MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by joering2 | 2025-04-30 19:35:21+00:00
Sadly I agree with unrecoverable. Not only China is not stupid and is not waiting around, but also this idea that American people under democratic system can withstand longer oppression than a hard core regime that makes people missing every day, is astonishing. We will have Americans riot on the streets, meanwhile Chinese people will just get a tad smaller rice bowls. And then you have Canada, India and most significant countries there that this Administration continues to offend. Canada is going thru rounds of serious talks to take up large amounts of goods produced in China, so is India. We might be at the point that if/when a new Administration comes and is ready to restart talks, China may say "sorry we don't have anymore hands/factories to produce goods and we are very happy with what we sale to Canada/China/[insert any country name that is not US]".

Side note, how is bringing back manufacturing really what American people want? Do you want to live next to a huge factory polluting air and creating unbearable noise? You think you children can or want to work as hard as Chinese folks doing repetitive tasks in stinky inhumane factories? At what rate? $2 per day? The reason it all got pushed outside of USA is exactly because the level of lifestyle Americans wanted and like. Now apparently we are being told by this Administration that "having cheap goods is not American dream."

God help us all!
by ClumsyPilot | 2025-04-30 19:35:23+00:00
This sounds very strange:

- What combat situation will require a military aircraft to be flying 30 meters from civilian jet doing routine flights?

- i don’t believe that there really is no technical solution to provide awareness to civilians of the presence and location of military aircraft without altering the pilot’s experience

- if it had told the Blackhawk crew a plane was way closer, the crew would still be alive. That’s like the whole point.

I have no expertise or n the area, but I can’t share the feeling that decision making is extremely poor, and sometimes it actually takes an outsider, who is free from groupthink and cope, to see that a decision is stupid.
by cryptonector | 2025-04-30 19:35:29+00:00
Sun greatly revitalized "Unix" in the 00s! Need I refer you to Bryan Cantrill's screed about how OS research was not boring? The list of features that shipped in the 00s is amazing:

- DTrace - FMA/FMD - SMF - ZFS - the unified process model - NFSv4 - CIFS - and more

and this was while being hamstrung by a crappy SVR4 networking architecture that the networking team was able to kill off (thank goodness).

Some of these are things not yet re-invented elsewhere, others re-invented poorly:

- systemd is a bad SMF - SystemTap is a bad DTrace - eBPF is pretty cool but in some key ways not as good as DTrace - ZFS remains unparalleled
by mrweasel | 2025-04-30 19:35:48+00:00
Also add a "stolen content" option for reporting. There is an insane amount of content that has been blatantly ripped of from others to produce cheap AI generated Shorts. Unless you own the stolen content, there's nothing you can do, even if it's clearly an Instagram video or a Reddit posts run through an AI.

Short form content, especially combined with AI is an abomination foisted upon this world in search of a meagre profit.

My issue with Shorts are that you watch it, conclude that it was garbage and a waste of your time, so you hit "thumbs down". That apparently does NOTHING in YouTube land, because you watched, and hit a button, so you "engaged" with the content. There's so much good, well made, quality content on YouTube, but even if you pay for Premium, the algorithm, tweaked for engagement and ad impression just ruins it and the more YouTube push Shorts the worse it gets.
by ericmay | 2025-04-30 19:35:55+00:00
Nah, the problem is EU will face the same problems the US is facing (they don't want products dumped on their markets at subsidized costs putting their workers out of business), and a lot of the posturing (Canada I think is different) is for the public and because Trump is an asshole but the EU sees the same problem the US does. Nevermind China very overtly aiding Russia in its war in Europe which has the EU not very happy. Guess we forgot about that?

The EU is actually quite protectionist, despite public claims to the contrary. Most countries are in various fashion protective of many or certain industries.

Trump no doubt damaged ties, and again I think the Biden administration's approach was superior in many ways, but there's a limit to what agreements the EU will make with China. The manufacturing capacity that the Chinese have built isn't sustainable without a substantial increase in Chinese domestic consumption.
by _bin_ | 2025-04-30 19:35:55+00:00
Perhaps, but I do see this as a mostly-disconnected issue. Companies in China are extremely profit-seeking. We're talking about countries that run literal sweatshops, so let's stipulate worker's rights and living wages aren't high in their considerations.

I agree that paying workers well is a good thing; I like that the advanced mfg model still allows people to give good salaries. But, I don't see how it's strongly tied to the issue of tariff policy in terms of economic outcomes.
by cycomanic | 2025-04-30 19:36:11+00:00
As if slack was any better. I never understand how people accepted this piece of crappy software for regular communication. I mean it has the populate when scrolling behaviour that everyone hates in website design, but somehow it's acceptable for a chat app where looking at past messages is crucial?! I mean you just displayed those messages to me yesterday, why do you need to reload them from the server today. The amount of space saving compared to the bloated mess that your electron app is can't be worth it?! That would be not so infuriating if the search wasn't so crappy that it's often easier to find things by scrolling.

The there's the whole mess when using multiple a mobile and desktop app. It often happens that I get slack message notifications from my phone in my pocket while the open desktop app sometimes takes another minute to get the same message. The same happens with huddles, why does my phone ring abut not my desktop app? And one of my colleagues even has the problem that when he picks up a call on the desktop it opens up on his phone.

I agree that teams is a mess, but IMO mainly because of the mess that is calendering... around it. The calls and messaging parts are OK. In contrast slack can't even get it's core competency right.
by dani__german | 2025-04-30 19:36:15+00:00
To show that these questions have been asked before, and when the social issue at stake is one that leftists champion, very very few on the left are willing to stand up to presidential authority in any way.

When the same exact power is used in a way that leftists by fiat deem "bad", there is no limit of the amount of pettiness, name calling, obstruction, and general ill will they will put to use to stop the president from doing something. in this case, it is to uphold Civil Rights law against a clear and ongoing violation.

This poster should have realized though that the way to win in politics hasn't been "debating the left" or crying "what if the roles were reversed?!" for some time now. Thats the way to be a principled loser, and be called all sorts of names in the process.
by serial_dev | 2025-04-30 19:36:25+00:00
Can't watch the video now, but when I worked on a smart home project, they worked with manufacturers in China Shenzhen because they are just that much better, there is an entire industry designing, manufacturing, inspecting, packaging stuff the way you want it, everything done in weeks even for a small company.

European companies, at least in this niche were not only more expensive, but worse quality, slower, more bureaucratic.

Now, how this anecdote translates to other industries, of course I don't know, but Shenzhen, I was told, it's something hard to even imagine as a European.
by eastbound | 2025-04-30 19:36:31+00:00
Duke lacrosse what the epitome of “Guilty because male”… which made the wind turn around and you have a situation to deal with now. All of this because people don’t want the left’s “Guilty because male” or “because [race]” solution, and they made it known through the ballots.

For those who don’t know: Under Title IX, in summary, accusers of rape have all rights for their case to be treated by internal boards in the uni, which means no due trial with merits or proof, which is blatantly unconstitutional but the left didn’t care at the time. Oh yeah and not only seizing the girl’s phone as evidence is forbidden too, but even showing the man’s phone with the conversation with the girl, because it would impede on the girl’s privacy. So some poor Lacrosse players got accused, adulthoods were already ruined, the women admitted to lying, and this is the case with probably all accused without due process during the 2013-2025 period.

And Title IX is still enforced.
by aziaziazi | 2025-04-30 19:36:35+00:00
> Giving any sort of unlimited/lifetime option is a recipe for losing money

I agree with you: maintaining the SAAS server and has a cost. However he may consider the downloadable, local software: it would be cheaper for him (= more profit) and safer for its users ("lifetime until OP eventually gets out of business " vs "this is mine").

Obviously for the Lamborghini - the monthly subscription SAAS with discounts if you pay for 3 years and good luck to understand the unsubscribe funnel - will be more effective but OP said he didn’t target the moon. Reading his story, his target seems to be the status - or the fame - and for that I can’t help placing here my Hero’s for inspiration :

Dan and Tanya have build and maintain the most amazing GIT graphic client I tried :

https://git-fork.com/about

It’s been 9 years, it’s their only "job" and there’s two price:

- free: all features + pay reminder at startup

- pay (60$): remove the reminder

There’s also tons of pre-2010 companies that did well with lifetime plan, and many users here and here complains about the subscription models. I’m sure they’ll consider paying more for a non-SAAS software.
by amenghra | 2025-04-30 19:37:10+00:00
Couple dozen => it’s actually 50-ish, with a mix of private and government entities located all over the world.

The fact that the Spanish mint can mint (pun!) certificates for any domain is unfortunate.

Hopefully, any abuse would be noticed quickly and rights revoked.

It would maybe have made more sense for each country’s TLD to have one or more associated CA (with the ability to delegate trust among friendly countries if desired).

https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA/Included_Certificates
by gorbachev | 2025-04-30 19:37:26+00:00
You assume the UX team has any say in any of this.

Some of the revelations from the various lawsuits against Google by the US and other governments over the years have been about this.

The company replaced leaders who cared about users with leaders who cared about revenue optimization and those leaders changed the direction of the company to what we all see in all of their products these days.
by jrflowers | 2025-04-30 19:38:41+00:00
“It’s more art than science…”

So how does his venture capital firm feel about AI doing art?

https://a16z.com/aiart/

Or AI and psychology?

https://a16z.com/announcement/investing-in-slingshot-ai/

I cannot imagine a singular guy who could be more effectively replaced by a chat bot than somebody whose entire professional obligation is writing extremely long blog posts, initiating wire transfers to people in a spreadsheet, and taking notes on meetings between people on that spreadsheet

Like if AI can’t do those things this it certainly shouldn’t be trusted to write recipes or drive a car
by mexicocitinluez | 2025-04-30 19:38:44+00:00
yea, you're missing the point.

rattling off a bunch of people who haven't been criminally charged in response to a party whose leader quite literally HAS been charged with fraud is the point.

how many indictments were passed down during the Obama admin vs Trump admin vs Bush admin and so on. Republican admins are notorious for being criminals.
by 9x39 | 2025-04-30 19:38:46+00:00
People love oracles. I don't really get why yet, but I watch almost anyone outside of tech just eat up AI summaries like the ones atop Google search results or chat agents connected to an LLM.

The common denominator in the room is probably so high for a lot of tech people that it's easy to be dismissive, but this looks like giving people what they think they want - the oracle. It's impressive looking for a lot of users, and impressive for certain people to brag about connecting and setting up for a team.

I think there's a mid to bottom market desire for this stuff, even if it doesn't survive a possible future bubble pop. Call it selling shovels in a gold rush.
by ericmay | 2025-04-30 19:39:38+00:00
Americans are just like anyone else for the most part, albeit with some cultural differences.

We can put up with hardship just like anyone else, though our suburban ecosystems and factory farming make that more difficult than need be, it's just that we haven't had a real need to face true national hardship since World War II perhaps.

I don't disagree with the COVID-19 lockdowns or anything like that, but I'm not sure that's the best example here because as a nation we weren't really aligned on that being a hardship necessary to endure sacrifice.
by mikeocool | 2025-04-30 19:40:40+00:00
NotebookLM podcasts are like a caricature of a real podcast. Every little verbal technique or narrative style that might be used by a normal podcaster in a subtle way is taken to an extreme.

The last one I listened to one host would repeat a keyword or phrase the other host had just said for emphasis — except they did incessantly — with multiple words in every sentence for many sentences in a row.
by const_cast | 2025-04-30 19:40:47+00:00
But such a distinction is worthless - there's no rule anywhere saying only teens get minimum wage

It's a completely bullshit argument that says "see, it's not so bad" but purposefully pointing to the small subset of people who are in the most advantageous circumstances.

It would be like me arguing the Great Depression wasn't so bad and then pointing to some group of people who were immensely wealthy and therefore managed to get through the Depression mostly unscathed. It's just... bad arguing.
by genocidicbunny | 2025-04-30 19:41:30+00:00
The apps are often a part of some larger platform -- some of my friends have their kids in schools or daycares that do something similar, but the parents can also see the checkin/checkout info. I'm guessing at your daughter's school, the data is centralized in some way, which the admin can use for things like school-wide attendance statistics, which are often also tied to funding in some way.
by wahern | 2025-04-30 19:41:37+00:00
Process matters, everything else is to a first approximation merely platitudes. What's the difference between faceless bureaucrats making these decisions vs the president? It's the difference between rule of law vs dictatorship. Faceless bureaucrats have to follow policy defined by Congress and the President. If the person making the policy is the same person making the decision, and especially when the "policy" is whatever their fancy is, that's not rule of law. America was founded on the principle, "a government of law, not of men".

Moreover, faceless bureaucrats risk criminal and financial punishments for things like self-dealing. The president faces no such risk. And when they're a lame duck, they (theoretically) face zero risk, period.

Bureaucracies are slow. They're costly. Like democracy generally, they're inefficient. They're worthwhile because, at least as far as government is concerned, they're a necessary element to maintain rule of law and avoiding dictatorship. The solution to government bureaucracy isn't to remove the bureaucracy, it's to remove the government involvement. Otherwise, you're just inviting dictatorship. This has happened countless times. When the people get upset about perceived government ineffectiveness and its democratic institutions are too slow to respond (e.g. gridlocked Congress), there are two routes: privatization (i.e. reducing the role of government, not merely something like syndicalism) or dictatorship.

What's the difference between Donald Trump's rise to power and approach to governance, versus Huge Chavez's? Not much. The parallels are amazing. Both came to power promising radical overhauls of perceived sclerotic institutions, including broken legislatures. Like Trump, Chavez was a media whore who spent most of his time talking on television, making impossible promises and blaming everyone and everything else for his own failures. (Castro was like this, too.) They both spout so much B.S. that most people can't even keep up; they just start taking them at their word, which is why Chavez was popular until the day he died. His successor has zero charisma; the policies haven't changed, but now people hate the exact same kind of government they had during Chavez, but have no power to change it. That's what happens when you choose government of men rather than government of law.
by perching_aix | 2025-04-30 19:41:58+00:00
This news cycle was pretty hilarious (and just as sad) to hunt through.

From what I deciphered, the actual suggested cause was "aeolian vibrations" [0], which is one of the three forms of wind-induced conductor vibrations according to this [1] IEEE article. Also known as "flutter" according to Wikipedia [2]. (I'm not in EE so can't confirm nor debunk.)

Connected to this, another seemingly made-up term that made the news cycle was "Ging-induced vibrations" (in Portuguese media). Now, I don't speak Portuguese, but all my efforts hunting down this mysterious Ging tremendously failed. However, when I plopped ging into translation models, I couldn't help but notice that "ginga" in Portuguese means "swing", as in cable swing. So I'm giving it pretty reasonable chances that "ging" (no capitalization) might be what "flutter" is in English, i.e. the industry slang for "aeolian vibrations" there. And then the rest was just a typical journo move, much in the way of "the hacker known as 4chan".

In any case, it would have been cool if anyone actually linked to where said company made their statement, so that people could independently verify what was actually being said. From what I read, they have since explicitly debunked that they were inventing any new niche atmospheric effects. It's incredibly disheartening that such basic bits of information can become this seriously distorted before going viral, even (especially?) in this day and age. Makes you wonder how trustworthy are the regular news, even biases nonwithstanding, that aren't so readily obvious to be bollocks.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-VzxRfPHjU

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4773888

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockbridge_damper#Wind-induce...
by rvz | 2025-04-30 19:42:23+00:00
Come on that is complete nonsense. Unless you want to board a plane with zero human pilots or believing that energy grids, data centers, and control systems with only AI robots monitoring them instead of humans is the future. (It isn't).

Those who know about AI know that statements like that tell us we are still in the euphoria stage and it is the beginning of how this AI bubble will burst.

There will be a time where open-source will race these "so-called" AI companies to zero to the point where they will be struggling to raise prices or to compete with free.

This is classic fear-mongering.
by gene-h | 2025-04-30 19:42:29+00:00
And why wouldn't it work? Linear slide like mechanisms consisting of a silver surface and single molecule have been demonstrated[0]. The molecule only moved along rows of the silver surface. It was demonstrated to stay in one of these grooves up to 150 nm. A huge distance at this scale.

[0]https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1767839
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-04-30 19:43:01+00:00
Again: you’re wrong.

And you’re apparently not even interested in understanding your own position. The decision I just linked to is from a district court. I.e. no, they actually DO NOT have the obligation that you’re supposing they do.

Care to share your theory why industry groups are so thrilled with this if it has “0 impact” on regulators’ ability to regulate?

> Regulatory agencies do not operate on mandates like 'ban hydroxywhateverazine.'

Yes, in fact they will have to operate via statutes this strict if they don’t want everything to get litigated a million times. That’s sort of the whole point.

Your “ban dangerous plastics” is a hilarious example of this. What do you mean by “ban?” In what contexts? In what concentrations? In what formulations? In what exposure levels?

Okay now what do you mean by “dangerous?” In what contexts? In what concentrations? In what formulations? In what exposure levels?

Previously, regulators could (and did) employ scientists to produce these answers and govern accordingly with published rules that applied nationwide with all such rules subject to judicial review for the “reasonableness” in their statutory basis. Now, courts have to answer these case by case, district by district, scenario by scenario. Great work!

It’s clear from your first comment that you did not know what the Chevron test was and you’re trying to retcon your argument.
by Xiione | 2025-04-30 19:43:03+00:00
Thanks for checking it out! Essentially, for any given QR code the maximum error rate is reached when you deplete every block's health bar to 1 remaining slice, making sure to invert every pixel in each codeword you've touched (the individual tetris-piece shaped chunks), and then introduce one more single pixel error in any block. This is actually independent of the arrangement of corrupted codewords within each block.

The amount of redundancy is determined solely by the specific version-ecLevel pair a code has. So, the code with the largest amount of redundancy (in bytes) is one that has version 40 and EC level H - a staggering 2.43kB of redundancy vs. 1.28kB of data! See this particular sample: https://qris.cool/decode?sample=135
by ssalazar | 2025-04-30 19:43:12+00:00
This author presumably understands but buries the lede that for an endowment of $15 billion a university would typically only spend 5%, or $750 million, annually. So "a mere $400m" is over half of the annual funds from the endowment (not including tuition income and donations) that might be available to a university with such an endowment.

It should be relatively obvious that spending into the principal of an endowment is not a sustainable practice over the long-term for universities that are operating at the scale of centuries.
Ask HN: What Makes a Good Datasheet?
by RetroTechie | 2025-04-30 19:43:17+00:00
I've been browsing a few (RISC-V related) System-on-Chip datasheets. Have seen 1000s of datasheets (ROM/RAM/discrete logic/peripherals, opamps, voltage regulators, etc etc) in my life. Some lacking essential info like Thermal Design Power (TDP), # of balls on the BGA package, etc. One (JH7100) including mention of the standards that were referenced. Nice! Another: lots of spelling errors (Chinese pulled through Google Translate?). Yet another: some value declared, but missing the unit. Yet another: upper/lower case all over the place, CamelCase looking tame in comparison (this seems commonplace though). Also: a simple dictionary of abreviations used. Not all readers are experts!

To be honest: nice looking tables, block diagrams etc do matter. They make a datasheet more readable, and yes "1 picture says more than 1000 words" is true to some degree.

In short: in your opinion, what makes a good datasheet? What should (or should not) be included? What are do's & don'ts when writing one? What's 'added value' in this context?