MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by balfirevic | 2025-06-04 18:52:54+00:00
> You are describing some of the exercises from the Justin Guitar Strumming SOS course.

Not surprised that these are in there!

> I can do it for a few minutes but soon something like semantic satiation sets in and I get out of sync

Huh, I never actually did that for more than a few minutes at the time (when just using the metronome), I can imagine it gets boring and attention wanders. I did try to do it frequently (couple of times a day, spread throughout the day), but only for two minutes or so.

Anyway, I thought you might have tried all of that already, considering you took lessons and bought courses, but still wanted to throw it out there. Good luck!
by Dkumpikolo | 2025-06-04 18:53:16+00:00
why would they?

It's already a fully integrated end-to-end communication device.

They don't know how to operate it, they don't care about millions of people complaining about shitty network, they don't have to handle internationalization and they would position themselves against whoever carrier is before/after at&t, Verizon and T-Mobile.

They make huge margins by making hardware. This type of margin is not happening at carriers.

And no just because companies like Verizon do have daughters in other countries they are not global. So apple would also need to expand to all countries.

I only see a lot of downsides and not a single upside.
by HocusLocus | 2025-06-04 18:53:16+00:00
Seeing Krugman call out Trump specifically while starting the graph half way through the Biden Administration... gave me sort of a Climate Change vibe. Sure they are in 'lockstep' as presented recently, but is this a new normal or outlier? What is he 'hiding' to imply these are lockstep values?

I chose a start date half way through the last Obama Administration (2014) and scaled to 100 relative to values on that date. I didn't match Krugman's relative scales but plotted it again ( https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1JqXv ) ... you can see the trends in the graph across two Trump presidencies a bit of Obama and all of Biden and it paints a different overall picture. A lot of wild variance is hidden.
by ookblah | 2025-06-04 18:53:29+00:00
alright, we can agree to disagree because this so obviously touching a chord with you and you're now literally making sweeping assumptions based on things i've never said.

maybe i like taking care of my friends kids, volunteering, or doing other things that contribute to the "future of society"? personally, i think mentoring junior devs is slightly lower on the priority list, but that's my opinion.

seriously, how arrogant of you to make assumptions about how others think about the future based on a tiny slice of your personal life lol.
by kazinator | 2025-06-04 18:53:35+00:00
If you're forced to use crappy STM, you can still make "stealth" uses of a better SCM in your private workflows.

I have stories also. In one company almost twenty years ago, some Java-spewing troglodytes went on a branch and did stupid things, like simultaneously rename A.java to B.java, B.java to C.java and C.java to A.java! While of course changing all their content too.

When it came time to merge, this was completely beyond the power of Subversion to sort out.

They came to me for help, and I whipped out my Meta-CVS, with excellent support not only for renaming but for doing snapshot imports which figure out renaming by file similarity. We imported all the baselines into it, and it did the merge flawlessly across the rotated renames.

We took the resulting merged baseline out of Meta-CVS and cleanly committed it to the Subversion trunk.

Don't discount other SCMs being useful as tools in SCM problems, even if they are not the main source-of-truth SCM used by the org.
by BHSPitMonkey | 2025-06-04 18:53:52+00:00
> Unless this forked version will then print out a bunch of forms for someone to physically mail in

Well yes, this is in essence what tax return preparation software has always been; The end result is a completed set of values to fill into the boxes of form 1040 (and whatever additional forms are deemed to be required), which can then be filed electronically or written/printed on paper to be returned at an office or by mail.
by name_taken23 | 2025-06-04 18:54:35+00:00
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by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-06-04 18:54:56+00:00
To be honest,from what I've heard, trump has been saying all these things before elections and america voted it.

From an outsider (non American),I am not sure.. but I have been looking more into american scandals due to trump and due to Michael Moore documentary.

And I have come to only one conclusion, I feel like you guys aren't picking the people who are better for the job but rather whose worse. The shift is so real. And I don't trust democrats too much either. But they are better than republicans at the moment.

If you guys are even in the position that you can literally get a guy elected as president that can effectively erode trust on america as a whole,you need to rethink elections. How can I trust america if there is even a 1% chance of such happening again (more than 1% for sure)

Trust shouldn't be played with. It's a hard thing to get

The only guy I have genuine trust is Bernie sanders. But he's too old but that to me feels like the only hope in America. I truly like how Bernie sanders is kind of like the north pole in my short understanding of american politics and has always been saying the things that I personally resonate with too.

I kind of wish,I had a Bernie sanders in my own country tbh. The guys a true gem.
by pimlottc | 2025-06-04 18:54:57+00:00
Aside from the code, there's also a ton of great design documents and notes under /docs/design [0], including detailed process diagrams for many of the user flows (unfortunately not directly viewable online since they're within zip files; see flow1.zip and flow2.zip)

0: https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/tree/main/docs/des...
by thomastjeffery | 2025-06-04 18:56:26+00:00
The overwhelming majority of consumers are also employees.

What's better, low prices and low wages, or high prices and high wages? The "Chicago school of macroeconomics" holds the first position. I'm highly critical of that position.

Even if you do agree with the Chicago school, there is a problem: by vertically integrating the repairs market, you take away the consumer's ability to repair their own products. The consumer is forced to pay the business to do the repairs, instead of doing it themselves for free. That's objectively more expensive for the consumer.

By allowing companies to vertically integrate repairs into their product business, we have allowed them to create an entirely new market of rent-seeking. This both monopolizes a service (preventing competition) and adds extra cost to consumers. It doesn't matter what your ideological stance is on economics: this is objectively bad for consumers.
by jack_h | 2025-06-04 18:56:47+00:00
People complaining about the name baffle me; the name of the bill is irrelevant, only the legal effect matters.

I’ve been doing a lot of independent research myself since finding useful, non-partisan sources is a huge issue anymore. I’ve found LLMs to be very useful in helping[1] me navigate these areas so I can learn enough to make my own determinations.

For what it’s worth my opinion is that this country is in a very bad position that could very well lead to massive world wide economic problems in the future. When and how that manifests is impossible to say; there are a lot of possibilities but I’m expecting the next decade will show us the path we’re on and what that looks like. The tariffs are having an effect (which is to be expected) but it didn’t start there nor does it end there.

I think one of the biggest problems we face as a nation is that the citizens do not understand what’s going on and end up parroting what someone else said without really understanding it, usually filling in the gaps of their knowledge from their own world view rather than reality. I don’t mean this as a denigration as most people have families and jobs and do not have enough time to know enough to have well-informed opinions about everything, myself included. However, it is leading to absurdities like screeds about the name of the bill.

[1] I don’t trust the LLM of course. I’m not asking it if X is happening or if Y is a problem. More of a way to guide me to finding good primary resources.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-06-04 18:57:30+00:00
I have a feeling that LLM model collapse will be accelerated as humans lose control of smaller Wiki projects like Wiktionary.

They’ll be unable to effectively patrol or prevent generative updates to the project, and for all intensive porpoises, humans will be unwilling to step foot into disputes, and AI will have free reign to redefine all human knowledge.
by pimlottc | 2025-06-04 18:57:47+00:00
> "The IRS will no longer accept returns directly."

Where are you finding that quote, I don't see it on the Direct File homepage [0]

EDIT: Ah, I see now, it was from paxys's original post [1], I assumed it was meant to be an official quote from the IRS somewhere.

0: https://directfile.irs.gov/

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44183593
by nabla9 | 2025-06-04 18:58:00+00:00
> but appear to strictly avoid showing their products in those shows.

Apple has 'villains can't use iPhones' rule. Directors are not allowed to use Apple product placement for villains.

Apple pushes their products in Apple TV+ and pays for product placements, or provides their products for free for other productions as as long as you follow the rules.
by yoyohello13 | 2025-06-04 18:58:08+00:00
I've found painting mini's (like Warhammer) to be really fun. You get the structure of the model to work from, but you get a creative outlet with the painting. There is a ton of painting technique to work on and learn, and you get a game to play for extra motivation. Plus at the end of the day you have a nice display piece to look at for the shelf.
by ronsor | 2025-06-04 18:58:20+00:00
Do note that since the removal of NPAPI plugins years ago, locally-installed software that intends to be used by one or more public websites has to run an HTTP server on localhost.

It would be really annoying if this use case was made into an unreasonable hassle or killed entirely. (Alternatively, browser developers could've offered a real alternative, but it's a bit late for that now.)
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-06-04 18:58:27+00:00
For what it's worth, you can still do it with those commands, though I understand part of the point is that you don't necessarily remember all of the options for them. But in this case, it should be simple:

git add . git commit --amend -m "initial commit" git push -f origin HEAD

I don't know when `--amend` was added. I used to do a squash rebase but this is much nicer.
by munificent | 2025-06-04 18:58:28+00:00
I thought about discussing the connection between knitting and programming. You're exactly right that following a pattern is exactly like being a human virtual machine for a tiny programming language. There is something delightful about that.

At the same time, I don't knit because it reminds me of programming. If I want to scratch the programming itch, I'll program. So I ended up not mentioning it in the article, but there's definitely an overlap.
by marklubi | 2025-06-04 18:59:08+00:00
This would be like cutting off their nose to spite their face.

Apple profits from phone sales. The more distribution channels, the more phones they can sell, and more organizations spending the money to advertise iPhones.

If Apple bought a cell carrier, they would be in direct competition with the other carriers. Worst-case, they would likely get dropped from the other's lineups. The less worse case, they wouldn't get advertising/promotion from their competition.
by alcover | 2025-06-04 18:59:14+00:00
> as Julia Ecklar sings, it's kind of like construction work with a toothpick for a tool.

I was taught assembler in my second year of school. It's kinda like construction work — with a toothpick for a tool. So when I made my senior year, I threw my code away, And learned the way to program that I still prefer today. Now, some folks on the Internet put their faith in C++. They swear that it's so powerful, it's what God used for us. And maybe it lets mortals dredge their objects from the C. But I think that explains why only God can make a tree. For God wrote in Lisp code When he filled the leaves with green. The fractal flowers and recursive roots: The most lovely hack I've seen. And when I ponder snowflakes, never finding two the same, I know God likes a language with its own four-letter name. Now, I've used a SUN under Unix, so I've seen what C can hold. I've surfed for Perls, found what Fortran's for, Got that Java stuff down cold. Though the chance that I'd write COBOL code is a SNOBOL's chance in Hell. And I basically hate hieroglyphs, so I won't use APL. Now, God must know all these languages, and a few I haven't named. But the Lord made sure, when each sparrow falls, that its flesh will be reclaimed. And the Lord could not count grains of sand with a 32-bit word. Who knows where we would go to if Lisp weren't what he preferred? And God wrote in Lisp code Every creature great and small. Don't search the disk drive for man.c, When the listing's on the wall. And when I watch the lightning burn Unbelievers to a crisp, I know God had six days to work, So he wrote it all in Lisp. Yes, God had a deadline. So he wrote it all in Lisp.
by caeruleus | 2025-06-04 18:59:23+00:00
I don't believe the concept of DNA can be reduced to a sequence of quaternary numerals, which is what gene sequence data would represent. Similar to proteins, DNA forms higher-level structures on top of the primary one [1], and (in a biological context, inside the nucleus) exhibits somewhat self-modifying [2] and self-regulating [3] behavior as well as meta-modification [4]. Analogous to the article, if one defines the language of DNA by its nucleobase sequence, this language can only represent a subset of the world of DNA.

Somewhat related, the way the adaptive immune system works has similarities with some concepts in machine learning. In this process, sections of nuclear DNA serve as randomly initialized weights in precursor cells [5] as well as final weights in memory cells. There's even fine-tuning of the weights. [6]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleic_acid_structure [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposable_element [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcriptional_regulation [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V(D)J_recombination [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity_maturation
by zelon88 | 2025-06-04 18:59:35+00:00
I understand the idea behind it and am still kinda chewing on the scope of it all. It will probably break some enterprise applications and cause some help desk or group policy/profile headaches for some.

It would be nice to know when a site is probing the local network. But by the same token, here is Google once again putting barriers on self sufficiency and using them to promote their PaaS goals.

They'll gladly narc on your self hosted application doing what it's supposed to do, but what about the 23 separate calls to Google CDN, ads, fonts, ect that every website has your browser make?

I tend to believe the this particular functionality is no longer of any use to Google, which is why they want to deprecate it to raise the barrier of entry for others.
by gowld | 2025-06-04 18:59:38+00:00
Category Error. Public Domain is not a license. It is a state of being.

Creative Commons is a worldwide organization, not a jurisdiction-specfic organization. Creative Commons does not have the authority to harmonize laws worldwide.

https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/pdm/

https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/cc0/
by sim7c00 | 2025-06-04 18:59:56+00:00
it hurts my eyes a little that some comments bring up disk encrpytion. maybe i am reading it all wrong, and maybe everyone knows this but i just want to say.

disk encryption protects against 'stolen disk'. or 'usb boot'. and such attacks, where the disk attacked is 'offline'. not loaded and unlocked by the OS and user that owns it.

if the OS is running and the usermode is compromised, it does nothing. its transparently decrypted for the user.

this means, you need further encryption, preferably unlocked through providing a secret, to secure against 'online' attacks. attacks where your user is compromised, and offline encryption schemes are bypassed already.

please lets try to remember this distinction in 2025, and perhaps even consider the confused deputies etc. too.

the knowledge and tools to prevent this stuff are available. please :(.

and yes, this also goes for full database encryption. its 90% the same.
by supertrope | 2025-06-04 19:00:08+00:00
One driver driving one passenger is inherently low capacity. It's taxi service. You pay more for taxi fare because it's door to door and capacity is far scarcer than bus/train seats.

Small vehicles decrease capacity of the public transit network and increase labor intensity. Good luck finding a CDL holder driver who will work as a "gig" worker. Vans are cheaper than $250K buses, but that means each bus that ever has more than a dozen riders at peak usage will require two drivers or even three to service. https://humantransit.org/2019/08/what-is-microtransit-for.ht...
by hoherd | 2025-06-04 19:00:08+00:00
> the time for this is past

A few nights ago I was looking through photos with my daughter, and she asked to see photos of her. I looked for them using the AI way and found some, but not a whole lot. That's because it missed the vast majority of them, which I then found when looking through files with the same date stamp as some of the AI discovered photos of her.

I understand we're on our way to automatically labeled content, but we are a long way off, and the time for manually organizing important information has not yet passed.
by runamuck | 2025-06-04 19:00:41+00:00
Yes - near fatal. I floated away from my body, and saw myself in 3rd person view about 100 feet up. The vision became grainy, like a VHS tape. I had the same sensation that I have when I wake up in the morning after vivid dreams, and the memories (and world/ physics) of those dreams fade away - this world faded away. I remember thinking "oh, why did I worry so much down there?" and found it funny.
by themanmaran | 2025-06-04 19:00:56+00:00
Got curious about the "century old statute" and looked it up. Original text [1]

> Section 1. Whenever any motor-vehicle is found abandoned upon any public highway… and said vehicle is not of a value exceeding one hundred dollars… said officer may cause such motor-vehicle to be removed

> Section 2. If such motor-vehicle is not reclaimed within fifteen days after such removal, said officer shall sell the same at public auction…

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=gktNAQAAMAAJ&hl=en
by alephnerd | 2025-06-04 19:01:47+00:00
> When someone says regulation is stifling innovation

What they mean is SOX and regulation around IPOs and SPACs.

This has been a significant sticking point of A16Z's leadership (and other VCs) for 15 years now.

Most startups funded in the 2010s have decided to remain private, take an acquisition, or continue to raise later and later stage rounds (eg. Stripe, Databricks), which has impacted the amount of capital funds like A16Z, Accel, Sequoia, etc can deploy, and tends to benefit traditional IBs like JPM, GS, Barclays, etc.

This is why A16Z and YC backed LTSE, and supported SPACs for the brief window they were opened.

There is a need for compliance, but liquidity is starting to become difficult to realize for early stage investors.

> VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech

Their definition for "surveillance tech" is broad, and includes a significant portion of the Security, Compliance, and Defense startups which are often required by legislators or insurers due to breaches (eg. Snowflake).

Generally speaking, we fund startups if they are solving a problem we have heard about from our peers AND that it has a tangible TAM that can justify later stage participants.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-06-04 19:02:00+00:00
I am not sure but I read the hn post a little and didnt see that part I suppose.

But even then,people were defending it,saying so what,they never said that they aren't doing it or SMTH. So I of course assumed that people are defending what's true.

Maybe not,but such a rumour was quite a funny one to hear as an Indian myself.
by sgt101 | 2025-06-04 19:02:00+00:00
I was trying to pick n-shot examples from a data set. The idea was that given 1000s of examples for a prompt finding a combination of n that was optimal could be advantageous, but for n's that are large then bruteforcing the combincation would be impossible... so can we find an optimal set with an efficient search?

But the problem was that the search space wasn't informative. The best 1 example didn't feature in the best 2 examples. So I couldn't optimise for 5, 6,7 examples..
by palmotea | 2025-06-04 19:02:02+00:00
> Once this takes hold, there's no going back.

I'm not that pessimistic. If humans are in charge, there'll always change, but it may be in the far future.

Though AGI might change that, because I can see one important application being the creation of ever-present minds to continuously watch and control each person who remains, on behalf of some totalitarian entity. Basically 1984 telescreens, but real and far cheaper.
by dwaltrip | 2025-06-04 19:02:13+00:00
You will get better results if you reset the code changes, tweak the prompt with new guidelines (e.g. don’t do X), and then run it again in a fresh chat.

The less cruft and red herrings in the context, the better. And likewise with including key info, technical preferences, and guidelines. The model can’t read our minds, although sometimes we wish so :)

There are lots of simple tricks to make it easier for the model to provide a higher quality result.

Using these things effectively is definitely an complex skill set.
by etruong42 | 2025-06-04 19:02:37+00:00
This is precisely why I compare this technological revolution with the electronic spreadsheet. Before the electronic spreadsheet, what used to take several accountants several days to "compute a whole spreadsheet" after changing "a few inputs" is serviced by a single accountant in a few minutes. That kind of service that was only available to enormous firms with teams of dozens of accountants is now available to firms with a technically proficient employee who do that kind of accounting as only a small part of their role.

It took time as different firms adapted to adopt computer technologies in their various business needs and workflows. It's hard to precisely predict how labor roles will change with each revolutionary technology.