MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mmooss | 2025-04-09 05:45:31+00:00
Everyone is both selfish and selfless, to different degrees at different times and in different situations, including the people you apparently believe to be completely selfish (you don't really believe that?).

(Obviously a simplistic binary system, but appropriate for HN comments where time and space is limited.)

The religion and worship of selflessness is a cult - who ever followed such an ethos; even what great American? Did Washington? Lincoln? King? Eisenhower? Who before Trump? Who anywhere at any time is admired for it? Any religious figures? Saints? Moses/Jesus/Mohammad? Siddhartha Gautama?

Step back, stop drowinging in Internet ideology, take a even slightly broader view than the immediate tide of ideology - the concept is an absurdity for its simplicity and morality. Wake up sooner, rather than later.

A functioning society can't be built around either extreme, and because no human fits either extreme, it's a pointless debate about science fiction.

Markets are great tools and work with a mix of selfishness and selflessness - markets are destroyed by the too selfish, parasites who, for example, undermine the essential trust, safety, and integrity of the market for their own profit. The tools of selflessness are also great and built a society of freedom, which creates markets, innovation, opportunity, and social stability - universal education, for example; much healthcare is funded that way; many people wouldn't have effective rights without pro bono legal help and advocacy.

They are different tools each relatively better for different problems. Obviously 'free markets' leave a lot to be desired; obviously we can't function solely on selflessness.

> (In the news a couple days ago, the CEO of an NGO charity funded by the government had awarded herself a $750,000 salary.)

C'mon; that is a silly point and you know it (though it actually supports my claim in this comment).
by uwemaurer | 2025-04-09 05:48:14+00:00
We use Echarts on our Bluesky analytics site

https://bluefacts.app/profile/bsky.app

Really great experience, we optimized the imports to reduce bundle size.

For https://www.appbrain.com we also use it and had to optimize it even more.We render it server side and only return the SVG to the client.

Server side rendering is a very powerful feature only very few chart libraries support.
by thwarted | 2025-04-09 05:48:50+00:00
> Studio Ghibli on the other hand had exposure to millions of people (maybe hundreds of millions), and probably >5% of those were potential customers.

There's a lot of ifs in here. The number of people exposed to has an estimate that covers two orders of magnitude, "maybe". "probably". "greater than". "potential".

In order for this exposure to have more value than the ownership of the original, all of those things need to fall into place. And no one can offer meaningful exposure based on the off-chance that a meme goes viral. All the risk is on the creator, they lose control of their asset and receive a lottery ticket in return.

> So yes, being paid in exposure makes sense, if the exposure is actually worth what the art is worth. But most people offering to pay in exposure are overvaluing their exposure by 100x or more.

Yes, but that's a big "but"; it's difficult to know the value of the "exposure" that is being offered, not to mention if the entity offering it is legit or if it's just a scam because they don't want to pay.

Additionally, the AI companies who are slurping up copyrighted works to train their models are not offering exposure. And the mememaker who happens go viral can't offer it either.
by eternityforest | 2025-04-09 05:49:31+00:00
I used to love this until I got a NAS. At the time(I don't know if it's still true) the Vorta GUI didn't make it easy to use a remote repo without installing the borg service on the NAS.

It's only available as a community package, which I was not able to set up in less than fifteen minutes.

So I switched to Kopia, as per my general policy of mostly avoiding personal tech that seems like it's hacker/tinkerer stuff that will require maintenance.

Have not had any regrets so far! Kopia is newer, and the GUI isn't as good, but I love that it's packaged as a single file AppImage and also has a Flatpak option.
by __loam | 2025-04-09 05:49:49+00:00
> I'm not aware of any legal precedent forbidding me to (internally) do as I please with public content that I scrape.

Because all the litigation is currently ongoing.

> A fully legal endeavor that is very strongly rewarded by the market.

Yes let's sacrifice all production of cultural artifacts for the market. This is honestly another thing that's being litigated. So far these companies have lost a lot of money on making a product that most consumers seem to actively hate.
by defrost | 2025-04-09 05:50:38+00:00
Historically, the United States of America pursued a protectionist policy from the beginning of the 19th century until the middle of the 20th century.

Between 1861 and 1933, they had one of the highest average tariff rates on manufactured imports in the world. After 1942, the U.S. began to promote worldwide free trade.

Within the EU single market, there are no tariffs or customs duties between member states for manufactured goods, services, capital, and people, fostering free movement and trade.

The report(?) you a paraphrasing badly talked about within Europe (not the EU) and referred to figures between, say, Germany and Russia.

\? At a guess (thanks for not citing the report) you meant the IMF Regional Economic Outlook report titled “Europe: A Recovery Short of Europe’s Full Potential” (October 2024) ?
by forgetfreeman | 2025-04-09 05:51:43+00:00
"The economy works because people make these value-increasing transactions. I take $10 of inputs, manufacture $20 worth of output, and sell it to you for $15."

You pretty much nailed the arguments in favor of trade protectionism right there. Import cheap unprocessed raw materials, export expensive finished goods, capture the majority of value created in the process.
by giardini | 2025-04-09 05:52:20+00:00
There's some evidence that your career success depends heavily on the timing of your entry into the job market. That is, if you start working during an economic slump your career will suffer but if you wait and enter during a peak economic period you will always "ride the wave". I've seen this happen to individuals.

So I suggest that you stay in school, take a Masters degree and try to enter the market at a better time!

Don't go any further than a Master's. Here's why:

Philip Greenspun has provided the following graph at the URL titled "Career Guide for Engineers and Computer Scientists" at https://philip.greenspun.com/careers/

THIS IS YOUR EDUCATION, THIS IS YOUR SALARY

! $50K! ! ** ! ** * $40K! ** * Any Questions? ! ** * ! ***** * $30K! **** * ! **** * ! ***** * $20K! ***** * ! ***** * ! *** * $10K! *** * !** * ! * 0 +--------+----------+-----------+------------+---------+--*---------> no high some Bachelor's Master's Doctor high school college Degree Degree of school diploma Philosophy diploma
by dasil003 | 2025-04-09 05:54:00+00:00
Thinking is moot though. What’s going on at the moment is about Trumps raw power. As much as the markets prefer stability, everything is relative, so he still has the power to move the markets just by signaling different things moment to moment. Of course this is not sustainable over the long run, but the American economy is certainly meta enough at this point that it’s very hard to guarantee the repercussions will land while he is still alive/in-office.

I hope in the long term the voting public can come back around to the idea that character and thoughtfulness still have a place in politics, but that might just be wishful thinking in a social/AI age where real truth in any particular domain is too complex for individuals to digest, intellectuals and experts have lost credibility with the public at large, and therefore trust in leadership is entirely based on superficial vibes and talking points that can resonate in a 5-10 second TikTok-ready take.
by emmanueloga_ | 2025-04-09 05:54:07+00:00
I looked into eBPF-based observability tools for k8s some time ago and found at least four tools that look incredibly similar: Pixie, Parca, Coroot, and Odigos. There are probably others I missed too. Do you have any thoughts about this?

From a user perspective, having several tools that overlap heavily but differ in subtle ways makes evaluation and adoption harder. It feels like if any two of these projects consolidated, they’d have a good shot at becoming the "default" eBPF observability solution.
by brucehoult | 2025-04-09 05:55:58+00:00
It worked really well. That Honeywell thing let the temperature cycle over maybe a 2º C range. I was sampling the thermistor 100 times in about 1/10th of a second (analogRead() on Arduino) and then doing exponential averaging each second with a 32 second time constant (i.e. `temp = temp - (temp >> 5) + new_reading`) and averaging and getting a nice stable temperature reading that moved smoothly in 0.01º C increments. Turning the heater on and off at maximum every 30 seconds the room temp usually stayed within ±0.03 C of the set temperature -- not precise on an absolute scale but detecting and correcting small changes accurately.

I was actually thinking of trying to make a product, especially once Flick Electric started up with electricity prices changing every 30 minutes based on the wholesale rate plus a 2c margin. You could (still can) get the current 30 minute wholesale price at your local substation from electricityinfo.co.nz with a simple http query, so you can build something to make intelligent decisions.

But then I got a job overseas and dropped the project...
by cryptonector | 2025-04-09 05:56:21+00:00
Mercantilism is certainly what we have today, with much of the world exporting to one perennial importer. Perhaps Trump means to reverse that state of affairs (i.e., make the U.S. mercantilist), which I surmise from your comment that you think would be bad (certainly I think it would be bad!), or perhaps he means to not have mercantilism at all, which I surmise you think would be good.
by forgetfreeman | 2025-04-09 05:56:26+00:00
"There was no "transfer" of wealth from the poor people to the wealthy (there couldn't have been, because they, being poor, didn't have wealth)."

You're ignoring value created through labor. The poor may not have wealth but they have their labor to sell on the open market. The returns on that exchange have been steadily declining since the post-war period thanks to flat wages and inflation. Meanwhile increases in productivity (as demonstrated by increases in GDP) by definition have to go somewhere. Since it isn't going into working folks savings accounts then it's accumulating somewhere. Also worth considering, the middle class has been declining for the last 40 years.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-04-09 05:58:23+00:00
This is exactly correct, LLMs did scale with huge data, symbolic AI did not. So why? One of the things I periodically ask people working on LLMs is "what does a 'parameter' represent? The simplistic answer is 'it's a weight in a neural net node' but that doesn't much closer. Consider something like a bloom filter where a '0' bit represents the nth bit of all hashes of strings this filter has not seen. I would be interested in reading a paper that does a good job of explaining what a parameter ends up representing in an LLM model.[1]

I suspect that McCarthy was on to something with the context thing. Organic intelligence certainly fails in creative ways without context it would not be disqualifying to have AI fail in similarly spectacular ways.

[1] I made a bit of progress on this considering it to be the permeability for progress such that the higher the weight the easier it was to 'pass thorough' this particular neuron but the cyclic nature of the graph makes a purely topological explanation pretty obtuse :-).
by mmooss | 2025-04-09 06:00:03+00:00
I agree there's a big difference between individuals and states economically. And I understand why Louis (do you mean XIV?), in the absence any modern economic theory, pursued mercantilism.

But if Louis had known modern economic theory, it would have been ridiculous. He would know that the wealthiest, most powerful nations ever on Earth - universally, with no others competing - were built on free trade.
by wkat4242 | 2025-04-09 06:00:10+00:00
Uh I work for an enterprise of tens of thousands of users and $18 a month is not nothing for us. In fact considering the discounts we get at our size that would be so high we'd never consider it.

We don't even use windows enterprise for the same reason, we have legacy office 365 plans and lifetime windows licenses without the M365 addons because it saves is a few bucks per head. At our size, a few bucks a head quickly add up to millions per year. Microsoft keeps trying to dissuade us and they even pretend office 365 plans don't exist anymore ("office 365 is now microsoft 365") but they do: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/off... . The same with their Copilot stuff. 30$ is a non starter. Our users want it but nope (and we did a trial in one big team and only 10% actually bothered to use it after the first month so I think it's more the idea of it that want rather than the actual product)

We don't use Tailscale but $6 would be feasible where $18 would be a complete nonstarter.

In fact our company is a lot more cost conscious than I am as a consumer.
Show HN: My mom was unimpressed with my blog. What do you think?
by Tomotoes | 2025-04-09 06:00:17+00:00
I recently launched my personal tech blog and proudly showed it to my mom. Her response? "It's... fine." Now I need your brutally honest feedback!

Blog URL: https://simonaking.com

Github: https://github.com/SimonAKing/HomePage

PS: Every visitor gets my mom one step closer to understanding what I actually do for a living!
by mubou | 2025-04-09 06:03:40+00:00
It can even export as Mermaid? That's awesome. I could see that being super useful as a way to take a db schema and turn it into a chart for a github readme. Definitely bookmarking this.

Btw, the SQL import doesn't seem to work for an sqlite `.schema` dump; it breaks on the PRIMARY KEY here:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS "__EFMigrationsHistory" ( "MigrationId" TEXT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT "PK___EFMigrationsHistory" PRIMARY KEY, "ProductVersion" TEXT NOT NULL );

(This is the standard migrations table that Entity Framework creates.)

W/r/t monetization, you should know there's a really powerful flowchart tool called draw.io that's already free. It's not tailored specifically towards databases the way yours is, but it can make similar graphs, so if you go too hard on monetizing you might cause people to just use that instead. Maybe there are some more B2B-oriented extensions or db integrations, or maybe a team collaboration feature you could add without compromising the core tool.
by bigger_cheese | 2025-04-09 06:03:48+00:00
I studied Materials Engineering. Similar experience.

Carnot, Thompson, Clausius, Gibbs, Rankine, Boltzman etc all made big historical contributions to modern understanding of Thermodynamics.

And for Fluid Dynamics: Euler, Bernoulli, Mach, Stokes and so on.

And if you are looking for someone more modern I'd say Ergun (Packed bed's, Fluidized Bed Reactors etc).

All builds upon "steam science"
by mmooss | 2025-04-09 06:04:06+00:00
How does that support protectionism? For one thing, it involves imports and exports, which requires trading partners who will want to sell you things too.

Maybe the argument for colonialism? Regardless, countries that largely operate without protectionism or colonialism have become the wealthiest in the history of the world, without any real competition. There's not much argument remaining.
by charcircuit | 2025-04-09 06:05:04+00:00
>You can't have a secure sandbox on your workstation without a secure supply chain.

Yes, you can as they are independent things.

>Maybe you mean sandboxes like secure enclaves.

No I mean sandbox as in applications are sandboxed from the rest of the system. If you just run an application it shouldn't be able to encrypt all of your files. The OS should protect the rest of the system from potentially badly behaving applications.

>but if I compromise the CI/CD system to compile all binaries with a non-random RNG, then I can undermine any cryptography you use, and can re-create any sessions keys or secrets you can

In practice this is a much rarer kind of an attack. Investing a ton in strengthening the front door is meaningless when the backdoor is completely open. Attackers will attack the weakest link.

>Qubes has the best sandboxing solution of any workstation OS

Qubes only offers sandboxing between qubes.questions. There isn't sandboxing within a qube.

>proving your artifacts faithfully came from the easily reviewable sources.

Okay, but as mentioned previously those sources could have vulnerabilities or be malicous. Or users could run other software they have downloaded separately or via a curl | sh.
by watwut | 2025-04-09 06:05:36+00:00
> an app that allows users to count calories by submitting photographs of their food, and which he claims already earns $30 million in annual recurring revenue.

Not sure scam app that is pretty much guaranteed to give you wrong number is a good opening example. Yes, it shows some technical prices and willingness to promiss what you can't do ... but is not something that should weight into your college application.
by rebanevapustus | 2025-04-09 06:06:04+00:00
There is no independent component of a country. It is very naive to claim so.

https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/politica/por-decisao-de-moraes-...

What kind of non-authoritarian country arrests people for merely cursing at politicians on twitter?

Moreover, what kind of non-authoritarian country issues hundreds of thousands of rulings by its Supreme Court?

The Brazilian Supreme Court is an unelected entity that has complete control over the country, and firmly issues unappealable censorship arrests.

There is absolutely nothing this tyrannical in almost any western democracy, sans the UK.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-04-09 06:06:14+00:00
> Some of the clues are confusing due to inconsistent punctuation.

> The first line uses a comma, the second line uses "or", the third and fourth lines don't have any punctuation at all, so the sentences make no sense.

... There is no inconsistency there. The 'or' and the comma in lines 1 and 2 are not parallel to each other; they're doing different things. Neither could be replaced by the other without changing the meaning of the clue.

Similarly, in line three, nothing in it could be replaced by a comma or by a disjunction. (But, and I want to emphasize this, line 2 doesn't even contain a disjunction; you appear to have misunderstood all of the clues.)

Line four is a bit different in that it contains a grammatical mistake. It should say [rocks that when added to soda will NOT cause your stomach to explode]. Other than that... it's a fourth style of clue. It isn't comparable to the other three, and there's still no inconsistency.

What do you imagine would add "consistency" to these clues? #s 1, 2, and 4 could be unified like so:

[to ____fish, to lure someone in using a fake internet persona] [____ or cut bait, common idiom] [____ rocks, rocks that when added to soda will NOT cause your stomach to explode]

But clue 3 can't be rendered in this style; the closest you can come is [pay ____, taking one of these is a bummer], and the parenthetical isn't really the same as it is for the other three.
by casey2 | 2025-04-09 06:06:19+00:00
This feels like AI deniers grasping at straws. You have to prove the claim that "friendly" models do better in head to head user ratings. You also have to adequately define your claim which hasn't been done. And then you have to prove that by whatever definition of "friendliness" you've constructed made a significant difference in the benchmark.

What I suspect will happen is that someone will just tell the LLM to "be curt" that may cause it's score to drop and people will unthinkingly take that to mean the above nonsensical claims are true.
by whytevuhuni | 2025-04-09 06:06:37+00:00
I agree, closure capturing has been rather confusing.

Fun fact is, the behavior used to be what the author expected: |thing| thing.field would capture the entire thing, not just the field.

This also used to be really annoying, so they changed it.

The 2021 Rust edition introduced partial capturing [1]. This greatly increased ergonomics, but it seems it has a hidden cost too. Unfortunate.

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/edition-guide/rust-2021/disjoint-c...
by bmacho | 2025-04-09 06:07:54+00:00
> this one failed you but was a near enough miss that you couldn't see it. What you were really looking for is the Red Queen

GP was looking for a specific term that they had heard before. It was co-/evolutionary arms race, and ChatGPT guessed it correctly.

Also GPT-4o elaborated the answer (for me at least) with things like:

> However, the specific kind of equilibrium you're referring to—where neither side ever fully "wins", and both are locked in a continuous cycle of adaptation and counter-adaptation—is also captured in the idea of a “Red Queen dynamic”. > You could refer to this as: * Red Queen dynamics in plant-insect coevolution * A coevolutionary arms race reaching a dynamic equilibrium * Or even evolutionary stable strategies (ESS) applied to plant-herbivore interactions, though ESS is more game-theory focused.
by mmooss | 2025-04-09 06:08:18+00:00
Are you worried about the power the central bank has?

What if they deny service to or apprehend the assets of people they politically dislike? Also couldn't they crush any hope of anyone's profitable business? Could a person or business function without it? What about in ten years?

What if they track people by their transaction and built profiles of them? They could essentially make it too dangerous to do business to people who are disliked.
by LWIRVoltage | 2025-04-09 06:09:15+00:00
I just this past weekend was looking into setting up a personal networking solution- and looked hard at TailScale and their competitors. I do not like- that Tailscale has chosen to only allow SSO sign-in - as that forces one to have a Microsoft,Github[MS], Google, or Apple account- and I presume that leaves one at the mercy of those companies for the free option.

I will probably eventually cave and use my main account from one of those companies since creating true secondary accounts can be difficult(they end up tied back to your main account on the backend usually, So if something happens to one or the company does something- it'll affect everything and building separation is not easy.) - But I dislike that sort of design.
by josephg | 2025-04-09 06:09:54+00:00
> That is indeed true. But we do have classic fuzzy logic, and it can be used to answer these questions. E.g. a "stool" maybe a "chair", but "automobile" is definitely not.

I’m not convinced that classical fuzzy logic will ever solve this - at least not if every concept needs to be explicitly programmed in. What a “chair” is sort of subtly changes at a furniture store and at a campsite. Are you going to have someone explicitly, manually program all of those nuances in? No way! And without that subtlety, you aren’t going to end up with a system that’s as smart as chatgpt. Challenge me on this if you like, but we can play this game with just about any word you can name - more or less everything except for pure mathematics.

And by the way, modern ML approaches understand all of those nuances just fine. It’s not clear to me what value - if any - symbolic logic / expert systems provide that chatgpt isn’t perfectly capable of learning on its own already.