MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hayst4ck | 2025-04-07 02:25:48+00:00
I don't really think it can.

I think it's wrong to view the GOP as a party of elected officials.

The GOP has elected officials, but Fox news/Rogan/etc, the Heritage Foundation, project 2025, the NRA, palantir, cambridge analyitica, twitter, Zuckerberg, bezos, and many other funded and powerful institutions are behind every individual congressperson. So you're not talking about a decision that is made individually. Republicans for all of their flaws, act with a great amount of solidarity, which is what makes them powerful, they are able to punish anyone that breaks that solidarity, and for many GOP people who are also criminals protected by their position, the punishments could even be quite severe if they forgo the protection of party by dissenting.

The only meaningful act of dissent that even comes to mind was John McCain who was dying.
by alwa | 2025-04-07 02:25:54+00:00
She (Deltalina, née Katherine Hinton [0]) makes a little cameo in the current iteration, celebrating 100 years of that airline’s service:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mnOLUnExHvw&t=1m42s

[0] https://viewfromthewing.com/delta-rarely-interacts-with-cust...
by azburillo | 2025-04-07 02:26:37+00:00
Rethinking business travel with community in mind

Hey HN,

We’ve been quietly building something that we think touches a pain many teams (including ours) have felt: business travel is broken. The tools feel dated, expense management is a chore, and even with all the talk of AI, most platforms just add a chatbot on top and call it a day.

We’re working on Suitpax, a new approach to corporate travel software—designed from day one to be AI-native and modular.

Our vision: a travel stack that combines autonomous AI travel agents, intelligent expense handling, and VIP-level travel support, but built like a developer product—composable, secure, and scalable.

Some things we’re experimenting with:

AI Travel Agents that go beyond recommendations. They act on your behalf: booking, rebooking, optimizing itineraries based on company policy, personal preferences, or budget.

Expense Automation that actually works: no more manual receipt uploads, no more back-and-forth with finance. Everything is tracked, parsed, and reported in real time.

Enterprise-ready by default, with clean APIs, user permission layers, and modular integration with tools like Notion, Ramp, or Slack.

Under the hood, we’re using a mix of multi-agent orchestration, vector-aware context memory for preferences, and a privacy-first architecture. We’re also testing out some interesting coordination between AI + human fallback systems for handling edge cases (flight delays, concierge requests, etc).

This isn’t a launch yet—we’re still early. But we’d love feedback from this community, especially those who’ve built or scaled SaaS, dealt with travel ops pain, or are exploring autonomous agents in production systems.

We’re hacking this because we genuinely believe corporate travel should feel as modern as the rest of your stack. If anyone’s curious, we’d be happy to share more and open up early access.

Founding Team: Alberto & Alexis
by gus_massa | 2025-04-07 02:27:04+00:00
Are you the author? What is the teche stack?

I had to click 5 times to see the fist text of the course. You should skip the chapter/subchapter/section screens. I should just click once to see the first text.

In the main page, there are too many ads and it´s difficult to notice "Next Page". Patio11 recommends big orange pancake buttons.
by ahartmetz | 2025-04-07 02:27:09+00:00
What I don't understand is why there seem to be no "bulk processes". Saw a wafer into (tiny) pieces using a raster, somehow (yes yes...) load them onto a roller, and place them a column at a time. Anything resembling a pixel at a time seems wildly impractical. They actually seem to be that far I guess, because the price per LED is already down to ~0.05 cents ($10k for a 4K display). Lesson: 4K is a lot of pixels ;)
by MilnerRoute | 2025-04-07 02:27:23+00:00
I assume things will change dramatically in the next few days.

Trump's "emergency powers" to declare tariffs are already being challenged in court. And there's also growing support in the Senate and House to change tariff policy too. (So if the stock market keeps dropping, I just don't see Congress refusing to act.)

Plus, I just assumed the whole "liberation day" was Trump's way of striking an aggressive pose as a starting point, hoping subsequent negotiations would then end up someplace more advantageous. (Maybe the "tell" there is the way the White House keeps saying "There will be no negotiations." Because their current position is so wildly untenable -- it has to be a pose.)
by j16sdiz | 2025-04-07 02:27:25+00:00
Does public service announcement get exemption?

How about health ad ("Smoking kills") ?

How about mentioning a product in health ad (Smoking kills. Nicotine patches help you quit smoking)?

Traditionally, the government setup some regulatory body to oversee these kind of exemptions. These body often corrupt over time. Is a corrupted regulatory body better than no exemptions allowed?

Do we want the legal text cover all cases and become so dense that nobody can comprehend? Or do we want some simple rules and live with the possible unintended consequences?

and the most important question : People hate changes and some industries need to rethink their own business. How could we get people agrees on this in a democratic setting?
by steveBK123 | 2025-04-07 02:28:10+00:00
There is probably no level of tariffs that make US labor competitive with $2-3/hr all-in with benefits China wages. That's before you even get into workers rights/legal/safety/conditions/etc. Note China is already hinting at devaluing their currency further as well.

And again with generationally low 4% unemployment and promises/attempts at mass deportations, who exactly are supposed to be staffing all these factories that are going to sprout up here?

Maybe the plan is fire enough people & make Americans poor enough they'll accept $3/hr?
by dumbledoren | 2025-04-07 02:28:12+00:00
> it ignores the fact that new jobs are created precisely when old ones become redundant

That did not happen after the electronics revolution changed manufacturing starting in the 1970s. Factories that needed thousands of workers to manufacture a certain car model for large regions started to be run with only a few hundred workers. Same for other manufacturing fields.

The Western countries directed all the resulting excess workforce to sectors like finance, law, tech and services, but with AI and the zero interest economy ending all of those sectors are also coming crashing down.

So no, technological advancement and automation really reduced the workforce need and did not replace it with new jobs.
by Taek | 2025-04-07 02:28:54+00:00
So, I dug into this somewhat deeply, and it's true that there's some case law which would make an outright ban of commercial advertising difficult, however:

The law is pretty consistent about the idea that any paid endorsement has to be "truthful". And as we've learned more about sociology and advertising, we've realized that things like paid endorsements are fundamentally not truthful, because they are misleading the public to believe that some figure or trusted source (even if only at a subconscious level - which is still enough to change consumer behavior!) is in favor of a product or brand.

So maybe if you could argue that paid speech is inherently untruthful (which I believe that it is!), then you could make legal policy that bans paid speech complaint with the First Amendment! (caveat: I am not a lawyer, I am not a legal activist, etc)
by _heimdall | 2025-04-07 02:28:57+00:00
I actually pulled "the machine" from University of Alabama Greek life, I haven't heard that phrase used before on the national stage or by Trump supporters. If there's an overlap there on my end its coincidence.

I will say, though, that I'm not repeating anything that needs to be acknowledged as fiction. I don't think it is a fiction that Trump and his team learned to move fast and break things because moving slowly will be stopped. That doesn't mean his lessons are learned based in fiction, only that their learning the lesson itself is not fiction.
by ethbr1 | 2025-04-07 02:30:01+00:00
Think you might be undervaluing the fact that securitized capital markets offer much broader access to loans at attractive terms.

Which isn't to say there aren't some parts of the financial industry that produce little real value.

But is to say that the competitiveness, ease, and attractive terms of standard 30-yr-fixed-rate US mortgages don't spring out of thin air.
by seec | 2025-04-07 02:31:33+00:00
Fundamentaly wireless products without easily replaceable batteries are products made to benefit the company more than the user.

Even if we accept that wireless is "better", having the battery easily swappable in a few seconds would cost nothing and make the product much better.

And I don't think cables are that big of a problem on mouse, especially if they are correctly engineered with enough length, you just don't notice them and it's more a look thing that anything else really. This is particularly true if you heavily use the computer and the mouse, the benefits of wireless are badly counterbalanced by the annoyance of battery management. Freedom has a cost that is not always really worth it.

At least in the MX Master case you can use it wired if you wish, so it's not too bad.
by hatefulmoron | 2025-04-07 02:31:48+00:00
> That might be overstating it, at least if you mean it to be some unreplicable feat.

I mean, surely there's a reason you decided to mention 3.5 turbo instruct and not.. 3.5 turbo? Or any other model? Even the ones that came after? It's clearly a big outlier, at least when you consider "LLMs" to be a wide selection of recent models.

If you're saying that LLMs/transformer models are capable of being trained to play chess by training on chess data, I agree with you.

I think AstroBen was pointing out that LLMs, despite having the ability to solve some very impressive mathematics and programming tasks, don't seem to generalize their reasoning abilities to a domain like chess. That's surprising, isn't it?
by an0malous | 2025-04-07 02:32:08+00:00
> Or is it that the atrocity isn’t highly relevant to discuss on a hacker news thread, and also hard to have people follow HN Guidelines? (Much more likely explanation)

The guidelines themselves say posts should be "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

No I don't think it's a cabal of Jews, but I've seen posts get flagged for being critical of YC or OpenAI, and just a few days ago PG's essay got flagged seemingly just for vague references to the current political climate. There are clearly people using the flagging system to take down posts they don't like and it's always justified with "the post was off topic" even though there are no objective rules for what is on topic.
by dumbledoren | 2025-04-07 02:32:46+00:00
Nope, its just that the current Eu establishment doesnt like how its narrative about the Gaza genocide or the Ukraine War was challenged by including even its own press, so they want control and censorship. The countries that are pushing for this are persecuting people for protesting the Ukraine war or the Gaza genocide. Also there's the thing with the current Eu commission president's secret whatsapp chat with Pfizer lobbyists, which has become a major issue that reached the top European court recently.
by wat10000 | 2025-04-07 02:32:59+00:00
The difference is that we’re reading these comments willingly. A great deal of advertising is imposed on people who don’t want it.

If I don’t want my behavior swayed by HN, I can stop reading it. If I don’t want my behavior swayed by advertising, I can... close my eyes every time a bus goes by, avoid any public place with an operating television, and never check my mail?
by blahaj | 2025-04-07 02:33:01+00:00
We should simply not support websites that download huge arbitrary programs from a huge number of arbitrary third party domains just to retrieve bit by bit what is in the end a static website and reimplement all kinds of standardized browser features in a non standard way that makes a huge number of assumptions and only targets a subset of people with specific browsers with specific settings using specific input devices in a specific way and just break that functionality for everyone else making the open web very closed by enforcing clients behave and be used in a certain pre approved way, breaking accessibility and crippling all kinds of browser features often with disregard and often with intention.

It's my device and I should get to decide what code I run in it, what software I use, how that software displays content to me and how I interact with it.
by hayst4ck | 2025-04-07 02:34:34+00:00
Only so much delusion can be supported. I know the market will stay irrational longer than I can stay solvent, but if a war to break out, which seems more and more likely every day, fundamentals represent how many bullets you can actually produce, and that kind of thing does matter, especially for making policy decisions.

Knowing that there is potentially no basis for half of the country's retirement wealth is important because it means it could disappear over night.
by Taek | 2025-04-07 02:34:46+00:00
I'm actually okay with the things you mentioned. The really salient example for me is: should Disney be allowed to advertise Disney movies and Disney products at Disney world? The answer seems to be a pretty obvious yes to me. If you are at Disney World, you are in the "Disney Ecosystem", and so there's nothing wrong with Disney pushing more Disney stuff at you - that's just part of the experience.

I think that similar exceptions extend to a TV network that's pushing its own products at you while you are watching the station. No consideration has been provided to push the ad, so you are in whatever ecosystem.

How do you know when you've crossed the line into abuse? Well, we have anti-monopoly laws for that. At some point an ecosystem becomes so big it's a monopoly that needs to be broken up, and after it gets broken up it can't self-deal across the broken pieces anymore. So just like we already have good legal infrastructure in place for figuring out when "consideration" has happened, we also have good (well, maybe not good enough lately) legal infrastructure in place for figuring out when a company is too big and too able to self-deal.
by photonthug | 2025-04-07 02:36:20+00:00
Awesome. Had a feeling this was going to be a smalltalk thing. Seems to involve/extend moose[1] among other things.

Judging from the comments and such interesting projects languishing in obscurity.. smalltalk / pharo[2] still has a PR problem even though I think a lot of people are kind of fascinated by the ideas of image-based persistence[3]. The typical easy comparisons to VMs, IDEs, and notebooks all seem to fail to capture an important part of the essence. Hence the need for new vocabulary like "moldable development" and "contextual micro tools" which is all part of the appeal and part of the problem. It really is a different kind of thing.

I (still) hope it all catches on a bit more but my sense is that it probably needs to present itself as a bit less academic. Compare the moose touting of "meta-meta-modeling" with something like gritql[4], which focuses more on use-cases, and seems to be gaining in popularity rather than remaining obscure. Seems like maybe it's time for a change in tactics to bring in a wider audience.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moose_(analysis) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharo [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk#Image-based_persiste... [4] https://github.com/getgrit/gritql
by db48x | 2025-04-07 02:36:21+00:00
Agreed. Another good solution would be for some other mouse company to copy the shape of the MX Master but make a purely wired version, or build it with standard batteries.

Or they could come up with a shape that is similar but fits my own hand even better; that would be cool. The MX Master is the best I’ve found in recent years, but even so it’s not quite perfect.
by kortilla | 2025-04-07 02:36:22+00:00
>If I want a service they provide, I will actively seek them out.

The problem is there are some services you don’t even know exist that could be much better than how you’re currently solving a problem. Think prevention vs treatment of a problem.

For a concrete example:

I learned about a dog groomer that comes to your house this way. Maybe it should have been obvious there would be some that made house calls but searching Google maps for groomers tends to return the ones with locations that you drive to.

Dog hates the car. Problem solved with a thing I didn’t know existed.
by breadwinner | 2025-04-07 02:36:51+00:00
We should let Asian countries manufacture things like t-shirts, sneakers, bamboo baskets, toys and so on and sell them to us for almost nothing. If we made those things here, we wouldn't be able to afford them! Consider this: minimum wage in Vietnam is $200 per month!

What we should be doing is not bringing back manufacturing of such cheap things. Instead, we should manufacture things other countries cannot easily manufacture, such as Nvidia chips, Boeing airplanes, GE jet engines, heavy machinery such as from Caterpillar, medical equipment including robotic surgery machines, immunotherapy and other advanced treatments, gene editing and other biotech products, implantable medical devices, DNA sequencing, nanotech, satellites and aerospace tech, telecom equipment and so on. We can charge a premium price for these products because other countries cannot easily copy us.

Let other countries manufacture cheap things like toys and t-shirts. We'll buy their products low and sell our products high.

Now, a fair question to ask here is, what makes us uniquely qualified to manufacture such high-tech products and sell them to other countries for premium prices? The answer is our universities. Our universities attract the smartest students from around the world. And they stay here after getting their masters and PhDs. The answer is also immigration. We are able to attract the best and the brightest scientists and engineers from around the world.

Trump's mistake is spraying tariffs across everything without carefully evaluating what type of manufacturing we want to bring back to the US, and of course, disappearing immigrant university students under various pretexts.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-04-07 02:37:05+00:00
I choose to buy more expensive clothing produced in places that pay employees a decent wage.

I think the US should pay them more. But the fact of the matter is people really want socks and shirts for a few dollars. People can choose to pay more and avoid sweatshops right now. But the fact is, most don't want to do that, and when given a choice, they won't.
by kelnos | 2025-04-07 02:37:41+00:00
You create a website and do some SEO.

If you're a brick-and-mortar business, you list yourself on whatever various directories exist for businesses, create a Yelp page, etc. Yes, you might get a slower start, but as more people visit your store and come away with a good impression, they'll tell their friends.

But regardless, I... just don't care. Your need as a new business to find customers does not supersede my need to not suffer psychological manipulation every time I go outside or peruse the internet.
by tczMUFlmoNk | 2025-04-07 02:37:43+00:00
Not just that, but two 1D iterated box blurs, requiring an amount of work per pixel that is constant with respect to the blur radius—as opposed to quadratic for the naive convolution, or linear for the 2D-to-1D transformation with a full Gaussian kernel.

http://elynxsdk.free.fr/ext-docs/Blur/Fast_box_blur.pdf
by dwattttt | 2025-04-07 02:37:58+00:00
> For example if I write a C# function which takes a Goose, specifically a Goose, not a Goose? or similar - well, too bad the CLR says my C# function can be called by this obsolete BASIC code which has no idea what a Goose is, but it's OK because it passed null. If my code can't cope with a null? Too bad, runtime exception.

That's actually no different to Rust still; if you try, you can pass a 0 value to a function that only accepts a reference (i.e. a non-zero pointer), be it by unsafe, or by assembly, or whatever.

Disagreeing with another comment on this thread, this isn't a matter of judgement around "who's bug is it? Should the callee check for null, or the caller?". Rust's win is by clearly articulating that the API takes non-zero, so the caller is buggy.

As you mention it can still be an issue, but there should be no uncertainty around who's mistake it is.
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-04-07 02:38:10+00:00
> We’re destroying our environment to store copies of copies of copies of stuff we have no intention of ever looking at again

While I agree that most of the stuff in data centers is probably crap, but that's because most of everything people do is crap. That's not for me to decide though, people save things because they find value in them. Most of what has value to another person won't have value to you. Most of what people treasure in their life is thrown away after they die because nobody wants it, even their closest family members. Who gets to tell everyone the bad news, that objectively their memories are trash and they don't have a right to keep them anymore? Gerry Fuckin' McGovern?

Secondly, we aren't destroying the environment for any of this. Data centers use like 5% or less of the overall electricity use. It's a lot, but we don't have to put datacenters in random locations, we can (and do) put them where electricity is cheap. That generally means that the 5% of electricity used for data centers, kwh for kwh isn't as impactful as an average kwh of end use. Large companies like Meta and Google claim to have zero net carbon by obtaining offsets. So in general we aren't "destroying the environment" to store copies of photos.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-04-07 02:38:13+00:00
I think that's stating it a big too strongly. You can just run the LLM as an unprivileged user and restrict their behavior like you would any other user.

There are still bad things that can happen, but I wouldn't characterize them as "this security is full of holes". Unless you're trusting the output of the explicitly untrusted process in which case you're the hole.
by lxgr | 2025-04-07 02:40:44+00:00
"Classic" Bluetooth does not broadcast a detectable ID except if the device is explicitly in "pairing mode". It can be inferred when observing a connection establishment between two paired devices, or probed for if known (i.e. you can confirm that one of a few candidate devices is nearby, if you know their addresses), but not passively sniffed, as far as I know.

Bluetooth LE does explicitly broadcast its MAC address in some modes, but offers various forms of private or random address modes to mitigate the problem.
by xyst | 2025-04-07 02:41:37+00:00
> because when it comes to technology, these managers exist on a whole other level of stupid vanity and narcissistic pursuit of their own selfish agendas

Regardless of what you think about the article. This rings so true at many Fortune 500 companies.

The number of times I have seen teams work through pointless bullshit to push some meaningless objective for the company. Just so the middle manager (aka “Director of SVP of X product of Y branch”) can get a bullet point(s) in the quarterly “all hands”.

Oh and those 10 developers/off shore people that were just hired? It was all to pump his/her “head count” number to get to the promotion to next grade/level.

Then when that person gets promoted, those people get scattered throughout the firm or just let go.

It’s truly just weaponized incompetence.