MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by consumer451 | 2025-04-17 03:48:37+00:00
The only official-ish statement I’ve seen on this:

> Hey all this is speculation, probably stemming from earlier in the week when we had the joint livestream with OpenAI.

> There’s a ton of interest and attention on Windsurf rn which is awesome, but we are 100 percent focused on building amazing products.

> Not sure where this article came from, but we have some amazing updates next week that are gonna blow your socks off

https://old.reddit.com/r/windsurf/s/0CR07Qwkf9
by protocolture | 2025-04-17 03:48:59+00:00
>The underlying legal sub-questions were particularly complex, and both federal appeals court judges distilled their astute reasonings in clear ways, ultimately ruling that intermediate (temporary) copying of software code in the process of reverse-engineering it is generally permissible as fair use under copyright law. At the heart of their technical legal rulings was economic policy.

Seems pertinent to the illegal copying of works before training your LLM tbh.
by mleonhard | 2025-04-17 03:49:01+00:00
> We want to stress from the start that the ultimate failure of the company lies with us.

This statement discounts how much random chance contributes to success & failure. Could the world's best founding team find and build a successful business in that field? Maybe. And even if they could, is it failure to be less good than the best? Not at all.

> Stay lean until you have proven revenue.

They raised a pre-seed round and used it to search for business opportunities. This seems like the normal way of doing a startup.

> TIME AND MONEY SPENT ON NON-ESSENTIALS - These included an office, website and branding, a trip to America, contractors, and unnecessary employees.

Having an office can boost energy and productivity. Taking a trip to US to connect with new advisors, investors, and other founders seems like a pretty normal thing to do.

I think these founders are being too hard on themselves. They got an amazing education in entrepreneurship. They don't need to feel bad about it.
by disqard | 2025-04-17 03:49:01+00:00
This comment echoes my own experience with Claude. Especially the advice about only pulling in the context you need.

I'm a paying customer and I know my time is sufficiently valuable that this kind of technology pays for itself.

As an analogy, I liken it to a scribe (author's assistant).

Your comment has lots of useful hints -- thanks for taking the time to write them up!
by aurareturn | 2025-04-17 03:49:16+00:00
Here were my predictions after Deepseek R1's release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42883218

It seems likely that all of my predictions will come true.

1. H20 was in huge demand in China due to Deepseek. https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/n...

2. Whitehouse likely to completely ban Nvidia chip exports to China. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/15/nvidia-says-it-will-record-5...

3. Chinese customers put in huge orders for Nvidia chips in Q1/Q2 because they knew some ban was coming. https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/c...

4. Whitehouse looking to ban Deepseek in US.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-04-17 03:49:33+00:00
A very long time ago when I was at Sun we struggled with this. Sun added something called the 'translucent file system' among other things. There was briefly a thought of changing stat so that it would report "data" being held by the file (all of the things written to it), "extents" of the file (all of the blocks it was taking up on disk), and "size" which accounted for partial blocks and was backwards compatible, and "flags" which included "encrypted" (yes/no), "sparse" (yes/no), "fixed" (yes/no), and at least one and possibly others that I can't remember. It served to illustrate how complex the question of file systems had become beyond the original "SAM" and "ISAM" methods from mainframes. It was either Guy Harris or Jon Livesey who pointed out that checking a damaged version of a file system with all of those capabilities as first class attributes was probably not NP complete. :-).
by ordu | 2025-04-17 03:50:07+00:00
I don't remember Yudkowski good enough to point at the missing references. But I can point to my last find.

Didn't you hear about Charles Sanders Pearce[1]? He said basically that the truth is what people are ready to bet on. Not something hand-wavy like "scientific method" or "millions of flies" or anything else, it is what real people are ready to rely on. Yudkowski is in favor of betting, moreover it tends to measure "truthiness" by bets. He is much in favor of the scientific method, but if you look closely it is because you can bet on a scientific knowledge.

BTW, about his belief in a scientific method. All or almost all psychology Yudkowski refers to was debunked, and sometimes very hard. Standford prison experiment for example was staged, it was like a play in a theater with Zimbardo whispering from behind the curtains "more brutality please". It is a separate issue with Yudkowski, he can't distinguish good science from bad science even when bad science was debunked decades ago. He is (like his version of Harry Potter) believes that if he vowed his allegiance to Science and knows what integral is then he is a scientist. He talks a lot of training one's mind, but this training doesn't include reading basic textbooks for a branch of the science that he is interested in.

You see, "Zimbardo experiment" technically speaking is not an experiment. There are no two groups with varying stimuli to compare outcomes. If we tried to classify it, it can probably be classified as "observation", the lowest tier of research approaches (experiment is the highest one, though meta-research is probably even higher, but it is about reading works of others instead of asking questions to Reality directly). It doesn't allow us to reason about causes and effects. It is something that undergraduates in social sciences learn in their first year.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce
by anon6362 | 2025-04-17 03:50:11+00:00
Yup. I'd say around 15% of very severe incidents are ever announced publicly. In most cases, the default is cover-up and hope no one finds out.

To anyone who thinks a libertarian/anarcho-capitalist/Network States "utopia" of Retire All Gubberment Employees (RAGE) is a "good thing", thing about air, water, and soil pollution from sewage to arsenic to particulates to lead to radioactivity. Greedy sociopaths DGAF who they hurt, which is perhaps why James Madison observed: "If all men were angels, no government would be necessary." Obviously, this is not human nature and so some laws, enforcement, and regulators is required indefinitely. Anyone who tells you differently isn't a serious person.
by Spooky23 | 2025-04-17 03:50:43+00:00
It’s really essential to fund or make it feasible for companies to fund broadband. Universal broadband should be a priority.

Rural programs are really successful, until the money runs out. Cities get screwed though — I served on a commission with my city on this topic and the only feasible competition at scale, Verizon, refused to engage unless the city allowed them to pick individual blocks to deploy, which means no servitude for underrepresented people.
by AIPedant | 2025-04-17 03:51:26+00:00
I think the point is that they still seem too rushed (perhaps reckless is a better term), since these are causing serious problems for planes in the area and generating very nasty pollution - what if debris hits an airliner? Nobody's saying they have to get Starship 100% right the next time, they are human. But I am very concerned that SpaceX simply has bad internal testing and design, maybe inadequate computer simulation or telemetry, who knows. But the concern is they'll improperly judge Starship as good-to-go once it launches successfully, having somewhat blindly applied a bunch of duct tape without properly understanding the cause of the failures.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-04-17 03:52:05+00:00
A lot of assumptions are made here about intelligent life with the great filter ideas. Intelligent life is not a fundamental phase of matter. It took a random walk over billions of years to end up there, with any point potentially leading to a deviation and entirely different outcome. Take the number of bacteria dividing over the last 4 billion years on earth to one and there’s your rate of intelligent life in the universe based on what we’ve seen on earth. Are there even that many planets or bodies in the galaxy for what a billion to the power of a billion to one odds or whatever absurd number this is?
by wormius | 2025-04-17 03:52:27+00:00
I miss last.fm and audioscrobbler so much. Yeah it's still there, but it's not like the old days, which was far better for feeling like I was in touch with other users, finding tons of new music, and not hearing yet another Home Depot ad.

I half wonder if Spotify US is one of those harbingers of doom for the old web in the same way I think of Twitter and iPhone/SPAs/The Stream UI.
by Marsymars | 2025-04-17 03:52:49+00:00
> Given the way AI is advancing it would be really dumb to not go hard on Robotaxi. That's it. That's the analysis.

Let’s say we’re headed for fully-autonomous vehicles in whatever optimistic medium term you want. I’m kinda missing the winning strategy here. Unless there’s some kind of moat to building/selling robotaxis, the sale price equalizes to marginally above the production cost, except with far less volume than what the market is selling today.
by throwanem | 2025-04-17 03:52:50+00:00
Oh, I didn't know they'd been around since '99. They called me on behalf of a Hollywood titan about one of my hobby domains, which happened to partially coincide at a dictionary word with one of their client's trademarks, some time around 2006. I don't recall that the approximate paralegal I spoke with actually identified the company; I never forgot the call, but hadn't thought to check who manages the studio's own domain. Go figure.

I found them surprisingly easy to deal with, and happy to have me on record that my toy domain had nothing to do with either their client or any money. I assumed as long as that remained the case I would never hear from them again, and for the decade or so longer I kept the domain, that was exactly how things went.
by aurareturn | 2025-04-17 03:53:43+00:00
Here were my predictions after Deepseek R1's release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42883218

It seems likely that all of my predictions will come true.

1. H20 would be in huge demand in China due to Deepseek. [0]

2. Whitehouse likely to completely ban Nvidia chip exports to China. [1]

3. Chinese customers will put in huge orders for Nvidia chips in Q1/Q2 because they knew some export ban was coming. [2]

4. Whitehouse looking to ban Deepseek in US.

[0]https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/n...

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/15/nvidia-says-it-will-record-5...

[2]https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/c...

In some ways, this was very predictable. All the AI tech bros showed up at the whitehouse inauguration. Clearly they do not want competition from Chinese companies. It's an easy sell to Trump to ban Nvidia in China and to remove competition from Chinese models in US. Banning Nvidia will also make Nvidia chips theoretically cheaper in the US for companies like xAI and OpenAI because China is 30% of Nvidia's demand.

In the long term, this is likely good for China because now tens of billions of real demand will flow into Chinese companies who aren't as competitive as TSMC and Nvidia combo. Let's say in the next 5-7 years, China will make something almost as good as Nvidia's best. In the short term, Chinese models will fall behind.
by chillfox | 2025-04-17 03:53:53+00:00
Emby just felt more polished and focused while Jellyfin felt like it was on the path towards feature bloat. Also, I had more confidence in Emby supporting future devices I might get than Jellyfin.

When it comes to supporting multiple media types (video/audiobooks/music/etc..) I prefer using a seperate solution for each that is focused on that use case instead of an all-in-one solution.

I am using audiobookshelf for audiobooks and podcasts, so I really don't need that from my video solution.

I have configured Emby to keep the metadata in nfo files next to the videos, so I should be able to easily switch to something else if things change in the future.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-04-17 03:54:06+00:00
How does such a handshake agreement get triggered?

How does the server know that the handshake request is not malicious? 2FA that is resettable on demand (without 2FA) effectively voids the whole concept does it not?

With HOTP, the counter is the shared secret --- but a dynamic and potentially unstable one. One failed request or one missed response and the counters on client and server are no longer in sync. Hence, a failure waiting to happen on an unreliable network.
by harry8 | 2025-04-17 03:54:34+00:00
Self hosting Data point.

Owntone has my library to play in my house through shairpoint-sync driven amps & speakers in different rooms. (Synced perfectly and seamlessly - your ears can really tell too).

That same Owntone installation over wireguard using http stream in my phone/laptop browser when I'm not home.

Owntone & airplay2 is absolutely first rate.

Owntone http streaming is plenty good enough for me.

(Owntone also works great with your spotify subscription if you do that).
by hirvi74 | 2025-04-17 03:56:11+00:00
Are you disciplined and internally motivated enough to sit down and go through all those various courses? If so, I envy you with every last fiber of my being.

> "if you cannot learn some of this via MOOCs/Udemy/Udacity/Coursera, are you willing to pay $80k for someone to help you focus on doing it?"

Let me tell you, when you know that the only way to pay back that 80k is with your hard earned money or your life, then the motivation is a lot easier to muster. My loans were not even half that amount, and that was still enough to put the fear of God in me.
by pzo | 2025-04-17 03:56:40+00:00
OpenAI shared chart about performance drop with large context like 500k tokens etc. So you still want to limit the context not only for the cost but performance as well. You also probably want to limit context to speedup inference and get reponse faster.

I agree though that a lot of those agents are black boxes and hard to even learn how to best combine .rules, llms.txt, prd, mcp, web search, function call, memory. Most IDEs don't provide output where you can inspect final prompts etc to see how those are executed - maybe you have to use some MITMproxy to inspect requests etc but some tool would be useful to learn best practices.

I will be trying more roo code and cline since they open source and you can at least see system prompts etc.
by ack_complete | 2025-04-17 03:56:40+00:00
Given the kinds of returns that Fry's would accept, I wouldn't be surprised if those were returns they had accepted that way. The one near me would attempt to resell laptop power bricks that had been returned with no AC power cord, and one time I got "new" RAM sticks that turned out to be actually used and so busted that a quarter of the data bus lines were inoperative.
by anon6362 | 2025-04-17 03:57:42+00:00
US corporations benefit today from slave labor by people housed in for-profit prisons where there are incentives to over-prosecute brown and poor people. These include, but aren't limited to:

- Aramark

- Avis

- IBM

- JCPenney

- Kmart

- McDonald's

- Nintendo

- Sprint

- Starbucks

- Verizon

- Walmart

- Wendy's

- Whole Foods/Amazon
by jmyeet | 2025-04-17 03:57:49+00:00
This idea that can't perceive sufficiently advanced civilizations doesn't hold up to scrutiny. It comes down to energy and mass (ie resources). Both of them essentially necessitate a civilization becoming large. You can argue that not every civilization will be expansionist but those that aren't tend to get swallowed up by those that are, at least based on Earth's history.

So for energy, a likely path will be the Dyson Swarm, meaning a cloud of orbitals. Many mistakenly think a Dyson Sphere was a rigid shell around a star. It never was. There's no material, actual or even theorized, that has the rigidity to sustain that. Because of that confusion, many now prefer the nomenclature of "Dyson Swarm" over "Dyson Sphere".

Dyson Swarms have the advantage of creating incredible amounts of living room and solving energy needs with relatively low tech (ie solar). They can also be built incrementally. A cloud of orbitals that capture the Sun's energy with orbitals between Venus and Mars will (IIRC) have a mean distance between them of ~100,000km.

Why is this important? Because the only way to get rid of heat in space is by expelling mass or, more likely, radiating it away into space. You can reuse waste heat to some degree but it's not perfect (because thermodynamics) and you can't totally avoid radiating heat away totally anyway. The wavelength of such radiation is entirely dependent on the temperature. At any likely temperature, that means infrared ("IR") radiation.

So a Dyson Swarm around our Sun would stick out like a sore thumb with a massive IR signature. There's really no hiding it. And we're capable of detecting it.

Conversey, there's really no hiding from any civilization capable of such feats of engineering. Plus any such civilization would be capable of sterilizing the galaxy out of any competition.

Mass follows on from this.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-04-17 03:58:12+00:00
Even still much of our evolution as complex organisms were far slower than our unicellular cousins. Bacteria have conquered every place on earth and humans have not. They probably took advantage of us to colonize the moon already. They have adapted a plethora of unique systems thanks the their ability to grow at log scale and rapidly adapt to any situation. The HN analogy would be a VC that could double the amount of potential startups it seeds every 20 minutes. Meanwhile over in the Homo genus only one subspecies has limped along to this day with severely diminished genetic diversity to boot in many large populations, with selective pressures probably not directly applied to maximizing intelligence in the species long term much less survival.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-04-17 03:58:18+00:00
CT isnt constrained to 90 degree slices and can be viewed at any arbitrary angle, or in 3D without further processing.

This video [1] is a presentation on bowel CT with great images. For those interested in X-ray, compare the X-rays at 14 minutes with the CT at 10.

Also worth noting, that X-ray is being recommended as a quick diagnostic before moving to CT

https://youtu.be/ZvDOkrn2ygQ?t=630
by Teever | 2025-04-17 03:58:25+00:00
This all pre-supposes that evolution will lock alien organisms into a specific and static body configuration on other planets like it has done to organisms on Earth.

Is there any particular reason why an intelligent organism couldn't evolve to be able to grow and change its body into any arbitrary size and shape that it wanted to merely by thinking about it?

Perhaps aliens from another planet would consider our limitation as four limbed bipedal organisms to be absurd.

Why can't organisms chose to grow eight hands each with 16 opposable digits?
by al_borland | 2025-04-17 03:58:49+00:00
I’ve been using Plex since it was a Mac only XBMC fork. While it’s drastically different than where it started, I haven’t noticed any recent changes. I do 99% of my viewing via the AppleTV app and it hasn’t changed. I removed all the shortcuts for their streaming stuff long ago.

I’m running the server in Docker and pretty lazy about updating it. Is that the side that changed? It looks like I’m running 1.27 and 1.41 is out now. Should I be sticking with what I have?
by DataJunkie | 2025-04-17 03:59:12+00:00
My dad and I spent so many days in that place. The Burbank one wasn’t my favorite. My favorite was the Alice in Wonderland theme in Woodland Hills. Also liked the tropical theme in Manhattan Beach. Our local Fry’s, one of the last ones to open, was sad. Some kind of California nostalgia theme. Palo Alto, cowboy/Wild West… that one was so cramped. I remember the Santa Clara one had a lot of hardware that others didn’t have like large plotters etc.

Definitely miss it. Even the low quality of the items and the rude or useless sales staff lol.
by eviks | 2025-04-17 03:59:33+00:00
AI doesn't fix any of that because it's not good. For example, you can easily reduce waiting times to 0 with human support by replying "can't help" to every request. So unless you have good AI support, the fact that it can reduce waiting time is not an improvement.

Same with scaling- what's hard is scaling good quality, not just scaling, so without good AI you've again gained nothing
by Dylan16807 | 2025-04-17 03:59:37+00:00
> Nowadays a disc is massive and worrying about compression is daft

I wish. Not even because I want to store more data, but because that would imply going the other way is super cheap. Make RAID-1 the standard, with a filesystem that keeps snapshots for multiple months. But we're not at the point where that costs a trivial amount.
by lwo32k | 2025-04-17 04:00:47+00:00
Leaving aside the support base, lots of ambitious and driven people use the same strategy Trump does, cause it works. For them. At the expense of others.

Sort of like the survival strategy of parasites and predators in nature. They key point being they survive. Because it works.

To do it at the scale Trump does it though, is only possible via social media network effects.

People not only recognize what Trump is doing because they do it too, they see his rise as validation of their own choices and survival strategies.

Basically attack/provoke. If it does work you are in a dominating position. If it doesn't work then use the Reaction of the target to gain allies/sympathy/support/reinforce fear+doubts+insecurities etc.

The Chinese dont look capable of responding to this model, cause they don't have people who can stand as a total contrast to this model. Nor do they have anyone who can get attention on social media.
by Marsymars | 2025-04-17 04:01:02+00:00
> It's also true that Toyota lags others on it's line-up of EVs

They’ve got a great hybrid lineup though. I suspect that if you broke down car manufacturers by “average MPG/MPGe of all the miles driven by 2025 models sold” that Toyota would be looking pretty good against all but the EV-only manufacturers.

There’s a bigger environmental gain from converting a Tundra driver to a Rav4 Prime driver than there is from converting a Prius driver to a bZ4X driver.
by solardev | 2025-04-17 04:01:40+00:00
UI components/widgets. I wish we had something like Material UI or Radix built-in to the standards for people to compose pages out of building blocks with. Things like async autocomplete fields with love previews (think Google search or Typesense) should be a simple HTML component.

That, and a good WYSIWYG editor that supports modern frameworks and understands component trees. Like a Figma for real React components.

I miss Dreamweaver and Frontpage. And especially Visual Studio. Building basic web UIs shouldn't be this hard. So many businesses and sites have similar needs but everyone ends up reinventing so much of it from scratch.