MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bluGill | 2025-04-09 20:38:15+00:00
They exist for sure. They are not working for the out sources because they have found someone willing to pay them what they are really worth - this might be a lot less than they could make in the US, but a lot more than they can make from the cheap outsourceers. You can find great offshore labor, but you need to hire someone who knows the country to manage those people as not everyone is great. You also need to be willing to pay the great people.
by itishappy | 2025-04-09 20:38:19+00:00
What am I going to do with a second home?

I see where your head's at, but I think a huge portion of the reason for using dollars is that it's simple and easy to manage. You don't need to find suppliers, manage inventory, match individuals with housing, or audit for fairness. Potentially more importantly, you don't need to pay for those activities either!
by faizshah | 2025-04-09 20:38:48+00:00
Everyday it is looking better and better to self host. I really don’t feel like ChatGPT $200/mo is 10x better than $20/mo and after trying QwQ 32B myself I just can’t justify paying these AI subscriptions. Gemini Flash is also dirt cheap as an api and Groq is dirt cheap and fast for QwQ and other OSS models.
by joshstrange | 2025-04-09 20:38:49+00:00
I really like Claude and have the money to spend on something like this if I wanted to but it's not compelling at all.

No new models, no new capabilities, just higher limits. Which I know some people are asking/begging for but that's not been an issue for me. If I needed more I'd probably use the API.

I only continue to pay because some of the features in Claude Web are better than what I've seen elsewhere but their latest web redesign is making me seriously reconsider that stance. It's /bad/, breaks scrolling while it's generating a response, break copy/paste/selection, etc. It's incredibly hostile and I have to assume anyone seriously using Claude internally is using a different client.
by numpad0 | 2025-04-09 20:39:46+00:00
Rent is charged monthly, and everyone consumes the value at the exact same pacing of 1/30th the rent per day. Consumers has no leverages, save for weak protections that won't be statistically significant, against price hikes. I think it's reasonable to assune it's more efficient at capturing UBI than regular commodities that can be rationed or splurged on.
by fxtentacle | 2025-04-09 20:40:04+00:00
This looks like it'll slurp up all your data and upload it into a cloud. Thanks, no. I want privacy, offline mode and source code for something as crucial to system security as an input method.

"we also collect and process your voice inputs [..] We leverage this data for improvements and development [..] Sharing of your information [..] service providers [..] OpenAI" https://withaqua.com/privacy
by Dwedit | 2025-04-09 20:40:04+00:00
There is also "Tetanus On Drugs" on GBA (later renamed Lockjaw: The Overdose), which uses Mode 7-style distortions to simulate the experience of playing Tetris under the influence. I'm not 100% sure of which rule set it uses, but it does have hold pieces and delayed piece locking at the bottom.
by mppm | 2025-04-09 20:40:21+00:00
This is basically the communist vision (in its original, positive sense) -- Universal Basic Provisioning achieved through automation and a moderate amount of community service. People are always quick to point out how governments will inevitably screw this up, likely making things even worse than they are now, but I think the idea has merit at least in principle. Unlike the idea of Universal Basic Income. Free markets and free money just don't go together. Especially if this money is given to the "productive underlayer" of society rather than investment bankers. That will just collapse the house of cards from the inside out. Administrators, middle managers and VPs of sales do not a functioning economy make.
by zamadatix | 2025-04-09 20:40:22+00:00
This is just pricing the same model to higher limits at a volume discount (which makes the pricing per usage lower, not higher). To actually "release a $200 model" they'd have to make something expensive to run like a ChatGPT 4.5 and then have the only plan which can use it worth a damn be that price. Given how bad 4.5 flopped in terms of performance I doubt many will go that route though, it'd have to be different kinds of services not in the current plan instead.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-04-09 20:40:34+00:00
First let me tip my hat and thank you for engaging on this. I think though that we're talking past each other which isn't my goal. So I'll try to explain a little clearer.

The concerns you raise are valid. The process in my example is more rushed than I'd go through in a team context. This is a relatively immature project I'm exploring solo, so the appropriate level of "process overhead" is different than in a team context. I didn't take the time to separate that from what I'd do in a team.

In a team, there'd be upfront discussion to align on what's in the "roadmap" (ie. we'd write a spec), there'd be discussion as the work proceeds if tech-debt emerges and refactors are needed, there'd be CI, tests, coverage, and code review. A good team would own the code forever, so they'd be happy with any refactoring.

When I said massive refactors I meant within the context of one PR. It's insanely freeing to be able to draw with crayons all over your codebase, see what works, and then either `git reset --hard` or refactor it into shape.

If a refactor of existing code is needed, that's its own PR.

In summary, almost nothing changes at the level of team process. Keep all those guardrails - but use these tools to 1000x the amount of typing & exploration you can do!
Show HN: Rocket Launch GenAI – A starter kit to build full-stack GenAI apps
by fcojaviergonmi | 2025-04-09 20:41:10+00:00
Hey HN

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by arrosenberg | 2025-04-09 20:41:16+00:00
> And as far as I'm aware, that process was followed following Biden's announcement.

This is exactly the problem. The Democratic Party excuse is always "we're following the process". The results suck and then they wring their hands wondering how they lost the election. The goal should be to get power, and getting power requires nominating someone popular. Anyone who has paid attention to US politics for the last decade could have explained just how unpopular Kamala Harris would be.
by LWIRVoltage | 2025-04-09 20:41:17+00:00
This is an issue I face- I have a collection of thermal cameras that use apps to control them- after every install onto a phone, they then reach out t oa server to authenticate.

Here's the issue- though I have a few older phones- these apps are 32 bit ones, so no modern phone after Android 13 will run them. And they are all now not on the app store anymore,as they all came out about around 2016. i did use a APK extractor to pull the APKs to store them - but the native backup functionality wouldn't capture that authorization in the future, I might rob myself of my ability to use some extremely expensive, and long-term invested capable hardware, by backing up and restoring-

I suspect a full image would solve this problem, but I don't think one can do that outside of things like TWRP- but that requires unlocking the bootloader, and if you do that it wipes your device- AND is more vulnerable to Custom's usage of Cellebrite and etc, to my undertanding.

I don't have this issue with laptops ,as I can fully image them and wipe and restore ahavend have a perfect replica/ no issues. But my thermal cameras do not run off of PC and th eform factor wouldn't work if they did
by MPSimmons | 2025-04-09 20:41:21+00:00
This feels like very old-school java client/server architectures.

>This means that you can write your entire application in a single language and deploy it as a single binary. No more microservices, no more containers, no more Kubernetes, no more Docker, no more VMs, no more DevOps, no more infrastructure, no more ops, no more servers.

This is an abstraction layer that will end up being applied on top of most or all of those technologies. You can't hide from the fact that the database instances need to run on something.
Show HN: I built a platform to change models and prompts with no deploys
by abdulhdr1 | 2025-04-09 20:41:32+00:00
Hey HN!

My cofounder and I built a platform for integrating AI, this means you can change prompts, models, settings, on the fly Some other cool stuff is that it's a single API/bill/spec for any model may you want to run, all in a single API key

I like to think of it as if vercel's ai sdk turned into a service

Now that I mentioned it, whats the itzam's difference from other AI provider wrappers?

Itzam's main goal is to make it easy to have great AI in your product, meaning two things: - Empower both tech and non-tech people to refine AI models behaviour, so things like ease of use and learning curves are always in our mind. We want to be as batteries included as possible, while still allowing for customizations to experienced users. This mindset defines our initial target users, teams with managers who need to keep improving their AIs but are slowing the dev cycle with their change requests. - Switching to a better model should be effortless. Right now we are at the brink of google's gemini 2.5 flash release, if it's viably cheap and reasonably fast, a lot of people we'll want to move from models like gpt4o mini and claude 3.5 haiku, but what do you do if you invested time into creating embeddings and adding context into OpenAI or Anthropic's ecosystem? You're going to have to do it all over again, and that's what we want to avoid. Imagine being able to drag and drop files, links, images and having it shared across AI providers.

Would be nice to hear you feedback! You can contact us at support@itz.am or schedule a meeting https://cal.com/gustavo-fior/30min
by kstrauser | 2025-04-09 20:41:58+00:00
Very true. That said, I've been taking 5000IU daily for the last couple years after a blood test showed my levels were a bit low. As of last week, my 25-Hydroxy D level is 76, near the middle of the 30-100 normal range.

Everyone's different: what's right for me isn't right for you. I just mean that to demonstrate that it's possible for some healthy adults to take a pretty significant amount every single day and have perfectly reasonable blood levels.
by LWIRVoltage | 2025-04-09 20:42:34+00:00
I am in a similar pickle.

This is an issue I face- I have a collection of thermal cameras that use apps to control them- after every install onto a phone, they then reach out t oa server to authenticate.

Here's the issue- though I have a few older phones- these apps are 32 bit ones, so no modern phone after Android 13 will run them. And they are all now not on the app store anymore,as they all came out about around 2016. i did use a APK extractor to pull the APKs to store them - but the native backup functionality wouldn't capture that authorization in the future, I might rob myself of my ability to use some extremely expensive, and long-term invested capable hardware, by backing up and restoring-

I suspect a full image would solve this problem, but I don't think one can do that outside of things like TWRP- but that requires unlocking the bootloader, and if you do that it wipes your device- AND is more vulnerable to Custom's usage of Cellebrite and etc, to my undertanding.

I don't have this issue with laptops ,as I can fully image them and wipe and restore ahavend have a perfect replica/ no issues. But my thermal cameras do not run off of PC and th eform factor wouldn't work if they did
Show HN: LLM Based Spark Profiler
by ambrood | 2025-04-09 20:42:45+00:00
Hey HN,

Spark event logs run into 100s of MBs and offer a wealth of insight into your workloads but making sense of them has always been quite a bit prohibitive. We’ve recently built a lightweight tool that automatically parses Spark event logs and surfaces targeted insights to help you optimize your data jobs.

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We’d love your feedback — check it out at https://app.datasre.ai and let us know what you think!
by markus_zhang | 2025-04-09 20:43:00+00:00
Yeah, but I think with a government-initiated program, it's going to be a lot cheaper because of the scale. It definitely doesn't solve the problem of corruption or other political issues, but hopefully UBI creates better citizens (for a start, now whoever wants to participate in politics have the time to do more research and participate more) so that those issues get called out.
by lenerdenator | 2025-04-09 20:43:15+00:00
They were, but they've shown that they'll gladly ignore human rights abuses and autocracy so long as the price is right. Trump's used to doing business that way, unfortunately.

Really, if Putin hadn't invaded Ukraine, I don't think Europeans would particularly care about those problems in Russia. It only really became problematic when the order of the continent was threatened, and even then it took some serious arm-twisting to get certain members of NATO and the EU to commit to measures to do something.
by taeric | 2025-04-09 20:43:39+00:00
These reports only make sense to me if I take a "substitution model" in mind. My idea being that it is not likely that alcohol itself is healthy, but there are some pretty good feedback loops that prevent people from drinking too much alcohol that don't really exist for many of the replacement drinks.

As such, many people that drink "moderately" also drink less of all things. Often times, their "one drink with dinner" is all they drink, period. Contrasted to the bottomless soda drinks that are also on offer.

Granted, I'm still not clear I have internalized my few trips to other countries. I had assumed people would drink more water. I was, evidently, very wrong. It is still puzzling to me how little water I was able to get on the regular when out.
by abbadadda | 2025-04-09 20:43:39+00:00
Tyvm for the serious comment, i_am_proteus! :-) The algorithms book By Steve S. (The Algorithm Design Manual)?

I've read that one, not an expert by any means, and I've got a 'decent' handle on data structues, but what about the software engineering basics one needs like OOP vs. Functional, SOLID, interfaces, class invariants, class design, etc.? Should I just pick up any CS 101 textbook? Or any good MIT open courseware classes that cover this type of stuff (preferably with video lectures... intro to algorithms is _amazing_ they have Eric's classes uploaded to YouTube, but finding good resources to level-up as a SWE has proved somewhat challenging)

^ serious comment as well... I find myself "swimming" when I hear certain terms used in the field and I am trying to catch up a bit (esp. as an SRE with self-taught SRE skills that is supposed to know this stuff)
by shitpostbot | 2025-04-09 20:43:44+00:00
They didn't though?

> first designed specifically for inference. For more than a decade, TPUs have powered Google’s most demanding AI training and serving workloads...

What do they think serving is? I think this marketing copy was written by someone with no idea what they are talking about, and not reviewed by anyone who did.

Also funny enough it kinda looks like they've scrubbed all their references to v4i, where the i stands for inference. https://gwern.net/doc/ai/scaling/hardware/2021-jouppi.pdf
by xandrius | 2025-04-09 20:44:08+00:00
And this stuff is why I love either super creative science fiction or travelogues (and the formers are hard to find).

You can try to imagine a brand new world or simply try to re-live our real and past world. To me that is even more amazing, as it often can be the door to understanding some things of today's cultures and/or discover lost little worlds.

Currently I'm going through this book of a guy who cycled across Central Asia and in Japan. The guy is sometimes quite direct in his writing (unlike other writers) but it's so interesting to experience the world of just 100-200 years ago through the lens of one living there. I truly recommend it.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-04-09 20:44:27+00:00
But in the meantime, the state has $40b of wealth under its control to invest.

And while the $100B winner may have had some insight that contributed to the $100B, there also had to be a $100B winner in an economy structured the way ours is. Consequently, we don't really know whether there's a reason to prefer their investment choices over the ones the state will make.

It currently remains unclear, for example, whether what Musk or Bezos have done with their vast wealth thus far will, in the medium or long term turn out to be a net benefit to society (it certainly has not been so in the short tem).

The belief in the business genius really is overblown. Yes, some folks are better at it than others, but when we run the economy like a casino, there will always be big winners no matter what personal qualities the players bring to the game.
by sva_ | 2025-04-09 20:44:38+00:00
If anyone wants this in a humorous 1 hour format, watch the legendary Jim Weirich (rip) explain it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FITJMJjASUs

Don't be discouraged that it is in Ruby as the concepts are completely general. Great watch even though I never coded a line of Ruby.
by bob1029 | 2025-04-09 20:44:39+00:00
> There are a large number of fundamental impedance mismatches between relational data and object based data

My experience tells me that the largest among these impedance mismatches is the inability for OOP languages to express circular dependencies without resorting to messy hackarounds. Developers often fail to realize how far they are into the dragon's den until they need to start serializing their object graphs.

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/29900
by supplied_demand | 2025-04-09 20:45:14+00:00
==1. People will stop working if they don't need to and won't need to in future. This is obvious to anyone who has met people.==

You are arguing against a proposal nobody is making. In this study, €1,200/month isn't really enough that people wouldn't need to work. The average wage in Germany was €4,479/month in 2023.
by woodruffw | 2025-04-09 20:45:47+00:00
> Any project trying to use deterministic symbolic logic to represent the world fundamentally misunderstands cognition.

The counterposition to this is no more convincing: cognition is fuzzy, but it's not really clear at all that it's probabilistic: I don't look at a stump and ascertain its chairness with a confidence of 85%, for example. The actual meta-cognition of "can I sit on this thing" is more like "it looks sittable, and I can try to sit on it, but if it feels unstable then I shouldn't sit on it." In other words, a defeasible inference.

(There's an entire branch of symbolic logic that models fuzziness without probability: non-monotonic logic[1]. I don't think these get us to AGI either.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-monotonic_logic
by jfengel | 2025-04-09 20:46:06+00:00
If everyone who stayed home had voted for the same third party, it would have won. That's unlikely.

It's also unlikely that it would have been split between only two additional parties. In my state we had 5 parties on the ballot. Colorado (to pick one at random) had 12.

If there was any real movement to get non-voters to vote for a third party, there would likely be even more of them. As it is, each of those parties took a fair bit of effort to get on the ballot, knowing that at best they would "send a message".

If the message is "we don't like you", then the message has been received, for many years. But the reply is "OK, go get people to agree on somebody else", and that's the sticking point.
by easyThrowaway | 2025-04-09 20:46:12+00:00
Let me give you a simpler, Occam's-razorish explanation: People who voted for Trump aren't stupid, or naive, or anything. They simply were unable or unwilling to accept the world changing around them regarding race, sexuality, welfare, climate, economy, foreign and domestic policies. They elected someone who told them "we'll go back to the old times one way or another, consequences be damned".

This is exactly what they voted for, what they were hoping for. They knew leopards would've eaten the face of a few of them, but it was somewhat expected, a calculated risk. There's a few casualties even when you win the war.

They saw something they could cling to, to avoid changes for the remaining of their lives, even if this meant destroying their country, the rest of the world or the future for the matter. And they replied with "Yes, we're fine with that".
by abbadadda | 2025-04-09 20:46:17+00:00
Ah! Nvm, I see you mean https://github.com/walkccc/CLRS (didn't catch the acronym was the authors names smushed together at first)

> This website contains nearly complete solutions to the bible textbook - Introduction to Algorithms Third Edition, published by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein.
by magicreadu | 2025-04-09 20:46:23+00:00
Both you and OP are not looking at this from the right angle. The goal here is to decouple US from China. In the meantime, tariffs are raised on every country to gauge which side they are on. Once US knows who the allies are, they will negotiate to have those allies put up massive tariffs on China as well to prevent transshipping.

US wants nothing to do with China. As the biggest consumer economy in the world, the have that right.

And China has shown that agreement with them has no value. Remember that China promised trump in term 1 to massively import US goods and reduce fentanyl, in part to slow trumps tariff down. They did neither of those things. Trump hasn’t forgotten that.
by em-bee | 2025-04-09 20:46:43+00:00
also dietary needs and preferences. it's way do complicated. it adds a burden not only to the administration but also to those who sell the goods and services received.

another problem is that if i earn extra money i can't combine it with the basic income to eg afford a better apartment. everyone would be stuck with the apartment given.

you end up with people who spend it irresponsibly and then need help to survive. So you end up with UBI in addition to all the existing social safety nets.

i don't believe that. if you spend your income irresponsibly you are out of luck. change your habits. wait until the next payment and do better. if you can't do that then a social worker will help you.