MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alephnerd | 2025-04-04 12:58:44+00:00
> the majority of households will not be able to survive for long if they have to spend an extra few thousand to stay where they are today.

The median American household has an income of around $78,000 [0]. They can survive the blowback. The Trump admin on the other hand will not.

As a Sullivan, Raimondo, and IRA supporting Dem, it's a win-win for me. Harsher policies against China have been enacted which will not be rolled back (just like how the Biden admin let Trump 1 era tariffs remain) and it will cause a severe blow as midterm fundraising season has started. The NY by-election for Stefanik's seat itself proved that the tariffs and DOGE have made plenty of purple to light red seats vulnerabile.

I wrote some thoughts about this recently [1]

[0] - https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/SEX255223

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43574128
by skywhopper | 2025-04-04 12:58:45+00:00
That’s exactly why it doesn’t make sense. Where would a datacenter-bound AI get more data about the world exactly?

The story is actually quite poorly written, with weird stuff about “oh yeah btw we fixed hallucinations” showing up off-handedly halfway through. And another example of that is the bit where they throw in that one generation is producing scads of synthetic training data for the next gen system.

Okay, but once you know everything there is to know based on written material, how do you learn new things about the world? How do you learn how to build insect drones, mass-casualty biological weapons, etc? Is the super AI supposed to have completely understood physics to the extent that it can infer all reality without having to do experimentation? Where does even the electricity to do this come from? Much less the physical materials.

The idea that even a supergenius intelligence could drive that much physical change in the world within three years is just silly.
by UncleEntity | 2025-04-04 12:58:52+00:00
> Just yesterday people were trying to convince me that price hikes were good and would benefit Trump’s base.

Apparently, they have a plan.

AFAICT, the plan is based on the US being "the last man standing" after WWII and turning its wartime manufacturing base into the machine which rebuilt the world but, nonetheless, they have a plan.

So rejoice in the Glorious Leader's wisdom and know he feels your economic pain and hardship. We must all make sacrifices to Make America Great Again.
by sjtgraham | 2025-04-04 12:59:03+00:00
$2/month is way too cheap. What's the realistic market size here? How much of that is achievable to capture within 24 months? It doesn't seem like it would even support a single developer's salary within that time. Things like this make me worry that this will not be around for long. Even an extremely talented and motivated solo founder will run out of steam earning a fraction of what their skills are worth serving the most fussy, demanding and ungrateful audience imaginable: nerds.

OP increase your prices!
by afiori | 2025-04-04 12:59:22+00:00
There should be a middleground between "The dictionary is law" and "Any native speaker can redefine a language".

At the very least the direct consequence of

>If the grammar rules you learned in school disagree with (any!) native speaker, the rules are wrong.

is that every language has as many dialects as speakers.

Imo dictionaries are descriptive rather than prescriptive not because it is impossible to have prescriptive definitions or grammar, it is just that dictionaries do not even try; usually they just list common usage of words.
by ilitirit | 2025-04-04 12:59:24+00:00
Here's some of what I think is my personal best advice:

Learn to live in the gray areas. Don't be dogmatic. The world isn't black and white. Take some parts of the black and white. And, don't be afraid to change your mind about some things.

This may sound obvious to some of you, and sure, in theory this is simple. But in practice? Definitely not, at least in my experience. It requires a change in mindset and worldview, which generally becomes harder as you age ("because your want to conserve the way of life you enjoy").
by emilyj980 | 2025-04-04 12:59:36+00:00
The global oxygen concentrators market was valued at approximately USD 2.5 billion in 2023 and is projected to reach around USD 4.8 billion by 2033, reflecting a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.7% from 2024 to 2033.

Oxygen Concentrators Market Trends

The oxygen concentrators market is growing due to the rising prevalence of respiratory diseases such as COPD, asthma, and COVID-19 aftereffects. Increasing demand for home-based and portable oxygen therapy solutions is driving market expansion. Technological advancements, including lightweight, energy-efficient, and smart concentrators with remote monitoring, are enhancing patient convenience. North America and Europe lead the market due to strong healthcare infrastructure, while Asia-Pacific is experiencing rapid growth with increasing healthcare accessibility. Government initiatives and rising elderly populations are further boosting demand. However, high costs and device maintenance remain challenges. The market is expected to grow steadily, driven by innovations in oxygen delivery systems and increasing healthcare investments.
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by thenomadev | 2025-04-04 12:59:40+00:00
Ever wondered how your posts would perform in a parallel universe of AI?

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by potato3732842 | 2025-04-04 12:59:49+00:00
The traffickers looking to pack more punch into each shipment that the government fails to intercept do.

Basically it's a response to regulatory reality, little different from soy wire insulation in automobiles. I'm sure they'd love to deliver pure opium and wire rodents don't like to eat but that's just not possible while remaining in the black.
by dughnut | 2025-04-04 12:59:52+00:00
I don’t know about you, but my takeaway is that the author is doing damage control but inadvertently tipped a hand that OpenAI is probably running an elaborate con job on the DoD.

“Yes, we have a super secret model, for your eyes only, general. This one is definitely not indistinguishable from everyone else’s model and it doesn’t produce bullshit because we pinky promise. So we need $1T.”

I love LLMs, but OpenAI’s marketing tactics are shameful.
by resource_waste | 2025-04-04 13:00:36+00:00
"Right is only a question among equals, for the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer as they must."

We shouldnt expect companies to be Moral. We shouldn't expect the government to be Just. The sooner we realize how politics actually work, the smarter we can make personal decisions that comply with realities.

There is no reason to waste time and effort. The only people who can topple Apple are going to be major players, not the multitude.
by cess11 | 2025-04-04 13:00:49+00:00
Salesforce is and pretty much always has been a set of code generation platforms. If you can produce a decent code generation platform, do it. It's one of the most sure ways to making money from software since it allows you to deploy systems and outsource a large portion of design to your customers.

Spotify is not the audio player widget in some user interface. It started off as a Torrent-like P2P system for file distribution on top of a very large search index and file storage. That's the minimum you'd build for a "whitelabel [...] Spotify clone". Since then they've added massive, sophisticated systems for user monitoring and prediction, ad distribution, abuse and fraud detection, and so on.

Use that code generation platform to build a product off any combination of two of the larger subsystems at Spotify and you're set for retirement if you only grab a reasonable salesperson and an accountant off the street. Robust file distribution with robust abuse detection or robust ad distribution or robust user prediction would be that valuable in many business sectors.

If building and maintaining actually is that effortless for you, show some evidence.
by voidhorse | 2025-04-04 13:00:58+00:00
There is one trait common to nearly everyone participating in the computing industry: overweening pride in one's own intelligence.

People in the industry like to reduce 'intelligence' to a single dimension. You can see this phenomenon directly in the current AI wave in which "intelligence" has been reduced to "does well at 'knowledge worker' tasks and passes arbitrary benchmarks we have defined".
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-04-04 13:01:19+00:00
We're not talking about avoiding all preventable deaths. We're talking about taking life-saving treatment away from people who were being effectively treated at a nominal cost.

Taking treatment away from them in lieu of a very good reason is tantamount to murder. "Empathy is weakness" or "going after the woke mind virus" or "Organization X is a criminal organization [non-evidenced]" or "we need more cushion for tax cuts for the wealth" do not qualify as good reasons.
by throw310822 | 2025-04-04 13:01:23+00:00
Or try an evolutionary approach. Artificially enforce some dependency between an organisms' (fungi, bacteria) ability to kill a wide spectrum of targets, and their own continued survival. Let the organism spread on a large matrix in close contact with the targets and zap the areas where the targets are thriving; repeat until you have evolved strains that are effective in destroying the targets. Wonder if it's possible or even been tried.
by heisgone | 2025-04-04 13:01:49+00:00
No doubt Lutnick and Bessent are taking crazy risks with their strategy. If they are to be believed, their plan is to have a recession at the begining of the term to get long term bond price lower and refinance the debt. By their own account, they outright said to Trump things aren't going to be good until 2028. So, I guess we have to prepare for a few years of crap. Let's hope it doesn't trigger a depression that would need government bailout to save the economy.
by tonyedgecombe | 2025-04-04 13:02:10+00:00
>Total UK imports from United States amounted to £111.5 billion in the four quarters to the end of Q3 2024 (a decrease of 5.1% or £5.9 billion in current prices, compared to the four quarters to the end of Q3 2023).

Also "Total UK exports to United States amounted to £182.6 billion in the four quarters to the end of Q3 2024 (a decrease of 0.5% or £889 million in current prices, compared to the four quarters to the end of Q3 2023);"

Which is why the current government is being particularly cautious at the moment.
by WinstonSmith84 | 2025-04-04 13:02:14+00:00
Thanks. Let me know if I misunderstood, but it seems that this is redirecting my custom domain customdomain.example.com to tuns.sh

customdomain.example.com. 300 IN CNAME tuns.sh.

_sish.customdomain.example.com 300 IN TXT "SHA256:mVPw"

What I want to do is:

1- to create a custom domain ON tuns.sh (or another Pico service)

2- redirect this custom domain to another DNS (such as a Load Balancer, an API Gateway, etc.)

Something like: {username}-{proj}.tuns.sh. 300 IN CNAME myalb-123abc.amazonaws.com.
by jjcob | 2025-04-04 13:02:19+00:00
> $6750 for an induction stove with a battery

What a crazy world we live in. Instead of finally upgrading your electrical system to something that can handle the 5kW needed for a high end induction stove, you buy a device with a battery that will probably need to be replaced in a few years and might turn out to be a huge fire risk.

How is that cheaper than running a few meters of copper cable?
by piva00 | 2025-04-04 13:02:21+00:00
The whole issue is that no one can be sure it will stop in 2 or 4 years. That's precisely the risk: will it stop? Will it not? Either way, I'm not investing some millions of dollars to setup shop in the USA if all that investment will go bust if the next election cycle removes tariffs.

Anyone saying they are sure about what is happening in the next 2-4 years in the USA is delusional.
by aurareturn | 2025-04-04 13:02:24+00:00
Pat was arrogant. He didn't know how to get 3rd party fab customers. Nvidia, AMD, Apple did not trust him. He comes from the old Intel regime when it was all roses and Intel was at the top of the world. He didn't realize that Intel was at the bottom and it needed to do whatever it took to win customers.

Here's Morris Chang's opinion of Pat Gelsinger:

Chang said he found Pat Gelsinger’s attitude to TSMC “hostile”, adding he had been friends with Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore and been close to many Intel CEOs but not to Gelsinger. Previously Chang has described Gelsinger as “discourteous” and “a bit cocky”.

Here's what Tan said recently:

Tan said the company needs to listen to prospective outside customers for its factories and let them specify the design and manufacture of their products, rather than Intel dictating the way it will be done. Tan said many large customers want custom parts — and his company will do it for them.

This is clearly a shot taken at Pat, who did not know how to win fab customers.

Lastly, Pat hired a ton of people. Intel increased employee count under his watch while revenue decreased by 50%. Tan wanted to cut way more. Pat didn't.

So while the strategy is similar, Pat's execution was severely lacking.
by p2detar | 2025-04-04 13:02:28+00:00
I think so too. They have been expanding pretty much everywhere. From Eastern Europe through South America and Africa. In the last COP climate gathering China gave a signal that they would take the leadership and also get on the "green tech" market i.e. export batteries, EVs, solar panels.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rx2drd8x8o
by weatherlite | 2025-04-04 13:02:38+00:00
> In this world people become more like pests. They offer no economic value yet demand that AGI owners (wherever publicly or privately owned) share resources with them. If people revolted any AGI owner would be far better off just deploying a bioweapon to humanely kill the protestors rather than sharing resources with them.

That will be quite a hard thing to pull off, even for some evil person with a AGI. Let's say Putin gets AGI and is actually evil and crazy enough to try wipe people out. If he just targets Russians and starts killing millions of people daily with some engineered virus or something similar, he'll have to fear a strike from the West which would be fearful they're next (and rightfully so). If he instead tries to wipe out all of humanity at once to escape a second strike, he again will have to devise such a good plan there won't be any second strike - meaning his "AGI" will have to be way better than all other competing AGIs (how exactly?).

It would have made sense if all "owners of AGI" somehow conspired together to do this but there's not really such a thing as owners of AGI and even if there was Chinese, Russian and American owners of AGI don't trust each other at all and are also bound to their governments.
by porkbrain | 2025-04-04 13:02:47+00:00
1. Have a global append-only function key-value store.

2. A key of a function is something like `keccak256(function's signature + docstring)`

3. A value is a list of the function's implementation (index being the implementation's version) and some other useful metadata such as the contributor's signature and preferred function name. (Compiler emits a warning that needs to be explicitly silenced if preferred name is not used.)

4. IDE hints and the developer confirms to auto import the function from the global KV store.

5. Import hash can be prepended with a signers name that's defined in some config file. This makes it obvious in git diffs if a function changes its author. Additionally, the compiler only accepts a short hash in import statements if used with a signer.

package.toml

[signers] mojmir = "mojmir's pubkey" radislava = "radislava's pubkey"

source.file

// use publisher and short hash import "mojmir@51973ec9d4c1929b@1" as log_v1; // or full hash import "51973ec9d4c1929bdd5b149c064d46aee47e92a7e2bb5f7a20c7b9cfb0d13b39" as log_latest; import "radislava@c81915ad12f36c33" as ln; log_v1("Hello"); log_latest(ln(0));
by diggan | 2025-04-04 13:03:42+00:00
Yeah, I'm guessing that most of my valuable knowledge comes from sessions like this, where something is hard, and eventually you solve it. If I was in the same situation today, I'd probably keep throwing stuff at the LLM until it got it right, and not really learn anything.

But then on the other hand, the point was never to learn, but to create. I'm still not sure if I'd be better or worse at actually creating things if I had LLMs in the beginning or not.
by feraloink | 2025-04-04 13:04:35+00:00
The party that is NOT pushing tariffs is the one who said, between 2012 and 2016, that "they're NEVER coming back" (referring to return of factories and manufacturing jobs).

That same party DID try to bring back manufacturing between 2020 and 2024. I think they would have been more successful if it hadn't been for COVID19, for which neither party is to blame.
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2025-04-04 13:05:11+00:00
But what?

Your argument was that they (rich white men) are reprehensible for desiring others to be doing something like factory work, instead of "that".

You say "that" is work, and not sitting around unemployed. Citing a statistic. Ok lets proceed with that.

So which work is "that"?
by sotix | 2025-04-04 13:05:12+00:00
Valve has put out some artistic and engineering masterpieces consistently over the years. They currently print money with steam. However, they aren’t putting out a Half-Life 3 to rake in more money. They don’t believe they have anything worthy from a storytelling or tech perspective. But they put out Half-Life Alyx, which was an incredible VR game.

Further, I wouldn’t call the Steam Deck itself a financial priority. Hardware is famously risky. Obviously, they want to continue their financial success, but they don’t seem to pursue that at all costs like other companies that run their IP into the ground to make more money. Having their financial success allows them to keep their integrity and continue pursuing artistic and engineering successes to diversify their income stream and build goodwill. Their work on Proton is a crowning achievement for their pursuit of engineering successes.
by michaelsynowiec | 2025-04-04 13:05:17+00:00
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by yapyap | 2025-04-04 13:05:33+00:00
> Context on Code Quality (via HackerNews): The HackerNews discussion included valid critiques regarding the code quality in this specific Python project example (e.g., logger configuration, custom config parsing, potential race conditions). It’s a fair point, especially given I’m not a Python expert. For this particular green-field project, my primary goal was rapid prototyping and achieving a working solution in an unfamiliar stack, prioritizing the functional outcome over idiomatic code perfection or optimizing for long-term maintainability in this specific instance. It served as an experiment to see how far AI could bridge a knowledge gap. In brown-field projects within my areas of expertise, or projects demanding higher long-term maintainability, the human review, refinement, and testing process (using the guardrails discussed later) is necessarily much more rigorous. The critiques highlight the crucial role of experienced oversight in evaluating and refining AI-generated code to meet specific quality standards.

We all know how big companies handle software, if it works ship it. Basically once this shit starts becoming very mainstream companies will want to shift into their 5x modes (for their oh so holy investors that need to see stock go up, obviously.)

So once this sloppy prototype is seen as working they will just ship the shit sandwhich prototype. And the developers won’t know what the hell it means so when something breaks in the future, and that is when not if. They will need AI to fix it for them, cause once again they do not understand what is going on.

What I’m seeing here is you proposing replacing one of your legs with AI and letting it do all the heavy lifting, just so you can lift heavier things for the moment.

Once this bubble crumbles the technical debt will be big enough to sink companies, I won’t feel sorry for any of the AI boosties but do for their families that will go into poverty
by TexanFeller | 2025-04-04 13:05:48+00:00
Totally agree! The first month I had my house I had large amounts of insulation blown into my attic. I also reduced various heat sources by getting the most efficient LED lights, PC parts etc. The other big thing that helps is keeping the upstairs much warmer during the day and only keeping the downstairs where my office is frigid until the evening when I go upstairs.

My all time high electric bill so far was ~$220 for a 2500sqft house when it was 110+ outside for most of the month and I was WFH and keeping the downstairs around 70.

I was really nerding out about solar panels and home batteries for a while and desperate to justify that toy, but I would barely break even before they failed or I needed a new roof. Start with insulation, it’s CHEAP compared to high tech options.