MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aydyn | 2025-07-07 19:23:04+00:00
> "The vast majority of people" find mass deportation

The majority of Americans agree with mass deportation even if they don't agree with exactly how ICE is proceeding.

There's lots of room for discussion which obviously isn't happening here.

> Your personal judgement that people who don't understand your out of context quotes are gaslighting, is rude.

Given the context and aggressive sarcasm of the post, the vastly more likely explanation is the poster didn't agree with the point rather than not understanding it at all.

You understand now that it is simple direct response. Thus, if you want to call for intellectual honesty and civility, you can lead.

> This is even meaner. I am confident that you are capable of civil discussion focused on ideas, not on other HN posters.

I'm happy to have a civil conversation. I'm also happy to have an uncivil conversation. I'd ask you to be consistent when and with who that incivility started.
by riskable | 2025-07-07 19:23:33+00:00
Exactly! If Anthropic is guilty of copyright infringement for the mere act of downloading copyrighted books then so is Google, Microsoft (Bing), DuckDuckGo, etc. Every search engine that exists downloads pirated material every day. They'd all be guilty.

Not only that but all of us are guilty too because I'm positive we've all clicked on search results that contained copyrighted content that was copied without permission. You may not have even known it was such.

Remember: Intent is irrelevant when it comes to copyright infringement! It's not that kind of law.

Intent can guide a judge when they determine damages but that's about it.
by mechanicum | 2025-07-07 19:23:51+00:00
I don’t think that necessarily follows. The age of the surviving fragments today isn’t the whole story.

We could presumably infer it still wasn’t “missing” as recently as a thousand years ago from later sources referring to it, even if the specific text (or oral tradition) those authors knew of hasn’t survived.

Like how we know about some of now lost Greek plays, originally written in the 5th century BC, because they were still being performed in Imperial Rome and writers of that time described them, even the details of how they were staged.
by mommastephud | 2025-07-07 19:23:54+00:00
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by Mouvelie | 2025-07-07 19:24:38+00:00
> Regardless, the lesson for people like myself is that, in order to feel happy with creating, we have to actually create. An artist would not call their work art if they had little to no role in creating it.

Thanks. The author touched something there, close to a truth (or deep belief I got ?) about our life, something about the journey mattering more than the destination...
by graypegg | 2025-07-07 19:24:58+00:00
> User stories are useful mostly for "flux-based" applications where the user has little freedom.

I'd say basically only useful for those sorts of applications! If you're going by user stories, there should only really be 1 way of solving any 1 issue, and users should get rail-roaded into it. There's always a solution to problems you've closed user stories for, but that's it. Anything outside those is unconsidered and might not even have a "hackable" solution since you're building everything up organically rather than as a designed system.

Great for start ups (saved time and money building the impactful flows, your product only needs to do a few things) but awful for enterprises (users have no freedom to warp your product to their needs, your product needs some predictable structure/rules they can build on... those composable operations you're mentioning.)
by surgical_fire | 2025-07-07 19:25:42+00:00
> just would refuse to play without a proper Real Madrid Team

Interestingly enough, I used to be an avid Football Manager player, where real teams/players is an important deal.

I can still download Football Manager 2010 (that is not available for purchase anymore), and I can play with Borussia Dortmund with all 2010 players without any issues.

If they could figure out how to properly license those teams/players so that the game is not dead in 2025 (considering how much anal football teams/leagues are with licensing deals), I am sure that racing games (and others) can figure it out as well.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-07-07 19:25:43+00:00
I haven't had nearly the same experience of success with AI.

I'm often accused of letting my skepticism hold me back from really trying it properly, and maybe that's true. I certainly could not imagine going months without writing any code, letting the AI just generate it while I prompt

My work is pushing these tools hard and it is taking a huge toll on me. I'm constantly hearing how life changing this is, but I cannot replicate it no matter what I do

I'm either just not "getting it", or I'm too much of a control freak, or everyone else is just better than I am, or something. It's been miserable. I feel like I'm either extremely unskilled or everyone else is gaslighting me, basically nowhere in between

I have not once had an LLM generate code that I could accept. Not one time! Every single time I try to use the LLM to speed me up, I get code I have to heavily modify to correct. Sometimes it won't even run!

The advice is to iterate, but that makes no sense to me! I would easily spend more time iterating with the LLM than just writing the code myself!

It's been extremely demoralizing. I've never been unhappier in my career. I don't know what to do, I feel I'm falling behind and being singled out

I probably need to change employers to get away from AI usage metrics at this point, but it feels like it's everyone everywhere guzzling the AI hype. It feels hopeless
by bonoboTP | 2025-07-07 19:26:22+00:00
It's surprisingly common on reddit that people talk about "my chatgpt", and they don't always seem like the type who are "in a relationship" with the bot or unlocking the secrets of the cosmos with it, but still they write "my chatgpt" and "your chatgpt". I guess the custom prompt and the available context does customize the model for them in some sense, but I suspect they likely have a wrong mental model of how this customization works. I guess they imagine it as their own little model being stored on file at OpenAI and as they interact with it, it's being shaped by it, and each time they connect, their model is retrieved from the cloud storage and they connect to it or something.
by tzs | 2025-07-07 19:26:33+00:00
Instead of making a new party he should try to revive the pre-Trump Republican party.

Here are some things from the 2008 Republican Party Platform [1] that illustrate what Republicans used to be for that Trump has completely reversed the current party on:

• They wanted to address climate change.

> By increasing our American energy supply and decreasing the long term demand for oil, we will be well positioned to address the challenge of climate change and continue our longstanding responsibility for stewardship over the environment.

...

> As part of a global climate change strategy, Republicans support technology-driven, market-based solutions that will decrease emissions, reduce excess greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, increase energy efficiency, mitigate the impact of climate change where it occurs, and maximize any ancillary benefits climate change might offer for the economy.

...

> Because Republicans believe that solutions to the risk of global climate change will be found in the ingenuity of the American people, we propose a Climate Prize for scientists who solve the challenges of climate change. Honoraria of many millions of dollars would be a small price for technological developments that eliminate our need for gas-powered cars or abate atmospheric carbon.

• They wanted to encourage clean energy.

> Alternate power sources must enter the mainstream. The technology behind solar energy has improved significantly in recent years, and the commercial development of wind power promises major benefits both in costs and in environmental protection. Republicans support these and other alternative energy sources, including geothermal and hydropower, and anticipate technological developments that will increase their economic viability. We therefore advocate a long-term energy tax credit equally applicable to all renewable power sources.

• They wanted to reduce demand for fossil fuels.

> Conservation does not mean deprivation; it means efficiency and achieving more with less. Most Americans today endeavor to conserve fossil fuels, whether in their cars or in their home heating, but we can do better. We can construct better and smarter buildings, use smarter thermostats and transmission grids, increase recycling, and make energy-efficient consumer purchases. Wireless communications, for example, can increase telecommuting options and cut back on business travel. The Republican goal is to ensure that Americans have more conservation options that will enable them to make the best choices for their families.

...

> We must also produce more vehicles that operate on electricity and natural gas, both to reduce demand for oil and to cut CO2 emissions.

> Given that fully 97 percent of our current transportation vehicles rely on oil, we will aggressively support technological advances to reduce our petroleum dependence. For example, lightweight composites could halve the weight and double the gas mileage of cars and trucks, and together with flex-fuel and electric vehicles, could usher in a renaissance in the American auto industry.

[1] https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/2008-republican-pa...
Song for My Grandmother [video]
by tech4bueno | 2025-07-07 19:27:22+00:00
I made this song for my grandmother. We lost her to Covid. She was a music teacher. She was also the kindest person I knew.

This was the hymn she chose for her funeral. Its from 1926. There are no good recordings online, so I decided to make one in her memory.

The music was generated by Suno. I fed it a MIDI to learn the melody. It took a lot of generations to get what I wanted. I’m happy with how it turned out. The video is courtesy of Veo (most scenes are from 3, some from 2). I stitched it all together in iMovie.

I thought I would share it here. To show that AI can do amazing things. Maybe it will make somebody somewhere smile.
by cluckindan | 2025-07-07 19:27:40+00:00
It would be much funnier and/or insightful if it sampled more than the first page of user comments.

Still, spot on:

Predictions

Personal Projects

After a deep dive into archaic data storage, you'll finally release 'Magnetic Tape Master 3000' – a web-based app that simulates data retrieval from a reel-to-reel, complete with authentic 'whirring' sound effects. It'll be a niche hit with historical computing enthusiasts and anyone who misses the good old days of physical media.
by beeflet | 2025-07-07 19:27:42+00:00
If there were no laws, then there would be no evolutionary pressure to pacify the ghenghis khans of the world. And it's not so much the rules on paper, but the organization of power that enforces the rules.

It's not weird it's just uncomfortable for you to grapple with directly, that discomfort being a product of the same evolutionary pressure.

What I'm saying doesn't oppose what they're saying. That poster was just boasting about his ability to kill others, re-framed in a way to suit slave morality and make himself look like a "good" person.
by neckro23 | 2025-07-07 19:27:50+00:00
The Vista-style minimize/maximize icons on the inner windows look way out of place, and the style changes entirely when I maximize. Can't seem to minimize a window either.

Windows 10 is applying smooth scrolling to the windows, which I can disable in Performance Options but you might want to override the setting. Waiting for the scrolling to catch up is pretty at odds with the "fast, lightweight" aesthetic you're going for.
by fasterik | 2025-07-07 19:28:52+00:00
It's worth picking up a book like Alfred's "The Complete Book of Scales, Chords, Arpeggios & Cadences". It has exercises in every major and minor key, with fingerings.

Knowing the fingerings is a good start, but you need to learn to do these exercises without tension and with proper posture and hand movements. This is something where it's best to have in-person instruction from an expert who can show you the technique and correct your mistakes. But if you can't do that, maybe the next best thing would be to watch some YouTube videos and record yourself playing.
by amlib | 2025-07-07 19:29:17+00:00
MacOS and specially Windows has their fair share of great and useful software with questionable UI/UX, this is far from a problem affecting only Linux.

Take a look at modern KDE and specially GNOME software, they are pretty well made regarding UI/UX best practices and GNOME even has a great HIG that they follow strictly on their stuff, you can't even say that regarding Microsoft own software anymore.
by throwaway31131 | 2025-07-07 19:29:42+00:00
That's more of a graduate level book. If you would like a book by the same author, that is lighter in content but much more approachable, I recommend this version: https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ashriram/Courses/CS295/assets/books/H...

And don't forget to look at the online appendices on the MK website. They are also all very good.
by fiforpg | 2025-07-07 19:30:21+00:00
Not necessarily—in 3d there are uncountably many non-lattice packings. They all have the same density as the FCC lattice though. To construct these packings, shift horizontal layers of FCC horizontally with respect to each other.

It is conjectured that in higher dimensions, the densest packing is always non-lattice. The rationale being that there is just not enough symmetry in such spaces.
by rblatz | 2025-07-07 19:30:23+00:00
As someone that went from a janky Ender to a Bambu X1C, I think I can explain the differences. Is your hobby 3d printing? If so a machine that allows you more freedom to tinker and requires more hands on knowledge, but at a slightly lower price makes sense. If you use a 3d printer for your other hobbies, then something more appliance like that just works like the Bambu lines is probably a better fit.

I basically never 3d printed before, because every time I wanted to print I spent more time fiddling with the printer than I spent on my actual hobby. Now I spend almost no time thinking about the printer, and I use it almost daily.

I think both Prusa and Bambu have great printers and target different demographics, Bambu was a better fit for me and my needs, and I think a lot of people fall into the same general class as me. If you want a 3d printing appliance go with a Bambu, if you want to spend time customizing and upgrading and tinkering with a 3d printer go with another brand like Prusa.
by artemonster | 2025-07-07 19:31:15+00:00
as a HW designer that writes RTL for living I will repeat this 150 times and will put this on my gravestone: WE DONT NEED ANOTHER SHMANCY HDL. really. existing ones are moooooorrreeee than fine. our tools suck, verification sucks. your design complexity is entirely limited by your verification capabilities (and automation infra). having fancy constructs for CDC or pipelining in HDL is utterly useless, especially that CDC checking is done by special tools that do it nearly perfect with a bit of constraints.
by shakudoops | 2025-07-07 19:32:11+00:00
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by mvieira38 | 2025-07-07 19:32:44+00:00
Not to mention everyone would be better off if the money invested in these VCs was invested in clean energy, public transportation and whatnot. Many of us just have to live with the knowledge that we are handicapping our life expectancies just by living in a heavily polluted major city. Living in São Paulo I'm reminded by national news every year how many cigarettes I am "smoking" daily just by existing in this place
by ohdeargodno | 2025-07-07 19:33:14+00:00
Only if the physical albums don't have copy protection, otherwise you're circumenventing it and that's illegal. Or is it, against the right to private copy? If anything, AI at least shows that all of the existing copyright laws are utter bullshit made to make Disney happy.

Do keep in mind though: this is only for the wealthy. They're still going to send the Pinkertons at your house if you dare copy a Blu-ray.
by i_am_jl | 2025-07-07 19:33:32+00:00
I just finished assembling my Core One.

I definitely understand how the printer works better than if I bought it assembled. It'll definitely save me time troubleshooting/maintaining/repairing it later. But I spent more time building it than I could ever save during teardown/rebuilds.

I bought a kit because I like building stuff, the Core One kit had the same appeal as a Lego model or a model car. If that's not appealing to you, do yourself a favor and buy the completed printer.

If you do get the kit, get a couple of ice cube trays to use to organize fasteners; keeping them organized in the bags Prusa sends was a battle I wasn't interested in fighting.
by IAmBroom | 2025-07-07 19:33:58+00:00
Deaths are not fungible.

My grandma died in her 90s. That was a pity.

My friend committed suicide in his 40s. That was gut-wrenching.

Another friend died unexpectedly of heart issue in his 40s. That was sad.

Some deaths insert periods into sentences; others, ellipses or question marks.
by nyeah | 2025-07-07 19:34:44+00:00
Thanks, but I don't think that's exactly what it says. It says "Most archaeologists assume that boiling in perishable containers cannot pre-date the appearance of fire-cracked rock (FCR)"

"This paper has two principal goals. The first is to alert archaeologists and others to the fact that one can easily and effectively boil in perishable containers made of bark, hide, leaves, even paper and plastic, placed directly on the fire and without using heated stones."
by schuyler2d | 2025-07-07 19:35:38+00:00
I don't want to completely refute this because I'm also an amateur and there are a lot of instabilities of consensus, but Baal was at least also the son of El in Canaanite religion which predated an Israeli kingdom.

My understanding is more that Yahvists had more nomadic origins and populated (/conquered, possibly the Levites[1]) a Canaanite cultural context and then there was religious syncreticism and interest in merging them. Depending on the specific passage's history there's either a ret-coning of "all one god" or at least the interpretation that way (including how your links translate those passages).

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Exodus-Richard-Elliott-Friedman/dp/00...
by TeMPOraL | 2025-07-07 19:35:44+00:00
> An individual author doesn't make a meaningful contribution to the training of an LLM, but a large number of popular and/or prolific numbers can.

That's a point I normally use to argue against authors being entitled to royalties on LLM outputs. An individual author's marginal contribution to an LLM is essentially nil, and could be removed from the training set with no meaningful impact on the model. It's only the accumulation of a very large amount of works that turns into a capable LLM.
by bhollis | 2025-07-07 19:35:47+00:00
Slow startup was definitely one reason to have long lived servers, but I’m surprised not to see the major other reasons:

- Keep-alive/pooled connections to remote services can significantly reduce average latency for making those calls.

- In-memory caches that allow amortizing repeated lookups across requests.

Just those two alone mean that a serious high performance server probably couldn’t get away with just CGI even ignoring startup time.
by jcranmer | 2025-07-07 19:37:04+00:00
There's nothing wrong with the passive voice.

The problem is that many people have only a poor ability to recognize the passive voice in the first place. This results in the examples being clunky, wordy messes that are bad because they're, well, clunky and wordy, and not because they're passive--indeed, you've often got only a fifty-fifty chance of the example passive voice actually being passive in the first place.

I'll point out that the commenter you're replying to used the passive voice, as did the one they responded to, and I suspect that such uses went unnoticed. Hell, I just rewrote the previous sentence to use the passive voice, and I wonder how many people think recognized that in the first place let alone think it worse for being so written.
by sneak | 2025-07-07 19:37:12+00:00
Meshtastic barely works. There are only a few hundred nodes in Las Vegas and already the main public channels are at high utilization with almost no real end user traffic on it.

I love the project and participate, but people mentioning stuff like this in response to buzzwords irritates me. Like ipfs it is a buzzword-driven curiosity, not a real solution to real problems that anyone has.

Additionally, the meshtastic encryption is a toy. In 2025 when you say encryption you make people think of modern features like replay resistance, perfect forward secrecy, etc. Meshtastic doesn’t do any of this.
by jxjnskkzxxhx | 2025-07-07 19:37:17+00:00
Damn. I'm the opposite. When learning a language I'm careful to pick languages which are culturally influencial and have a prospect of continuing to be - it's not enough that they're alive. Ironically, last new language I learned was Russian, and then Putin goes and invades Ukraine. Fuck my life.

All this to say I have infinite respect for someone who'd learn a dead language, let alone two. I'm glad someone is doing this work, and fortunately it's not me.