MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FloorEgg | 2025-04-15 18:31:58+00:00
The reality is definitely not that simple. There are many ideas that are good in one context and bad in others, but have been adopted (and imposed) far beyond the context they are good.

I've seen first hand many examples where leadership (within specific schools, probably with a highest concentration within liberal arts schools), consistently value the jobs of the faculty over the future wellbeing of the students. They don't value providing students with knowledge and skills that will make them successful in life after they graduate, and they do value growing their own staff and power within the organization. They value adding more rules and avoiding making any mistakes over taking risks and evolving the education to keep up with the rest of the world. Some of them value short-term benefits for themselves over long-term benefits of their students. I've seen this first hand on many occasions, so many it's beyond anecdote. It's not all bad, that's not my point, but to assume that all their judgement is perfect and they haven't made any mistakes and they have it all figured out and shouldn't reconsider anything... Well, that sounds more like faith and church to me. You're treating them like bishops not academics.
by danabramov | 2025-04-15 18:32:03+00:00
>Strawmanning the alternative as CGI with shell scripts really makes the entire post that much weaker.

I wasn't trying to strawman it--I was genuinely trying to show the historical progression. The snark was intended for the likely HN commenter who'd say this without reading, but the rest of the exploration is sincere. I tried to do it justice but lmk if I missed the mark.

>Be the change, maybe?

That's what I'm trying to do :-) This article is an argument for hypermedia as the API. See the shape of response here: https://overreacted.io/jsx-over-the-wire/#the-data-always-fl...

I think I've sufficiently motivated why that response isn't HTML originally; however, it can be turned into HTML which is also mentioned in the article.
by const_cast | 2025-04-15 18:32:16+00:00
Most people bemoaning the tariffs are doing so because they understand that production will not actually come back to the US. It's not that these people hate Americans and don't want domestic manufacturing (or to pay for it), it's that they can see the reality that this isn't what's actually going to happen. Instead, the price of goods will just rise.

A lot of these people too have been saying "buy local!" or "support black businesses!" for a while now. They're not the same people bemoaning the lost of hyper consumerist plastic junk.
by PaulHoule | 2025-04-15 18:32:27+00:00
Make me think of the 35 pound Kettlebell I’m just starting to use. You feel your body reacting to it the minute you pick it up. It is a workout to just move it around every day so it doesn’t look like it is gathering dust and I find myself very carefully studying Enter to Kettlell and the associated DVD so I can use it properly.
by 6510 | 2025-04-15 18:32:48+00:00
I think I've spend more on street music than any other music.

Imagine I put up a ghetto blaster and a hat. I play the finest music ever made. Would you put money in the hat? Would the idea to put money in the hat ever cross your mind? Would one even understand they want you to put money in the hat for playing the music?
by pixl97 | 2025-04-15 18:32:57+00:00
I think of it as a claim like "we almost have a machine that violates thermodynamics". To avoid confusing the layman that will automatically assume an unlimited energy has been created said claims must be well defined as to what has actually been accomplished.

While the artist in question can have the best intentions, conmen will swoop down on this and productize it, and then artists will be sad and confused when it has zero long term effect on machine learning. That is, except making machine learning more resilient to adversarial attacks.
by tempfile | 2025-04-15 18:33:16+00:00
I think you're letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. It seems like an obvious advantage to have systems that decide the outcome automatically and correctly 99% of the time, despite requiring occasional corrections from outside. That's not the same as a regular contract, so it doesn't follow people would always either choose smart contracts or traditional ones.

What you're hoping for is, taken literally, impossible. Smart contracts can't protect people from fraud, or coercion. Since the law does protect them from these things, smart contracts cannot be totally isolated from the legal system (even if everyone wanted this, which they don't).

> Using existing governmental power structures to punish people who adhere to smart contracts in ways some system members don't like

Fine, but what about in ways that the rest of society don't like?
by contemporary343 | 2025-04-15 18:33:29+00:00
Actually overheads for many universities were sometimes higher in the late 1990s (and there were some minor scandals associated with this). And remind me again, what fraction of our GDP is indirect costs to universities? (< 0.1%). And what are the benefits? Well, indirect costs are how the U.S. government builds up a distributed network of scientific and technical infrastructure and capacity. This capacity serves the national interest.

If you think you're going to help debt by cutting indirect costs and crippling university research permanently, may I introduce you to the foundational notions of a knowledge economy and how fundamental advances feed into technology developments that increase productivity and thus GDP. Permanently reducing growth is another way of making debt servicing worse.
by chowells | 2025-04-15 18:34:13+00:00
Well, no. That's just not true.

I care that when I type walmart.com, I'm actually talking to walmart.com. I don't look at the browser bar or symbols on it. I care what my bookmarks do, what URLs I grab from history do, what my open tabs do, and what happens when I type things in.

Preventing local DNS servers from fucking with users is critical, as local DNS is the weakest link in a typical setup. They're often run by parties that must be treated as hostile - basically whenever you're on public wifi. Or hell, when I'm I'm using my own ISP's default configuration. I don't trust Comcast to not MitM my connection, given the opportunity. I trust technical controls to make their desire to do so irrelevant.

Without the identity component, any DNS server provided by DHCP could be setting up a MitM attack against absolutely everything. With the identity component, they're restricted to DoS. That's a lot easier to detect, and gets a lot of very loud complaints.
by danabramov | 2025-04-15 18:34:17+00:00
There's a recap for each major section:

- https://overreacted.io/jsx-over-the-wire/#recap-json-as-comp...

- https://overreacted.io/jsx-over-the-wire/#recap-components-a...

- https://overreacted.io/jsx-over-the-wire/#recap-jsx-over-the...

I don't think I can compress it further. Generally speaking I'm counting on other people carrying useful things out of my posts and finding more concise formats for those.
by FireBeyond | 2025-04-15 18:34:24+00:00
I admit I had not heard this one. But the first thing I saw on it said:

> According to Lutnick’s interview with CBS News, Trump’s tax policy goal is to remove federal income taxes for individuals earning under $150,000 annually.

(omitted some of the other bullet points around tariff funding and tip exemption)

> While Lutnick later walked back the certainty of these plans, he clarified that the proposal is aspirational and depends on the ability to balance the federal budget.

I have serious doubts about the likelihood of a Trump proposal that even his Commerce Secretary says are "aspirational". Then again, the other part of Trump is that sometimes he does whatever he wants, regardless of what his Secretaries have said or known (witness the tariffs being paused mid hearing, leading to a Republican politician frantically swiping at his iPad in the middle of his testimony about the value of keeping the tariffs despite widespread market uncertainty).
by 6P58r3MXJSLi | 2025-04-15 18:34:48+00:00
I am against corporations profiting from others people works, for free.

If that was not allowed, if people could only use my work for no profit purposes, I agree.

That's what CC (creative commons) is for, though.

I am also in favour of people "remixing" and even making money out of it, but the intent it's paramount to me.

As a long time copyleft activist, I do not understand what limiting authors rights brings to the table, in your opinion.

More than once I contacted the author of some work I liked and they gave me free license to use it, no questions asked (after explaining what I would use it for).

IMO basic cooperation between good willing people goes a long way, without stripping authors of their rights.

Edit: typos
by xrd | 2025-04-15 18:34:56+00:00
It's fantastic.

I just watched Kitsune, thanks for sharing.

It reminds me why Flow was so good.

Flow was great because I could see the shader artifacts. It was the opposite of a Disney model, it was not polished and perfect.

That's why I loved it. Disney would never do a movie with a plot like Flow. They would write and rewrite it and it would be a perfect example of humanity, but totally devoid of the humanity behind it.

It is ironic that this new coming wave of AI generated (or AI assisted) films feel like they have more human craftmanship than Disney films, when honestly it is the opposite. Disney has incredible and brilliant animators, but that is all crushed behind the merchandising and gross behemoth of the Disney corporation.

I used to love seeing independent films. Those art house theaters really only exist in places like Portland, OR these days. But, I'm excited about the next wave of film because it'll permit small storytelling, and that's going to be great.
by jdthedisciple | 2025-04-15 18:35:31+00:00
The preponderance of academic and philosophical disingenuity — which could only be equally well explained by immensely subpar raw intellect (doubtful on HN) — in this very comment section perfectly illustrates why DJT was elected POTUS.

Let me just repeat the basic point:

Phenotype diversity != Viewpoint diversity
by Workaccount2 | 2025-04-15 18:35:34+00:00
>is not eligible for US copyright protection

Once industry adopts AI generation, which it will, a new law will be quickly signed.

In a way, not allowing copyright of AI material really only serves a tiny group of people. "We want to empower everyone to bring their ideas to market, not just those with the ability to draw them" is not a particularly evil or amoral sentiment.
by furyofantares | 2025-04-15 18:35:36+00:00
You HAVE to advertise to get sales because everyone else advertises heavily already, and because advertising is so dominant that consumers have come to rely on it as the majority of how information enters the zeitgeist. It is a barrier to entry for competition.

If we could reduce the advertising footprint we could increase information flow from things like consumer reports or wirecutter, and we could reduce the dependence on advertising to get sales and increase the ability to get sales by making a better product.

Economies of scale are no doubt a very, very good thing but they are not tied to advertising. If we stopped spending 100s of billions of dollars every year competing for attention this only adds to the productive capacity of our society.

I find it eye opening to talk to local small businesses, the eye popping amount of money they have to spend on facebook, google, and yelp feels like a racket, not an opportunity. Many types of business that were capable of operating before digital advertising are now incapable of operating without paying the piper.

Of course there are businesses that couldn't operate before but now can because digital information flow is better than analog information flow. This is easy to confuse with it being enabled by digital advertising because our information flow is dominated by advertising.

But I don't advocate for just deleting advertising and going back to analog word of mouth; I'd prefer a market for digital information that isn't simply purchased by the person who wants my money but instead competes on the value of the information.
by arminiusreturns | 2025-04-15 18:35:47+00:00
As someone who has completely straddled both worlds (Arizona/Texas redneck raised, worked in woke VC/SV companies, with a social circle across the board):

I view it as planting seeds, and harvesting them later. Before that can be done though, a person generally has to understand how entrenched a person is in being a stenographer. I have found on both "sides", there are a certain amount of people that literally do no thinking for themselves at all, and only regurgitate. I've tried for years to work different angles on them, and those seeds mostly still lay dormant and un-sprouted...

“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies... is a foolish idea. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies.” - Carroll Quigley
by eqvinox | 2025-04-15 18:36:13+00:00
That's good to know, but —assuming my sample of size 1 isn't a bad outlier, I should really try a few more— there's another problem: I don't think we'd be willing to sink time into tuning a currently-free subscription service that can be yanked at any time. And I'm in a position to say it is highly unlikely that we'd pay for the service.

(We already have problems with our human review being too superficial; we've recently come to a consensus that we're letting too much technical debt slip in, in the sense of unnoticed design problems.)

Now the funny part is that I'm talking about a FOSS project with nVidia involvement ;D

But also: this being a FOSS project, people have opened AI-generated PRs. Poor AI-generated PRs. This is indirectly hurting the prospects of your product (by reputation). Might I suggest adding an AI generated PR detector, if possible? (It's not in our guidelines yet but I expect we'll be prohibiting AI generated contributions soon.)
by 7402 | 2025-04-15 18:36:41+00:00
> Now I stop to help anyone who's broken down on the side of the road

I have a certain amount of fear about doing this sort of thing. I am ashamed of that, too.

When I was in college (this was in a small city), I was walking at night by the library and I saw someone trip and fall in front of me. I asked if they were hurt and if I could help. He hobbled up and said yes, one leg was injured, but he just needed some help to get back to his car. I helped walk him four or five blocks, supporting his shoulder. In a darker bit of street, his friend tackled me to the ground and threatened to kill me with his gun. He took my wallet, ordered me not to stir from where he pushed me under a car, and they ran off. To be explicit here, the tripping and falling was fake.

The campus police took me to the student health services; my knee was banged and slightly scraped from the tackle. I related the story to the doctor and he said, "Well, you can't stop helping people." On the other hand, the cop just said, if anything like that ever happens, I didn't have to handle it myself, just call them, they were happy to come and assist anyone who might need help on campus.

I still help others when I can, but I am always cautious about my environment and assessing the circumstances
by overu589 | 2025-04-15 18:37:42+00:00
I offer a diverging view.

Information is the removal of uncertainty. If it does not remove uncertainty it is not information.

Entropy is the existential phenomenon of potential distributing over the infinite manifold of negative potential.

Emergence is a potential outcome greater than the capacity found in the sum of any parts.

Modern humanity’s erroneous extrapolations:

- asserting P>=0 without account that in existential reality 0 is the infinite expanse of cosmic void, thus the true mathematical description would be P>=-1

- confuse heat with entropy. Heat is the ultimate universal expression as heat is a product of all work and all existence is winding down (after all). Entropy directs thermodynamics, thermodynamics is not the extent of entropy.

- entropy is NOT the number of possible states in a system. Entropy is the distribution of potential; number of states are boundary conditions which uncalculated potential may reconfigure (the “cosmic ray” or murfy’s rule of component failure.) Existential reality is interference and decay.

- entropy is not “loss”. Loss is the entropy less work achieved.

- this business about “in a closed system “ is an example of how brilliant minds lie to themselves. No such thing exists anywhere accessible by Man. Even theoretically, the principles of decay and the “exogenous” influence of one impercieved influence over a “contained system.” Or “modeled system”, for one self deception is for the scientist or engineer to presume these speak for or on behalf of reality.

Emergence is the potential (the vector space of some capacity) “created” through some system of dynamics (work). “Some” includes the expressive space of all existential or theoretical reality. All emergent potential is “paid for” by burning available potential of some other kind. In nature the natural forces induce work in their extremes. In natural systems these design for the “mitigation of uncertainty” [soft form entropy], aka “intelligence.

Entropy is the existential phenomenon of potential distributing over negative potential.

Information is the removal of uncertainty. If it does not remove uncertainty, it is not information.

Emergence is a potential outcome greater than the capacity found in the sum of any parts.
by malux85 | 2025-04-15 18:37:49+00:00
Nice in theory but don’t know how practical it is to actually do.

How do you define “good”? Theres obvious examples at the extremes but a chasm of ambiguity between them.

How do you compute value? If an AI takes 200 million images to train, wait let me write that out to get a better sense of the number:

200,000,000

Then what is the value of 1 image to it? Is it worth the 3 hours of human labour time put into creating it? Is it worth 1 hour of human labour time? Even at minimum wage? No, right?
by kylehotchkiss | 2025-04-15 18:37:58+00:00
I live `on the outskirts of San Diego` (~30 min north, <10 miles to coast) and Marriott branded hotels (not motels) is currently listed as $125/night in spring break season. The hotel pricing argument to me indicates travel at peak season or insisting on being in the most touristy areas.

I will accept arguments on rental cars and dining/tips though (protip to any intl travelers, you can skip tipping on everything except table-service dining, Americans hit skip on every other prompt, the whole tip prompt everywhere thing was driven by payment processors wanting to increase their own profits)
by mavilia | 2025-04-15 18:38:43+00:00
Weird to see my home county pop up on HN. As soon as I saw RadioShack + Maryland I immediately pictured exactly where this was on rt 4. I have a distinct memory of going to this very store to buy a PS2 internet adapter and an ethernet cable back in the early 2000s. It was also my go to for anything electronics related.

It was always nice to visit back home (including this year) and see that this store was still around. It will certainly be missed :(
by mdp2021 | 2025-04-15 18:39:04+00:00
> I can find no fault

Is it possible that some pieces of the administration are trying exactly to convey a point, that they "cannot give a toss"? Because that is what transpires from many signals.

You know, some interpretation of "realism" as in "proposing the beast as normalcy in a blindness towards morals"?

It seems as if brutality is actively proposed as a value.
by user982 | 2025-04-15 18:39:07+00:00
Sure, here's his characterization of the protesting students as of two weeks ago (https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8754):

"Leftist Students and Faculty: We’d sooner burn universities to the ground than allow them to remain safe for the hated Zionist Jews, the baby-killing demons of the earth. We’ll disrupt their classes, bar them from student activities, smash their Hillel centers, take over campus buildings and quads, and chant for Hezbollah and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades to eradicate them like vermin. We’ll do all this because we’ve so thoroughly learned the lessons of the Holocaust."

Here are Scott Aaronson's claims about Trump deportees (https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8758):

"It’s important to add: from what I know, some of the people being detained and deported are genuinely horrible. Some worked for organizations linked to Hamas, and cheered the murder of Jews."

Here is his attempt at satire, in defense of genocide (https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=7957):

"Meanwhile, at elite academic institutions across the region, the calls for justice have been deafening. “From the Nile to the Sea of Reeds, free Egypt from Jacob’s seeds!” students chanted. Some protesters even taunted passing Hebrew slaves with “go back to Canaan!”, though others were quick to disavow that message. According to Professor O’Connor, it’s important to clarify that the Hebrews don’t belong in Canaan either, and that finding a place where they do belong is not the protesters’ job."
by soupbowl | 2025-04-15 18:39:08+00:00
Green trees are not used for fire wood or for paper. Burning green wood makes for terrible fire wood it also causes issues with chimneys due to having more Creosote.

It is illegal In The logging Industry to use merchantable wood for paper or fire wood. Wood has grades and graded wood is worth a lot more than fire or paper wood. Paper wood also has a grade but it is a low grade. Often firewood can be shipped to paper mills as an example.
by kristopolous | 2025-04-15 18:39:29+00:00
When I went to Shenzhen I found some of these brands with stalls in their vast malls. They're real places. As you walk through you navigate around an obstacle course of dollies, hear endless packing tape and occasionally point out, "oh look, there's Owawuwo, I got a cheap projector from them".

Americans can get a Shenzhen-only 5-day Visa on arrival (VOA) from Hong Kong through the Luohu entry at the LoWu station via the regular MTR. Don't take the HSR, they do not offer it there and you will be turned away. You Must go to the office at Louhu station, it is the only way. It's easy, just take the metro.

Anyways, at LoWu it takes about 45 minutes after doing the paper work. It was very easy. Visa approval for Americans this exact way is estimated to be north of 98%. Exchange your HKD at the government run forex up stairs in the mall after entering China, it's a 1.5% commission, best I've ever seen. Then pay in cash - your Western credit cards Will Not Work. It is a fairly easy day trip - about 45min from Kowloon by rail. The 5-day Visa is a Single Entry.

To go to the trading district take Luobao line (#1) to Huaqianglu (3 stops). It's a 10 minute train trip or a fairly uneventful hour walk if you're up to it. English at the trading district and the border mall is ok. Everywhere else, not so much.

Recommended. The place is absolutely bonkers.

They have this wildly intricate culture of price bargaining. If you're looking to actually buy stuff, you can get amazing deals. But I just went as a tourist.