MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wavedynamics | 2025-04-10 05:00:55+00:00
The article doesn't say, but I wonder if he ever got paid out for what he was owed after he walked away.

I once ran the tech side of a small startup where money was always tight and we were paying low wages in exchange for equity. But we always made sure to pay our employees first so they could eat and pay rent and keep working. One time one of our more expensive employees quit to take a better paying job. I'm ashamed to say it took us multiple months to finally pay him out his final paycheck - but once he left he was no longer the priority. I remember a few conversations with him where I stated that I was paying the office and server bills on my personal credit card and, no, I wouldn't take a cash advance to pay him his last 2 weeks in arrears. He did eventually get paid.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-04-10 05:01:33+00:00
Hmm, why does the author keep using the word "upcoming"?

> the upcoming 300-series mobile processors (“Strix Point” and the presumably higher-end “Strix Halo”)

Both Strix Point and Strix Halo chips have been out for a while now, and you can even buy laptops (and mini PCs) with them right now, like the new ASUS ROG Flow Z13 w/ a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo).
by vasco | 2025-04-10 05:04:10+00:00
I see you're one of the people I worked with that liked classifying things like "our A/B test says the red button converts better" or "we should let the users message each other" as Research. CRUD app #548 isn't research in my book, unless you're doing something you can actually publish papers about with some innovation. Even in "basic UX" it is possible to do research, but most people are making a button, not researching.
by abirkill | 2025-04-10 05:04:14+00:00
I found that there's a surprising difference in quality for what feels like it should be a commodity item. All the outlets in my newish build were tamper-resistant, and pretty much as you described -- at best they were unpleasantly stiff and awkward to use, and some specific outlets would require a worrying amount of force and wiggling to plug anything in.

After a couple of high-usage outlets got jammed to the point that nothing could be plugged in, I replaced them with ones from the hardware store, and they are a big improvement. The existing outlets are unbranded, and I guess were from a bulk box of the cheapest that the electrician could source.

In my experience, Leviton are OK (much better than what was originally fitted), but Eaton are great -- they require slightly more force than non-TR outlets, but they're consistent, reliable, and I've never had to try more than once to plug anything in.
by KingMob | 2025-04-10 05:04:16+00:00
As someone who's actually Jewish, has Israeli friends, and had kibbutzim relatives from back in the day, I agree that this is what the Israeli government and society tell themselves.

But, it's a self-serving myth that enables them to overlook the outsized role of their policies in fomenting anti-Israel sentiment. The Holocaust created a ton of worldwide goodwill towards Jews that Israel has completely squandered in the decades since WW2 with their treatment of the Palestinians.

By loudly proclaiming that anti-Israelism is the same as anti-semitism, Israel has made it hard for themselves to distinguish between the two, but easy to brush off legitimate criticism.
by daemonologist | 2025-04-10 05:04:50+00:00
To some extent the "mystery" (and temporary free-as-in-beer-ness) of this model might be getting to me, but I think it's pretty interesting. Given the token throughput (250B this week) it's obvious there's a pretty major player behind the model, but why is it stealthed? Maybe there's something about the architecture or training that would put people off if it was public right off the bat? Maybe they're purely collecting usage/acceptance data and want unbiased users?

On the Aider Polyglot leaderboard it's ~middle of the leading pack, comparable to DeepSeek V3 and 3.5 Sonnet. I ran NoLi(teral)Ma(tching), an unsaturated long-context benchmark, on it and was impressed though:

= Model =========== Base Score = 8K Context = 16K Context = Quasar Alpha: >=97.8% 89.2% 85.1% GPT-4o: 99.3% 89.2% 81.6% Llama 3.3 70B: 97.3% 72.1% 59.5% Gemini 1.5 Pro: 92.6% 63.9% 55.5% Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 87.6% 61.7% 45.7% Gemini 1.5 Flash: 84.7% 44.4% 35.5% GPT-4o mini: 84.9% 32.6% 20.6% Llama 3.1 8B: 76.7% 31.9% 22.6%

It also performs well - slightly better than GPT-o1 - on the "hard" subset at 16K context with 62.8%. Latency is quite good as well.

More details: https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1ju1czn/quasar_...
by cookiengineer | 2025-04-10 05:06:05+00:00
I was a bit sceptical at first, but grandparent's claims seem to be true, at least in regards to the firing/rehiring part.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjev24184vjo

[2] https://apnews.com/article/usda-firings-doge-bird-flu-trump-...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/19/agriculture-...

[4] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/usda-accidentally-fire...

[5] original source? https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/27/trump-fired-bird-fl...
by furyofantares | 2025-04-10 05:06:47+00:00
These are great.

I accidentally invented parser combinators for a project once. I was quite fond of the approach but it ended up being pretty nearly unusable for anyone else on the team. This was problematic because the project was such that we were always adding new things to be parsed. The whole reason I took the approach was that I wanted people to be able to freely add parsers as new requirements came in.

It being my first shot at it, it was for sure not as usable as it could be. But looking at your stuff, which is delightful, I am filled with doubt that my goal was even possible. Your stuff looks about as clean as possible, and yet seems likely to be almost as impenetrable to someone not versed in parsing.

That said, I am gonna look for a chance to use this in appropriate side projects.
by anotherpaulg | 2025-04-10 05:06:55+00:00
The graph in the article about Quasar Alpha’s coding skill is taken from my tweet [0]. It shows QA’s results on the aider polyglot coding benchmark [1].

QA seems to be a skilled coder, and is very fast.

Aider supports Quasar Alpha as of v0.81, released last week.

[0] https://x.com/paulgauthier/status/1907996176605220995

[1] https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/
by Epa095 | 2025-04-10 05:07:18+00:00
My experience is that it can be anything from relatively easy to frocking impossible. Very hard to put a timeline on.

But if we are talking about tariffs (and not a ban) then a partial move is also relevant. And, at least in my anecdotal experience, a non-trivial fraction of our cloud-cost is pretty simple services which can be moved. It's almost like a 95/5 kind of thing, moving 95% of the stuff would take 5% of the time.

Having a hybrid cloud setup is clearly more hassel, but it's doable.
by Joker_vD | 2025-04-10 05:07:40+00:00
Ah, don't you just like it when projects that use hashsums, calculate them in such a way that you can't actually recalculate them on your own? And when you start digging, you find not only that it uses the same basic design of XML-DSig while barely escaping its fatal flaws, it also uses some bizarre data encodings nobody else uses for anything. And then the resulting hash is not even the truncation of the actual hash, it has an additional (again, entirely undocumented) strange post-processing step for unspecified reasons.
by nofalsescotsman | 2025-04-10 05:07:58+00:00
> [A] generation of rising players is infusing jazz with absurdist online irreverence. But are they playing jazz at all?

Adam Neely has some things worth listening to when it comes to the idea of "what is jazz"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68zOvCLwcL8
by starik36 | 2025-04-10 05:08:45+00:00
Oh? No harassment. Well shoot, we should let the Jewish students know.

Jewish Students Sheltered Inside College Library During Protest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eFbKViNrMo

35 percent of of Jewish students say there has been violence or acts of hate targeting Jews on their campus https://www.hillel.org/more-than-one-third-of-jewish-college...

But sure, all good. The apologist for the violent maniacs says it's all good. So then it must be good.
by jchw | 2025-04-10 05:09:59+00:00
Tetris 99 is very much official guideline Tetris. Arika, the developer of TGM, (and Tetris 99, as pointed out by an adjacent comment,) has done guideline Tetris before, and even implemented it as an option in TGM games in the past (and presumably in TGM 4 which I haven't played yet) and it is assumed this is because of the Tetris Company enforcing it.

You could certainly never do a T-Spin Triple in ARS rotation.

(Though whether it's closer to GM than NES is an interesting question. It's certainly neither since NES Tetris is quite far from what guideline Tetris would become.)
by Daub | 2025-04-10 05:10:34+00:00
I can't imagine any 2 pin plug being as mechanically stable as a 3 pin. Certainly here in Asia I am regularly being driven bonkers by 2 pin plugs dropping out of sockets the moment a butterfly shakes its wings on the other side of the planet.

One common complaint I get from my newly arrived expat colleagues is that their PC gives them slight electric shocks when they use it. IANAE (I am not an electrician), but I assume that this is because of some capacitor voodoo in the PC's power supply. The problem is cured by grounding the assembly.

The British plug/socket embodies the British ethos: nanny state, 'cannot be too careful' etc. In British parlance it is 'belt and braces'. But yes I agree it may be overkill.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-10 05:10:37+00:00
Look, folks, you're being lied to, and you're victims of pseudoscience, and it's easy to prove using facts and logic, so downvote away at your own peril.

Heavy industry, the dental industry, and your municipalities are lying to you when they say that drinking fluoride helps your teeth.

Now when a dentist applies a fluoride treatment in a paste or appliqué, the solution stays in contact with living bone for a significant dosage time. The process is known as "remineralization" and so there is scientific basis for such a treatment to be effective.

But when you drink water with the same substance, it quickly washes around those bones and into your esophagus. It doesn't stick around. It's like getting a cross tattoo to become Jesus. Fluoride will be digested, and absorbed into your bloodstream, and cross your blood-brain barrier, for sure! But it won't stay adhering to your tooth-bones and the remineralization process never has a chance to start. That's absurd thinking that it somehow is internally effective. It's simply not the mechanism of action. There's not enough time for it to work. The process requires physical contact in order for a chemical reaction to occur!

Fluoride is, however, well-known to produce favorable psychoactive effects. For the past century or more. That's why we got Prozac, where the active ingredient is "fluoxetine". Prozac was the next step forward in getting fluoride to the masses who may not drink black/green tea, or live in fluoridated municipalities.

I have a meta-hypothesis that excess surplus of any product is often remarketed as beneficial. For example, heavy industry produced massive amounts of talc and they were able to parlay it into many products as a powder. I simply feel the same way about minerals such as magnesium. How much Epsom salt is sold, simply because industries need to unload this stuff by the 5lb bag, vs. how good it works in a bathtub, I don't really know. But I literally envision cigar-filled back rooms where executives go "we can profit by digging a lot of this crap out of the ground and putting it on store shelves, or just dumping it right into water supplies, if only there's a way to convince everyone it's good for them!" And there's nothing different with the way lithium's being used, either. It used to be a soft-drink additive! Wait until they begin lithiating all your potable water supplies! (Sort of horrific, because side effects of lithium consumption include polydipsia and polyuria...!)

But fluoride is the biggest scam of the 20th century. It's pseudoscience and quackery that sold it to the general public, and your cities are literally lying through their teeth when they don't tell you their ulterior motive and they pretend that there is "evidence" of beneficial effects on teeth. Nothing could be further from the truth. Y'all might as well believe in phrenology and astrology.
by dude187 | 2025-04-10 05:11:35+00:00
Yeah carry on got the stupid liquid ban that's still around, but I don't think much if anything got banned from checked luggage after 9/11. Just the standard stuff like batteries and other things that could have issues in an unpressurized non temperature controlled hold.

Even carry on got a lot better than it used to be in the days right after that. Like I'm pretty sure they had banned lighters for a bit (and a lot of people assume they still are) but they're explicitly allowed and I throw mine right into the scanner bin every time I fly. Not even being able to carry in a sealed bottle of water and having to take your shoes off is stupid, but about the extent of what's left. No more keeping all liquids (what even counts as a liquid?) in a ziplock bag and having to take it out, and even laptops can stay in with the new scanners they're rolling out

I've carried on an inflatable life vest with an active CO2 cartridge and that's also listed as fine. Though it did get flagged and secondary screened because it was in my bag, even though they don't say you have to leave it out.

In general the more you fly if you pay attention, you can pretty much know what will trigger it if you put it in your bag. Metal water bottle in the bag? Your bag is getting pulled, every time. I've even told them right where to look lol. Left out and it goes right through.
by ambrood | 2025-04-10 05:12:08+00:00
> Maybe you mentioned it in your demo and I missed it, but how does this differ pasting the log messages to ChatGPT / Claude / another LLM? Is it mainly that yours can iterate over a large logfile without blowing up the context window?

We do quite a bit of aggregation over the log file, and generate summary stats and choose what bits to stuff in the LLM. Plan to support more platforms than just spark.

> Does it suffer from the same issue as other LLMs, where it will always identify potential optimizations or improvements even if none are truly needed?

Funnily enough, instructing sonnet-3.7 to not suggest unnecessary optimisations seems to have done the trick!
by briantakita | 2025-04-10 05:12:18+00:00
Alcoholism happens to people who have jobs as well. Though there's a policy of being sober at work which limits drinking to off hours.

Another possibility is that Basic Income alone doesn't solve all problems. Life direction & perceived opportunity to better oneself is needed. Basic Income may enable destructive behavior. But the underlying root cause may still be present even if the person is employed.
by anon84873628 | 2025-04-10 05:12:54+00:00
There is no serious argument or logical explanation to your question. What you said is obviously true.

But of course, Trump and his people don't care about truth, logic, hypocrisy, morality, justice, decency, or anything else. They support Israel and are thrilled to see Palestinians killed. They also hate "the left", people in universities, and anyone who disagrees with them.

So, they will use any rhetorical tactic no matter how brazen or outrageous to discredit the protestors and create the narrative they want. It is about fabricating their own reality.

In this specific case I imagine they also find some amusement in "using the the language and tactics of the left against them." I.e. pretend to be fighting against bigotry.
by walterbell | 2025-04-10 05:13:25+00:00
In 2022, U.S. tax law kept LLMs (OpEx) deductible and made engineer salary (now CapEx) amortizable over 5 years.

In 2027, human and LLM net expenses will be equivalent again, on a 5y rolling deduction basis. Robots remain CapEx.

Previous discussion: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=section%20174
by chipsa | 2025-04-10 05:14:09+00:00
Except the live wire is the one that’s switched. So if you plug it in backwards, the neutral is the one that’s switched. And if they aren’t careful with how the wiring is done, you potentially have live voltage on the outside of your metal cased device.

For another example, your standard e26 bulb can have part of the thread exposed. If the neutral and live are swapped, that threaded bit is hooked to live, instead of the proper neutral.
by lrvick | 2025-04-10 05:15:34+00:00
> Yes, you can as they are independent things.

I sandbox everything in hypervisors, I get it, but you cannot trust a sandbox some internet rando built for you is actually sandboxing. You have to full source bootstrap your sandbox to be guaranteed that the compromise of any of hundreds of dev machines in the usual supply chains did not backdoor your hypervisor.

You need both.

> Attackers will attack the weakest link.

Agreed, and today that is supply chain attacks. I have done them myself in the wild, multiple times. Often as easy as buying an expired email domain of an awal maintainer and doing a password reset for github, dockerhub, godaddy, etc until you control a package in piles of supply chains. Or in the case of most Linux distros just go submit a couple bugfixes and apply to be a maintainer and you have official god access to push any code to major Linux distro supply chains with little to no oversight.

Cheap and effective attacks.

> Qubes only offers sandboxing between qubes.questions. There isn't sandboxing within a qube.

You are expected to run a distinct kernel and VM for each security context. The linux kernel is pretty shit at isolating trusted code from untrusted code on its own. Hypervisors are the only reliable sandbox we have so spin up tiny VMs for every workload.

> Okay, but as mentioned previously those sources could have vulnerabilities or be malicous.

Yes of course, and we need a community wide push to review all this code (working on it) but most of the time supply chain attacks are not even in the repos where someone might notice. They are introduced covertly in the release process of the source code tarballs, or in the final artifact generation flows, or in the CDNs that host those final artifacts. Then people review code, and assume that code is what generated final artifacts.

> Or users could run other software they have downloaded separately or via a curl | sh

Some users will always shoot themselves in the foot if they are uneducated on security, so that is a separate education problem. Supply chain attacks however will hit even users doing everything right, and often burn thousands of people at once. Those of us that maintain and distribute software are obligated to give users safe methods to prove software artifacts are faithfully generated from publicly accountable source code, teach them to not to trust any maintainers including us.

Education is the biggest problem on all sides here. For my part, every "curl | sh" I have ever encouraged users to run in the wild is a troll to teach users to never run those.
by TomK32 | 2025-04-10 05:15:48+00:00
While it sounds shockingly stupid that one party in Congress tries to censor the whole Congress it is quite restricted what it censors. The latest tariffs claim to call on IEEPA which doesn't even mention the word tariff. But it's a downhill slope from here, and the Republicans don't realize that no matter how painful (to watch from Europe) the next years will be, just like every autocrat before Trump and his cronies will fail and it will end the Republican party as well.
by f1shy | 2025-04-10 05:16:37+00:00
Yes. Regex tend to become rather fast write only. One solution is commenting, but is still complex. What I like to do now (in C) is define parts of it. Just a crude example to get the idea:

// STRing: matches anything inside quotes (single or double) #define STR "[\"'](.*)[\"']" // NUMber: matches decimal or hexadecimal numbers #define NUM "([[:digit:]]x?[[:xdigit:]]*)" regcomp(&reg_exp, STR NUM , REG_EXTENDED | REG_ICASE);

So at the end I compose the RE with the various parts, which are documented separately.
by nsonha | 2025-04-10 05:17:38+00:00
The latter would add subscription and streaming, and more efficient transports. But yeah they are basically the same idea.

I hate that for years the concept of RPC was equated to XML which in turn equated to some implementation of the (XML based) tool and then a whole lot of distracting discourse around XML vs JSON, we kinda do still have that these days with yaml vs whatever.
by chaosprint | 2025-04-10 05:18:11+00:00
The final result is very poor. Google looks like Hooli with chaotic management. The design has lost its aesthetics, and the gradient color is very ugly.

However, the aistudio updated today is good.

So it seems that the output is so different because the person in charge is different?

From this perspective, there is no hope for Firebase, because the person in charge has poor management logic. even with the best resources in the world, it doesn't help
by nodesocket | 2025-04-10 05:19:30+00:00
Update: Just read this article[1] which clarifies S3 Express One Zone. Yes, performance is greatly improved, but actually storage costs are 8x more than a standard S3 bucket. The naming S3 Express One Zone is terrible and a bit misleading on pricing changes.

[1] https://www.warpstream.com/blog/s3-express-is-all-you-need
by 2Gkashmiri | 2025-04-10 05:20:07+00:00
We buy local brands of shoes that are in inr 300-2000 range and that solves like 70% of the shoes market in India. From shoes to skippers to formal shoes to ladies heels and such. Then you gave INr 3000-8000 that are considered really really expensive.

Convert that to usd and you will see how much premium is being charged.
by nbbaier | 2025-04-10 05:20:57+00:00
Location: Chicago, IL, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, SQLite, PostgreSQL, SPARQL, HTML/CSS, Tailwind, Git, Node.js, Bun, Deno, React, Astro, HTMX, Hono, Cloudflare, Vercel

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/sw7o5dt8okanxfc8731pz/baier-r...

Email: nico.baier@gmail.com

Github: https://github.com/nbbaier

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicobaier

Website: https://nicobaier.com

I'm a former academic researcher (in linguistics) turned self-taught software engineer who'd like to transition into professional software development. I'm experienced across the stack using Javascript/TypeScript, Python, and SQL with platforms like Cloudflare and Val Town. Background in AI integration, including LLM tooling (MCP server, OpenAI API), and a research-driven approach from my Ph.D. in linguistics.
by CobrastanJorji | 2025-04-10 05:21:06+00:00
They're not saying that it's AI. They're saying it's for customers who do AI. Training means lots and lots of reads from a big data store, and if you're reading from, like, big Parquet files, that probably means lots of random reads. This is for that. Speedier data access, presumably at the cost of durability and availability, which is probably a great trade-off for people doing ML training jobs.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-10 05:21:45+00:00
> she was fired in 2017 and only now is trying to become a "whistleblower"

It's a lot easier to be a whistleblower once you're materially comfortable. More than the threat of legal action is the insidiousness of being blacklisted for employment. I wouldn't take the delay from the actions as evidence of her having ulterior motives. Just that we need contemporaneous notes and/or evidence to ensure she isn't misremembering.
by stevenwoo | 2025-04-10 05:22:21+00:00
This is impossible to discuss accurately without politics and religion - the GOP relies heavily on fundamentalist Christian votes, there is a roughly 200 year old interpretation of Revelations in the Old Testament that posits that the state of Israel must exist so Satan can destroy it in the battle of Armageddon before Jesus comes back a second time to save Christians. This is why the GOP is so gung ho for Israel at any cost.