MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-06-10 17:15:06+00:00
The planetary boundaries framework is not a very useful way to think about climate change.

The variables are linked. Ocean acidification is a direct result of CO2 release. Plus, everyone knows we are not a trajectory for a stable system anyway even in the best case scenario. Apart from the pleasure of publishing gloomy articles when we cross the next one, it’s entirely pointless as a tool.

It’s far better to view the issue as being about how to reach net zero as fast as possible. That puts people in the right frame of mind.
by jihadjihad | 2025-06-10 17:15:28+00:00
From the "Armstrong spread in Ladies Home Journal" copy in TFA:

> Below the hefty, vinyl wear surface is a foamed vinyl backing called Cushioncord. Because this backing "gives" under pressure, Cushioned Coronelle is quieter, warmer, and more comfortable to walk on.

The description and the photo instantly took me back to my grandmother's kitchen, that little bit of squish as you head to the fridge.
by ryandrake | 2025-06-10 17:15:33+00:00
This one isn't even about middle class vs. poor. The immigration crackdowns are very popular across the entire (R) electorate, regardless of their wealth. It's all about picking out-groups, making them into enemies, and inflicting cruelty on them. That's what that side really wants out of their government. They have a long list of perceived enemies who they are expecting to be able to deliver cruelty to once they're done with immigrants.
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-10 17:16:19+00:00
> Speaking of rebellion since you guys are experts on this I want to know who is bringing in all the violent protestors from other parts of the US and handing them the same size, shape Mexican flag that are all folded the same way.

No one is bringing people in, the flags being waved aren't all Mexican and the Mexican flags are a variety of different sizes and the LA local community, including its ~3.5 million residents of Mexican ethnicity, has quite a few Mexican flags of all shapes and sizes without needing any people or flags brought in from outside.

> Isn't that the very place they are trying to stay out of and wouldn't a Mexican flag imply an invasion from Mexico?

Mexican flags are a common symbol of pride in and solidarity with the community of Mexican ethnicity, rather than serving as agents of Mexico-the-republic, just as Confederate flags are a common symbol of pride in the White racist community, rather than serving as agents of the long-defunct putative regime.

> It feel like I am watching a movie produced by really lazy script writers.

Yeah, well, I won't comment on the “really lazy” part, but unless you are present watching it with your own eyes, you absolutely are watching something packaged for you as propaganda: everything you are seeing is edited to present a narrative by the people presenting it.
by astrobe_ | 2025-06-10 17:16:32+00:00
Also Chuck Moore's ColorForth doesn't have "create does>" at all. Probably he considered the complexity was not worth it. I don't have it in my interpreter either, and I don't miss it; for the few near-misses I just use regular literals and calls. For instance, for the textbook example of "self-indexing arrays":

: index-array swap cells + ; create a1 10 cells allot create a2 20 cells allot : array1 a1 index-array ; : array2 a2 index-array ;

I used to use the "implementation-dependent" trick of popping the return address (in e.g. index-array) to get the data. Less verbose, a bit more efficient. But my implementation doesn't permit it anymore.

Recently I've found out that implementing "self/this" pseudo-value and pseudo-method calls much more useful. The relation with this and "create does>" is that latter can be seen as poor man's closure, or poor man's object [1].

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2497801/closures-are-poo...
by pempem | 2025-06-10 17:16:36+00:00
I think you've missed what the protest is. People are against the government action they are using the first amendment -- which is part of what makes america great -- to say they are against it.

You can say, rightly, there's a car on fire. You can also say the police shot at a journalist.

"burning down cities" would however be incorrect, as the person who literally lives here I can tell you that it is not happening.
by ceejayoz | 2025-06-10 17:17:33+00:00
> So I ask you for a third time - "If I refused to take those vaccines for safety reasons when the FDA first approved them, would I be anti-science?"

A stopped clock is right twice a day.

This is the sort of logic people use against, say, wearing a seatbelt. "My cousin's roommate's friend's hairdresser would've died in a freak accident if they'd buckled theirs!" Is that true? Perhaps! Is it a good way of making decisions? No.

You can make what, in hindsight, is the correct call for the wrong reasons. (And in these cases, it's usually "we thought the risk/reward balance was 1.05 and not 0.95" sort of things.)
by keyringlight | 2025-06-10 17:18:35+00:00
One thing I try to bear in mind with this is while there's a lot of anti-corporate discussion alongside video games, they're quite often contrary to what happens in the wider world when you compare against what games or companies are successful. A lot of it skirts around the concept that developers big or small take money to be made and don't seem to have a good idea on how success should be rewarded (or differing rules depending on who you are). The video game audience is also going to be incredibly broad across a huge range of circumstances around the globe, so the question of what something is worth will have a wide range too.
by dkersten | 2025-06-10 17:18:38+00:00
It does it even if I wait for it to finish, but don't accept. Eg:

Starting code: a quick brown fox

prompt 1: "Capitalize the words"

AI: A Quick Brown Fox

I don't accept or reject, but change it to "A Quick Red Fox"

prompt 2: "Change it to dog"

AI: A Quick Brown Dog
by logifail | 2025-06-10 17:19:04+00:00
> People think R&D expenditure shouldn't be amoritized because it hurts startups

(Not trying to be deliberately obtuse but) which people "think this"? Startups and their investors, obviously, but who else?

If world+dog has to amortize their R&D expenditure, why should startups be exempt, essentially "because software dev salaries"?

> But since established companies aren't affected as much, they are advantaged by the amoritization rule.

Q: Why should startups get a specific tax carve-out for "R&D"?
by lordfrito | 2025-06-10 17:19:25+00:00
More and more I don't understand what's happening with all of these political articles making it to the front page of HN and stuffed full of charged comments and lots of grey.

We may be smart techies but the arguments here about politics seem awfully reductive. We're out of our lane on most of this. What's with all the hate here?

The commentary here feels like its sliding it's way towards Reddit. Maybe I'm wrong, or maybe it's accidental, or maybe it's on purpose?

Hoping not to lose my faith in the quality of discourse on this website.
by wslh | 2025-06-10 17:19:29+00:00
Meh, we are very used to one constraint: time, and you can see that a lot of very successful people chase goals because they don't have that hard constraint embedded on the daily job. Bell Labs? Xerox Parc? Fermat being a lawyer and "playing" with math? Libcurl?

A clear goal includes constraints, the problem is blind goals.
by munificent | 2025-06-10 17:19:36+00:00
Thank you for saying that.

I don't think there's any secret to writing well beyond:

1. Write a whole lot.

2. Reflect on the writing and iterate.

Probably the most helpful thing that's taught me to write better (without intending it to be that way) is spending years and years on Reddit and HN, writing thousands of comments. Seeing which ones resonate with people and how is an effective training ground for getting better at making sentences that work.
by tim333 | 2025-06-10 17:19:46+00:00
Counterpoint: I think Plato was right that logic and math are primary and precede existence, although timeless so precede doesn't have much meaning.

It's one of the good bits of Plato unlike advocating for dictatorship and many iffy things. I don't see how it leads on to all the other things you mention like Yudkowski and The Secret.
by theamk | 2025-06-10 17:19:51+00:00
Note that at least in python, you can use "shlex.quote" instead - it's in stdlib and does not need any extra tools.

>>> import subprocess >>> import shlex >>> subprocess.run(['ssh', 'host', shlex.join(['ls', '-la', 'a filename with spaces'])]) ls: cannot access 'a filename with spaces': No such file or directory

works nested, too

>>> layer2 = ['ls', '-la', 'a filename with spaces'] >>> layer1 = ['ssh', 'host1', shlex.join(layer2)] >>> layer0 = ['ssh', 'host0', shlex.join(layer1)] >>> subprocess.run(layer0)

(I am not sure if Rust has equivalent, but if it does not, it's probably easy to implement.. Python version is only a few lines long)
by peter_d_sherman | 2025-06-10 17:20:56+00:00
The following is well-written / well-stated:

>"Goals are for Games. Constraints are for Worlds.

A goal is a win condition. Constraints are the rules of the game. But not all games are worth playing. And some of the most powerful forms of progress emerge from people who stopped trying to win and started building new game boards entirely.

[...]

Richard Feynman didn’t get his Nobel Prize by pursuing "win a Nobel Prize" as a goal. He played with problems, often placing arbitrary limits on himself: what if we assume this system has no dissipation? What if we ignore spin?

He looked for elegance within boundaries, not outcomes.

His freedom came from self-imposed structure."
by torginus | 2025-06-10 17:21:00+00:00
What he describes is a very basic concept in data science, and the tradeoffs in making a binary classifier (which this essentially is), are very well explored in the Reciever Operator Characteristic (ROC) curve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_operating_characteris...).

This article is from 2022, and data science wasn't exactly novel by that time, considering the author appeals (successfully) to those big brained silicon valley types, that leads me to throw some shade at the writer and his readership.

Designing detectors for rare events is a pretty common, problem dealt extensively with in statistics, after all the linked methodology was devised for WW2 radar operators, and the default mode for radars is 'there isn't a German plane in range', despite that they needed to find a mathematical approach to find how good their radars are.
by radioactivist | 2025-06-10 17:21:24+00:00
It happens again in the next video. It says:

> The team came up with a use case the teaching team hadn’t thought of – using AI to critique the team’s own hypotheses. The AI not only gave them criticism but supported it with links from published scholars. See the demo here:

But the video just shows Claude giving some criticism but then just says go look at some journals and talk to experts (doesn't give any references or specifics).
Show HN: I built leadlink.io, a tool to turn promo code into a game
by mehdira | 2025-06-10 17:21:44+00:00
Hey HN!

I built a little tool called LeadLink to help small businesses and indie founders collect more emails from their discount offers.

Instead of just pasting a promo code, you can now make customers play a short game (quiz, memory, reaction time...) to win it.

If they win, they enter their email to get the code. You get a dashboard with click stats, winners, and a clean email list.

So you might ask: What is the interest of the business owner to put some barrier before email/lead gathering ?

Here is the answer. Before starting this little project, I read in a marketing article that it is proven that gamification boosts engagement, meaning that once someone starts a game, they're more likely to finish it and complete the final step (which is giving their email). So a game makes the user actively involved.

Also I think that if you just hand a coupon for free, people don't value it. If they earn it (even in a fun way), they feel it's more worth using.

Another point is that anyone who takes 30 seconds to play and enter their email is more likely to buy than someone who just drops in and grabs a code. This means less fake emails, better open rates and higher post lead conversions.

Finally if you have any suggestions or critics feel free. Thanks for reading!
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-06-10 17:21:53+00:00
What is the point of encouraging more people to participate in politics when that increases the chances of your party losing? From a relatively recent analysis of polls at https://archive.is/kbwom "The reality is if all registered voters had turned out, then Donald Trump would’ve won the popular vote by 5 points [instead of 1.7 points]. So, I think that a 'we need to turn up the temperature and mobilize everyone' strategy would’ve made things worse." That's from a Democratic analyst, not a Republican one.

The Republicans are rubbing their hands together and cackling every time one of you claims "everything is political" or "politics is a duty" because it just helps them win elections.
by garciansmith | 2025-06-10 17:22:36+00:00
Not a fan of transparent backgrounds to UI elements since they are simply distracting. I turned all that glassy stuff off back in the Windows Vista days, and all these recent efforts just feel antiquated to me (funny that some people feel nostalgic about that era though!).

"Now it’s 2025, and I’m impatient with traditional interfaces. Keyboards and mice feel slow."

Maybe I'm just old, but more and more I feel the opposite. I like using a keyboard more than I used to because it's way faster. I can't count the number of times I started doing something on my phone or some touch-screen device and I just gave up and went to a computer with a real keyboard. The OP is talking more about voice control, I think, but that to me is even slower. I can see how good transcription can work for slower typists for long amounts of text, but editing that text is way slower. And basic UI elements and tasks? Doesn't Ctrl-C beat out whatever voice thing you'd say to copy text ("COPY THE WORDS from BLAH to BLUH"?). To say nothing about discoverability of what you can or cannot do.
by trod1234 | 2025-06-10 17:22:47+00:00
There are many problems but immigration isn't one of them.

The employers/government don't do this because the prices of existing goods depend on that cheap labor. Money printing (deficit spending) through the economy has created many chaotic distortions and as a result of currency debasement has pushed the profit margins down close to zero for many businesses concentrating them in few hands.

These businesses can continue functioning for a time thanks to money-printer loans they receive in the form of non-reserve based debt to a primary dealer, but that doesn't solve the issue that the price of good inputs and the amount of money that gets circulated through work in the economy is insufficient to purchase basic necessities (its sieving, which often happens before a deflationary collapse).

On top of this already floundering problem which we cannot address, we have a demographics problem. The old, infirm, and disabled outnumber the young who work. There is no way forward without replacement as the costs of the old far exceed the young, and the only means to do so is through taxing immigrants who come here to work.

On top of this, China wants to go to war to retake Taiwan, and so securing the border is a critical national security interest/threat.

Its called a debt trap, any historian can tell you about how this and other behaviors towards empire (hegemony) culminate in destructive cycles.

The baby boomers as a cohort largely caused this, and have been orchestrating it in leadership so that the consequences of their choices don't hit until after they die.
by griels | 2025-06-10 17:24:00+00:00
Hard same. I wonder if this does anything different to the existing projects that would mean one could use the WSL2 approach where containerd is running in the Linux micro-VM. A key component is the RPC framework - seems to be how orbstack's `macctl` command does it. I see mention of GRPC, sandboxes and containers in the binfmt_misc handling code, which is promising:

https://github.com/apple/containerization/blob/d1a8fae1aff6f...
by Spartan-S63 | 2025-06-10 17:24:38+00:00
This is myopic. 100,000 years ago, humans didn't understand the basic rules of how things worked. They would have no idea if and when the next ice age would happen. We've learned a lot as a species and as such, our biological need to reproduce is balanced by the logical realization of the impact we have on the planet and the impact the planet can have on us. We have higher-level thinking and more information to leverage second-order thinking. So no, that's not a joke.
by cogman10 | 2025-06-10 17:24:45+00:00
Working under the theory that large dense things fall faster than small things, you'd expect that the large stone would drag the small stone. Much like if you attach a piece of wood to a rock with a rope and throw it in water, the rock will drag the wood down.

You'd probably argue that even though they are connected with a string they are still 2 things and there's a density gap between the two of them.

Now, if you try and figure out what makes a thing a thing, it starts breaking down. But if you've already have the working theory, then making an explanation isn't terribly hard.
by Simran-B | 2025-06-10 17:24:53+00:00
I would argue that it's not meaningful to do so for larger files with comptime as there doesn't seem to be a need for parsing JSON like the target platform would (comptime emulates it) - I expect it to be independent. You're also not supposed to do I/O using comptime, and @embedFile kind of falls under that. I suppose it would be better to write a build.zig for this particularly use case, which I think would then also be able to run fast native code?
by rs186 | 2025-06-10 17:24:59+00:00
Developers could be adding a feature utilizing LLMs to their existing app that already has a large user base. This could be a matter of a few weeks from an idea ti shipping the feature. While competitors use API calls to just "get things done", you are trying to figure out how to serve both iPhone 16 and older users, and potentially Android/web users if your product is also available elsewhere. I don't see how an iPhone 16 only feature helps anyone's product development, especially when the quality still remains to be seen.
by twodave | 2025-06-10 17:25:07+00:00
You're not actually wrong. Reversing it would have immediate and far-reaching benefits for large companies. I suspect many of those would respond by going on hiring sprees.

And also, reversing it would encourage more people to start software businesses. So while not a tax cut for small businesses that don't exist yet, it does help those future potential leaders make the leap.
by talkingtab | 2025-06-10 17:25:27+00:00
Yes. It seems to me important that we correctly understand the problem. It is like your car won't start. If you fail to diagnose your battery is dead, then you keep putting gas in and it still doesn't work. The question is what needs to change to fix the problem AND why.

My diagnosis is Citizens United vs F.E.C. That bizarre has allowed corporations to control the laws that are enacted. So we see "tort" reform - but who benefits? It is not the People.

There is another factor that amplifies this, targeted advertising. Targeted ads, you know like the ones that pay for our "free" internet services are as toxic or more than the pollutants in coal and gas. They have destroyed trust in the internet. And they allow corporations to "fund" candidates for public office.

And question. Do the media such as the Washington Post, owned by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, address these issues? Nope.
by cjblomqvist | 2025-06-10 17:25:51+00:00
Quick comment regarding the "Swedish fashion wonder": It's definitely a pyramid, but I can for sure name a bunch that definitely makes more than most H&M stores. And they keep popping up, and are definitely not irrelevant.

According to ChatGPT avg revenue of H&M stores in Sweden is 5.4 MEUR. If I remember correctly from my market research (I co-founded a Swedish SaaS targeting fashion brands) there at least 100 with more revenue then that - and they're definitely making most revenue outside of Sweden. To name a few; Djerf Avenue, Filippa K, Stronger, ICIW, Peak Performance, CHIMI eyewear, Tiger of Sweden, J Lindeberg... Heck, I can even name drop a bunch doing footwear more or less only; Axel Arigato, Icebug, Björn Borg, Eytys...

But yeah, most brands are doing less. It's a pyramid. But no, Swedish fashion brands (excl H&M) are definitely not irrelevant.
by eYrKEC2 | 2025-06-10 17:26:06+00:00
Thank you for that.

For your consideration, I just ran across Dr. Keith Baar of UC Davis via Tim Ferriss' podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnFzjcPTSsc

He is recommending isometrics for tendon health, which is something I'm also going to incorporate.
by whatevermom | 2025-06-10 17:26:25+00:00
Sorry, English isn’t my native language, but do you want to start studying again in EU? In that case, you can apply for an education VISA. I don’t know what is a blue card, but I’d suggest looking at the country you want specifically rather than looking at Europe as a whole. The procedures will be similar between EU countries but in the end, you’re going to be talking to one specific embassy in America. Each countries have different levels of strictness.
by NotAnOtter | 2025-06-10 17:26:33+00:00
I'm interested how an innovation like this affects the business prospects.

Let's assume this is a paradigm shift on the scale of Transformers / `Attention is all you need`. Companies build out new models and pump another $100 Billion through it. And then a year from now, another innovation comes out. Same circus. And again.

No one wants to be left behind but trying to keep up will sink smaller companies.
by ryandrake | 2025-06-10 17:26:46+00:00
> However, if you tell them "I want you to install this water heater that I purchased" then they'll do the work to get it fit in and setup.

Yea, but plumbers tend to hate this. Electricians and HVAC pros also don't like it when you sit in the driver's seat. Car mechanics, too. When you've already done the diagnosis, and you just want them to install this OEM fuel pump which you've already purchased. Some mechanics will even refuse the job. They want to pump their bills with hours of diagnosis and their parts markup.

Tradesmen have a process they want you to go through that maximizes their revenue.
by const_cast | 2025-06-10 17:26:53+00:00
> Do you think it went unnoticed and didn’t adversely affect anyone?

Coming as someone living in Texas - yes, it affects no one. It's always been an hallucination. We just attribute random things to "the illegals" when, in reality, they're not hurting anyone.

In fact, if you've ever been in Texas, you'd know this state is run by illegals. I drive around and I see homes being built out the wazoo and who's on the roof? Huh? Who is it? It's not white people.

I drive down 114 and they got 2 lanes closed for construction and I look over and what is working on the concrete? It's not white people. I stop by 7/11 to buy a coke and who checks me out?

People just don't like "illegals" because they're racist. That's the hard truth, the pill a lot of y'all don't want to swallow.