MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by imtringued | 2025-04-29 15:08:19+00:00
None of this makes any sense. There is no waiting. You just do it. In no universe can you justify using a vulnerable log4j version. You force gradle to use the patched log4j and be done with it.

Five years has nothing to do with Java. It means nobody cares about security in the first place. Outsourcing such a trivial security problem to Microsoft is just another nail in the coffin. "I have no capacity to develop secure software, better make myself dependent on someone who can".
by grafmax | 2025-04-29 15:08:20+00:00
Blaming human nature mystifies the power relations that shape society. Penny dreadfuls and yellow journalism were the result of the commodification of culture under capitalism. The internet failed to bring us together because it was shaped and appropriated by corporate power to fragment solidarity, extract data, and commodify attention. In each case, it’s the profit-seeking of a minority class that bends technology toward commodification and cultural degradation. But let’s blame human nature instead of the power structures that generate these outcomes.
by davidvgilmore | 2025-04-29 15:08:41+00:00
thanks for calling this out

To be 100% clear: we do not prevent anyone from using Memex to build a Memex competitor. That clause was boilerplate our lawyers included, and it doesn't reflect how we operate or what we intend to enforce. I should have caught it and we'll fix it.

On the Usage Data side, your code is never stored anywhere other than your machine when you use Memex. And you can enable "Privacy mode" to not have your prompts stored either.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-04-29 15:08:50+00:00
at the same time they run wild campaigns like the butchering of private property

January 6, and Trump's subsequent pardon of the rioters, cost you every last drop of the moral authority you need in order to say things like that.

Yes, there is lunacy on the left that does not sleep... but at least their breed of idiot means well. Historically, when you pit the misguided motivations of an AOC against the active malevolence of a Trump, the latter usually beat the former handily. And as usual, when elephants fight, the mice get trampled.
by mattfrommars | 2025-04-29 15:08:52+00:00
We use an internal 'no code' tool to do complicated data transformation logic. Our flow has become so large and convoluted, it is extremely difficult to put feature and debugging is absolute nightmare.

You have no idea how many times we had wished all this data transformation was in vanilla Java/Python. Our life would have been so much easier. But at this time, it is too large to ignore.
by zelon88 | 2025-04-29 15:09:03+00:00
> "My general conclusion is that any story that you want to tell about these tools being very transformative, needs to contend with the fact that at least two years after [the introduction of AI chatbots], they've not made a difference for economic outcomes."

I'm someone who tries to avoid AI tools. But this paper is literally basing its whole assessment off of two things; wages and hours. This is a disingenuous assertion.

Lets assume that I work 8 hours per day. If I am able to automate 1h of my day with AI, does that mean I get to go home 1 hour early? No. Does that mean I get an extra hour of pay? No.

So the assertion that there has been no economic impact assumes that the AI is a separate agent that would normally be paid in wages for time. That is not the case.

The AI is an augmentation for an existing human agent. It has the potential to increase the efficiency of a human agent by n%. So we need to be measuring the impact that is has on effectiveness and efficiency. It will never offset wages or hours. It will just increase the productivity for a given wage or number of hours.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-04-29 15:09:23+00:00
> Of course, it turns out Amazon needs a host country to survive after all

It this is true (it might be, it might not be), there's no particular reason why it needs to be the USA. Bezos and the current management structure and employees of Amazon in the USA might prefer if it was that way, but there's little about the company that requires it, other than its biggest market also being the USA.

Also: Bezos doesn't really own Amazon any more in any meaningful sense. He owns less than 10% of the stock.
by VWWHFSfQ | 2025-04-29 15:09:24+00:00
The big clouds love these people too. So much of the software industry is just an outrageous combination of inexperience and "YOLO". Every problem can be solved by just giving AWS another $100,000 this month because we don't have time (and don't know how) to make even basically optimized software. So just burn the gas and electricity and give more money to the YAML merchants at Amazon.
by taylodl | 2025-04-29 15:09:50+00:00
> In modern, well-structured codebases with decent linting and tests, human-written code is often the weakest link.

This is a statement written by someone having little work experience. It seems trivially obvious until you get to work and realize what the real problem is: incomplete and/or inconsistent requirements. Close on those heels are poorly documented APIs. Poor architecture and design round at your problems.

Writing the code? That's the easy part. Maybe that's what we should be emphasizing to people wanting to be professional software developers: the code itself has never been the hard part. That's table stakes.

Am I supposed to be impressed that AI has taken the easiest part of code development and has made it a little bit easier? Maybe? Don't forget I still have to create tests because I need evidence the code actually does what it's claimed to do. Which is ironic, because test creation and management is an area software developers really struggle with and now it's more important than ever!
by xienze | 2025-04-29 15:09:58+00:00
> You never been to LAX if you don't immediately act with a sigh of relief over a direct train route. It's an potential 90 minute+ commute and another 90 minute TSA process for a 90 minute flight. Dreadful.

So your estimate is 270 minutes.

Where's the train stop supposed to be in LA? Downtown, right? What's the commute for that like? Sure, no 90 minute TSA process (big doubt if that's typical) but now the 90 minute flight turns into 160 minutes (which is the target they're aiming for and it's not likely). Add on how long it takes to get downtown and... not much time savings, is there?
by shadygm | 2025-04-29 15:09:59+00:00
There's some algorithms, such as Photo-SLAM and Gaussian Splatting SLAM (although far heavier and slower), that show that it is indeed possible to be able to estimate position and generate Gaussians in real-time. These are definitely still the early days for these techniques tho.

The offline method still generates significantly higher resolution scenes of course, but as time goes on, real-time Gaussian Splatting will become more common and will be close to offline methods.

This means that in the near future, we will be able to generate highly realistic scenes using Gaussian Splats on a smart edge + mobile robot in real-time and pass the splats via ROS onto another device running ROSplat (or other) and perform the visualisation there.
by Kneecaps07 | 2025-04-29 15:10:17+00:00
Edit: Nevermind, I see that you've already done this.

It might be worth it to pony up for an M365 license or two, send yourself an email, and then open a support ticket inquiring why the email was blocked. I would even avoid mentioning that you are the sender. Just pretend you're a regular customer who receives email from your domain and you're wondering why it was blocked and if there's anything that can be done to stop it from happening.
by m4rtink | 2025-04-29 15:10:22+00:00
Or maybe you just have what was stored in various nuclear shelters at that time ? That could be even more confusing!

In one unused shelter here in Brno the numbered stones of a medieval chapel are stored since it was demolished long ago. In another shelter in Prague you can find the complete archive records of the Prague 4 city administration.

Any aliens discovering this would inevitably reach the conclusion that humans had a lot of respect to both honoring their past & for comprehensive bureaucracy. So much indeed, that when the end came, they decided to forego the temporary safety of their shelters and let this legacy of their culture survive instead!
by pkdpic | 2025-04-29 15:11:03+00:00
Nice to see this pop up, not that I mind giving Duo money every month for my kids account.

Still looking for DuoLingo for actual programming... python etc... Specifically for elementary school kids... I know it's out there... Im getting closer...

I know this is a false statement but it would be so easy for DuoLingo to add Python along side their Math and Music betas!!

Please Duo hear my prayers...
by incomingpain | 2025-04-29 15:11:05+00:00
GDP = buying/selling things and investment. Government spending is almost always buying something. How could you extract this from GDP?

Elon is saying government spending should not be included in GDP. In reality GDP is what it is; find a new metric to use.

the quality of using GDP as a metric is low because of this. Also why GDP growth matters so much. Recessions are defined as negative GDP growth by 2 quarters. So government can deficit spend to hide a recession, that's the problem.

What you have to look at isnt GDP at all. find a new metric to use to determine recession. Here's mine.

Real GDP minus government deficit(all levels of government combined) per capita.

When you look at this metric. Canada, Germany, UK, France, Italy, Japan, spain, and estonia are in hidden recessions. Also why they all pretty much need to be negative bank rates and high inflation right now. Obviously this is a WW2 consequences that were put off until now.

Other ways to see the problem is 2030 worker shortage or the inverted population pyramids.
by emacdona | 2025-04-29 15:11:29+00:00
> customizing ranking for certain websites [...] the ability to block websites from search results entirely.

These were the killer features for me and why I'm happy to continue paying for Kagi.

That being said, I've (anecdotally, at least) noticed the quality of their search results declining (still better than Google).

I search for a lot of error messages (for example, errors that I encounter while compiling Java code) -- with very unique strings -- only to have the entire first page of results not contain these strings. Even if I quote them. I really want the ability to say "The page MUST HAVE THESE STRINGS". Google used to have "allintext:" -- but even that doesn't guarantee a page will contain a certain string anymore.

Now, when I'm trying to get more insight on an error message, I'll use AI first. And while I get much better results that way, I find it incredibly frustrating because search engines USED TO BE JUST FINE for this use case. Now they no longer are.
by ravenstine | 2025-04-29 15:11:52+00:00
I don't trust what anyone says in this space because there is so much money to be made (by a fraction of people) if AI lives up to its promise, and money to be made to those who claim that AI is "bullshit".

The only thing I can remotely trust is my own experience. Recently, I decided to have some business cards made, which I haven't done in probably 15 years. A few years ago, I would have either hired someone on Fiverr to design my business card or pay for a premade template. Instead, I told Sora to design me a business card, and it gave me a good design the first time; it even immediately updated it with my Instagram link when I asked it to.

I'm sorry, but I fail to see how AI, as we now know it, doesn't take the wind out of the sails of certain kinds of jobs.
by cue_the_strings | 2025-04-29 15:12:18+00:00
Don't underestimate investors' intelligence.

Most of the RTO reasons barely make sense for investors investing in startups, but may for established companies. Things like this RTO push rarely happen without a reason.

Off the top of my head:

- tax cuts if you're operating in a certain area, maybe even historical ones, political connections like - legacy of lobbying local politicians in said area to get some benefit

- conflict of interest from the owners (private or major shareholders) also somehow owning commercial real estate or businesses that rely on its vitality

- management having reasons to prefer RTO: simple preference for in-person management, fear of loss of control or being perceived as useless, misalignment with a personal-connections-over-merit advancement; these things are mostly misaligned with the owners' interests
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-04-29 15:12:23+00:00
We can't remove it from the environment but we can bury it and we can filter it. We may be able to remove it if we can find compounds to bind with it in the soil. Everything else will be going into a landfill and our water will just be tainted forever (because it goes into the ocean and comes down in rain). So start investing in water filtration companies, in addition to the companies that will own all the water rights.
by waiwai933 | 2025-04-29 15:12:41+00:00
I did a free 30 day Kagi trial a month ago, and while I'm not sure I'm convinced the search results are better, they're definitely not worse. I've only fallen back to Google thrice, and in every case, Google didn't find anything useful either.

That said, the most astonishing thing was that I apparently do 100 searches a day, so 3k a month... I'm a bit sad that Kagi doesn't offer opt-in search history because I want to know what it is I'm searching for! (it's across three devices so looking at browser history is just above the threshold of how much effort I want to put in)
by jplusequalt | 2025-04-29 15:12:54+00:00
>If companies are no longer paying these high salaries, perhaps products and services go down and despite earning less $

There is endless amounts of cheaply produced slop in stores today. By and by I don't give a fuck about affording those kinds of goods. I care about being able to afford a home, having access to good healthcare, being able to travel, etc. These are the kinds of goods and services that I doubt will come down significantly in price.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-04-29 15:12:59+00:00
Productivity in what sense?

If I told you I would give you either $27k to spend as you wish on education, or let your kid go to a SF public school (which would spend the $27k as it seems fit), which would you choose? I'd pick the former.

if large swaths of the workforce were illiterate

I live in one of the richest cities in the US. Here, about 50% of 11th graders attending public schools can read and write at a level that meets the minimum state standards (which is a low bar).
by beloch | 2025-04-29 15:13:27+00:00
It's apparently a partisan issue. Take a look at the White House's response.

> * White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said she had discussed the Punchbowl News report with Trump, and his message about it was: "This is a hostile and political act by Amazon." * [1]

The Trump administration has expressed a clear expectation that businesses like Amazon should pretend tariffs are paid by foreign countries. Transparent pricing is now disloyal.

[1]https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/white-house...
by obayesshelton | 2025-04-29 15:13:36+00:00
Pretty nervous as this is my V0.1

MindJam helps brands, studios and creators understand their YouTube communities.

MindJam analyses millions of YouTube comments to instantly reveal the unfiltered voice of your audience – their true sentiment, emerging themes, and the topics they really care about.

Here is a sample analysis - https://mind-jam.co.uk/analysis/HPMh3AO4Gm0?utm_source=hacke...

I didn't intend on building MindJam... I wanted to learn about LLMs.

At first I wanted to see how Laravel would/could work with an LLM and after doing some reading I ended up learning about OpenAPI 3.0 Schema and Multi-Modal RAG.

In the last few months I have built on top of Gemini, Claude and OpenAI. All have their perks and quirks.

I am hoping this learning is only the start of a pretty cool journey.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-04-29 15:14:25+00:00
"What it costs now" - "What it cost in March" = "Tariff cost"

The math is not perfect, but to a good approximation (certainly a far better approximation than the administration's insane computation of international "tariffs") that will indicate the cost to the consumer of Trump's tariff policies.

So yes, if the importer eats a significant chunk of the tariff cost and doesn't pass it on to Amazon/the consumer, the computation will reflect that (as it should). And if they don't, it will reflect that too (as it should).
by nine_k | 2025-04-29 15:14:47+00:00
From my experience, Duolingo teaches you the vocabulary and the set sentences very well. But this is by far not enough. I use regular textbooks that describe the structure of the language, the grammar, the syntax, etc, so as to gain some analytical understanding of it. On top of that, Duolingo helps to get used to recognize these structures and flesh them out with various words. Also, unlike a book, it forces you to listen, and, crucially, to speak. It's a very important step from being able to read written language only to being able to actually talk.
by yojo | 2025-04-29 15:14:52+00:00
That is… surprising.

I’d actually seen this project before because the author did a nice write up on using React portal to portal into electron windows[1], which is something I decided to do in my app.

I’d just assumed his was a cross platform project.

1: https://pietrasiak.com/creating-multi-window-electron-apps-u...
by seth_at_kagi | 2025-04-29 15:14:52+00:00
Hey,

As I mentioned in my previous comment, it does not convert IF you do not have a payment method set. In this instance they already had one set which Stripe takes as 'this user wants to renew' and instead decides to not cancel it.

I did mention a workaround we could do, and that's something that we will ensure gets done asap.
by rkangel | 2025-04-29 15:15:30+00:00
I've been using Kagi for almost 18 months. In that time we've had a baby, and I have done many many searches about baby related things. It took months after he was born before I started getting any baby related targeted advertising (I'm pretty sure it was a result of a Facebook post). Whereas for the other parents, every advert they've seen has been baby stuff since well before the baby was born.

I like Kagi, I like the principle of aligned priorities over my privacy and I like the search quality. But that really cemented why it's worth it to me.
by motohagiography | 2025-04-29 15:15:38+00:00
There are loose analogies to Yarvin, where Bill Ayers had a similar relationship to Obama, Aleksander Dugin's relationship to Putin, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein's influence on the Blair and Clinton cabinets, Ayn Rand's influence on the Reagan cabinet, Karl Popper/George Soros' influence on the Biden org. Klaus Schwab even became a kind of Rasputin cult figure to the CANZUK countries over the last decade.

Yarvin's ideas aren't really that interesting owing to once being described as doing for words what bitcoin did for electricity. My read was they are reaction to history downstream of Marx, which was itself an anti-clerical reaction, and this "reaction to a reaction," is a hollow simulacrum that takes in productive minds. Where Yarvin fails is that his atheism is a constraint that means he has to sound everything out from scratch again. Whenever I read his stuff all I see is a philosophical game of "God is lava."

If there is any predictive power about this admin from Yarvin's ideas, I'd look for precedents in what the WEF network did with the EU/CANZUK in the background after co-opting Karl Roves "actors of history" mentality in the last decade. Change you can't see until after, ratcheting effects, exercising hard power, etc. not anti-democractic, but post-democratic, where america is healing from decades of capture and democratic failure.

I don't think, other than maybe the sentiment of restoring the legitimacy of america's elite, that Yarvin's ideas influence anyone that much. They absolutely emboldened people to question the progressive narrative machine by showing how alternatives were rich and historically deep, but the moldbug show itself is limited. Insights into Vance and this admin will come more from thinkers with popular traction like Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Sowell, and the stories of American heroes that are examples of the essential American character, and not anti-heroic critics like Yarvin.
by leoapagano | 2025-04-29 15:16:03+00:00
Ignoring the obvious question of "why does a screen recorder that checks for updates every 5 minutes need to be installed if macOS already has a screen recorder built in"—writing your own (buggy) auto updater for a macOS app, in 2025, is nuts considering you also have two existing options for auto updates at your disposal, the Mac App Store and Sparkle (https://sparkle-project.org/), both of which are now nearly two decades old.
by xemoka | 2025-04-29 15:16:17+00:00
Canada's population grew by over 3 million since the last election. So yes, the parties will get more votes. That combined with the utter collapse of the NDP and Green party votes, meant more vote share goes to the Liberals and Conservatives.

The left wing has been rotting out from under the NDP's guidance for years. They are no longer a grass roots party and are primarily controlled through their central offices (both federally and provincially). Provincially the NDPs have been moving towards the center to govern for years as well, just look at the Alberta and BC NDPs and their policies/actions.
by alkonaut | 2025-04-29 15:16:51+00:00
This space seems like one of those areas where it would be really hard to break in because their whole selling point is having had hundreds or thousands of people record and annotate an enormous amount of voice input, which I assume has to be hand polished for every single exercise?

I'm sure some part of it could be automated these days, or some parts even use voice synthesis, but I'm sure it would take basically an army of people hand-crafting it for the experience not to be very janky in the end.
by HelloNurse | 2025-04-29 15:17:08+00:00
Starting from the paid developer accounts, the Apple app store isn't "provided for free by the operating system" and it is a source of endless busywork, fear and suffering, but the argument stands: a professional Macintosh software vendor uses the app store because Macintosh users expect it, so it can be assumed that "properly" publishing new software version to the app store is a sunken cost that should be made as useful as possible.
by Edd314159 | 2025-04-29 15:17:21+00:00
Sure, "toxic" is word that means bad things. But I don't think you read the article.

It only talks about the levels in the soil. It says nothing about what impact this has on the food we eat from that soil (in fact it explicitly states that the level in food was not measured).

It also doesn't quite agree with your use of the word "we". The article does not conclude whether the elevated levels of metals were down to natural processes or humans (e.g. it suggests that weathering could be at least a contributing factor).

I get what you're saying, if someone says something is "toxic", it means something somewhere is at a level which is dangerous in some context. But the original comment on what the article itself is saying is not wrong. There is no information on real-world implications.
by elmomle | 2025-04-29 15:17:44+00:00
I can't speak to any very recent changes (I'm doubtful anything's changed massively, I could be wrong), but I was educated in the US and went to highly selective schools--and it was only in an obscure, elective history of science class fairly late in my college career that I learned about al-Haytham (who was called Alhazen in the class). Meanwhile, I (and many of my HS classmates) could have told you that Copernicus pioneered a heliocentric model of the solar system, or about Newton's laws of motion, etc., when we were 15.

The Renaissance really was taught as "Europeans rediscovered the great classical thinkers", and it was only through my own curiosity that I learned that Islamic science played a key role.