MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by crazygringo | 2025-04-16 15:09:24+00:00
Well your theory would seem to be directly contradicted by the fact that he's been musing about figuring out ways to have a third term.

> Hindsight 20/20? Oh, I saw all of this, and I knew all of this would happen.

Great. So I assume you made massively leveraged bets to short the stock market and are now rich?

Or maybe you didn't, because talk is cheap, and you didn't actually know anything. Because nobody knew anything.

> Stupid Americans.

Please take this kind of talk elsewhere. Trump didn't even win 50% of the vote. But regardless, insulting entire nationalities is never called for.
by glitchc | 2025-04-16 15:09:52+00:00
Concur, employee training and retention are at an all-time low. There are no positions available for junior employees, minimal onboarding and mentoring of new employees. Organizations have stopped planning people's careers. Used to be that the employee's career growth was their manager's problem, while the employee could focus on the work. Now the employee must market themselves as often, if not more often, than actually doing the work. Meanwhile organizations see employees as cost centres and a net drain on their revenue sources.

Corporate culture in America is definitely broken. I'm not sure how we can fix it.
by jug | 2025-04-16 15:09:58+00:00
AI as we know it (GPT based LLM’s) have peaked. OpenAI noticed this sometime autumn last year when would-be GPT-5 was unimpressive despite the huge size. I still think ChatGPT 4.5 was GPT-5, just rebranded to set expectations.

Google Gemini 2.5 Pro was remarkably good and I’m not sure how they did it. It’s like an elite athlete doing a jump forward despite harsh competition. They probably have excellent training methodology and data quality.

DeepSeek made huge inroads in affordability…

But even with those, intelligence itself is seeing diminishing returns while training costs are not.

So OpenAI _needs_ to diversify - somehow. If they rely on intelligence alone, then they’re toast. So they can’t.
by like_any_other | 2025-04-16 15:10:31+00:00
> these are statements where you note that you support teaching all kids, will make efforts to be inclusive and ensure your class has an inclusive environment

If you look at one example of the actual assessment criteria [1], merely teaching without discrimination or exclusion earns the lowest possible score.

[1] Only mentions activities that are already the expectation of faculty as evidence of commitment and involvement (for example, "I always invite and welcome students from all backgrounds to participate in my research lab, and in fact have mentored several women." - https://web.archive.org/web/20200302212643/https://ofew.berk...
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-04-16 15:11:44+00:00
Sony has $20 billion of cash on hand as of December 2024, Microsoft has $70 billion of cash on hand, and Apple has $53 billion of cash on hand. If something goes south, the rest of the company can keep them afloat (and has in multiple cases, see Xbox 360 red ring); Nintendo has no such luxury.

Sony receives 38% of their revenue from PlayStation. Microsoft receives 8% of their revenue from Xbox. Apple's amount is four times larger than Nintendo, but insignificant to Apple. Nintendo, meanwhile, >90% at least comes from gaming-related activity (movie and toy licensing might be the exception).

Yes, Nintendo is the smallest, the most dependent on the industry, and it's not even close.
by acdha | 2025-04-16 15:11:53+00:00
> Trump said he was not going to follow the project 2025 plan.

He didn’t convincingly reject it, though, and his distancing was only convincing to people who were looking for an excuse to ignore it with the way he pretended not to know the people behind it when 31 of the 38 authors were members of his first administration, his campaign was in close contact throughout, and he certainly didn’t put much effort into rejecting specific policy proposals.

I think this is a case where different audiences got different messages. The hardcore base knew he was lying since it had all of their red meat issues, informed Democrats knew he was lying because actions speak louder than vague denials (e.g. if you don’t agree with someone’s policies, you wouldn’t let them have a role in your campaign and you’d be able to say what you’d do differently), but he gave the media and casual voters just enough to make it harder for Biden/Harris to land attacks which we now know were fully accurate.
by lordfrito | 2025-04-16 15:11:55+00:00
I'm endlessly fascinated by the stories that come out about the execs dealings during that period. How they were offered and passed on being the American distributor for the NES (all because the exec saw Donkey Kong running on a Coleco Adam at CES). [0] And how they funded but f'ed up the deal with the Amiga chipset (it should have been theirs but Commodore stole it at the 11'th hour). [1] Or how they were illegally bypassing DRAM price controls in the Tramiel era (the illegal $$$ is the main reason Atari stayed afloat after the disastrous Federated Group purchase). [2] The list goes on and on.

I'm under the impression that there's a lot of real dirty stuff that's been swept under the rug, maybe now lost to time, as many of the execs are no longer with us. A lot is documented in the book "Atari: Business if Fun". [3] A shame that the follow up book "Atari: Business is War" will likely never be finished. [4]

[0] https://www.timeextension.com/features/flashback-remember-wh...

[1] https://www.nostalgianerd.com/the-amiga-story/

[2] https://forums.atariage.com/topic/207245-secret-atari-dram-r...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Atari-Inc-Business-Curt-Vendel/dp/098...

[4] https://forums.atariage.com/topic/227211-atari-corp-business...
Tell HN: Warning Google trains on your data when using aistudio.google.com
by bn-l | 2025-04-16 15:12:07+00:00
This is even if you're using it with a google account that has billing connected.

The fine print is here: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms

If I'm being uncharitable this is purposefully deceptive / a dark pattern to scoop up as much data as possible.
by Doches | 2025-04-16 15:12:15+00:00
Visual Studio Code was first released in 2015; Intellij (the original JetBrains IDE) was first released in 2001. Even Atom -- the editor that Microsoft forked to make VSCode -- had its first public release in 2014.

It's safe to say that JetBrains IDEs are something other than "crappy VSCode clones."
by throwanem | 2025-04-16 15:12:21+00:00
"Most avid users," I believe I said. You seem to exclude yourself from the category, so it isn't surprising you should have a perspective other than that I seek to describe.

As for the rest, I made a general factual claim that I'm happy to discuss, but I do not know you and neither can nor care to attempt to speak to your personal situation, so if you continue insisting on the latter I'll have to demur from further participation. I'm a student of and commentator upon the moment of history in which I happen to have found myself, rather than a social scientist or indeed any other kind, and also not your father confessor. If the result of my observation and analysis fails to satisfy your standard, that's okay by me.

Or we could try to have a conversation about it, I suppose. For example, what explains the trend of both cultures' slang growing more similar over time? Merely circulating receipts to make fun of doesn't seem likely to have this result; why socially adopt language unique to a common object of social-bonding contempt? And so forth.

I obviously don't have a lot of data for or against, and I think neither does anyone else for events too recent to have more than begun to be studied. I am one unemployed software engineer. You are free to demand I exceed in result the entire professional vocation whose job is this kind of analysis, but I can of course do nothing in response save disappoint.
by kelipso | 2025-04-16 15:12:40+00:00
I wouldn’t say anything has replaced it yet, more that the Trump admin is trying to do so currently by removing a lot of programs, banning words, purging employees, etc. Whether that will be successful remains to be seen but coastal liberal culture is very dominant and I don’t see it being replaced any time soon. And I guess you could call the other culture conservative culture.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-04-16 15:12:57+00:00
Incomplete because of https://dialog.hochbahn.de/bus-in-zukunft/neue-brennstoffzel... and https://www.hochbahn.de/de/presse/pressemitteilungen/brennst... and https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/hamburg/Hamburger-Hochbahn-st...

(jooze tränntzläyshun zörvizzäss!)

TL;DR: Hamburgs mobility provider is trying it again, after failure in 2019 with 5 Busses, with 5 Busses (Fuel-Cell) again, this time allegedly 'mass production ready'.

With the intent of max. 10% of the fleet based on this ¹, or similar, in 2030, which is their target for carbon neutrality.

Got a little bit more range, refuels faster (in 15 minutes), than the few hours E-Busses (currently) need.

Regarding infrastructure this has to be seen in the context of Hamburg wanting to be a hydrogen hub, because of its harbour, shipping, processing and such.

Shrug? We'll see...

¹ actually the Hamburger Hochbahn isn't the only provider, about the other half comes from VHH ( https://vhh-mobility.de ) which don't use or intend to use hydrogen, instead going for battery electric exclusively. Which in the context of 'Hydrogen Hub Hamburg' mentioned above, seems logical, because they operate lines far out of that also.
by sdenton4 | 2025-04-16 15:13:19+00:00
I think the post talks about exactly this? The method is combining hashing the keys and finding a position in the target range. There's a bit where he talks about how Knuth uses the term 'hash function' as the combination of these two operations, while modern texts look at the two operations in isolation.

So maybe one way of looking at this is as an efficient fusion operation, which doesn't look special when you look at the ops in isolation, but combine to something that is both fast and advised problems with input patterns.
by alkonaut | 2025-04-16 15:13:24+00:00
7. Uncertainty seems overlooked these days. The job of politicians is to make people and businesses dare. Making people dare getting an expensive education or starting a business or hiring your first employee or whatever it might be. What that requires will vary (if it's a social security system or a tax break for new companies or whatever). But something it always requires is trust in the stability. That the calculus for an investment is valid over N years. That laws or taxes don't swing wildly with political cycles.
by ncapati | 2025-04-16 15:13:27+00:00
Existing small rooftops have always been eligible for RECs, we didn’t create this incentive - it has always been available to this segment. But, the administrative burden put on resi solar installers and developers to manually register thousands of rooftop systems have made it impossible for these small distributed energy systems to claim them, until Jasmine. REC revenue has been knowingly or unknowingly money left on the table that could help lower system cost upfront or generate monthly passive income.

Non utility has been eligible for RECs since the market was created in the early 2000s and with rooftop solar installation sky rocketing in recent years hitting 5 million solar installs, where more than 90% of those installs are on rooftops - this creates an urgency around solving this problem.

We’re automating REC admin so that residential and commercial, the small scale solar segment including third party owned systems (leases and PPA) have easier access to the market by automating registration and simplifying selling.

I only see rooftop solar segment expanding - there’s a huge push on the state level and at the utilities to support distributed generation because of the additional advantage it has on the environment, we want to incentivize more rooftop solar because rooftops already exist rather than taking up land to build solar farms, here’s a good article on this

https://publicinterestnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07...
by Krssst | 2025-04-16 15:13:40+00:00
Ubsan docs do mention one case where UB is defined by the implementation: floating point division by zero: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer.html

By contrast, I'd assume any other report by ubsan to be fair game for the optimizer to do its thing and generate whatever code is going to be different from what was likely the developer's intention. If not in the current version, maybe in a future one.
by comte7092 | 2025-04-16 15:13:52+00:00
The amount of money we are talking about for research is so small in comparison to the debt that it’s a red herring to even bring up the current debt level. As you’ve noted, even the largest parts of the budget are dwarfed by the total deficit. Researching is a rounding error.

There’s this thing called taxes. We’ve had thirty years of tax hawks intentionally creating this situation that we find ourselves in, because they’ve cut taxes without any sense of responsibility for its impact on the debt/deficit. In fact that’s been their plan all along, to “starve the beast”, cause a crisis, and force cuts to popular programs that they wouldn’t get political support for otherwise.
by gaze | 2025-04-16 15:14:31+00:00
You should learn calculus and differential equations, and then some probability. At that point you should learn a bit of measure theory and then stochastic calculus builds on all that. Stochastic calculus is basically just weird calculus. It has an additional differential dW and the chain rule is more complex (for the Ito formulation. Stratonovich is different but not by much)

From there you study the behavior of various forms of stochastic differential equations that are intended to model certain situations. Then, you make this cool connection between stochastic differential equations and ordinary differential equations that describe the evolution of the corresponding probability distributions. There’s lots of other stuff but those are the hits.
by ndiddy | 2025-04-16 15:14:37+00:00
> Why did Atari not just use a signal analyzer to get the key?

The 10NES chip was a bit more complicated than that. Basically the way it worked was that there was a chip in every NES, and another chip in every cartridge. On reset, the chip in the NES randomly picks 1 of 16 bitstreams, and tells the chip in the cartridge which bitstream it chose. Each chip then starts continuously sending the chosen bitstream to the other chip. If the chip in the NES sees a discrepancy between the generated bitstream and the bitstream it received, it will reset the NES. This is the cause of the famous NES "blinking red light".

> Also, why was there a copy of the code at the United States Copyright Office?

If a copyright holder registers their copyright, it amplifies their rights (such as granting them a higher amount of damages in an infringement lawsuit). Registering the copyright for a piece of software involves submitting the first 25 pages and last 25 pages of the source code, or the entire code, whatever's smaller. The 10NES chip used an extremely simple 4-bit microcontroller with only 512 bytes of ROM, so the copyright office has the entire source code.
by barnabee | 2025-04-16 15:15:16+00:00
Why not let big companies die and be replaced by startups if the only way they can succeed is by [ab]using their incumbent position to “rejuvenate” (a euphemism if ever I saw one!)?

It would stop worse products winning as a result of resources gained through prior successes (and monopolistic practices).

In fact, I’d be happy to see a situation where sufficiently unrelated businesses have to be sold off after some grace period even if they were developed in house.
by like_any_other | 2025-04-16 15:15:24+00:00
> R&D is a cost center that can no longer be written off of a company’s taxes.

Can you elaborate on this? It was my understanding a company only pays taxes on profit. So isn't the revenue that goes into R&D effectively taxed at 0%, since at that point it's not yet profit? I.e. only dividend payouts get taxed.
by derektank | 2025-04-16 15:15:55+00:00
This contract is funded by CISA, which is an agency within the Department of Homeland Security, not DoD. As far as I'm aware, there are no components of DHS with Title 10 or Title 50 authorities to conduct cyber operations, unless you count the Coast Guard but they normally operate under Title 14. So there really should be no conflicts of interest as no one in the DHS is authorized to exploit vulnerabilities as part of cyber operations.
by throwanem | 2025-04-16 15:16:32+00:00
I'm not sure if you're arguing that the overlap was less than I describe or that it was negligible. But I would soften my prior claim far enough to say that, while each site had its own constellation of cultural tropes and styles with which the median user of that site would primarily identify, a large minority or more of each site's most prolific cultural transmitters was broadly and continuously informed by participation in both cultures, such that those cultures tended over time to express increasingly similar behaviors, utterances, and semiosis, despite over the same span each growing overtly more hateful and contemptuous of the other.

(A Freudian might reduce this to superego vs. id, a Jungian to animus and anima. I'm not any of those kinds of mendicant, and make no assertion as to etiology. But it is anything but controversial to suggest we have recently changed our environment in ways that can be unexpectedly dangerous for the young and others whose personalities are incompletely or imperfectly developed.)
by Narishma | 2025-04-16 15:16:45+00:00
> Every game Sony releases eventually winds up with a PC port, and many of them are even released on Xbox.

It's the other way around, Microsoft games on PC and more recently PS5. Sony sometimes releases their games on PC (often years after console) but AFAIK the only one they've released on Xbox is MLB The Show and that was MLB forcing their hand if they wanted to keep the license.
by throwaway652368 | 2025-04-16 15:16:46+00:00
I've never seen conspiracy to commit murder of individual people on 4chan. That would violate U.S. law and thus is banned from the site. There are retarded posts about genociding whole groups of people, but while that's totally retarded, it shouldn't be censored, no more than it should be illegal to propose blowing up the sun.
by diggan | 2025-04-16 15:17:05+00:00
> Now they've hamstrung themselves into this AGI nonsense to try

AFAIK, they've been on the AGI hype-train for a very long time, before they reached mainstream popularity for sure. From their own blog (2020 - https://openai.com/index/organizational-update/), here is a mention of their "mission":

> We’re proud of these and other research breakthroughs by our team, all made as part of our mission to achieve general-purpose AI that is safe and reliable, and which benefits all humanity.

I'm not sure OpenAI trying to reach AGI is a "strategic mistake" as much as "the basis for the business" (which, to be fair, was a non-profit organization initially).
by lordfrito | 2025-04-16 15:17:30+00:00
Mainly because they were the only game in town back then. At the time they were the fastest growing company in history... So many $$$, for a time everything they touched turned to gold. Being first in a new industry, they made all the mistakes that subsequent companies learned from and avoided. For example, putting a textiles executive in charge, treating developers like assembly line workers, etc.

This all laid the seeds for their subsequent implosion... Epic rise, epic fall. I wish someone would make a movie about that story.
by nathan_compton | 2025-04-16 15:17:59+00:00
This is one of the weirder contemporary "anti-woke" takes. For one thing, that which is performative can easily also be genuine, and quite arguably if one feels genuine about something then one ought to perform it, hopefully in a way that makes it attractive to other people.

But on the subject of whether things are genuine or not, I see lots of actual, cash on the table, give money, mutual aid in these communities. I could understand performance as being artificial, but if someone is dropping cash to help a person out of a bad situation, that seems a pretty good definition of authentic to me.

In any case, "it's performative" simply does not imply it is not also real.
Ask HN: How are you handling auth and integrations for AI assistants?
by alexpcox | 2025-04-16 15:18:26+00:00
I'm building AI assistants that help users with tasks across their productivity stack — things like reading emails, checking calendars, or searching the web.

These assistants could live on desktop, in-browser, or in ambient/connected devices — so the context varies.

A few challenges I keep running into:

> Unknown tools – I don’t know ahead of time which apps the user uses (Gmail vs Outlook, Google Calendar vs iCloud). But with MCP this should be OK as long as each tool is set up.

> Auth fragmentation – Each tool has different auth flows (some sync, some async), and different scopes.

> Granularity – I want to limit what the assistant can do (e.g., just read subject lines, not full emails).

> Shared permissions – Ideally, multiple agents should be able to re-use the same connection with scoped permissions.

> User control – Users need a clear view of what each agent can do, and a way to revoke or update it.

I’ve started sketching an infra layer to help solve this — something like “Auth0 for AI agents” — with:

> Categorised integrations (email, calendar, etc.)

> Method-level permissioning

> Agent-specific permissions + scopes

> Async-friendly auth flows

> End-user permission dashboard

Before building too far, I’d love to hear how others are solving this. Are you working on similar AI assistants or tools? How are you handling integrations, auth, and control?
by babaceca | 2025-04-16 15:18:43+00:00
I've worked at both a casino company and a large mobile game studio, and the latter was way shadier in almost all aspects.

There's a list of 20-ish large companies we univerally agree are evil and openly bash all the time, but the reality is 95% of the industry is at best doing absolutely meaningless work, and at worst work that's deeply negative for the world.
by apercu | 2025-04-16 15:19:40+00:00
Interesting. I had a similar experience mentoring someone who had a lot of potential but tended to stutter when presenting to clients until they would get in to a flow. What I did was gently say that "I, too, am sometimes nervous presenting to a room" of strangers (usually executives) during project pitches due to the stakes.

So I told them that my trick was to get them talking about their business straight out of the gate (because most people like talking about themselves at that level) and their stutter went away.

I feel like that's maybe more constructive approach.