MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wahnfrieden | 2025-08-01 17:48:15+00:00
There’s no proof against it because it’s factual. They just don’t like the narrative it forms by pointing it out, or they think it’s justified by the other value police/employers create, or they think the victims had it coming (by committing “time theft” or being criminals themselves even if I convicted because police only go after bad people / they are bad people because police went after them)
by OldfieldFund | 2025-08-01 17:48:17+00:00
I understand that too.

But no matter what we do this is an unsolvable problem of policing/judicial system. There will always be people who are falsely accused/falsely convicted. Let's say less than 1%, as a hypothetical. Do we accept that due to that we might be reducing crime by a lot? That's a question society has to answer.

I think the best solution here is not focusing on policing/courts, but making sure that everyone in the society is content, so that they don't commit crimes. Happy people with resources a typical human wants probably don't commit many crimes.
by tzs | 2025-08-01 17:48:26+00:00
For NPR 1-2% of their budget came directly from the federal government mostly through the CPB. That's where the 1% number some quote comes from.

However, NPR also receives funding from member station fees, and those member stations typically get about 13% of their budgets from the federal government.

Putting it all together about 10% of NPR's budget comes from the federal government.

For PBS about 15% of their budget comes from the federal government. Some local PBS affiliates, especially in rural areas, get up to 60% of their budgets from the federal government.
by radiofreeeuropa | 2025-08-01 17:48:30+00:00
Most of NPR's news programming has been terrible for many years.

Pay attention to how many segments—even that are sort-of connected to an actual news event, which, many aren't—revolve around political strategy, poll numbers, and (in season, which is now like three years out of four) electoral race polling.

It's, like... a lot of them, outside the human-interest and arts coverage stuff. They consistently divert into talking about political media messaging strategy and poll numbers and crap, and they do it so very much that it's got to be something they're doing on purpose. This isn't news reporting, it's lazy, safe (because you don't have to engage with substantive questions of policy and outcomes, nor even questions of fact) horse-race bullshit. It's a complete waste of the listener's time, if they're there for actual news reporting.

On the flip side, though, I'm not seeing a lot of "sink or swim in the market" US media doing much better, so I wouldn't bet on them shifting to anything better (though shift they might).
by 37824912238 | 2025-08-01 17:48:52+00:00
> I'm not sure if you can't see the power imbalance

:) Did you read the part of my comment where I said, "Yes, there's a power imbalance..." ?

> as if consent were ever possible

To say that she could not consent is to infantilize her. At the age of 21, we are responsible for our own decisions and their consequences.
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by garciasn | 2025-08-01 17:49:25+00:00
This isn't Musk's fault; he's just the asshole scapegoat. This is directly from the Conservative Think Tanks who finally got a President willing to strip everything down in government while increasing insane spends elsewhere (e.g., $200MM ballroom for the White House while cutting revenue) based on the will of 44% of the voting population of the country.

If anything, government should have been cut AND revenues increased; but, that's not how either party works. (disgusting oversimplification: Republicans reduce revenue and reduce spend while Democrats increase revenue and increase spend).
by danenania | 2025-08-01 17:49:34+00:00
Here are some ideas, in no particular order:

- Find relevant subreddits on Reddit and post about the tool in an authentic way (not promotional, but a "here's what I built" style).

- Do a Show HN. Look at other people's successful ones to get an idea of the tone/style that works.

- ProductHunt (read this for suggestions on how to do it well: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-successfully-launc...)

- Content marketing: do SEO keyword research and create pages/posts that target promising keywords. This product in particular probably has a lot of potential with this strategy, since you can use the tool itself to create interesting content which also shows off the features.

- YouTube: similar to above, but find relevant videos from other creators that are doing well and try to create your own videos in a similar style, looping in the product where it makes sense. Like with reddit and HN, better to be authentic and not promotional.

- Media: reach out to popular blogs and publications that cover learning tools.

If you have any cash available to invest (even a small amount), you can also try:

- Reach out to influencers on YouTube, X, TikTok, etc. either directly or via promotion marketplaces. You'll likely have to pay, but it can be high ROI since you already have a paid plan.

- Similarly, you can try ads on reddit, adwords, facebook, X, etc. and see if any of them offer immediate positive ROI.

Depending on your goals, you could also consider applying to YC. It will give you a significant marketing boost if you get in, but requires thinking in terms of how to build a big business, which isn't for everyone. The product might be good enough to give you a shot, if you're interested in that route, but it would also probably help your chances to try some organic marketing strategies first to prove that you can do it. Also helps if you have a cofounder.

--

On a different note, the new audio playback controls are great! Would be nice to also have them on mobile :) My preferred way to consume these courses would be on mobile, like an audio book or podcast.
by mjburgess | 2025-08-01 17:50:15+00:00
So you strawman'd my claim about degradation of performance to one in which "substantial", "irrelevant" and "almost all cases" have no flexibility to circumscribe scenarios, so that i must be making a universal claim... And then you take issue with my reply?

Why would you think that I'd deny that you can't find scenarios in which performance substantially degrades? Would I not countenance toture? As in my reply?

My reply is against your presumption that an appropriate response to the spirit-and-plain-meaning of my argument is to "go and find another scenario". It is this presumption, when addressed, short-circuits this scenario-finding dialogue: In my reply I address the whole families of scenarios you are appealing to where we fail to function well and show why there existence remains irrelevant to our analysis of llms
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by motorest | 2025-08-01 17:50:19+00:00
> I've never seen anybody do that...

I feel the blog post is a bunch of poorly thought through strawmen. I was browsing through the singleton example and I was wondering why would anyone use buggy code to implement something it clearly was not designed to implement.

The whole article is quite subpar. I was expecting idiomatic stuff that eliminated the need to implement something, like for example implementing singletons with modules and even getter functions, but there was none of that: just strawmen.

Really disappointing.
by mgkimsal | 2025-08-01 17:50:22+00:00
> but it's laser focused on education and has zero agenda.

I totally support public broadcasting of all stripes, and do not advocate for this POV at all, but ... there are people who claim the opposite. Sesame Street is 'full woke', apparently, because it has talked about skin color and race with muppets.

What many people consider normal... is 'full woke agenda' to others.
by dwaite | 2025-08-01 17:50:27+00:00
Compatibility is broken constantly on the web, but it is forward compatibility. This is why most browsers now auto-update to newer versions. Websites then require new features which will result in older browsers being non-functional.

Backward incompatible changes happen - they are more difficult due to lack of communication with/pressure on the sites they will break, and coordination of strategy with other browser vendors. This can actually be quite frustrating, as each browser has their own 1-3 month cadence for new releases and it is difficult to track whether a breaking change is going to land on any given browser soon enough to coordinate a new version of a site.
by thrownawaysz | 2025-08-01 17:50:27+00:00
>Just at what BBC is able to do in the UK.

This is funny because BBC is a prime example of being a propaganda channel for the government of the day. And that's not new at all just look back at the coverage of the Troubles or the miners strikes in the 70s-80s.

Yes it's not on the level of CGTN or Russia Today but BBC is not neutral at all

https://theconversation.com/hard-evidence-how-biased-is-the-...
by generalizations | 2025-08-01 17:50:31+00:00
First of all, you've created a strawman out of what you assume I believe.

> But it strikes me as very human to define in-groups people like you and people or beings other than you and using that as justification to do horrible things to them.

This is a behavior nonspecific to humans...not sure if you've heard of it, but there's this fascinating emergent behavior among wild animals that naturalists have occasionally observed - in colloquial terms, they've labeled it "predator and prey".
by acedTrex | 2025-08-01 17:50:31+00:00
I don't agree with the builder pattern. For basic objects yes its a bit silly.

But the ACTUAL value of the builder pattern is when you want to variadically construct an object. Create the base object, then loop or otherwise control flow over other state to optionally add stuff to the base object.

Then, additionally, the final "build" call can run validations over the set of the complete object. This is useful in cases where an intermediate state could be invalid but a subsequent update will update it to a valid state. So you dont want to validate on every update.
by kccqzy | 2025-08-01 17:50:42+00:00
I don't however appreciate that the author doesn't actually know about Java or C++ well enough such that they are spewing falsehoods about Java or C++. Saying things like "There’s no clean way to say 'this is private to this file' (in C++)" is just bonkers. The author is well intentioned, but coming up with the wrong reason is worse than not offering any reason.
by nlawalker | 2025-08-01 17:51:02+00:00
If you look at this through the lens of "using AI isn't cheating, because it's what they would be doing on the job", your interview was actually very effective, and a solid, tiny-bite-sized example of translating requirements.

I think this is a relatively positive direction of exploration in interviewing - let people use the tools that they will have on the job, but also ask them to do the kinds of things they'd need to do on the job, with the appropriate language. If they know how to get the AI to help them with it, more power to them.

I suppose this is just a rephrasing of "point-blank Leetcode questions are a bad interview technique and we should do better", though.
by amirhirsch | 2025-08-01 17:51:09+00:00
I don't know exactly what they do now, bloom filters was a thing then, also lots of heuristic approaches based on the bots we detected. the OP agent example actually would fail the very first test I deployed which looked for basic characteristics of the mouse movement

Here's a fun experiment for someone: 1) Give N people K fake credit cards to enter into a form, and have them solve a captcha 2) Take recorded keyboard and mouse data similar to the captcha 3) Train a neural network model to identify

I've been out of this for 6 years but I bet transformers rock this problem now.
by screye | 2025-08-01 17:52:01+00:00
The issue is their track record. No one believes election campaign promises.

Bloomberg is a centi-billionaire with a track record of loving the free market. His mayoral terms were known for fiscal discipline (vs social welfare spending), hard-on-crime stances (vs. abolish police) and a strong focus on data driven outcomes (vs. intent).

Mamdani is a member of the DSA, which has a track record of being anti-business (Amazon HQ2), pro-regulation (making housing expensive) and pro-union (IMO, NYC unions are a cartel keeping housing & transit more expensive than they need to be).

On paper, they might endorse similar policies, but politicians are judged by their track record and immediate association.
by stego-tech | 2025-08-01 17:52:02+00:00
To be a little less glib or inflammatory:

A lot of people are learning that institutions aren’t these bulwarks against hostile actors, but in actuality are collections of people aligned on a given mission. For decades, Americans have neglected these people, cut funding to the helpful institutions, and granted far too much funding to negative ones. This culminated in the vilifying of these pillars and their members by a cadre of politicians backed by wealthy donors seeking change preferable to their personal agendas at the expense of the people, and it takes decades of continuous chipping away to get to the situation of today.

None of this is sudden, new, or shocking to those of us who have been staying informed, consuming legitimate news sources, and doing proper research with high-quality reference material. To the average person who merely consumes Cable News or mass media, this may all feel very sudden or surprising and therefore reversible.

It’s not.
by toast0 | 2025-08-01 17:52:06+00:00
> In particular, their kids programming is the absolute best. Nothing flashy or exciting, but it's laser focused on education and has zero agenda.

I dunno, the Odd Squad has almost as much green screen as a Guardians of the Galaxy movie. If that's not flashy, I dunno. And Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman was pretty out there; a space ghost style host ordering kids around the streets of Boston.

Also, the reboot of CyberChase was pretty clearly on the Ag agenda, all about Organic this and that. Maybe that doesn't count as an Agenda because the department of agriculture was funding it.

Also, Sesame street has always been in the pocket of those letter and number sponsors.
by johnnymaroney | 2025-08-01 17:52:06+00:00
Thanks for your feedback. I'm not a psychologist either but we have top psychologists and neuroscientists on the team and the project is grounded in leading psychological and scientific research. cryonceaweek.com was actually inspired by a Japanese research project that found crying can relieve stress for up to a week.

I would argue that releasing your emotions isn't comparable to taking a painkiller. A painkiller numbs the problem. Letting yourself cry and feel and release your emotions brings them to the surface. I've actually received a lot of responses from people who have told me the site has helped them confront emotional issues they have been avoiding or unable to face.

The app goes a lot deeper than you're describing by helping you understand what you're feeling and identify/label your emotions, receive insights on why you're feeling something by identifying triggers and patterns, and then helping you shift your mood when you need to. It could maybe be considered a painkiller in the moment, but it's also a vitamin that improves your well-being and emotional intelligence over time.

There was actually a new study that came out recently called The Big Joy Project that found that just a few minutes per day of intentional emotional shifts can improve your well-being in a week.

It's super important to me that the project so grounded in sound research so this is a big focus of ours. Appreciate you sharing your perspective and feedback.
by mc32 | 2025-08-01 17:52:43+00:00
The national stuff was okay to good. The Children’s programming was in general good.

The local stuff though was quite questionable. For example they’d support different causes or efforts by referencing a single poorly supported research paper. Usually those research papers supported some narrative. It could be homelessness, drug treatments, etc., however there was little if any scrutiny of the paper the whole effort or narrative was based on.

They also had annoying presenters like Kai Ryssdahl. He was insufferable but hardly the only one.

Also, despite being a public system, individual comp is high relative to their listeners', I'd say[1]. I'd guess most listeners would not imagine their comp being as high as it is, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Public_Radio

[1] In addition, those at the top enjoy perks like being invited to elite events, and the perks of schmoozing for donations. Those are experiences that are alien to the average listener.
by smithkl42 | 2025-08-01 17:52:45+00:00
> Public media has been one of the most trusted institutions in American life, providing educational opportunity, emergency alerts, civil discourse, and cultural connection to every corner of the country,” Harrison said.

If that was true, losing the CPB would be a travesty. But as a loyal NPR listener for decades, I've found their stuff lately to be unlistenable. It's Fox, but for the Left, and with a bit more of an intellectual spin. What makes it most annoying is their utter blindness to their own bias. The Fox hosts know that they're taking one side of a story. I've never gotten the impression that any of the NPR hosts are even that self-aware.
by godelski | 2025-08-01 17:52:51+00:00
I hear you, but your solution sounds defeatist. Like there's nothing that can be done.

> tips paid by customers are effectively subsidizing the employer out of paying minimum wage.

Not effectively, literally. That is what a credit is.

But I'm making sure that the conversation is clear that anyone not making minimum wage is suffering from wage theft. We have to identify the right problem if we want to fix it.

> As a customer, I would much rather know that the employer is paying the full fair minimum wage regardless

I also like this idea. I don't think there should be a wage credit. It is helpful to reducing wage theft. While I would, personally, get rid of credits I don't think I'd get rid of tipping all together. Certainly at least not until there's a better minimum wage rate.

> I don't want to be paying a part of the employee's wage that the employer would otherwise be paying.

You're always doing this. Either your money goes directly to the employee or is going to the employee through the intermediary of the employer. In the case you are not directly paying the employee you're paying the employer.
by lovich | 2025-08-01 17:52:51+00:00
Have you read the book? A large portion of it is dedicated to how we got here.

Nimbyism and people’s desire to keep their property value high is part of it. The levers that have been used to make those values high include a ton of regulation that makes it impossible to build start ups homes even if you were a perfectly moral actor seeking to generate exactly 0 profit.

> until we address all of this

Address what? I was convinced by Ezra and Derek because they constantly show real evidence as the opposing side keeps bringing vibes.

What are your actual, concrete issues that you think the abundance crowd is not addressing and what are your specific policy positions that you think need to be implemented first?
by testplzignore | 2025-08-01 17:52:59+00:00
Per https://cpb.org/funding, $357m goes to public tv and $119m to public radio.

That's a nice chunk of change, though low enough that a few friendly billionaires could put some pocket change into a trust today and make up for this funding in perpetuity. And there undoubtedly will be a massive surge in donations from small donors in response to this.

As long as the bigger fish are willing to subsidize the smaller rural stations, I don't think there is anything to be afraid of.

The removal of this Sword of Damocles is in my opinion a great thing for PBS and NPR.
by retreatguru | 2025-08-01 17:53:06+00:00
I'm looking forward to trying this out.

I'd like to try this out: use Claude Code as the interface, setup claude-code-router to connect to Cerebras Qwen3 coder and see 20x speed up. The speed difference might make up for the slightly less intelligence compared to Sonnet or Opus.

I don't see Qwen3 Coder available yet on Open Router https://openrouter.ai/provider/cerebras
by monero-xmr | 2025-08-01 17:53:16+00:00
Yes it is so obviously misleading and incorrect that only the mainstream media could have perpetuated this unquestioned for decades.

The federal money goes to member stations which then hands it right over to NPR to pay for programming, I believe it’s $500 per hour. It’s 1 layer of indirection but no one seemed to mention this in all of the reporting