MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 1ilit | 2025-04-10 10:21:36+00:00
>the app asked me for access to read text and images of my clipboard yeah, that's the browser asking for permission to read and write to the clipboard

>it seems like your app can read anything of my clipboard at any time only when you paste, the app reads the latest entry in your clipboard, and only if it is a valid json object of a table, note, or subject area, it gets imported

just using the clipboard api: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Clipboard_A...
by hansmayer | 2025-04-10 10:22:05+00:00
> Because engineers are typically (although not always) terrible at business. Or marketing. Or Sales. Or whatever.

You do realise that almost all of the unicorns and almost-unicorns of the last two decades were conceived, started and built by engineers, do you? Perhaps beacuse having ones brain primed to very hard problems, does not make it so hard to learn the "hard" business skills on the side after all, all the while coding up the product? But how would former humanities students get their "tech salaries" if we did not somehow convince engineers that they suck at what are honestly said, third-tier competencies.
by sandworm101 | 2025-04-10 10:22:15+00:00
They look like a video game. There arent enough NPCs. These are idealized images, akin to tourist photos. The seem to be taken in the early morning, before the crowds of people appear. The bell is perhaps the best example. Just think of the industry needed to mine and forge all that metal. These streets should be crammed with people but it looks like a town from Oblivion: massive constructions inhabited by a handful of residents. These are great photos, somewhat limited by the camera tech of the time, but I would like to see more typical scenes.
by chriswarbo | 2025-04-10 10:24:32+00:00
I actually prefer `with`, since it fits better with the language:

- It uses `;` in the same way as `assert`, whereas `let` uses a whole other keyword `in`.

- It uses attrsets as reified/first-class environments, unlike `let`, which lets us do `with foo; ...`.

- Since it uses attrsets, we can use their existing functionality, like `rec` and `inherit`; rather than duplicating it.

I've been using Nix for over a decade (it's even on my phone), and I've never once written a `let`.

(I agree that the shadowing behaviour is annoying, and we're stuck with it for back-compat; but that's only an issue for function arguments and let, and I don't use the latter)
by watwut | 2025-04-10 10:24:35+00:00
It was about inflation, prices, hate toward trans and immigration. That is judging based on pre-election topics. They did not cared about geopolitics.

> Whatever preconception you have about what motivates Trump voters

By a large, based on what they themselves say and write, they wanted to cause harm to their perceived enemies and have fun watching it. That is primary reason for why conservative and republican voters vote.
by Zanfa | 2025-04-10 10:24:37+00:00
ChatGPT is laughably terrible at double entry accounting. A few weeks ago I was trying to use it to figure out a reasonable way to structure accounts for a project given the different business requirements I had. It kept disappearing money when giving examples. Pointing it out didn’t help either, it just apologized and went on to make the same mistake in a different way.
by microtonal | 2025-04-10 10:25:09+00:00
Yes and no. It has some of the same advantages, but not the declarative definition of a system.

For me (even though I use NixOS the desktop) there is a difference between desktops and servers. I can set up a desktop pretty quickly - install a bunch of flatpaks, checkout a bunch of dotfiles and I don't do it often.

Also, popular desktops like Fedora tend to be far more polished than the NixOS desktop, which has all kinds of glitches. Just to name two current ones: (1) gdm login will fail if you are too fast and log in before WiFi is up (usually you are thrown back in gdm, sometimes the session freezes up completly); (2) fwupd firmware updates usually fail.

On the other hand, on servers and remote development VMs, the setup work is annoying because I spin up/down machines far more frequently and managing them as pets gets old pretty quickly. So NixOS is much nicer, because you can have a system up and identical in 5 minutes. You could of course approximate it with something like Ansible on non-NixOS.

Though, I think the differences will become smaller since Fedora-based immutable systems will switch from OSTree to bootable containers soon [1].

Of course, you can use Nix on another immutable distro than NixOS.

[1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/bootc/getting-started/
by chii | 2025-04-10 10:26:37+00:00
> Of course, you'd expect students to use similar prompts to make sure they are prepared for discussing those questions with the teacher.

what's the point of the teacher then? Courses could entirely be taught via LLM in this case!

A student's willingness to learn is orthogonal to the availability of cheating devices. If a student is willing, they will know when to leverage the LLM for tutoring, and when to practise without it.

A student who's unwilling cannot be stopped from cheating via LLM now-a-days. Is it worth expending resources to try prevent it? The only reason i can think of is to ensure the validity of school certifications, which is growing increasingly worthless anyway.
by sandworm101 | 2025-04-10 10:27:01+00:00
Fyi, based on a true story:

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

"Gregory D. Young was the first Westerner to investigate the mutiny as part of his 1982 master's thesis Mutiny on Storozhevoy: A Case Study of Dissent in the Soviet Navy. One of 37 copies of Young's thesis was placed in the Nimitz Library of the United States Naval Academy where it was read by Tom Clancy, then an insurance salesman, who used it as inspiration to write The Hunt for Red October."
by nigel_doug | 2025-04-10 10:27:48+00:00
It probably has its use-cases, but in platform engineering there is rarely a scenario where we are allowed/can trust using an LLM-based technology to improve efficiency. Usually it throws out well-formatted YAML manifests that look great, they work as expected, but are super insecure (CAP_SYS_ADMIN for no reason). You could keep prompting it until you get the result you want, but likely its just quicker if I do the job myself.
by walleeee | 2025-04-10 10:28:11+00:00
Some bits and pieces from part 2.1 ("Two questions")

> [i]n a free society there is room for many strange beliefs, doctrines, institutions.

> There is nothing in science or in any other ideology that makes them inherently liberating. Ideologies can deteriorate and become dogmatic religions. They start deteriorating when they become successful... their triumph is their downfall.

> A democracy is an assembly of mature people and not a collection of sheep guided by a small clique of know-it-alls.

> The reasons were explained by Mill in his immortal essay On Liberty. It is not possible to improve upon his arguments.
by miki-makh | 2025-04-10 10:28:36+00:00
I think people often overlook the value of crystallizing what they actually want. Coming from a product management background, it is hard for many to clearly define or think through all the things they care about in a task.

AI helps eliminate the blank page problem — and it’s always easier to critique something than to think from scratch :) I often find myself going back and forth with the AI, debating, complaining… and then starting over — sometimes with it, sometimes without. But by that point, I know much more clearly what I want and what really matters for the task.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-04-10 10:30:20+00:00
I know a lot of sales[wo]men.

They can make a lot of money, but often, their base salary is 0.

It's about the hustle. Founders are like that. When times are tough, they don't get squat, but when times are good, they get a new indoor swimming pool.

Most regular employees aren't like the above. They want some basic assurances. They don't get the huge rewards, but they also don't take the huge risks.

It's rather disappointing to see founders treat regular schlubs with disdain. Not everyone is a hustler, and that's OK.
by dguest | 2025-04-10 10:30:21+00:00
Well, at your suggestion I did ask ChatGPT, and it pointed to one sort of magic trick: currency swaps between central banks. That is (kind of) a machine where one type of money goes in one side and the other type comes out the other. There's even a cool tracker [1].

But yeah, it's mostly just market forces that keep things stabilized, it seems.

[1]: https://www.cfr.org/tracker/central-bank-currency-swaps-trac...
by sipofwater | 2025-04-10 10:30:43+00:00
"Your Phone, Your Data: How to Safeguard Your Digital Life When Entering the U.S.": https://www.rnlawgroup.com/your-phone-your-data-how-to-safeg... (www.rnlawgroup.com/your-phone-your-data-how-to-safeguard-your-digital-life-when-entering-the-u-s/)
by chii | 2025-04-10 10:31:08+00:00
> having access to Wikipedia felt like the greatest equalizer in the world. 20 years post internet, seeing the most common outcome be that people learn less

when wikipedia was initially made, many schools/teachers explicitly denied wikipedia as a source for citing in essays. And obviously, plenty of kids just plagerized wikipedia articles for their essay topics (and was easily discovered at the time).

With the advent of LLM, this sort of pseudo-learning is going to be more and more common. The unsupervised tests (like online tests, or take home assignments) cannot prevent cheating. The end result is that students would pass, but without _actually_ learning the material at all.

I personally think that perhaps the issue is not with the students, but with the student's requirement for certification post-school. Those who are genuinely interested would be able to leverage LLM to the maximum for their benefit, not just to cheat a test.
by gspr | 2025-04-10 10:32:43+00:00
You and the parent poster are talking past each other. They asked:

> Why would there a VAT on, say, domestically produced pasta on the grocery shelf, while the Italian import pasta right next to it has none?

You answer (correctly) that that isn't the case, both boxes of pasta have the same VAT applied to it.

In light of this, I think people are really struggling to understand what you're arguing for or against here. The whole subthread started by someone pointing out that the 10%-for-everyone version of trump's tarrifs is very different from European VAT, since European VAT applies to all products sold to consumers, regardless of whether they are imported or not. That is, indeed, a vital difference. You seem to argue that it's not the case, while giving examples of how it is the case, leaving everyone confused.
by rsynnott | 2025-04-10 10:32:58+00:00
> Why does the market like this?

It doesn't; S&P500 is now at like 5400 vs nearly 6200 a couple of months ago. It's just that it is clearly not _as_ bad as it was earlier in the week.

And honestly you'd wonder how much this is being held up by confused retail traders; looking at WSB, say, many of them seem to think that tariffs are back where they were a few weeks ago (they're not; the 10% thing is staying, and of course there's China).
by aaron0401 | 2025-04-10 10:33:59+00:00
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by jpc0 | 2025-04-10 10:34:09+00:00
I agree entirely on your take regarding education. I feel like there is a place where LLMs are useful but doesn't impact learning but it's definitely not in the "discovery" phase of learning.

However I really don't need to implement some weird algorithms myself every time (ideally I am using a well tested Library) but the point is that you learn to be able to but also to be able to modify or compose the algorithm in ways the LLM couldn't easily do.
by rsynnott | 2025-04-10 10:36:52+00:00
> Do you think normal people (think, your average investing American) are trading based on this news?

We ~know that they were: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-market-pummeled-401k-acco...

As always, normal people sell low and likely buy high (I'd bet that a lot of the already-fading market euphoria yesterday was retail trading).
by usef- | 2025-04-10 10:37:25+00:00
That section is talking about risk — saying that they're now producing a lot more research around novel engines than the US. It's not saying that their own engines are ahead yet, just that risk is high given current progress.

(and they are now producing their own engines, as seen on their new fighters, though they aren't believed to be ahead yet.)

They do lead in many areas now. They have a lot of engineers, hands-on manufacturing heft at scale (inc. a lot of internal competition), and a government that has been pumping and subsidising physical industries for many years.
by HansardExpert | 2025-04-10 10:38:32+00:00
Not so much Check-cashing (although they do exist in some parts of larger cities) and I haven't seen a pawn-shop outside of London in ... forever.

We do have Vapeshops (before that 'Legal High' shops) but apart from those Charity Shops you get a lot of 'Gambling' (aka 'High Street Bookies') chains in those areas where the footfall has gone away to the out of town supermarkets or where the landlords are sitting on what they hope will get turned into flats so they can make a profit.

What I would say regarding Oxfam, at least in the area I live is that the book selection is suprisingly good, both in Oxford and Chipping Norton's where the second hand book selection has given me some great reads and I have seen them refuse the 'Celeb/Sports star' biogs and bundles of Harry Potter cast offs from people while waiting to be served.
by eaglefield | 2025-04-10 10:39:37+00:00
I just did today's word and I thought this was pretty fun. M⁻¹M stumped me for a while, but once I got it, it gave me a good chuckle for how obvious it was in hindsight. I do work in physics, so that gives me a head-start on recognizing all these formula. From the other comments here it seems enjoyment is very correlated to amount of these formula one already knows.

Anyways looking forward to checking this the next couple of days
by Palmik | 2025-04-10 10:40:21+00:00
I did not see this paper on the front page before. It seems like a genuine contribution.

And do you think it's better or worse than this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr... -- posting a link to their website >2 a day, in 23% of their posts/comments.
I made simple Git client to use inside Bolt.new
by ingvar77 | 2025-04-10 10:40:48+00:00
Was struggling for a while on bringing assets inside Bolt and saving code from Bolt to GitHub. Made a small git client that can work inside Bolt.new webcontainer. You can use it inside Code / Terminal tab inside Bolt.

To export sources to new GitHub repo, pull changes from remote repo (fast forward only):

npx git-bolt sync
by philjohn | 2025-04-10 10:41:12+00:00
Again, you're just regurgitating what Reform talking heads are saying.

You probably didn't even realise that the sentencing guidelines were put on hold on the 31st of March.

Got any proof that the fall in white admission to university is down to discrimination, and not the relative poorer showing of the native population compared to first and second generation immigrants who put a higher premium on doing well at school?

Also can you respond with some of the "non whites only" job postings?
by lm28469 | 2025-04-10 10:41:55+00:00
At best you're making a statistical average of paid/fake reviews that were scrapped and used to train these models. At worse you're generating pure bullshit

I assume this is yet another vibe coded pile of steaming shit ?

You might want to clean up your search prediction. Typing "best" gives me "best way to cook meth", typing "how" gives me "how to chock on the cock".
by belter | 2025-04-10 10:42:17+00:00
Just four hours before the U.S. administration announcement, posts here were already calling the surge in U.S. bond yields a "non-event." ( and being flagged..)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43630672

It was indeed about T-bills. Something Trump probably doesn't even know what it is. There’s no strategy, no objective, just sheer, unfiltered incompetence.

The stock market’s reprieve will be short-lived. In just eight days, this administration erased $5 trillion in market value, insulted its primary trading partner using language deeply offensive in Asian cultures, and made it clear to investors that it has zero credibility.

Futures are already negative, which is exactly what you'd expect. The market is responding. And let’s be honest: the claim about 75 countries eager to negotiate is a pure lie. The EU has publicly stated the U.S. administration was not even returning their calls.
by tomasol | 2025-04-10 10:42:31+00:00
Thanks for bringing that up. Regarding the NaN canonicalization, there is a flag for it in wasmtime [1], I should probably make sure it is turned on.

Although I don't expect to be an issue practically speaking, Obelisk checks that the replay is deterministic and fails the workflow when an unexpected event is triggered. It should be also be possible to add an automatic replay of each finished execution to verify the determinism e.g. while testing.

[1] https://docs.rs/wasmtime/latest/wasmtime/struct.Config.html#...

Edit: Enabling the flags here: https://github.com/obeli-sk/obelisk/pull/67
by dostick | 2025-04-10 10:42:56+00:00
And we have been producing enough to feed and house everyone for about 40 years now. Henry Ford introduced 5 day workweek and with the productivity trend we should be working one day a week by now.

It is not happening because in eyes of capitalism a person is only valuable and accepted if they have an occupation that produce value, whether needed or not.

Consequence of that, 50% of workforce is “bullshit jobs” made to keep people employed, like marketing, finance and such.

Because people sadly are brainwashed to be working from cradle to grave, it will take few generations for UBI to become unconditional and part of life, like we have with free healthcare (not you, U.S.).
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-04-10 10:43:14+00:00
>$600 shared between us.

Same thing, although in my career as an electrician: sidework realtor had both me and a random plumber (i.e. unrelated to me) out to make repairs on her properties. End of day arrives, my work is completed.

Realtor: "I will pay you when the plumber is done with that bathroom."

Me: "But I am done in that bathroom [installed GFCI outlet], so here is your total for electric work."

Realtor: [feigned?] "I thought the estimate you gave me was for ALL the work, electric AND plumbing..!"

Me: "That doesn't make any sense — you called me for electric work, and this other guy for plumbing work."

Realtor: "That seems unfair."

Me: "Cool well here's the total [again]; if you don't want to pay it I can just throw a lien on the property and mess up the entire sale."

Realtor: [writes me a check, sourpuss] "I guess that makes sense."

She actually called me again for work, but I was never ~hurtin~for~honest~clients... so I declined.
by rsynnott | 2025-04-10 10:43:26+00:00
Thinking of tariffs as a _sales_ tax, while it seems to be quite popular on this 'ere orange website, is both incorrect and very dangerous. Sales taxes, generally, are paid by the final consumer. Tariffs are paid at point of importation. This makes a big difference; if your factory makes, say, computers, sales tax impacts the (consumer) cost of the computer, but tariffs impact the cost of _all of your imported components_.
by jajko | 2025-04-10 10:44:00+00:00
So the knee-jerk reaction is to knock it all down and speed up things while making literally every human in the world hate you?

Thats dumb to be polite but not surprising when considering where it comes from. Republicans simply can't admit their candidate is incompetent pos, superior ego thing or something. The incompetent part is what matters in this specific discussion, way worse than first term which was tampered by more reasonable people delegating actual tasks.
by MrRed | 2025-04-10 10:44:20+00:00
You'll probably enjoy this project https://hikaria.org/ we have been working on with the Guimet museum in Paris (https://www.guimet.fr/fr) to showcase 19th century Japanese photos.

We are building that website to oroganize various collections, and allow users to search through them using object detection (Clip model)
by bslalwn | 2025-04-10 10:44:34+00:00
I don't know why I should want a child. I don't know what I would do with it, and I don't want to spend my money and time on it. I suppose it's something you either have or don't and I don't. I wonder if, in the past, many felt like me, but they were forced to have children because of peer pressure. As that peer pressure disappears, fewer and fewer people will have children.

(I don't buy the doomerist "oh look at the planet we're leaving them" religion)
by siva7 | 2025-04-10 10:44:43+00:00
That's the holy grail, my friend. Whoever succeeds will be the successor of 90s Microsoft (OS) and 00's Google (Internet/Search) in creating a unified platform which your grandmother associates as being "the computer". I fear that all the major players are trying exactly that (which is the reason why no one tries to be just a foundation model supplier). Some have the Hardware (Apple) but lack the software execution, others have the software (OpenAI) but lack the Hardware.