited knowledge.
by ziddoap | 2025-05-02 14:45:20+00:00
>I've always found this viewpoint a bit childish,

It's childish to view fines as a percent of revenue rather than an absolute number...? That's certainly an odd take.

Fines are meant to be a deterrent. If you fine Microsoft $50,000 they will literally not notice. If you fine my locally owned convenience store $50,000 they will probably be forced to close. It's absurd to ignore that.

>I understand people want businesses they don't like to simply not exist anymore

I did not say this, or anything close to it.

My entire point was that looking at a number in a vacuum and saying "that's massive" or "that's not that big" is silly. What's "massive" to some companies is a tiny blip on the radar of other companies.

I cannot understand anyone who thinks looking at fines in context is "childish".

Not looking at fines in context is something only the largest and richest of companies would be a proponent for, because it would make the fines absolutely meaningless for them while being effective against anyone smaller.
by justin_sdx | 2025-05-02 14:45:28+00:00
Our models don't only suggest up-coding possibilities, but also chart quality improvements! As a result, patient's charts become more accurate, allowing for potentially better patient care in subsequent visits.

Also, the hospitals being able to bill more accurately allows them to have more resources to invest in patient care, and when you consider that a lot of hospitals operate on 1-3% profit margins while health insurance companies operate on a sometimes exponentially higher %, it's actually one of my favorite aspects of what we're building here.

To each their own though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
by pluies | 2025-05-02 14:45:33+00:00
Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr, famously had issues with IT systems:

Tim: There’re so many places we could start, but in the process of doing homework for this, I found mentioned, and I wanted to do a fact check on this, of you having plane tickets automatically cancelled, and other issues related to your last name. Is that accurate? Did those things actually happen? Caterina Fake: This has happened to me many times, in fact. And I discovered that it was actually the systems at KLM and Northwest that would throw my ticket out, my last name being “Fake.” And I have missed flights and have spent way too many hours with customer service trying to fix this problem. Here’s another thing too, is that I was unable for the first two years of Facebook to make an account there also. And probably all of my relatives.

https://tim.blog/2019/02/21/the-tim-ferriss-show-transcripts...
by Agingcoder | 2025-05-02 14:45:36+00:00
Precisely ! The dictée is a typical exercise which exists only because the language is irregular. Most people in France dread this particular exercise, since you can’t win - points get deducted for every mistake, most people will make at least one, and if you make enough mistakes you get 0 points whether you made 5 or 500 mistakes.
by steveklabnik | 2025-05-02 14:45:40+00:00
For me, it's not so much that jj has any specific killer feature, it's that it has a fewer number of more orthogonal primitives. This means I can do more, with less. Simpler, but also more powerful, somehow.

In some ways, this means jj has less features than git. For example, jj doesn't have an index. But that's not because you can't do what the index does for you, the index is just a commit, like any other. This means you can bring to bear your full set of tools for working on commits to the index, rather than it being its own special feature. It also means that commands don't need certain "and do this to the index" flags, making them simpler overall, while retaining the same power.
by throw7 | 2025-05-02 14:45:49+00:00
I'm fine with U.S. pulling back funding for CFPB. I always found it ironic that corporate supported CSPAN has done a great job of informative programming while CFPB/NPR is barely listenable/watchable.

IMO, it really goes to show, it's not necessarily funding sources, but a matter of leadership/authority. The captain steers the boat so to speak. I've always been impressed with Brian Lamb.
by adrianton3 | 2025-05-02 14:45:56+00:00
I picked electron with portability in mind; I anticipate some unknown unknowns (since I've never owned a mac for ex) but they should be solvable.

I have support for linux, controllers, steam deck, mac on my to-do list in that order - it's simply a matter of time (up-front, maintenance, testing) and money since macs do tend to cost quite a bit. I'm a linux user myself and I hope I'll port it properly sooner rather than later but meanwhile I also know it seems to just work with proton.
by creeble | 2025-05-02 14:46:20+00:00
It depends. I argued on the phone with Verizon for a long time (over an hour, going up and up the chain) about why a certain “Recovery Fee” was not in their per-line costs.

The answer (eventually) was that they do indeed pay the fee to government, but it varies with usage in a complex, government-defined formula in a bill from the 90s.
by msadowski | 2025-05-02 14:46:57+00:00
Location: Prague, Czech Republic Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: ROS, Python, C++, Robotics, Px4, Ardupilot, Pixhawk Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mateuszsadowski/ Email: mat[at]msadowski.ch

I have 11 years of experience making software for robots. For the past 7 years, I've been working as a consultant on various projects. I have experience building software for hardware platforms, from autonomous mobile robots through drones to heavy-metal industrial robots. These days, I have a slight preference for consulting projects but can consider a full-time position if there is a good match.
by jmward01 | 2025-05-02 14:47:39+00:00
People love the idea that the pendulum always swings back but that is survivor bias. The graveyard of history is filled with civilizations where the pendulum failed to swing back the last time. I have no faith that the US is exempt from history, but that doesn't mean we can't at least try to defy it. No reason we can't at least try to push the pendulum back one more time and put in place better safeguards. Get out there. Vote because you still can. Write your representatives because you still can. Boycott because you still can. Tell people they are wrong when they spout hate and lies. Do the things you still can because it is now clear that there are things you can't do freely and that list, unfortunately, is growing.
by ozgrakkurt | 2025-05-02 14:47:48+00:00
Would recommend reading rocksdb implementation of bloom filter and ribbon filter to anyone wanting learn more about the production level implementation side. It is extremely well explained in the comments and is the state of the art implementation as far as I know.

https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/blob/main/util/bloom_imp...

https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/blob/main/util/ribbon_al...
by deeThrow94 | 2025-05-02 14:48:09+00:00
> then it wouldnt be long before it was invaded by Russia or China

I would be lying if I claimed I hadn't dreamed of being liberated by a foreign power with more cultural competence at governance (which excludes Russia, obviously, but they probably at least aren't worse), but realistically anything but a slow scale-down in military power would probably entail the bloodiest world (and civil) war in history. Maybe nukes, too.

But, there's a fork in the road. We can choose to scale down our military presence (and control of trade) today, and figure out how we actually want to exist in a global community outside of letting our corporations swing their dicks freely... Or we can blow trillions of dollars continuing to make fools of ourselves rampaging through other countries rather than building high speed rail before we lose our grip on hegemony anyway as a matter of pure economics.

Or, I suppose, we can just murder anyone who disagrees with us until we're just miserably exploiting each other inside of high walls armed with automated guns. Something tells me that's the option we're going to pick.
by corytheboyd | 2025-05-02 14:48:33+00:00
I’ve tried it, but it didn’t seem to have enough structure log support, so I gave up. I just want a way to say “this is a jsonl stream” and have it do the right thing, which is parse out the json paths of each line, and let me filter by those, or add columns for those to the viewer table. It’s not trivial to do this, but that’s exactly why it needs to be done.
by AlchemistCamp | 2025-05-02 14:48:54+00:00
Sure. A country can set "whatever level of fines they want within law". For example, Russia assessed a $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 against Google. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/31/tech/google-fines-russia/...

At the base level, I suppose my point was about morality, but my intent was about rationality. A country can write laws that it can take all the money a company earns across the entire globe, but it's not a very reasonable position, IMO.
by rescripting | 2025-05-02 14:49:45+00:00
The idea of “checks and balances” is that systems have the strength to counteract systems.

Individuals attempting to counteract systems is a much, much taller order. People are multifaceted, and those that dissent can be replaced nearly instantly with someone who won’t.

I’m not saying it’s pointless, and individuals asked to do horrible things should do nothing, but it’s much much harder to resist on an individual level than to rely on the leverage that counteracting systems can provide.

Unfortunately these checks and balances have been eroded to the point where they are no longer effective.
by twalling | 2025-05-02 14:49:46+00:00
Some feedback, this is just me personally - wanted more of a preview of what I'd actually be getting before signing up - reluctantly signed up after seeing you had a promo code - still don't want give up a credit card just to see what I'd be getting, I got into the dashboard after creating an account but immediately was put into checkout for a trial

Overall too much friction for me to go from landing page to giving up my credit card.
by tracerbulletx | 2025-05-02 14:49:55+00:00
Ah yes, toy makers, the true problem of our world. 30 years ago I'm sure you'd be complaining about "addicted" spending on keeping up with the most popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle toys. It's not evil to make things kids want and make money off it. If you don't want your kids to buy things, that's on you and its a problem from time immemorial, not a new issue with video games.
by sva_ | 2025-05-02 14:50:20+00:00
What a poor example.

As a German, we are forced to pay much more than that, about 220 euro annually. Only a small percentage actually goes into news and such, most are entertainment programs. I don't know anyone who is younger/my age that is in favor of it or consumes it. It is basically the boomers forcing us to subsidize their shitty crime shows.

Annually they collect about 9 billion euro, no surprise the author of that piece creams their pants at the prospect of being able to fuck the population over like that. I mean how much money can you reasonably expect for reporting news?

People who can't afford food and clothes are forced to contribute to the insane salaries of the moderators of some of the shows. They're also not unbiased at all, they skew heavily left. The system is pretty rotten, can't wait for there to be a reform of it.

/rant
by Teever | 2025-05-02 14:50:24+00:00
I don't like that it gets flagged, because there are some insightful conversations out there.

The subject is important and the budgets of PBS and NPR pertain to the 'curiosity' guideline that Dang loves so much.

What I'd prefer to see is better moderation from users and admins alike to deal with the offending comments but not the entire thread.
by filoleg | 2025-05-02 14:50:33+00:00
> I would follow up with, if the shoe was on the other foot, do you believe that a lawyer with tattoos and or purple hair should be allowed to practice?

Yes, they should be allowed to practice, because a lawyer’s tattoos and purple hair do not have anything to do with court documents and readability of those. Exceptions obviously apply, as not all tattoos are created equal, and having a visible gang-affiliation tattoo or a tattoo saying “cop killer” (which actually happened, but to a defendant) might be problematic as a lawyer.

Here is an analogy that might help: my employer might not care if someone communicates in offtopic employee chats using gifs and emojis, but I can easily see an employee getting fired for doing the same thing either to an external customer or in cross-org sev 0 incident threads.
by cge | 2025-05-02 14:50:55+00:00
>You are confusing Snapchat mechanics for encryption.

I think we're talking about this from two different perspectives. You're considering a user in someone's conversation with a modified, archiving client. Yes, you obviously can't prevent that from a technical side, and it doesn't break Signal's E2E. It would be even simpler to do this with the unmodified Android Signal client, which essentially allows message exports.

I was assuming (possibly incorrectly) that TM's client was being used as an overall messaging system by the government groups involved here, which is how TM seems to advertise it: not a single user running their client, but every (or every internal) user communicating with each other using their client. In that case each user's client would be sending each message to some recipients by Signal Protocol and other recipients by, if other comments and some parts of TM's advertising are correct, SMTP. Yes, some sender-recipient pairs are E2E in that case, but that seems a bit besides the point, as there are others that aren't, and those could be vulnerable to eavesdropping and modification.

I do realize that what I wrote in the initial comment could easily be read as something other than what I meant (it isn't E2E for the messages through Signal that is broken, but separate likely non-E2E messages); I suppose I should have expected here that doing so would result in replies focusing on that interpretation.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-05-02 14:51:10+00:00
I find that "frequently returned item" warning really useful. It's a reminder to look at the 2 star and 3 star reviews. Sometimes it's just a sizing issue. At other times some subset of people have a specific issue. The issue may or may not be something that affects me (e.g. some people can't operate something that doesn't have really clear instructions).
by endofreach | 2025-05-02 14:51:30+00:00
Big fan of bill burr. I don't get how some here don't understand what my comment is about. I assume your implication is that is have no sense of humour or am too snowflaky. I mean, next time you visit a bill burr show, let me know if his punchline is such a banger like the one i commented on. And if you think this is the same type of humour, please, let me know when you visit a bill burr show next!

But, my comment was clearly not about making excuses for the mistake of the engineer. I wanted to express that it's insane that such a common mistake can happen in a company like that. And i don't get how people let the ceos & leads off the hook so easily.

But some apparently don't think that way.

In my opinion: the mistakes that are common, and severe, and very easy to avoid, have to be expected and hence circumvented through industry standard behaviour. And that is not (solely) the responsibility of one committing engineer. Any good team has best practices to prevent these type of basic, potentially fatal mistakes from happening, and usually at least a glance-over review process where these mistakes should be found by another team member on first sight... and now, when it's an "AI making devs extinct"-type of company... and they're not catch this type of error, is ridiculous. That an individual can screw up something potentially so critical, is an organizational failure.

But anyway, i think my points were clear in the first comment already.
by ziddoap | 2025-05-02 14:51:31+00:00
>Obama dropped a bomb on a us citizen without giving him due process

>american presidents causing untold misery on some people is a tale as old as time

This is continued whataboutism, which I'm simply not interested in participating in a conversation with.

>The point is to create a system that is, on balance, just.

Sure! Why not start now. I'll be eagerly watching, and hoping, that you guys figure it out.
by dfxm12 | 2025-05-02 14:52:04+00:00
does NPR have any token conservative pundits or voices on their broadcasts or shows?

They do the same format almost all news shows do where they introduce an issue and have two people with opposing views discuss it (there was a recent one about fossil fuels and renewables which I can't find...). This format doesn't always fall along "conservative vs other" lines though, because issues aren't necessarily that simple.

They also have one on one interview with Republican lawmakers as well. This one is from today's Morning Edition: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/nx-s1-5383297/rep-jeff-hurd-d...