MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by davorak | 2025-08-13 21:44:35+00:00
> I think I'm not the person who replied to you re the quote you make.

I quoted you twice, but then I quoted the book:

> The notion of empathy that I’m most interested in is the act of feeling what you believe other people feel—experiencing what they experience. This is how most psychologists and philosophers use the term. But I should stress that nothing rests on the word itself. If you’d like to use it in a broader way, to refer to our capacity for caring and love and goodness, or in a narrower way, to refer to the capacity to understand others, well, that’s fine. For you, I’m not against empathy.

Sorry for not making that more clear, if that is the source of confusion at least.

> But I do find it it is important to dwell on this separation between feeling and understanding.

This is not radical, at least the circles I travel, and in general understood as true, but by itself is not a comment on empathy or strengthen an argument against empathy, even Bloom's definition of empathy.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-13 21:44:39+00:00
LIDAR can't be used in motion, the LEO has to be stopped to be pointing it. Your laser detector will warn you, but it's already too late at that point; my two cents is using Waze/Google LEO alerts is state of the art at this point (until someone starts multilateration of patrol cars using their radio RF emissions and SDR networks).
by woodruffw | 2025-08-13 21:44:39+00:00
It was three years ago; 2018 is when they considered removing the command, not when the search API was actually removed from PyPI.

And this is part of the interlocking considerations I mentioned: there are private indices that supply the XML-RPC API, and breaking them doesn't seem justifiable[1].

Edit: fixed the link.

[1]: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/5216#issuecomment-1235329...
by fuzzfactor | 2025-08-13 21:44:41+00:00
Good submission.

I saw this when there were not comments yet, and by the time I had something that could be somewhat constructive, there are a few other references to deep historical roots now. Everybody's got their own interpretation and I guess I'm no different.

What can you expect when the article opens with the same legendary graphic that everybody sees every day on the back of their $2 bills? The Signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Maybe it is never too late to revisit; independence from what, and for whom?

You could say that as a colony, "America" was founded by multinational corporations for the benefit of multinational corporations.

Almost no one else could afford to send ship after ship of "settlers" and return with relatively low-value cargoes long enough to remain solvent. These were mainly "indentured servants" who agreed to farm for the nobility who had been granted the land, until the servants' freedom could eventually be earned, even if such earning had not been completed during each servant's lifetime. This is the foundation of the earliest corporate behavior in North America. Basically under the same paradigm that would lead to auctioning off "passengers" (services) upon arrival, those who had not the wherewithal to pay for passage. In the long run it was probably more lucrative to obtain African passengers with no consideration for any ability to pay for passage, then auction them all off as chattel cargo upon arrival at the conclusion of their itinerary. It was already working about like that to an extent beforehand. Ships cost money and somebody's got to pay for it, multinational corporations are still not all that without quite a few ships being involved.

Regardless, it cost a fortune for corporations of investors to build an economic system from a blank canvas, which by design could give them an inherent advantage compared to what they already had established for centuries overseas.

Those were foreign corporations mainly of the elite, not just anybody could buy in when voyages were known to be the most lucrative.

I guess all that changed when the colonies revolted, states united, and got their own domestic stock exchange.

OTOH I have guessed wrong quite a bit, maybe for the majority of regular citizens, whether of African origin or not, nothing else changed other than which continent the stock exchange is located on.
by terminalshort | 2025-08-13 21:45:52+00:00
The news media is abusive companies. Some of the worst. And they are one of the largest beneficiaries and supporters of abusive government, like how they are attempting (and sometimes succeeding) at getting governments to shake down companies who link to their sites. That's not to say they aren't sometimes the enemy of other abusive companies or governments, but that's purely incidental and transactional in cases where it goes against them.
by zahlman | 2025-08-13 21:47:08+00:00
> how about stop breaking things that worked for a decade?

They aren't doing this.

> They had time to force "--break-system-packages" on us though, something no one asked for.

The maintainers of several Linux distros asked for it very explicitly, and cooperated to design the feature. The rationale is extensively documented in the proposal (https://peps.python.org/pep-0668/). This is especially important for distros where the system package manager is itself implemented in Python, since corrupting the system Python environment could produce a state that is effectively unrecoverable (at least without detailed Python-specific know-how).
by lovich | 2025-08-13 21:47:09+00:00
I’ve been on the hiring side. It is hard but everywhere I’ve worked I’ve felt like it’s just been a fear reaction on the company’s side about possibly spending a dollar on a bad hire.

I had one position I was hiring for, for over a year where I just straight up told my manager that I didn’t care to interview anyone anymore until he was ok with them.

The process at every single place I’ve worked at was built to find a reason _not_ to hire someone because we might find the perfect candidate next week
by lillecarl | 2025-08-13 21:47:35+00:00
In the Nordics we're on 10A for standard wall outlets so we're stuck on 2300W without rewiring (or verifying wiring) to 2.5mm2.

We rarely use 16A but it exists. All buildings are connected to three phases so we can get the real juice when needed (apartments are often single phase).

I'm confident personal computers won't reach 2300W anytime soon though
by oconnore | 2025-08-13 21:47:48+00:00
This is a lot of fuss when you can get a batch update to stay within a few minutes of latency. You only have this problem if you are very insistent on both (1) very near real-time, and (2) Iceberg. And you can't go down this path if you require transactional queries.

I think most people who need very near real-time queries also tend to need them to be transactional. The use case where you can accept inconsistent reads but something will break if you're 3 minutes out of date is very rare.
by dwood_dev | 2025-08-13 21:48:50+00:00
Usually you just CNAME it.

You can cname _acme-challenge.foo.com to foo.bar.com.

Now, if when you do the DNS challenge, you make a TXT at foo.bar.com with the challenge response, through CNAME redirection, the TXT record is picked up as if it were directly at _acme-challenge.foo.com. You can now issue wildcard certs for anything for foo.com.

I have it on my backlog to build an automated solution to this later this year to handle this for hundreds of individual domains and then put the resulting certificates in AWS secrets manager.

I'm going to also see if I can make some sort of ACME proxy, so internal clients authenticate to me, but they cant control dns, so I make the requests on their behalf. We need to get prepared for ACME everywhere. In May 2026, its 200 day certs, it only goes down from there.
by jallmann | 2025-08-13 21:49:01+00:00
The way I always think about it is in terms of scope. With:

let x = v in expr

`x` is now available for use in `expr`

In essence, an OCaml program is a giant recursive expression, because `expr` can have its own set of let definitions.

In the REPL, this is where the double semicolons come in, as a sort of hint to continue processing after the expression.
by epolanski | 2025-08-13 21:50:15+00:00
> Including healthcare and financial services in GDP figures feels out of place and unproductive

You reminded me of something: a nurse in San Diego sleeping through her entire shift is more productive than half a dozen nurses in many third world countries working hard, because the way economists measure productivity is the $/hour output. People doing nothing in America are much more productive than people doing a lot in most of the world because that is how we define productivity, and how the term is discussed in articles and papers.

Doesn't matter, the same articles and papers will bring up that US enjoys higher productivity due to better technologies, etc, but since all of that makes it very hard to be really measured, it's always a mixture of some heterogeneous ideas together.
by cortic | 2025-08-13 21:51:33+00:00
The neurons in a child's brain might be 'wired' to accept data sets, but that does not make them fundamentally different from AI systems.

Are you claiming that a child who is not exposed to 'reason' will reason as well and one who is? Or a child who is not exposed to 'math' will spontaneously write a proof? Or a child not exposed to English will just start speaking it?

01101100 01100101 01100001 01110010 01101110 may be baked into US and AI in different ways but it is fundamentally the same goal and our results are similarly emergent from the process.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-08-13 21:51:57+00:00
The best and verifiable evidence shows that the promises of cost savings are a farce. No one seems surprised by this.

"The quasi-agency claims that it has so far saved the U.S. government $170 billion, mostly by firing employees, repealing regulations, and canceling contracts and grants. But it hasn’t provided evidence for—or has greatly exaggerated—most of these savings. In reality, DOGE’s slapdash approach to slashing government will, by one estimate, cost taxpayers an additional $135 billion this year. And actual federal spending has been rising since President Guy took office."

Other investigations have turned up tens of billions of waste on top of the incalculable damage and vast numbers of deaths that are being laid at the feet of this.

"This report is a searing indictment of DOGE’s false claims. At the very same time that the Guy Administration is cutting health care, nutrition assistance, and emergency services in the name of ‘efficiency’ and ‘savings,’ they have enabled DOGE’s reckless waste of at least $21.7 billion dollars."

ref: https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/08/doges-efficiency-theater...

I believe the deaths and massive waste are just a bonus. The noise they generated provided some cover for the infiltrations into USG's most sensitive systems - and for the exfil of otherwise unobtainable data into systems that couldn't be directly overseen or administered within constitution boundaries.

I believe doge provided the means and the method for shifting the levers that control of USG's military, LEO, IC and vital operations - away from public operations and into the private control of Palantir.

ref: https://archive.fo/M18Ta
by 9rx | 2025-08-13 21:52:04+00:00
> as a more unified group

A union, if you will...

> which would influence the policy and law making calculus

Along with negotiations in the workplace. But this is all hypothetical. It could theoretically be done, but it is unlikely it will be done. Even amongst families, there isn't a whole lot of desire to do it. Don't let comments on the internet fool you. Talk is cheap.
by bubblethink | 2025-08-13 21:52:06+00:00
>but that's not super relevant to the explanation

It is entirely relevant to the explanation. PERM and H1B are entirely different processes handled by different departments of the government.

>One way to 'ensure' this is to only advertise jobs in newspapers or in radio advertisements

That's not some nefarious plot. The government (Dept. of Labor) requires them to post these ads in newspapers. If the government didn't, they wouldn't post these asinine ads.

>That way, the American never knows the job exists

The job does not exist for all practical purposes because there is already someone working in that job. Perhaps your goal is to effect some change so that more Americans get these jobs. This is not the vector of attack though. You want to focus on the root of the problem, namely that corporations are able to hire people at will in the first place. Once they've hired someone, applying to same job is not going to make them fire that person and hire you instead. You want to take the agency away from corporations at inception, so that you can be hired.
by jacques_chester | 2025-08-13 21:52:17+00:00
Interesting watching this part of the landscape heating up. For repos you've got stalwarts like Artifactory and Nexus, with upstart Cloudsmith. For libraries you've got the OG ActiveState, Chainguard Libraries and, until someone is distracted by a shiny next week, Google Assured Open Source.

Sounds like Pyx is trying to do a bit of both.

Disclosure: I have interacted a bunch with folks from all of these things. Never worked for or been paid by, though.
by Arrowmaster | 2025-08-13 21:52:32+00:00
You want to build a DNS server into nginx so you can respond to DoH query's for the domain you are hosting on that nginx server?

Let's ignore that DoH is a client oriented protocol and there's no same way to only run a DoH server without an underlying DNS server. How do you plan to get the first certificate so the query to the DoH server doesn't get rejected for invalid certificate?
by rawgabbit | 2025-08-13 21:52:46+00:00
I don't believe the law spells out Corporations must act only for the profit of stockholders.

If you look at Delaware's code for Corporations, it doesn't spell out the duties of a corporate officer. https://delcode.delaware.gov/title8/c001/sc04/index.html

Legal cases said their duties are as follows. And "profit at all costs" is not one of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_judgment_rule

act in good faith; act in the best interests of the corporation; act on an informed basis; not be wasteful; not involve self-interest

In one case, fiduciary duty is actually defined as: good faith, loyalty, or due care.
by arjie | 2025-08-13 21:52:51+00:00
We've got a 5 month old here in San Francisco, and will attempt child #2 some time in the next year. The lottery system doesn't bother me as much about school as the fact that it seems to lack academic rigour. As for the prices, it's obvious that the relentless work of SF natives has had its effect: few can live here but the wealthy. They have been very good at achieving this effect, and the population is now at a median age higher than 40.

In time, those arriving here from elsewhere will remedy it, but the war SF natives wage on families will take a lot of work for the rest of us to fight.
by throwawayffffas | 2025-08-13 21:52:54+00:00
> I would rather have an AI assistant that spoke to me like a similarly-leveled colleague, but none of them seem to be turning out quite like that.

I don't think that's what the majority of people want though.

That's certainly not what I am looking for from these products. I am looking for a tool to take away some of the drudgery inherent in engineering, it does not need a personality at all.

I too strongly dislike their servile manner. And I would prefer completely neutral matter of fact speech instead of the toxic positivity displayed or just no pointless confirmation messages.
by Notatheist | 2025-08-13 21:52:59+00:00
The first site I clicked on a focaccia recipe and had to skip to the bottom of the page, past 7 paragraphs, 10 images and a video to find the actual list of ingredients. The second one had a pop-up from the guardian begging me to subscribe that covers literally half the screen and pops back up with every page load.
by no_wizard | 2025-08-13 21:53:03+00:00
Badly and abruptly.

As long as the US maintains the western worlds largest military, I don't see the government being pressured to do much of anything remotely close to dealing with the problem in a long term (and likely painful) way.

If that power ever gets displaced, it'll tank the US quickly. As soon as the US loses its privileged status (something Trump is rapidly deteriorating) this becomes a serious burden that will require some serious policy decisions, of which most will be unpopular. It'll likely be cuts before tax increases, because even when facing the worst economic situation, neither party wants to pass meaningful tax increases.

I think we have at least a few more decades, but if we aren't the western worlds de facto military there's significantly less reason to let this house of cards go on.

We'd be better off dealing with it while we are still in a relatively privileged position, but no economic class wants the tax increases it will take just to get the debt into a manageable state.

As for no party wanting to deal with it, that is partly true. I think some Democrats actually want to deal with it, because they're much more comfortable proposing tax increases, but they don't have sway in the current leadership of the party.
Show HN: Emailcore – write chiptune in plain text in the browser
by msoloviev | 2025-08-13 21:53:13+00:00
I tried using the AudioContext API to make the most primitive browser-based multi-voice chiptune tracker conceivable. No frameworks or external dependencies were used, and the page source ought to be very readable.

Songs are written in plain, 7-bit safe text. Every line makes a voice/channel.

The examples given on the page should hopefully illustrate every feature, but as a quick overview: Sounds are specified using Anglo-style note names, with flat (black) keys being the lowercase version of the white key above so as to maintain one character per note. Hence, a full chromatic scale is AbBCdDeEFgGa. Every note name is interpreted as the closest instance of that note to the preceding one. +- skips up or down an octave, ~ holds the previous note for a beat, . skips a beat, 01234 chooses one of 5 preset timbres, <> makes beats slower or faster (for all channels), () makes the current channel louder or quieter. All other characters are ignored.

If you come up with a good tune, please share it in the comments!
by metalman | 2025-08-13 21:53:27+00:00
awwwhhhh!, I was enjoying the so close almostness of our current wrangles with what we are building compared to our literary greats imaginings on the subject. my personal suspicion is that the whole AI phenominon will exacerbate an already frenetic time of change in how humans live, here AI, will I think become a defining test of good judgement and compitency, like having a fun but sometimes dangerous and evil friend, who never goes away, for everybody....heres your AI, it bites sometimes, NEXT!
by araes | 2025-08-13 21:53:37+00:00
Partially the constraints.

Building a functional, modern, 3D rendering engine that meets current gamer requirements for "good enough" is also extremely challenging, time consuming, expensive, error prone, and often frustrating.

It then cascades into further difficulties about textures, modeling, rendering speed, machine requirements, compute language requirements, and "required" features.

A lot of this arrives at the expense of story, game design, and art.

If it must be c++, it must be AAA graphics (texture size, model polys, lighting complexity, shadows, physics based rendering), it must run 30 FPS on current mid-range, it must be trendy de-jour feature (open world, social tie-in, achievements, crafting, ect...), it must be always on networked, it must be cross platform, and it must be monetized - that's a lot of developers focusing on something other than - "is it fun?"

That's a lot of talent acquisition and churn, that's a lot of collab / communication / meetings, that's a lot of development hardware, that's a lot of funding focusing on something other than - "is it fun?"

It also ends up being a relatively severe barrier on "is it viable?" If it needs a million players just to break even, then you're quickly getting into the movie blockbuster pattern. Do whatever it is that sells blockbuster tickets. It it needs 50-100,000 players, then you can make a game with 5-10 people in a couple of years, sell it for $15, or something reasonable, and still break even on $75k salaries.
by epolanski | 2025-08-13 21:54:05+00:00
The political discourse globally has turned into a giant "us vs them". I'm Polish/Italian and in my countries it's similar to USA, we've just voted a populist troll as a president not because we like him but "because he's not one of those we despise".

Marketing, data scientists and strategist have effectively manipulated public opinion into further polarization.
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-08-13 21:54:31+00:00
I believe that you are sincere and truthful in what you say.

Unfortunately, the integrity of employees is no guard against the greed of investors.

Maybe next year investors change the CEO and entire management and they start monetizing the open source tools. There is no way of knowing. But history tells us that there is a non-trivial chance of this happening.
by hinkley | 2025-08-13 21:54:46+00:00
Especially given the other conversation that happened this morning.

The more you tell an AI not to obsess about a thing, the more they obsess about it. So trying to make a model that will never tell people to self harm is futile.

Though maybe we are just doing in wrong, and the self-filtering should be external filtering - one model to censor results that do not fit, and one to generate results with lighter self-censorship.
by OneMorePerson | 2025-08-13 21:55:05+00:00
To be fair I've also cut way back from where I used to be in terms of alcohol consumption, and I could be wrong. I've just seeing this pattern repeat too many times where people find out a substance has a negative effect in some area and then decide it's universally bad.

Back to my prior example, there was a time when US health science said "saturated fats are bad", I think they went even so far as to say trans fats are good. The reality is that saturated fats affect cholesterol but aren't objectively bad.

We know NOW that your body needs sunlight, but there was a time when people were all the way to the other side, sunlight avoidant and using sunscreen all the time.

I think I'm sensitive to this because of the bullshit science around salt and high blood pressure as another example. Its finally been recently debunked that salt doesn't permanently affect blood pressure, but an elderly family member of mine was told by a doctor that eating salt would increase their already high blood pressure, and it led them to being hospitalized in bad condition because they stopped eating any salts at all.

As a side comment it's interesting that you used the word 'poison'. I have been seeing that word thrown around a lot in the articles too and it seems like a stretch, like a word used to try to scare people. Technically spicy food is a poison (your body is telling you to not eat that thing), there's even literal poisons like certain sushi (blowfish) that are used to create a unique taste by eating just enough of it. I don't have a background for the technical classification of substances, but the word poison for alcohol kinda feels like calling weed a neurotoxin.
by hommes-r | 2025-08-13 21:55:08+00:00
Only thing that is unclear to me is to which extend this setup depends on the package publisher. PyPi might be terrible at least it just works when you want to publish that it leads to more complexity for the ones that are looking to use this piece of free software is not for the maintainer.

Maybe they are only targeting dev tooling companies as a way to simplify how they distribute. Especially in the accelerated compute era.