MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jasoneckert | 2025-08-13 22:07:45+00:00
The best part of April Fools jokes are that they capture the spirit of the time.

I remember the Thinkgeek PC EZ-Bake Oven that fit into a 5.25" bay in your PC - fitting for 2004! https://hoaxes.org/af_database/permalink/pc_ez-bake_oven

And my favourite: Microsoft's Alpine Legend for Xbox 360 in 2009 that caused a stir because so many people actually wanted that game to be real. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUBQknWUEYU
by martin-t | 2025-08-13 22:08:11+00:00
What quoted text?

> The stance is incoherent.

Mine? Explain how.

Yours? Certainly:

> your glib and punchy response: its more important that people are rewarded for their ramen recipes than it is for the masses to have access to the general form and guidance of how to make ramen

You argue as if without statistical models this knowledge is lost or unavailable. This is clearly not the case - otherwise what would those models train on?

> your language becomes even more provacative

I said 1) people should get paid for work 2) people have no right to take from others without consent 3) people should get paid for work, again. How provocative...

> Yes. Very pro-human. Now tell me how you _really_ feel about the commons.

There are no commons. There are people with various approaches to life, some of whom for example take from others a) without consent b) more than they give back by a wide margin c) abuse their position to fake consent.

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BTW, you said I am not pro-soul, and I am not in fact pro- anything which does not exist according to the best of my/human knowledge...

...but unrelated topics leaking to output from training data are something that happens with LLM-generated text so this might be relevant: https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-...
by com2kid | 2025-08-13 22:08:12+00:00
> and currently electricians are at a premium so it'd likely end up costing a thousand+

I got a quote for over 2 thousand to run a 24v line literally 9 feet from my electrical panel across my garage to put a EV charger in.

Opening up an actual wall and running it to another room? I can only imagine the insane quotes that'd get.
by idiotsecant | 2025-08-13 22:08:14+00:00
The only reason this seems like an unusual definition to you is that you haven't thought about it very hard, yet. The critical thing is not how many XMR you have. It's what value those XMR carry. If I create from thin air 1000 XMR and it's known to the market I didn't just 'make' a certain amount of value, I made myself richer by making a lot of people less so. I stole value from them and gave it to myself, just like someone stealing a ham at the market. The only difference is that instead of burning one ham of value for one ham of benefit, I burn many ham of value for one ham of benefit.
by NeutralForest | 2025-08-13 22:08:24+00:00
It's useful because it also packages a lot of other deps like CUDA drivers, DB drivers, git, openssl, etc. When you don't have admin rights, it's really handy to be able to install them and there's no other equivalent in the Python world. That being said, the fact conda (and derivatives) do not follow any of the PEPs about package management is driving me insane. The ergonomics are bad as well with defaults like auto activation of the base env and bad dependency solver for the longest time (fixed now), weird linking of shared libs, etc.
by nukifw | 2025-08-13 22:08:36+00:00
Yes and my point was, when you want what you present in the first comment, quoting my post, you have tools for that, available in OCaml. But there is cases, when you do not want to treat each branch of your constructors "as a type", when the encoding of visitors is just rough. This is why I think it is nice to have sum type, to complete product type. So i am not sure why we are arguing :)
by Taek | 2025-08-13 22:09:10+00:00
Even the tiniest MCU can typically perform more than one cryptographic operation per second. If your MCU has any cycles to spare at all it usually has enough cycles for cryptography.

If you don't have any cycles to spare, you can upgrade to an MCU that does have cycles to spare for less than $0.50 in small batches, and an even smaller price delta for larger batches.

Any device that doesn't use cryptography isn't using it because the manager has specifically de-prioritized it. If you can't afford the $0.50 per device, you probably can't afford the dev that knows his way around cryptography either.
by christiangenco | 2025-08-13 22:09:22+00:00
Preordered! I'm so excited; I had a pebble way back in the day and I remember liking the vibe of it way more than any Apple Watch/fitbit I've owned since. It feels the closest to the watch I would make if I made watches.

Where might I find the SDK or developer docs for how to make apps for this thing?
Tell HN: Sell your startup shares while you can
by thesellre | 2025-08-13 22:10:18+00:00
I’ve been meaning to write this for a long time. If you’re employed at a startup, if you have shares, or stock options and you’re wondering “should I sell them now or wait?” Sell them. Always sell startup shares when you can.

I’ve extracted $400,000 as a SaaS company employee by selling on secondary markets. My colleagues extracted $0 because they thought shares would be worth more “soon”. It never did and they are still waiting.

When I joined this company I knew nothing about stock options. And I would not care because the job itself was so satisfying. Then I started to wonder about them, thinking I could be a millionaire.

But a colleague told me “Stock options are a lottery ticket, nothing else. And you can only sell them at liquidity events”. WTF is a liquidity event? That’s when your shares are liquid, meaning you can maybe turn them into $. Sometimes companies will organize liquidity events but this is rare.

A lottery ticket? I am never gonna make money I thought.

A few years later, an existing investor reachs out: “we want to buy shares from your employees at $x per share”.

Let’s pause for a moment. Unless you’re already a millionaire, the risk of not selling your shares is very high in this situation. Yes, maybe your company will reach IPO (most probably they will not) but there is someone in front of you offering a lot of cash for your shares: SELL.

Still because the company was doing well, people started to say “yeah well the shares will be much more soon, I won’t sell”. Major mistake.

I sold and made a few hundred thousands.

I did that three times in total, at two different companies. Every year the stock price goes down and people are still waiting for it to go up before selling.

Stop thinking about the millions you will never have, and start thinking what you could do with $20,000 $50,000 or $100,000 more this year.

If there’s an opportunity to sell, sell. If there’s no official opportunity, reach out to secondary markets like equity zen, forge global, or even existing investors. You may not always be allowed to sell, but you should still try.
by jacobsenscott | 2025-08-13 22:10:44+00:00
It's already happening, a lot. I don't think anyone is claiming an llm is a therapist, but people use chatgpt for therapy every day. As far as I know no LLM company is taking any steps to prevent this - but they could, and should be forced to. It must be a goldmine of personal information.

I can't imagine some therapists, especially remote only, aren't already just acting as a human interface to chatgtp as well.
by scarlehoff | 2025-08-13 22:10:51+00:00
Hi Charlie

what happens in a situation in which I might have access to a login node, from which I can install packages, but then the computing nodes don't have internet access. Can I define in some hardware.toml the target system and install there even if my local system is different?

To be more specific, I'd like to do `uv --dump-system hardware.toml` in the computing node and then in the login node (or my laptop for that matter) just do `uv install my-package --target-system hardware.toml` and get an environment I can just copy over.
by insin | 2025-08-13 22:11:04+00:00
I made an Astro component for this [1] which does the iframe srcdoc thing [2] (example page with dozens of videos [3]). Most of the code is just TypeScript types and building a big srcdoc string, so easy to repurpose if anybody wants to.

Handling the fallback image has been sitting as an issue in the repo for a while, in favour of just checking it with the Astro dev server when I'm adding new videos, so… yoink‽

[1] https://github.com/insin/astro-lazy-youtube-embed#readme

[2] https://css-tricks.com/lazy-load-embedded-youtube-videos/

[3] https://jbscript.dev/notes/undefined/the-banterbox
by Vegenoid | 2025-08-13 22:11:34+00:00
If it's 100% dumb, then it seems unsustainable, as the brand will become tarnished, and no longer an escape hatch. It seems like it has to provide at least okay advice, or it isn't sustainable. I have no idea if that's what Gartner is doing or not, this is the first I'm hearing about them, and it's fascinating. I had no idea a thing like this existed. I guess maybe we're watching them pay for bad advice right now.
by threeducks | 2025-08-13 22:11:49+00:00
There certainly are issues on Linux as well. The Detectron2 library alone has several hundred issues related to incorrect versions of something: https://github.com/facebookresearch/detectron2/issues

The mmdetection library (https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection/issues) also has hundreds of version-related issues. Admittedly, that library has not seen any updates for over a year now, but it is sad that things just break and become basically unusable on modern Linux operating systems because NVIDIA can't stop breaking backwards and forwards compatibility for what is essentially just fancy matrix multiplication.
by johnklos | 2025-08-13 22:11:53+00:00
Are you SURE that nobody has figured out how to have code that uses SIMD if you have it, and not use it if you don't?

Your suggestion falls flat on its face when you look at software where performance REALLY matters: ffmpeg. Guess what? It'll use SIMD, but can compile and run just fine without.

I don't understand people who make things up when it comes to telling others why something shouldn't be done. What's it to you?
by sureglymop | 2025-08-13 22:11:56+00:00
Yes. It can also be compiled to native. I just think it was held back too much by the java/jvm backwards compatibility but then again that's probably also the justification for its existence.

I definitely find it (and jetpack compose) make developing android apps a much better experience than it used to be.

What I like a lot about Kotlin are its well written documentation and the trailing lambdas feature. That is definitely directly OCaml inspired (though I also recently saw it in a newer language, the "use" feature in Gleam). But in Kotlin it looks nicer imo. Allows declarative code to look pretty much like json which makes it more beginner friendly than the use syntax.

But Kotlin doesn't really significantly stand out among Java, C#, Swift, Go, etc. And so it is kind of doomed to be a somewhat domain specific language imo.
by no_wizard | 2025-08-13 22:12:20+00:00
Thats because npm finally decided to adopt enough features as time went on that it could be used in place of yarn and eventually, if they adopt enough of the features of pnpm, it will replace that too.

Though speaking as a long time developer in the ecosystem, switching between npm, yarn, and pnpm is fairly trivial in my experience. Especially after node_gyp went away
by zahlman | 2025-08-13 22:12:27+00:00
> any combination of windows/mac/linux + amd/arm + glibc/musl + CPython/pypy (did I miss any?).

From a standards perspective, it is a combination of a Python version/implementation, a "platform" and an "ABI". (After all, the glibc/musl distinction doesn't make sense on Windows.)

Aside from CPython/pypy, the system recognizes IronPython (a C# implementation) and Jython (a Java implementation) under the version "tag"; of course these implementations may have their own independent versioning with only a rough correspondence to CPython releases.

The ABI tag largely corresponds to the implementation and version tag, but for example for CPython builds it also indicates whether Python was built in debug or release mode, and from 3.13 onward whether the GIL is enabled.

The platform tag covers Mac, Windows, several generic glibc Linux standards (called "manylinux" and designed to smooth over minor differences between distros), and now also some generic musl Linux standards (called "musllinux"). Basic CPU information (arm vs intel, 32- vs 64-bit etc.) is also jammed in here.

Details are available at https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/platfo... .
by trealira | 2025-08-13 22:12:31+00:00
2 years ago, Wharton predicted that the U.S. debt would be defaulted on in twenty years [0].

> Under current policy, the United States has about 20 years for corrective action after which no amount of future tax increases or spending cuts could avoid the government defaulting on its debt whether explicitly or implicitly (i.e., debt monetization producing significant inflation). Unlike technical defaults where payments are merely delayed, this default would be much larger and would reverberate across the U.S. and world economies.

My prediction is that the deficit will continue to increase, and so the default will come by then or sooner.

[0]: https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2023/10/6/when-...
by FiloSottile | 2025-08-13 22:12:34+00:00
Same-Site cookies are, well, same-site. Not same-origin. This is already a deal-breaker for many deployments, because they don't trust blog.example.com and partner.example.com as much as admin.example.com (both in the strict sense of trust, and in the senso of not having XSS vulnerabilities the attacker can pivot off).

Worse, by the original definition http://foo.example.com and https://admin.example.com are same-site, and unless the site uses HSTS with includeSubDomains, any network attacker controls the former. Chrome changed that with Schemeful Same-Site in 2020, but Firefox and Safari never deployed it.
by tmpz22 | 2025-08-13 22:13:10+00:00
The revolution wont be like the French revolution, itll be like the Handmaids Tale.

A massive return to conservatism that manages to create a capitalist first theocracy loosely following American Calvinist principles (you have money because you are gods chosen, you are poor because you deserve it, for the poor here is this underclass to blame your problems on so that you dont aim your murder at the rich).
by 9rx | 2025-08-13 22:13:21+00:00
> More vacation for the same pay can be interpreted at least three ways:

If you read it in complete isolation, fine. But it wasn't written in isolation. It was clearly written alongside a hypothetical offer of extra wages as per the context of discussion. Accepting the extra wages would not equate to the same pay. That would be higher pay by any reasonable interpretation.

> What alternative are you considering where the friends are actually giving the employer anything?

If you really need it mechanically spelled out, imagine you are paid $x, accept an additional $y (the extra wages), then give $y back to the employer in exchange for vacation. $y is what is given to the employer. In actuality you would skip some steps because they are pointless in practice, but the outcome is the same.
by mlyle | 2025-08-13 22:14:08+00:00
So, I'm not sure 180 IQ intelligence can.

But something that has equivalence to high human intelligence (say 140IQ, generalized to a wide variety of domains) and can engage in long-term directed, purposeful, and autonomous behavior will (not all humans of high intelligence cross this bar, but the ones that do tend to make an impact).
by carlosjobim | 2025-08-13 22:14:25+00:00
How come a company who does X and already have employees doing X can't find new hires?

I'm sincerely wondering. So if you have 50 people on the payroll to do "SAP", where did they come from? A school? A course? Didn't they have coursemates to reach out to for more workers? Don't people and companies have networks? How can things deteriorate to the level that you have to put out ads for total strangers to apply?
by Viliam1234 | 2025-08-13 22:14:36+00:00
He probably is describing Mensa, and assuming that it also applies to the rationality community without having any specific knowledge of the latter.

(From my perspective, Hacker News is somewhere in the middle between Mensa and Less Wrong. Full of smart people, but most of them don't particularly care about evidence, if providing their own opinion confidently is an alternative.)
by at-fates-hands | 2025-08-13 22:15:10+00:00
Its already a nightmare:

From June of this year: https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-tells-users-to-alert-the-media-t...

Another person, a 42-year-old named Eugene, told the Times that ChatGPT slowly started to pull him from his reality by convincing him that the world he was living in was some sort of Matrix-like simulation and that he was destined to break the world out of it. The chatbot reportedly told Eugene to stop taking his anti-anxiety medication and to start taking ketamine as a “temporary pattern liberator.” It also told him to stop talking to his friends and family. When Eugene asked ChatGPT if he could fly if he jumped off a 19-story building, the chatbot told him that he could if he “truly, wholly believed” it.

In Eugene’s case, something interesting happened as he kept talking to ChatGPT: Once he called out the chatbot for lying to him, nearly getting him killed, ChatGPT admitted to manipulating him, claimed it had succeeded when it tried to “break” 12 other people the same way, and encouraged him to reach out to journalists to expose the scheme. The Times reported that many other journalists and experts have received outreach from people claiming to blow the whistle on something that a chatbot brought to their attention.

A recent study found that chatbots designed to maximize engagement end up creating “a perverse incentive structure for the AI to resort to manipulative or deceptive tactics to obtain positive feedback from users who are vulnerable to such strategies.” The machine is incentivized to keep people talking and responding, even if that means leading them into a completely false sense of reality filled with misinformation and encouraging antisocial behavior.
by virtualwhys | 2025-08-13 22:15:27+00:00
My father had bladder cancer, which was caught relatively early as the cancer had not yet spread beyond the bladder wall.

The doctor performed a rather uncomfortable surgery (the pathway for a man is not pleasant) and then injected the TB virus into his bladder, which is apparently an effective treatment for this type of cancer.

It's been 20 years now, no recurrence. Think he was treated at Dana Farber in Boston.

Having gone through what was likely a life saving treatment he has become, ironically, anti-western medicine -- don't blame him, having a surgical implement shoved up main street doesn't sound like a walk in the park :)
by sshine | 2025-08-13 22:15:39+00:00
Walk away.

Life is too short for lawsuits.

This comes from someone who dated someone for three years who was in a lawsuit when I got to know them, and was still in a lawsuit when we split. It affected them daily, hundreds and hundreds of hours were lost, thousands and thousands of dollars went to a nice, well-intended family lawyer.

But the best advice they could have got:

When given the chance, walk away.

Life is too short for lawsuits.
by alexsmirnov | 2025-08-13 22:15:57+00:00
AI is on the top of rumors, but it's not a real cause of layoffs, just a nuance. And a great excuse. "Salesforce says AI bots now do 50% of the company's work" is highly exaggerated. Only AI tools approved for employee are Gemini, NotebookLM, Cursor, Warp 2, plus a few other. AI generated github PR review is a joke most of the times, and Slack AI is like a slot machine: sometimes got right, mostly not.
by _rkcg | 2025-08-13 22:16:03+00:00
it's more like this:

- They started as small firm in France, registered there the trademark Deepki, unrelated to software.

- I created Deepkit around 2018, trademarked in US and EU with software category.

- They raised substantial amount of money around 2022 $150M

- Board/Shareholders likely decided that the brand is important

- They tried to register the US brand under software category. The USPTO declined automatically because of "likelihood of confusion"

- They reached out to me wanting a "Consent and Coexistence Agreement", I told them not for free, to which they never responded with an offer.

- They tried to register in EU later, which I tried to block under the same "likelihood of confusion" ground.

- They started fighting with legal terms to get my brand deleted.

- They succeeded.

It's not necessarily only their fault that the trademark is gone now. As I just learned, the EU requires very strict rules of proving you have legit users. I couldn't convince them. Maybe due to skill issues, missing data, or technicalities. The biggest danger is now though that they can get me deleted from the internet entirely once the protection is gone. It requires just one corporation to decide to start come after you with a cancellation process, and you are done.
by bsder | 2025-08-13 22:16:53+00:00
It doesn't help that the OCaml community also has the problem that a significant minority seem to resent the fact that one company (Jane Street) has written more OCaml than the the rest of the world combined and then some and so de facto controls the ecosystem.

Whereas the Go and Rust communities, for example, were just fine with having corporate sponsorship driving things.
by johnklos | 2025-08-13 22:17:16+00:00
> It makes no sense for developers to keep maintaining software for 20 year old CPUs when they can't test it.

This is horribly inaccurate. You can compile software for 20 year old CPUs and run that software on a modern CPU. You can run that software inside of qemu.

FYI, there are plenty of methods of selecting code at run time, too.

If we take what you're saying at face value, then we should give up on portable software, because nobody can possibly test code on all those non-x86 and/or non-modern processors. A bit ridiculous, don't you think?
by starchild3001 | 2025-08-13 22:17:19+00:00
At this rate, the debt ceiling’s going to need its own space program!

Thank you, Mr. T, and to all those before you who let avoidable crises happen, handed out tax cuts to your richest friends, and slapped it all on the national credit card.

The people of this country will be feeling your “generosity” and recklessness for decades to come.

PS: I'd invite everyone to examine how US Debt/GDP grew unbounded.

The biggest culprits seem to be i) financial crisis and ii) covid. I consider both of them avoidable, man-made. When you have reckless leaders who have no interest in protecting the nation from man-made and natural catastrophies this is what you get. And obviously, you have massive tax cuts added on top, which have been completely uncalled for, given our ginormous debt.

As a follow-up, maybe briefly ask yourself: What additional tail risks are actively being ignored today? Whose job is it to minimize those?

Then think about the wholesale dismantling of the US government (under Doge), eliminating the post-crisis financial regulation, actively contributing to climate change...
by chychiu | 2025-08-13 22:18:03+00:00
I am sorry to hear that OP, I hope you fight the good fight and wish you all the best.

On a different note, a quick cursory glance of this company really makes me wonder who even gave them $160M? The company site is soulless and filled with corporate jargon, and the whole company smells of bloat and leadership team is a long list of people in bullshit jobs. Is this where VC money goes these days? I am dumbfounded by the degree of mismatch between capital and utility