MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by atrettel | 2025-06-10 13:16:09+00:00
I completely agree that "publish or perish" harms innovation. Funding and research positions have become so predicated on rapid and consistent publication that it incentives researchers to focus on incremental and generally low-risk ideas that they can propose, develop, and publish quickly and predictably. Nobody has the time or energy anymore to focus on bigger and braver (your word) ideas that are less incremental and cannot be developed in predictable time frames.

I agree that many fields essentially have papers as "proof of work", but not all fields are like that. When I worked as a mechanical engineer, publication was "the icing on the cake" and not "the cake itself". It was a nice capstone you do after you have have completed a project, interacted with your customers, built a prototype, filed a patent application, etc. The "proof of work" was the product, basically, and you can build your career by making good products.

Now that I am working as a scientist, I see that many scientists have a different view of what their "product" is. I have always focused on the product being the science itself --- the theories I develop, the experiments and simulations I conduct, etc. But for many scientists, the product is the papers, because that it what people use to evaluate your career. It does not have to be this way, but we would have to shift towards a better definition of what it means to be a productive scientist.
by drweevil | 2025-06-10 13:17:04+00:00
No, companies indeed have no soul. This is all about perverse incentives. While companies are setup/run by people, the (publicly owned) company as a whole only has one incentive: profit. If any person on the inside stands against that, they won't stand long. Investors, executives whose pay depend on it, etc. will make sure of that.

So the problem here is to transform a moral incentive into a financial one. A strong outside regulator who will stand its ground can do this, by imposing a meaningful financial penalty to punish the legal/moral transgression. This is why regulations and regulators with teeth are vital in a capitalist system.

I'm not holding my breath here. Regulatory capture is a thing. OTOH, Trump's undiplomatic approach to the EU may wind up costing Meta. We'll see.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-06-10 13:17:32+00:00
That’s categorically wrong. There is a population problem. Every scientific source says so. It’s universally known.

The demographic problem is causally related to the population problem. There’s also no other way to logically categorize it.

A demographic problem means we have too little young people and too many old people. How does that even logically happen?

It happens because one demographic is not reproducing fast enough. _That_ is intrinsically a population problem. This is just derived from pure logic… outside of logic you can derive the same from numerous pieces evidence where this issue is totally evidence and unequivocally obvious for people who study the population.
by thesuitonym | 2025-06-10 13:17:49+00:00
The middle class and the working class are the same thing. If you have to work to live, you are working class, it doesn't matter how much income you make or how many investment properties you own.

The whole working class/middle class divide was made up by the rich to get you to vote against your interests, and propped up by pick-mes who want to feel like they're better than someone.
by redczar | 2025-06-10 13:18:07+00:00
I’m speaking from the perspective of the U.S. I still contend though that the vast majority of people ages 12 - 18 are incapable of learning this book. Note that I’m talking about this book as it is in it’s totality.

This book includes counting principles in it so one can always claim that aspects of this book can be taught to people between ages of 12 - 18. We do teach people how to count at a young age. The subject matter is such that one can introduce concepts from this book in grades 7 - 12 but not at the depth the book covers them.

Calculus is taught in most high schools in the U.S. but very few students take calculus in high school.
by ivansavz | 2025-06-10 13:18:10+00:00
Hi Matt! Big fan. The first that I thought when I read this article was "How would Matt use his .assign-chain-kung-fu on this one" and I tried

import pandas as pd purchases = pd.read_csv("https://www.sumsar.net/blog/pandas-feels-clunky-when-coming-from-r/purchases.csv") (purchases .assign(country_median=lambda df: df.groupby("country")["amount"].transform("median") ) .query("amount <= country_median * 10") .groupby("country") .assign(total=lambda df: (df["amount"] - df["discount"]).sum()) )

but it seems 'DataFrameGroupBy' object has no attribute 'assign' so its not that simple, though with a slight re-ordering of the chain operations, it works cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44236487
by lukan | 2025-06-10 13:18:31+00:00
No hunter would choose rasperries over meat. You maybe eat some while hunting, or after the hunt failed. But collecting rasperries and hunting requires very different equipment. You wouldn't risk loosing 100kg of meat because you found 50 g of rasperries.

(Rasperries take a lot of time to collect, hard to transport in meaningful quantities and go bad very quickly. If we are talking about ancient hunter tribes - children with women would be the ones doing rasperry picking close by while the men go further away and then carry the meat back to the camp)
by talkingtab | 2025-06-10 13:18:52+00:00
In the US, our system of lawyers is broken. If we are to be a People governed by laws and not persons, then we People need to be able to use the law to right wrongs. In other words being able to use the law by using the courts is a requirement in a democracy.

As an experiment try to go to court pro se. The experience is characterized by the fact that in US courts, pro se clients can be sanctioned for improper actions, but lawyers can not be sanctioned for purposeful improprieties by pro se clients.

It is sort of like a commoner going up against a knight. The knight has armor and a lance and you have your scythe. Fun! In other words it is rigged.

And here is the kicker. Lawyers are "officers of the court". You could take that to mean that they uphold the standards of the court. Or when a lawyer does bad things, that could mean that the other lawyers - including the judge - see that lawyer as one of them. You know, sort of the way that many priests see abusive priests as priests first and abusers second, and so take actions to "protect" the church.

So whats a poor person to do? You try to get a lawyer. Lawyers will not want to take you on if the other side has a high power lawyer and lots of money. Not because your case isn't proper, but because the economics are not there. For the lawyer. At some point the side with more money will simply run you out. Your lawyer will urge you to settle.

Again this is not an us vs them thing. The issue is that if common people cannot afford to obtain justice, then we are not a democracy. We are something else. Corporations and the ultra wealthy have deep pockets to use the courts. If we tolerate that, it is reasonable to expect that the common people will not find this kind of "democracy" to their taste.
by siddhxrth | 2025-06-10 13:19:18+00:00
Hey, We're building Portkey AI in a similar space but with a different focus. We've open-sourced our gateway that routes to any LLM provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) using your own API keys. While you're going for the monthly fee model, we've found that enterprises really value features like:

Detailed observability and analytics for each request Governance over AI usage, RBAC Semantic caching to reduce API costs, budget limits Compliance tools (PII redaction, audit logs, SSO)
by DrScientist | 2025-06-10 13:19:28+00:00
I'd agree at a personal/moral level there is equal responsibility. However that doesn't recognise both the power and risk/reward imbalance here.

If you, as an employee did this - maybe you'd add a few dollars to your stock options over time. If your Zuck - that's potentially billions.

And in terms of downside - if you are Zuck and stop it in the company - there is no comeback - if you are an engineer blowing the whistle - you may find it hard to work in the industry ever again - and only one of those two actually needs to work.
by frenchtoast8 | 2025-06-10 13:19:46+00:00
"Minor" was a poor word choice, I'm not sure what word would have been better. My intention was to say that I don't see how a non-lawyer could have any reasonable opinion on how a legal document is drafted. That is also why I don't agree with the author about replacing that with AI. They absolutely should weigh in on overall strategy because you need to consider factors such as your company's finances, risk tolerance, etc. In the same way that you might decide with your doctor that you want a surgery done but you have to trust them to do the surgery properly.
by cratermoon | 2025-06-10 13:19:58+00:00
Texas raids the employers and deports the undocumented, but the employers are never penalized. They are performative raids, intended to intimidate undocumented workers and prevent them from organizing or pushing for better pay and working conditions. Texas has been doing this for a century, and even during the Braceros era Mexico often refused to work with Texas because of how they treat chicanos.
by andsoitis | 2025-06-10 13:19:58+00:00
> The aggressive raids aren't in Florida or Texas, or even California farm county, they're targeting urban areas, and getting the intended headlines.

I don’t know that that is true:

Florida: https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/100-undocumented-immigrant...

Texas: https://www.tpr.org/border-immigration/2025-06-05/ice-raids-...

California farm country: https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/01/kern-county-immigrati...
by UncleEntity | 2025-06-10 13:19:58+00:00
> If you graphically drag a point around, the coordinates in the source code should automatically update. If you edit the source code, the graphical UI should automatically update.

That sounds difficult.

I'm trying to think through how that would work, you would have to map language elements to geometry elements and be able to seamlessly update both on any changes. Plus be able to insert/delete elements on both the text and geometry sides including during renamings and reorderings of elemental lists.

I suppose one could treat the geometry elements as the 'model' (to use MVC parlance) and the 'view' could either be source code or UI elements generated on the fly. Maybe add some 'non-display' attributes for comments and whatnot for pretty printing the source code.

I'm sure someone much smarter than me figured out how to do this kind of thing back in the '70s.
by coredog64 | 2025-06-10 13:19:59+00:00
Unless this provides an extremely compatible Docker socket implementation, this is the answer. When Docker changed the licensing for Docker Desktop, my previous employer made it harder to get permission. However, there were a few tools that were in common usage, and once you mentioned that you used them, you got your permission.

Some progress has been made to create a non-Docker implementation that integrates with all those random tools that expect to be able to yeet bytes into or out of the Docker socket, but I still hit blockers the last time I tried.
by kmarc | 2025-06-10 13:21:19+00:00
He was a temporary PM after the previous one (Gyurcsany) resigned after a motion of no confidence against him. Bajnai didn't do much, handled the 2008 crisis, and it was known he would not continue.

Funnily, Gyurcsany was removed after a leaked recording on which he said "we have fucked it up. Not just a bit, but much." [1] It's amazing that after 17 years, when Orban's huge lies and corruption is proven, people are fine with that, but when a former clown PM was complaining to his party members that "we should've done better", half the country was in riot.

[1]: In English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%90sz%C3%B6d_speech
by alex-wong | 2025-06-10 13:21:35+00:00
https://www.bestcoloringpages.ai/line-art-to-color-pages 这是你所指的内容吗？从 https://www.bestcoloringpages.ai/photo-to-coloring-page 转换为涂色页后，结果页面上实际上会有一个涂色的选项。
by Kon-Peki | 2025-06-10 13:21:41+00:00
Simply put, this person hired the wrong law firm.

When you get sued, you get a reasonable amount of time to respond. That includes time to interview firms, discuss the approach and goals, and then choose the best firm that will attempt to carry it out. And then that firm will have enough time to write and file the response. Of course, you have to start immediately.

A good litigator wants to give the other side their bar number, and have them shit their pants when they look up their litigation record. It’s absolutely a strategic advantage; milking hours and aiming for a settlement is bad for a litigators career.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-06-10 13:21:55+00:00
If the US has laws that forbid that, and other nations have laws that establish that, then the US military being used for police activities is threatening to democracy - or at least to the rule of law - in a way that it is not threatening in other countries.

Other countries can do that if they want. It may or may not be a threat to them. But in the US, it's absolutely a threat to democracy, because it's already the executive deploying the military against the law.
by nothercastle | 2025-06-10 13:21:58+00:00
Op is describing very real cost shifting that happens. Certain corporations get large benefits from migrant workers but they are human and have to live somewhere so the cost of housing and feeding them gets shifted to adjacent communities. These adjacent communities get hit twice because migrant labor also decreases salaries for locals. People who are in the high earning buckets benefit from the cheaper wages and abundant work force for construction, landscaping maid services.
by yathern | 2025-06-10 13:22:20+00:00
Electrolysis is one of the most promising paths to CO2 utilization - not just collecting and burying CO2, but using it.

With a feed of CO2 plus electricity, you can make a number of chemicals. Some companies look to make fuels - but there's plenty of other chemicals that can be made this way. Fuels are attractive, but also borderline thermodynamically impossible to make profitable vs petrochemical fuels, unless energy is free. Even still, SAFs (sustainable aviation fuels) and other green-washed products can be profitable here. There's also a few use cases for being able to generate fuel in remote places (space, at sea, military applications, national security in case of pipeline blockade)
by troymc | 2025-06-10 13:23:10+00:00
Here's a quote that predates Newton by some centuries:

"We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size." -- John of Salisbury, The Metalogicon (1159)

https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/978019...
by GPerson | 2025-06-10 13:23:22+00:00
I think the article sets up a pretty silly and false dichotomy between goals and constraints. You’re not doing anything without planning, and you’re not doing anything with only planning.

Anyways, the following part does resonate with me. “Setting goals feels like action. It gives you the warm sense of progress without the discomfort of change. You can spend hours calibrating, optimizing, refining your goals. You can build a Notion dashboard. You can make a spreadsheet. You can go on a dopamine-fueled productivity binge and still never do anything meaningful.”
by ivansavz | 2025-06-10 13:23:46+00:00
Or with and .assign:

( purchases.loc[ lambda x: x["amount"] < 10 * x.groupby("country")["amount"].transform("median") ] .assign(total=lambda df: df["amount"] - df["discount"]) .groupby("country")["total"] .sum() .reset_index() # to produce a DataFrame result )
by mustache_kimono | 2025-06-10 13:23:57+00:00
I read the same and came to the opposite conclusion. I said: "Yikes. The balls on this guy.":

> Some lawyers bristle at clients setting strategic direction. They believe there’s a “correct way” to do things, they know it, and they’ll fight you if you disagree. In that case, get different lawyers.

The thing is -- there are correct ways to do things in the legal sphere. Litigation is highly professional and highly formal, and has only become more so. While sub rosa it's fine to ask an AI for advice, and to engage it in draft brief writing, summarization to bullets, etc., it's wild not to realize how much of litigation and the law is wrapped up in people and experience and intricate formal processes. Such as this court has local rules, and this judge likes his briefs this length and the arguments just so, this needs to be filed here, stamped by the clerk, and filed again over there.

AIs may be exceptionally clever, but they may misunderstand the theatre of a trial. They may overweight the importance of the law and then underweight human factors, like the importance of assigning blame, or the lack of credibility of certain witnesses, or the bad faith of certain actors. AIs may fail to give credence to the ordinary meaning of terms, or fail to emphasize that these are two sophisticated businesses which understand the technical terms. AIs are still very poor at actual "reasoning", that is, a deep consideration of the multitude of ways of looking at any one set of facts and/or words on the page.

One area in which this article is entirely right is -- one must manage attorneys, and you must make certain that legal costs don't become leverage against you. But there are points at which you say: Can this guy keep it all straight? Does he know how to be useful to his own defense and then does he know how to get out of his own way?
by Y_Y | 2025-06-10 13:24:01+00:00
That's pretty funny, since the search turned up downright confounding results, like books about programming with an author named "Jasmin". For "carbon programming" I got a ton of books about C, can't guess why, but it's surely not good data.

Maybe I'll make a language called "Introduction to" or "Linear" and shoot to the top of the index.
by sebastianmestre | 2025-06-10 13:24:10+00:00
Very cool!

Something that always bugged me about palette generators I've used is how they end up not picking any colors intense enough for the deepest highlights/shadows, because they use colors close to the average of various sets of pixels.

The result is that the most eye-catching parts of an image end up washed out, reducing the appeal.

My hack to address this has always been making a larger image with big white/black bars around the original image to push the palette generator to include a few really bright or dark colors.

From the look of your examples, your project addresses this too, right?

Btw, I opened an issue about the graphs in your readme because, as a programmer, they don't tell me if your program is fast or not. From a user's perspective that thinks in terms of the side length of an image, the numbers presented are very useful, but they might be even more useful in table format.
by jstimpfle | 2025-06-10 13:24:11+00:00
I live in a city of 250.000 inhabitants that is very bicycle friendly and I estimate has an OK public transport. We recently moved (from <40m2 to >80m2) and in the last weeks we got: fridge, washing machine, dinner table, couch, bed, huuuge cupboards and wardrobe closets, chairs, and many smaller items. And I got myself a rig for sim-racing.

I got all of that used either from friends and family, or from kleinanzeigen.de (that's like Craigslist I think). We saved thousands of euros by getting used quality things, instead of new, possibly poor quality, IKEA items. And we did good for sustainability.. But that was only possible by doing spontaneous 5-20km car rides. For the sim-racing rig, driving a bit farther was necessary.

I also went to the hardware store, which is inconvenient to reach by public transport, more than a couple of times.

I don't see how I would have been able to be spontaneous and cheap like that, without a car, or even with a car that wasn't my own.

If you don't have a car, you're going to have a different life. You will make different compromises. You're not going to live in certain places. You're not going to take certain jobs. You might not visit some of your friends and family as often. You might buy new things just because they will be delivered straight to your home (having someone else drive the car).

Of course your life won't end, you might even enjoy it. But you're not _replacing_ the car by a train in many cases. You're just not doing things that you would otherwise do, and some of these will be done, possibly _need_ to be done, by other people instead.

I still take the bike or train when I can, and I like to walk to places within walking distance -- even 30-60 minutes if I have the time. Admittedly, sometimes I take the car instead of public transport only because it's a little bit cheaper or a little more convenient.

I do use city-wide public transport once in a while, but I don't own a monthly public transport ticket because it probably wouldn't pay off since I have a bicycle and a car. A single-trip public transport ticket for 10 minutes is around 3 Euros. If I need to get somewhere quickly (and back) and take the dog (which isn't free), that's closer to 10 Euros. IMO public transport shouldn't advantage the daily users as much in terms of cost (say 60 Euros/month even for people who may use it > 50 times a month), because it prevents adoption.
by Aurornis | 2025-06-10 13:24:25+00:00
> it's someone with ADHD taking a stimulant, even a pretty high dose, for the first time and it having very little effect outside of a mild calm and focus.

Subjective self-evaluation of drug effects is a fascinating topic. It’s a common theme in drug use for people to self-report effects that differ from what other people observe.

For example, benzodiazepine users will commonly report that benzos don’t inebriate them, they just make them feel “normal” while outside observers can clearly see that the person is impaired. In abusers, this phenomenon of false sense of sobriety is a known problem and leads people to drive cars and do other things they’re clearly incapable of doing while drugged, all while believing they’re perfectly sober.

Even with SSRIs, doctors and family members around the patient will report dramatic improvements while patients own self-rating of their condition stays low for a long time. Others can visibly see the improvement in the patient before the patient acknowledges it.

Cocaine and stimulant abusers will often think they feel “normal” or “calm and focused” while talking a mile a minute or doing things like hyper focusing on minutia. My friends who work in an ER have some stories.

What I’m getting at is that it’s common for first-time stimulant users to interpret the euphoria, confidence, and connectedness as a feeling of being “normal”.

The “this is how normal people must feel” thought is a common report from people taking several classes of drugs for the first time and experiencing the brief euphoriant effect that temporarily silences anxieties, dysphoria, worries, and replaces it with a false sense of positivity. Add on top of this the placebo effect that comes from all of us having heard the “ADHD people react differently” and it translates to first-time users interpreting the effect differently.
by FrustratedMonky | 2025-06-10 13:24:58+00:00
The Ministry of Enlightenment is doing its job well.

"We made the story. We shaped it. We blew it up. We decided when it was over. With the right ideas planted in the right markets, in the right sequence, we can now weaponize this galactic opinion." ―Dee Shambo[1]

Now that the people that believe in QAnon are in power, they have 100x resources to spread disinformation. When conspiracy theorist are the ones in power, is it really a conspiracy anymore? It is policy.