MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by slenk | 2025-04-26 17:18:39+00:00
They WERE an MLM until they stopped being able to make money. There are good YouTubers out there dedicating time to getting people out of MLMs (some are basically cults). 99% of people in MLMs lose money.

If you think he is a good CFO I think you drank the coolaid.

https://marencrowley.com/podcast/the-demise-of-the-beachbody...
by bjourne | 2025-04-26 17:19:25+00:00
They sure do, it's still those who amass the most votes who gets to decide. And it leads to clownish ridiculous results. ADL is listed three times as green, yellow, and red. Comment says "There is consensus that the ADL is a generally unreliable source for the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, due to significant evidence that the ADL acts as a pro-Israeli advocacy group and has repeatedly published false and misleading statements as fact, un-retracted, regarding the Israeli–Palestinian conflict." So an organization that has "repeatedly" been caught spreading false and misleading statements is still a reliable source. LOL
by FireBeyond | 2025-04-26 17:19:39+00:00
Unless it’s Tyson chicken and the undocumented workers are getting a bit “uppitty” about OSHA stuff, then coordinate a raid but when the workers talk about the printed instructions they got from Tyson about how to fill out paperwork if you are undocumented, and what you plan to do about that, “we have no plans to investigate the company”.
by nobody9999 | 2025-04-26 17:20:03+00:00
Apparently, Blackstone's Formulation[0] doesn't resonate with some folks.

Nor does Niemoller's plaintive cry[1]. It kind of makes you wonder what sort of world those folks want to live in since they don't seem to be living in the real world.

And if the consequences for everyone weren't so dire, it might be instructive for those folks to end up with the pointy end of the stick for which they're advocating.

And more's the pity.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone's_ratio

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came
by BlueTemplar | 2025-04-26 17:20:32+00:00
'member the moral panic when students started (often uncritically) using Wikipedia ?

Ah, we didn't knew just how good we had it...

(At least it is (was ?) real humans doing the writing, you can look at modification history, well made articles have sources, and you can debate issues with the article in the Talk page and even maybe contribute directly to it...)
Show HN: Grapheteria - A structured workflow framework for agent orchestration
by Beubax | 2025-04-26 17:20:34+00:00
I know what you're thinking, "Oh no, not ANOTHER agentic workflow library ". I felt the same way, but hear me out on why we've finally hit the sweet spot.

We've all been caught between 2 frustrating options:

- Code-only frameworks: Powerful but often buried under layers of abstractions

- UI-only builders: Great for simple flows but hit a wall when you need real customization

Code is non-negotiable. Visual debugging is invaluable. I built Grapheteria to bridge the gap.

Edit your code, visualize the workflow instantly Interact with your flow visually, code updates right away.

Grapheteria follows a simple principle: design clean, composable graphs where each node and edge has a clear purpose.

Out-of-the-box features include human-in-the-loop, step-by-step debugging, and solid logging. Everything else is just an API call away.

Here's how Grapheteria makes your life easier as an AI developer:

- Zero abstraction tax - the code you write is the code that runs

- Visually debug in the UI by time traveling. Made a mistake? Simply step backwards, fix it and step forward again! No restarts necessary.

- Grapheteria is natively wrapped in a webserver. Place it in a container, host it anywhere and send events to your workflow with simple HTTP requests!

- Integrates seamlessly with ecosystem innovations like MCP and A2A

Check it out and feel free to show some love : https://github.com/beubax/Grapheteria

What are your thoughts on graph-based workflow systems? And what's been your experience with the code vs. UI tradeoff in other tools?
by santoshalper | 2025-04-26 17:20:50+00:00
I think a couple of things are important to remember in a time like this:

1. This behavior, whether legal or not, is profoundly inhumane.

2. No law, statute, or rule requires us to treat anyone inhumanely. The people behaving this way are doing it because they want to. These are not people you want to have access to any power.
by blinky81 | 2025-04-26 17:21:03+00:00
I cannot for the life of me understand why Americans have such a problem with other people coming here to seek a better life. Half this country has been tricked into seeing hardworking immigrants as a threat to their safety and livelihood — but by all metrics, immigrants are a net positive to society.

I also take issue with the idea that this extreme exclusionary mindset is somehow new to America. A lot of people frame what’s happening as if it’s the first time this country has gone through this. There is a long and storied tradition of otherizing, deporting, and imprisoning. Going back to our very foundation — America was born out of a process of expelling Native people from their lands. Then there’s the Great Migration period and the intense reaction to it, the Palmer raids, FDR’s internment camps, Eisenhower’s deportations, McCarthy era “anti-communism”, mass incarceration as a reaction to the Civil Rights Act, Islamophobia, and now this aggressively right wing anti-immigration sentiment.

The people of America, unfortunately, are prone to drastically evil actions when they are tricked by opportunistic political actors into believing their way of life is somehow under attack. This cycle has been going on for a long time.
by 082349872349872 | 2025-04-26 17:21:15+00:00
(I'm impressed that my laptop font supports 𰻞𰻞 — or at least I'm guessing it does, because at these point sizes it pretty much renders as a blob)

Exercise: construct the character table for the point group of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Hong_Kong#/media/File:...

GoF to me means {Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides} so until I followed your disambig link I would've metonymed with {IBM, MSFT, UIUC}

...made glorious summer by these sons of dork?

EDIT: grandsons of pork, if one subscribes to the Steve Blank hypothesis for the origins of VC-backed tech ventures

(would the major firms of the Industrial Revolution have been the sons of torque?)
by ellen364 | 2025-04-26 17:22:06+00:00
Under that rule of thumb, anything accused of being an MLM will seem like an MLM, even if the accusation is absurd.

"Uh, what?? Air isn't an MLM, it's just the thing we breath. We all need it to live."

"Huh, I guess air is an MLM after all. Wild."
by Supermancho | 2025-04-26 17:22:28+00:00
> stop

No.

> Voting by mail is incredibly easy.

This missed the point entirely.

This is about changing behavior and making it "easier" isn't the blocker. People often do not behave the way you expect them to due to simple socialization. Regardless of the specifics, making it more of a celebration (because that's how the vast majority of PTO is perceived) will make it seem like it's more important beyond the lipservice that, frankly, has been ineffective.
by AAAAaccountAAAA | 2025-04-26 17:22:30+00:00
> Matrix’s DAG replication scales pretty well - eg rooms like matrix HQ with 65K users spread over 10K+ servers.

The Matrix HQ room may work every now and then, but it certainly doesn't work well at all.

> Policy Servers are not a kludge, and they do not work by “routing all messages through a central server, and after then, passed onto the distributed database”. They are the opposite, as the linked blog post tries to spell out.

> DAG distribution works as normal; messages flow full mesh between servers as always without centralisation. The optional policy server simply provides a /check endpoint which the servers in a given room can use to filter messages for abuse before they pass them to clients. That’s it.

Distinction without difference. In any case, the single-point-of-failure server is needed to process all the messages and give the go/no go instruction to the larger network.

Policy Servers are not all that optional, since without them, the public rooms will be full of CSAM/gore material, and that is completely unacceptable.
by Jtsummers | 2025-04-26 17:22:47+00:00
> you don't know that you'll work out your problem

By this reasoning you must not believe in any debugging techniques (what does it mean to "believe" in a debugging technique anyways?). You don't know that they'll lead you to a solution to your problem. The differential coverage technique posted yesterday? It doesn't work all of the time, or may give you too much to look at to be practical. The statistical variant I posted in that discussion also doesn't always work, it can lead you astray. TDD? Even Kent Beck says to not use it all the time.

These things, and rubber duck debugging, do work. That they don't work all the time is immaterial. Are they effective for you and your team? You rotate through techniques while debugging and you select them based on experience. A first pass with that differential coverage technique or a git bisect may be enough. If they don't help right away you go to other techniques. Repeat. Probably even cycling back once you've isolated the issue better.

https://research.swtch.com/diffcover

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43795090
by White_Wolf | 2025-04-26 17:22:55+00:00
I don't think you realise why researchers ended up in this situation.

You want to get a Phd? you have to publish something... anything.

You want money for experiments? You need publications even if you do the rest of the theoretical work on your own.

You want to get funds for some new or to continue some research? You need publications.

I'm not defending those that publish all sorts of crap as research but the whole system is rigged.

Everyone is asking for as many publications and citations as possible to even lend you a lab for 1 day to test something.

Excuse my language but what the f are you expecting?

Edit: formatting
by intended | 2025-04-26 17:23:06+00:00
What rot.

Here’s a simple experiment I ran and still works.

Back in the day there was a truly ghastly add for ear wax removal that showed up on YouTube in the UK.

In an experiment, and prank, I told two of my close friends about this, and how this horrid advert would kill my appetite when it came up.

And then I made it a point to repeat “ear wax removal” loudly several times.

Sure enough. A day later my dear friend messaged me with something on the lines of “I hate you”

Their phones were Android and iOS. I believe it was the Android user suffered.
by mmcwilliams | 2025-04-26 17:23:16+00:00
You think that the model is not properly producing the style it was prompted for in the below prompt? I don't see other artists or styles mentioned.

> Make this a page in a colouring book. The drawing is in a simple Studio Ghibli portrait style. Bleed all the way to the edges. Background colour is #ffffff and lines are bold and #000000. There is no shading or crossthatching.
by constantcrying | 2025-04-26 17:23:20+00:00
The paper is irrelevant and will never get cited. There is essentially zero benefit to your career as it is nothing more than a single bullet point on your resume.

Discovering something that works is significant, discovering something that does not work is irrelevant.

Can you name a single scientist, e.g. from your field, who is known for showing that something does not work?
by HideousKojima | 2025-04-26 17:23:43+00:00
>Given that Miyazaki is known to hate GenAI I really can't condone...

Miyazaki also said (in response to the Charlie Hebdo murders): "For me, I think it's a mistake to make caricatures of what different cultures worship. It's a good idea to stop doing that." I still love the man and his work, but he's not some infallible authority on what is and isn't appropriate in art.
Show HN: AgenticSeek – Self-hosted alternative to cloud-based AI tools
by Fosowl | 2025-04-26 17:23:49+00:00
I’ve spent the last two months building AgenticSeek, a privacy-focused alternative to cloud-based AI tools like ManusAI. It runs entirely on your machine—no API calls, no data leaks.

Why AgenticSeek?

Optimized for local LLMs (developed mostly on an RTX 3060 running deepseek r1 14b).

Truly private: All components (TTS, STT, planner) run locally.

More responsive than alternatives (we respond fast to issues + active Discord).

Designed to be fun—think JARVIS-like voice control, multi-agent workflows, and a slick web UI.

Current Features:

Web browsing (research + form filling), code write/fix, file management/search. Planning capabilites to use multiple agents for complex task.

Is it stable? Prototype-stage—great for tinkerers.

Hoping to get feedback!
by vessenes | 2025-04-26 17:25:18+00:00
Source: own a small electric car company

My take: with financing this timeline (end of 2026 for first deliveries) is totally doable. The truck is extremely simple. Extremely. There is nothing exotic about the drivetrain or suspension; probably the hardest part was getting the plastic body panel stuff set up.

Second hardest part was designing for simplicity. At some point that part of the process will stop and they will ship.

Price: Probably too low. Manufacturing capacity: who knows? Deliverable: for sure. This is totally deliverable with today’s engineers and today’s parts.
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-04-26 17:25:20+00:00
> The people of America, unfortunately, are prone to drastically evil actions when they are tricked by opportunistic political actors into believing their way of life is somehow under attack.

All people are like this. When the economic prospects for you look bleak, it's very aggravating to see someone you believe is an outsider is succeeding. We see microcosms of this in the bay area where people blame tech workers for driving the cost of living up and making it hard for regular people. In reality, housing policy has done that, but people get mad seeing new outsiders enjoying the life that has become harder and harder for them to afford.
by blurbleblurble | 2025-04-26 17:25:25+00:00
The phone is listening. Services like Shazam and Alphonso are constantly fingerprinting audio from the mics and sending these fingerprints up for "matching".

What are they matching against? Against key "content".

To check if the fingerprints from your phone mic match the "content" they have to do some kind of nearest neighbor search. What if the fingerprints aren't super close but they're somewhat close? To "content" related to certain products? Should we send the ad?

What if employees at Alphonso and Shazam _know_ that the fingerprints from your phone aren't quite close enough to have been generated from key monetizable samples of the "content", but also know that they are close enough to be effective? At targeting potential buyers?

Who decides how close is close enough? What's the ethical threshold here? And what's the most profitable threshold?
by roughly | 2025-04-26 17:25:43+00:00
> Parents pass on the shared history, values, and national culture to their kids.

Except our nation’s shared history, values, and national culture is that we’re a nation of immigrants, a melting pot of global cultures, a refuge for those in need, and a place where anyone can come to seek their fortune, so obviously American parents haven’t been passing on those values to their children if we’re still having this debate, and I think the only fair response to that is to deport all the children who don’t meet your standards of citizenship, by which I mean the entire cohort that’s arguing all this is OK.
by wongarsu | 2025-04-26 17:25:44+00:00
I tried with various street photographs from a medium-sized German city (one of the 50 largest, but well outside the top 4). No obscure locations, all within a 15 minute walk of the city center and it got 1/7 correct. That one was scarily precise, but the other ones got various versions of "Not enough information, looks European" or in better cases "somewhere in Germany".
by swores | 2025-04-26 17:26:19+00:00
I'm just specific in my prompting, rather than letting it decide whether or not to search.

These models aren't (yet, at least) clever enough to understand what they do or don't know, so if you're not directly telling them when you want them to go and find specific info rather than guess at it you're just asking a mystic with a magic ball.

It doesn't add much to the length of prompts, just a matter of getting in the habit of wording things the right way. For the request I gave as my example a couple of comments above, I wrote "Please search for every one of the Guardian articles whose titles I pasted above and give me a list of URLs for them all." whereas if you write "Please tell me the URLs of these Guardian articles" then it may well act as if it knows them already and return bullshit.
by koolba | 2025-04-26 17:27:11+00:00
> I cannot for the life of me understand why Americans have such a problem with other people coming here to seek a better life. Half this country has been tricked into seeing hardworking immigrants as a threat to their safety and livelihood — but by all metrics, immigrants are a net positive to society.

I have no issue with legal immigration. Far from it, I’m in favor of attracting the best, brightest, and most hard working.

But knowing people overseas that want to come to the USA but are respectful enough to want to do it legally, I take issue with anyone that enters the country illegally. They’re cheating the system and showing immediate disdain for our system of laws. The second order effects of funneling money to smugglers and coyotes are bad as well.

Every country has a right to decide who can visit or immigrate. That’s the right of any sovereign state.

If the people of America want more immigration then have them petition their representatives to change the laws to all for it.
by cratermoon | 2025-04-26 17:27:18+00:00
There are known cognitive processes that come into play when the brain has to turn thoughts into communication, written or verbal. There are different modes, and thinking primarily happens in the Default Mode Network, but rubber ducking activates the language network, articulating thoughts into verbal and written words. This "just happens" is not random nor unexplained: it's a result of the way our brains function, and rubber ducking forces this switch.

It's also why various sources recommend writing so much: writing results in learning, or perhaps writing is learning.
by wafflemaker | 2025-04-26 17:28:58+00:00
Thank you! Didn't know I endangered people by suggesting it to them.

I usually got bored halfway and after 3-6 breaths finished peeing normally. It was also because I've noticed that the exercise made it very hard to push out the last of urine from the bladder. Now I know it's also very unhealthy not to empty all the way.
Show HN: A CV build system for developers based on HTML Jinja templates
by ahmetsait | 2025-04-26 17:28:59+00:00
Hi there hackers!

I've been creating my CVs using a very simple and limited template system I've scripted a few years back. Fast forward to a few weeks ago, I've decided it's time to update my CV but of course I got completely distracted on improving my tool and the result is me working on a document generator for 3-4 weeks instead of actually applying for jobs :P
by janwas | 2025-04-26 17:29:08+00:00
Nice work :) Clang x86 indeed unrolls, which is good. But setting the CC and AA mask constants looks fairly expensive compared to fixed-pattern shuffles.

Yes, the 2D aspect of the sorting network complicates things. Transposing is already harder to make VLA and fusing it with the other shuffles certainly doesn't help.
by dwood_dev | 2025-04-26 17:29:24+00:00
Most of those models are not real. They exist, but they don't make many of the base model and if you attempt to purchase one, it is a 4-18 month lead time.

I was in the market in Mexico last year, just looking for a cheap city car with a warranty for when I am there. I test drove half the cars on that list, the other half I immediately eliminated after sitting in the driver's seat for under a minute.

You can think of those base models like MSRP GPUs right now. They exist on paper, but good luck actually getting one for MSRP.

In the end, I didn't purchase any of those and got a two year old certified preowned vehicle with the top trim and comfortable seats from a dealer with a warranty for about $3000USD more than the cheapest actually available model of those linked in your post.
by stackskipton | 2025-04-26 17:29:39+00:00
Since we are quoting, I quote FDR: "Democracy has disappeared in several other great nations--not because the people of those nations disliked democracy, but because they had grown tired of unemployment and insecurity, of seeing their children hungry while they sat helpless in the face of government confusion and government weakness through lack of leadership in government."

True, we are not in bad shape like 1930s Germany or United States but as neoliberalism rot has really set in, people feel economically shaky, and government clearly is not responsive to them. Combined with Social Media warping people brain on what is "success" and "strong man" who will take care of things is clearly appealing. Many of them can also be turned around but it's going to take some doing.
by lvl155 | 2025-04-26 17:30:21+00:00
Do you own a BYD? It’s not that great. Build quality is subpar. Problem with investing in China is that once tech transfer ends, there’s no promise that these companies are capable of continued innovations. It’s basically an ecosystem dependent on outside innovations that they can “transfer” and tweak. That’s the whole “communist” economy in nutshell.
by StefanBatory | 2025-04-26 17:31:03+00:00
"The decision to cancel the release of this year’s results will weigh most on Grade 12 students who won’t get a chance to do it again next year, Shin said. But he didn’t think the onus was on the university. “It’s obviously a cheater’s fault, right? They’re the ones who cheated. They’re the one to break the rules. It’s their fault morally and logically.”

... I guess so, but how it is fault of someone who did not cheat? They are lumped in together, like it's their fault too. Not that I don't get that, but still.
by dncbfwa | 2025-04-26 17:33:06+00:00
The several paragraphs before and after this statement are much more salient and profound. E.G. the following paragraph:

But factory-style scholarly productivity was never the essence of the humanities. The real project was always us: the work of understanding, and not the accumulation of facts. Not “knowledge,” in the sense of yet another sandwich of true statements about the world. That stuff is great—and where science and engineering are concerned it’s pretty much the whole point. But no amount of peer-reviewed scholarship, no data set, can resolve the central questions that confront every human being: How to live? What to do? How to face death?