MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cubefox | 2025-04-08 19:07:01+00:00
> Credit cards don't just offer chargeback capabilities. They offer pro-active fraud protection. They alert you for all kinds of threats, data breaches, double-charges, etc. They will sometimes lock your card and not let a payment go through, if it is suspicious, unless you perform extra confirmation via email/text/push. They offer virtual cards that you can activate or deactivate with any given vendor, to improve your privacy, security, and control.

> Having your card stolen, either physically or virtually, becomes much less scary.

I assume Pix and UPI (India) offer indirect fraud protection by keeping payment records. At least in Brazil and India, fraud does not seem to be so bad as to require the regular use of credit cards.

> When used responsibly, with rewards programs, the numerous benefits over cash make sense even in the unusual case where cash payments get a discount.

Nobody was talking about cash. Neither Pix nor UPI nor FedNow are cash. Cash = coins and bills.

> And, obviously, credit cards let you borrow money which provides flexibility to allow payments even if your paycheck hasn't yet arrived. And occasionally, going into debt intentionally can be wise, when making an investment.

That's balanced by the fact that it can also be highly unwise. Moreover, for most payments, borrowing money is simply unnecessary.

> Zelle and debit cards have similar kinds of protections that make it safer than cash, and there's an audit trail. Though, it is more dangerous than credit cards.

Again, cash is irrelevant here. Moreover, any advantage of instant payment systems with fees hold only insofar they (the advantages) more than outweigh the cost of the fees. The expected value has to be positive compared to UPI & Co. Which seems unlikely.
by freedomben | 2025-04-08 19:07:28+00:00
I agree it's silly, but worth noting is that the target audience for those pages are usually:

1. Potential customers

2. Potential investors

Both groups are a lot more swayable by social proof from seeing the "investors" than the devs as they infer a lot of credibility based on who has funded you. Similarly that's why you often see big company logos on marketing pages because it makes other customers more likely to buy. "<xyz> is too big to be wrong about this product"
by chaboud | 2025-04-08 19:08:37+00:00
There's an ambiguity here between palindromic words and palindromic sentences (where punctuation and spacing are non-breaking):

"Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog"

or

"A man, a plan, a canal, Panama"

though it seems that all of the answers (in the one tutorial and one round that I played) are single words, often slid in as character insertions. Just go light on the spacebar, apparently.
by bbor | 2025-04-08 19:09:22+00:00
Product-wise this seems to fall into the "sounds great, if it a) works well and b) is cheap enough to use regularly" category, so instead I'll leave some more general musings on the company for my fellow nosy outsiders:

After researching this company for a bit and reading stuff ranging from their basic-but-spot-on vision statement published today[1] and a careers page that reads like any ML researcher's dream[2] all the way to a (shockingly nuanced!) discussion of "red flags" on /r/MachineLearning[3], I think the only clear takeaway is that this is a fascinating+enigmatic entrant to the AI field.

For example, California's Senator Wiener gave them credit in a Twitter post for "supporting" the writing of SB1047[4], the strongest AI safety bill in the US by a longshot (...that was sadly killed late last year by an alt-right podcaster). I know we're rightfully cynical on here about AI regulation pushed by for-profit firms, but helping write the bill that OpenAI criticized seems like a unique badge of honor! It does make me wonder why they're a purely for-profit firm if they're so interested in safety; both Anthropic and OpenAI2.0 are organized as Public Benefit Corporations, which IMO is at least a better-than-nothing pinky-promise. Redditors mentioned the founders are loosely associated with e/acc, so maybe they're just free market true believers?

On the tech side: they've been around since 2021 as "Generally Intelligent" (yes, that one...), but after a long post-GPT2 period of focusing on foundational models & benchmarks, this is is their first consumer product announcment AFAICT. They describe the underlying tech as an "agent environment architecture," which seems to match my initial impression that they've pivoted somewhat towards symbolic architectonics?

I happen to be way too confident that this is the only way forward for 99% of non-dominant players, so it gives me hope that a seemingly ethics-forward, research-focused company is well along their way here! When I asked the "does it work well" question at the top, I think it's telling that I wasn't questioning the underlying model's one-shot IQ, but rather the system's UX and internal deliberation architecture...

Godspeed Josh n co. All that aside, excited to see Sculptor in action someday!

P.S. If any insiders read this: is the name a reference to Minksy's "Sculpting" paper[5]??? He's been losing the usage battle to "vibe coding" much to my dismay, so I'd be thrilled to have a new ally lol

[1] https://imbue.com/company/vision/

[2] https://imbue.com/careers/

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/17hns0t/d_...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_and_Secure_Innovation_for...

[5] Starts on page 49 in this (19-page) PDF: https://courses.cs.umbc.edu/471/papers/minksy91.pdf
by sdesol | 2025-04-08 19:09:43+00:00
I think it being Chinese is part of the reason as some of the examples in the early days were Chinese only, which could deter some people. It is certainly more complex (for a good reason in my opinion), I can see why it is not well known since I think the vast majority just wants to create simple charts. However, with echarts, it really can meet Enterprise needs.
by mk89 | 2025-04-08 19:10:23+00:00
I don't understand how relevant is that this person used AI for preparing etc.

I think you're drawing the wrong conclusions from this experience, and if you believe it's right so, it means you didn't interview before AI.

It was exactly like that. The only difference was the lack of availability of tools that can give you the answer right away, fake the voice, etc.

But even then, if it stinks, trust your guts.
by johnmaguire | 2025-04-08 19:11:16+00:00
Whether the poster was "belittling Dropbox as a product" or "helpfully offering notes" seems like a judgment one can make about the exchange, regardless of poster's intent. I never understood this to be the reason it was referenced, more the SMOP thing. But I hear what you're saying about the details getting warped over time. (edit: And I do think people sometimes use it as a case of "if you listen to everyone's feedback..." but I think that still rings true: regardless of the judgment you place on it, it could have been demoralizing to Dropbox's founders.)
by reaperducer | 2025-04-08 19:11:16+00:00
> I've even had homeless people ask me for Pix instead of change on multiple occasions.

Sounds like WeChat Pay. It's been years now that beggars in China only carry QR codes.

I saw a guy at a freeway offramp in north Texas with a Venmo (?) address scrawled on a piece of cardboard.
by krferriter | 2025-04-08 19:11:18+00:00
When I search 'dc plane crash' in Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo I don't get results buried under ads. When I search 'air conditioner for sale' I do get ads at the top of each of those, but that's more okay because I am looking for things to buy. And it's easy to look past the ads to get to sites like home depot or other traditional retailers that come up not just because they purchased ad space.
by fragmede | 2025-04-08 19:11:52+00:00
You make more than $220k. Holy fucking shit that's a giant ass pile of money!

Objectively, you. are. not. a. failure!

Ninety-five percent of US households earn less than that. Ninety-five!

The material fact here is you have this made up story in your head that's not supported by the limited facts you've given us. I'm not going to change your self image by yelling at a stranger over the Internet; if traditional talk therapy with a human didn't work, discuss it at length with ChatGPT, or go see a sex worker, they're surprisingly good for talking to. You're also welcome to email me, link in bio.
by simonw | 2025-04-08 19:11:55+00:00
Llama is not an image generating model. Any interface that uses Llama and generates images is calling out to a separate image generator as a tool, like OpenAI used to do with ChatGPT and DALL-E up until a couple of weeks ago: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/26/add-a-walrus/
by rubyn00bie | 2025-04-08 19:12:04+00:00
I like ECharts a lot and generally, it was incredibly easy to use and customize. I tried a lot of alternatives that weren’t nearly as full featured. It’s really got most anything you’d want included in outta the box.

With that said, I had trouble getting it to stream updates, and was having big performance issues with the dataset I was throwing at it (full telemetry from a racing sim roughly every 12ms). I did not make any attempt to refine the data before delivering it so YMMV. I eventually switched to Plotly and D3 to get better performance, but definitely missed the ease of use.
by afpx | 2025-04-08 19:12:13+00:00
Yes, often unreliable. And, they will give different answers at different times.

https://chatgpt.com/share/67f57459-2744-8009-a94e-3b67dce8fd...

“[Jeeps] often score below average in reliability rankings from sources like Consumer Reports and J.D. Power.”
by qsort | 2025-04-08 19:12:40+00:00
I'm afraid the author is writing for an audience that's familiar with generating functions. It's using a common trick in analytic combinatorics, the notation is actually "shorthand".

Very informally, let T(z) be the generating function where the coefficient of the z^n term is the number of trees we are searching with exactly n nodes.

We know from the functional description that such a tree can be:

- a leaf; - a node with 1 child; - a node with 2 children; - a node with 3 children.

A leaf is a tree with one node and that's it, so it "contributes" as a single tree of size 1.

How many trees of size n are there that fall in the second case? Exactly as many as the total trees of size (n-1), hence this case "contributes" as zT(z).

How many trees of size n fall in the third case? That's a bit harder to see, because now you have (n-1) nodes in total, split between the two branches. So you can have 1 in the left branch and n-2 in the right branch, 2 left n-3 right and so on. With a bit of basic combinatorics you can notice that this is exactly the convolution product of the series with itself, in analytical terms T^2(z). Hence the third case "contributes" for zT^2(z).

The fourth case is similar.

At this point we have constructed the inverse of the generating function we are looking for, i.e. z as a function of T(z) rather than the reverse, but luckily there's a standard trick for this: Lagrange inversion.
by transpute | 2025-04-08 19:12:40+00:00
Operant has something similar in IIoT, https://operantnetworks.com/sie-sbd-part2/

1. Immutable Content Naming: In a data-centric system, content is addressed by its name, transcending geographical considerations. This circumvents the vulnerabilities associated with IP addresses, which can be spoofed or manipulated. By employing cryptographic techniques to validate the authenticity of content names, NDN establishes a robust layer of security that underpins the entire architecture. 2. Built-In Data Integrity: NDN employs built-in mechanisms to ensure the integrity of data. Content is signed by publishers and verified by consumers, preventing tampering or unauthorized alterations. This approach effectively mitigates data breaches, as any unauthorized modification is detected and rejected.
by infecto | 2025-04-08 19:12:51+00:00
I refuse to use it out of principle that they have intertwined it with observable. All the modern docs for d3 assume you are using observable. So unless you are relying entirely on AI it’s now even harder to grok the documentation.

Not sure why this is so contentious. You can search online how many others this impacted as well. All of the modern examples for d3 were rebaked into the observable notebook pattern and it seriously obfuscated how to use d3 itself.
by dylan604 | 2025-04-08 19:13:25+00:00
"According to Dykstra, who served as a general contractor on the project with her mother Debbie, the three-bedroom, two-bedroom house in Willoughby Hills, Ohio was built using plans of Wright's Usonian called Project #5909, or Riverrock."

Assuming 2-bathroom house? Why oh why has editorial review just become such a joke? This seems like such an obvious thing to catch.
by CraigRood | 2025-04-08 19:13:29+00:00
ChatGPT et al are quite neat, but the interfaces are not great at all. For example, I'm going on a trip to Paris in a couple of months. I can ask a LLM what to do but it will just give me a list. There are no visuals, click throughs, maps, tips, experiences. blending 'AI' with search and a 'reader' can create a much better experience.
by HelloMcFly | 2025-04-08 19:14:15+00:00
I've used Midjourney and chatGPT. Midjourney is better for rapid iteration, cycling through options faster, and to a large extent getting "weirder". It's easier to tweak using parameters.

ChatGPT is far, far superior (especially now) when you want something more specific that you've already imagined. But it's slower, and unlike Midjourney you don't get four versions to choose to build and iterate on, you get a single image that takes longer to load.
by rDr4g0n | 2025-04-08 19:14:50+00:00
I see quite a few comments about how this is nothing new and it's easy to catch scammers, etc, etc.

Scamming may not be new, but a person using AI in this way is able to penetrate quite deeply into (long, tedious, time-consuming) interview process if folks aren't keeping an eye out for it (and this article, like many personal experiences, indicate that people aren't yet). Having an AI voice in your ear, rapidly providing you answers in real time is something new; at least in terms of how easily accessible it is.

It's amazing to me that folks have the audacity to come to interviews like this. I think some candidates genuinely feel that it is a reasonable thing to do along the lines of stuffing their resumes with keywords to get through the various recruiter filters. It's like hey, everyone in baseball is doping, so I have to do it to keep up!

The behaviors are obvious once you've seen them before, but as an engineer and not a "talent acquisition" person, I feel deeply uncomfortable implying that some candidate I'm interviewing is lying or cheating, so it took me a bit to speak up about it.

These types of articles need to continue to come out and the conversation elevated, if just to save some poor devs hours of interviews with candidates who were able to bluff their way through the less technical initial conversations.
by entropyneur | 2025-04-08 19:14:52+00:00
Do you have that friend who knows the answer to anything and who you thought was a genius until smartphones appeared and you started googling his answers? LLMs are that guy.

For programming stuff that can be immediately verified LLMs are good. They also cover many cases where search engines can't go (e.g. "what was that song where X did Y?"). But looking up facts? Not yet. Burned many times and not trying it again until I hear something changed fundamentally.
by guzik | 2025-04-08 19:15:57+00:00
glad you mentioned xbar, and your comment is ranked high (so maybe someone can help me out). I've been a long-time user of xbar, but recently it stopped showing up in the menubar on macOS 15.2. Even a simple script with just print doesn't display anything. Anyone else running into this?

btw. I'm starting to think xbar might be abandoned - it hasn’t seen updates in a while.
by tikhonj | 2025-04-08 19:16:18+00:00
Some business can certainly allocate more than $100M, but I could see that thesis for VC-backed tech-style product companies.

A few examples come to mind immediately: trading firms/hedge funds often have more capacity than that in their existing strategies; hardware businesses can have substantial up-front costs; companies with high COGS might need that much to just scale at the rate they're already moving, since each unit locks up a bunch of capital until it's sold.
by nfriedly | 2025-04-08 19:16:21+00:00
It's a mix of both for me.

I use gemini more on my phone, where I feel like going through search results and reading is more effort, but I'll fall back to searching on duck duck go fairly often.

On a desktop I generally start at duck duck go, and if it's not there, then I don't bother with AI. (I use copilot in my editor, and it's usually helpful, but not really "search").
by dakial1 | 2025-04-08 19:17:35+00:00
You mean online right? Credit/debit card payment gateways are a little cumbersome for foreigners not only because they are a small amount of customers, but also because it opens a window for card fraud, which in Brazil, the online stores have to paid for it (as it is a non-physical credit card use).

Apparently Wise had a PIX functionality here in Brazil, but it seems that they removed it for some reason.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-04-08 19:17:45+00:00
Me, too.

But, sadly, OP is right.

When doing a technical screen I'll sometimes pick a skill the person claims to have, and ask them the simplest possible non-trivial question I can ask.

For example, let's say you list 'SQL' as one of the skills on your CV. I might show you a SQL statement like:

SELECT id, start_date FROM employees;

(EDIT: I meant SELECT id, start_date FROM employees ORDER BY id;)

I'll tell you id is an auto-increment field, and ask whether the result would show the newest employee at the top or the bottom.

You have a 50/50 chance of getting it right. If you get it wrong, I'll tell you the answer. Getting it wrong wouldn't disqualify you.

Then I'll ask you how to get it in the opposite order.

I am expecting you to immediately say 'add DESC'. If you can't answer that question in under 2 seconds, you probably haven't written enough SQL to justify listing it as a skill on your CV.

You would be surprised at how many people fail simple tests just like this one.

(I won't use this particular one again.)
by claiir | 2025-04-08 19:17:57+00:00
* Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

Be charitable. I provided encyclopedic reference out of a mutual discovery interest. Magazine articles[/opeds] may—in your words—present “opinions of some,” whereas reference-grade material provides a broad and citable foundation—ostensibly what you are looking for (“your axiomatic foundation is just another opinion of some”).

> You haven't [..] backed up your opinion

In the spirit of “respond to the strongest plausible interpretation” and good faith, I think you may have missed the argument I was making above. :>

I am positing a reformulation/distillation of “positive trade balance preference” as “preference for foreign investment,” drawing on Palgrave, although perhaps controversially. The former is controversial, especially if seen as a-priori; the latter mundane.

:>
by m0d0nne11 | 2025-04-08 19:18:27+00:00
Nice work - congratulations! ...and, yes - I had to paste the text of today's game into vi so I could use the bracket matching to untangle the clues... :)

Also, I would make it more obvious which clues are eligible for solving at the moment rather than penalizing us for not being able to discern which ones are.
by mystified5016 | 2025-04-08 19:18:53+00:00
I'm not so sure. Mammals have a huge energy budget mostly because we're endotherms. Humans are also pretty large as far as mammals go, and use more energy.

The caloric enrichment of food by cooking probably can explain this as well. We got smart enough to cook, which gave us more energy from less food to power the brain. At that point, the evolutionary advantage of metabolic efficiency matters less. It allowed early humans to continue developing on the same path, probably increasing brain complexity somewhat over time while not focusing as much on energy.

But I'm no biologist. I'm just guessing.
by cdata | 2025-04-08 19:19:09+00:00
I entered the workforce in 08/09. At that time things seemed really dire. It felt to me like the whole house of cards was coming down, and I told myself that I would take any job that I could get.

I ultimately landed a job with an odd startup, eccentric founders, working out of an attic. In hindsight I couldn't have asked for a better start to my career. But, my expectations were rock bottom at the time.

Anyway, keep your mind open to all possibilities. You never know where an unlikely choice may take you. And, good luck!
by rat87 | 2025-04-08 19:19:15+00:00
Japanese culture has quite a lot of sexism but so do many "western" countries some are better in some ways some are worse in some ways. And divide between "the West" and Japan isn't so huge Japan is fairly westernized in many ways. It's a rich liberal democracy with a lot of similarities to other rich liberal democracies we may label western.

> A lot of visible local businesses in rural Japan tend to be run by men

And you don't think that has anything to do with sexism in society?
by neomantra | 2025-04-08 19:19:22+00:00
I'll toss some props to `go-echarts` [1], which allows you to declare charts with Golang types and it all gets bound to JSON automagically by Golang's JSON marshaller. I've used it for many projects and whenever there's an issue/PR, the maintainer responds quickly.

It's fun to Go-embed JavaScript functions and SQL queries, for this weird blend of data, SQL, Go and Javascript. Here's a Golang example that pulls data from a DuckDB and creates a baked-in candlestick chart file with JavaScript tooltips. [2]

[1] https://github.com/go-echarts/go-echarts

[2] https://github.com/NimbleMarkets/dbn-duckduck-goose/blob/mai...
by kelipso | 2025-04-08 19:19:55+00:00
You need to stop accusing me of made up things derived from your paranoid delusions lol. Democrats wanted the protesters in jail and they put them in jail be they didn’t like what the protesters said. It really was that simple, so stop making things up from your fantasies so you can imagine this is something new and special or try to “win” some internet argument by accusing people of things that exist only in your imagination.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-04-08 19:20:59+00:00
Not the case in my jurisdiction, exaggerating in your resume is not illegal. And I really don't care, call it whatever you want if that makes you feel better. Companies are dishonest all the time to their customers and to their workers and especially to their candidates. Been screwed 3 times by dishonest employers, I'm only reciprocating their attitude.

I'm just playing the game so that I come up on top the same way they are doing it to us. That's capitalism for you, our current system doesn't reward honesty, it rewards those who are unscrupulous, as they end up at the top. Companies aren't religious holier than though, they're unscrupulous chasing profits, and then if that's the case, I can play the same game.
by BandButcher | 2025-04-08 19:21:14+00:00
Lol never give into Internet pressure.

Especially when you don't know if the feedback given to you is legit or not (copy pasta, ai summarized, or in this case, tech "word salad" to recommend it should be open source)

Release if and whenever you want. Revoke access, "delete" the repo, do a complete rewrite that never ends up in prod, YOU decide.

Have a great day and best of luck (someone not interested at this exact moment to review your GitHub project but enough to reply to this thread - maybe I stumble across your next Show HN though and I hear your elevator pitch).