MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by atombender | 2025-05-03 20:07:39+00:00
Similar story here. I used RoboMail for MS-DOS as the offline reader back in maybe 1992-1993?, connecting to a BBS that interfaced with RelayNet/RIME, which was similar to FidoNet.

RoboMail wasn't TurboVision, but it was very nice as TUIs went at the time. It seems mostly vanished from Google. I was a Turbo Pascal developer myself at the time, and I made an offline reader that I thought was far superior (multiple Turbo Vision windows etc.), but by the time I had gotten close to the point of release, the Internet arrived and I completely lost interest.

I still wish there was an archive of RelayNet, because I used to post a lot, and of course I never kept anything myself. I've never found any archive of the content since it was shut down in 2007.

Also, it's sad to hear that the QWK format's creator died in a swatting incident in 2020, of all things.
by LandR | 2025-05-03 20:08:05+00:00
K2 doesn't kill 25% of people who climb it.

It has a historic fatality ratio of 1 death for every 4 summits. If you have 100 people try to climb it in a season, 4 summits and 1 death you have 25% summit to death ratio, but 99 out of the 100 people survived.

Last year it looks like it had 175 climbers, ~50 summits, and 2 deaths. 2023 had over 100 summits and 1 death.
by rhavaei | 2025-05-03 20:08:13+00:00
I have been working on a project for a few months now coding up different methodologies for LLM Jailbreaking. The idea was to stress-test how safe the new LLMs in production are and how easy is is to trick them. I have seen some pretty cool results with some of the methods like TAP (Tree of Attacks) so I wanted to share this here. Here is the github link: https://github.com/General-Analysis/GA
by omneity | 2025-05-03 20:08:59+00:00
I used the seamless attribute extensively in the past, it still doesn't work the way GP intended, which is to fit in the layout flow, for example to take the full width provided by the parent, or automatically resize the height (the pain of years of my career)

It worked rather like a reverse shadow DOM, allowing CSS from the parent document to leak into the child, removing borders and other visual chrome that would make it distinguishable from the host, except you still had to use fixed CSS layouts and resize it with JS.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-05-03 20:09:17+00:00
> For those who wonder, typically these verbs are disabled to prevent the accidental enablement of WebDAV on some platforms, especially Windows/IIS that had some issues with security around it. It makes zero sense for such a rule in a modern API application.

Thanks. One thing that's more interesting than the revealed stupidity of such rules is the actual (and often sensible) reason they were first created long ago.

"Temporary" hacks outliving both the problem they solved and the system they were built for seems to be a regular occurrence in bureaucracy as much as it is in software and hardware.
by bgnn | 2025-05-03 20:09:34+00:00
It's the upper layer in the hierarchy that creates the impersonal "I'm just following the rules" behavior, aka accountability sinks. Surveillance is basically strengthening this, as every step of an employee can be traced. And you are 100% right, these technologies, as I wrote above aren't malicious or something and can be used on the opposite, and should. Ease of access to someone with decision making capability should make desicion makjng easier, not harder. We should be able to hold higher ups responsible.
by johntarter | 2025-05-03 20:09:45+00:00
I also completely forgot that Qmodem isn't the protocol but the software. My first PC was an IBM XT 8088 with 20MB HD and 2400 baud modem. Twice as fast as a 1200 baud and the number of floppy disks it could fit in that hard drive!

Now also remembering we could assign macros on Qmodem to function keys. That let us automate playing games like Trade Wars. I'll be honest and say we were using it to also pirate games like Space Quest, Ultima, Leisure Suit Larry.

My lord, where has the time gone since then?
by _uoud | 2025-05-03 20:10:05+00:00
For Buffett I recommend Essays of Warren Buffett. Regarding Munger’s Almanack, I wrote a nice summary just before his death:

”A real estate investment of $24 by the Dutch to buy the island of Manhattan would today be roughly equivalent to $3 trillion. Across 378 years, that’s about a seven percent annual compound rate of return…”

https://www.lostbookofsales.com/notes/poor-charlies-almanack...
by franze | 2025-05-03 20:10:46+00:00
Now you can include HTML in HTML, see https://include.franzai.com/ - a quick Chrome Polyfill based on the discussion here. MIT License

Github: https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/html-include-polyfill-ext...

SHOW HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43881815
by vacuity | 2025-05-03 20:11:01+00:00
The most important principle to me when it comes to thinking is to recognize when people act in binary extremes and develop moderation. If you slow down and take a look around yourself, you can probably see your strengths and weaknesses. If you're a tortoise kind of person, look at how the hares do things, and vice versa. From the article:

"So far, I’ve mostly been talking about tortoise mode, as if it was the good mode that we need more of. But it takes both modes to live life well. I don’t think the parable of the tortoise and the hare is the whole truth. We’re not the tortoise or the hare: we are the tortoise and the hare. The question is which champion to bring out for which race."
by jll29 | 2025-05-03 20:13:57+00:00
You can't get a credit card because your name is too long?

You can't pass immigrations because you don't have a last name?

The future is not made for you, because progammers and designers didn't get requirements that match the diversity of this beautiful world.

It remindes me how someone I know often makes complicated food orders in restaurants (modfying or replacing items on the menu), and then they get disappointed or complain because their wishes are forgotten or screwed up. I never make changes to a menu item, because I assume they are unable to accommodate me (either due to stress, lack of intelligence/memory, bad process e.g. not writing down customers' orders etc.). As a result, I get disappointed less often on average - make your oder "compatible" with the realities of this world to avoid disappointment and stress.

There is actually an official procedure for U.S. Immigrations dealing with people who have names that cannot be split meaningfully into first/last names, e.g. some people from India. Assume your name is "Maussam", then you are permitted and expected to fill in that string in BOTH fields, first name and last/family name, when booking a flight or applying for visa. (A similar hack could be devised for names that are "too long".)

Overall, these examples are reminiscent of the movie Brazil (1985), which is about a dystopian future in which a plumber that helps people fix their toilets gets hunted as a terrorist because he didn't fill in the right form.

My theory is the world has been gradually converging towards the absurd state parodied in that movie.

Airlines are not the only ones that get less and less accountable. We should stop spending our money with companies that communicate with us using email spam services the address of which begins with noreply@fubar.com.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985)
by bicx | 2025-05-03 20:14:07+00:00
As I get older, I just accept that this is the way the game is played. Tech is one of the top blackjack tables of the investment world. Unless you're bootstrapping and/or building a lifestyle business, you need some promise of potential big returns. Jumping on a trending investment target like AI makes that easier, even if it is partly (or mostly) bullshit.
by krisoft | 2025-05-03 20:14:11+00:00
I could answer questions about the lines I used, yes. Doesn’t mean that I studied the subway maps.

But my point is that the “everyone in X calls Y Z” kind of trivia is not reliable way to say if someone is in X. For example because not everyone in X is native to X. Also because many would use the proper and official name of the landmark in an interview setting.
by matthewmacleod | 2025-05-03 20:14:34+00:00
They honestly really haven’t though. I’d’ve thought they would’ve by now, but I still find bringing up a backend with something like Go to be annoyingly tedious and feature-incomplete in comparison.

Like yeah, I know you can do it. But it was much more effort to do things like writing robust migrations or frontend templates. I’d love to find something in Go or Typescript that made me feel quite as productive as Rails did.
by Retric | 2025-05-03 20:15:07+00:00
Nope, where a family might struggle to efficiently manage 50 acres under continuous cultivation even just a few hundred years ago, now it’s not uncommon to see single family farms with 20,000 acres each of which is several times more productive.

It’s somewhat arbitrary where you draw the line historically but it’s not just maximum productivity worth remembering crops used to fail from drought etc far more frequently.

Small hobby farms are also a thing these days, but that’s a separate issue.
by kilimounjaro | 2025-05-03 20:15:29+00:00
From chatgpt: “ In summary, Halle Tecco’s personal portfolio comprises about 34 direct investments, of which 24 have at least one female founder (as detailed above). This means roughly 70% of these companies were co-founded or founded by women. Notable female-founded companies in her portfolio include Everly Health (Julia Cheek), Cityblock Health (Dr. Toyin Ajayi), Kindbody (Gina Bartasi), Tia (Carolyn Witte/Felicity Yost), Hued (Kimberly Wilson), and many others listed in the first section. Halle Tecco’s investment focus has clearly encompassed a large number of startups with women on the founding team, aligning with her advocacy for female entrepreneurs in health tech ”

Call it charity or call it buying gal-pals with hubby’s money but primarily investing based on identity seems like a bad idea
by mrshadowgoose | 2025-05-03 20:16:22+00:00
> Isn't one of the nice aspects of astronomy is that you can do quite a bit as an amateur with some decent equipment and a nice vantage point? What value does this fleet have to these people?

It doesn't, and admittedly I don't really care that much.

I care far far more that remote communities can now have meaningful access to the internet, one of the most transformative and enabling technologies in existence, than niche hobbyists being mildly encumbered. And most people likely fall into the same camp.

As already mentioned, I find it really hard to believe that the common person whining about "the poor amateur astronomers" are being sincere. Some of them likely are, but "finding any reason possible to whine about billionaires" seems to be vogue these days.
by omneity | 2025-05-03 20:16:37+00:00
Related: I built a translation app[0]* for language pairs that are not traditionally supported by Google Translate or DeepL (Moroccan Arabic with a dozen of other major languages), and also trained a custom translation model for it - a BART encoder/decoder derivative, using data I collected, curated and corrected from scratch, and then I built a continuous training pipeline for it taking people's corrections into account.

Happy to answer questions if anyone is interested in building translation models for low-resource languages, without being a GPT wrapper. A great resource for this is Marian-NMT[1] and the Opus & Tatoeba projects (beware of data quality).

0: https://tarjamli.ma

* Unfortunately not functioning right now due to inference costs for the model, but I plan to launch it sometime soon.

1: https://marian-nmt.github.io
by nullc | 2025-05-03 20:16:52+00:00
And not just a product of some contact high? :P Wild.

SF is not a long trip from some pretty dark skies: https://www.darkskymap.com/nightSkyBrightness

If you haven't ventured out to try to see the milkyway (be sure to check stellarium or similar) you should give it a try sometime.

Most of the populated US is a lot further from truly dark skies than we are in the bay area.

It does make a big difference to go somewhere really dark, but that's a bit more of a haul. Once on a trip through rural Oregon I could see the milkyway through my windshield, pulled over to turn the lights off and view and was amazed that it cast a visible shadow once our eyes were adapted.
by tacticalturtle | 2025-05-03 20:16:52+00:00
My favorite example is watching the company “C3” evolve over time in it’s NPR ads:

> Originally the "C" in the company's name was a reference to "carbon" and the "3" was a reference to "measure, mitigate and monetize" because the company's original goal was to help manage corporate carbon footprints.[3] For some time in 2016 the company was named C3IoT and before that was briefly named C3 Energy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C3.ai

And yes, now they are C3.ai

The AI hype cycle will only be complete when they change their name.
by godelski | 2025-05-03 20:17:14+00:00
As I said elsewhere (here for others), I'm not going to play this game of *willful misinterpretation.* Your very words do not hold up to the same bar your are attempting to hold mine to. I know you are upset you got caught in a lie, but fuck around and find out. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Domain experts can recognize other domain experts pretty easily

> No, my counter claim is simply that because "B != A" therefore "A != B"

We all know that this is not always true. It may be true in certain cases, in certain fields (pun intended), but you know that this is such a basic logical fallacy that it is taught to children.

Here's a counterexample so we can lay this to rest.

Let "A" be "a square" Let "B" be "a rectangle" B != A -> "A rectangle is not a square" (True) A != B -> "A square is not a rectangle" (False)

Stop cosplaying, stop trolling, stop acting in bad faith.

Did you even look at my name? There's 2 people that should come to mind. Certainly any logician would notice.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-05-03 20:17:14+00:00
The problem with "identity theft" specifically is that, in itself, it's just a legal term for allowing banks to save on KYC by letting them transfer liability to society at large.

If someone uses your SSN to take a loan in your name, it shouldn't be your problem - in the same way that someone speeding in the same make&model of the car as yours shouldn't be your problem, just because they glued a piece of cardboard over their license plate and crayoned your numbers on it.
by johnea | 2025-05-03 20:17:23+00:00
> However, variable renewable sources, such as solar photovoltaic, do not have this capability. They generate direct current which is converted to alternating current at 50 Hertz, but they cannot react automatically to frequency variations.

This part didn't make sense to me.

The rotating machinery of hydroelectric, or nuclear's steam generators, produce the frequency of AC in synchronization with their mechanical rotation, but the inverters converting solar's DC into AC are making a purely synthesized waveform under control of high speed digital electronics.

I would think they should be the most able to modify the AC sine wave they are generating.

Maybe someone can comment and correct my logic...
by photochemsyn | 2025-05-03 20:18:30+00:00
If the US government really wanted to bring back industrial manufacturing, tax policy is one obvious route - eg a 2/3 tax on billionaire and corporate wealth, such as on the huge pile of cash Buffet-Berkshire is sitting on, but then offer a way out - invest that cash in domestic manufacturing and R & D and it won't be taxed.

This could motivate the private sector to go back to the Bell Labs model, too.
Show HN: I built a tool to automate repetitive tasks by recording my screen
by Bahushruth | 2025-05-03 20:19:06+00:00
Hi HN, I'm excited to share ClickRepeat, a tool I've been building to tackle the tedious, repetitive tasks we all face on our computers. The core idea is simple: you record yourself performing a task once (clicking, typing, navigating apps), and ClickRepeat's AI learns the workflow. Then, you can replay that exact automation anytime, locally or eventually in the cloud. Think of it like creating macros by demonstration, without needing to write scripts or deal with complex RPA setups.

For example, you could automate: - Generating weekly reports by pulling data from different apps/sites. - Processing data entry from standard forms or emails. - Running routine UI checks for software development. - Formatting downloaded files consistently.

It's designed for anyone – developers, analysts, marketers, support agents, researchers, etc. – who finds themselves doing the same clicks and keystrokes over and over. The goal is to make automation accessible without a steep learning curve.

I'd love to hear your feedback, thoughts on the approach, potential use cases you envision, or any questions you might have!

Thanks!
by jmole | 2025-05-03 20:20:02+00:00
> To facilitate this synchronisation, stable base-load power is required, which is normally provided by nuclear and other large gas and hydroelectric facilities. These sources act as a natural buffer against disturbances, helping to keep the frequency stable in the face of sudden changes in generation or demand.

In theory, it seems like you could instrument a photovoltaic array to carry some "inertia" with the right control system.

If you need to feed power, you run some power point tracking algorithm, and if you need to consume power, you just overbias the cells and heat them up.
by stavros | 2025-05-03 20:20:18+00:00
> Imagine, for example, if more companies would hire for software developers and production infrastructure experts who build secure systems.

I do imagine that, and they get hacked (because you have to get lucky every time, but the hackers only need to get lucky once), and then the press says "were you doing all the things the whole industry says to do?" and they say "no, but we were actually secure!" and the press goes "well no you weren't, you got hacked, and you weren't even doing the bare minimum!" and then the company is never heard of again.
by kyralis | 2025-05-03 20:20:21+00:00
This is the silliness of the pure free-market libertarianism, with its stray man of "oh, you're being paternal and saying they can't decide for themselves!".

No. A society, which has chosen its government, has decided that it would like to outsource the individual work of tracking food provenance and safety in the form of ensuring that the only food available is food that meets the standards that the society has decided to set.

This is specialization at work, which is in fact one of the primary drivers of civilization and progress.

No one is saying that people can't make these decisions by themselves. People are saying they do not want to, especially in an environment that is heavily information-asymmetric.

I'm a well-educated, intelligent software engineer. Sure, I could go looking into the details of the production facility for all of the meat that I buy, maybe, at the grocery store - but I certainly don't want to. And if I go to a restaurant, I absolutely do not want to have to spend hours researching their supply chain first.

This is not incapacity. This is intelligent division of labor.
by Falimonda | 2025-05-03 20:20:26+00:00
I'm working on a natural language router system that chooses the optimal model for a given language pair. It uses a combination of RLHF and conventional translation scoring. I envision it to soon become the cheapest translation service providing the highest average quality across languages by striking a balance between Google Translate's expensive API and any given, cheaper, random model's performance across different languages.

I'll beginning to integrate it into my user-facing application for language learners soon: www.abal.ai
by Archit3ch | 2025-05-03 20:20:40+00:00
Not really. That's 15.8 fp16 ops compared to 14.7 fp32 ops (that are actually useful outside AI). It would be interesting to see if you can configure the ANE to recover fp32 precision at lower throughput [1].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03341
by littlecranky67 | 2025-05-03 20:21:33+00:00
But you are not just putting text on screen. That is a drastic simplification. To put text on screen, we had TV teletext/videotext. You can also just put a .txt file as your index.txt and serve that as your website. Or create a PDF from your word document. You won't need any developers at all for that.
by Hizonner | 2025-05-03 20:21:50+00:00
You are reading it wrong. In fact you're reading it so wrong that I don't see how you even get there. In fact I suspect that you are deliberately lying, in the hope of tricking people who don't have the time to go read it themselves.

What it does is to allow private civil suits for things that are presently only criminal. Yes, it applies that to employees as well as the businesses themselves, but that's minor. In fact the criminal statute probably already applies to employees. I didn't go look it up because it's not actually important anyway.

Allowing private actions has the following effects:

1. It allows any random whackjob to bring lawsuits, in a forum where the bookseller has to pay their own legal costs. There are no public defenders in civil suits. There are plenty of rich random whackjobs in Texas who'd be happy to bring losing cases, but keep the proceedings running until legal bills had bankrupted this or that bookstore. In legal harassment, whoever has the most money wins. Independent bookstores aren't rolling in money. It doesn't matter if you're in the right if you're forced into bankruptcy proving it.

And the real beauty of it is that it creates a climate of fear, so after the whackjobs have made a few examples of random bookstores, they won't have to keep on outspending people. Stores in general will just stay within whatever boundaries the whackjobs choose to set. Which may be well short of the actual legal boundaries.

2. It lowers the standard of proof from "beyond a reasonable doubt" to "preponderance of the evidence". And the way the legal system interprets "preponderance" creates a far lower threshold than what a normal person would get out of the word. Basically it means that a 51 percent probability is enough. Especially bad because there's a quite significant chance that you can get a jury to see a 51 percent probability where the correct probability, based on a fair reading of the actual evidence, is way less.

3. It makes it hard to stop the legal harassment. If the state keeps bringing meritless cases, the state can be enjoined to stop. If random individuals keep bringing meritless cases, they have to be shut down one at a time. There's no standing to enjoin everybody from doing so. And the threshold to shut down even one of them is very high. And if whackjob A has been shut down, they can still fund whackjob B to go off and bring bullshit suits. This is an application of the Texas "deputize private citizens" hack that they invented for abortion. It may be less pernicious here, but it's still bad.

This is all explained at the top of the linked article. Did you not read that? It's also obvious to anybody with even a tiny bit of political or legal sophistication.

... and let's not forget that the whole underlying concept of "harm to minors" is straight up idiotic to begin with.
by karmakaze | 2025-05-03 20:22:13+00:00
I know two reasons for server-side rendering: (1) site indexing, (2) time to first screen update. With faster networks and client devices (2) isn't as important as it used to be.

The reasons I prefer client-side rendering: (1) separation of concerns UX in the front, data/business in the back (2) Even as a back-end dev, prefer Vue to do front-end work rather than rendering text + scripts in the backend that run in the browser, (3) at scale it's better to use the client hardware for performance (other than initial latency).