MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by GabrielBianconi | 2025-04-03 14:03:17+00:00
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by airstrike | 2025-04-03 14:03:41+00:00
> Isn't beauty in the eyes of the beholder though?

This is a truism, and I don't even think it's that accurate. There are some universal aspects to our perception of beauty such as symmetry, balance, tension-and-release, contrast, recursion... whatever it may be. We don't need to know what it is to tell that it's there.
by joshdickson | 2025-04-03 14:04:14+00:00
The OpenNutrition app does that :)

Logging foods by image is a great way to get started being accountable with eating, and I'll use it if I'm out and don't want to manually figure out all the different components of something, but it's impossible for even the most well-trained human eye to understand food composition visually. A lot of AI-focused diet apps have gone in this direction as their primary method of input because it removes the need for a database, but the marketing these apps run that this is in anyway accurate as a primary search mechanism is, to me, really borders on abject dishonesty and sets users up for long-term failure. Just because an ingredient is invisible when prepared doesn't mean it's not there.
Show HN: NeKernel – With a WIP AHCI driver and a modular storage stack
by Amlal | 2025-04-03 14:04:20+00:00
Check out the `dev` branch, which is for ongoing development. The master branch is for stable releases. NeKernel also has sister projects, which are pinned in my GitHub. They follow the same system as nekernel, `dev` for the latest commits, and some level of CI too via GitHub actions. You are welcome to contribute on GitHub!
by ziddoap | 2025-04-03 14:04:33+00:00
>Why is the existence of the largest games on the market's survival proof thst Steam doesn't own 90% marketshare?

It's proof that what the parent commenter said, the portion I explicitly quoted, is an exaggeration.

>Btw, based on my friend Bazaar still has its own balance issues arising every other patch.

I mean, sure. Can you name any competitive game that doesn't have balance issues? I can't. What matters to me is the iteration speed to address balance issues, which The Bazaar does at a really nice cadence.
by ignoramous | 2025-04-03 14:04:51+00:00
If you're looking for a quick overview, Satnam Singh who worked at Google on Silver Oak / OpenTitan, gave an interesting 50m talk related to his work: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ujmgPCIWuU4 / mirror: https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/ujmgPCIWuU4 [summary: https://g.co/gemini/share/07c6439e8a78 / mirror: https://archive.vn/51k4y]

OpenTitan (RISC-V based tamper-resistant open specification RoT/TPM/SE) themselves have a neat write-up on designing against hardware attacks: https://opentitan.org/book/doc/security/implementation_guide... / mirror: https://archive.vn/UqAVo
by throw1111221 | 2025-04-03 14:05:19+00:00
Python went through a massive effort to add support for type annotations due to user demand.

Similarly, there's great demand for a typed layer on top of Javascript:

- Macromedia: (2000) ActionScript

- Google: (2006) GWT [Compiling Java to JS], and (2011) Dart

- Microsoft: (2012) Typescript
by TimorousBestie | 2025-04-03 14:05:27+00:00
This book is written at a pretty low level, so I wonder about the lack of worked examples and motivation. The classical diagram for aliasing of a time-domain sine function is shown, but the frequency domain is not. I don’t think we see a spectra plotted until the chapter on digital signals at the end.

Are there a lot of people out there who know what integrals are and are comfortable reading them, but need a refresher on complex number arithmetic?
by SonuSitebot | 2025-04-03 14:05:29+00:00
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by kamarg | 2025-04-03 14:05:37+00:00
Those giant university endowments are partially used to allow those who couldn't afford it but otherwise have shown they have what the university is looking for in students to attend for significantly/entirely reduced costs. Meanwhile, the most visible billionaires are using their money to try to buy elections so they can dismantle the government for personal gain while oftentimes employing people with such low wages that they depend on the government to be able to afford such luxuries as eating three meals a day. It's pretty easy to see why the large parts of the public find one acceptable and the other less acceptable.
by Draiken | 2025-04-03 14:05:50+00:00
IDK if I agree with you, since in theory modern socialism tries to spread power, although it never quite worked like that in history. Maybe that's an utopia.

> A capitalist democratic society is about the only type I know of that tries to separate money and power.

But when I read this I can't help but think the same utopia is under capitalism.

In theory there's a separation. In reality billionaires can purchase politicians, media, etc. and get power through those means. I have never seen an example of this not happening.

If there were any effective ways of stopping money from meddling with power I'd agree with you but reality always smacks theories in the face. You say it tries to separate them but then you have lobbying (or the non-legal version of it) in every government as an example. It's an utopia just the same.
by bobjordan | 2025-04-03 14:06:16+00:00
I’ve been using my 10-year-old ThinkPad X250 and a decade-old workstation without feeling any need to upgrade. However, the possibility of running powerful local LLMs that require a lot of GPU or unified memory has finally increased my interest. It's my impression that laptops likely won’t see the major leap required in that area to run truely large LLMs for another 5–10 years, but I expect workstation capabilities to advance more rapidly, meaning I may upgrade in the next 1–3 years.

My current workstation setup includes 22cores/44threads decade old xeon plus four decade old Titan X GPUs with a total of 48GB VRAM, which is enough to run a decent local AI model, but I’m finally wanting more capacity. I haven’t been this interested to upgrade in a decade. NVIDIA’s new DGX-class offerings might convince me, depending on pricing and supply, although waiting a few more years to let things stabilize could be what I do. Still, it’s an exciting time for hardware, especially now that there’s a tangible reason to invest in more power for local AI.
by joenot443 | 2025-04-03 14:06:22+00:00
Has Dan ever commented on whether the "dang" pronunciation was intentional? I too, was under the impression he just liked the twanginess of the word.

I have people call me Joenot - in reality, this username was chosen decades ago by my mother, pairing Joe (my name) and Not(tawa) - my tiny hometown.

Sometimes I wish I'd chosen better but like many names, once it's out there, it tends to stick.
by rspoerri | 2025-04-03 14:06:29+00:00
By subsidizing aspects such as schools, police and other govermental institutions a basic payout / investions to the public is already in place. Expanding this to other basic rights would be reasonable and prevent a lot of social problems that will only heavily increase in the future. And im not talking about the country that currently abolishes all good reason and gambles with social security. Basic aspects such as shelter, food and personal security should be given as a basic right.
by throw4847285 | 2025-04-03 14:06:39+00:00
That's a question of tactics, though. Moral outrage can be extremely effective, and it can also be counterproductive. And striking the right balance has been a challenge in American politics as long as American politics have existed.

In his Second Inaugural, Lincoln threads the needle in a way that is frankly unachievable for even most skilled politicians. "Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God and each invokes His aid against the other" seems like an acknowledgement of moral nuance, but he follows it up with, "It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces but let us judge not that we be not judged."

Speaking to a nation in which a part of it is in open revolt over the right to keep other humans as slaves is certainly an extreme case. But it isn't categorically different from any other political struggle. People are going to accuse one another of being immoral. It's the human condition. A legal system that protects this behavior is the bedrock of democracy. It doesn't matter how annoying you find the people doing the judging.
by Spivak | 2025-04-03 14:06:55+00:00
I unironically keep an original copy of those documents in my safety deposit box because of this. In theory I should be able to go to the courthouse and get another copy but if 40 years down the line they've lost them I'm screwed.

I feel bad for the people in states that don't require court orders for this because they apparently have the worst time trying to update accounts.
by afavour | 2025-04-03 14:07:01+00:00
> So many are quick to accept media narratives without questioning or verifying the facts for themselves.

> All the findings? Publicly available online.

You surely realise you are doing exactly what you criticise here? You are accepting a government propaganda narrative unquestioningly without verifying any facts.

The DOGE claims have been proven false numerous times. Get off your high horse and do some reading.
by mikelayerhealth | 2025-04-03 14:07:04+00:00
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by 52-6F-62 | 2025-04-03 14:07:17+00:00
Don’t forget Curtis Yarvin and his band of billionaire Silicon Valley VC adherents.

People are arguing about the economic rationale here and forgetting the philosophical.

They’ve broadcast a desire to send as much of the world to a new “dark age” as possible so they can sweep in and “save it”, reforming it as they desire. Vis a vis Prospero
by somenameforme | 2025-04-03 14:07:21+00:00
Look at the timeline of literally any plague, as they all follow a very similar pattern. For instance here [1] is the one for the Spanish Flu. There are a number of peaks and valleys that gradually recess to noise as viruses tend to evolve to less virulent forms while people also simultaneously develop broader immunity. This makes observational data highly unreliable for determining the efficacy of a vaccine during a plague.

The same is true of mortality/severity rates by vaccination status in hospitals. People who opt in to a vaccine are generally going to be more inclined to seek hospital treatment than those who opt out of such. So if somebody unvaccinated went to the hospital for COVID it would naturally be, on average, a much more severe case than a vaccinated person going to the hospital, with worse overall outcomes. And so you skew the results when looking at hospital data.

These biases and trends are facts most people may not be aware of, but big pharma certainly is.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#/media/File:1918_s...
by mercutio2 | 2025-04-03 14:07:33+00:00
No. They’re not, anywhere in Europe. This is a mystifying talking point based on wishful thinking and vastly overestimating the non-monetary value of a larger social safety net. The median US citizen is much, much richer. The first quintile US citizen is fairly comparable to first quintile Europeans in income and in-kind transfers.

But it is certainly the case Trump is trying to bring US income down to something closer to EU levels, which will hopefully cause Congress to get its spine back.
by crazygringo | 2025-04-03 14:07:44+00:00
Your country didn't do anything. America is being run by a madman, quite simply. This isn't reflective of Americans broadly. The people who voted for Trump wanted cheaper prices, now Trump is making everything more expensive.

The next month is going to be very interesting. The business community is going to put huge pressure on Republican representatives to undo this, and Trump's own supporters will revolt once they see the new prices reflected at Wal-Mart.

I don't know how it's going to play out, but this isn't the end. It's just the beginning.
by Thorrez | 2025-04-03 14:07:58+00:00
Biden was considering withholding federal funds from schools over their vaccine policies[1], and tried to withhold federal funds from schools based on how they treat transgender students[2], but that was blocked by a judge. Obama did a similar thing regarding transgender students[3].

Things like this are why Hillsdale College rejects all federal funds. So they can do what they want without threat of the government revoking funding[4].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-vaccines-delta...

[2] https://www.texastribune.org/2024/06/12/texas-title-ix-lgbtq...

[3] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/13/477896804...

[4] https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/07/the-co...
by LocalPCGuy | 2025-04-03 14:08:03+00:00
Both of these are basically strawman arguments - there are legitimate, non-tribal reasons to be against the actions taken re: tariffs and the purported anti-corruption tasks. For example, a person can be strongly against government corruption but also be strongly against the current efforts/methods being used for a multitude of reasons. And similar for tariffs. (Not having those debates here, just pointing out that I don't believe those examples hold up.)
by motorest | 2025-04-03 14:08:11+00:00
> I have been in the workforce for almost 30 years now and I believe that everybody is getting more squeezed so they don’t have the time or energy to do a proper job. The expectation is to get it done as quickly as possible and not do more unless told so.

That's my impression as well, but I'd stress that this push is not implicit or driven by metrics or Jira. This push is sold as the main trait of software projects, and what differentiates software engineering from any other engineering field.

Software projects are considered adaptable, and all projects value minimizing time to market. This means that on paper there is no requirement to eliminate the need to redesign or reimplement whole systems or features. Therefore, if you can live with a MVP that does 70% of your requirements list but can be hacked together in a few weeks, most would not opt to spend more man months only to get minor increments. You'd be even less inclined to pay all those extra man months upfront if you can quickly get that 70% in a few weeks and from that point onward gradually build up features.
by _winx | 2025-04-03 14:08:21+00:00
I obviously withdrew from the interview process already, but what you wrote is either plain untrue or you really do have huge gaps in the process. Here's what I have on my side:

- an entire email conversation (including quiz you sent me, which also took time to respond to) - I obviously used the same name and email domain which can traced back to my profile,

- the emails about initial call I self-scheduled and attended,

- the repo (under your GitHub org), a PR I opened (as requested) and two more emails from me - one was a confirmation of completion of the task and another to touch base after a week of complete silence.

The task was different from the one you linked - to write a scraper which extracts search results from Google page, according to the sample input HTML and expected JSON output that were provided.
by krapp | 2025-04-03 14:08:56+00:00
Nothing about this is new - the right has harbored a particular hatred for "academics" and "intellectuals" since at least the anti-war and civil rights movements of the 1960s. Today's fear of "wokism" is just the prior generation's fear of "cultural marxism" with a new coat of paint.

But this kind of political talk is against the guidelines. Good hackers don't care about any of this. So Javascript is getting crazy, huh?
by Workaccount2 | 2025-04-03 14:09:28+00:00
The next step is to cut income tax for under $150k/yr earners. Tariffs raise prices by 20%, tax cuts let you keep 20% more earnings.

This would make the federal government dependent on tariff income, and, as the theory goes, diminish the funds the government has as American industry grows to avoid tariffs.

Probably not going to work out as it is only a first order effect view, but that is the idea they are chasing.
by joshdickson | 2025-04-03 14:09:31+00:00
TL;DR: They are estimates from giving an LLM (generally o3 mini high due to cost, some o1 preview) a large corpus of grounding data to reason over and asking it to use its general world knowledge to return estimates it was confident in, which, when escalating to better LLMs like o1-pro and manual verification, proved to be good enough that I thought they warranted release.

You can read about the background on how I did them in more detail in the about/methodology section: https://www.opennutrition.app/about (see "Technical Approach")
by ivanmontillam | 2025-04-03 14:09:40+00:00
> I don't understand. You don't control any Mx records.

Yes, you do (on your own domain).

> You have an account with some company. You might lose it just like you might lose your Gmail account.

Yes, but if you use your own domain, the same account username can exist on another provider. I can still write you an email to "firstname[at]firstnamelastname.com" and reach you.

As for the email messages, if you do email correctly (by downloading emails to a local email client, and then creating backups, or at the very least, using Google Takeout to export your mailbox regularly), you don't have to lose your email messages.

> Also... You can use Gmail with your own domain. I don't get the meme with mx records.

Exactly my point. By then, you use Google Workspace, which is an email provider to your own domain.

If you wanted to switch to Microsoft 365, or Fastmail like I do, I am the sovereign of my email address. Nobody noticed I switched email providers when I changed from Google Workspace to Fastmail, and that's the point.

To be able to dump the provider when you need to. Sovereignty.

> Also... You can use Gmail with your own domain. I don't get the meme with mx records.

Additional reply to this: To use that, you need to fiddle with MX records.
by lanthissa | 2025-04-03 14:09:43+00:00
didnt you listen to the 70 year olds planning this? we're just going have the robots do it.

you know how people said putin was surrounded by an echo chamber and thats how he got stuck in ukraine? Thats the us now but with billionare VC's and 2nd tier 1980's NYC real estate developers. Look at their numbers and listen to them talk, they're genuinely not grounded in reality as whole group and theres no fixing that
by Urahandystar | 2025-04-03 14:10:07+00:00
I agree, I've always felt that its something that is necessary for much younger founders who this sort of material is aimed at. They don't have the experience so have to work hard to gain that experience, older founders would be making decisions from a much more seasoned standpoint and knowing what to expect in their domain so wouldn’t or not a much.

That said the cynic in me thinks it’s just a load of narcissistic clap trap that people tell themselves that it was all hard work and not their: Geography, network, Net worth that made the difference. The truth is all are going to be factors generalised as “Luck”.
by davidw | 2025-04-03 14:10:34+00:00
The point is, as this Senator explains, not economic, but to gain leverage over companies and countries:

https://bsky.app/profile/chrismurphyct.bsky.social/post/3llu...

"Do _____ and maybe we can cut you some slack on the tariffs"

If there is a point and it's not just absolute stupidity.
by ellisv | 2025-04-03 14:10:46+00:00
> The accuracy of the results don't seem that great. For example, looking at the pictures on the wall in their sample, or the beams in the ceiling.

Do you mean the accuracy of the classification or the precision of the lidar scans?

In my experience the lidar precision on the iPhones is decent but not great, so the texture mapping can look a bit off at times.

I'd love to have these bounding boxes on my scans though.