MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dvt | 2025-04-07 03:35:05+00:00
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by slater | 2025-04-07 03:35:28+00:00
As only a lowly end user, let me say: Lotus Notes sucked for what we (and seemingly users of every installation of LN) were forced to use it for: E-mail and calendaring.

There used to be a joke that went round that particular office, there are exactly two people who LOVE Lotus: The boss who signed off on it (cos it made them look good), and the person who had to implement it (cos moneymoneymoney).

Everyone else went "Uggghhh, Lotus Notes."
by duped | 2025-04-07 03:35:43+00:00
The kind where he is forced to leave office and/or the country.

Like sedition is a crime still so I'm not going to advocate for the downfall of the US government, but if you're asking "what kind of protest can stop Trump" then there are dozens of examples over the last twenty years to look at for "protests that result in the head of state no longer being the head of state."

We're just not there, yet.
by rayiner | 2025-04-07 03:36:10+00:00
It’s very difficult to read anything these days when everything is hyperbole. The subheadline talks about “generational wealth.” But then the article talks about something different:

> America is not just suffering from a wealth gap; America has the equivalent of a class apartheid. Our systems—of education, credentialing, hiring, housing, and electing officials—are dominated and managed by members of a “comfort class.” These are people who were born into lives of financial stability. They graduate from college with little to no debt, which enables them to advance in influential but relatively low-wage fields—academia, media, government, or policy work. Many of them rarely interact or engage in a meaningful way with people living in different socioeconomic strata than their own.

These people don’t have “generational wealth,” they’re just normal, middle class people. The median income of a married couple with kids is $120,000. If you live in say Georgia and go to UGA and maintain a 3.0 GPA, your tuition is $122 per semester: https://osfa.uga.edu/types-of-aid/undergraduate/scholarships.... Between your parents and summer jobs, you can cover your housing costs and graduate with little debt. This is a life that’s accessible not to everyone, but to a large swath of the population that follows the success sequence (graduate high school, get a full time job, get married before having children).
by g00z | 2025-04-07 03:38:23+00:00
I would add one thing that makes GT very different from other tools and is very hard to recreate, is that these tools are ACTUAL objects and the things you see, are also ACTUAl objects, and not just a dummy representation of them as you see in other dataviz tools like plotting libraries or shell scripts.

This means your tools and visualizations are just a specific context-specific view of your objects. Meaning you aren't limited in how these tools can interact with said objects, because you are never working with static data, it's always with the actual objects.

It's hard to put into words, but it's similar to the difference between println debugging and a lisp repl or smalltalk debugger. They technically do the same thing but the actual implementation of them makes a world of difference.
by theamk | 2025-04-07 03:38:50+00:00
A question for Domino developers: "There is never a question of where the logic for an application is, it's in the same database as the data." - this caught my eye, how did this work?

Specifically, say there is an existing app with many users and which is full of data (say travel planning app) and you need to add a feature to it, which maybe takes a week of dev time.

- Do you work in prod and hope you don't break the existing functionality for users? Maybe even copy all forms ("new-request" -> "new-request2") so people don't see WIP... or maybe do all the work during nights?

- Or do you make a copy of that NSF file to your computer and develop on it? What if it has gigabytes of data, or if it has private data (like that HR database)? What do you do when you done - can you somehow merge code from one NSF file to another but leave data intact?

- Or is this something else? Maybe single-file was optional and big databases were manager separately, or there is some other simple option I am overlooking...
by nighthawk454 | 2025-04-07 03:38:52+00:00
Circuit breakers are now more common. The US has them at whole-market level and individual stock level. Somewhat like an API rate limit, there are tiered penalties - the bigger the intraday drop the longer the time-out period. In the worst case the market will be shut down for the day to cool off. This is one reason you occasionally hear about the exchange ‘stopping trading’ of a security.

More details here: https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/investing-ba...
by voidhorse | 2025-04-07 03:38:55+00:00
> Why on earth do people want AI to do either of these things?

This is the really important question, and the only answer I can drum up is that people have been fed a consistent diet of propaganda for decades centered around a message that ultimately boils down to a justification of oligarchy and the concentration of wealth. That and the consumer-focus facade makes people think the LLMS are technology for them—they aren't. As soon as these things get good enough business owners aren't going to expect workers to use them to be more productive, they are just going to fire workers and/or use the tooling as another mechanism by which to let wages stagnate.
by vivzkestrel | 2025-04-07 03:39:14+00:00
I honestly saw all the screenshots and still dont understand even in the slightest bit what exactly your product does. Perhaps you picked a bad name or perhaps the copy on the website doesn't do justice to what the product actually does. Since you pasted some python code somewhere as example in one of the screenshots, I ll ask you a very simple question. I have a 50 line python program. I run your tool, what do I see?
by YZF | 2025-04-07 03:39:34+00:00
The way to do this back in the day was to read application notes (in real books ;) that the chip vendors would print and give you for free). You would have everything spelled out in example circuits that you could put together yourself. I'm not sure where things stand today.

I googled and found one example: https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/aemDocuments/documents/A...
by freeone3000 | 2025-04-07 03:40:28+00:00
> Wonder if this is what it was like in the months preceding the _2008 subprime mortage crisis_

No, that was mostly people just living their lives with a few standard shows about "housing prices are high again and people are worried" followed by months of "houses are worth nothing now and lots of people cannot pay their mortgages and cannot refinance" and then a few years of "this was a 100% illegal eviction notice, did you even check or just assume none of your customers paid?"

Nothing at all like what's currently going on in the US federal government right now.
by jeffbee | 2025-04-07 03:41:00+00:00
The cost to operate a data center is already, to a close approximation, the cost of its electricity. The data center operator already pays for every joule.

Data centers used ~4% of USA electricity last year, about .15 quads, while the chemical industry used 10 quads, virtually all in the form of fossil fuel. If you are going to start reflecting the externality of energy consumption in the price of goods, information sector will probably not need to adjust anything, while the chemical sector will be fundamentally impaired.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-04-07 03:42:55+00:00
I think that if we did not live in a world where our attention was under attack all the time, it would make sense to develop a P2P search protocol for this sort of thing. Could be standard community driven open source, could be a government sponsored project, could be a crypto thing, lots of options here...

The plumber would dedicate a raspberry pi or yesteryear's phone with the bad battery or cracked screen, and they'd leave it plugged in in a closet somewhere and configure it to talk to a few peers who they know personally and who will vouch for their legitimacy. They of course would be vouching for others in the same way.

Nodes would gossip about services that are available, so you could figure out which plumbers are nearby and which of your peers trust those plumbers. Since you're operating on a web of trust, you can find a mutually trusted third party to act as a mediator in the case of disputes, and if you have a good or bad experience you can also gossip that info to your peers so that they can aggregate a sort of review system. But unlike Amazon's, it's full of people that you know and explicitly trust, so it's much harder to game since there's no single source of truth to target/abuse.

It would exchange the kind of information that traditionally comes via ads, but I think it would be so much more effective than ads because all parties want it to succeed--whereas ads have carved out a rather hostile landscape for this sort of thing.
by j_bum | 2025-04-07 03:43:04+00:00
I love their snappy motion too.

Great video/gif. After seeing this I had to look up their movement in slow mo. It’s incredible. They’re on a different time scale lol

[0] https://youtu.be/FhpL5h8sEHo?si=su3BjAxpFGU0gEcf

[1] https://youtu.be/FfOrLNXIN-8?si=fzGokSi7P0Zrs2Z1
by jmward01 | 2025-04-07 03:43:34+00:00
The obvious methodology at work here is 'fire everyone then hopefully re-hire only what is blindingly obviously needed'. There are many, many problems with this approach in a business setting but even more from a governmental setting. The first, and what should be obvious to anyone with an ounce of empathy, is that these are real people who's lives are being toyed with. It isn't like you are trying out a new business process. You are literally playing with entire lives here as if they are disposable things. This alone makes what is happening inhumane. Even if it did make things more 'efficient' I would rather a humane government than whatever efficient government they are aiming for here. The second incredibly obvious reason why this is wrong is because this isn't a business. Money isn't the point. Let me repeat this one more time. Money is not the point of a government. I can't understand any argument about government efficiency that only looks at money. It is about total benefit to society, period. If you hire someone that is 'breakeven' in what they produce vs consume from a pure production point of view you could argue that for a business they should go, but from a government point of view you have employed someone and that person is churning the rest of the economy and society has one less drain. In other words all of society is way better off with that breakeven, or even net negative, person employed in government. In other words, an efficient government actually can have what would be considered waste in a corporate world and that is not only OK, but the right answer. I know of several people that are 'employed' but net negatives and society is way better off with that arrangement than having them on the streets. Is there a place for money/efficiency discussions in government? Sure, but if it is the only thing you look at then you really need to re-think things. There are many, many other ways this is morally and economically wrong but those are my top two.
by akoboldfrying | 2025-04-07 03:43:38+00:00
>one particular nonstandard eval

A particular nonstandard eval that is currently top comment on this HN thread, due to the fact that, unlike every other eval out there, LLMs score badly on it?

Doesn't seem implausible to me at all. If I was running that team, I would be "Drop what you're doing, boys and girls, and optimise the hell out of this test! This is our differentiator!"
by cube00 | 2025-04-07 03:45:14+00:00
Assuming the space was being consumed by attachments, DAOS can help with this. There's reports [1] of people getting up to 2TB once you get the attachments out of the NSF.

[1]: https://ds_infolib.hcltechsw.com/ldd/nd85forum.nsf/DateAllFl...
by bnewbold | 2025-04-07 03:45:39+00:00
I agree with the general sentiment here, but don't like the examples. 200 photos per person per year isn't very much! That is all fine.

What really bloats things out is surveillance (video and online behavioral) and logging/tracking/tracing data. Some of this ends up cold, but a lot of it is also warm, for analytics. It bloats CPU/RAM/network, which is pretty resource intensive.

The cost is justified because the margins of big tech companies are so wildly large. I'd argue those profits are mostly because of network effects and rentier behavior, not the actual value in the data being stored. If there was more competition pressure, these systems could be orders of magnitude more efficient without any significant different in value/quality/outcome, or really even productivity.
by FloatArtifact | 2025-04-07 03:47:58+00:00
I've been waiting for something like this. Have you considered the following based on the benchmark data that's submitted beyond the GPU?

1. User selects a model, size and token output speed and latency. The website generates a hardware list of components that should match the performance requirements.

2. User selects hardware components and the website generates a list of models that performant on that hardware.

3. Monetize through affiliate links the components to fund the project. Think like PC part picker.

I know there's going to be some variability in the benchmarks due to the software stack, but it should give a AI enthusiasts, an educated perspective on what hardware can be relevant for their use case.
by hattmall | 2025-04-07 03:48:00+00:00
For most people, particularly those who don't work in government. The federal government represents problems, aggravation, frustration and general resentment. Practically no one walks away from interactions with the federal government with a positive feeling.

Dealing with the bureaucracy is generally awful. Most of the time you will go through several employees over the course of hours/days/weeks or even years and you wonder how they manage to get dressed each day. Eventually you get someone who solves your problem in about 20 seconds.

I don't know if you have ever dealt with the TSA in any meaningful capacity but they are by far the most competent government agency that interacts with the public.

I've worked with law enforcement dealing with computer forensics and our state investigators are reasonably competent. We have had to deal with people in federal agencies and it's mind boggling. I'm talking like a PDF emailed of html source code for a login page with the subject "Run this in power shell". That's coming in on a Friday at 4:55 when we have been waiting for a week and they don't respond back until Wednesday with a reply like "team is checking this out".

Eventually someone will mail you a DVD of a screen recording of them logging into a system that's running on a local IP and then 12 minutes of explaining boolean operators.
by DonHopkins | 2025-04-07 03:48:39+00:00
I'll update my examples when your examples of how it's been fixed don't use the same arcane syntax and semantics as the 48 year old Bourne shell. That's the whole point, which you're still missing.

> $ bash -c '[ $((1 + 1)) = 2 ]; echo $?'

Not even Perl uses that much arcane punctuation to test if 1 + 1 = 2. As if [] isn't enough, you've got to throw in two more levels of (()), plus enough grawlix profanity for a Popeye comic strip. And people complain Lisp has too many parens. Sheez.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grawlix

There's even an emoji for Unix shell syntax:

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1F92C
Show HN: Platform for non-technical people to build and deploy websites/apps
by nutpan | 2025-04-07 03:49:18+00:00
I launched my side project (JDoodle) here 10 years ago, and it has served millions of students, teachers and developers since then. Thanks for your feedback on the initial days.

Launching a new product - JDoodle.ai. This is for non-technical users to build and deploy websites and web apps.

Unlike other online AI coding platforms that are trying to be an online version of Cursor, we will focus on non-technical users and try to make it easier for them to build apps without seeing or touching code.

AI is still maturing in coding, so we will provide the additional layers and guardrails required for non-tech users to build and launch confidently.

Currently, users can build, deploy, integrate with other systems like Hubspot, Make, and Zapier, assign a custom domain, upload images, etc.

Very soon, they can connect to a secure database and authentication system.

This is a genuine effort from JDoodle's vision of making programming simpler, not just trying to ride the wave. So, I would really appreciate your feedback on how we can make it useful for the real world (not just hobbyists).
by kmeisthax | 2025-04-07 03:49:36+00:00
The reason why doomsday never came is that the GPLv3 bomb was never dropped. Linux, Android, and busybox all rejected v3, because it's basically a ban on embedded development[0], and that's all the FOSS most embedded developers care about using.

Likewise, if you don't do any embedded, you don't need to worry about v3, it's functionally identical to v2 except the compliance story is slightly easier (you don't immediately lose your license if you fuck up a source release).

There's very few companies that have their fingers in both the embedded and desktop markets; those are the ones that need to worry about GPLv3 doomsday. AFAIK that's only Apple and Microsoft[1], both of which have very hostile attitudes towards v3 as a result.

[0] To be clear, when you hear "embedded development", think "TiVoization". The business model of embedded development is putting your proprietary software in a box to sell. GPLv3 wants to make it so that if you do that, you can't stop someone from modifying the OS around the software by making the software detect that and break. But that also makes it significantly harder to defend your business model. Remember: the embedded landscape is chock full of very evil DRM schemes, many of which would break trivially if the app had to support running on arbitrarily modified OSes or with arbitrarily modified libraries.

[1] Microsoft controls the signing keys for UEFI, and while they are willing to sign stuff to let Linux boot, they will not sign GRUB because that's GPLv3 and they worry signing any v3 software will obligate them to release their signing keys.
by famouswaffles | 2025-04-07 03:49:54+00:00
Gradient descent is a dumb optimizer. LLM training is not at all like a human reading a book and more like evolution tuning adaptations over centuries. You would not expect either process to be aware of anything they are converging towards. So having lots of books that talk about chess in training will predictably just return a model that knows how to talk about chess really well. I'm not surprised they may know how to talk about the rules but play them poorly.

And that post had a follow-up. Post-training messing things up could well be the issue seeing the impact even a little more examples and/or regurgitation made. https://dynomight.net/more-chess/
by sethjgore | 2025-04-07 03:49:58+00:00
All I an say in this section is I was most intrigued when I was travelling across Europe on a long and complicated business journey. Turkish airlines (if I recall right, maroon uniforms) had a sign language video for both Turkish sign language and international sign language. I felt so elated and welcome at that moment. I felt at home. Somebody cared for people like me. I have not come across anybody else who has done the same job.

So what I have to say, yes, the measure of the effort what pretty much sums to entertainment and pseudo-psychology, speaks to the consumer masses who are worried when they jump on a plane filled with other 150~ish strangers.
by sinpor1 | 2025-04-07 03:50:48+00:00
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by arcticbull | 2025-04-07 03:51:26+00:00
You can look up the arguments for housing being interstate commerce in the FCC case I alluded to and in the arguments supporting the fair housing act.

> The Attorney General testified that "the housing business is substantially interstate and subject to the commerce clause" because of the interstate movement of building materials, mortgage funds, and advertising, as well as the interstate movement of workers and their families. [1]

A meaningful challenge to this would invalidate the fair housing act. This falls squarely under the dormant commerce clause.

Further, rent control has been shown in studies of San Francisco to decrease supply, unit quality and increase prices. There’s no market on earth that honors the price you would have paid when you first showed up no matter how long you sit there and no matter how it hurts others, by law. [2]

In a market where supply and demand meet prices don’t go up, and rent control is unncessary. See Japan. [3] In a market where supply and demand are forbidden from meeting rent control creates further harm to the market, and only masks the problem for a vocal minority.

Unfortunately for all of us popular policy is not necessarily good policy.

Eliminating the zoning premium would bring houses down in price by $400,000 each. I suspect you’d be able to afford to buy, and yes, rent would come down a lot.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/crt/housing-and-civil-enforcement-ca...

[2] https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w24181/w241...

[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JPNCPIHOUQINMEI
by theamk | 2025-04-07 03:51:33+00:00
That seems pretty opinionated design, I am surprised so many people wanted it.

The fan/light combo is neat. Steel work surface with magnetic holders sounds like a great idea. But the rest of items do not make it a "portable workspace".

Why usb-c cable but no charger? I either use dedicated module (so I need charger) or my laptop's power brick (so I don't need cable).

Where is solder sucker? copper wick is just not the same.

What about other tools? I'd expect to see at least small set of screwdrivers / pliers.

What about spare parts box? With all that free space, I'd like to at least have my small coil of wire there.

(Also, the AI-generated images of workbenches are so cringe..)