MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mfkhalil | 2025-04-03 05:28:00+00:00
Credit to @ziftface — I should’ve included more examples in the original post. MatterRank is useful when you want results with specific qualitative traits that go beyond keyword matching. You can ask for stuff like “written by a woman,” “mentions these specific lines from a movie,” or “talks about X/Y/Z but avoids A/B.” Since it reads the full content, not just metadata or SEO signals, it lets you be a lot more precise in ways that traditional search engines just don’t support.
by cess11 | 2025-04-03 05:28:06+00:00
Ordinary search indices don't contain the entire target site, while LLM-style so called AI does consume it all. I would guess some of these crawlers are subcontractors rather than "AI" companies, i.e. they compete on having the most complete and fresh dataset you could rent for "training".

Whenever the market decides the Internet is too full of slop to be usable for "training" the one that has the most copies of the pre-"AI" Internet wins. Some of the traffic is likely "AI" "tool use", i.e. bot scraping as part of running some LLM, i.e. "AI" "research".

The big scraping bots have gone from stupid to ruthless. Previously it was irritating that some of them got stuck traversing cyclical link paths on your site or on-the-fly generated pages, now it's like your silly family blog suddenly got very popular for no good reason and it puts a lot of load on the tiny amount of hardware it's served from.
by pointyfence | 2025-04-03 05:28:20+00:00
What you're describing is what Nassim Taleb calls "tawkers." People like economists, journalists, pundits, etc. who talk big but don't have any skin in the game for being wrong or irrelevant (time is a great example). Since there is no feedback loop to punish bad or irrelevant takes, they can continue tawking for a long time.

When I have similarly strong opinions, I do act on it because I enjoy seeing how right or wrong I was. Markets are a harsh, expensive teacher. You either learn a trick or two about uncertainty, overconfidence, humility, etc, or you run out of money.

I think you're better at it than you're letting on even if you decided to not play. You already understand the properties of the game.
by dughnut | 2025-04-03 05:28:31+00:00
If you asked a junior developer to refactor a rust program to be more idiomatic, how long would you expect that to take? Would you expect the work to compile on the first try?

I love Cline and Copilot. If you carefully specify your task, provide context for uncommon APIs, and keep the scope limited, then the results are often very good. It’s code completion for whole classes and methods or whole utility scripts for common use cases.

Refactoring to taste may be under specified.
by kelnos | 2025-04-03 05:29:15+00:00
> It also puts republicans in a choke hold to force the tax cut legislation through, because the fallout of tariffs with no tax cuts would be a death knell for the party.

I mean, they could vote down the "emergency" Trump is using in order to obtain the authority to enact these tariffs instead, and that would be so much less work. But of course they won't go against their Dear Leader.
by brigandish | 2025-04-03 05:29:34+00:00
My reading comprehension is enough to see an argument destitute of substance.

For there to be a threat there should be evidence of a threat. Your aspersions, which you are so keen on casting against anyone who doesn't share your views, are not evidence of anything but hyperbole and irrational panic.

If you cannot name a single person who is a natural born citizen that has been deported or has been threatened with deportation - or even anyone in power who has mused for a second upon deporting natural born citizens, via this legal change - then you have nothing.

If someone can show that the legal change you're warning about does not have the consequences you claim, e.g. all of Europe, then you have nothing.

You should get used to answering questions, it'll help you sharpen up your argument, that's why I ask simple questions[1]. Now, *please desist from your blatant and explicit rudeness*.

[1] https://www.britannica.com/topic/Socratic-method
by linkregister | 2025-04-03 05:30:27+00:00
* BitMEX the company and its founders received a Presidential pardon in the past week. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/28/trump-pardon-bitmex-crypto-e...

* Several Consumer Protection Safety Board lawsuits were withdrawn in February: https://apnews.com/article/cfpb-drops-capital-one-rocket-law...

* New York Mayor Eric Adams's corruption case was dismissed in an apparent quid-pro-quo. White House official Thomas Howan asserted that he had an agreement with Adams on the morning news show Fox and Friends. Evidence indicated Adams accepted a hundred thousand dollars in benefits and bribes in exchange for helping the Turkish government certify a building permit. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trumps-b...
by forgotoldacc | 2025-04-03 05:31:44+00:00
Now, no. In a few months, yes.

People know the "NFT style", and when people see any sort of image like that, they instantly think "annoying crypto scammer."

There's now the "AI image" style, which people are becoming more aware of. And people associate that with scammers, very confused old people, weird porn, and the right.

Most of the ghiblified stuff is from AI/cryptobros and right wing movements (with heavy overlap on those groups). People possess pattern recognition and will become aware of the pattern each time they see these images.
by vitorgrs | 2025-04-03 05:32:18+00:00
The weighted average of the new U.S. tariffs will be 29% it seems.

Maybe they know the consequences, but to give you a idea... it was 1.5% before. The new ones will be equivalent to Brazilian tariffs in 1989 before opening the economy (31%, data from World Bank).

Now, Brazilian tariffs, which have one if the most closed economies, by weighted average, is 7%.

China, have 2.2%.

The United States will be an autarchy, similar to how LaTam was in the 70's, when tried this exact idea. The tariffs being as high instantly, will impact the economy, later, the country will probably grow, which is what they expect, but this is not a productive grow. Because your new factories now are not competing with external products, so your productivity go down, this means real income will also go down.

So yeah, some people at best (if is not a robot doing the job) will have a job in a factory, but on what he will be able to spend with his wage won't make it worth even for this person.
by astrange | 2025-04-03 05:33:03+00:00
> Kill people's savings, might happen.

It doesn't work because it's basically illegal to be poor in America, or rather to live like a poor person in a developing country. Because of theories about gentrification and such we just banned everything like SROs, company dorms, etc.

It worked for a little while in the 2000s because earlier flight from cities had left a lot of empty housing open to gentrify, but none of that is left.

There's a few classes of people left like supercommuters and people who live in RVs in the Amazon warehouse parking lot, but not going to run a big factory like that.
by janalsncm | 2025-04-03 05:33:12+00:00
Using an LLM isn’t the worst way to rank, but it’s pretty darn slow. The speed could be improved a lot by just distilling into deep neural nets though.

The results for me were fairly high quality and moderately relevant but I think they could be improved as well.

You get pretty far by just blocking low quality blogspam and Medium, which would be a lot faster and could even be done on the frontend with a chrome plugin.
by lurk2 | 2025-04-03 05:33:21+00:00
> Immigration policies are way stricter now

Do you have any evidence of that? Have there been changes in legislation, specific directives issued?

> some countries are issuing warnings for people traveling to the US

In the case of Germany, it was emphasized that the change was not a travel warning, but instead a travel advisory [0]. Here are a few advisories from Canada, accessed 2025-04-02:

Germany: Exercise a high degree of caution in Germany due to the threat of terrorism. https://travel.gc.ca/destinations/germany

France: Exercise a high degree of caution in France due to the elevated threat of terrorism. https://travel.gc.ca/destinations/france

Italy: Exercise a high degree of caution in Italy due to the threat of terrorism. https://travel.gc.ca/destinations/italy

The State Department has a similar advisory on traveling to the UK:

> Country Summary: Terrorist groups continue plotting possible attacks in the United Kingdom. Terrorists may attack with little or no warning, targeting tourist locations, transportation hubs, markets/shopping malls, local government facilities, hotels, clubs, restaurants, places of worship, parks, major sporting and cultural events, educational institutions, airports, and other public areas. There is also a risk of isolated violence by dissident groups in Northern Ireland, focused primarily on police and military targets.

I will look at anything specific you have on hand that you feel merits attention, but I know that in the case of the German advisory, it was just updated to reflect that possessing a visa was not a guarantee of entry. So far as I know this did not come about as a result of change in policy. While the Trump administration has done a lot of chest-thumping on immigration, I haven't seen any indication that these sorts of refusals and detentions are unprecedented; they just seem to be receiving more media attention. In this instance, there were three high profile cases of Germans being refused entry and / or detained, which resulted in the advisory.

[0]: https://www.newsweek.com/germany-issues-travel-warning-us-20... ("But they also stressed that this change does not count as an official travel warning.")
by marcuskane2 | 2025-04-03 05:34:49+00:00
The only scenario where I believe people might directly ask "Who did you vote for?" is screening for dating. I don't know exactly how common it is, but I've heard multiple anecdotes about that being asked on dating apps or first dates, because they're not interested in dating someone who voted for Trump.

Prior to Trump it wasn't really a thing, because both parties were still following the law and maintaining a functioning democracy, so people could date across party lines and just agree-to-disagree about taxes or whatever.
by ianhmacartney | 2025-04-03 05:34:58+00:00
I reimplemented Mastra’s agentic workflows with durable functions in Convex, and it was the wrong decision. Learn about three common integration strategies (reimplementation, API wrapping, and “blessed” plugin paths), along with my learnings along the way and reflections on what I’d do differently next time. TL;DR: Do less, do it smarter, and prototype faster.
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by thathoo | 2025-04-03 05:36:03+00:00
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by BrenBarn | 2025-04-03 05:37:50+00:00
Interesting. That doesn't align with my experience with LLMs. I tend to find "smarter" interfaces (like LLM-based ones) more frustrating because they are black boxes and I find myself struggling to understand how to get what I want from them. I've had a fair number of maddening conversations with LLMs where I ask them for something and they just regurgitate non-answers back over and over.

What I prefer is interfaces that are more systematic and based on comprehensible principles. Like, for search (as someone mentioned in another comment), I want to be able to search for pages (or records, or whatever) that contain the text I searched for. I don't want an interface that tries to understand what I mean, I just want it to use the data I give it in a way that's deterministic enough that I can figure out how to make it do what I want.
by trunnell | 2025-04-03 05:38:20+00:00
“major studios do use some cloud services” is not the issue. The problem being addressed is that the “script to screen” process is typically an antiquated mishmash of offline-first vendors. Netflix reinvented that with a cloud-first process.

“Digital-first production” can mean lots of things, so when you say Disney, Paramount, etc did this a decade ago, you’ll have to be more specific. Do you mean an end to end digital process? That’s not what this is about. Have you worked on a Netflix production? It’s night and day different from the studios you mentioned.
by saghm | 2025-04-03 05:38:33+00:00
For what it's worth, I interviewed for a position similar to this at Disney+ a few years ago (unsure if it's the exact same one since it's been so long), and after being given a coding challenge that they agreed I could turn in after a week and an email from someone I was supposed to ask questions to, I didn't get any responses from them whatsoever until less than 24 hours before the supposed turn-in. (Among the questions I asked were clarifications of very basic things like "Am I supposed to be getting 404 errors when trying to query the links returned by the API the instructions say I should be rendering results from, or is there an issue with your backend?" After having spent essentially two full days over the weekend on it, I emailed the night before we had agreed I'd complete the challenge to say that I wasn't interested in continuing with the interview process, and the next day I finally received a response saying something along the lines of "oops, the engineer we said would answer your questions was on vacation, here's the email of a different one".

Obviously that's just one data point, but I wouldn't be shocked if their hiring portal worked fine and this is just how their recruiting works.
by quailfarmer | 2025-04-03 05:38:47+00:00
The tightness of hardware integration isn't a bug, it's genuinely a feature; In fact, it's the defining feature that makes Apple hardware great. Socketed RAM, CPU, and Storage just weren't worth the tradeoffs, namely size, weight, cost, and performance. Including those modular interfaces just wasn't worth it when the internal interfaces would be obsolete within 5 years, and the average user was replacing sub-components 0 times over the life of the device.

The user being able to swap parts easily is _neat_ but it's just not an required feature, any more than the user of a car being able to easily hot-swap the engine. The right level of integration provides a tradeoff the maximizes reliability, cost, performance, and repair. A professional can still replace almost any component of a modern laptop, with a few thousand $ of specialized tools, and the battery, the only component with a fixed lifetime, can be easily replaced at home.

I really hope Framework can continue to develop hardware with documented repairability, without falling for the myth that tight integration and quality are mutually exclusive.
by oasisaimlessly | 2025-04-03 05:39:01+00:00
The graph X axis could just as well have been labelled "agrees with Republicans" and "agrees with Democrats"; perhaps it would've been clearer that way. But really, any polarization axis would've worked.

The ideal graph would have two opposing labels dynamically generated according to the beliefs of the reader to be along a polarization axis for which the reader exists in the middle.
by jader201 | 2025-04-03 05:39:04+00:00
One quality of “tribal” that I think gets overlooked is that those that are part of a “tribe” are not willing to be wrong.

I feel like those that are more in the middle - in addition to be “accidentally in the middle” as pg says — they’re open to hearing the other side, and even open to being wrong.

Those that I know that I might define as “tribal” — and that goes for either side — are certainly not open to being wrong, and not even really open to listening to the other side — even a rational discussion.

Some may pretend to listen and maybe even engage in a discussion, but only out of being polite, not out of genuine, open curiosity.
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-03 05:40:20+00:00
> Someone figured out that the new tariffs are just our trade deficit with that country divided by the country's exports.

Note that the White House has both (1) officially denied this, (2) provided the formula they assert was used as support for that denial; but the formula is exactly what they are denying but with two additional globally-constant elasticity factors in the divisor, however, those elasticity factors are 4 and 0.25, so...
by kerkeslager | 2025-04-03 05:40:23+00:00
Okay, but I've known a lot of people in America who've had fucking terrible lives--with the same kinds of problems that Trump voters have--and didn't vote for Trump.

I mean what's your point here? Okay, so this guy I know had a terrible life and now he's a Trumper--you want me to say it's just okay that he wants to kill my trans friends in a very literal way (as in he's accumulating guns, touts the "kill your local pedophile" slogan, and openly states that trans people are pedophiles)? Sure, I can empathize with the guy having lost everything when he was younger, but empathy doesn't mean we have to ignore the danger he poses.
by linguae | 2025-04-03 05:41:00+00:00
I enjoy my Framework 13 laptop; it’s great having a laptop that is user-serviceable and upgradable, and I’m keeping my eyes out on the upcoming Framework convertible laptop as a potential replacement for my aging Microsoft Surface Pro 7.

With that said, I do wish the keyboard on my Framework 13 were better. It would be a wonderful to have a ThinkPad-quality keyboard, I have a ThinkPad T430 and its keyboard is one of the best chiclet-style keyboards I’ve ever used. I also like the keyboard on my old aluminum PowerBook G4, as well as the keyboard on my work-issued M3 MacBook Pro. What would be a dream, though, would be if there’s some way to fit a mechanical keyboard into a laptop.
by themagician | 2025-04-03 05:41:23+00:00
Courier will only pay the tax if it's a DDP solution, and then bill it back to the actual merchant. FedEx, DHL, and UPS provide this as an option. If it goes USPS, or no DDP solution is in place, it's going DDU and it will simply be stuck in a sufferance warehouse or at the local post office until the recipient comes in and pays the bill.
by trod1234 | 2025-04-03 05:42:42+00:00
I'm surprised they didn't mention how many of the Thinkpad models encase heatsink fan power cord in kapton tape and run that cord along and above the CPU/GPU shared heatsink. The modular assembly fails reliably and consistently roughly every 3 years.

Sure I can get parts, but I don't think it actually shows what they are trying to say.
by weq | 2025-04-03 05:43:46+00:00
All i know is my parents generation grew up without it and saw they dentists for fillings, every year, for years. Seemed like their childhoods played a part here because half their life they had toothpaste at the same rates as me.

I on the other then havnt seen a dentist in 25yrs, have no fillings after 40, and wouldnt say i brush my teeth twice a day, everyday, as recommended. I do however consume water tainted with fluoride.

So maybe there are more factors at play here then simply washing our teeth. I cant fathom how dirty our parents generations teeth must have been before toothpaste to result in the amount of fillings they have compared to people my age (unless your a meth head).
by tzs | 2025-04-03 05:43:53+00:00
Cars is a big part of it with Japan. I'd expect that even if all other things were equal Japanese consumers would prefer Japanese cars for the same reason a lot of American consumers prefer Japanese cars: companies like Toyota and Honda are really really good at cars.

I've got way more confidence that I can buy a newly released revision of a Honda and get a car that won't be a lemon and that I can keep running well for 20+ years if I wish with reasonable maintenance than I do for American car companies.

It's not an American worker vs Japanese worker thing. 70% of Hondas and 100% of Acuras sold in the US are built domestically and for the models that are made in both countries there is no significant difference in quality.

The American companies have been improving, to the point that when I decide to replace my nearly 20 year old (and still running great) Honda CR-V the Chevy Equinox EV will be a contender. The new Chevy Bolt will probably be a contender too, especially if they get it out before the federal tax credits go away. 10 years ago this would have not been the case.

Another part of it is the dollar is stronger than the yen. Japan has been accused of trying to keep the yen low but even if they are and they stopped it still will probably be weaker than the dollar.

The strong dollar isn't just a factor in trade with Japan. The dollar being the global reserve currency makes that a factor with nearly everyone else.

For agriculture and food products a lot of countries have stricter health and safety regulations. If an American company needs to put in extra work to make their exported products meet those standards that can make them more expensive and cut demand. The foreign food companies on the other hand are already making their products to meet their stricter domestic standard so it is no extra work to meet US standards.
by linkregister | 2025-04-03 05:44:38+00:00
Worse is the California DMV. All password reset emails going to my custom .com would be subject to multi-hour delays; the password resets were valid for only a few minutes. The only way into the account was to call the tech support phone line. I had them delete the old account and re-registered with a bland gmail email address.

I don't know of any technical reason to delay emails to minor domains. My domain has valid MX records, uses SPF, has valid DKIM TXT records, etc.
by dealbreaker | 2025-04-03 05:44:58+00:00
Particularly for this adventure, I have kept it strictly private. It was a hobby project and also was a challenge to myself.

In the process I learned not only of M32C(backwards compatible with M16C processor module in Ghidra), but as I mentioned, certain compiler bugs(not following the ISA spec strictly) that it is more flexible despite what the M16/M32C software manual says. However this meant that emulation produced wrong results, and thus my patches to fix it and ultimate success

I have opened a Ghidra support ticket, but I needed to provide proof that there is ISA behavior not described in the software manuals.
by AlexeyBelov | 2025-04-03 05:45:33+00:00
> Flagging is used by people who have no rebuttal but are mad

This is cope, just like "I'm being downvoted for speaking the truth!". Nobody thinks "wow, they said a true statement, I should downvote them".

I suggest you try to steelman the idea of flagging and see that maybe there could be other things at play.