MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cowsup | 2025-04-30 19:54:26+00:00
I think it also helps them figure out which videos keep people on YouTube longer. If I scroll to a section of the page that has 6 videos, and I stare at them for 10 seconds, then scroll down, they'll know that one or two of those videos must have been somewhat interesting. But if I stare at 6 videos, then scroll away 2 seconds later, it knows that nothing in that batch was worthwhile.

The fewer videos they have in focus at a time, the more accurate their algorithms can be.
by ericmay | 2025-04-30 19:54:35+00:00
I largely don't disagree with anything you wrote.

I was broadly responding to the OP's broad comment. Like yea you don't need to buy cheap crap from Temu that you saw on TikTok. And if you have to pay $5 more for a t-shirt suck it up and stop supporting authoritarian regimes. If that results in Americans working in t-shirt factories which aren't morally better or worse than any other factory, being paid higher wages and having that money stay here in our local economies at the expense of cheap goods with economic outflows to China, I say good and maybe tariffs are a good way to make that happen.

Remember, tariffs are just an economic and policy tool we can leverage. The EU uses them against China today even. I personally found the Biden administration's approach to trade to be better, but maybe we need a mix of policies to effect change?

To that effect I don't really understand your last comment about giving up higher tiers of the economy that are "only possible in the US" - we can't make computers and iPhones here. Those are those high tiers. That is a problem. Tariffs can be a tool to effect change there. Maybe not, maybe so. The status quo isn't sustainable though.
by johnea | 2025-04-30 19:54:41+00:00
I can appreciate the sentiment of this criticism, and my motive is to engage in actual conversation, not trollbaiting. But, sorry, I'm just not going to type his name.

And the fact is, he's a cheater, and a liar. This might be called identity politics or partisan, but I consider it an accurate statement of objectively factual information.

With the 100s of thousands of voters purged from voter roles in the US in 2024, and the shit storm of fake whining leading to Jan 6, this guy is a cheater, and a liar, and a prime example of what happens when a shit talking reality TV entitled brat-child from a NYC slumlord family is elected president. I feel he should have been convicted of treason for his coup plot of Jan 6.

Again, my reply is not a criticism or denial of your rebuke. I understand the encouragement to use more neutral tone, but in this case I also feel my idiom is factually accurate and conveys the reality of the moment more so that literal proper nouns.
by voidspark | 2025-04-30 19:55:30+00:00
LOL everyone is like that most of the time.

System 1 vs System 2 thinking.

System 1 is rapid, uses heuristics to make quick judgements. Not rigorous. System 1 is the default mode.

System 2 is slow deliberate reasoning, energy intensive, and even humans get that wrong.

LLMs often use something like System 1 pattern matching, get the answer wrong initially, then can be prodded into trying again with a System 2 approach (chain of thought).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow
by nobody9999 | 2025-04-30 19:55:40+00:00
>I just don't think it's that simple.

I never said it was. In fact, I repeatedly said that lack of infrastructure and disinvestment in higher education were among the reasons for the lack of economic activity in the rust belt and similar.

That said, without decent infrastructure and a skilled workforce, it's much, much harder to attract new businesses, innovators and entrepreneurs. Other factors (as I noted in both the comments to which you replied) are impactful as well, but I chose to focus on two that are (IMHO, at least) rather important.
by const_cast | 2025-04-30 19:55:43+00:00
I agree 100%. From what I've personally seen, I think younger people are actually becoming less versed in computers. There was a brief moment in time in which:

1. Most people had access to computers.

2. Computers were difficult to use and required building skills.

2 is no longer true anymore, so those skills are getting lost. Try asking a 15 year old what a filesystem is.
by Pet_Ant | 2025-04-30 19:55:57+00:00
> Seriously, that price is insane for what you get.

Sorry, but how are you evaluating that? You'd get this because you want a non-emissive display, so what other non-emissive displays are you comparing it against?

Yes, if you want better color acuity, refresh rates, or cost-per-inch, you don't want eInk.

I don't think that is news.

Otherwise you are a motorcycle rider calling cars too expensive.
by bearjaws | 2025-04-30 19:56:03+00:00
It's actually pretty hilarious how far into detail they can go.

For example, I made a bot that you could give it a problem statement, and then it would return an array of steps to accomplish it.

Then you could take the steps, and click on them to break them down and add them to the list. If you just kept clicking you would get to excruciating detail.

For example taking out the trash can become over ~70 individual steps if you really drill into the details.

Some of the steps:

Stand close to the trash can – Position yourself so you have stable footing and easy access.

Place one hand on the rim of the can – Use your non-dominant hand to press lightly on the edge of the trash can to hold it in place.

Grip the top edge of the bag with your other hand – Find the part of the bag that extends past the rim.

Gently lift the bag upward – While your one hand stabilizes the can, slowly pull the bag up with the other.

Tilt the can slightly if needed – If the bag sticks or creates suction, rock or tilt the can slightly while continuing to lift.

Avoid jerking motions – Move steadily to prevent tears or spills
by Zamaamiro | 2025-04-30 19:56:12+00:00
It's also worth noting that some of the damage will be permanent.

Trump's mini trade war with China in 2018 (for which he had to bail out farmers) led to US farmers permanently losing market share in soybean exports to Brazil.

> In 2018, during Trump's first term, the U.S. and China engaged in tit-for-tat tariffs that led Beijing to take permanent steps to reduce its reliance on American farm goods.

> The share of China's soybean imports from the United States dropped to 18% in the first 11 months of 2024, from 40% in the whole of 2016, while Brazil's share grew to 74% from 46%, according to Chinese customs data.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/chinese-buyers-s...
by oddthink | 2025-04-30 19:56:47+00:00
Yes, but the message from Shopify leadership is "it's part of your job to mess around with this stuff and see what works". Not "use AI at all costs".

The general feeling I'm getting is that using this AI stuff is important, but it's a learned skill, and we want as many people as possible to get familiar enough with it to have actual opinions.

I find that pretty unobjectionable.
by bettercalljohn | 2025-04-30 19:56:50+00:00
Thanks so much for your message I really appreciate it!

A few quick answers: - For now, it's only available on macOS. Windows & Linux versions are coming next month. - Yes, you can choose the sender address if you have multiple aliases available. - I haven't planned to implement a calendar for now. I see it as a separate project. But that might change depending on user feedback ;-)
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-04-30 19:56:58+00:00
What does it mean, concretely, to plan for that case? It doesn't sound like there's any risk of a scenario where, like, Columbia can't pay maintenance staff and all the buildings flood. If the US government freezes them out of grant funding, then the research funded by those grants won't be funded any longer - there's no careful planning you can do to make that less true.
by Someone | 2025-04-30 19:57:08+00:00
I’m surprised that 7 weeks of inventory is mentioned as being alarming.

https://retalon.com/blog/inventory-turnover-ratio says

“The average inventory turnover across retail is around 9x”

That means they have about 6 weeks of inventory.

Of course, it varies by industry, but for many, that shouldn’t be alarming.

What do I misunderstand?
by mubou | 2025-04-30 19:57:13+00:00
Holy shit, this could actually cause people to get permanently locked out of their accounts, depending on how the website is configured. Imagine not knowing your login credentials are stored in Place A and then you delete Place A, unwittingly deleting your only login along with it.

This is already a worrisome possibility with security keys -- if you have Windows Hello enabled, the dialog you get when adding a security key to an account might sometimes be to add it to your TPM, but it's not clear that's what Windows is asking so you might put your creds on your CPU while thinking that they're going on the Yubikey; imagine what happens then when you upgrade your computer?

Users need to know where their logins are stored. Making these things "transparent to the user" in the name of ease of use (treating users like toddlers) is the wrong approach. I realize the average user doesn't understand the technical side here, but that just means we need to do better as devs and designers, not throw in the towel and make decisions for the user.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-30 19:57:21+00:00
>You can either move a long way from your home, family, support network and live near your work, or you can maintain that community and support network but have a limited access to jobs.

Is there enough people with that mindset in Bakersfield?the population is 400k, and the opposite narrative of commuting out the city to work the oil rigs probably isn't as common.

From a political point of view, LA doesn't exactly in need of even more starry-eyed youth to compete with trying to make some career in the entertainment sector.

>I assume LA has decent jobs somewhere between the "Holywood A-Lister" and the "$10/hour cleaner" scale, and due to its size it likely has more opportunities than Bakersfield alone.

Definitely not in 2025. I guess we'll see if we're still in one piece in a decade.
by dgfitz | 2025-04-30 19:58:08+00:00
> The money is cycling around people and companies. That's what money almost always do, the US was an exception until recently, but exceptions to that never last.

It is? Why have wages been so stagnant for so long? Isn't that one of the leading theories/reasons Trump was elected, people are completely strapped for cash. I had read recently that loans are being increasingly being paid late, credit card debt has grown massively, home prices and through the roof, and the job market is a disaster.

Where is all that money again?
by nullc | 2025-04-30 19:58:28+00:00
The timing output from a $5 gps receiver isn't particularly impressive. You have to go to pretty long time intervals for a non-timing GPS to win out. Depending on your application those intervals may be thoroughly irrelevant, e.g. using the device as a frequency source rather than a clock.

There is also, of course, the issue of infrastructure dependence. Particularly since wireless telephony has moved almost exclusively to GNSS time we're going to have a really bad time if kessler syndrome takes out the GNSS satellites.

Edit: Here is an example adev chart for a inexpensive atomic clock vs what appears to be a pretty good timing GPS receiver: https://www.thinksrs.com/images/instr/prs10/PRS10diag2LG.gif

So in that case the GPS accuracy only beats out the free running atomic clock at intervals greater than 200,000 seconds or so.

Here is a collection of older timing receivers: http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/3gps/gps-adev-mdev.gif

A quick look didn't turn up any cheap non-timing receivers, but my experience is they're pretty bad (I mean relative to atomic standards, of course).

There are better timing receivers than the ones charted above, of course, but they are not $5. Their cost is now in the same general ballpark as surplus atomic clocks.

Of course, if you have both you can sync one to the other with whatever time constant maximizes the composite performance and have the best of both.

(and primary atomic clocks don't have this drift issue, but sadly the days of the occasional sub $1000 5071 showing up on auction sites seem to be over. :P )
by ceejayoz | 2025-04-30 19:58:30+00:00
> What combat situation will require a military aircraft to be flying 30 meters from civilian jet doing routine flights?

Evacuating leadership during a 9/11 scenario?

> i don’t believe that there really is no technical solution to provide awareness to civilians of the presence and location of military aircraft without altering the pilot’s experience

There is. That’s ADS-B. Which broadcasts your position. So it’s turned off in military aircraft at times, for obvious reasons.
by jjk7 | 2025-04-30 19:58:40+00:00
Surely AI will only make the loneliness epidemic even worse?

We are already seeing AI-reliant high schoolers unable to reason, who's to say they'll still be able to empathize in the future?

Also, with the persistent lack of psychiatric services, I guarantee at some point in the future AI models will be used to (at least) triage medical mental health issues.
Show HN: Keyboard Minesweeper – Speedrun the Classic, No Mouse Needed
by pauljurgens | 2025-04-30 19:59:19+00:00
Hi HN! Here's a little hobby project of mine.

I reimagined Minesweeper for the keyboard warriors out there. No mouse. No distractions. Just lightning-fast gameplay, tight controls, and a design built for speedrunners and puzzle lovers.

Give it a try: https://www.kb-minesweeper.com/

Would love your feedback, or see if you can beat my best times: 5.41s on small, 46.51s on medium.
by Terr_ | 2025-04-30 19:59:49+00:00
That's mixing up "gerrymandering" with "wildly disproportionate representation to certain states because of a join-up bribe from 237 years ago". Nobody's redrawing the lines, and in a way that's part of the problem.

The former is much shorter to say, but... not really accurate.

Tangential gripe: Anyone who says it's "to protect the rural areas" or whatever is talking nonsense. The greater NYC area could legally convert to ~14 new states, and all those very-urban voters would reap the same kind of unfair benefits that Wyoming does with the equivalent population.
by _heimdall | 2025-04-30 20:00:04+00:00
How do you explain a large deviation in magazine prices as listed in the CPI compared to the actual prices printed on the cover? Or swapping out steak for lesser cuts or ground beef?

You can claim that my assumed intent behind how the CPI is adjusted over time is a false equivalence. I'd argue with you there, but what absolutely is false equivalence is a pound of steak and a pound of ground beef.
by freejazz | 2025-04-30 20:00:04+00:00
One is complying with actual statutory law, the other is just ad hoc vengeance. You might not like it but one is an approach actually consistent with the constitutional order of power in this country and the other isn't. I'm so exhausted with this "tit for tat" bs. At best, it's a tacit admission that it is wrong and you don't care.
by CommieBobDole | 2025-04-30 20:00:09+00:00
What exactly is the target market for a very expensive monitor with 4096 colors and an unspecified but almost certainly very slow refresh rate? I could see if they were marketing it as some sort of static display for advertising or similar, but it seems to be intended as a desktop monitor.

Is there some application that e-ink is so good at that it makes up for the multiple extremely serious disadvantages?
by 0_gravitas | 2025-04-30 20:00:15+00:00
I've said before that Musk must have read Surface Detail and assumed Veppers was some kind of 'tragic hero'.

It is remarkable because Banks, as much as I love his writing, is __rarely subtle__ about his beliefs and who the "good guys" are.

(Yes there is a lot of exploration of the grey areas and inhumanities, and thereby legitimately critical questions of the titular society- but Bank's himself has said that he would very much like to live in the Culture, even considering all the uglier parts.)
by perching_aix | 2025-04-30 20:00:15+00:00
Where can one find the report? Couldn't find anything on their website or elsewhere. I was only able to find the following media briefing via Reuters [0]:

> REE's System Operations Chief Eduardo Prieto told a news briefing the electricity system was hit by a dramatic power generation loss in southwestern Spain, that caused instability in the system that led to its disconnection from the French grid. He said it was quite possible that the affected generation was solar, but it was too early to say for sure.

This doesn't quite read like them blaming solar either. If anything, they're painting it as one of the victims of the failure.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/spanish-grid-operators-...
Show HN: Auto-crop printed photos from scans using this open-source AI
by klimentij | 2025-04-30 20:00:22+00:00
Started scanning my family albums… thought it’d be quick. Then I saw the mess: 3–4 photos per scan, all skewed and overlapping. I gave up real quick on manual cropping.

So I built NerdScan — a free, open-source AI tool to auto-detect and crop multiple photos from cluttered scans in seconds. Under the hood: GroundingDINO + 700 lines of Python for robustness, usability, and EXIF automation.

Try it out, share feedback, or file issues — I’m all ears.
by psunavy03 | 2025-04-30 20:00:36+00:00
The person I was replying to said "never before," which means that AND the internship of Japanese-Americans during WWII are squarely on the table.

I never voted for Trump and I don't support the power grabs he's trying to make, but I also understand America has a history of playing footsie with authoritarianism every 80-100 years or so.

Internment camps, a civil war over literally owning humans as property, the Alien and Sedition Acts . . .
by scarface_74 | 2025-04-30 20:00:55+00:00
If Gett has nationwide coverage for a whole country yes. If my Spanish was better (working on it, we are planning to snowbird in San Jose in a couple of years), I would use the DiDi app while there.

But that’s completely different than using Waymo in the few cities where it is available and still using Uber everywhere else in the country and constantly not having rides available during peak times.

Waymo would never have enough cars to handle peak capacity that are just sitting idle most of the time.
by cgriswald | 2025-04-30 20:01:00+00:00
I don't have to say it with a straight face because your sibling poster did it for me. Something can be both common and stigmatized. Yes, divorce can be messy, expensive, emotionally fraught, and take time. Mine was, and it still wasn't 'bad' or even undesirable. Starting a business, learning an instrument, training for a sport can also be all those things. We don't call them 'bad', or 'evil', because we don't assume the end result is undesirable.

The comparison can't be to an imaginary world where everyone always picks the best partner. It has to be to the real world where people don't always pick the best partner and the absence of divorce means they're stuck with them.
by const_cast | 2025-04-30 20:01:01+00:00
> "This pathetic, self-destructive method of thinking can't be right.", dismissive contempt.

I'm not saying this to be mean, I'm saying it because it's true and you need to know.

You are objectively arguing for things that are _worse for you_, at your own expense, for other people's gain. Other people who don't know you, don't care about you. Who, if you died, not only would they not care, they would not even notice.

That, is pathetic. That, is self-destructive. You are not selfish enough. You are not mean enough. Not only do you allow your exploitation, you revel in it. As if your own desire for your destruction is a moral virtue. As if you are more pure, more forgiving, because you forgive even the ultimate crime against yourself.

Such forgiveness is not a virtue, it is a cancer.
by kolanos | 2025-04-30 20:01:51+00:00
> The top 10 softwood lumber producers in the US have a combined capacity of 24.1 billion board feet, representing 50% of the US industry, according to Forisk.

> The U.S. imports a significant portion of its softwood lumber from Canada, with roughly 30% of its softwood lumber needs being met by Canadian exports.Specifically, in 2023, Canada exported 28.1 million cubic meters of softwood lumber to the U.S. This accounts for a large percentage of the total softwood lumber imported by the U.S., with Canada being the primary supplier.

> The United States can potentially supply up to 95% of its own softwood lumber consumption through domestic production.While the U.S. is a net importer of lumber, its domestic industry has the capacity to meet most of its needs.
by dmoy | 2025-04-30 20:01:57+00:00
> Overclassification is absolutely a thing, too. I recall when the Snowden NSA leaks came out, government employees were still forbidden from reading the documents, even if they were published in the newspapers. Pointless? Yes. But those were the rules.

Not just government employees. I was at a defense contractor at the time, and we were also instructed to not read any of the documents online, even for people who were technically cleared to read them through proper channels.

Edit: misremembering, wasn't the Snowden leaks, it was some earlier set of leaks on WikiLeaks
by Workaccount2 | 2025-04-30 20:02:09+00:00
Any casual glance at the finances of a health insurance company will quickly throw cold water on the "health insurance companies are greedy scamming dirt bags"

Then go look at the finances of those who take in insurance money.

Trust me, it's _very_ (read: very) clear who holds all the bargaining power in the healthcare market. People target their anger at insurance companies because that is who they pay. "My healthcare provider is good and my health insurance is evil" is exactly backwards. You are not the one paying $400 for your "I have a head cold" virtual visit.
by mullingitover | 2025-04-30 20:02:26+00:00
> Instead of only banning broken apps that crashed, wouldn’t install, or run properly, the company said it would begin banning apps that demonstrated “limited functionality and content.” That included static apps without app-specific features, such as text-only apps or PDF-file apps. It also included apps that provided little content, like those that only offered a single wallpaper. Additionally, Google banned apps that were designed to do nothing or have no function, which may have been tests or other abandoned developer efforts.

Sounds like it was a purge of zero value apps. Why was Google allowing these legions of unusable and/or garbage apps in their store in the first place? Someone padding their numbers?
by Aerroon | 2025-04-30 20:03:02+00:00
This effectively kills apps that are made by individuals or very small businesses that can't afford an office.

It's kind of incredible how the EU makes changes like this and then politicians scratch their heads about the weakness of European tech. You would think that the politicians would give some thought to that and make it easier/cheaper to fulfill these requirements, but nope. Either pay up for a company (hundreds of euros) and an office (hundreds of euros) or just have your information publicly available.

And when that information becomes publicly available you will be inundated with spam.

On top of that some services will then take Google street view pictures of your home and link all of that information together in an easily searchable database.