MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by noduerme | 2025-04-29 22:31:43+00:00
Most people feel like hapless midwits, and we know that most of us actually are. Yet we have this tendency to assume, for some weird reason, that people in important positions have their shit together more than we do. Only in emergencies and times of crisis do we see that no one has their shit together. When we see that, we want to blame it on conspiracy or some sort of 5-dimensional chess being played, because it goes against the safe notion that someone, somewhere, is steering the boat (even if we don't like where they're taking us). But the safer bet is that no one is steering, and no one actually can steer, and that it's incompetence all the way to to the top.
by MildlySerious | 2025-04-29 22:31:54+00:00
> Such hyperbole is dangerous at best when people take it seriously.

The same is true about the sitting president and some of his staunch supporters repeatedly "joking" about, and alluding to a third term[1][2][3][4] - including merch[5].

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-third-te...

[2] https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5104133-rep-andy-ogles-pr...

[3] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-jokes-ru...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9-ft4BvHTE

[5] https://citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2025/04/29/trump-...
by kazinator | 2025-04-29 22:32:00+00:00
I currently cannot tell without making a little configuration change, because as soon as an IP address is logged as having visited the trap URL (honeypot, or zipbomb or whatever), a log monitoring script bans that client.

Secondly, I know that most of these bots do not come back. The attacks do not reuse addresses against the same server in order to evade almost any conceivable filter rule that is predicated on a prior visit.
by wirdnok | 2025-04-29 22:32:23+00:00
Jerry Holkins of penny-arcade recently shared a similar sentiment.

> You can't operate a deconstruction machine indefinitely; ultimately, the machine is all you have left to take apart. We need to make aspirational shit again so we have something to deconstruct later. It's not a mysterious process, it's just the opposite of what we were doing before.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2025/02/28/opfor
by dang | 2025-04-29 22:32:45+00:00
Did you miss where I apologized for misreading mindslight's comment?

Your post would make more sense if I hadn't added the "Edit" bit to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43817409 (nor posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43824481 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43823390). But I did that more than 24 hours before you posted this.
by hagbard_c | 2025-04-29 22:33:36+00:00
That does not make sense as I'm not describing any way to structure society here, instead I'm describing individual choices within any given society. Some of those choices won't be available in some types of society - e.g. Gnurgh won't be welcome in proto-North-Korea - but that is besides the point. I'm pointing out that people make choices and those choices have consequences. Ooglr will end up 'wealthy' when it comes to free time, Gnurgh ends up wealthy when it comes to food and family, Borrr could end up wealthy as well depending on his prowess in raiding those drying racks but he won't be welcomed by the others.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-04-29 22:33:37+00:00
In addition to what others said, I buy 2 roast chickens a week for $5 each.

Rice is $20/25 lbs, and 1600 calories/lb for 2000 calories/$

They are 6.5lbs after deboning. Cooked chicken skin on is 950 calories per pound. That is 620 calories/$.

Tortillas themselves are 110 cal, and 4.99 for 100ct, or 2200 cal/$
by banana_giraffe | 2025-04-29 22:33:41+00:00
It also provides an open function for the files in a zip file. I see no reason something like this won't bail after a small limit:

import zipfile with zipfile.ZipFile("zipbomb.zip") as zip: for name in zip.namelist(): print("working on " + name) left = 1000000 with open("dest_" + name, "wb") as fdest, zip.open(name) as fsrc: while True: block = fsrc.read(1000) if len(block) == 0: break fdest.write(block) left -= len(block) if left <= 0: print("too much data!") break
by LorenPechtel | 2025-04-29 22:33:51+00:00
But it's an emergency system, not a general operation system. Thus it's not going to be exposed to the salty environment most of the time. You could certainly put the whole thing in an airtight box.

Look at how the military builds surface-based missiles these days: it's in a factory-sealed box. Molten salt batteries so they last for decades. (You don't see molten salt in most purposes because once it's been triggered it's lifespan is in minutes or even less. They're used in applications that only need to deliver power once.)
by gs17 | 2025-04-29 22:35:02+00:00
I'm surprised Meta hasn't decided to remove human moderators from the equation entirely. For Marketplace, they at least used to be happy with automated moderation that mostly removed false positives, and now they don't seem to care about much. I report scammers on Facebook, we have reviewed your report and found it wasn't a violation. Hate speech, we have reviewed your report and found it wasn't a violation. Animal abuse, that's what Facebook Shorts was made for! Account that was hacked and is now spamming porn, we have reviewed your report and found it wasn't a violation.

Are they keeping these people involved simply out of cruelty? The gruesome examples they give seem like they could be automatically detected with no drop in moderation quality. Normally I wouldn't advocate for taking away jobs, but this is awful.
by philsnow | 2025-04-29 22:35:21+00:00
A compressed file that is only one byte long can only represent maximally 256 different uncompressed files.

Signed, a kid in the 90s who downloaded some "wavelet compression" program from a BBS because it promised to compress all his WaReZ even more so he could then fit moar on his disk. He ran the compressor and hey golly that 500MB ISO fit into only 10MB of disk now! He found out later (after a defrag) that the "compressor" was just hiding data in unused disk sectors and storing references to them. He then learned about Shannon entropy from comp.compression.research and was enlightened.
by BosunoB | 2025-04-29 22:35:24+00:00
I switched to Floorp last month and it's amazing. It's a Firefox fork with tab rows. Tab rows are the real MVP. None of the annoying weirdness of Tree Style Tabs, where you have to keep track of a hierarchy of tabs that are hidden behind other tabs. Instead, you just see 3-4 rows of tabs and you make a mental map of what is where.

Once they release the new version in a month or two, we'll also get newer Firefox features like these tab groups, and we'll also get workspace improvements. Floorp is 10/10.
by 0x457 | 2025-04-29 22:36:11+00:00
Sure, but my point is - I'm parting ways with my money (be it cash or an asset with monetary value) either way without anything in return. It's just from tax perspective it essentially looks like I never had those money.

I see your point about cost basis tho, I didn't think of this and definetly will use this from now on. Thank you.
by Terr_ | 2025-04-29 22:36:47+00:00
One of the Republicans' (conflicting) rationales for the import taxes was Americans would notice the higher prices and be motivated to seek out domestic alternatives.

If they were telling the truth, they should be happy to see these factors clearly displayed, since that makes it easy for consumers to compare and switch to other products that aren't being tariffed.

Instead, they're freaking out, indicating they want to deceive consumers and voters into blaming higher prices on "greedy companies", instead of (correctly) blaming the federal government which is taking the money for unprecedented new "national emergency" taxes.
by socalgal2 | 2025-04-29 22:37:29+00:00
- Population is leveling off and dropping in some countries,

This is a problem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufmu1WD2TSk

- AI is rapidly getting better. Not clear how good it gets, but if everything you do for money goes in and out over a wire, you're in trouble.

Or, everything gets so abundant that we can actually have high UBI

This reminds me if why I disliked to movie Elysium. They had a robots that effectively gave free perfect medical care. I didn't buy the premise of the movie that only that rich would be able to use them. Given they were robots, governments, hospitals, could and would make them readily available since ultimately it would massively lower their medical costs.
by Jtsummers | 2025-04-29 22:37:34+00:00
The tariffs cover parts as well as whole vehicles. The thing announced here is that they'll have a rebate program if the car is 85% manufactured in the US, and the rebate will be in effect for 2 years. So you still pay the tariff on parts, but you get some or all the money back if you meet that threshold. The idea being that it gives the company two years to move their parts manufacturing or sources. But the threshold is so high that only Tesla gets to enjoy the rebate, not any other company.
by metalman | 2025-04-29 22:37:35+00:00
and then there is the other side of the 14.9% coin, which will be fought over by Canada(read ontario), Mexico, China, and the rest when it comes parts and cars made in Canada and Mexico, that is going to be tricky, as both countrys have historicaly bought a lot of US cars and other stuff, but will now be in no possition to also play along with the anti china stance in the US and tarrifs, and all the other issues at the borders.......geoplotical has more meaning now.
by dttze | 2025-04-29 22:37:39+00:00
No, it isn't. "Conceptual understanding" is a deep comprehension of a particular concept. It is grasping its meaning, significance, applications, and boundaries. It involves knowing not just what something is definitionally, but understanding how it works, why it matters, and how it connects to other ideas.

"The relationship between concepts," is focusing specifically on how different ideas connect, overlap, contradict, or complement each other. It's more about the network or system of connections rather than deep comprehension of individual concepts.

Understanding relationships between concepts is part of conceptual understanding, sure. But conceptual understanding is broader - it includes both mastery of individual concepts and awareness of their relationships to other concepts.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-04-29 22:38:29+00:00
>voters are more influenced by what they watch, listen to and like than by politicians.

Right there in plain English, the strategy that worked for Trump twice, because the GOP party machine crafted what (double-digit percentages of) voters listen to, and the politician, to be one and the same.

And rallied every week for four years promoting him like a rock star on the road.

When 4 years earlier after his first disastrous term, a wet dishrag could have beat Trump, and that's pretty much what happened.

Now there's no other way to beat that system any more.

It's not rocket science. It's pop culture. Intellectuals won't help you now.

The Democrats don't have a single person they can rally a crowd behind, and it would have to be an already-popular individual that's attractive to non-voters more than either party has had, and stick with them.

Every single week, rally after rally. If Trump could do it, a younger person surely can.
by groby_b | 2025-04-29 22:38:54+00:00
Yep, you need date and time to get closer, sorry. 4/27, around 11pm.

That's the impressive part. "M13 is in northern latitudes" is not particularly amazing by itself :)

And even in EXIF-stripped pictures, the creation date/time is often correct, which means for practical purposes - worth a shot.

But it's interesting to see it's completely making up the "mid-northern side". That's seven degrees of latitude off.

I'm curious what happens if you tell it date and time, and if it still sticks to its story. (I don't think I've told o3 about the Bay Area, it's not in memory, but... who knows ;)
by AIPedant | 2025-04-29 22:39:27+00:00
I realize there were bigger problems, but this makes me very sad:

Learning - Over the past year my workflow has changed immensely, and I regularly use AI to learn new technologies, discuss methods and techniques, review code, etc. The maturity and vast amount of stable historical data for C# and the Unity API mean that tools like Gemini consistently provide highly relevant guidance. While Bevy and Rust evolve rapidly - which is exciting and motivating - the pace means AI knowledge lags behind, reducing the efficiency gains I have come to expect from AI assisted development. This could change with the introduction of more modern tool-enabled models, but I found it to be a distraction and an unexpected additional cost.

In 2023 I wondered if LLM code generation would throttle progress in programming language design. I was particularly thinking about Idris and other dependently-typed languages which can do deterministically correct code generation. But it applies to any form of language innovation: why spend time learning a new programming language that 100% reliably abstracts boilerplate away, when an LLM can 95% reliably slop the boilerplate? Some people (me) will say that this is unacceptably lazy and programmers should spend time reading things, the other will point to the expected value of dev costs or whatever. Very depressing.
by mtlynch | 2025-04-29 22:39:33+00:00
>I designed a backend API that collected the data in real-time data and exported it as a PNG image.

Does anyone know why in these Kindle modding dashboards, they always generate the dashbard image on an external server? Why isn't it possible to build all that functionality into an executable on the Kindle itself? You've got a Linux environment, so why can't you run all the logic locally?
by guywithahat | 2025-04-29 22:39:41+00:00
I wonder how much their lack of union plays into this. The auto factories fled Flint/Detroit due to the UAW basically an attempt to limit the scope of strikes and violence from the UAW. Tesla doesn't have to worry about unions (at least yet), and so they have very centralized factories where an enormous amount of work is done. Probably makes it easier to do everything in the US if you can do it all in one building
by zoogeny | 2025-04-29 22:40:03+00:00
I do the same, and I have one other technique.

I will often have a few chats going for a project, but with different contexts. For example, one might be tech focused, another marketing focused, another with some context on my personal goals, etc.

So I will take the same question and feed it into the chats with differing context. It is almost like having different perspectives on the same problem. And the conclusions can often differ based on the differing contexts.
by groby_b | 2025-04-29 22:40:37+00:00
Oh, sure, but that's next-level nerdery above "I just want to find a dark site" :)

It's also invaluable for any assisted star gazing. Turns out driving out 4 hours into the middle of nowhere only to be stuck in the clouds is just not that fun, with or without telescopes. Ask me how I know ;)
by Fnoord | 2025-04-29 22:41:03+00:00
For a myriad of reasons I'm cutting back on American subscriptions (am European). Kagi has a soft spot near my heart, so it is likely one of those going out last.

If sandwiches are $10 for you and not worth much, might I ask you to support my subscription instead? Because when I make a sandwich myself, the costs are approx 0,50 EUR, and that is the type of food I can afford.

It is the same with this 'it is only a cup of coffee' or 'only a beer'. I don't drink beer, I do drink coffee, but when I did drink beer the special beers were lower than the prices of the ones you pay in pubs. As for coffee, it just shows you're from San Francisco or something, cause we got free coffee at work in our culture here.

Moreover, there's enough people in this world for whom $10 a month is a huge deal, and all your comment shows is that you're either unaware of such or simply don't care.
by tim333 | 2025-04-29 22:41:09+00:00
>So why is AI getting so much attention when it seems that there is limited actual demand for it?

He skips the main reason which is it will get better in the future. Today chatbots, tomorrow I, Robot/Terminator/Her/AI/The Matrix etc. Or better as the movies tend to be biased towards disaster.

Incidentally there aren't really movies about future crypto/NFT/dotcom bubbles. AI and robots are different.
by ryandrake | 2025-04-29 22:41:59+00:00
If I was forced to say one good thing about the guy, it's that he is quickly and faithfully delivering on his campaign promises, moreso than any other president that ever served in my lifetime. He's blasting right through the Project 2025 checklist and doing exactly what he said he'd do. Those campaign promises are destructive, thoughtless, cruel, and self-serving, but he said he'd do them, was elected, and then subsequently did them. So, I'll give him that.
by SimianSci | 2025-04-29 22:42:30+00:00
There seems to be a (largely American) misconception that people in positions of power are there because they earned such a position through being capable and competent.

Most people in power lack critical thinking skills, having earned their position primarily due to the circumstances of their birth and the people they know.

It is incredibly rare for someone who is competent enough to weild such levers of power to be granted access to them.
by n2d4 | 2025-04-29 22:43:40+00:00
> They make no such promises in their documentation. Their 5494 pages manual on RDS hardly mentions isolation or serializable

Well, as a user, I wish they would mention it though. If I migrate to RDS with multi-AZ after coming from plain Postgres (which documents snapshot isolation as a feature), I would probably want to know how the two differ.
Show HN: I built a debugger for multiprocessor real-time firmware debugging
by tharveycodes | 2025-04-29 22:43:48+00:00
Hi everyone, I built the Active-Pro. It is a tracing firmware debugger with built in logic analyzer/oscope channels that can debug multiple processors simultaneously.

I built the device to get a better view of my embedded designs than my trusted logic analyzer/jtag setup. I routinely use multiple processors and FPGAs and can't use breakpoints due to it killing my system.

I basically took the best of trace (aka printf/print/caveman) debugging (fast, easy, direct, familiar), minimized the pitfalls (slow and obtrusive) and sync it to logic, analog and decoded bus signals. The tool gives a really clear picture of what is going on in real-time in all parts of my system.

The software app runs in demo mode for those that want to try it at https://www.activefirmwaretools.com/download

I personally designed all of the hardware, firmware, RTL, software apps and web site and I'm happy to answer any questions and welcome feedback.
by cogman10 | 2025-04-29 22:43:49+00:00
The mob was literally minutes away from congressional people. They further kept those same congresspeople surrounded and locked up for hours until Trump called them off.

Ashley Babbitt died because she broken through the last barrier between the mob and congress. Had this mob been armed (and there were plans of being armed that were ultimately scuttled), it could have been a blood bath. There was only a handful of LEO between the mob and congress.

This wasn't a "mosquito bite".

Now, what would have changed if the mob had their way with congress or the supreme court? Who knows. For the SC, it'd have given trump the ability to put in more yes men to rubber stamp his election loss narrative.

For congress, the plan was literally to have congressional collaborators challenge the validity of the election (which still happened) to take power. If many democrat reps lost their life, then yes, congress could have rubberstamped a trump victory. Very few republicans stood up to trump or his plans.

"What could they have done", the answer is kill a bunch of congress people in the opposing party to empower their party.

This was a big deal.
by Jtsummers | 2025-04-29 22:43:50+00:00
A family moved to their new home in Oklahoma. The father was still in Maryland. ICE agents broke into their home and dragged her and her daughters out of the house in their underwear in the early morning and made them dress outside in the rain. They also confiscated their property (phones, computers, cash) and didn't return it even though they were not the people they were looking for. They were looking for previous residents of the home.

The agents also failed to provide any information on how to get their property and cash back.
by gymbeaux | 2025-04-29 22:44:13+00:00
My question would be “why not close down Reagan?” especially now that the DC Metro runs to Dulles. Yes, yes, Congress likes to fly into Reagan. Too bad.

Not only does Reagan have the same design problem as LGA and SFO (built before jetliners, runways too short), it’s incredibly close to restricted airspace. No civilian needs to fly into an airport that close to DC.
by markvdb | 2025-04-29 22:45:10+00:00
> I'm not saying the tariffs are good. Only that their point is to get things made domesticly

...or to create massive stock market front-running opportunities with plausible deniability.

"But, but, Hanlon's razor!". Sorry, but at this level of responsibility, incompetence equals malice.

We fscking all have to live with the consequences. That includes those of us who could not vote for an alternative.
by groby_b | 2025-04-29 22:46:14+00:00
> Is the layoff-based business model really the best use case for AI systems?

No, but it plays well in quarterly earnings. So expect a good bit, I'd say.

> The flaws are baked into the training data.

Not in terms of attack area.

In terms of hallucinations... ish. It's more baked into the structure than the training data. There's increasing amounts of work to ensure well-curated training data. Still, the whole idea of probabilistic selection of tokens more or less guarantees it'll go wrong from time to time. (See e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11817)

In terms of safety, there's some progress. CaMeL is rather interesting: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18813

> "Trust but verify" applies.

FWIW, that applies to humans too. Nobody is error-free. And so the question becomes mostly "does the value overshadow the cost of the error", as always.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-29 22:46:53+00:00
> enjoyment of consumption

Yes, in fact, there is nothing to kill my enjoyment more than a watered-down icy beverage that murders my tongue and esophagus as it goes down.

Since my youth I’ve been a choral singer and musician. I’m quite sensitive to keeping “my instrument” in top condition. Therefore I take offense from anyone who says that [Scoville levels] of spice should be calibrated for murder, or that beverages should be as close to freezing as possible.

This is doing violence to the consumer, and it’s simply unjust across the board. If I had a nickel for every butt-hurt counter girl just because I asked for “no ice please”; if it really hurts your bottom line then charge double? Consumers aren’t actually afforded much choice about the temperature of food we consume, are we?

There is basically no scientific or cultural reason for food or drink to be consumed while it is cold [below 40°F]. Simply marketing and capitalism because of food safety and profit. Therefore I need not kowtow to someone’s haughty decree that soda is somehow designed to be drunk that way.
by carbocation | 2025-04-29 22:46:55+00:00
Just following this comment up as a note-to-self: just as `kgwgk noted, the default gemma3:27B model has ID a418f5838eaf, which corresponds to 27b-it-q4_K_M. But the new gemma3:27B quantization-aware training (QAT) model being discussed is gemma3:27b-it-qat with ID 29eb0b9aeda3.