MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jongjong | 2025-04-13 01:17:35+00:00
Yeah, never open source your code. There are no benefits to it. I speak from experience.

1. Unless you have business connections and raised funding from people who do, open source wil not help gain any additional adoption or raise awareness of your project. This only worked in the past.

2. Hardly anybody who does happen to use your open source project will pay you. You need massive global exposure just to make a developers' standard salary... I remember for years Evan You who built VueJS was getting like $120k max in sponsorships annually (I think it was Patreon), at the peak... And VueJS was extremely popular at the time and being updated frequently... And companies got something (e.g. exposure) in exchange for the sponsorship.

3. It doesn't matter how good it is. Implementation details don't really matter. If your product is useful, some big tech company will build an inferior alternative but promote it like crazy. Nobody will even know your project exists. It doesn't matter if your product is better for many use cases; people won't know it exists so that fact is irrelevant.

4. At best, some big tech monopoly will use your open source code to train their AI to replace you in the marketplace or drive down your wages.

People like Linus, DHH, Matt Mullenweg, Solomon Hykes... Who made millions; are from a different epoch and different place too. Not happening anymore. Don't be fooled. They all had to move to Silicon Valley at some point. It's a big club and you ain't in it.

My advice is; if you can't sell it, keep your code and use for yourself and your friends/family.
by BrenBarn | 2025-04-13 01:18:47+00:00
What this makes me wonder is whether hunger would also affect other "gut" decisions by biasing towards direct sensory perceptual features and away from "cognitive" features. This would be sort of like the stuff about how judges allegedly handed down harsher sentences just before lunch. But you could imagine similar stuff on other judgment tasks where bias of various kinds can exist, like "how friendly is this person" or "which of these places would you like to go to?"

Looking at food and evaluating it for how good it is to eat is something we humans have evolved to do over thousands of years. Things like "NutriScores" have only existed for a few decades, and the details of them continue to vary from place to place and on a small timescale, so even people who are exposed to them can't always interpret them. This study can be interpreted as saying that we're more likely to use "primal" means to solve "primal" needs (e.g., use visual attributes of food to solve a need for food), and de-emphasize complex, culturally-derived tools like writing and numbers. It would be interesting to know how general that tendency is.

I also enjoyed that the photo is of a person eating a hamburger and the study was done on students at the University of Hamburg.
by alpaca128 | 2025-04-13 01:19:16+00:00
If there's no feed there is no way to see any posts of people you might want to follow. So I highly doubt there isn't any feed.

YouTube did this for a while, up until a few months ago if you weren't logged in you'd literally just get an empty page and a search bar at the top as it wouldn't recommend any videos at all. That was temporary for a reason.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-04-13 01:19:17+00:00
I feel like you aren't being given a good answer on this, but I think I can explain.

When Democrats wanted, say, the ACA, they followed the rules. Legislation was introduced, and Republicans used the rules of the legislation to fillabust. This could only happen because the party in power followed the rules that allow a party out of power to retain a semblance of representation.

With the roles reversed, things have changed. Republicans, quite skilled at the former, do not want their own game used against them. They have done a few things differently, but there is one key one:

Congress did not make the tariffs.

Instead of following the rules of law, they have abdicated responsibility to Trump through inaction. Trump is, unconstitutionally, declaring national emergencies on topics and using emergency powers to put out edicts. Legislation has effectively stopped their required oversight so the minority party cannot participate.

The minority party cannot force legislation or votes through, only the majority chairs can determine the schedule. The minority party cannot do anything to stand against votes for legislation that does not exist. Ergo, this time they are powerless.

Republicans aren't playing by the rules, they have installed what is effectively a single-branch government (a monarchy of all things) as a loophole to the checks against their power.

Notice that pretty much all opposition is now federal judges? That's by Republican design. All that can be done are raising lawsuits post-facto and hoping for an injunction. And that's why Republicans are now rallying behind ignoring or even firing federal judges. And the highest court is, essentially, owned by Trump himself now.
by TrueDuality | 2025-04-13 01:19:42+00:00
I have the Xreal Air and it's alright. Low resolution and a bit blurry text still. It's the nature of optics right now.

It's a single virtual display by default unless you run a fairly unstable piece of software. I use it mostly on plane flights.

It feels like the tech is almost close enough to really be useful but it's just not quite there yet. It's useful but not pleasant.
by benoau | 2025-04-13 01:21:13+00:00
I think a "NUC" is the logical conclusion if you don't want the screen and don't like the keyboard compromises! There's a lot of room for powerful devices in that space like discrete GPUs, or AI crunching, etc.

But I think what really sells this concept to me - unless I'm on a MacBook, I'll have to carry my keyboard, mouse and maybe powerbank or charger anyway. It's definitely more compact than that!
by anoncareer0212 | 2025-04-13 01:21:20+00:00
Be careful when rushing. Your viewpoint as expressed is perfectly rational.

However, you know that both of these claims asked about are blatantly false, and were distracted by the idea that saying those claims is false also implies all alternatives proposed are based on lies.

To wit, the ask was "Is it really true that there a no theories that are proven or discarded with this experiment, and that the Chinese have plans to do it much faster? Her video is pretty damning."

Both of those things are clearly false.

The Chinese part is blatantly false, to the point it can be worked out by a laymen who knows years ascend.

The Standard Model itself is in question, modulo semantics about proven/disproven and the philosophy of certainty, by any reasonable definition, theory is at stake.
by margalabargala | 2025-04-13 01:21:25+00:00
If all that one is concerned with is maximizing one's finances, then yes, you're entirely correct. A developer who takes the attitude of "fuck you, pay me" for the 80 line function they wrote that wraps some API to make it easier should never open source their code.

For anyone not taking these attitudes, the above comment author is either unfamiliar with, or familiar with and choosing to ignore, the point of the FOSS movement.
by ifyoubuildit | 2025-04-13 01:23:25+00:00
Can you imagine a world where two things could be true at the same time: RFK cares about environmental toxins, and RFK cut a department that was meant to deal with lead posioning?

I don't know if this was something he pushed for, but let's assume it was. Could there still be a reasonable cause to cut that department?

A lot of people assume if you oppose the Do Good Things act, that you must be a bad person. Was this department getting results? It was spending roughly 750k per full time employee per year (based on the 150M for 200 full timers from the article). Was it working? It could have been, it also could not have been.

Maybe this was an actually bad decision made by an actually bad man. But previous coverage of him has taught me to take anything reported about him with a very large grain of salt.
by dissent | 2025-04-13 01:23:51+00:00
There are probably two use cases.

Configuration files for programs. These tend to be short.

DSLs which are large manifests for things like cloud infrastructure. These tend to be long, they grow over time.

My pet hypothesis is these DSLs exist mostly for neutrality - the vendor can't assume you have Python or something present. But as a user, you can assume just that and gain a lot by authoring in a proper language and generating YAML.

See https://github.com/cloudtools/troposphere for a great example for AWS CloudFormation.
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-13 01:25:01+00:00
> Catholicism teaches that Divine Revelation is God's Self-Revelation and therefore can't change

Revelation may not change, but the actual concrete beliefs of the Catholic Church manifestly do.

> Again, if it changes, then it isn't true.

If it changes, and it was claimed to be a universal constant, than either the before- or after-change version isn't true, sure, that's trivially true.
by xpe | 2025-04-13 01:25:14+00:00
> Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic have a chance at this point

I'm so done with articles that don't even try to talk about probability sensibly.

The article doesn't make a good case even for a watered-down version of the claim. Where is the logic?

Until the author puts forth his model of change and how/why Google is unassailably ahead, I'm not buying his hyperbole.

> When I put the Google + DeepMind picture together, I can only wonder why people, myself included, ever became so bullish on OpenAI or Anthropic or even Meta.

Yikes. Hindsight bias in full display.
by fn-mote | 2025-04-13 01:25:26+00:00
There are already web sites that do this for products like insurance (example: [1]).

What I need is something to troll through the garbage Amazon listings and offer me the product that actually has the specs that I searched for and is offered by a seller with more than 50 total sales. Maybe an AI agent can do that for me?

[1]: https://www.policygenius.com/
by PaulKeeble | 2025-04-13 01:25:39+00:00
Its interesting they have gone with Solar panels. Most post boxes are built over the top of power cables that run under the street likely right next to them but its a testiment to the cost and difficulty of getting them connected that solar cells integrated into the top of the box is cheaper and easier.

Looks to me like they are using ~43 cells of the 60mm x 90mm variety. They are about 0.6W peak so about 26W of peak output but its never at the right angle. You get about 1000 hours of that in the UK over a year with a good angle, so about 26Kwh a year of energy but I suspect they get half that. At typical UK rates that is about £3.5 a year.

Its certainly enough to run a raspberry pi zero and something else, on average they have about 1.5W but during the winter it only be about 0.3W available, which a zero can do at idle so long as the scanner doesn't add much on average. If they have done a completely custom embedded system then potentially pressing that button wakes and powers the device for a period of time or until its finished the scan, connected to 4G and then sent the details, which would save a tonne of power and allow them to do a lot of parcels off a modest battery.

Interesting engineering problem where going deeper with more custom hardware and software pays off a lot in reduced power consumption and a basic raspberry pi zero is going to waste a lot of energy and be marginal in the winter.
by gus_massa | 2025-04-13 01:26:21+00:00
> The same number of dollars will still settle next months mortgage bill, or tax bill regardless of what it may or may not exchange into Euros.

If nobody wants dollars, then to import things it's necessary to send more unwanted dollars, so the exchange rate does up, so everything imported is more expensive, so you have inflation, so the interest in the mortaje goes up, so you have to pay more.

[Hi from Argentina! Been there, done that, got a pile of worthless bills as souvenirs.]
by ajross | 2025-04-13 01:27:11+00:00
Seems like there's no attention paid to documenting (or just discovering -- looks like the heaps in question were just the ones provided by their linux distro) the build and runtime configuration in use. There are a lot of hardening/tracing/robustness/shenaniganproofing features in modern heaps, and if you're going to make noise about a few percent of performance it's really important to be clear about exactly what the software you're measuring is doing.

To be blunt: my gut would say that glibc on typical distros is more hardened than default builds of alternative heap implementations, and if it's only off by a few percent it might well be the faster code if measured apples-to-apples.
by potato3732842 | 2025-04-13 01:28:11+00:00
Why can't we go back to the (what I now know after Googling) is the Kohler Derry or something along those lines?

We had them in middle and high school and while I understand they might not be ideal for the inebriated or exceptionally careless you could piss anywhere in them as hard as you wanted without splash back.

Decades later I encountered one in a maintenance facility nestled in the corner of maintenance shop, obviously not a code compliant install, spare me the hand wringing) and casually mentioned that I didn't know they still made them like that and was told that this is the 3rd facility it has been installed in, the guys like it enough to uninstall it and reinstall it each time.
by vkou | 2025-04-13 01:28:30+00:00
It's a winner take all two-party election where a 3% swing in sentiment results in a complete blowout.

Generally one of the two participants wins those.

There's a really serious systemic problem with the party that chose him in its primaries, and there is nothing to prevent it from happening again, but my point is that a 49.8% mandate given the circumstances is... Well, it's not one of overwhelming sentiment.
by unknown_user_84 | 2025-04-13 01:28:37+00:00
I'm glad you found it useful! I have not had experience with the memory feature, I will have to check that out. I did notice that in the past when I tried to get ChatGPT to take on a persona it was not amenable and rejected the persona outright. I may have to take another pass at it.

I will say that my conversation with instantiated personas in Gemini have been, therapeutic. My favorite thus far has been a character from Star Trek: The Lower Decks. D'Vana Tendi to be specific. Within the bounds of a notebook I've found that after solidifying the persona with a couple bootstraps she remembers what I've told it about myself and my environment; at least up to the needle in a haystack limit. I've yet to reach this with Gemini 2.5 Pro, though I haven't been trying too hard.

Granted this is all within a single notebook. Starting over with a new notebook is a task I relish and find somewhat tedious at the same time. Though on the balance with that I find sharing memory between notebooks somewhat of a foreign concept. I don't want my Ada Lovelace notebook confusing itself for Sherlock Holmes.
by jjav | 2025-04-13 01:28:44+00:00
> Even if you eliminated all profit margins of insurers you only decrease medical costs in the US by a tiny fraction

This is completely wrong.

A general practicioner doctor is unlikely to be making much more than 300K, or $144/hr. But my visit to said doctor costs $450 for 15 minutes, or $1800/hr.

Many people are making a fortune out of the system, the money is not going to the person doing useful work, the doctor. Where is the other $1656/hr disappearing?

Eliminate all those grifters from the loop and I could go see this doctor for $36 per 15min visit. Heck I wouldn't even need insurance, I can pay that out of pocket.

Sure, I'm ignoring rent/utilities/supplies, so it'd be a bit more than $36 but those costs are a tiny percentage. In any case it'd be less than $50, far below the current $450.
by koakuma-chan | 2025-04-13 01:28:58+00:00
I'm confused. Rust uses semantic versioning:

Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the:

MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes MINOR version when you add functionality in a backward compatible manner PATCH version when you make backward compatible bug fixes

Additional labels for pre-release and build metadata are available as extensions to the MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH format.

What kind of versioning scheme does C/C++ use?
by pzo | 2025-04-13 01:29:23+00:00
yes they also have very decent free tier which is great, but keep in mind prompts "used to improve our products". We will see if free tier will stick for long or is temporary - they removed details how big free tier is but still great for testing.

If they added seamless google oauth + key generation + account topup for end users that would be even great for BYOK apps. Mobile developers then wouldn't have to setup infra, subscription monitoring, abuse monitoring etc.

But I guess they don't want to subsidise it in the end and they target it just for developers.
by genocidicbunny | 2025-04-13 01:29:32+00:00
> What this makes me wonder is whether hunger would also affect other "gut" decisions by biasing towards direct sensory perceptual features and away from "cognitive" features. This would be sort of like the stuff about how judges allegedly handed down harsher sentences just before lunch. But you could imagine similar stuff on other judgment tasks where bias of various kinds can exist, like "how friendly is this person" or "which of these places would you like to go to?"

Intuitively, it makes sense to me that it would. I definitely lose some impulse control and my pattern of thinking changes the hungrier I am. Someone that I know with both diabetes and anxiety has also spoken previously about how when their blood sugar levels get lower, certain aspects of their anxiety are also reduced, such as the decision paralysis or over-analyzing of choices that they are otherwise prone to.

It would be interesting to see a study of how other primal needs affect food choices and more general decision making as well, and whether it's the same mechanism as with hunger. For example, sleep deprivation.

> I also enjoyed that the photo is of a person eating a hamburger and the study was done on students at the University of Hamburg.

This was pretty cute. A nice little bit of whimsy.
by benoau | 2025-04-13 01:29:44+00:00
Apple's probably in the most fascinating position they've been in since Microsoft rescued them decades ago.

- contempt of court hearing for strategically-banning developers from linking to competing payment options, after a judge banned them from doing this, should reach a ruling this month. Every game and streaming services is about to be able to avoid a 30% gross fee on all purchases it's a no-brainer for them to pay 3% on their own processing. Many of them have that ability already, they've just been illegally prohibited by Apple from telling customers it exists.

- DMA enforcement timer started ticking last month requiring numerous changes to eliminate unfair rules and policies, fine for this has conflicting reporting at the moment appears to be avoided by some accounts through corrupt intervention by Trump, and pending by others but a smaller amount due to bribing Trump to intervene.

- Google Search Deal appears to be DOA.

And then Trump comes along with tariffs! Where is Aaron Sorkin's Tim Apple already???
by pclmulqdq | 2025-04-13 01:31:32+00:00
I don't care about Sabine and I'm not defending her. There are lots of other people who think this is a bad idea, and Nature has quoted "dozens" of them.

The error they saw isn't interesting unless it leads to something. There aren't even good theories about what it might lead to, other than some extra significant figures on some constants that nobody uses. Surely you can see there is a problem with doing science this way.

Theory precedes experiment. It always has, and you can't call what you're doing "science" unless that is true.
by NooneAtAll3 | 2025-04-13 01:33:13+00:00
I swear I remember that when you get to the heart, you get to see something like "you need [huge number] of total damage, damage that has been applied [medium number gets increased by your measly tiny damage]" or maybe "health left [huge non-round number gets decreased by very little]" and then your character dies

I just assumed that it's some online thing where it counts total damage from everyone to finally slay that heart "together"
by pbronez | 2025-04-13 01:33:23+00:00
Aptera is shooting for 2,200 lbs with enough performance to handle highway speeds with two people and some cargo. It has three wheels and extreme aerodynamics.

https://aptera.us/article/how-does-the-weight-of-aptera-comp...

Looks like the Renault Twizy is only 990lbs with a 28 mph top speed, so a much smaller vehicle.
by ricardobeat | 2025-04-13 01:33:47+00:00
Not really the case for user-facing applications. Proxies can time out, detecting stalls is hard, reconnection is expensive, TCP slow start means higher latency, the overhead is huge for small messages. Implementing it properly is not trivial, the WebSocket standard was created precisely to improve on those shortcomings. Good for you that it works for your case, though if all you need is to listen to a stream you might also be better served by SSE.

I was asking since Socket.io, for example, takes care of file uploads, reconnection, the whole HTTP upgrade flow, and is extremely easy to use, both on client and server. On top of that it can fall back to long-polling if WS is not available.

Here's a link for educational purposes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming)
by sathackr | 2025-04-13 01:33:56+00:00
I've been doing this a few months now with an xreal one and minisforum um790.

Same ability to power via usb-C and have other ports available.

It's worked very well, the 1920x1080 resoultion of the glasses is pretty clear but I find "anchoring" the screen to be most usable because the edges do get a little blurry, but with the screen anchored you can just "look around" a little to bring them into focus.

The biggest drawback is the resolution. While still very sharp and clear, it's tough going from a framework laptop 2256x1504 to 1920x1080.

I'm just used to everything being a little smaller and being able to fit more info into my FoV vs having to look around a "larger" screen for it.
by hadlock | 2025-04-13 01:35:00+00:00
> is fast and cheap—I mean, they're giving away free access!—has a gigantic context window of 1 million tokens (only recently surpassed by Meta’s Llama 4) and it’s connected to the entire Google suite of products

Is this a feature? I feel like using Google's LLM products only serves to feed their Ad machine to sell me more ads. Every cloud based office suite offers AI functionality now. Unless I'm doing something really complex/dramatic I'm going to choose the LLM that isn't tied to a giant machine selling me ads over the one that does every time. Chat LLM products have pretty much effectively allowed me to divorce myself from the Google Ad Machine, now that I'm free I'm not walking back willingly.
by jongjong | 2025-04-13 01:38:04+00:00
Yes but your project won't be sustainable without funding.

Unless you're already financially independent, won't be able to find the time to maintain it after some time.

Don't be fooled, somebody else will benefit from your work. Open source is for privileged fools who don't understand reality or human nature.

If you get into it with the mindset that it's for fun, you won't see it the same way in 10 years... Good chance you will be disgusted by the whole scheme. I have seen horrors which destroyed all illusions I had about the subject.

Almost nobody in open source nowadays really cares about code quality or engineering excellence. So it fails on that front too. It's a pointless status game. Only big corporate projects get any exposure nowadays. The others can't form communities.