MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by el_cujo | 2025-04-15 17:14:55+00:00
I think this was true at one point but not for the past 5-10 years. Based off of using the site I feel like now a lot of things start on other sites (particularly smaller accounts on twitter), get aggregated and popularized on 4chan, and then get picked up on other sites (often regurgitated back to twitter). Knowyourmeme shows this for a lot of things that people typically attribute as original to 4chan. There was definitely a time when a ton of stuff originated on 4chan but these days everything is so interconnected with the same people posting on twitter, reddit, and 4chan that I think 4chan gets a lot of unearned credit
by prpl | 2025-04-15 17:15:13+00:00
>>> We’ve seen so many reports of celebrity scientists committing fraud at our most elite institutions

Can you define "many"? 100k reports? 10k reports? 1k reports? 150 reports? 15 reports? What's the incidence? What's the rate compared to the public and private sectors? What's the rate for defense contractors? Are we talking social sciences, hard sciences, health sciences? What's the field?

"many" is just intellectually lazy here. The reality is you read a few stories in the media and now have written off the entire model of research funding.

Failures (ethical or otherwise) are an everyday occurrence at scale, and the US research and funding model is at a scale unparalleled in the world.
by mindslight | 2025-04-15 17:16:11+00:00
Where does government subsidized loans to banks (eg Fed, Fannie, Freddie) sit in your list? The government is a monetary sovereign - it cannot run out of dollars to use. The actual constraint is that creating too much new money creates too much price inflation. But for the past decades most monetary inflation has been flowing into the financial sector and bidding up the asset bubbles, with the "fiscal responsibility" political narrative merely being a dishonest cover to keep that gravy train flowing.
by HumblyTossed | 2025-04-15 17:16:16+00:00
Just for shits and giggles, I wonder if a protocol similar to HLS, where each peer is assigned a segment to transcode / cache, would work for best cases. If a peer drops, that segment is assigned to another peer. Or if there are, say, 5 peers, double up on the next segment to increase odds it will be done.

Just a mental curiosity is all.
by bhouston | 2025-04-15 17:16:28+00:00
I've always thought that the social networks like X and BlueSky are sort of like the distributed consciousness of society. It is what society, as a whole / in aggregate, is currently thinking about and knowing its ebbs and flows and what it responds to are important if you want to have up to date AI.

So yeah, AI integrated with a popular social network is valuable.
by Calwestjobs | 2025-04-15 17:16:35+00:00
what is difference what kind of data chunk it is? 0 difference. or for university educated - he introduced file as a helpful abstraction, so i work with that abstraction, if you say it is not good abstraction then tell him. calling ts file a file is absolutely correct in any sense of word. just to be thorough. in philosophical debate we are having in computer science. ( yes toxic sarcasm )

that one post is more to the topic of OP is asking for, than 90% of comments here.

again NEWS, movies, comedy, trumps tarrifs, are streamed digitally to bilions of people over dvb-t/c/s every day. if how are bits ordered/chunked is important for you that much, that this already working system is not good for you in that sense ? makes no sense.

or explain little more, one sentence explaining whole world is k12 like. or 42 for book readers.
Tell HN: Life Working as AI Data Trainer
by charlieyu1 | 2025-04-15 17:16:37+00:00
I’ve been working as a Data Annotator since 9 months ago on several platforms. Mostly for Mathematics.

Why I started: This is the only job I can find since I moved to UK two years ago.

Pros: I’m making some decent money and saved a bit. At least I can work now.

And learning new maths again 10+ years after graduation is actually fun.

Cons: Instability. No work is guaranteed. One week you could work every hour you can work and the next week, nothing.

Bad actors. A lot of companies are just agencies getting projects from big tech and try to squeeze as much as possible. A lot of shady things happen. A project paying with decent pay ended and the same project came back with a quarter pay per hour. A few were practicing “pay-per-accepted-task” schemes, which is absolutely illegal in their country for not paying for hours worked. The funny thing is, they don’t do that in the US, but once it is outsourced, they think they can do anything.

Good companies that treats the worker fairly with respect are few and far, though they exist. As a general rule of thumb, if it is not possible for you to find your team leader for help, it is one big red flag. If your team leader is rude when you ask questions that are essential for your work, that’s another red flag.

How I feel about the future of the industry: As AI grows, so does the need of data trainers. We can’t build AI products for humans without human feedback. Human trainers are there to stay.

The landscape could be very different in several years though. There are lots of grifters in the AI industry now. As AI boom experiences slower growth, hopefully they will be gone.
by mbreese | 2025-04-15 17:16:41+00:00
I know my employer wouldn’t be happy about me redirecting my $WORK email to a third party for the purposes of AI mining my email.

It isn’t just paranoia, but also security, compliance, etc… all of which is very high on my employer’s checklist.

So realistically this means that the main use case is probably going to be personal email accounts. So IMO, Notion’s goal should be trying to get people to move their personal accounts first. Then once people get used to the features, they can try to move companies over. Advertising corporate use cases (job offers, expense reports) just doesn’t make much sense to me.

This was also the Gmail playbook when they started too. In addition to dogfooding their own corporate email, Gmail at first was a replacement for personal Yahoo and Hotmail accounts. Then it became useful for companies after people got used to using Gmail for their personal accounts.
by Terr_ | 2025-04-15 17:16:44+00:00
"Herr Hitler clearly said that he would only be sending criminals to the next round of concentration camps, editing that out seems shady."

The most-charitable explanation is that you are clueless about current events, and don't understand that the government is already committing crimes against innocent people and lying about it.

Otherwise:

> Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

-- Jean-Paul Sartre, 1946
by jack_h | 2025-04-15 17:16:49+00:00
This has nothing to do with Trump beyond the fact that his plans could hasten how quickly this blows up. Bond rates were already going up before the election, the bond market was already nervous. Your indication that the world isn’t starting to have doubts isn’t born out by the bond market rates.

> And as this chart says, it's not all owned by "Chaina"

I never said that. China has been rolling US debt off of their books for a decade now and moving towards BRICS.

If we make this a partisan issue, which you appear to be, we won’t solve this problem. That would be a catastrophic mistake.
by janalsncm | 2025-04-15 17:17:06+00:00
I like Benn Jordan because he’s clearly got a grasp on a functional understanding of machine learning, but that’s not his primary background. He comes from a music production background, so his focus is more practical and results-oriented.

It will be really interesting as this knowledge percolates into more and more fields, what domain experts do with it. I see ML as more of a bag of tricks that can be applied to many fields.
by ordu | 2025-04-15 17:17:07+00:00
I wonder what is the cause and what is the effect? If Rationalism promises mind changing, I bet it attracts people obsessed with mind changing. Rationalism promises a chance to touch the eternal Truth, or at least to come closer to it, so naturally people who seeks such a truth will try to become rationalists.

This overall can easily lead to greater then average concentration of people susceptible to cults.

You see, I was engaged in lesswrong.com activites 10+ years ago, and I didn't become more "cultist". Probably even less. If I look at changes in me that happened due to me reading Yudkowski and talking with other people who read him, I'd say that these changes were coming in me in any case, the lesswrong stuff played its role and influenced the outcomes, but even before my lesswrong period I was:

1. Interested in arguments and how they work or do not work 2. All the time tried to dismantle laws, social norms, rules morale to find an answer "why do they exists and how they benefit the society", "how do they work?". Some of them I rejected as stupid and pointless. 3. I was interested in science overall and psychology in particular.

I learned a lot from that time of how arguments work and I was excited to see Yudkowski take on that. His approach doesn't work in reality, only with other rationalists, but I like it nevertheless.

OTOH, I need to say that Yudkowski by himself have a lot of traits of a leader of a cult. His texts are written like they are his own unique ideas. He refers sometimes to Socrates of some other person, but it doesn't help and his texts looks like he is a genius that invented a new philosophical system from ground up. I didn't know the history of philosophy enough to see how far from the truth the picture is. The bells begin to ring in my head when I get to the "Death Spirals" where Yudkowski talked about cults and why lesswrong is not a cult. It is highly suspicious as it is, but his arguments were not good enough to me, maybe because they were worse than usual or maybe because I was more critical than usual. "Death Spirals" failed to convince me that lesswrong is not a cult, on the contrary they made me to wonder "a cult or not a cult" all the time.

And this question led me to a search for information everywhere, not just lesswrong. And then I've found a new "sport": find Yudkoswki's ideas in writings of thinkers from XIX century or earlier. Had he conceived at least one truly original idea? This activity was much more fun for me than lesswrong and after that I had no chance whatsoever to become a part of a cult centered on Rationality.

The point I'm trying to make is Yudkowski's Rationality doesn't deliver its promises, people get not what was promised but what they had already. Rationality changes them somehow, but I believe that it is not the reason, just a trigger for changes that would come in any case.
by chenxi9649 | 2025-04-15 17:17:20+00:00
I was more talking about the optimistic updates n caching as opposed the actual rendering. From my experience, the reason why most apps are slow is more so cuz of the former than the latter(like the spinner in ur notion)

When it comes to the actual rendering performance, it’s an electron app, so … whatever you make of that

Personally, I feel like often times electron apps are actually smoother than swift apps nowadays due to the way swift renders text(ie. the ChatGPT app was so laggy when it was released, unclear if they fixed it). Start up time is probably slightly slower than native too but not a hugeee issue for me.

Probably not as fast as superhuman. But I don’t want to pay $30 for a 10ms diff(might be more idk)
by _bin_ | 2025-04-15 17:17:21+00:00
This is a direct response to what began as systematic abuse of the court system by left-wingers and is an attempt to restore the status quo. You can find probably the most prominent early example of this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_(Supreme_Court)

Nearly a century ago, FDR was already threatening to pack the court if the justices didn't quit striking down his blatantly unconstitutional legislation. It continued steadily from there with the Warren court bench-legislating at a historic scale.

You are misrepresenting what the actual status quo is to make an attempt to restore it appear malicious or power-hungry.
Show HN: KlavisAI-Open Source MCP Clients on Slack/Discord AndHosted MCP Servers
by wirehack | 2025-04-15 17:17:24+00:00
Hi HN, I'm excited to share Klavis AI, an open-source project and just released yesterday: https://github.com/Klavis-AI/klavis

Why we build Klavis AI:

While working with various AI models and external tools, we think MCPs are useful but you need to install and manage them manually. Also there is no tool for integrating them into team workflows on platforms like Slack and Discord.

What is it:

Klavis provides hosted, Open Source MCP clients on Slack/Discord and hosted various MCP servers. It consists of:

- MCP Clients (in the mcp_clients/ directory): We currently have clients for Slack and Discord bot.

- MCP Servers (in the mcp_servers/ directory): These are standalone MCP servers that wrap specific tools or capabilities, exposing them via a standardized MCP interface (specifically, Server-Sent Events).

For MCP servers, we have built:

- Klavis ReportGen (LLM + Web Search): This is a very cool one. Check out the report generated by the server with a simple query “generate a report about national parks in utah” https://www.klavis.ai/generated-reports/c150d577-ab66-45e4-9...

- YouTube video

- Document Conversion (via Pandoc)

- And we modified various servers to support SSE.

How to Try It Out:

- We have our hosted version in www.klavis.ai, which has a UI to directly configure MCP clients and servers.

- The github repo also has detailed instructions for local development and testing. The basic steps involve setting up a client (Discord or Slack) and running one or more MCP servers (like Report Generation). You can check the readme under mcp_clients and mcp_servers folder for details.

- For those of you who do not have much time, check out our launch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-QQAhrQWw8

This is an early release, and I'd appreciate feedback from the HN community:

- What other tool servers (MCP endpoints) or client platforms would be most valuable?

- Any thoughts on improving the developer experience for adding new servers/clients?

- Discord for feedback: https://discord.gg/P6fFgv2w

We'll be around to answer questions. Thanks for looking!
by yojo | 2025-04-15 17:18:03+00:00
The old-guard republicans were neo-cons. They championed things like free trade and projecting soft power through international institutions that are antithetical to the modern right.

The fact that the US only has “two parties” obscures the fact that there are wings in those parties that don’t really govern in a meaningful way.

The nationalist/populist conservative wing (MAGA née Tea Party) hasn’t really been in power pre Trump.
by phkahler | 2025-04-15 17:18:04+00:00
This is very much like doing a Fourier Transform without using recursion and the butterflies to reduce the computation. It would be even closer to that if a "moving average" of the right length was used instead of an IIR low-pass filter. This is something I've considered superior for decades but it does take a lot more computation. I guess we're there now ;-)
by dkarl | 2025-04-15 17:18:18+00:00
The "validate and problem-solve together" approach doesn't work reliably with adults. For people who are single-mindedly out to get what they want, it's not the first time someone has tried this on them, and they've learned the counter. When they realize that validating their emotions is a priority for you, they'll insist that your validation is insincere unless you give them what they want.

"It's easy to say you care about my feelings, but since you aren't [giving me what I asked for], I see what you're really about."

"If you really cared you'd...."

"If you really understood you'd...."

Toddlers haven't learned the next step of the game.
by bri3d | 2025-04-15 17:18:25+00:00
Yes, the same way. It's all based on the extremely useful `https://github.com/pganalyze/libpg_query` project, which is where the "extracted the parser from Postgres" part comes in.

Supabase's LSP also uses tree-sitter for corrections and autocomplete, because one drawback of using the server's source is that pg_query only works on well-formed/executable SQL - when it detects a malformed query, it formulates an error and exits, since that's what you want in an SQL server. So for partially-correct syntax and fill-forward, tree-sitter covers the gaps.
by ceejayoz | 2025-04-15 17:18:37+00:00
> It's easy to find "real brands" if one looks outside of Amazon, Alibaba, etc.

You have to be careful, though. There are a shocking number of legit-looking brands with their own sites that are just drop-shipping the same stuff, at an enormous markup. My wife found a piece of clothing she liked for $60; a quick image search found it (with the exact same images) for $8 on Shein. Nice hustle, if you can make it work.
by mrguyorama | 2025-04-15 17:18:45+00:00
It sure is funny how the party that has spent 2 decades screaming at anyone they could that "climate change isn't real" and "the people saying we should output less carbon are REALLY just degrowth cultists and we can consume everything forever with no issues" are outright, willfully, destroying the American economy in such a way that average americans WILL have to consume less
by wild_egg | 2025-04-15 17:19:07+00:00
Deja vu with this blog. Another overengineered abstraction recreating things that already exist.

Misunderstanding REST only to reinvent it in a more complex way. If your API speaks JSON, it's not REST unless/until you jump through all of these hoops to build a hypermedia client on top of it to translate the bespoke JSON into something meaningful.

Everyone ignores the "hypermedia constraint" part of REST and then has to work crazy magic to make up for it.

Instead, have your backend respond with HTML and you get everything else out of the box for free with a real REST interface.
by netcan | 2025-04-15 17:19:10+00:00
So generally speaking, advertising is not resilient to downturn.

In 2008, there was an expectation of revenue loss. But because Google "direct advertising" directly affects sales... it was more like "sales" than traditional "marketing" in this respect.

In 2025, it may be different. We shall see.

I don't think much online ad revenue is related to physical products. The margin available for ad spend on physical goods is much slimmer. But... it's hard to predict 3rd order effects.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-04-15 17:19:28+00:00
With the popularity of indie games I wonder why publishers don’t just try and buy out hundreds of these small devs under their shop. And I’m not talking like how when ea buys dice and ruins dice. That is the whole problem. Total autonomy should be offered. The publisher should exist solely as a balancer of budgets: skim profit when sales happen to pay for shops when dev work before a sale is to be done. No different than say a city department paying into the general fund and other department supported by the general fund.
by _bin_ | 2025-04-15 17:19:45+00:00
I think I'd actually read many left-wingers more charitably here; the mainstream democrat opinion is still that systemic forces impact crime rates and should be addressed but not that those justify discarding policing or order in the mean time. That's a uniquely radical progressive take, by which the SF government was unfortunately captured. I think Tan's statement here is more a strong reaction against the failed progressive version seeking to drag the overton window in SF back towards normalcy. Maybe I'm giving him too much credit, but Tan and YC have actually stuck around, unlike other people and companies who have simply left, so I'm guessing they're approaching this in good faith.

This aligns pretty well with my personal view. Maybe we can go figure out root causes later. Depending on those causes and the possible means to address them, maybe we can enact policy changes to reduce the amount of crime in the future. All that is, however, secondary to what we must do today: return to zero-tolerance policies for petty crime to make the city liveable again.
by murkt | 2025-04-15 17:19:51+00:00
Yep, it works for majority of children, but not for all of them. Folks that had a couple of kids with whom it did work spread it as a gospel.

You can try many other things, and maybe you’ll find something that works some of the time.

“What do you want?” can be “NOTHING!”, can be something. “You want this, but the reality is this and that. How can we deal with that?”

If kid is upset it usually helps to validate their feelings first.

Also, my kids are not yours, so take this with the grain of salt as well.
by charonn0 | 2025-04-15 17:20:34+00:00
Exclusive rights over their published work encourages artists and inventors to publish their work, which is a clear benefit to society at large. The period of time it should remain exclusive and the specific rights that are made exclusive can be debated, but the utility of IP rights in general is obvious.

And generative AI is not a person in the first place, so I don't think the appeal to learning makes much sense here.
by abxyz | 2025-04-15 17:20:55+00:00
You're making a different point. Of course, there are use cases for subdomains, I'm talking specifically about the transition of maps.google.com to google.com/maps. google.com/maps always made sense but wasn't technically viable when Google Maps launched and that's why they've transitioned to it now. I'm arguing that Google Maps being on a subdomain was an infrastructure choice, not a product choice.
by slp322 | 2025-04-15 17:20:57+00:00
I would happily pay them to link me up with people who have chat histories similar to mine (as in working on or curious about similar problems).

Lots of time and energy goes in finding the right people, creating the right groups, maintaining the groups, expanding the groups etc.

Everything is based on Networking and Broadcasting which is really such an inefficient process cause you have spend a whole lot of time weeding out false signalling thats going 24x7.
by nemomarx | 2025-04-15 17:21:08+00:00
Maybe, but AI isn't people and doesn't do learning, it does "training" which we can roughly anthropomorphize as learning.

It doesn't really seem like an IP thing to me - it's like making music that's intentionally hard to classify in a particular genre on purpose or something. Maybe that defeats Spotifys recommendation algorithm but that's totally unrelated to any rights to stream it or so on.
by mindcrime | 2025-04-15 17:21:11+00:00
but not many founders read The Four Steps, The Startup Owner's Manual, The Lean Startup etc. _before_ they dive into figuring out how to take their idea forward.

Then that is the problem that needs to be solved. The information they need is out there. If they are unaware of it, or choose to ignore it, that is the problem.

we need a name for the phase that comes before building - Pre-Build in|Validation

I think we have that already. It's called Customer Discovery, and it's the first phase of the Customer Development methodology.

I don't think inventing new catch-phrases is really adding anything here, personally.