MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lotharbot | 2025-06-01 19:07:12+00:00
Your comment was in fact snarky, a swipe, insubstantive, and unkind. I am quite used to directness in interpersonal criticism (I am after all autistic), and I understand the difference between direct and being mean, cheap, mocking, etc. Your latest response is full of pretty much all of that.

For example: the allegation of not getting a word in edgewise, two against one, "tag team crap" -- I made one comment in this subthread about geese (my other comments were in another subthread about chasing down the cat), and it was in reply to my wife's comment in which she had stopped arguing that point. And then I responded to your unjustified insults by pointing out they are a violation of HN's rules. This is hardly an unbalanced conversation in which you have been unfairly targeted and not been given space to argue your position.

And of course declaring that "neither of you argues very well in isolation" is just a gratuitous insult. So is "remarkably mealy-mouthed". And, for that matter, suggesting I must have no relation to my rhetorically-gifted first cousin some number of times removed.

This is the sort of hostile trolling I expect on reddit, not on Hacker News. I kindly request you not reply to me again.
by slt2021 | 2025-06-01 19:09:50+00:00
+ world history (antics, medieval, modern) and something useful and hands-on: pottery / sewing / carpentry / gardening/horticulture / basic farming.

curious kid will learn everything she needs with internet/chatgpt. Your goal is to make sure your kid is curious and not wasting time watching MrBeast or sending nudes on snapchat
by rglover | 2025-06-01 19:10:24+00:00
ZIRP was a central banking thing, not just an American phenomenon. At least in the tech industry, the declines we're seeing in job opportunities are a result of capital being more expensive for VCs, meaning less investments are made (both in new and existing businesses), meaning there's less cash to hire and expand with. It just felt like the norm because ZIRP ran more or less uninterrupted for 10 years.

You're right that we should see comparisons in other developed countries, but with SV being the epicenter of it all, you'd expect the fallout to at least appear more dramatic in the U.S.

And an overwhelming number of (focusing exclusively on the U.S.) tech "businesses" weren't businesses (i.e., little to no profitability). At best they were failed experiments, and at worst, tax write-offs for VCs.

So, what looked like a booming industry (in the literal, "we have a working, profitable, cash-flowing business here" sense) was actually just companies being flooded with investment cash that they were eager to spend in pursuit of rapid growth. Some found profitability, many did not.

Again, IMO, AI isn't so much the cause as it is the bandage over the wound of unprofitability.
Ask HN: Will Tetris be eclipsed by a variant soon due to AI coding help?
by amichail | 2025-06-01 19:10:46+00:00
For example, you could invent your own Tetris variant every day, use AI to code a prototype, and play it to see how good it is.

As a result, do you think there will be a Tetris variant better than the original soon?
by Bjartr | 2025-06-01 19:10:57+00:00
> What makes us think that "processing emotion" is really such a magical and "only humans do it the right way" sorta thing?

Oh, I absolutely don't think only humans can have or process emotions.

However, these LLM systems are just mathematically sophisticated text prediction tools.

Could complex emotion like existential angst over the nature of one's own interactions with a diary exist in a non-human? I have no doubt.

Are the systems we are toying with today not merely producing compelling text using their full capacity for processing, but actually also have a rich internal experience and realized sense of self?

That seems incredibly far-fetched, and I'm saying that as someone who is optimistic about how far AI capabilities will grow in the future.
by sva_ | 2025-06-01 19:10:57+00:00
You're probably referring to the Carrington Event

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

The instruments to measure the strength of solar flares didn't exist, but I think it's estimated between X40 to X50.

For comparison, last may the strongest flare was X8.7

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2024_solar_storms
by briian | 2025-06-01 19:12:23+00:00
Unoriginal opinion: Andor is the best Star Wars TV Show/Film since Disney took over.

But, the reason it probably did so well was they let people like Christophe just make something cool instead of overly commercial.

I'd love to see VCs start funding film production like they fund video games. Maybe then we'd have a genuinely new film the quality of Andor, that was as popular as the original Star Wars instead of another thing inside of Star Wars.

Something genuinely new, there's only been remakes recently.

I just want a new universe to geek out on.
by gervwyk | 2025-06-01 19:12:52+00:00
Thanks so much for this!

I’m just now really trying to put myself out there and get into sales to further develop our business. We’ve been lucky with some early network sales, but for the next chapter of our business (https://resonancy.io) I need to build the sales engine and I feel very much out of my depth.

Just telling myself its a practice and trying to chip away at it one week at a time.. At this point identifying potential customers and getting meetings is a real challenge. Been trying Apollo and doing cold outreach but is a slow grind. Also trying my best in linkedin..
by Bender | 2025-06-01 19:13:41+00:00
I think this is an easy thought experiment. If a person is considered a danger to others and not just themselves then involuntary hold is warranted given that the alternative often ends in termination by cop to protect the public. If they are only a danger to themselves then there would no longer be a need for involuntary hold if the only danger is truly just to themselves and in reality it isn't really even a danger given they consented to it whereas harm to the public can not be consented to. This is one of the rare cases where it is really their body, their choice.
by jterrys | 2025-06-01 19:14:01+00:00
>It is unusual to be interviewed by someone more than three levels above the position you are applying for.

This happened to me, and it was by far my worst interview ever.

Early on in my career right after graduating I got interviewed for a Jr. Sysadmin position at a high frequency trading firm of approx ~1000 employees. The first few behavioral interviews they repeated the exact same questions, including some soft linux knowledge questions (what would you use to troubleshoot network problems lol). Then they took me for a 4 hour on-site gauntlet where they asked the same questions, again, and then I had to do a python leetcode whiteboard problem which I immediately bombed because I hardly did much coding back then. The application said "familiarity with bash/python scripting". If I remember right the problem involved binary search trees which I had no idea about at the time. I didn't know my ass from my hole.

Suffice to say after that, we had lunch. all 4 employees on my team. And all 4 employees that were in the office at the time, which was pretty much empty, because apparently nobody really went in. They gave me a really cold, wet, and soppy burrito. This was the off the mark "vibes" interview where they shot the shit and pretended to be friendly to gauge my personality. I embarrassingly had to play along even thought we all knew it was a total waste of fucking time.

Afterwards, I was shuffled into a big empty meeting room where the CEO interviewed me on screen from California. I was asked the exact same fucking behavioral soft questions down to what I would use to troubleshoot network problems, then he asked me to walk through an example. But at this point I was pretty much mentally blown up from the whiteboard problem and had no motivation to continue. My mind went blank. I could visibly tell he was upset he even had to talk to me.

Fastest rejection response I ever got.
by mrandish | 2025-06-01 19:16:03+00:00
> The 80s and early 90s home computer era will be better preserved than anything that came after it.

Indeed. Sadly, many more recent games will probably be lost to time forever due to DRM, online service components going offline or never being distributed on physical media in the first place. As someone into vintage computers and preservation, I worry that future generations may look back and see the late 2010s and certainly the 2020s as a 'dark age' when surveying the history and evolution of digital gaming. All we'll have are YouTube videos (assuming those survive future business model tectonic shifts) but no ability to actually experience the game play first-hand.

Recently I've been exploring the back catalog of more obscure PS3 and X360 games via emulation and have found some absolutely terrific titles I never even knew existed. Some of them were only ever sold through the console's online store and never available on physical media. With the XBox 360 and Nintendo Wii stores now long offline, only the PS3 store remains available - and who knows for how much longer, since Sony already announced its closure once and then changed their mind. There's now a race to preserve many of these titles
by lunar-whitey | 2025-06-01 19:16:54+00:00
It is not terribly complicated for most people given access to the right drugs. Right to die groups in Switzerland successfully use a single large dose of a barbiturate, either injected or taken orally (in the latter case, an antiemetic is usually also given to prevent vomiting). Barbiturates are also favored, where available, for medically assisted dying in the United States.

The larger problem is access to the drugs. Barbiturates are not favored for most other purposes due to the high abuse potential. I believe is why they are not recommended for this purpose in Canada, for example.
by jlokier | 2025-06-01 19:17:16+00:00
Wow, there are a lot of C compilers for Atari ST!

I was astonished to find about 22 distinct C compilers, including their own libraries, assemblers, linkers etc. for the Atari ST and its successors. That's not counting separate versions, just distinct products from different vendors.

From what I can see now looking at archive sites, there was a huge amount of activity in developer tools on the ST back in the day. Much more than I thought at the time. It might have been a serious contender for the dominant architecture (along with the m68k CPU), if IBM PC-compatibles and x86 hadn't won.

Recently I looked for Atari ST C compilers, out of curiosity to test portability of a C program I'm working on.

I've been testing C code for diverse Unix systems.

As I used to own an Atari 520ST (with 1MB RAM beautifully piggy-backed and hand-soldered on the existing RAM chips :-), it seemed like a good idea to peek at C on an ST emulator. I didn't use C when I had a real Atari ST (no C books in my local library), so I expected to find one or two C compilers, not 22!
by alpaca128 | 2025-06-01 19:17:24+00:00
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/544#issuecomment-61807...

> In order to simplify everything, tabs are not allowed. Spaces are necessary; we can't ban spaces.

They seem to be open to the alternative but not to a solution that isn't forced on people:

> Maybe someday, we'll switch to tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment and make it a compile error if they are incorrectly mixed

Zig already has a builtin code formatter that automatically changes formatting to their preference, but that's not enough.

> That's the entire purpose of the concept of warning

Yes, but as far as I know the Zig compiler cannot emit warnings, only errors. Because warnings are potential footguns too and we can't have that.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-06-01 19:18:12+00:00
Oh, yeah, it's dystopian that you pay for a service you use and the creators who make your content. What a ridiculous statement.

You know servers aren't "free and effortless", right? Nor the storage drives or the bandwidth. Nor are the engineers or creators who make it all happen. If you block ads and you don't pay for an ad-free alternative, you're a leech on the system and making good actors pay more.

I don't really care about it too much - ads offend me too and I don't really respect modern IP law as it is handled, etc. But the sheer audacity on display in your comment is palpable.

If you're going to be a thief, at least be honest with yourself and don't act like all the bakers should be thieves too. That's just a world without bread.
by yusina | 2025-06-01 19:18:57+00:00
I challenge you to go through the history of your own posts and count how often you salt your statements of opinion with the magic dust of "I believe".

I did. You are not living up to the standard you are demanding of others (and which rarely anybody around here satisfies anyway).

Seems we are not getting anywhere. We can agree to disagree, which I'm fine with. Please refrain from personal attacks going forward, thank you.
by timewizard | 2025-06-01 19:20:04+00:00
> Sure there is: only signed binaries can run, executable filesystem is read-only, data filesystem has noexec bit set, root login is disabled, crippled busybox misses a lot of functionality, keys are loaded from a secure area on bootup, master key injection only available when loading at the factory, bootup itself is more or less secure, tamper detection blanks the chip, etc.

Sounds good. Has anyone been hired to attempt to attack the device and find vulnerabilities?
by flatthibaut | 2025-06-01 19:20:46+00:00
I'm building a stock portfolio tracker, because I've found myself managing many portfolios with spreadsheets and Python scripts, which became a massive time sink. At the same time I couldn't find a tracker that was 100% what I wanted, while at the same time I wanted to learn web dev, web services & cloud deployment.

I've decided to release an MVP so I can gauge interest, and after ~8 months of deployment and 2 releases there has been some great feedback. It's definitely a much much bigger and more complex project than I originally anticipated though!

At the moment I paused new sign ups as it's not scaling up nicely, so I'm now refactoring the services to use async / message queue for the heavy Python tasks using Celery / RabbitMQ.

It was quite difficult to get the product in front of people that might interested and even though I found enough users to test and give feedback, it's been tough to find them. So my strategy now is to try and release blog posts on my architecture, approaches, pros/cons, etc, and build in public regularly. This takes away time from the actual development but hopefully I'll have a big enough community that I can tap into for testers when the new release is out.

I'm not posting a link to the project or even mention the name as I got a shadow-ban in Reddit when I posted a summary to my MVP post-mortem (no link) and now I'm terrified!

I'd appreciate any suggestions / different approaches you might have in terms of reaching more users!
by atoav | 2025-06-01 19:21:14+00:00
As someone who lived and traveled across Europe the Author being in Germany even makes this a stronger point. Most of Southern and Western Europe culturally has even less materialism than Germany and similar to the North. If I'd try to look for slightly more materialistic European areas it would be everything post-soviet or post-jugoslavian, but even there only to a certain degree.

The main difference between the US and the EU is especially in how materialism is shown. In the US there is a strong trend to equate wealth with visible wealth, while in the EU that son of an Empire with three castles might look like a regular guy when you see him with his slightly upstandard car buying groceries at his retailer. Ans I know such people. European rich people don't look rich if you meet them, because displaying your wealth ostentaciously is seen as vulgar. Rich people feel they need to give back to society, so even if they have castles they are used for exhibitions or other community purposes.

This of course also exists in the US, but to a lesser degree and more often as a turn of the century sort of legacy thing
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-06-01 19:21:34+00:00
YouTube Premium ads a button to skip sponsored segments.

It's worth noting that sponsorship segments are supplemental income. The more they're skipped, the less they're paid out in the future. Some creators rely on that when their partnership money on the platform can't cover expenses on its own.

It sucks, but those are not priced into the payment for the platform to remove their ads. So this devaluation of sponsored segments can be seen in an increasingly large number of content creators having member-only videos that require a Patron subscription.

I'm not defending them or saying you should or should not watch the ads (I don't). But just explaining the reality and that there's not currently a great alternative.
by somethingsome | 2025-06-01 19:21:56+00:00
> The European mindset, on the other hand, prioritizes collective well-being and ensuring a high quality of life for everyone.

Sounds completely false to me, people are not happy in general (maybe only previous generations), and even less happy are people that love their work where there is no reward, only more administrative tasks and regulations.

The skills are not there anymore, the competency neither, it is not sustainable at all..

But people like their current comfort and do not think too much what will happen next.

Taxes most of the time are used to finance some private company, disguised in fundings. Or taxes are used sustain people that don't work and never will. Someone that doesn't work in my country make 3/4 to 5/4 of someone working 100h a week. It's completely nonsense, they have absolutely no incentives to work, and people are incentived to stop working.

There are almost no working services, and functioning facilities. I really don't identify myself with that so great European mindset.

I'm maybe only one data point that should move to America, but I cannot agree about 'European mindset prioritizes collective well-being and ensuring a high quality of life for everyone'
by timhh | 2025-06-01 19:21:57+00:00
Yeah I agree - in fact I ran into this very issue only hours ago. The entire error message was literally "operation not supported on this platform". Yeay.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/141854

> I'll also note that this was quite annoying to debug since the error message in its entirety was `operation not supported on this platform`, you can't use RUST_BACKTRACE, rustfmt doesn't have extensive logging, and I don't fancy setting up WASM debugging. I resorted to tedious printf debugging. (Side rant: for all the emphasis Rust puts on compiler error messages its runtime error messages are usually quite terrible!)

Even with working debugging it's hard to find the error since you can't set a breakpoint on `Err()` like you can with `throw`.
by quantadev | 2025-06-01 19:22:20+00:00
All great programmers are exactly like this. We have a relentless insatiable desire to always be fixing problems, solving challenges/mysteries, and/or just creating. When you mix those psychological tendencies with the other aspect many of us share, called HFA, you end up also with extremely focused and narrow interests, as well.

What I tell myself (which is true) when I notice I've perhaps done something where the effort might not be worth the pay off, is that life itself is about the journey not the destination. As they say "The Journey _is_ the Destination", which applies to my other hobby, riding motorcycles. You can always get anywhere "better" in a car, but it's more fun on two wheels.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-06-01 19:23:00+00:00
Could be. In this country, these judges are responsible for the same "lawfare" that Trump talks about. I think there's another possibility though: Trump is apparently quite closely allied with big tech CEOs, especially Elon Musk.

Musk had a very public twitter fight with this judge. At some point he fined hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars out of X's bank accounts for failure to censor political twitter accounts for political "fake news" and whatnot, despite the fact that in Brazil censorship is unconstitutional, especially that of a political nature. This could be retaliation for the fines and/or the censorship.
by lelanthran | 2025-06-01 19:23:05+00:00
> Sounds good. Has anyone been hired to attempt to attack the device and find vulnerabilities?

In the company I work with, yup. I'm not sure about the rest of the industry, but the security in place ensures that even the developers of the EMV applications are treated as hostile actors.

The certification process itself does do a little bit of malicious attempts too (try to get the terminal to do something out of spec, like during pin-entry, etc).
by christianqchung | 2025-06-01 19:23:10+00:00
>And with such a size, you have more compute than OpenAI and can train a frontier misaligned model or modify an open source one

That doesn't seem like a reasonable conclusion based on Open AI and leading lab expenditures. They need training data too, would one group actually be able to amass all of this? If you hijack 30 million random computers that's not as nearly as useful as 300K B200 GPUS for model training. Am I missing something?
by jsnell | 2025-06-01 19:23:34+00:00
That's one way of viewing it. The other way to view it is that YouTube pays tens of billions per year for content. Easily more than Netflix does.

Now, it is true they don't finance the production of that content up front, but then again they also don't get any rights to the works either. The original creators retain full ownership, unlike in traditional media production.
by Lerc | 2025-06-01 19:23:58+00:00
My thinking is threaded too, but it's more like the XKCD primer plot diagram.

I have a churn of tasks and subtasks that I add do, my brain randomly picks one to be the most important thing in the world and I do that to the exclusion of all else.

Methylphenidate didn't help much but dexamphetamine seems to improve things a bit once I get past the drowsiness it causes.
by skydhash | 2025-06-01 19:24:10+00:00
It's all relate to consistency. If presentation is the job of the server (html templates), the server is the source of truth and the client state is expected to be transient. That is a good model for most web applications including this forums.

There's some case where local state is more important (figma, google maps, chat app) and the backend is expected to act as a data source with a domain-specific API. Any mixture between the two and you will make the separation between the two domain (server concerns and client concerns) at the wrong place, making the design more complex (however well you hide it behind the curtains).
by interweltler | 2025-06-01 19:24:14+00:00
Great piece! I agree that new jobs will emerge and the historical pattern of adaptation is strong.

However, I wonder about the concentration issue - if AI outperforms us at most cognitive and physical tasks, what can the average human create of value that justifies viable economic compensation that serves more than entertainment purposes?

One way or another, I believe we'll use AI to create a better future. Will it be perfect? Probably not. WIll humans 50 years from now live worse lives than we do now? Probably not.
by ryao | 2025-06-01 19:24:22+00:00
If he is doing multiturn conversations, he can reuse the kv cache from the last turn and skip the prompt processing on the history that would make time to first token too slow, by only doing prompt processing on his actual prompt for the current turn. This turns a quadratic amount of tokens to process into a linear number. I am not sure if this is what he is doing, but that is what I would do if I had his hardware.