MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MrMcCall | 2025-04-07 14:02:01+00:00
Because programmers are creating the abstractions, not the programming language.

And there is no OS I'm aware of that will threaten Unix's dominance any time soon.

I'm not against it, but C's being so close to what microprocessors actually do seems to be story of of its success, now that I think about it.

I personally haven't written in C for more than a half-decade, preferring Python, but everything I do in Python could be done in C, with enough scaffolding. In fact, Python is written in C, which makes sense because C++ would introduce too many byproducts to the tightness required of it.

I was programming C using my own object structuring abstractions as C++ was being developed and released. It can be done, and done well (as evidenced by curl), but it just requires more care, which comes down to the abstractions we choose.

So, I would say "eclipsed" is a bit strong a sentiment, especially given our newly favorite programming langauges are running on OSes written in C.

If I had my druthers, I'd like everything to be F# with native compilation (i.e. not running using the .NET JIT), or OCaml with a more C-ish style of variable instantiation and no GC. But the impedance mismatch likely makes F# a poor choice for producing the kinds of precise abstractions needed for an OS, but that's just my opinion. Regardless, the code that runs runs via the microprocessor so the question really is, "What kinds of programming abstractions produce code that runs well on a microprocessor."

I've never thought of this before, thanks for the great question.
by muzani | 2025-04-07 14:02:03+00:00
That sounds almost exactly what ChatGPT's Deep Research does. (Not to be confused with Grok's which seems to be doing mostly busywork)

It's a bit like a crawler, goes through papers, then follows down to other relevant papers. One advantage I see it seems to be able to search through movies as well.

But in the end you get a stack of reading materials and still have to do the work of reading them. I did try to get it to summarize them into instructions but it drops the main points.
by ivan_gammel | 2025-04-07 14:02:10+00:00
>If you're careful about how you store personal data in the first place

Unfortunately this is a really big "if" looking at typical businesses. They have no idea about how compliance should work and they also hire barely qualified people to marketing teams (often interns), who may accidentally add some privacy-breaking stuff. To prevent that they hire an external DPO and then deal with the paperwork for that DPO, who never visits the company onsite and never meets real people touching privacy topics.

So no, it's not a breeze, because there's generally no enough expertise and temptation to use American non-compliant MarTech is high.

One possible solution to that could be a pan-European registry of data processors with enough metadata to a) generate privacy policy, b) request correct consent, c) provide a compliance implementation checklist for non-trivial cases. There could be a small fee for adding services to this registry, but that would make maintaining compliance much easier.
by ksec | 2025-04-07 14:02:18+00:00
In another Chinese article, they mentioned using GPMI instead of what Samsung uses optic and power cable for a separate box. Basically they want to separate the Panel and the controller. You buy a Panel like a monitor, except it is powered by a devices using GPMI cable. That devices will have the TV processor, WiFI, RAM, Network, TV tuner etc.

I would imagine if this caught on Apple may want to get into this set top box business.
by hmmm-i-wonder | 2025-04-07 14:02:52+00:00
Man I really needed that last month playing with some friends. Would have been hilarious and more fun!. Bit of a reducto-ad-absurdum though isn't it.

But in all seriousness there is a difference between something that is forgiving and something that requires a high degree of practice to master. If its a hobby, get what is forgiving.

If you can't see the wisdom in that advice, well you can lead a horse to water eh.
by const_cast | 2025-04-07 14:02:54+00:00
Not everything has to scale, and we should be comfortable with some ideas just being bad and us not doing them.

We got here because of scaling. We can now efficiently tap into the mental space of billions of humans at the same time. And that’s not just a problem, that’s THE problem.

Meaning that “this doesn’t scale!” isn’t a side effect. It’s the main effect, it’s the solution.
by cardanome | 2025-04-07 14:03:14+00:00
> For example in the USA, they will refuse to speak German with you. So what?

Actually they would most likely be delighted to show off their German if they knew any. But that is besides the point. English for better or worse is the current international language.

I can found a new company in Estonia in literal minutes without speaking a single word of Estonian and without being physically present in the country because the whole process is digital and in English.

If you want to attract international talent you have to adapt.

> The German word "Freund" (commonly translated with "friend") has a different meaning than the English "friend" - the relationship goes much deeper. I don't think that Germans are not open to making new "Freunde", but if you want to have shallow, superficial relationships, Germany is not the ideal country. Vice versa, if you want to have deep relationships, you will likely be annoyed by the USA.

Yeah, Americans have only superficial friendships, only us Germans know the value of real friendships. (Sarcasm)

You are not wrong about there being subtle cultural differences but it isn't an either or. You can value deep friendships but still be friendly towards acquaintances.

In the end it doesn't matter the reason. If expats feel like Germans are acting coldly towards them and have a bad time in Germany, that is what they are feeling. It doesn't matter if there are good reason for that or if Germans didn't even intend to act coldly. It just fact that Germany is often seen as one of the least friendly countries for outsiders. Not everyone, some do find it easy to integrate but most don't.

I sick of the chauvinism is see from other Germans. Our culture isn't better or worse than others. We certainly have many areas we could improve.
by codingdave | 2025-04-07 14:03:18+00:00
I can offer only second-hand knowledge, but I was told at the time that Lotus was intending to keep the RAD aspects and drop email from it completely, leaving cc:Mail as a standalone product. But IBM came along and wanted to modernize their email system, so Lotus took a deal to take the direction IBM wanted because it also brought massive marketing and consulting power and could drive adoption better than Lotus could.
by ceejayoz | 2025-04-07 14:03:42+00:00
You're both half right.

There's no law, regulation, or court case because the industry self-regulates in fear of a new law being made.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2014/aug/20/heineken/n...

> "The fact that it is self-regulated now, that’s not something brewers would want to put in jeopardy," Kirkpatrick said. "It’s the way they have operated for decades. You show a lot of people enjoying a football game or enjoying a baseball game but you don’t show any consumption. I don't think you’re going to see that change."

> A Heineken beer commercial said regulations ban showing someone drinking beer on camera. If you take a more relaxed view of regulations, that’s close to the truth. The rules come from the television networks, not the government. The restriction might not have the force of law but it’s just as effective. We rate the claim Mostly True.
by pjc50 | 2025-04-07 14:03:48+00:00
The threats to Canada aren't attracting nearly as much attention as they should. The problem is people have got too used to just assuming that what Trump says is bullshit: it's just there to sound good on the news, there's no intent to actually do it. Then the tariffs hit.

If there's the slightest possibility that what he says is not bullshit, then Canada needs to take it very seriously and the entire northern hemisphere security architecture needs to permanently change.
by lazide | 2025-04-07 14:03:55+00:00
Actually, it does and will in the right conditions. Look at page 11 of that link.

I did some research, and the plating issue happens when charge currents exceed the ability for the battery to absorb them, which dramatically decreases below freezing.

That is why those battery charts show dramatically reduced charge currents (nearly zero) when around freezing.

That data sheet also doesn’t cover cell life in these conditions conditions.

They have very high normal C ratings (hundreds of amps) which is why it is measurable and not actually zero, but reducing it to a couple amps before failure isn’t much different.

If batteries aren’t failing in these conditions, it’s because of some other protective circuit, not because the battery itself is special. It isn’t.
by johannes1234321 | 2025-04-07 14:04:03+00:00
Absolutely true, but "crazy" is a lot broader.

Looking at the crazy New York city, with the crazy architecture and such or going othe replaces and seeing the crazy car centric structures, but also the crazy neighborhood between rich and poor or just the crazy landscape around Grand Canyon or Niagara Falls.

The positive crazy compared to negative crazy sums up less and less to a positive value, though.
by eggy | 2025-04-07 14:04:14+00:00
I'll have a better look later at the methods and sources used, but given the US crack down on border policies from the previous minimal effort achieved by the Biden administration in securing our borders, this is to be expected. It's been less than three months from Trump taking office. Like the stock market this will swing back over the year. The US voted for change with borders being a top issue. It is going to take a while to come back to center from the actions to effect the change. Axios is not exactly a great objective source as rated by third-party media watchers as being left leaning, Soros funded. It would be great to see comparable stats from the UK and Canada and Germany where I'd expect the graph to be like the US Biden-era policies. Seeing how the UK and the others have been flooded with immigration this past decade, I'd expect to see similar "falling off a cliff" stats once they tighten their borders and policies. I see this as a necessary counter swing of the pendulum when you go from almost no scrutiny to normal scrutiny at the borders. It will stabilize to a norm, so I am not concerned. I had very bad border experiences in the late 80s in England and France, so I have some emotional experience to temper my opinion here. It sucks to be singled out unfairly or due to operator error in filling out forms, but how just how many Canadians have had this bad experience in the past 3 months compared to the 17 years of data previous? Was the reporting and SOPs of the border equivalent for statistical purposes?
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-04-07 14:04:31+00:00
> I travel even more than you

How do you know? It doesn't look like OP specified how much they've traveled.

> I only got robbed twice...in Johannesburg, South Africa and Stockholm, Sweden...it happened on 100% of my trips to Sweden

That sucks, I'm sorry that happened. It sounds like it happened once, and so that "100%" is just one trip by one person? Unfortunately, that result is within the realm of randomness, though I'd understand if, to you, it felt bigger than that.

That said, I don't think it compares to arbitrary (or worse, politically- and personally-motivated) government detainment (or otherwise harming) of innocent people.
by babycommando | 2025-04-07 14:04:38+00:00
Liquid neural networks are awesome - they change how that "neuron black box" connects over time given its past experiences, emulating the human brain in relating concepts and how it changes our perspective.

They are great at time series forecasting like weather and analytics, however the idea is to do it on a transformers model, making it acquire neuroplasticity at token prediction - and as we know its very expensive to train a whole model from scratch.

I figured we could splice in a new neuron layer inside the model's networks right between the transformers layer and the output projection layer that actually predicts the tokens. This way the thought would have "influences" of past experiences for every token generated aka. during the entire line of thinking, making the model acquire a "personality in behavior" over time.

The vector embeddings from the transformers layer are mean-pooled and "sprayed" with past memories changing the way each token is generated, influencing the meaning and therefore choice of words in the vocab space. This neural “Spray Layer” also remembers the paths it took before, blending new input with previous ones and gradually evolving its internal understanding of concepts over time.

It won’t guarantee exact word outputs, but it will make the model lean into certain concepts the more it interacts. For example: Tell it you love dogs, and over time, the model will start leaning toward dog-related kindness, loyalty, and fuzziness in its tone and direction. More teste are yet to be done and I know there is a cold start problem, finding the sweet spot is key.

This is quite fascinating, especially because we don't know exactly what happen at the model's transformer neuron level and how it makes the connections, but hacking it like this is interesting to watch.

I called this technique "Neural Graffiti", and it is free and open for everyone.

Try the demo and give it a star on the github repo!
by colonial | 2025-04-07 14:05:15+00:00
> AI lab founders believe they are in a civilizational competition for control of the entire future lightcone, and will be made Dictator of the Universe if they succeed.

Bingo, but I'd argue this is only scratching the surface of how twisted things are.

A lot of the stuff these labs put out (see: Amodei's cult-like blog ramblings) reeks of what I call "sociopathic utopianism" - essentially, the logical extreme of ends-justified means, made worse in the context of AI labs by the singularity pseudo-religion.

They all truly believe that AGI/ASI is possible, imminent, and could lead to utopia... so achieving that goal will surely outweigh any unsavory acts they commit in the pursuit of it.

This is why I think it's possible OpenAI took out a hit on Suchir; getting bogged down in a legal battle could delay the arrival of their machine god messiah. Same for defrauding benchmarks - they just need a "few more rounds" of investor cash, and by the time those run out, they'll surely have AGI on lock!

Fools. I look forward to them all getting prison time.
by rsynnott | 2025-04-07 14:05:21+00:00
I mean, given the baseline that the EU _has_ to retaliate (IMO the game theory of trade wars dictates this; the EU really can't _not_ retaliate), targeted retaliation against Trump's people, and potentially targeted retaliation against Trump-voting regions (the EU did this in Trump's first attempt at tariff increases a few years back), is likely less damaging than China's approach for the EU (though certainly also lacking in the same degree of shock and awe).
by fennecfoxy | 2025-04-07 14:05:44+00:00
Ofc they grow "attached", because it's free shit - I'd say it's got 99% nothing to do with nostalgia or attachment to their parents and more a huge boon to their wallets. The number of people that whine about inheritance taxes is ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as the number of people (on here especially) that think that owning a second/holiday home is practically a human right (for them).
by favflam | 2025-04-07 14:06:00+00:00
I believe politicians in the EU are chomping at the bit to get a digital services tax implemented against US big tech companies. I think Silicon Valley tech titans really screwed the pooch here.

They are going to be big targets for trade retaliation and I am not sure how much help the US government will be able to offer. Moreover, if the administration changes, the Democrats will absolutely take apart these tech companies.
by JohnFen | 2025-04-07 14:06:00+00:00
> I cannot count the number of times I listened to a customer complain about a lack of feature velocity (real or perceived) in one meeting

Maybe it depends on what part of the enterprise software market you're in. I've been working on enterprise software for decades and I've never once heard a customer complain about a general lack of feature velocity. They have complained about the time it takes to implement some specific feature that they really want, but that's a different thing. In my experience, what enterprises want is stability and as little change as possible while keeping the software useful.

The only way I can reconcile our two different experiences is that we're addressing different sorts of enterprises.
by _ph_ | 2025-04-07 14:06:16+00:00
Well, it is obvious that between a RAW file and the final image there are a lot of complex processing steps. But that is independent of the file format used. DNG isn't so much different, just documented. And while the manufacturers converter might give the best results, the photographers rather use the image processing programs from Adobe or their competition which use their own RAW converters anyway.
by _bin_ | 2025-04-07 14:06:21+00:00
I think I miscommunicated my support for some trade policy change as support for Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs. Here are things I think we should fix:

- America and Hypotheticalstan each export $1T to each other with a bunch of tariffs on various things. America raises $50B in tariff revenue on Hypotheticalstan’s imports while Hypotheticalstan raises $100B on American imports.

- America doesn’t make enough defense-critical stuff: steel, solar panels, chips, aluminum, rare earths, etc.

- America has a ~$918B trade deficit.

Things I do not care about:

- Vietnam makes our Nikes.

- We have a trade deficit with specifically Vietnam.
by t43562 | 2025-04-07 14:06:21+00:00
I wouldn't take it quite as seriously as it takes itself. These articles like to lay down a view of the universe as if it was the first and last word but I don't think it is at all.

We couldn't function at all if all companies failed to do work properly because of some odd decision about what's a cost and what isn't. If you have a toll bridge then fixing the bridge isn't a cost....unless you actually WANT it to fall down.
by zo1 | 2025-04-07 14:06:41+00:00
The word "non-profit" is the problem. People assume it means charity or "company that does good without seeking profit" or some similar variation.

Instead, they are basically government-codified vehicles for tax, accounting and coordination purposes that allow laundering of money through plausible salaries and plausible expenses in the process of doing their stated "good deed". The "good" they do is secondary, as they are essentially entities that need want and are encouraged to self-perpetuate. Remember, the salaries and expenses go out first before the actual charity portion.

Without quibbling over definitions and tax-terms, I'd say the same essentially applies to "charities" and "churches" and "religious organizations".
by rickdeckard | 2025-04-07 14:06:46+00:00
Noone is disputing the advantage of RAW. I tried to provide the view from a pure development perspective, looking at a feature backlog.

It "just happens" to be selectable because it is a byproduct of the internal development: The existing RAW format is used internally during development and tuning of the product, and is implemented to work with vendor-internal processes and tools.

Supporting DNG would require a SEPARATE development, and it would still not replace a proprietary RAW-format in the internal toolchain.

(because the DNG patent-license comes with rights for Adobe as well as an option to revoke the license)
by khaledh | 2025-04-07 14:06:58+00:00
Thanks for explaining. I think the answer to your question lies in the fact that Hamas is not a regular army. They're fighting an army that has the most advanced weapons and tech on the planet, and they can't put a target on their back while moving around. This has been the case throughout history when the indigenous resistance fights a mighty colonial army.

Israel has the intelligence and capability to pin point their targets and deploy high precision targeting, as demonstrated in Lebanon and Iran. After seeing so many war crimes committed by the IDF, I'm convinced that while they can assess and eliminate targets in a precise fashion, thus minimizing civilan casualties, they deliberately _choose_ not to do so.
by pjc50 | 2025-04-07 14:07:30+00:00
There's definitely going to be some sort of EU-China rapprochement now. Not that China is less oppressive - they remain more oppressive, and I wouldn't like to, say, get caught with weed going into China. But they're much less loudly annoying about it.

(another one to watch out for: opiate painkillers in your hand luggage into Middle Eastern states, including Dubai.)
by greenavocado | 2025-04-07 14:07:40+00:00
You are lying by omission.

The Gewerbeanmeldung typically registers you as a sole proprietor (Einzelunternehmer) or GbR (partnership). Most tech startups need a limited liability structure like GmbH (similar to LLC) or UG. Those require notarized founding documents, minimum capital requirements (€25,000 for GmbH), and a commercial register entry (Handelsregister)

The simple Gewerbeanmeldung structure is problematic for venture capital because most VCs require a corporate entity structure (GmbH/UG) and converting from a simple structure to a proper corporation later can trigger tax consequences.

At each investment round all shareholders must appear before a notary or provide notarized power of attorney, the entire investment agreement must be read aloud by the notary, changes to company documents require notarization, and each notarization costs thousands of euros and creates delays.

Major decisions which are likely to affect shareholders require formal shareholder meetings with proper notice periods. Unanimous consent is often required for key decisions. Capital increases must be executed through complex formal processes. Registration with the commercial register takes weeks. Minimum nominal values of shares restrict flexibility. Required reporting to tax authorities is extensive. I can go on and on. And don't even get me started about German employee stock option plans.
by codingdave | 2025-04-07 14:08:54+00:00
I feel that R5 was the peak for web dev - that brought in the actual Domino server, which is where it became possible to have a split between your front-end and back-end, delivering web apps with whatever front-end tech you wanted, and making calls to the server as needed, similarly to modern API endpoints.

They then kept trying to re-invent web development to be more tightly integrated, and it all went badly. R5 came out in 1999, and I rejected pretty much all their new front-end features after that point, but delivered a couple decades of web-based apps just using Domino as a back-end stack.
by rayiner | 2025-04-07 14:09:05+00:00
Conflating wealth with security is inaccurate, but the article doesn’t make sense even in its own terms.

For example, “millionaires” aren’t rare. The median age of Congressional representatives is 57.5. That puts the average House member outside the top 10% of wealth for that age group, but somewhat inside the top 25%. https://www.myroadtofire.com/blog/average-net-worth-by-age. Similarly, a $1,200 medical bill wouldn’t “send most Americans into a financial tailspin.” Neither of my wife’s parents finished college, and none of their parents did. They could all afford a surprise $1,200 medical bill.

Again, the median income of a married couple household with children is $120,000/year. These are folks who can expect to be worth a million dollars after working and saving for 30 years, and who can afford a $1,200 medical bill (and support their kids or family members in such a situation). The article is painting a misleading picture of how secure Americans are. It is making this level of security seem rare, akin to “generational wealth,” when in fact it’s extremely common.