MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by incomingpain | 2025-06-10 17:42:38+00:00
No 1 framework will ever solve everything.

I'm typically a django guy but that's beefy with a db.

In just a localhost type project that doesnt need any db; that's overkill.

Streamlit is pretty epic. It's really nice how fast you're up and running. There's no db, no auth, etc.
by jghn | 2025-06-10 17:43:22+00:00
Yes and no. The largest advances in life expectancy were in solving child mortality issues. In other words, when you hear things like "2000 years ago, the life expectancy was 25 years old", those averages are highly skewed by the large number of people who didn't make it to their 10th birthday. Meanwhile those who *did* make it that far tended to live not much less long than we do now.

In other words, for most of human history, once you hit a certain point you were about as likely to live as long as any other point. Obviously not considering outlier circumstances like periods of war or novel disease.

It's only been in recent decades where we're really starting to push beyond that, at least in the most developed of nations. This is due to growing ability to solve the issues that arise from living too long.
by gklitt | 2025-06-10 17:43:38+00:00
Coauthor here.

You make a fair point! Ease of use matters. We all want premade experiences some of the time. The problem is that even in those (perhaps rare!) cases where we want to tweak something, even a tiny thing, we’re out of luck.

An analogy: we all want to order a pizza sometime. But at the same time, a world with only food courts and no kitchens wouldn’t be ideal. That’s how software feels today—-the “kitchen” is missing.

Also, you may be right in the short term. But in the long run, our tools also shape our culture. If software makes people feel more empowered, I believe that’ll eventually change people’s preferences.
by vel0city | 2025-06-10 17:43:44+00:00
Most here aren't arguing it's exceptionally difficult to find some kind of a job or education opportunity to meet the requirements. We're mostly arguing about adding all the additional bureaucracy to add additional requirements that will need to be documented and validated. And arguing that many who should be eligible for exceptions will end up not eligible because of some paperwork or bureaucratic oversight.

There is about the same amount of money allotted to help states stand up new programs to validate these requirements as the federal cost of Trump's birthday party.
by int_19h | 2025-06-10 17:43:52+00:00
The idea is so obviously beneficial that we'll keep having them until one manages to get entrenched firmly enough to become the standard.

wasm is likely to be that thing for the simple reason that it actually pursues this goal. JVM notionally does (or did? what does Oracle say these days?), but its bytecode is so much more high-level that it's not even in the same ballpark.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-10 17:43:52+00:00
> What happened was that people took clips of events in specific cities at specific times

In many cases, “events” performed by people later (or concurrently, but to too little attention) unmasked as white supremacist provocateurs aiming to discredit the BLM protests and/or provoke violent racial conflict, not the actual BLM protestors.
by ozgune | 2025-06-10 17:45:40+00:00
Their benchmarks are interesting. They are comparing to DeepSeek-V3's (non-reasoning) December and DeepSeek-R1's January releases. I feel that comparing to DeepSeek-R1-0528 would be more fair.

For example, R1 scores 79.8 on AIME 2024, R1-0528 performs 91.4.

R1 scores 70 on AIME 2025, R1-0528 scores 87.5. R1-0528 does similarly better for GPQA Diamond, LiveCodeBench, and Aider (about 10-15 points higher).

https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528
by const_cast | 2025-06-10 17:45:46+00:00
What happens is that these protests start off very peaceful and then they become riots because the police make it so.

What you, and other's, need to understand is that the police have absolutely no mechanism to de-escalate anything. It's a concept completely foreign to American policing. As soon as the police are involved, the situation deteriorates rapidly.

For instance, almost all (95%+) of the BLM protests were completely peaceful. No violence or property damage. You wouldn't get that impression from the news. But, of the ones that did turn violent, every time the violence BEGAN with police overstepping. Pushing protestors, or shooting them, or throwing gas. And then, obviously, the situation deteriorates.
by trod1234 | 2025-06-10 17:46:46+00:00
> The whole thing is basically you can't know anything....

Well that position is hopelessly circular, filled with sophistry and fallacy. Descartes proved that one wrong in the 1600s. "Cogito, ergo sum,"

> Where is the proof that Javascript is a better language than Typescript?

Any 'best' question relies upon an answer to the question of for what objective purpose. Not providing that answer, is the same as dissembling circularly, and any conclusion based on that is more likely to be false than true. False beliefs in this manner are by definition, delusion.
by allturtles | 2025-06-10 17:46:47+00:00
Being anti-vax is a luxury position for people living in a place full of vaccinated people who want to signal that they are non-conformist and don't kowtow to the elites. Holding this position has zero cost as long as everyone else around you gets vaccinated (in fact, it's net positive, since you save the bother of actually getting vaccines). The cost/benefit analysis will change once enough people adopt this position and herd immunity dissipates. How many dead/mutilated children it will take to reverse course is unclear.
by mlmonge | 2025-06-10 17:47:15+00:00
I respect your feedback, OkayPhysicist...

But I never claimed that a person with synthetic augmentations was any less human/sentient than those with all their natural parts. I likewise never claimed that "we have already achieved machine sentience."

And here's some food for thought... Regardless if one believes in God or not, is it really that offensive to claim that our humanity is unique in its sentience? I find it offensive when some claim that aliens built the Egyptian pyramids. (It sure provides great fodder for some wondrous science fiction, indeed.)

I will re-assert in other words, for the sake of clarity... That sentience is not an emergent property. That is the foundational definition upon which I contemplate the mystery (i.e. the reality of our being that science will never develop sufficiently to fully explain) of our existence. I for one, enjoy the endeavor of employing my sentience to explore & investigate our wondrous universe and to equally explore & relate with you and call you a friend in spite of our disagreement. Cheers!
by bell-cot | 2025-06-10 17:47:28+00:00
> Saying that someone's beliefs are not rooted in reality is not mocking them.

They might feel otherwise.

> What would you suggest ...

Ideally, economic & social changes to make America's 99% feel less used, abused, and hopeless.

At n=1 scale - tell 'em that in the big picture, they are perfectly correct. But down in the gritty how-to technology details, the chemtrails are just a red herring. The actual control is endless brain-bending advertising and journalists & lawmakers who somehow never care about ordinary Americans and lies before every election and maliciously twisted social media feeds and politicians who only give a crap about the rich and propaganda-laced "news" and turning the economic screws tighter & tighter on honest working people and stuff like that.
by redczar | 2025-06-10 17:47:32+00:00
..not a claim I made, please stop strawmanning.

What you’ve been saying is based on your experience (very limited). The essence of your beliefs are that you and 12 other people could have done this book on high school therefore it should be a class in high school. Though you have no evidence that high schools have the resources to give a class that very few people are qualified to take. The distribution of qualified students is such that each individual high school will on average have very few students capable of taking such a class.

You went to high school and university and tutored some people. Therefore you know much more than me on what is appropriate to teach high schoolers. I just have 30 years of experiece teaching college level mathematics. Your arguements are compelling and I now agree with you.
by kelnos | 2025-06-10 17:47:55+00:00
If I hire a bunch of people to build me an apartment building, I deduct the full cost of their salaries in the year I pay them, even though once they build the apartment building, I get the value of that work over the following years.

How is that any different from hiring a bunch of people to write some software, that I then get the value of over the following years?
by int_19h | 2025-06-10 17:48:05+00:00
It was used in some games to great effect as well, e.g. Neverwinter Nights. Same story there - once you memorize where the commands are, each invocation effectively becomes a mouse gesture performed without even looking at the bubbles.

https://www.gamerguides.com/assets/guides/192/neverwinter_ni...
by lamontcg | 2025-06-10 17:48:37+00:00
"Dr. Anthony Fauci says chance of coronavirus vaccine being highly effective is ‘not great’"

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/07/coronavirus-vaccine-dr-fauci...

> White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci that the chances of scientists creating a highly effective vaccine — one that provides 98% or more guaranteed protection — for the virus are slim.

> Scientists are hoping for a coronavirus vaccine that is at least 75% effective, but 50% or 60% effective would be acceptable, too, he said.

> The FDA has said it would authorize a coronavirus vaccine so long as it is safe and at least 50% effective.

From August 2020 before the phase III trials were complete.

The Phase III trials dropped in November and showed something like 98% efficacy, but they only followed people for ~3 months, over which time the vaccine actually is that effective. But waning of antibodies and immune escape by the virus severely drags that number down, although prevention of severe disease remains high due to T-cell immunity. People thinking that Fauci said the vaccines would be something like 98% effective against infection and transmission are committing a Mandela effect fallacy.

I vividly remember that time period because I was in the camp which expected this coronavirus to behave like other common cold coronaviruses and to periodically reinfect people. I was following that reinfection tracker on BNO news pretty religiously. And I recall vividly that the whole idea that the vaccine would be a magic shot that would instantly shut down the pandemic was something that _people_ wanted desperately to believe, but responsible authorities like Fauci weren't ever actually saying that. The initial Phase III results, combined with the lack of data on reinfections at the time, led to a lot of wildly optimistic beliefs which were not scientifically grounded at all.

Then Omicron happened, and it did actually surprise scientists with how much the virus drifted and how much it escaped from existing antibodies. Which was something that nobody really quite predicted, but was in line with general predictions that the coronavirus was never getting eradicated and would eventually become a new seasonal coronavirus. Fauci may have said some things in 2021 that were technically contradicted by Omicron, but there were a lot of wildly optimistic claims after the initial good results of the Phase III trials, and I suspect that any incorrect statements by Fauci were couched in uncertain terms. And nobody during this pandemic was batting for a thousand.
by duxup | 2025-06-10 17:49:19+00:00
I have a sneaky suspicion that nearly article with "Trump" in it is auto flagged in under one minute on HN... this one was less than a min old and already flagged.

>A broad requirement for federal software vendors to provide a software bill of materials — essentially an ingredient list of code components — is gone.

I feel like a lot of these policy removal attempts are just "did Biden do it? then no" and not informed decisions. Just personal gripes as government policy ...
by metalliqaz | 2025-06-10 17:50:07+00:00
I've seen P&T's show in Vegas a few times, and I've seen many of their TV appearances. They do explain how illusions work, but they don't spoil other magicians tricks. They will do an old classic, show it from the "other side", and then while you aren't paying attention they pull off something new, giving no explanation for that one.
by rubicon33 | 2025-06-10 17:50:56+00:00
The direction the software engineering is going in with this whole "vibe coding" thing is so depressing to me.

I went into this industry because I grew up fascinated by computers. When I learned how to code, it was about learning how to control these incredible machines. The joy of figuring something out by experimenting is quickly being replaced by just slamming it into some "generative" tool.

I have no idea where things go from here but hopefully there will still be a world where the craft of hand writing code is still valued. I for one will resist the "vibe coding" train for as long as I possibly can.
by throwaway0123_5 | 2025-06-10 17:51:15+00:00
I think they were talking about total time spent working rather than remote vs. in-person. I've seen more than a few studies over the years showing that going from 40 to 35 or 30 hours/wk has minimal or positive impacts on productivity. Idk if that would apply to all work environments though, and I don't recall any of the studies being about research productivity specifically.
by LexiMax | 2025-06-10 17:51:16+00:00
You are seeing the outcome of structural problems that plague any site that puts pseudo-moderation tools into its users hands. Voting and flagging has been weaponized on this site for far longer than most HN users would care to admit.

In fact, I feel like HN is much worse about promoting echo chamber behavior than Reddit, due to the visibility differences between a comment being downvoted/flagged dead, as opposed to merely being greyed out and collapsed.

If you haven't noticed it before now, it's because the incentive structure is weighed heavily in favor of the echo chamber. Those who engage in good faith eventually get tired of their comments being hidden by an unaccountable mob and leave - and to be clear, I am speaking in the past tense, as in this has already happened to HN several times over.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-06-10 17:51:36+00:00
The biggest shame is that it's not like they can't impeach. The majority just doesn't want to. Allies have been betrayed, 401ks have been devastated,, we're at least 7/10 bill of rights amendments broken, and the US weren't from dodging the recession to heading down into a proper one. All in 5 months. But somehow congress thinks it's alright.

My only solace right now is that Trump probably isn't in the health to survive to 2028, maybe not even 2027 to get potentially convicted if congress shifts. He's in worse wear in 2025 when Biden in 2024.
by kgwgk | 2025-06-10 17:52:11+00:00
That’s how it used to be until a special rule was introduced allowing only $15m (or maybe $20m) to be expensed instead of capitalized.

Doesn’t change much for the Avengers films which have production costs around $500m. Disney still has to capitalize 97% of the cost. $15m doesn’t cover a single star’s salary.
by globie | 2025-06-10 17:52:58+00:00
When writing this inflammatory post, you seem to have forgot the bigger picture of the thread you are flaming.

We're discussing whether it's right to take a second look from a security standpoint when a software implements WebRTC. In this case, it's nuanced, and the implementation in FFmpeg is very different than the more complete implementations you find in browsers. And when browsers have implemented WebRTC, many vulnerabilities have followed.

So the double-take is justified here, even if only in principle. No one is saying WebRTC is insecure, or FFmpeg, or node, or Linux..........

I did a cursory read of each CVE. Wherever you got the idea I did not, you must have forgot to include it in your post. Just now, I picked one from random. It reports "Multiple WebRTC threads could have claimed a newly connected audio input leading to use-after-free."

Does that exactly qualify as an "implementation bug"? I don't know, and I don't care, because how you taxonomize a CVE has nothing to do with whether it's a vulnerability that was introduced when implementing WebRTC. And it is.
by davidjfelix | 2025-06-10 17:53:15+00:00
It may result in an outsized penalty to bootstrapped companies but being VC funded doesn't make you immune to this. VC funded companies with revenue will not be able to offset their revenue by reinvesting in R&D (software development) expenses, so in some cases they may be seen as having a profit when they previously wouldn't have. In those cases they'd have a tax burden.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-06-10 17:54:17+00:00
Well, if I may continue my pessimistic outlook, I would simply say that anyone can cook, but not everyone can cook. Programmers are chefs - we take ingredients called SDKs and serve them up into meals called custom software. Anyone who isn't a chef, might need to buy the packaged cake mix at Walmart.

For something as complex as software, it's sad, but it's almost... okay? Every industry has gone through this; there was a time when cars were experimental and hand-assembled. Imagine if Henry Ford in the 1920s had focused on democratizing car parts so anyone can build their own car with thousands of potential combinations; I don't think it would have worked out. It is still true that you can, technically speaking, build your own car; but nobody pretends that we can turn everyone into personalized car builders if we just try hard enough.
by NaOH | 2025-06-10 17:54:30+00:00
>This new one is just some hidden trial-and-error thing deep in Siri that's likely an engineer that likes cooking that added it as a shortcut.

Among the many shortcomings of Siri is that it seems as if it's not good with verbs. I've learned to avoid them as much as possible. Put another way, it's better with nouns, so I focus on them. I guess that's why

"15-minute timer" and

"15 minutes"

work well. But similarly, I wanted to use the stopwatch the other day. Not something I ever really do. Just saying, "Stopwatch" got it open. And testing now on some non-Apple apps also worked (in case Siri has some built-in pro-Apple bias). One was WhatsApp. The other was an app for an insurance and banking company. That one, just saying its name opened the contact card I have for the company. That's fair. Trying again, and saying "company name app" opened the app.

Of course, sometimes the verbs are necessary. But I've had more success when I could avoid them. Do note that I say all this using a Siri-only phone that is too old for any of Apple Intelligence that may get mixed in with Siri.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-06-10 17:55:04+00:00
Also note only the president is immune. Bondi can still be charged. Hegseth can still be held liable. Elon Musk wasn't even elected nor approved by anyone in office.

I do hope we have our version of a Numenburg trials one day, but I also wouldn't be surprised if all these people squirm under the cracks once their near octogenarian rallying point declines.
by vel0city | 2025-06-10 17:55:16+00:00
> You always had the option to give to the poor

History shows we've historically been pretty shitty at doing that at an individual level.

> The federal portion, what do I get?

Ignoring FICA, a large chunk is debt servicing, public health, earned income tax credits, food assistance, SSI, science programs, global trade security, and more. Most isn't "people who stick their boot down [your] throat", unless you're someone looking to abuse workers or food production or happens to be outside in LA these days.
by const_cast | 2025-06-10 17:55:21+00:00
1. We can't just start making things up and working backwards. Okay, you think immigration is bad, now prove it. Y'all are absolutely incapable of that so instead you're just gonna claim fake news, fake numbers, yadda yadda yadda. Come on, it's pathetic.

2. Even if it WAS 1 billion people or whatever - why is that bad? The magic question you can never answer.

Is it bad because "white genocide"? Is it bad because jobs? Is it bad because those people are criminals? What's the threat here?

Because, from where I'm standing, these people don't hurt anything. In fact, they're very productive members of society! They work hard, harder than fucking lazy fat white Americans, I'll tell you that. They're modest. They're kind. They don't commit crimes because they're scared shitless of being deported. So what's the problem?
by redczar | 2025-06-10 17:56:28+00:00
This is the wrong target in my opinion. The Republican 50 year quest to turn America into Ferenginar is to blame. When 1 of the 2 parties does what it can to discredit government and oversight of businesses we get the shit we got today. Too many Americans don’t believe in government and don’t understand what it means to be a society. A generation or two of this nonsense and we’ll, hopefully, revert back to the mean and have citizens who believe that good governance can improve peoples’ lives.
by bobxmax | 2025-06-10 17:56:41+00:00
Rights and protections that have benefited heavily from an economy built on the alliance with the US.

If it weren't for American help and trade post-WW2, Europe would be a Belarusian backwater and is fast heading back in that direction.

Countries like Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, etc. show the future of Europe as it slowly stagnates and becomes a museum that can't feed it's people.

Even Germany that was once excelling is now collapsing economically.

The only bright spot on the continent right now is Poland who are, shocker, much less regulatorily strict and have lower corporate taxes.
by bob1029 | 2025-06-10 17:56:46+00:00
It's hard to beat the stability of AWS. I've not once had an issue getting into their console or managing my resources. I've been using them for 15 years at this point.

They're the only big cloud provider I feel comfortable with. Route53, EC2, S3 and WorkMail are some of the best products available in the market right now.

If you value your time, the additional premium is almost certainly worth it. AWS is the closest I've ever seen to "set & forget".
by sureokbutyeah | 2025-06-10 17:56:58+00:00
Work accurately? Relative to what? Old humans? Make up something about psychology? Physics? Economics? History? Academics have been doing that for years and we all blindly agreed their work was accurate, lauded them, then found out decades later it was garbage.

Seems typical for humans; centuries of false belief religion was accurate, now contemporary nation state politics, economics, and the engineered things they sell for profit.

So long as enough stuff is available on shelves to keep people sedate, they'll believe whatever. Our biology couples us to knowing when we need food, water; keep those normal and no one cares about anything else. Riots only occur when biology is threatened. Everything else about humanity is 100% made up false belief, appeals to empty trust in what we say.

Physics makes it pretty clear its all just skins suits pulling illusions out their ass all the way down. We can never change the immutable forces of physics, there's too much other stuff in universe rushing in to correct. This is it for humans; idle about on Earth hallucinating.