MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mikestew | 2025-04-08 20:36:20+00:00
Note that the bike pictured does not have a front brake. So I’m guessing he went back to his starting position at some point to hit the brake pedal. He first probably just rolled off the throttle until the bike got to a much slower speed. “Probably” meaning, it’s what I would have done, having already decided that riding a motorcycle at 150mph in my underwear is a good idea.
by gjvc | 2025-04-08 20:36:29+00:00
My point was not addressed to you, but rather to the comments which say that systems like this which are not mainstream are pointless.

The fact that GT is as interoperable and portable as you describe, yet it still receives such comments shows how short-sighted many people in technology are, or have become.

We are in violent agreement :-). I have watched your demos at UKSTUG and my jaw has been on the floor -- very impressive.
by coldtea | 2025-04-08 20:36:32+00:00
>LLMs aren't ever going to replace search for that use case, simply because they're never going to be as convenient.

Sounds trivial to integrate an LLM front end with a search engine backend (probably already done), and be able to type "frob language" and it gives you a curated clickable list of the top resources (language website, official tutorial, reference guide, etc) discarding spam and irrelevant search engine results in the process.
by genewitch | 2025-04-08 20:37:16+00:00
yes i understand all that. I was saying the claim is incorrect. My understanding of deepseek is mechanically correct but apparently they use 3B models as experts, per your sibling comment. I don't buy it, regardless of what they put in the paper - 3B models are pretty dumb, and R1 isn't dumb. No amount of shuffling between "dumb" experts will make the output not dumb. it's more likely 32x32B experts, based on the quant sizes i've seen.

A deepseek employee is welcome to correct me.
by mrguyorama | 2025-04-08 20:37:20+00:00
Actually no, coal is still going to die in the US unless China sells us their coal for dirt cheap.

You get more watts per human labor hour with our abundant natural gas reserves. No matter how cheap you drive labor, it will still be more economical to use that labor to drill wells.

Coal was always dying, especially in the US, because of economic concerns. It's a stupid source of energy.

The fact that anyone in the US even thinks of coal is absurd. There are maybe 60k coal miners in the US. It hasn't mattered in decades.
by cosmie | 2025-04-08 20:37:24+00:00
That used to be the same mix my household used. I’d suggest giving the Reminders app a try as a drop in replacement for Notes. There’s a really handy list template in the Reminders app called Groceries. It’ll auto-group items you add to the list into categories so it’s easier to sweep through the store in one go and not have to double back repeatedly for things you overlooked further down the list.

No idea why it’s tucked into the Reminders app instead of Notes, but it’s been really handy since stumbling on it and a QoL improvement in my household over a generic Apple Notes list.
by kirtakat | 2025-04-08 20:37:31+00:00
This doesn't solve all the problems the app mentioned is solving, but if you're using iOS (based on the Apple Notes) - Reminders is oddly a solid grocery list tool:

- It can be shared with others - It can be updated natively with Siri voice commands ("Hey Siri - Add eggs to grocery list" works out of the box) - It gives other users notifications when it changes (this is also my major negative) - It "knows" it's a grocery list and tries to do some smart grouping/labeling (Dairy, Sauces, etc)

I'm just really not sure why that's built into Reminders and not Notes
by bigyabai | 2025-04-08 20:37:34+00:00
I believe the days of Apple being a prestige business are over. What did they forge their halo out of anyways? A San Bernadino standoff, some whitepapers and a few snarky ads. Tim Cook pushed hard on hardware margins by outsourcing and then doubled down on profit extraction from developers and publishing partners. Now users are expected to foot the service bill for unprofitable ventures like TV+ and failed products like Vision Pro. The goodwill is gone.

In 2010, Apple felt like a hardware company obligated to design software. In 2025, they feel like a software company obligated to make hardware. With the DMA/DSA barrelling down the tracks it doesn't really matter where Apple is headquartered - governments will regulate you out of certain behavior. They have to reform their business pretty radically if they want to remain profitable, the old economics can't keep limping along like they used to.
by nikolay_sivko | 2025-04-08 20:37:37+00:00
At Coroot, we solve the same problem, but in a slightly different way. The traffic source is always a container (Kubernetes pod, systemd slice, etc.). The destination is initially identified as an IP:PORT pair, which, in the case of Kubernetes services, is often not the final destination. To address this, our agent also determines the actual destination by accessing the conntrack table at the eBPF level. Then, at the UI level, we match the actual destination with metadata about TCP listening sockets, effectively converting raw connections into container-to-container communications.

The agent repo: https://github.com/coroot/coroot-node-agent
by CivBase | 2025-04-08 20:37:53+00:00
Yes. I even pay for Kagi. I very rarely feel the need to ask a chatbot for anything and every time I have I've been disappointed in the results. I'm surprised so many people find them useful.

These are the things I usually search for:

* lazy spell check * links to resources/services * human-made content (e.g. reviews, suggestions, communities)

Genuinely curious - those who use chatbots regularly in lieu of search, what kinds of things are you prompting it for?
by npilk | 2025-04-08 20:38:28+00:00
Agreed. I think of these as two different types of searches - “page searches” where you know a page exists and want to get to it, and “content searches” where you have a more open-ended question.

Really, for many “page searches”, a good search engine should just be able to take you immediately to the page. When I search “Tom Hanks IMDB”, there’s no need to see a list of links - there’s obviously one specific page I want to visit.

https://notes.npilk.com/custom-search
by theamk | 2025-04-08 20:38:41+00:00
Author has two main problems with smartphones:

(1) they don't like that smartphones do convenient things (take pictures, play games, read email, show spreadsheets, replace credit cards). Their proposed solution is to don't use that functionality: use phone only for calls (they are unclear if text messages are OK), carry separate gaming console, carry separate eBook (or paper book), lug laptop for email/spreadsheets, get real camera, carry pen & paper for notes. Basically replace that phone in your pocket with a backpack full of stuff.

(2) they don't like that smartphones are _required_ sometimes. Examples given are train tickets, "identity card replacement app", and app required for "professional bank account".

I very much sympathize with problem 2, and I don't think smartphones should ever be required for service. Even if someone likes smartphones, they still run out of battery or break - you don't want to be stuck at the train station because you forgot to change your phone.

I don't really care about problem 1 - if it's a good tool, I'll use it. If you like pen & paper - use it, if you keep loosing your notebooks, switch to cellphone notes app instead.
by crabmusket | 2025-04-08 20:40:02+00:00
Then the response will also contain ads for things that are not the answer to the query. This is how search engines currently behave.

Example from my work. Many of our customers will search for our company name in order to find the login page. I've watched them do this over screen share.

When they do that, the top search result is an ad slot. The second search result is our login page.

We buy ads against out own company name so that we can be the ad slot as well as the first result. Otherwise a competitor who buys ads against our company name could be the top slot.
by WinstonSmith84 | 2025-04-08 20:41:18+00:00
> I can take cash from any country in the world to my local bank, and deposit it into my account.

If you are at a institution bank, probably but that's a non-existent use case - I never had Argentinian Pesos, Turkish Lira or Bulgarian Lev I suddenly needed to deposit into my bank account !..

> Try to use cryptocurrency for anything other than a few very specific transactions at a number of places in the world so small that it's a rounding error.

I'm not sure whether you travel much, but I always travel as a digital nomad. I pay small transactions with local cash or mostly bank cards as everybody does. But big amounts? That's where crypto comes into play. I've paid in crypto transactions worth a few thousands dollars because that's the only way to do it without incurring huge transaction fees and / or long processing time.
by SpecialistK | 2025-04-08 20:42:45+00:00
AquaFox is a continuation of the TenFourFox (and then InterWebPPC) project, which integrates the occasional updates Dr Kaiser still releases, and has builds for each PPC revision (G3, G4, G4e, G5) which is really nice.

Sadly these machines simply don't have the horsepower to browse the web well these days, but for those times you want to look something up or download a file without moving to another computer it's a really convenient resource.
by belthesar | 2025-04-08 20:42:54+00:00
I agree that xbar's seemingly not getting as much love as it once was. I was also having some weird CPU resource issues with it, which all but went away with SwiftBar, so I'd definitely recommend swapping it out. The script backend is compatible with xbar/BitBar scripts, so migration should be pretty pain-free. I'm currently running SwiftBar on 15.4 with no issues (minus some interesting nuance with how it handles to menu bar items which I think is more of a macOS menu bar thing than a SwiftBar thing, as I had the same issues with xbar).
by sitkack | 2025-04-08 20:43:41+00:00
https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/stanford-scholar-files-mo...

> A colleague of professor XiaoFeng Wang, the world-renowned cybersecurity expert who IU fired last Friday after federal law enforcement searched his homes, is filing a legal motion to unseal the warrants.

> “We have the right to know what our government is up to, in short,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, a legal scholar and policy fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human Centered Artificial Intelligence.

> Wang and his wife Nianli Ma have not been heard from publicly since the searches last Friday at homes in Bloomington and Carmel. But Wang’s lawyer says the couple is safe and hasn’t been charged with a crime.

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25878395/wang-stateme...
by thomasahle | 2025-04-08 20:44:11+00:00
> I optimistically imagine a world where we replace the relatively non-specific asymptotic bounds of an algorithm with a very specific quantification of the work an algorithm will take.

I think you're getting this backwards. The (good) point you and Mitzenmacher are making is that our analysis standards are _too strict_, and hence we avoid good algorithms that are just too hard to analyze.

If we instead require exact combinatorics, e.g., using Flajolet/Sedgewick, that will be _even harder_ than if we _just_ try to do asymptotic analysis. Remember that asymptotics are a way to _approximate_ the exact number of steps. It's supposed to make it _easier_ for you.
by kanjun | 2025-04-08 20:44:12+00:00
Hi there! I'm Kanjun, Josh's cofounder — thanks for this lovely take on Imbue :) I feel quite seen, and wanted to share some replies to your thoughts.

On Sculptor: You’ve nailed it on the key things to get right. Today, I’d say the product is still very early, and it can indeed get expensive if you kick off tons and tons of agents. Today’s research preview release (currently free for testers) aims to slowly grow our community of testers, so we can get the product to identify and fix issues well, and enable actual software engineering with AI agents. We’d genuinely love to work with you as we build this out if you’re game to deal with early-stage bumps and crashes: DM me on X (I’m @kanjun) and we’ll get you set up with Sculptor.

On policy and mission: Thank you for the treatment on SB-1047. We care a lot about distributing power, and that showed us firsthand the complexities of regulating entrenched interests. We are not currently a PBC because the legal entity doesn’t seem to greatly affect the behavior of companies that are PBCs. It seems like the bigger effect is how leadership thinks about ethics and decision-making, and so for now, we take our own ethical grounding and behaviors seriously rather than relying on the legal structure.

We’re neither e/acc nor EA — I don’t fully resonate with either's treatment of the dynamics created by increasing AI capabilities, and I’m generally wary of this kind of tribalism as it can hinder critical thinking. My current primary lens is that of power distribution — we want to ensure that power is as much as possible in the hands of humans, and in particular, prosocial humans.

On Minsky: Wow, I’d totally forgotten about his Sculpting paper! But upon rereading, we are referencing a similar feeling to how software engineering could feel in the future — less need for intense precision, more like sculpting. Our view of how that gets implemented necessarily differs from Minsky’s (he was ahead of his time).

Indeed, we started our journey as Generally Intelligent (and posted jobs on HN all the time, heh), with the intent of figuring out how to address what we saw as core sociotechnical problems of AI. This product is, we believe, a step in that direction. In the next month or so, I will put out a more detailed treatment of the ideas around power, tailored for an audience keen on diving deeper.

Thanks again for the encouragement!
by palmotea | 2025-04-08 20:44:31+00:00
> The economic picture of what will happen is instead of being an American engineer designing widgets made in China, some fraction of you are now decimated to be an American widget maker of items engineered in China. Tarriff is essentially just a handicap to comparitive advantage in trade, trading out jobs where you had the advantage.

That's just a myopic regurgitation of free trade dogma that misses much. For instance: 1) the previous sock of American widget makers didn't become engineers, they got laid off with poor prospects; 2) it assumes a friendly free trade regime, which is unrealistic oversimplification; and perhaps 3) that "comparative advantage" is something real and not just lower living standards and laxer environmental and labor regulations.

> It is one of the most baffling thing I have seen our government do in our lifetime.

The part you're baffled about is only baffling if you're ignorant of everything except free trade dogma.

The real baffling thing is why little to no distinction was made between allies and adversaries, low wage countries and high wage countries.
by hidelooktropic | 2025-04-08 20:44:52+00:00
Exciting news! I recently launched a daily puzzle game I created based on an idea I had in the shower: (https://everything.io) I’ve been seeing lots of people here sharing their projects, and it’s been inspiring—some seriously cool ideas out there!

My game is a bit different—it’s all about combining emojis to find the hidden emoji. Sometimes it’s wordplay, sometimes conceptual, and sometimes just plain silly.

Congrats to everyone building and sharing—loving the creativity here!
by sashimimono | 2025-04-08 20:45:02+00:00
Regarding "Insist on camera ON phone screens.", DON'T do that.

Remember you try to hire a ${coder, admin, } not the next tv-news-presenter, beeing on screen is not a mandatory needed skill in most jobs.

By asking for something, that makes people uncomfortable, you will exclude a lot of likely brilliant candidates.

People who refuse to do video interviews may be for example: - people who value privacy, not only their own, but most likely yours too - people who feel very uncomfortable beeing watched by strangers and who think or even know that they will perform significant worse than in an audio-only interviewsituation - people who simply don't own a camera - people who use textonly computers offjob - poeple who have experienced that your 'standard'-videochat-app may not work, maybe because they use linux, bsd, os/2 or nonstandard operatingsystems - people who don't have broadband internet, yes there are still people like that - people who pay for every bit send, and yes having a not so cheap phone/internet contract is still common in some areas - people who feel uncomfortable to let strangers in their bedroom, even virtualy - people who have disabilities or cosmetic issues that they fear may distract you - people who have disabilities where moving and out-of-sync pictures distract them - people who tend to refuse unreasonable requests and who therefor regard you as unqualified to be their next employeer - ...

All of them have good reasons not wanting video interviews.

You, as an employer, may miss your best fit.
by whimsicalism | 2025-04-08 20:45:12+00:00
The quality of your insurance definitely impacts wait times. HMOs are often faster and if you have medicaid you're going to look at much longer wait times for the specialists that accept it.

Months for specialists sounds bad (during covid the waits in the Bay Area got pretty bad), but for context on the NHS, they are currently targeting having more than 65% of patients served within ~5 months and they don't even make that target. Even the extremely capacity constrained Bay Area isn't close to that level of dysfunction.
by RachelF | 2025-04-08 20:45:31+00:00
Bird neurons are typically around 40% of the length, or 1/9 the volume of mammalian neurons. This means they have around 9x the number of neurons per unit volume.

A large parrot has around the same number of neurons as a beagle dog.

Combined with weight savings, this may allow their brains to work faster, which is useful for a flight computer.

Birds have other features which are superior to mammals. For example, their flow-through lungs allow for more efficient gas exchange.

However, having to fly means weight reduction has been a big driver of evolutionary compromises. A bird that can fly cannot carry large fat reserves around. They are not resilient when sick and often die quickly after the onset of visible symptoms.
by Centigonal | 2025-04-08 20:45:51+00:00
Monkfruit doesn't come in a nice, familiar crystal form, and monkfruit extract is much sweeter per gram than sugar. For this reason, manufacturers bulk it up with some kind of sugar alcohol to make it easier to use. GP is saying they use erythritol for this purpose because the other options (e.g. xylitol) are toxic to pets.
by palmotea | 2025-04-08 20:46:21+00:00
> The problem is that the US is already behind in innovation on that field, and better machines produce better machines.

That's not a permanent situation, proven by the fact that the countries that are now ahead in machine tools used to be behind the US in machine tools.

> So it’s “backwards in time” because you have to start manufacturing the shovel to start digging when your competitor has a backhoe. And even if you could somehow steal the design and build it you don’t have anyone who could operate it.

As aptly demonstrated by China: it's a lot easier to catch up than to develop at the cutting edge. All you need is a little bit of investment and will.

And personally, I think the government should conscript some crypto and adtech startups (and their employees) to build up an operator pool, because they're obnoxious and those people should be doing something useful instead.
by sephalon | 2025-04-08 20:46:32+00:00
I wish more of these government-baked payment systems would just use GNU Taler [1] instead of implementing their own walled gardens.

GNU Taler ensures that the paying customer is anonymous while the merchant is identified and taxable. This is great for privacy, but not very attractive for commercial companies as your revenue has to be fully based on fees instead of making extra money by selling your customers data. The Swiss National Bank showed interest in adopting it some years ago, but I haven't heard much anymore since…

[1] https://www.taler.net
by jasonisme3008 | 2025-04-08 20:47:48+00:00
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by thomasahle | 2025-04-08 20:47:54+00:00
There's an interesting extension to Analytic Combinatorics by Flajolet/Sedgewick called "Analytic Combinatorics in Several Variables" by Pemantle and Wilson: https://www2.math.upenn.edu/~pemantle/papers/ACSV.pdf and https://acsvproject.com/

It extends the original framework with a lot of useful new primitives, like Hadamard products. Super useful!
by genewitch | 2025-04-08 20:47:58+00:00
i've wanted a de-bayered sensor camera for a decade and a half; but i'm not willing to pay Red or Arri prices for a real monochrome cine camera. I had an Huawei Honor 8 that had a real-honest-to-goodness monochrome sensor on it. It used it for focusing, but one could take images straight from that sensor. It was around the time that Asus zenfone was using IR Lasers to do focusing, other phones had other depth sensors.

I still have to manually focus (by pushing the screen where i want it to focus), but on newer phones the focus tries to "track" what you touched, which is... why would they change that? I tilt the phone down to interact with it, i know where in the frame i want it to focus, because before i tilted the phone down, i was looking at the frame! Rule of thirds, i can reframe the image to put focus exactly in one of the areas it ought be, zoom in or out, whatever. But no, apparently it has been decided i want the focus to wander around as it sees fit.

I just unplugged the honor 8 to take a picture and apparently the battery is kaput since the last time i used it. Sad day, indeed.
by WorldMaker | 2025-04-08 20:48:31+00:00
The Patch Theory of darcs and CRDTs (and the middle idea of OTs [Operational Transforms]) are all interestingly related in their early research and early cross-communication. It certainly is fascinating that today it is probably easier to ask "Do you ever think you might want a CRDT for source control?" to explain some of why you might want patch-based over snapshot-based, because CRDTs exist in part because it somewhat was started as "what if you could do something like darcs but with general data, not just source control?" It's fascinating which technologies win and in which ways/places/niches.
by Adachi91 | 2025-04-08 20:48:52+00:00
Agreed, I also use ChatGPT now mostly for searches, because it will pick the best sources that are not content farms, so I don't have to look through garbage to get a result. I started doing this about a year ago and was like "Oh, wow. This could disrupt search engines" and refer to it as "Super Google" now. I always have it link me to the source of what I'm looking for so I don't worry about it hallucinating, for common information I'm looking for reputable sources but don't know which `X` source has them for `Y` info.