MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sanktanglia | 2025-04-15 17:26:50+00:00
Oh yeah the money from the tariffs are definitely going to go to help average Americans. Oh wait be did this last time and 90% of the tariffs went to propping up all the industries that went to shit due to reciprocal tariffs (soy beans and others) and we never recovered. So many countries moved away from us and never came back. That's exactly what's going to happen this time, alienating is from our allies, almost like it's the point to cause chaos and alienation but wait why would trump do that hes always been on the up and up before
by nobodyandproud | 2025-04-15 17:26:58+00:00
These are all good points, but I’ll add a different take here.

The points are correct but rather than bring “all manufacturing back”, the goal should be to aim for an 80:20 or 70:30. And it will still take decades, but at least with a far better chance of success.

For companies that rely on a global supply chain, manufacturing and even raw materials should aim for mostly global but a guaranteed 20 to 30% local.

It’s one way to offset a real market problem, where unchecked market forces drives all production offshore or “nearshore; leaving the nation vulnerable to supply chain disruptions.

For essentials like grains, I’d even argue that the nation should opt for an 70:30. It’d be insane for us to offshore the majority of production.
by bilsbie | 2025-04-15 17:27:08+00:00
Thanks for the feedback!

A couple notes. Running your numbers through Ai it looks like it would weigh about one ton per km of wire. And possibly much less if you’re ok with more power loss and high wire heating. Since this is a short term use that might be fine.

But on top of that the extreme amount of power is only needed because we’re trying to get up to speed as fast as possible to minimize gravity loss.

If we’re not carrying our fuel for the first stage it’s conceivable we only need enough power to hover the unit and gradually get it up to top speed.

I know it’s still a far out idea but might be workable from first principles.
by levkk | 2025-04-15 17:27:08+00:00
Forgot to add that to the article, but yes, we parse the statement and route SelectStmt[1] to replicas. If there is an UPDATE in the SELECT, we don't handle that at the moment, but can be easily added.

[1] https://docs.rs/pg_query/6.0.0/pg_query/protobuf/struct.Sele...
by netcan | 2025-04-15 17:27:28+00:00
Google search (and online direct marketing broadly) have pretty direct impact on sales. It's true that they held up well, relative to "traditional advertising" in recent downturn.

However... there are a lot of money losing campaigns out there. A lot of that relates to economic buoyancy. Startups showing growth for the next round. But also established companies getting into new sectors, defending market share, etc.

We are still, I think, in a "greed mode" economy. Fear hasn't really shown it's face yet. If that switch flips... I suspect meta/alphabet will be impacted this time.

It's really hard to tell though.
by simonw | 2025-04-15 17:27:43+00:00
I don't doubt the new Cohere model is better - but one of the features I value most from an embedding model is having an escape hatch, so I can continue to calculate vectors using that same model far into the future if something happens to the hosting provider.

This matters for embedding models because I'm presumably building up a database of many millions of vectors for later similarity comparisons - so I need to know I'll be able to embed an arbitrary string in the future in order for that investment to still make sense.

Size doesn't matter much to me, I don't even need to be able to run that model, it's more about having an insurance policy for my own peace of mind.

(Even a covenant that says "in the event that Cohere goes out of business this model will be made available under license X" would address this itch for me.)
by stale2002 | 2025-04-15 17:27:48+00:00
> You can not argue a legal case from analogy alone.

Yes they can because the analogy directly applies. The technical details of how a computer learns, vs a human learns doesn't really matter here, and is an irrelevant difference.

The reason why the analogy directly applies is because in both cases it is about how IP cannot really control how someone uses the IP.

Just like how IP laws cannot prevent you from listening to music while standing on your head, it also cannot prevent you from training your models on it (while also standing on your head, lets say!).

Instead, IP laws only prevents the publishing of copies of the IP.

So the point and the analogy stands.
by elcritch | 2025-04-15 17:27:59+00:00
Interesting links, though it seems more due to SwiftUI than anything. SwiftUI still seems rough compared to good ole Cocoa. I also remember when Electron apps ate 100% CPU due to blinking text cursors.

For what’s its worth my Figuro library does pretty well for live updating text and scrolling! And I haven’t even optimized layouts yet, it currently re-layouts the entire tree for every frame.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-04-15 17:28:18+00:00
I think you might need qualifiers on that. Are we talking an unknown / unrelated person living in the proverbial basement, or are we talking a famous movie director? I could see Spielberg or Cameron managing to make something like that happen on their name + AI alone.

If we're talking regular people, the best chance would be someone like Andy Weir, blogging their way to a successful book, and working on the side on a video project. I wouldn't be surprised if something along these lines happens sooner or later.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-04-15 17:28:25+00:00
I disagree with this perspective because this case had a really obvious and flagrant violation of due process. The planes were in El Salvador before the courts had determined his citizenship/resident status.

It's moot that he wasn't a citizen because the response to it happening to a legal alien suggests that, if this happened to a citizen, the administration would claim that it is impossible to return him while Bukele talks about how absurd it would be to smuggle terrorists into the US, all while people are arguing over whether or not he's even a citizen, let alone what crimes he committed to justify detention and deportation in the first place.
by thrance | 2025-04-15 17:28:25+00:00
Why twist every word out of my mouth? Why be so disingenuous?

> the idea that Nazis are somehow 'on the side of' any Jews, in any scenario, is ridiculous and stupid.

Then what do you make of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement?wprov=sfla1 ?

I never pretended that Nazi Germany was an ally of Israel or Jews or whatever. Simply that at some point in history, Nazis and Zionists shared a single interest. Do you debate this too?

> if you didn't murder and isolate and oppress Jews for a thousand years they wouldn't have felt the need to find a place away from you.

Wtf is wrong with you? Why use "you" as if I was the one committing those atrocities?

Do you not believe Jews can live in Europe? That colonizing Gaza is made justified by past genocide, necessary even? Perhaps you believe in the "Jewish Question" and think Jews can't cohexist around other populations? I do not.

> I assume you are Polish or something? Hungarian? Ukrainian?

No. Stop assuming.

> It's their country too, right? That's what you meant?

Of course it's what I meant you slimey dishonest idiot. I do not care about the religion/ethnicity/gender of my fellow citizens. What do you not understand in "I don't believe in the Jewish Question"?

Let me reiterate my position once and for all, so you can stop baselessly attacking me. Israel is currently committing atrocities in Gaza, and for that reason alone I am condemning it.

I do not believe in the "Jewish Question", this means I don't think having Jewish citizens in my country is an issue. Same thing as for any other "group".

Therefore, I don't believe the Zionist project was necessary in the first place. That said, I am obviously not advocating for the disbanding of Israel and a "return". That would cause tremendous harm for no good reason. What I want is for the colonization of Gaza to stop, is that too much to ask without being labelled a rabid anti-semite?
by mahjongmen | 2025-04-15 17:28:41+00:00
Which benchmark are you referring to?

Voyage-3-large is a text-only and much larger model than Embed-v4. If you want to unlock multimodality with Voyage-3-large, you'd have to either OCR (really bad results usually) or use a VLM to parse your data into textual descriptions (this works alright, but the cost of using a VLM will jack-up your data-pre-processing costs).
by MetaWhirledPeas | 2025-04-15 17:28:43+00:00
> Personally speaking, I've never cared whether someone "validates" my emotions (and I often view such attempts as a bit patronizing or insincere).

The solution is to be sincere. As to the reasoning behind it, it's not merely to appease the other person, it's to actually consider their point of view, because they might be right. If you don't consider their point of view then you're not considering all options, and more importantly you're willfully ignoring an option being presented by the person you are communicating with. That's not just dumb, it's disrespectful.
by steveklabnik | 2025-04-15 17:28:52+00:00
> Hard agree. Is retrospect I think the model of Delphi, where you must assemble `manually` a `pkg` so you can export to the world should have been used instead.

Very very old Rust had "crate files" which were this https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/a8eeec1dbd7e06bc811e5...

.rc standing for "rust crate"

There's pros and cons here. I'm of two minds.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-04-15 17:29:12+00:00
It doesn't matter what Nixon's context was Vance was quoting him literally by proclaiming it a piece of wisdom.

Posting the entire speech only bolsters my view. For example

"[To accomplish goals].. I think are fundamentally dependent on going through a set of very hostile institutions - specifically the universities..."

I'm confused about your argument. I don't consider it a smoking gun just a concise example of what Vance and MAGA Republicans belive. There's no context confusion, it's on video, and it being dull only shows how comfortable he is exposing insane views.
by mannyv | 2025-04-15 17:29:25+00:00
Nobody who does live streaming should set their gop to 6 seconds. That's way too big. I set ours to 2 seconds, which lets mobile adjust more quickly to their bandwidth limits.

And as a note, video segments for live are usually set to no cache, as are vod segments. The CDN does the caching. The client should keep segments around if you're doing rewind, but that's a client thing.
by mikepurvis | 2025-04-15 17:29:28+00:00
I completely agree— and that's across spheres of life. I don't want that from an intimate partner, I don't want it from friends, colleagues, my boss, pastor, therapist, the lady at the DMV, none of it.

Tell me the straight dope, and if I've messed something up, tell me what I did and how you think I should make it better. Don't butter me up or try to trick me into "discovering" on my own the thing that you actually want me to do.
by FireBeyond | 2025-04-15 17:29:36+00:00
> Political suicide to roll back tax breaks if they are primarily for the <$150k earners, like trump wants.

What tax breaks has he aimed at these people beyond some of the overtime and tipping (which is expected to only equate to about $2K)?

Instead:

>The largest tax cuts would accrue to the highest-income families, the Treasury said.

> Household in the top 5% — who earn more than $450,000 a year, roughly — are the “biggest winners,” according to a July 2024 analysis by the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. They’d get over 45% of the benefits of extending the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, it said.

> A Penn Wharton Budget Model analysis on the impacts of the broad Republican tax plan had a similar finding.

> The bottom 80% of income earners would get 29% of the total value of proposed tax cuts in 2026, according to the Wharton analysis, issued Thursday. The top 10% would get 56% of the value, it said.
by arandomusername | 2025-04-15 17:29:40+00:00
People want to preserve their culture for the same reasons, because it is their culture, it is their identity. How? Simple. Stop bringing in people that do not share your culture inside your country in large numbers.

Historically, they thought other cultures to be not as civilized/savages because often those cultures were not as developed, or as civilized, and often contained human sacrifice rituals. Regardless, forcing their culture on them was wrong just like it is now.

The first step is stop mass immigration. Then revoke all non-highly-skilled labour visas etc. Then add a $50k/yr additional tax to all work related visas, paid by the employee.

Also, not talking about US since they made their bed by bringing in through slavery, but talking about majority of Europe.

It feels like you are so scared of being seen as racist that you will sacrifice your culture just so you don't get called a racist.
by fzeroracer | 2025-04-15 17:30:09+00:00
I can understand this standpoint, but it's also a bit hypocritical (on a site-wide basis, not specifically you).

HN has been a place where the people currently running the government got praise. Elon Musk had huge thousand post threads every time he did something marginally interesting. Now that he's running roughshod over the government, any negative actions he takes are suddenly political and do not deserve to be here.

A lot of the current admin is a beast of Tech's creation. The time to stop this problem from coming to roost was years ago.
by skywhopper | 2025-04-15 17:30:14+00:00
Am I missing where this article actually proposes this “isolated execution environment”? It’s mentioned in the intro and summary (and title), but the rest of the post is mainly a list of why it’s hard to do early verification of eBPF code.

Okay, this is true!

So I’m left wanting to know why the author thinks less rigid “isolation” is a suitable answer to the problem. “JavaScript does something similar” is the only detail I could find. But JavaScript notably does not run in the kernel.

Ultimately this just seems like a post saying “it’s too hard to do everything we want within the current limitations of eBPF. But makes no effort to explain why getting rid of these strictures would be worth the huge security and reliability hole it would be creating, or how they would avoid those issues.
by SamBam | 2025-04-15 17:30:22+00:00
"no right to dictate what other people do with his creations" seems a little radical -- i.e., you don't believe copyright should exist?

Do you think a movie's creator can dictate that I'm not allowed to use a pirated version of a movie to display for 100% profit at my 10,000 AMC movie theaters? Or a book's creator can dictate that I'm not allowed to copy their book, put my name on it, and sell it on Amazon for half-price?

If you agree that a creator can do those things, then you're already in a gray area between "they can dictate everything" and "they have no rights." At that point, you're arguing over the precise location of the line.
by alexchantavy | 2025-04-15 17:30:50+00:00
Been using this for https://github.com/cartography-cncf/cartography and am very happy, thanks for building this.

Automated review tools like this are especially important for an open source project because you have to maintain a quality bar to keep yourself sane but if you're too picky then no one from the community will want to contribute. AI tools are like linters and have no feelings, so they will give the feedback that you as a reviewer may have been hesitant to give, and that's awesome.

Oh, and on the product itself, I think it's super cool that it comes up with rules on its own to check for based on conventions and patterns that you've enforced over time. E.g. we use it to make sure that all function calls that pull from an upstream API are decorated with our standard error handler.
by steveklabnik | 2025-04-15 17:30:57+00:00
Really depends on what you're doing, and how you write the Rust. I'd never claim this is always true, but Rust can be pretty concise depending on what you're doing. See this previous comment of mine, which links to some others with an example I've evolved over time on this forum: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42312721
by elcritch | 2025-04-15 17:31:21+00:00
I dunk on electron, but it’s a love-hate sort of thing. There’s some great apps out there due to electron. VSCode is great. This http server is well done and looks handy!

Personally though I’m just greedy. I want the best of QT and Electron. Figuro is my attempt at realizing that. ;)
by Retric | 2025-04-15 17:31:58+00:00
Current AI is stuck imitating what it’s exposed to. If they actually learned the material they would understand to reject incorrect information in their training data. LLM’s etc can’t do that under current methodology, simply sucking up more training data and tossing more processing power at the algorithm doesn’t solve that issue.

Leaning from music doesn’t mean imitating that music. People can for example learn from mistakes without imitating those mistakes.
by subjectsigma | 2025-04-15 17:31:59+00:00
People write articles like this and then wonder why we are so politically divided.

I do agree there’s a point past which someone is ideologically unable to be reasoned with. The classic example is neo-Nazis, of course. But also of course, there are redeemed neo-Nazis.

Coming from a conservative family and living in a deep blue state I’ve had my fair share of arguments on both sides. As other commenters have stated, it’s all about emotions. If you can make the other person feel like they are being heard and assuage their fears about X, Y, or Z, then you can make progress, even if it’s small progress.
by mahjongmen | 2025-04-15 17:32:31+00:00
Hey Cahaya,

While we benchmarked internally, on BEIR, we opted not to report our model onto MTEB for the following reason:

1) MTEB has been gamed - if you look at this model (https://huggingface.co/voyageai/voyage-3-m-exp) on the MTEB leaderboard, its an intermediate checkpoint of Voyage-3-Large where they finetuned it on datasets that represent MTEB datasets.

2) If you look at the recent datasets in MMTEB, you'll find that it has quite a lot of machine translated or "weird" datasets that are quite noisy

In general, for our Search Models, we benchmark on these public academic datasets but we definitely do not try to hillclimb in this direction as we find it has little correlation with real use-cases
by sph | 2025-04-15 17:32:38+00:00
> Am I just too paranoid about email?

You are not. I always say your email account is the most valuable thing you own. You need to keep it more secure than even your bank account (because that is easy to recover and rollback if stolen)

My password manager and email are the two things I own that require three factors to access - username, password, and hardware authenticator.

No way in hell I’m going to even consider using a new webmail product from a small startup.
by koolba | 2025-04-15 17:32:45+00:00
> Pretty bad false equivalency. Barry was barred from running and went to federal prison. Yes, he was eligible to run (and was re-elected) but only _after_ he served his sentence. Did I miss the part where Trump went to jail?

Nope. Though you also missed the part where the manufacturing of "felony" charges was so novel they had never been attempted before. The closest parallel is probably the case of John Edwards who was acquitted: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/us/edwards-jury-returns-n... But you probably think it's because he was also a white man and not because there was no criminal act.

I'm curious if you can even sum up what exactly was the felony that Trump was convicted, or even better, who's the victim? Because all I saw was an overzealous DA in NY with utter disregard for the actual law.

> You also can't compare a mayoral election with a presidential one.

Yes. And clearly people of DC would rather elect a Democrat crackhead over any Republican.
by kenjackson | 2025-04-15 17:33:00+00:00
> If that is their goal, should they even be classified as a university?

There is no universal definition of what the goal of a university should be.

At the very top of Harvard's mission page it says, "Our mission to educate future leaders is woven throughout the Harvard College experience, inspiring every member of our community to strive toward a more just, fair, and promising world."

There is NOWHERE where they say anything even remotely like, "Our goal is to reward students who do well in high school coursework and testing." Nor do they say anything like, "The mission of Harvard is to teach as much academic material to students as possible."

In contrast Caltech says, "The mission of the California Institute of Technology is to expand human knowledge and benefit society through research integrated with education. We investigate the most challenging, fundamental problems in science and technology in a singularly collegial, interdisciplinary atmosphere, while educating outstanding students to become creative members of society."

It's much more focused on solving science and tech problems and a focus on educating outstanding students. There is very little here about leadership.

And so you tend to see that CalTech has some of the top scientists and professors in the world. At the same time, even in tech/science companies, they occupy a small percentage of CEOs. Those aren't the people they are intending to nurture.

There's room for different types of education with different goals and metrics, including admissions metrics.

And anyone can create a university and say,"We look at grades and test score. We don't ask for recs or essays. Don't care about what your goals are. We stack rank based on GPASATAPs and then select the top N." That's a perfectly valid approach. I wouldn't want to go to that school, but it sounds like there are some students who would, and I wouldn't object to it.
by Izkata | 2025-04-15 17:33:10+00:00
I'm not sure about the "fencepost error" part, but he's thinking of days as durations rather than points. It's early in the thread, about halfway down the first page:

> You don't start counting on sunday, it hasn't been a day yet, you don't start counting til monday. You can't count the day that it is, did you never take basic elementrary math?

Put in other terms, TheJosh uses "Sun - Sun" as inclusive start and exclusive end, while Justin-27 uses "Sun - Sat" as inclusive start and inclusive end.

I think TheJosh mixed things up when trying to explain it (durations vs inclusive/exclusive), so doubles down and comes up with weirder stuff later in the thread. I didn't read the whole thing though, stopped near the bottom of the first page.
by TaniaBell_PD | 2025-04-15 17:33:11+00:00
the thing is, language shapes our thinking, discursive psychology will back me up on this.

Pre-Build in|Validation is unambiguous about what needs to happen before we get into building. It doesn't take away from Customer Discovery nor from the Customer Development methodology.

it's curious that you're not commenting on the MVP => PVI tho
by NegativeLatency | 2025-04-15 17:33:15+00:00
I've found I buy fewer things in general, and also the things I do buy are of higher quality when I do it in person. Might even get some useful advice if it's something like a tool. Also it's just more fun, especially if it's a nice bike ride, walk, or trip on transit.

> And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut
by stego-tech | 2025-04-15 17:33:16+00:00
Thanks for letting me know! I took down e-mail signups since it looks like it'll require Mailgun after all, which I'd rather not get into the weeds over when I'm really just putting thoughts down at the moment.

If you have an RSS Aggregator, the main URL has an RSS feed (green.spacedino.net/rss). Less e-mail clog, easier updates, though Ghost's RSS feed isn't exactly terminal-friendly if that's your jam (mainly due to mixed media).

I might get around to fixing e-mail in the future. Appreciate the heads-up though, thank you!