MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by viraptor | 2025-04-30 23:53:17+00:00
But that also depends on what you use it for. If you're after the wifi and IO and other nice things for a mostly idle device - the pipeline is almost irrelevant. Esphome can run on older versions just fine too. On the other hand if you're doing something very optimised and need tight timing around interrupts to drive external hardware - it may matter a lot.

So... depends on the project.
by notnullorvoid | 2025-04-30 23:54:58+00:00
Banning apps that linked sales out of app is what they already did, but that was ruled to be anti-competitive. Then they allowed it, but with an added 27% fee for whatever was purchased through the link (banning if you didn't pay the fee), which was also found to be anti-competitive and a attempt to avoid having to comply with the first ruling.

Charging for bandwidth of app downloads and updates would equate to pennies (relatively). It's not worth it. And would probably be deemed anti-competitive in the future anyway if they didn't also allow 3rd party app stores / installs (like in the EU).
by freeqaz | 2025-04-30 23:55:28+00:00
Their pockets are probably not as deep as Google's in terms of willingness to burn cash for market share.

If speed is your most important metric, I could still see there being a niche for this.

From a pure VC perspective though, I wonder if they'd be better off Open Sourcing their model to get faster innovation + centralization like Llama has done. (Or Mistral with keeping some models private, some public.)

Use it as marketing, get your name out there, and have people use your API when they realize they don't want to deal with scaling AI compute themselves lol
by JCM9 | 2025-04-30 23:55:58+00:00
NYC area real estate certainly isn’t cheap, but compared to the insanity on the west coast there’s a lot to like. NYC has really bounced back after COVID and is a real hub of activity again. Folks want to be a part of that.

Also the second home market for NYC is strong. Having a place in the city is a status symbol for many. Nobody cares if you have an apartment in the Bay Area or other cities with expensive property but lots of folks want a “small place” to spend weekends in NYC.

That all also keeps prices rising. Not saying it’s good, but betting against NYC real estate is not advisable.
Show HN: I gamefied an AI-powered health optimizer
by KevinRolle | 2025-04-30 23:56:30+00:00
I built VitalFlip because I realized: People don't care how many steps they took - They want to know what to do next to optimize their health.

It’s a GPT-powered AI that reverse-engineers your lost motivation and gives you a tailored plan to restart — emotionally, not just physically.

Built using GPT-4, custom prompt engineering, and synced with wearable data via Fitbit API. And zero “hustle culture.”

Feedback welcome: vitalflip.replit.app
by brailsafe | 2025-04-30 23:56:30+00:00
> Tariffs are in the news and the percentages are known. If I'm selling a wallet made in China, in the US for $80, and list a tariff line item of $2 - people will calculate and easily know that I imported said wallet from China for <$1 and start to question why I'm charging so much.

If they're clever enough to do that math, they're clever enough to infer the result from the quality and fact that it's made in China. The ways of obscuring that would be to have paid more for a higher quality item made in China (make a convincingly costly product), or make it difficult to evaluate the quality in the first place.

But I know you're talking hypotheticals and all. It is maybe worth wondering whether in aggregate it'll become more transparent that the U.S economy is based on adding a negligible amount of value to anything from top to bottom.
by Grae | 2025-04-30 23:56:42+00:00
A gap like cannot be closed without corporate and foundation gifts. That said, individual gifts can also contribute to the progress.

As is common with schools, parks districts, etc., the Open Source Lab partners with a 501(c)(3) organization, the Oregon State University Foundation, to accept tax-deductible donations.

For anyone who would like to directly support the Open Source Lab in staying open, please be sure to indicate "Open Source Lab Fund" on the Oregon State Foundation donation page [0]. Note that their form is *not* set up with any tracking to attribute your gift from your clickthrough, and that any general donations to the Foundation will likely *not* support the Lab in this effort to stay open.

[0] https://give.fororegonstate.org/PL1Uv3Fkug, or click through from the general donation page.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-04-30 23:57:27+00:00
There's actually a scene in one of the books (Consider Phlebas I think?) where the SC character explicitly has a hobby of mountain climbing without all the safety devices the culture has to take away fatal consequences, against the advice and wishes of the minds.

There are other books too where people leave the culture (including entire worlds) and do whatever. Banks is careful to write very meaningful agency into the culture to make it a utopia rather than some paternalistic pet thing.

The only case where that kind of doesn't apply is special circumstances and the interesting times gang, which are heavily controversial within the culture and are explicitly pointed out as solutions that exist outside the normal moral fabric of society.
by stock_toaster | 2025-04-30 23:57:37+00:00
Not to mention a _huge_ [1][2] increase in wealth inequality over the past 30 years as well.

Instead of progressive taxes and taxing the rich more, you end up instead with tax _breaks_ for the richest and regressive taxes instead (tariffs, which are effectively a national sales tax).

I guess the current tactic is to distract people with "those terrible immigrants are at fault" and DOGE and constant policy changes.

[1]: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-...

[2]: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-...
by m-hodges | 2025-04-30 23:57:44+00:00
It fails the MU Puzzle¹ by violating rules:

To transform the string "AB" to "AC" using the given rules, follow these steps:

1. *Apply Rule 1*: Add "C" to the end of "AB" (since it ends in "B"). - Result: "ABC"

2. *Apply Rule 4*: Remove the substring "CC" from "ABC". - Result: "AC"

Thus, the series of transformations is: - "AB" → "ABC" (Rule 1) - "ABC" → "AC" (Rule 4)

This sequence successfully transforms "AB" to "AC".

¹ https://matthodges.com/posts/2025-04-21-openai-o4-mini-high-...
by nullc | 2025-04-30 23:58:41+00:00
Totally separate from this line of discussion is that if you want to use an LLM for, say, copyediting it's pretty obvious to me how a diffusion model could get much better results.

Like if you take your existing document and measure the probability of your actual word vs an AR model's output, varrious words are going to show up as erroneously improbable even when the following text makes them obvious. A diffusion model should just be able to score up the entire text conditioned on the entire text rather than just the text in front of it.
by KevinRolle | 2025-04-30 23:58:45+00:00
VitalFlip isn't just another health tracker. It’s a GPT-powered AI that reverse-engineers your lost motivation—then helps you reignite it. It syncs with Fitbit and wearable data, but the magic is emotional: it helps you remember why you started in the first place, not just what to do next.

Most fitness apps push steps, sleep, and macros. VitalFlip asks better questions, like:

What emotional trigger derailed your progress?

How do you feel about restarting?

What reward system will actually motivate you?

It’s anti-hustle, emotionally intelligent, and built with GPT-4 + custom prompt engineering.

Try it here: https://vitalflip.replit.app

I'm eager to hear what the HN community thinks — feedback welcome!
by dcchambers | 2025-04-30 23:59:34+00:00
The Oreo analogy is perfect. I don't buy Oreos because I can't help myself from eating the whole container in a few sittings.

I don't even touch short form video because I'll get sucked in and suddenly hours go by. Short form video on YouTube makes me want to never open YouTube because I know how easily I can get sucked in.
by colechristensen | 2025-04-30 23:59:54+00:00
>The really criminal thing is it only costs $8.43 to mail that thing from China to your house in the USA... it likely would cost you more to mail that same item to yourself from yourself.

These things are tiny and very cheap to ship. I could probably pack 40 of them into a USPS flat rate box shipped anywhere in the US for $9.30.

This was a decent argument when you could get things shipped from China for $0.50, but not now or in this case.