MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Wilsoniumite | 2025-04-24 21:34:14+00:00
> [...] as something that happened to Facebook/Meta rather than something driven by Facebook/Meta to satisfy Wall Street. Social media did not naturally evolve into what it is today:

As soon as you have any platform which says "hey you there with an email address, you can put content on here that can be seen by anyone in the world." you will slowly end up with a scene that looks like all these sites we have now. Advertiser's and influencers will be there, at your behest or otherwise. There's only two options to avoid this. 1. Aggressively tune your algorithm against pure engagement and toward proximity. 2. Explicitly dissallow broad reach of content. And when I say aggressively I really mean it. If people can "follow" others unilaterally, even only showing "followed content" will still lead to most people seeing mostly high engagement posts, rather than their friends. At what point (degree of intervention) does something go from "natural" to "driven"? It's a hard question, but one things for sure, a Facebook that didn't allow high engagement content would already be dead.
by futuraperdita | 2025-04-24 21:34:48+00:00
Given the increase in power budget and cooling, I’m still disappointed to see that the lowly MacBook Air is not just competitive, but sometimes leading against the best x86 chips, some 5 years after the first one was released.

After struggling with heat and power usage, I’ve resigned myself to macOS in the short term. I’d love to see real competition again.
by imiric | 2025-04-24 21:35:34+00:00
Same, 18/20 for me. The all caps on MATTEL got me, and the STAPLES one as well, for some reason.

But the differences on the lowercase "t" and "s", uppercase "g", the number 3, and both upper an lowercase "c", are obvious. Helvetica is much more refined.

There are good reasons why well designed typography is expensive. A lot of thought and effort went into designing every line and curve. Even if most people can't consciously appreciate these details, they experience it subconsciously by how the design makes them feel. This is why brand designers are well paid. Anyone can design a logo, but to make a design that transmits a specific feeling, that requires a lot of skill. And typography is a core component of this.
by badmonster | 2025-04-24 21:36:01+00:00
Usage of gpt-image-1 is priced per token, with separate pricing for text and image tokens:

Text input tokens (prompt text): $5 per 1M tokens Image input tokens (input images): $10 per 1M tokens Image output tokens (generated images): $40 per 1M tokens

In practice, this translates to roughly $0.02, $0.07, and $0.19 per generated image for low, medium, and high-quality square images, respectively.

that's a bit pricy for a startup.
by camel-cdr | 2025-04-24 21:36:25+00:00
hm, I was wondering how the density compares with x86 having more complex encodings in general.

vaddps zmm1,zmm0,ZMMWORD PTR [r14]

takes six bytes to encode:

62 d1 7c 48 58 0e

In SVE and RVV a load+add takes 8 bytes to encode.
by jandrese | 2025-04-24 21:36:42+00:00
Oh it was reckless. That was the era when built quality was rock bottom. People were getting cars that were missing parts, or where things were attached completely wrong.[1] He was expanding production so fast that it caused a serious liquidity crunch at Tesla. But he got lucky and managed to squeeze through the problem.

I will have to look harder to find the name of the investor whom Elon made the production bet against, but I think this article is talking about it: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/teslas...

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/15/tesla-workers-in-ga4-tent-de...
by const_cast | 2025-04-24 21:37:02+00:00
> If I was asked about the best correlate for being evil, honestly trying to make the world a better place by determining how specifically others should live would be on top of the list by a huge margin.

Really? Telling people, "hey, don't give other's poison, that's bad"... is worse than giving other's poison? You actually believe that?

To give some context, I used to smoke. For a long time!

Nobody wants to smoke. The only people that want you to smoke are the people literally extracting value out of your rotting corpse.

Look, if you actually think those people are better, then whatever. Clearly this isn't something I can dispute or even try to argue against so who cares. Just... find some medication or something, I don't know. This pathetic, self-destructive method of thinking can't be right.
by lenerdenator | 2025-04-24 21:37:32+00:00
> Mark Zuckerburg's superpower is being like Jack Sparrow at the beginning of Pirates of the Caribbean: he steps off one boat just as it's sinking onto another, and he has the humility to not really give a damn which ship he's on. (I say "humility" even as someone frustrated by his net impact on society.)

That's like saying a tapeworm is humble because it doesn't care which colon it's sitting in.

The tapeworm lacks the faculties to care about the colon. It just needs nourishment. Same with Zuck. You can't blame the worm, because it's got no concept of reality beyond the things needed to serve its survival. Zuck, as a human, can only do that by very likely having a serious personality disorder.
by mrkeen | 2025-04-24 21:38:05+00:00
I once worked in a small VB6-based team - you can probably guess the attitudes and surrounding tech were just as out of date.

I tried to push for using svn, rather than just making copies of our source code folders and adding dates to them.

My manager allowed me to use svn, but to make sure I also did things the proper way by making copies of the source code folders.

That's the current level of discourse around audit logs. Write down what happened using your data tables ... but write down what really happened in the audit logs.

At some point you should just lean into putting audit logs first (just like developers reach for the git first).
by AcerbicZero | 2025-04-24 21:38:08+00:00
You're getting a lot of pushback, but this resonates with me. I guess I have a hard time understanding the value in a "noble departure" rather than just going down swinging.

If a shark was eating me, I wouldn't say "welp I'm boned, better just resign from life". I'd punch the shark, until that shark had to fire me from life.

Maybe from a PR perspective its somehow better? Idk, I don't see it.
by frollogaston | 2025-04-24 21:38:20+00:00
Yes. WhatsApp isn't nearly as popular in the US as in many other countries.

Idk what the stats are on this, but anecdotally, all my friends use FB Messenger if they want cross-platform group chat, but that's slowly changing to some fragmented list of alternatives. And usually it's not for semi-important things like get-together plans.
by chasing | 2025-04-24 21:39:24+00:00
> What _was_ Facebook supposed to do when it saw all of its users leave Instagram/Facebook for Tiktok? Not do anything? Though it's terrible that everything is now a short form addicting video platform, I understand the logic behind why the company did what they did (and why everyone is building this). People say they want real connection, but really, they just want to be entertained.

Innovate.

It’s not necessary to turn your company into a toxic disaster to compete.
by Ciantic | 2025-04-24 21:39:26+00:00
I spent the last hour reading the release notes, very enjoyable as always. Since I'm not a game dev, I focus on random things. I keep checking their progress on meshlets (and occlusion culling) as I think it unlocks the ability to use highly complex geometry without penalty. This means it should allow amateurs to make very impressive-looking games by just obtaining meshes and materials. Now, of course, it requires a mountain of other things like GPU-driven rendering to make it actually happen. However, ever since I saw the nanite demo, I thought, if some FOSS engine has it, then the output should be very impressive.
by toofy | 2025-04-24 21:39:55+00:00
> … what users “want”.

what *some* users want.

sure, it may have been a majority at the time. but imo chasing that was incredibly short sighted.

many many many people warned them this would be the outcome. in typical fashion for these people, they ignored it, imagining themselves to be smarter in every area than everyone else.

i’ve said it before and i’ll say it so many more times: we need to better at realizing where our intelligence is behind. some people are untouchably genius in social situations but absolutely terrible at stem. and some stem people may be absolute genius at engineering work but entirely lack understanding of social/humanity issues.

far too often only one of those two groups understands their lack of understanding. if you ask the best party planner in the state to engineer an automobile, they’re going to look at you like you’re a crazy person. ask the best engineer in the state to plan the years most important ball, we’re going to fully delude ourselves into thinking we can do it better than the party planner.
by JohnFen | 2025-04-24 21:40:03+00:00
I wonder how valid that test is, actually. Lots of people are aware that claims of "Made in USA" often don't actually mean the thing was made in the USA in the intuitive sense of the phrase and so disregard them.

Regardless, I would fully expect that most people would be swayed by price, especially when the price differential is as large as in that test.
by derf_ | 2025-04-24 21:40:23+00:00
> I code with SIMD as the target, and have special containers that pad memory to SIMD width...

I think this may be domain-specific. I help maintain several open-source audio libraries, and wind up being the one to review the patches when people contribute SIMD for some specific ISA, and I think without exception they always get the tail handling wrong. Due to other interactions it cannot always be avoided by padding. It can roughly double the complexity of the code [0], and requires a disproportionate amount of thinking time vs. the time the code spends running, but if you don't spend that thinking time you can get OOB reads or writes, and thus CVEs. Masked loads/stores are an improvement, but not universally available. I don't have a lot of concrete suggestions.

I also work with a lot of image/video SIMD, and this is just not a problem, because most operations happen on fixed block sizes, and padding buffers is easy and routine.

I agree I would have picked other things for the other two in my own top-3 list.

[0] Here is a fun one, which actually performs worst when len is a multiple of 8 (which it almost always is), and has 59 lines of code for tail handling vs. 33 lines for the main loop: https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/opus/-/blob/main/celt/arm/celt_...
by bena | 2025-04-24 21:40:43+00:00
> - Money/power does make you insensitive

This is something I try to be acutely aware of in myself. Not that I have any level of wealth worth mentioning.

I started working at a company where they just give me stuff. I can go to work in clothes my employer gave me, eat my meals there, use the phone they pay the plan for, etc.

It does affect you. I first noticed it when I went to buy some triviality. Something small I needed for something or the other. Something that would have been just given to me at work. The line to checkout was long and while waiting, I just thought "Why can't I just fucking go? It's not even $10. What does it matter?"

So now I try and be mindful of what I receive and to be sure to acknowledge it at least mentally.
by bsder | 2025-04-24 21:41:11+00:00
> MS is under no obligation to provide an OSS editor, but playing tricks after luring people in is not nice.

Microsoft is partly to blame, but people have been warning about this over and over and over ad nauseam and people still choose to use VSCode. You couldn't even get people to not use the proprietary extensions for C/C++, Python and remote development.

The problem is that Microsoft dedicates enough resource to development that everybody else looks like a rounding error.

For example, anybody could have produced the Language Server Protocol, but nobody had the critical mass until Microsoft shoved it down everybody's throats.

Until somebody puts a significant amount of money behind an alternative, Microsoft is going to continue to win this battle.

(I was going to also say "or the OSS guys all unify behind a choice" but Hell will freeze over before that happens.)
by AcerbicZero | 2025-04-24 21:41:11+00:00
If you're in a hierarchical structure and someone higher up gives you an ultimatum, your choices are: comply, resist and face consequences, or find subversive, incremental ways to undermine it. None of those are cost-free.

"Fighting" isn't about magic moves that keep everything safe. It's about choosing when and how to accept the risks. Expecting a fight with no threat to your position is cowardice disguised as pragmatism.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-04-24 21:42:21+00:00
The countless myriad number of TikTok’s, reels, etc from women calling out how using an android is a dealer breaker. The community made polls of “incels.us” about this exact question, and the other links I cited showing green bubble social discrimination.

My original post has enough receipts. If you don’t believe me you’re free to remain wrong. But here’s more anyway:

https://www.joe.co.uk/life/sex/owning-an-android-is-official...

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/android-relationship-iphone/

https://www.studentbeans.com/blog/uk/the-biggest-student-dat...

https://archive.thetab.com/uk/2020/10/16/girls-are-sharing-w...

These memes posted on short video sites also have parallel ones of women making fun of guys who try to do the whole “hold on let me pirate this movie and HDMI connect it to the TV thing” instead of having Netflix.
by andrewinardeer | 2025-04-24 21:43:25+00:00
Amazon's Nova Pro:

``` Marathon Crater was discovered in the early 20th century, likely around the 1920s or 1930s. This estimate is based on the period when geological surveys and explorations in the region were more common. ```

https://kagi.com/assistant/8f270eab-cba3-4f39-976c-113ea4392...
by thephyber | 2025-04-24 21:43:36+00:00
What makes you think “they don’t understand the interest they have to pay”?

They are optimizing for short-medium term profits. The people there in the early days pull the ejection code when the “interest” is due. The company coasts until some private equity runs the numbers and realizes the parts are worth more than the whole.

This is capitalism. You are using “interest” (a finance term) seemingly in a moral / ethical critique. If so, use a moral / ethical term instead.
by reddit_clone | 2025-04-24 21:44:34+00:00
Exactly my setup including the #tag's. It is my second brain.

What I love about this is the fzf's fuzzy narrow down. You don't have to start at the beginning of command, you don't have to worry about exact spelling. Just a few snippets you remember, it will narrow it down really fast.

I use the same fuzzy search narrow downs in Emacs.

I miss it everywhere else.
by bobxmax | 2025-04-24 21:44:38+00:00
I think Open AI is still far ahead as a consumer choice, and I'm not sure that Google can catch them.

However model capabilities, and especially now that they're integrating Gemini into Google Search (which was a disaster initially, but improving now) the Googlefying is happening.

It'll be curious what they do with projects like Imagen and Veo though.
by cuttothechase | 2025-04-24 21:44:56+00:00
Our understanding evolves, course corrects, spins off etc., we can use some static value as purported from the dark ages or by newtonian or later einstenian points of view. They all are measurably correct for the problems that they are trying to solve for the people who lived during those times. A million years from now would these values still be relevant or be considered as having the same value of importance or will they be replaced by even more finer and precise and contextually different values that could be more precise and more accurate etc.,
by whall | 2025-04-24 21:45:01+00:00
I think they're painting the picture that these pensions are less sophisticated than they really are. These people are usually prior investors with stories careers themselves, not "police officers and fire fighters"[1].

They're also much more transparent than this video paints them to be. Here's where they report all of their returns[2].

[1] https://www.oregon.gov/treasury/invested-for-oregon/pages/or...

[2] https://www.oregon.gov/treasury/invested-for-oregon/pages/pe...
by yencabulator | 2025-04-24 21:46:09+00:00
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32105781

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36530561

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35129690

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40259185 (has actual discussion)
by luckylion | 2025-04-24 21:46:10+00:00
That's not what GP was saying though. To stay with that analogy, the assertion was that "all processors are kinda the same, there's no real qualitative difference", which sounds pretty strange. It's somewhat accurate if your use-case is covered by the average processor and the faster one doesn't benefit you. They're not equal, but all of them surpass your needs.

> If I need more capability or results are substandard, I can always upgrade

You wouldn't be able to upgrade (and see improved results) if the model you use today was close to equal to the top of the line.
by renecito | 2025-04-24 21:46:15+00:00
is the owner of the address a perpetual owner of the GPL? Example: - Step 1: Create evil Corporation - Step 2: Buy that address - Step 3: Create a new GPL, still GPL but technically a new version. This can make sure the sole owner of the claimed IP (remove the FSF of course). - Step 4: Sell your updated license to anyone that'd want to go around previous GPL.
by freehorse | 2025-04-24 21:46:42+00:00
I would rather have ol' good forums. I would rather have years long posts in the frontpage and the ability to bump a long burried post when new info is up, and not missing the opportunity to engage with a topic just because 1-2 days passed without me logging in and thus the post, being more than 1-2 days old, is not in the frontpage anymore.
by bitewhite | 2025-04-24 21:46:56+00:00
So what exactly is conscioussness? Does meaning exist independently from it and I discover it or is it an attribute assigned by conscious entities? I think that meaning is independent from energy, entropy, or anything else. An arrangement of atoms can be selected with no change in entropy to maximize meaning to me that it energetically equivalent to many other arrangements.

Also what do you make of sub-conscious and super-conscious? It seems to me that the conscious experience is just an interface sitting between the physical world and the whole psyche and self. A lot of that psyche sits behind a veil and comes out in uncontrolled ways. Or maybe the whole psyche is controlling our conscioussness in ways we don't really perceive.

What if consciousness is not a byproduct of matter — instead matter is a manifestation within consciousness.
by fragmede | 2025-04-24 21:47:11+00:00
I don't think Occam's razor applies here. Before the tarrifs, Donghua Jinlong glycine going viral was a silly Internet thing, but the tarrifs are big business and it might come off as a tin foil hat theory that the CCP exerted control over TikTok to push videos that undercut American companies in the face of American tarrifs, but geopolitics is very big business. Believing that those videos came up organically seems naive because this shit is a big deal with far reaching global ramifications.
by gruez | 2025-04-24 21:47:23+00:00
>I will have to look harder to find the name of the investor whom Elon made the production bet against, but I think this article is talking about it: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/teslas...

Unless there's something the article totally omitted, your original retelling of the story was heavily misleading. For one, it's not a bet and is seemingly actually a performance bonus, which nearly every F500 company has for their executives. As such, there was very little downside if he lost the bet. It's also unclear why CEOs trying to hit aggressive performance targets is a bad thing in and of itself. You could still object to it on the basis of bad working conditions for workers, or corners cut on the product being made, but you mentioned none of that in your original comment, which seems to imply you were fine with all of those things, and was only upset that Musk didn't share in the rewards (???).
by lesuorac | 2025-04-24 21:47:27+00:00
Is it disagree and commit?

NSF is an "independent agency" [1] so if the job you were appointed to an confirmed by congress (senate) is at odds with the presidents desires I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be a problem for the president not you.

Similar to all those inspector generals who just gave up when they were illegally fired. Literally your job is to prevent the president from corruption, how are you going to do that now?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_agencies_of_the_Un...
by bogwog | 2025-04-24 21:47:31+00:00
For context, Open VSX is run by the Eclipse foundation, which also develops the Eclipse Theia editor, which is basically a clone of VS Code (not a fork, like VS Codium).

The Open VSX registry is open source (https://github.com/eclipse/openvsx) and self-hostable, although I have no experience with that. I assume it's possible to host your own instance with the extensions you want instead of relying on the free public instance.

Personally I'm more of a Sublime guy, but people looking for an open VSC alternative should consider Theia over VSC forks. It seems like the smarter long term investment if you want to get out from Microsoft's control.
by allemagne | 2025-04-24 21:48:26+00:00
I don't know about it being a feature, but humans can definitely make the same mistake, and the follow-up here admittedly doesn't seem too egregious.

To me it's still a little "off" considering that your conversational partner just got called out for missing a detail that should change their entire reading of the riddle, but it's totally fair that you can imagine realistic human emotional states to explain it.

FWIW, when I tried the same thing with GPT-4o the model went off bizarrely speculating about misdirection about "the man" being the surgeon's son:

>Good catch—and yes, that's exactly where the misdirection comes in.

The riddle says:

“A man and his cousin are in a car crash. The man dies, but the cousin is taken to the ER...”

Then the surgeon says:

“I cannot operate on him. He’s my son.”

So here's the trick:

The man who died is not the surgeon's son. The cousin who survived is the surgeon's son.

The confusion comes from people assuming that “the man” who died must be the son. But the riddle never says that. It’s a subtle shift of attention designed to trip you up. Clever, right?
by JohnFen | 2025-04-24 21:48:45+00:00
Sure, but those accomplishments pale in comparison to all of the deception over the years not just around those projects directly, but the larger number of projects that he talked up and that he didn't even have a chance of delivering on. Those appear to be just straight-up con jobs without any redeeming value.

Being a good con man doesn't mean you don't deliver anything. Delivering something is an important part of a good con.
by Someone | 2025-04-24 21:49:46+00:00
https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248579.html:

“The IBM z17 supports a PCIe I/O infrastructure. PCIe features are installed in PCIe+ I/O drawers. Up to 12 I/O drawers per IBM z17 can be ordered, which allows for up to 192 PCIe I/O and special purpose features.

For a four CPC drawer system, up to 48 PCIe+ fan-out slots can be populated with fan-out cards for data communications between the CPC drawers and the I/O infrastructure, and for coupling. The multiple channel subsystem (CSS) architecture allows up to six CSSs, each with 256 channels.

The IBM z17 implements PCIe Generation 5 (PCIe+ Gen5), which is used to connect the PCIe Generation 4 (PCIe+ Gen4) dual port fan-out features in the CPC drawers. The I/O infrastructure is designed to reduce processor usage and I/O latency, and provide increased throughput and availability.”