MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by IncreasePosts | 2025-05-25 02:40:59+00:00
This isn't some fact that is going to appear in the encyclopedia Brittanica. If you actually search for it, you'll find a bunch of content like "if you assume they sell 5 million copies per year at $10 per copy, then they must make $50M/year!!".

I won't say it's likely, but a number of times on this very forum I got the inside scoop by asking a question and having someone in the know respond directly to me. Off the top of my head, Patrick Collision and Walter Bright have filled me in on details that people otherwise just speculated about online.
by Aurornis | 2025-05-25 02:45:00+00:00
Lately I look for opportunities to have the LLM do some easy small work while I go work on some harder task in parallel.

I've also tried asking the LLM to come up with a proposed solution while I work on my own implementation at the same time.

LLMs can also be much faster if a task requires some repetitive work. When I recognize a task like that, I try coding the first version and then ask the LLM to follow my pattern for the other areas where I need to repeat the work.
by whatever1 | 2025-05-25 02:45:11+00:00
Johnathan Wainright admonished soldiers demobilizing from the second World War:

“You have seen, in the lands where you worked and fought and where many of your comrades died, what happens when the people of a nation lose interest in their government. You have seen what happens when they follow false leaders. You have seen what happens when a nation accepts hate and intolerance.

We are all determined that what happened in Europe and in Asia must not happen to our country…If you see intolerance and hate, speak out against them. Make your individual voices heard, not for selfish things, but for honor and decency among men, for the rights of all people.”
by anenefan | 2025-05-25 02:47:16+00:00
The wikipedia entry is a very general overview - IMO there's more on the possible engine types and a brief description of various manufactures who've dabbled.

A couple of decades ago iirc at least one sugar cane harvester [1] was trialled in my locale that used compressed air to power various drive trains used within the harvester. I'm also not sure but there may have even been an air powered tractor trialled as well. The main advantage would be no significant loss of fluid when a pressure line bursts -- a bug bear for hydraulic systems when the lines are deep within the machinery and oil leaks are not readily observed.

[1] Most rely on hydraulic oil, powered via hydrostatic drive system.
by rogerrogerr | 2025-05-25 02:49:07+00:00
In a different comment so people can vote on this idea independently: I am not a Trump supporter, but I have many Trump-supporting people I interact with on a level that I don’t think they’re lying to me.

Without fail, every one of them has a _visceral_ negative reaction to a hypothetical Trump 2028 term. It’s stunning. This is not a “I wouldn’t vote for a felon/rapist/whatever” type of red line that falls apart when you question it - they are universally against it. I sincerely think screwing with the election terms or dates to prolong Trump’s term is likely to cause immediate and shocking support evaporation. Enough to embolden Congress to do stuff, and he won’t have enough control over any armed agency to do anything to Congress.

I think that a Trump who is trying to avoid prosecution for $crimes is much more likely to throw his weight behind a GOP candidate in early 2028. Vance or whoever. That’s his best chance to stay out of jail (for prosecutions political or legitimate, doesn’t matter). After a few solid months of propping up another GOP candidate, Trump’s base will be even less rabid about him specifically. He’s going to be old news in late 2028.

If Trump doesn’t support another candidate in 2028, then I’d start to worry. I just don’t see it happening - the game theory very obviously says he must support a not-him candidate by early 2028, and doing that will make it even harder to pull off shenanigans.
by anonymousiam | 2025-05-25 02:50:04+00:00
Great stories. I had a similar experience with one of my college math professors (I was 16). I showed her that my calculator (with the Math module) could transform a 9th order matrix in a few seconds. She shrugged, because she knew that I didn't need the calculator to ace her tests.

The dialer was one of only two mods that I had made to my 41. I brought out the piezoelectric wires via a two-pin female .1" "berg" connector that I had added to the lower right side of the case. (I wish I had a photo.) The other mod used similar hardware; I put a magnetic reed switch inside, which changed a capacitor value for the system clock when a small magnet was attached (via Velcro) to the side of the calculator. The result was that my 41 would run its programs twice as fast. I had to remove the magnet to use my auto-dialer, because otherwise the timing was wrong. In my area, GTE didn't switch to ESS for another 10 years. Oh the fun!
by natmaka | 2025-05-25 02:50:12+00:00
> this not dust escaping during normal operation

Indeed, however past accidents now forbid to claim that "this dust will never wander around, everything is under control".

> If they were all N4 they would have been kept running and had a rolling program of repairs.

Nope, as the defect was considered (by EDF itself, the company owning and operating it, chief of the nuclear industry in France, and AFAIK experts agreed) as too dangerous for the reactor to continue to operate.

> your desire to have a heterogeneous fleet of reactors

I don't desire any reactor. I'm only pointing out a major dilemma intrinsic to the "nuclear" approach.

> nobody dies due to the lack of electricity

I explained why a mix of renewables cannot lead to such ordeal, which was induced in Japan by the decision to produce electricity thanks to nuclear reactors and the decision to shut them off after the Fukushima accident.

Iberian blackout: nobody knows the cause for sure, experts are analyzing the event.
by exabrial | 2025-05-25 02:50:43+00:00
One of my most downvoted comments in HN was simply asking if the construction of a wind turbine ever offsets the CO2 to produce it... tons of diesel to mine raw materials, coal to smelt steel, manufacture, transport, installation, and then theres the question: what do you do with giant used carbon fiber blades (besides burying them, generating tons of waste: https://cen.acs.org/environment/recycling/companies-recycle-...) Alas, even bringing this very valid science question generates sneers online and in previous comments there's already comments stating consipiracy theories about oil companies.

What we would probably discover is nothing is actually carbon negative, some are just less worse than others. I'd like to know the actual answers so we can affect real change, rather than just clinging to our crystals.
by colesantiago | 2025-05-25 02:53:46+00:00
Very cool, definitely fits in with abundance for everyone!

A world where agents are autonomously doing upwork jobs and more is exactly what the future is where we are all freed to do work and AI Agents are doing the jobs for us.

There will be new jobs created by AI and we can focus on more harder problems.

What a great time to be alive and I am all for it!
by yellow_lead | 2025-05-25 02:54:01+00:00
I think this is a good idea but have some feedback. For the example videos, the face-following makes the clip jump quite a lot, maybe this could be dampened some, the frame doesn't need to move by a few pixels so frequently, if the face is in frame.

Another feedback- part of the problem you solve is finding good segments that start with good hooks. One of your examples starts with "Goat villain you team up with" which makes no sense and won't keep people watching.

Good luck!
by queuebert | 2025-05-25 02:54:55+00:00
Yes, that's why I said buff. The radius as defined would increase, because surface pressure is 90 bar, so at 1 bar, you're pretty high in the atmosphere. I can see merit in such a definition because that is the level at which we wouldn't have to pressurize our space stations to be comfortable. (Really 1/3 bar is fine too.)
by jfecher | 2025-05-25 02:56:36+00:00
If the database effect wrote to a file it'd require the `IO` effect and code using it would need that effect as well. A compiler can generally show a function to be free of most side effects if it uses no effects. The exceptions to this are things like divergence. As long as the language is Turing complete you can't prove it won't loop forever of course. Another exception could be extern functions which the compiler can't verify the correctness of the type signature. Different languages handle these differently but if users are allowed to write any (and the language doesn't force them to have an IO effect) then they can be a source of unsafety. Languages like Koka and Effekt are considered pure though and enforce this through their effect systems.
by BlueTemplar | 2025-05-25 02:57:13+00:00
And just how do you know LLMs don't have a soul, hmm ?

"Uncanny valley" is interesting here because I am pretty sure I would have failed this "Turing Test" if stumbling on this text out of context. But yeah, within context, there is something of this rejection indeed... And there would be probably a lot more acceptance of AIs if they were closer to humans in other aspects.
by gus_massa | 2025-05-25 02:57:48+00:00
[Very good comment! I'd use the opportunity to add more questions.]

How expensive are the steps? They look like advanced steps that can be done in a lab to prepare a few micrograms, but I'm not sure if they can be scaled to industrial production.

Why silicon instead of just a carbon? Is it better blocking the docking? Is it better moving the orbital energy levels? Is it as safe as the poster claim?
by TimorousBestie | 2025-05-25 02:57:53+00:00
> But your response is a bit weird to me.

Probably because you want to discuss politics and climate change conspiracies instead of corporate capture.

> You say it is irrelevant if it is safer?

Not what I said at all. I said that, pipeline, ship, or truck, no matter which transport method fails, the operator bears in practice very little legal liability.

> But you're saying "screw all those extra people being hurt, and that damage, because it's not perfect in this way".

Not a direct quote.
by allthenopes25 | 2025-05-25 02:58:18+00:00
There are prosecutions too (the law has only relatively recently been tightened up):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-62729737

https://policeprofessional.com/news/pc-to-stand-trial-over-m...

But being sacked as a police officer in the UK is a fairly big deal. There's no Fraternal Order of Police to ease you into a cushy security job, and there's no macho culture of celebrating corrupt police. Being charged for misusing one's position would be pretty devastating. Policing in the UK is "by consent" and people don't take too kindly to stuff like this.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-05-25 02:59:04+00:00
This!

The risk of being turned away at the border always existed.

Yes it’s drastically increased now, but that’s a quantitative change which will have a quantitative effect.

What we are seeing now is a qualitative change in traveling behavior and that’s reflecting the qualitative change in the severity of punishment that may occur if there is a problem while trying to enter.
by from_endor | 2025-05-25 02:59:06+00:00
win.rar GmbH is a German corporation and as such is required to post their financial statements to the federal "Handelsregister". If you google the exact company name, you'll quickly find the Northdata site for them (Northdata is a crawler that aggregates Handelsregister data) [1]. According to that, they made ~1M€ in earnings in 2023.

[1] https://www.northdata.com
by codethief | 2025-05-25 02:59:54+00:00
> From practical point of view, I fail to see the difference between explicitly passing strings and adding the `can Use Strings` signature -- when you want add passing extra context to existing functions, you still need to go to all of them and add the appropriate plumbing.

Couldn't the plumbing be reduced significantly through type inference? I.e. the function that invokes an effect will need the signature, the callers higher up the chain won't.

Also, even if you had to adapt all the signatures, at least you wouldn't have to adjust the call sites themselves to pass in the context every single time.
by gyomu | 2025-05-25 03:01:31+00:00
Kids these days have tons of resources, but I don't know if I'm too jealous of them, as it comes with other challenges.

I became a programmer because I had many, many hours with nothing to do at my grandparents' house. I did have a programmable calculator and the reference programming manual that came with it, so I'd recreate (in extremely basic form) the games I read about in magazines/that my friends told me about and that I dreamt of playing but didn't have access to, such as Diablo/Sim City/etc. Later I learned assembly to make faster games (I'd print out z80 asm reference tutorials at the library, write code by hand on paper, and then type it out, compile it, and load it on my calculator from a library computer a week or so later).

Honestly, lots of respect for the kids these days that are so self driven that they'll spend hours on their projects and not watching mindless short form videos. I don't think I'd have had that self discipline if I had had a phone with unlimited internet/YouTube/TikTok/etc access.
by xiphias2 | 2025-05-25 03:02:51+00:00
It's not 8 hour work day, I just did it all day long from waking up to sleeping. And of course it contains lots of corrections. sometimes it's 30 lines with some bug that I see, then I ask codex to fix the bug in a separate pull request. It's an open source web framework I have been working on ( https://github.com/adamritter/pageql).

To tell you the truth it slowed down yesterday as most of the features were done and I had to fix memory/signal/callback leaks, but even that was done much faster than if I did it by hand.

I had done coding on my phone while buying flowers in a gardening store, in my bed waking up without getting out my laptop etc... so yeah, it's not for those people who take the 8 hour work day strictly.
by rogerrogerr | 2025-05-25 03:03:06+00:00
Yeah - I think there’s a very small core of people who genuinely think Trump will win a third term, and a slightly larger core of people who want him to. Then a much larger set of people who are engaging in some very unwise trolling.

I just think it’s telling that all the rabid Trump supporters I know aren’t there. Zero of them want to see him on the ballot a fourth time or otherwise pull shenanigans.
by machinelearning | 2025-05-25 03:04:16+00:00
The issue with this article is that it is very imprecise.

Are the standards for whether something “sounds bad” based on the average person’s reading or the intended audience.

In its most general form (how the median article sounds to the median person), the argument is pretty vacuous.

Most writing discusses simple ideas and they should sound good (familiar, easy, pleasurable) to the median person.

But the most valuable kind of writing could sound tedious and filled with incomprehensible terminology to the median person but concise and interesting to the intended audience.

The current way the idea is stated doesn’t sound correct because you can convincingly defend all 4 quadrants of the truth table.
by meander_water | 2025-05-25 03:05:26+00:00
I'm not sure about the assertion that this is the first vulnerability found with an LLM. For e.g. OSS-Fuzz [0] has found a few using fuzzing, and Big Sleep using an agent approach [1].

[0] https://security.googleblog.com/2024/11/leveling-up-fuzzing-...

[1] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2024/10/from-naptime-...
by vitehozonage | 2025-05-25 03:05:53+00:00
Culture and creativity is simply in decline because money has corrupted everything. "The old games mentioned were the good ones of their generation" is sounds convincing but I don't think it hits the point.

It's no different than all other fields. Planned obsolescence is a real thing and has lead to the collapse in quality for everything. Games are also designed by C-suite and committees to target some juicy statistical player-base. Because it's all about profit, not art or quality. It's not a small team trying to make something they think is fun anymore. It's a type of enshittification.

Indie games are a shining ray of hope of course that the culture can change.

Just today there was a new article that shows this:

>That devotion to their chosen genre, in EA's eyes, meant that "you didn't have to worry" about the nerds. "You didn't have to try and appeal to them. You had to worry about the people who weren't in the cave, which was the audience we actually wanted, which was much larger."

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/dragon-age/dragon-age-maest...
by basket_horse | 2025-05-25 03:06:03+00:00
Its not fear mongering to acknowledge that this administration is anti-science, or at least less pro-science than previous administrations. Hundreds of grants are frozen due to the Harvard shenanigans - its not just Harvard, as many grants flow through there on their way to other universities.

Are the chances of getting deported high? No of course not, but America is certainly not rolling out the red carpet for international scientists right now.
by theonemind | 2025-05-25 03:06:24+00:00
WinRAR has a lot of great features as an archiver and compressor. It can create parity archives, and has a lot of other great features if you look at the manual

Granted it doesn’t have compression advantage over 7z, but those flags and features look great when I want to create archives, generally better and more convenient than anything else I look at, but I usually end up going with plain old zip files since various utilities can scan and search through them, etc., a network effect win for the zip format. But it also underscores that the best compression ratio doesn’t count for that much for me and some other people
by cma | 2025-05-25 03:06:42+00:00
> if you have an exposed API that already supports one of the bajillion standards that expose schema information

I don't know jf they are doing it well with MCP, but if a solution has one extra round trip in the model for a dependent read it has to reprocess the entire context or store it into a cache hierarchy possibly burning several hundred gigs of ssd write durability if it isn't a short enough time to cache in system RAM.
by more_corn | 2025-05-25 03:07:29+00:00
I took my toaster apart and removed the noisemaker. I’m much happier with it now.

There’s no reason under the sun my microwave needs to beep five times when done. I set it for a minute. I know what happens a minute later.

My oven beeps when it reaches temperature. Why? It’s never urgent. If it preheats for an extra five minutes nobody is going to get mad.

Here’s how you design a beep. Don’t. Don’t beep. That’s the secret.
by codethief | 2025-05-25 03:07:37+00:00
I am still not following. Where was OP talking about wanting to nest containers?

Slightly off-topic, on the topic of nesting containers: Have you run gVisor successfully in such a setup? I seem to remember using gVisor to run the child container is not that easy and gVisor might still need some syscalls(?) that the parent container might not allow. I might be misremembering, though.
by thatguy0900 | 2025-05-25 03:07:59+00:00
I could see an issue with that since most people are going to be going to events in a group, and won't want to go unless everyone gets their ticket. If I wanted to go with three people, do you lottery us as a group or individually? If I want to go with 5 people and there's a lottery, the best thing to do would be have multiple people buy 5 tickets each, multiply that by every group and you have a lot of people buying tickets who don't actully want them and people who only put one order in get shafted
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-05-25 03:08:51+00:00
Useful in what way? Usefulness presumes value.

Social contract per se is a construct of liberalism.

Divine right, not a notion ever endorsed by the Catholic Church, was certainly one embraced by Protestant rulers as it legitimated kings who now claimed both temporal and spiritual authority [0].

Which is to say, I don't think we have any need for fictions, and not fictions like these.

[0] https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02137c.htm
by polygot | 2025-05-25 03:09:53+00:00
If someone wants to find the original quote, https://salvatoreloleggio.blogspot.com/2014/10/borges-dove-i... says, translated:

> One part of that part was published as a preview in a "Domenica" of "Il sole 24 ore".

Perhaps it is in the June 21 2009 issue.
by ModernMech | 2025-05-25 03:11:38+00:00
> Without fail, every one of them has a _visceral_ negative reaction to a hypothetical Trump 2028 term.

They said the same thing on Jan 6, 2021. Trump supporters had a very negative visceral reaction to that day.

But on Jan 7, 2021 the propaganda machine started up again and minds began changing one by one. Today, the very people who were running for their lives on Jan 6 are in support of officially teaching in schools that the 2020 election was stolen by Democrats -- the very lie that cause the violence of the day, that caused so many to say "I do not support this". Four years later they voted for it again.

So when I hear tales of a Trump voter who is against something Trump has done, I just remember that they voted for him again after he caused an insurrection against the United States in an attempt to illegally overthrow a free and fair election.

If a voter can find their way to excusing that, they will find their way to excusing a third term. Here's how: "Yeah it's not ideal, but what am I supposed to do? Vote for a Democrat? They would be worse. We are choosing the lesser of two evils." Works every time.
by drpixie | 2025-05-25 03:12:50+00:00
Absolutely - there are so many really bad wheels out there:

- wheels that force you to do things that way the maker wants, instead of the way that suits you;

- wheels that are fine going downhill ... but nowhere else;

- wheels require you to attach an ever more expensive widget;

- wheels that promise but never quite deliver;

- wheels that keep pushing you into services that you just know are going to be a pain.

Often your own wheel is the best.
by codethief | 2025-05-25 03:13:18+00:00
> The value proposition is only there when you have more elaborate concurrency needs

I see the value every day when I look at a shitty piece of JavaScript or Python code that secretly modifies some global state behind the scenes.

Or when I want to do dependency injection without resorting to frameworks doing some magic. Yes, I could drill my dependencies through the entire call stack, and often do because it's nicely explicit. But stuff like `logger` really doesn't belong in the function signature if it can be avoided.
by monero-xmr | 2025-05-25 03:13:45+00:00
I find it highly likely that some insane natural event - extreme volcano, solar flare, nuclear accident, plague, large meteorite hitting major city, etc. - will befall man within the next 1000 years. Very very extreme event that has fallout for 20+ years. Would be very interesting to see how humans adapt with all of our tech
by chavez | 2025-05-25 03:14:09+00:00
The "community spaces" opted-in to the discovery platform. It not only requires confirmation from the server owners but also that the server has specific metrics to even be elegible to enter. If the users don't want their messages to be public they should complain to the server owners instead.

The problem of "not being able to easily search Discord server" is a real problem. Not too long ago I was unable to find any information about UE4 modding and had to dig deep until I found a few discord servers centered about it. The only place of information aside from two small docs sites.