MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by KerrAvon | 2025-04-24 22:02:29+00:00
1. The resignation is an important signal to other people that bad things are happening. Not everyone is paying attention; dramatic resignations are events that might help pierce the media veil.

2. At some point, if you can't stop it and they won't fire you, you're a collaborator. There's a point where your noble stance becomes "even though I desperately want not to put people into gas chambers it's better if I'm the concentration camp director because I can reduce the number of people we put into the gas chambers by manipulating spreadsheets behind the scenes." You can justify that to yourself, maybe. I would strongly advise reading some history before going down that road. You and your descendants have to live with that forever.
by cameronh90 | 2025-04-24 22:02:34+00:00
I think the last the last time I used a writing implement was actually about two months ago, and it was a sharpie that I had to go to the corner shop to buy. I needed to take a verification picture of myself holding the date for an online pharmacy.

I do have an iPad with an Apple Pencil, but even that I use quite rarely - though I at least know where it is. If I'm annotating a PDF, that would be my tool of choice.

Aside from that, I'm not sure that my daily life is really that unrecognisable from anyone else's. Just that instead of writing stuff on paper, I either type it or tap it on my phone. For maths, I'm just quite quick at TeX input.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-04-24 22:02:55+00:00
Apple Vision Air will be a fart in the wind.

There are 1/10th-1/100th as many Godot developers as Unity and Unreal developers. If there are no games now, there won't be with Godot support. That said I want Godot AVP support to succeed, but there are other problems all in Apple's court.
by pwg | 2025-04-24 22:02:57+00:00
I suspect that those folks who answer survey questions of "would you pay more for made in the USA" with "yes" are thinking (if they are thinking at all) of paying $2 to $3 more on a $100 item, not paying $110 more on a $100 item.

None of the surveys are ever crafted to ask: "How much more would you pay for a $100 item for 'made in the USA'?".
by pfannkuchen | 2025-04-24 22:03:05+00:00
Disclaimer: I don’t think the current admin policies are a good way to bring back American manufacturing, if that is their main goal.

One point I don’t see discussed much is how American physical goods companies currently don’t really have access to the huge bottom chunk of the price pyramid. This limits the benefits of scale, and makes their products more expensive than they would be otherwise.

Right now if someone starts a small physical product company in America, they pretty much have to target people with excess discretionary spending ability. Once they go for the lower part of the pyramid that is much more price sensitive, they get killed by foreign competition on labor and environmental compliance costs that the American company has to pay and the foreign company does not.

If American manufacturing ever does come back, I would expect prices to come down significantly simply due to again having access to market scale.
by jltsiren | 2025-04-24 22:03:07+00:00
The vast majority of those working for a PI are students and postdocs, which are inherently trainee positions. Though, depending on the field and the PI, trainees may also have plenty of freedom to work on their own topics. If you want an actual career in the academia, the main options are becoming a PI or choosing a teaching-focused position. There are some staff scientists and similar, but such positions are rarer than tenured professors.
by viccis | 2025-04-24 22:03:34+00:00
In the past I would spot check them and there were plenty of submissions that were neither bot submitted nor obviously rule breaking that were deleted. My best guess was that mods of sufficiently large subreddits just like to shape the content that's shown. In most places, there seems to neither be the power user nepotism of late-era Digg nor the Eastern Germany level narrative censorship of subs like worldnews. Rather it just seems like a ton of cooks in the kitchen (huge modlists) with some of the mods seeming to just take action for action's sake. Either way the point is that users aren't really dictating the content.

Don't even get me started about local city subreddit busybody moderators with their online fiefdoms and their "Daily Discussion" post graveyards.
by kridsdale3 | 2025-04-24 22:04:06+00:00
I used to be TL of the Facebook News Feed.

People in UX research told us constantly they wanted the feed to be about friends, and chronological.

Several times we ran A/B tests with many millions of people to try exactly this. Every time all the usage metrics tanked. Not just virality and doomscroll metrics, but how many likes, messages, comments, re-shares, and app-opens. We never even measured ad-related things on that team.

So people say they want this, like they say they want McDonalds to offer salads. Nobody orders salads at McDonalds.
by bqmjjx0kac | 2025-04-24 22:05:12+00:00
I think it is an A/B test, as you described, based on this part:

> We created a secret landing page. The product and design were identical. The only difference? One was labeled “Made in Asia” and priced at $129. The other, “Made in the USA,” at $239.

It's odd that they changed the text AND nearly doubled the price. They seem to attribute the conversion rate dropping to the text change, though.
by badc0ffee | 2025-04-24 22:05:40+00:00
> Games don't just "cost more to make" automatically, it's mostly not based on inflation or underlying costs.

That doesn't contradict what I wrote, so much as expand on it. The presentation linked above (which I was attempting to summarize) says there's a push for, for example, more photorealism, that players don't really care about, but balloons various costs. It also mentions recurring costs for online games too unpopular to cover their expenses.

> It's not "the market is saturated". It's not "the market is overcrowded". It's "the market is competitive and expects quality", you can't just shove a half-baked only-ok game at high pricing, and expect it to be a success.

I don't doubt what you're saying about quality of gameplay, but that's really not the focus of the linked presentation. It mentions that too many game studios are chasing dead trends, and unpopular payment models. But it's also making the claim that there might be tons of great new games coming out, but hardly anyone is even trying them.

Honestly I'm out of my depth with this, as I barely game at all, and if you had asked me yesterday, I would have thought the industry was still booming. I clicked caseyy's link and expected something concise about the state of gaming, but ended up reading (most of) a 200-slide presentation.
by refulgentis | 2025-04-24 22:06:27+00:00
Not that I know of.

I just took any indication that the parent post meant absolute zero moderation as them being a bit loose with their words and excitable with how they understand things, there were some signs:

1. it's unlikely they completed an API integration quickly enough to have an opinion on military / defense image generation moderation yesterday, so they're almost certainly speaking about ChatGPT. (this is additionally confirmed by image generation requiring tier 5 anyway, which they would have been aware of if they had integrated)

2. The military / defense use cases for image generation are not provided (and the steelman'd version in other comments is nonsensical, i.e. we can quickly validate you can still generate kanban boards or wireframes of ships)

3. The poster passively disclaims being in military / defense themself (grep "in that space")

4. it is hard to envision cases of #2 that do not require universal moderation for OpenAI's sake, i.e. lets say their thought process is along the lines of: defense/military ~= what I think of as CIA ~= black ops ~= image manipulation on social media, thus, the time I said "please edit this photo of the ayatollah to have him eating pig and say I hate allah" means its overmoderated for defense use cases

5. It's unlikely openai wants to be anywhere near PR resulting from #4. Assuming there is a super secret defense tier that allows this, it's at the very least, unlikely that the poster's defense contractor friends were blabbing about about the exclusive completely unmoderated access they had, to the poster, within hours of release. They're pretty serious about that secrecy stuff!

6. It is unlikely the lack of ability to generate images using GPT Image 1 would drive the military to Chinese models (there aren't Chinese LLMs that do this! even if they were, there's plenty of good ol' American diffusion models!)
by xp84 | 2025-04-24 22:06:36+00:00
I've seen this in software in various roles. Usually a CTO will be hired, and will draw from his previous lieutenants to build a leadership team and key IC roles such as architect or staff engineer. I think it's a very smart way to quickly build out a trusted team by simply hiring people who have delivered successfully for you in the past. I've worked with a cadre of brilliant former-Zappos people in one job brought over this way, and in another, a CTO was hired away from a Hollywood talent agency and he brought over some stellar people from there to lead some teams.
by whalesalad | 2025-04-24 22:06:37+00:00
Have you seen "his" leaked 4chan account? Most insane shit I have ever read in my life. Here is a mirror ... the poster says multiple times that they are the owner of twitter. https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/tripcode/%21SATANZ0Gpo...

Along with many other things like heil hitler. Assuming this is actually his account, he is 100% a nazi.
by anonymars | 2025-04-24 22:09:06+00:00
Ultimately capitalism "works", but only if externalities are incorporated into the price.

Hence vice taxes on liquor, cigarettes, the short-lived Bloomberg tax on soda. See also - carbon pricing.

What would that look like for social media, I don't know. If we're truly brainstorming, what if Facebook were forced to charge you cash money for usage beyond a half hour per day? Or past a certain amount of posting?

I'm well aware that politically this would die even faster than the soda tax... selling a policy is often more difficult and important than policy itself
by sershe | 2025-04-24 22:10:02+00:00
Climate change can near certainly be served with technology, if society didn't stand in the way. We could all switch to nuclear - France did it decades ago, technology is not a problem, society is - hence the subjects of these articles. Looks at solar in China or even Texas vs California. Everything is like that.

Putting humans on Mars is purely a technological problem.

Inequality is not a real problem.
by a3w | 2025-04-24 22:10:10+00:00
Can recommend https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ai-article-readings/id... for a GenAI article reading of this, on the go. 80/20 was mispronounced; pretty perfect reading except for this.

1200 years for superhuman programmers but two for human-level coders seems strange. Why is arbitrarily a human ballpark such a big benchmark? Or as they put it: the workload that takes x time needs to increase by doubling for 1200 years each seven months. Strange leap, as that is a factor of 1.410E42, while there are e.g. only 4.310E17 seconds for the time since the big bang.
by ttepasse | 2025-04-24 22:10:12+00:00
According to the video you don't seem to automatically translate everything - thankfully! - but should you plan this in the future, please, please give your users an opt-out or a setting.

Just minutes ago I wrestled again with Youtube which doesn't respect my language preferences and tries to autotranslate not just the titles but also dubs videos in a shitty AI-translation, which I don't want. Youtube doesn't really seem to give you settings for this.

Machine translation may have gotten better, but it is still not right if you speak both languages. It get's the information across but always feels like the uncanny valley, it doesn't feel right. So my preference still is to never have machine translation between languages I already understand.
by timschmidt | 2025-04-24 22:10:35+00:00
> postdocs

> inherently trainee positions

Do we live on the same planet? I understand that the point of being an academic is to always be learning, but there's no place on earth I know of that thinks of someone with a PhD as a trainee.

> the main options are becoming a PI or choosing a teaching-focused position. There are some staff scientists and similar, but such positions are rarer than tenured professors.

Implying that one gets a choice is bold. My understanding is that there's a job for about 1 in 10 postdocs in academia these days.
by geoka9 | 2025-04-24 22:10:37+00:00
I can't comment on the internals (and I actually don't like Apple and their software), but comparing my TP X1 Yoga (basically Lenovo's top of the line) with my partner's new Macbook, the build of the latter is noticeably more tight, with barely noticeable seams where the metal panels come together. The Thinkpad's build is pretty good too and I'm fine with it, but I just can't help noticing the build quality of the Macbook.
by T_Potato | 2025-04-24 22:10:49+00:00
This doesn't surprise me. As much as I would love to buy locally made products, in my economic condition I have to stretch my dollar as far as it can go. If it is the difference between buying a Dyson vs a XISXKE, well the Dyson is better for my money. But for the same shower head, that product will not scream quality unless I'm in the market to buy a higher end product. I may emotionally respond with, nobody else in the USA is supporting locally made products, why should I? I will however go out of my way to buy Canadian over American out of spite.
by dmwilcox | 2025-04-24 22:11:09+00:00
I don't know if it's been much used but it is known and works. I was doing this early on in my x86-16 assembler experiments but ended up using DOS as a program launcher for an easier emulator to use than qemu (dosbox-staging).

The big limits if you don't want to get into disk IO, is 512 bytes or less since you're basically running your program as a master boot record. To get more you'll need to load some LBAs from disk which yes there is an interrupt for and osdev has even better stuff.

Other than that, the difference between a .com file (usual limit 64kb single segment) and an MBR style bootable program is pretty minimal
by rbanffy | 2025-04-24 22:11:25+00:00
> Cloud is mainframes gone full circle.

Except that now you need to develop the software that gives mainframes their famed reliability yourself. The applications are very different: software developed for cloud always needs to know that part of the system might become unavailable and work around that. A lot of the stack, from the cluster management ensuring a failed node gets replaced and the processes running on them are spun up on another node, all the way up to your code that retries failed operations, needs to be there if you aim for highly reliable apps. With mainframes, you just pretend the computer is perfect and never fails (some exaggeration here, but not much).

Also, reliability is just one aspect - another impressive feature is their observability features. Mainframes used to be the cloud back then and you can trace resource usage with exquisite detail, because we used to bill clients by CPU cycle. Add to that the hardware reliability features built-in (for instance, IBM mainframes have memory in RAID-like arrays).
by mobilejdral | 2025-04-24 22:11:38+00:00
I have a several complex genetic problems that I give to LLMs to see how well they do. They have to reason though it to solve it. Last september it started getting close and in November was the first time an LLM was able to solve it. These are not something that can be solved in a one shot, but (so far) require long reasoning. Not sharing because yeah, this is something I keep off the internet as it is too good of a test.

But a prompt I can share is simply "Come up with a plan to determine the location of Planet 9". I have received some excellent answers from that.
by bangaladore | 2025-04-24 22:11:39+00:00
The post is unclear on this. I'm not sure where the "secret landing page" came into play here. They even show a screenshot with both options visible.

And they also say: "The visitors were given the choice to either buy the Made in USA or the Made in Asia version."

A/B would be randomly showing either ONLY the USA with higher price to some people and ONLY the cheaper Asian one to others.

However, even that isn't apples to apples as the price is obviously different.
by sho_hn | 2025-04-24 22:11:41+00:00
Thanks!

I'm currently making something inspired by your Timeframe, but using an OLED panel, as a 2nd screen for my desk - but almost the same form-factor and a similar design.

I'm trying out a faux 3D-printed wood process with wood powder-infused PLA, sanding and staining, and a faux wood grain I baked into the geometry using a displacement map, though. Hoping to make it all posh.
by vel0city | 2025-04-24 22:11:41+00:00
Yes, because car theft was unheard of before wireless key fobs. Seriously? Are you not familiar with the Kia Boys? Having wireless transponders has massively reduced the rates of theft over the days of cut keys. And if it's all going to be relying on the security of a wireless handshake anyways, there's little point in having the tumbler that can be trivially raked. Or just overpowered and turned anyways.

And hilarious you're tying the idea of people having pushbutton ignitions to continuing car dependency. Yes, if only we still required cut keys on cars, we would have eliminated car dependency in the US! Tons of people were thinking "maybe cars aren't all they're cracked up to be..." but then they saw "ooh, push button ignition! Nevermind, defund public transit!"

I'm very pro public transit. I ride it, I vote for it, I write to my congress critters about it, I champion it to my friends and strangers all the time. I want to see it succeed. But guess what...I have my transit pass on my phone as well! Eee gads!

Once again, it all boils down to why would I choose to do the more annoying process when I don't have to? The cut key isn't really providing any extra security (once again, see Kia Boys). Would you choose to have to insert a key and turn it to open your fridge? Why would I want to have to do that instead of just pressing a button on my car? Personally, even pressing the button is a bit overkill, but I guess I'm a little old fashioned. In the end I do still prefer thinking about the car is either "on" or "off", as in is the drive train ready to operate or not.
by ac29 | 2025-04-24 22:12:28+00:00
> Our bestselling model—manufactured in Asia (China and Vietnam)—sells for $129. But this year, as tariffs jumped from 25% to 170%, we wondered: Could we reshore manufacturing to the U.S. while maintaining margins to keep our lights on?

This is disingenuous. According to Amazon price tracking, the price was $129 in 2024 as well, so they are apparently not maintaining margins on the China made product.
by gaiagraphia | 2025-04-24 22:12:44+00:00
Not sure that it's a fair test, tbh.

I try to buy 'locally made' products because I respect the story of their company, and their efforts to build up some type of community.

If I had a choice between 'made here' or 'made there' at the checkout stage, then I'd probably think it's a bit of a scam.

I think 'locally made' is a business choice, not a product choice.

I always like to give this Welsh jeans firm as an example: https://hiutdenim.co.uk/ (sorry if it's advertising, I've no connection to them).
by strgcmc | 2025-04-24 22:13:01+00:00
This is probably stupid, but at the hope of helping others through exposing my own ignorance -- I'm having trouble actually installing and running the preview... I've downloaded the preview release duckdb binary itself, then when I try to run "duckdb -ui", I'm getting this error:

Extension Autoloading Error: An error occurred while trying to automatically install the required extension 'ui': Failed to download extension "ui" at URL "http://extensions.duckdb.org/0069af20ab/osx_arm64/ui.duckdb_..." (HTTP 403) Extension "ui" is an existing extension.

Is it looking to download the preview version of the extension, but getting blocked/unauthorized (hence the 403 forbidden response)? Or is there something about the auto-loading behavior that I'm supposed to disable maybe?
by nyrikki | 2025-04-24 22:13:01+00:00
> But in the AI's defense, they have a point: You never specified if the towels can be dried simultaneously or not. Maybe you have to use a drying machine that can only do one at a time. This one seems to consistently work:

This is the inverse of the Frame Problem, or the Qualification problem:

John McCarthy's paper related to it from the 1980's

http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/circumscription/circumscrip...

It is still very relevent to modern AI efforts.
by lapetitejort | 2025-04-24 22:14:06+00:00
My Something Awful account recently turned 20 years old and I signed in on its birthday for the first time in over a decade. I felt the same thing as you. I looked for some new feature or something to show the passage of time, but found nothing. I had to manually click through pages. Forum signatures still exist.

I also posted in FYAD enough to have my own "personality". Some of the posters from my time are still at it, with accounts pushing thirty years old. I wonder if we ever interacted.
by alexjplant | 2025-04-24 22:14:27+00:00
Last year I asked Claude about an old fighting game for the Game Boy that I'd played about five minutes of when I was in the second grade (so ~25 years ago). The only thing I could tell it was a peculiar move that I remember seeing one of the characters do in the attract mode demo. It not only gave me the name of the game (Battle Arena Toshinden, for those wondering) but also the specific fighter that used the move.

I've tried it for similar cases and have only had a 50% success rate. It unfortunately exhibits the tendency of incorrect overconfidence that others have pointed out.
by fzeroracer | 2025-04-24 22:15:30+00:00
In actuality the bottom chunk of the price pyramid being off limits is because of American business policy, not because of outside competition.

A staggering amount of Americans live around the poverty line and even more live paycheck to paycheck. They can only afford goods that are, effectively, priced at how much we value their labor in the US.

In order to solve this problem we'd need to actually raise the minimum wage and ensure Americans have more discretionary income to afford American products. But that'll never happen because businesses don't want to eat into their profit margins, so they just permanently lock themselves out of a market. It's a sort of tragedy of the markets issue.
by flkfsjklfdslkj | 2025-04-24 22:15:44+00:00
Honest question - have you ever worked somewhere where people above you in the food chain have made decisions you consider bad or unacceptable?

If not, it may not be clear that those above you are ultimately going to win any disagreement. If you can't change their mind, there really isn't anything you can do, except limit any damage to your repuation for your next role (ie, leave before the s*it hits the fan).

The other effect, explained so well in the short book "The Power of the Powerless", is that the idea of using your increasing clout and power as you rise through an organisation to make changes for the better is largely a fallacy. Paradoxically, the higher up you go, the less freedom you have to use that clout and power.
by adastra22 | 2025-04-24 22:15:46+00:00
> In perfectly competitive markets noone makes a profit

Bit of an aside, but this is not true btw. Even in situations which most closely approximate what you describe, there is a positive, nonzero floor to profit taking. This is typically explained as the opportunity cost of allocating money, which is not just the known alternative investments you are giving up, but the unknown-unknown risks. Among certain schools of political economics, it is also taught that this is a built-in action bias towards holders of money. Essentially, the rich get richer (quantified).