MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by phil21 | 2025-04-26 15:54:47+00:00
Depending on where you live this is pretty affordable for even an average midwestern senior dev salary. Especially in a two income household. As in cut out daily Starbucks level affordable.

It’s the first “luxury” I pay for when able to right after air conditioning, and I did it even when I was single with a roommate.

Costs where I live are $200 or so twice a month to have my entire place cleaned top to bottom and I live in an above average sized house.

It’s not nothing, but it’s affordable enough to prioritize. The best thing you can buy with money is time, and I’ve found this is one of the largest RoI possible in terms of dollars per hours given back.

Others will prioritize different spending but overall I find it a better return than even taking a vacation.
by Twirrim | 2025-04-26 15:55:03+00:00
Someone did this a couple of years ago for a major thoroughfare near where I lived. They marked it as one way for a key stretch, and traffic ended up being re-routed down much smaller roads to avoid it. It caused all sorts of chaos, both due to the increased traffic on roads not made for it, and in the long queues that formed where the traffic then rejoined the thoroughfare.

It took google at least the best part of a month to fix it (at least, it was around a month from when I submitted the correction, no idea if others beat me to it)
by yubblegum | 2025-04-26 15:55:06+00:00
> The moral answer is open borders. Both capital, which is generally freer than people are, and people should be able to vote with their feet. However, this is unsustainable unless ..

A strong no on this being "the moral answer". If people are permitted to vote with their feet maybe people are also permitted to build pickets around communities. That sounds more "moral" to me than entirely ignoring the wishes of the chosen destination's "people". IFF the destination is happy to welcome people who think their community better than their own and want to move over, then fine, that is a much better candidate for "the moral answer".
by echelon_musk | 2025-04-26 15:55:26+00:00
> Nandy said: "We recognise there are problems with the licence fee. Fewer and fewer people are paying it.

Reading between the lines; their problem is that they want the money that 20% of people are unwilling to pay.

> "It's unenforceable and, particularly, I've been very concerned about the way it's been enforced in the past, with women - particularly vulnerable women - targeted for enforcement action, and the BBC itself has accepted that."

What a bunch of claptrap. If it's unenforceable then what concern is there? All you have to do is put every letter addressed to "The legal occupier" directly into the bin. The letters are indiscriminate and have absolutely no targeting preference on sex. This just sounds like something to make the pill easier to swallow when they consider making it a mandatory tax.
by neom | 2025-04-26 15:55:44+00:00
I took one of the conversations you linked, and used it to find out what else it knows about you. "In simple terms: Simon represents an elite technologist class — someone who is not merely wealthy or successful but who also shapes technology and information flows themselves, especially in open systems. His socioeconomic profile is "creator of value," not merely "consumer of value."

If you want, I could sketch a socioeconomic archetype like "The Free Agent Technologist" that would match people like him really well. Would you like me to?"
by tianqi | 2025-04-26 15:56:11+00:00
People laughing at Australia might be missing the point. It's not only about scientific danger, but also about border security tradition. Australia is an island, and their border mindset is very different from land-border countries. That's why you can get huge penalties for bringing something as deadly as... a wooden chess, to enter Australia without declaration. Not to mention a piece of uranium. Respect the different culture please.
by moralestapia | 2025-04-26 15:56:30+00:00
I like C/C++ a lot, A LOT, and I agree with your comment.

Man, if this got fixed it would be one of the best languages to develop for.

My wishlist:

* Quick compilation times (obv.) or some sort of tool that makes it feel like an interpreted language, at least when you're developing, then do the usual compile step to get an optimized binary.

* A F...... CLEAR AND CONSISTENT WAY TO TELL THE TOOLCHAIN THIS LIBRARY IS HERE AND THIS ONE IS OVER THERE (sorry but, come on ...).

* A single command line argument to output a static binary.

* Anything that gets us closer to the "build-once run-anywhere" philosophy of "Cosmopolitan Libc". Even if an intermediate execution layer is needed. One could say, "oh, but this is C, not Java", but it is already de facto a broken Java, because you still need an execution layer, call it stdlib, GLIB, whatever, if those shared libraries are not on your system with their exact version matching, your program breaks ... Just stop pretending and ship the "C virtual machine", lmao.
by ajmurmann | 2025-04-26 15:56:31+00:00
The problem is that things like houses and boats became political tokens and/or don't have the same profit scaling as software. Housing is mostly restricted by political opposition that made it very hard or even illegal to build much. Building ships is labor intensive which is expensive here, but AFAIK at least construction of navy ships has become a bargaining ship that gets moved around to support senators rather than being allocated to the most efficient place. In general it also seems like unions in the US are somehow more of a problem than in Europe or at least Germany where I grew up. They seem less powerful here but somehow less reasonable.
by al_borland | 2025-04-26 15:57:17+00:00
I attempted this a while ago. I loaded all my YouTube subscriptions into an RSS reader, and then it quickly became too much for me to deal with. The big problem was that I do 99.5% of my YouTube viewing on a TV, while my RSS readers is on the phone and desktop. I learned that whatever solutions come up with needs to fit into my life. I’m not going to become a desk chair YouTube watcher.

YouTube effectively already has this built-in with their subscriptions. Not being able to turn off the recommended page, or default to loaded the subscriptions when opening the app on the TV are the real issues.
by Xplune13 | 2025-04-26 15:57:25+00:00
I'm not sure whether it's just the o4-mini which is failing this task for me or what, but it did not perform well on the pictures I provided. I took a screenshot of the photo both the times to avoid any metadata input.

E.g. I first gave it a passage inside of Basel Main Train Station which included a text 'Sprüngli', a Swiss brand. The model got that part correct, but it suggested Zurich which wasn't the case.

The second picture was a lot tougher. It was an inner courtyard of a museum in Metz, and the model missed right from the start and after roaming around a bit (in terms of places), it just went back to its first guess which was a museum in Paris. It recognized that the photo was from some museum or a crypt, but even the city name of 'Metz' never occurred in its reasoning.

All in all, it's still pretty cool to see it reason and make sense out of the image, but for a bit lesser exposed places, it doesn't perform well.
by lolinder | 2025-04-26 15:57:47+00:00
They have been historically [0], it looks like they only changed their model last October [1], a few months after Marc Suidan switched to Backblaze.

TFA even specifies this:

> Instead they hired Marc Suidan who joined from Beachbody (NYSE: BODI) - a publicly traded health and fitness company where he was CFO between May 2022 and August 2024 when the company was operating as a “multi-level marketing” company.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2011/01/31/beachbody-grows-exponentiall...

[1] https://nypost.com/2024/10/01/business/beachbody-lays-off-th...
by vicentesteve | 2025-04-26 15:57:52+00:00
Quantum computing offers immense power, but remains out of reach for most users. This preprint introduces a universal protocol that enables purely classical clients to securely delegate quantum computations to remote servers, while ensuring both blindness (privacy) and verifiability (correctness).

The protocol integrates:

Post-quantum cryptography (trapdoor claw-free functions, LWE) Zero-knowledge SNARKs A novel thermodynamic verification mechanism using entropy flow as a physical signature of computation

The goal: democratize access to quantum computing without compromising trust or requiring quantum capabilities.

Would love feedback from the community.

Paper: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15265412 Author: Vicent Esteve Voltes
by amelius | 2025-04-26 15:58:39+00:00
A smart compiler should be able to figure out a better value for 0/0, depending on context.

For example:

for i in range(0, 10): print(i/0.0)

In this case it should probably print +inf when i == 0.

But:

for i in range(-10, 10): print(i/0.0)

Now it is not clear, but at least we know it's an infinity so perhaps we need a special value +-inf.

And:

for i in range(-10, 10): print(i/i)

In this case, the value for 0/0 can be 1.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-04-26 15:59:02+00:00
Let me google that for you is typically a sarcastic response pointing out someone’s laziness to verify something exceptionally easy to answer.

The ChatGPT responses seem to generally be in the tone of someone who has a harder question that requires a human (not googleable), and the laziness is the answer, not the question.

In my view the role of who is wasting others time with laziness is reversed.
by lycheee | 2025-04-26 15:59:32+00:00
Kevin Kelly, cofounder of WIRED, has spent the past four decades observing how technology shifts, often before they hits the mainstream. In this conversation, he talks about how he thinks about the future: spotting early patterns, why being early often means being wrong first, and why studying history matters more than trying to guess what’s next.

Curious how others here think about spotting shifts early - especially after seeing a few waves firsthand.
by sathackr | 2025-04-26 15:59:35+00:00
It used to be possible in most areas to raise a family and kids on a single middle-class income. So that left one person free to handle domestic tasks instead of them being split between two people in the spare time they have after the kids are all in bed.

It still may be possible now but that will require reducing your standard of living to what was common then. Think no stone counter-tops. Not driving a 0-3 year old car with $10,000 just in electronics. Having linoleum floors instead of high-end tile. Eating Hamburger Helper, spaghetti, not ordering door dash 5x a week. Resisting the constant stream of social media, influencers, advertisements that are telling you everyone else lives better than you and making you feel bad about it, which causes you to spend money on things you don't need but raise the aesthetic of your life and make you feel like you're living better.

I'd bet that if someone was happy to live in the standard of living that was 20-30 years ago, it could still be done on a single middle class income which would allow for the leisure time required to spend 6.5hrs+ with friends [citation needed]
by dml2135 | 2025-04-26 15:59:42+00:00
You don’t get 1/10 the chargers for 1/10 the money, thats not how projects work. You need to hire people, make a plan, and execute on the plan, and all of that has upfront costs. The same in government as in business — why do you think startups need investors?

That money was wasted when the project was cancelled, not before.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-04-26 15:59:49+00:00
I think the issue is that some people don't actually understand what's going on, so in an attempt at goodwill, they try to "compromise", and "split the difference" if you will. Hell, some people will consider the windows hello pin as a password and force a regular rotation. Combined with policies coming from outside (think insurance and other compliance stuff) which try to cover as much ground as possible, you end up with half-assed implementations like these.

One discourse I hear is that "people will just use the same password everywhere". To which I'll answer, "but we have mfa". "yeah, but the insurance guys".
by vessenes | 2025-04-26 16:00:02+00:00
A) o3 is remarkably good, better than benchmarks seem to indicate in many circumstances

B) it definitely cheats when it can — see this chat where it cheated by extracting EXIF data and wasn’t ashamed when I complained about it cheating: https://chatgpt.com/share/6802e229-c6a0-800f-898a-44171a0c7d...
by whimsicalism | 2025-04-26 16:00:08+00:00
e: You've now edited your comment to be consistent with what you originally said. Before edit, the commenter said that the jurisdiction clause meant that at least one parent needed to be at least a legal visitor to the US.

Not only is that not in the text of the 14th, it's different from your original proposal two comments ago. If you really want to do this fine-grained reading to try to support your point, you might notice that 1. the subject to the jurisdiction clause is the baby, not the parents, 2. breaking a law does not mean you are not subject to the jurisdiction of the state you reside in.
by dingnuts | 2025-04-26 16:00:14+00:00
> Turns out the biggest challenge was not in getting users, but in convincing admins to join the network

The incentives for homeserver admins are extremely perverted and it's why the Mastodon network in particular is so dominated by ideological cliques.

Running a homeserver is thankless, laborious, and expensive, and the costs go up with each user. There's no money for it, so admins have to be compensated another way. Either they get off on the power, or have an ideological axe to grind and thus moral compensation, or they are altruistic and eventually burn out when they are subjected to the abuse of the job.

The financial story has to be solved. Admins must be paid to run services or the services get distorted to compensate them some other way.
by spookie | 2025-04-26 16:00:16+00:00
It doesn't matter what instance you choose. An instance is a group, who is part of a bigger group.

But yeah, the majority of people won't ever understand that. And, in all honesty, that's fine.

Really, I'm cool with just having people around who care enough to grasp that. If you care that's cool, if not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Nevertheless, this discussion is a whole other topic. They are just pointing out a potential issue.
by anotherpaulg | 2025-04-26 16:00:25+00:00
I've long been fascinated by AI's ability to do the reverse: generate photos with lots of highly relevant content when the prompt includes a location. Terrain, plants, buildings, landmarks, coastlines and lots of details are included.

Here's an example [0] for "Riding e-scooters along the waterfront in Auckland". The iconic spire is correctly included, but so are many small details about the waterfront.

I've been meaning to harness this into a very-low-bandwidth image compression system. Where you take a photo and crunch it to an absurdly low resolution that includes EXIF data with GPS, date/time. You then reconstruct the fine details with AI.

Most photos are taken where lots of photos are taken, so the models have probably been appropriately trained.

[0] https://chatgpt.com/share/680d0008-54a0-8012-91b7-6b1794f485...
by OgsyedIE | 2025-04-26 16:00:33+00:00
I absolutely agree that it's reasonable to assume that zero of them are persons today, so far.

What about more advanced ones that have yet to be invented? Will they be persons once they're built?

(For clarity I want to make sure you know I'm talking about de facto personhood as independent agents with careers and histories and not legal recognition as persons. Human history is full of illustrative examples of humans who didn't have legal personhood.)
by mcbuilder | 2025-04-26 16:00:47+00:00
It certainly could be, but not all technological advancement is necessarily dystopian. You say, currently everyone now has access to this, while before it was only available to nation states who could hire teams of skilled analyst s. I mean, I agree it's scary that now a stalker could track a victim, but cars and cameras probably help as well. So, I think it's fair to challenge "dystopian", someone will use it for non-nefarious purposes.
by lincon127 | 2025-04-26 16:00:47+00:00
Reading through that, it does seem like a very hasty decision on the judge's part. But then again, I don't know what else you're supposed to do if you think the warrant for the arrest is based on an unjust premise (Which Dugan presumably thought, otherwise I have no idea why she'd act the way she did). This does make it pretty clear that the arrest of the judge is justified, unless there are some special provisions for judges that I'm unaware of that allow judges to be exempt from title 18 code 1071 and code 1505, which is entirely possible since the most relevant thing about US law I know is jurisprudence. Barring that possibility, what should be more on the top of everyone's minds is how this is resolved in court.
by tavianator | 2025-04-26 16:00:55+00:00
Just tried reconfiguring LLVM:

27.24s user 8.71s system 99% cpu 36.218 total

Admittedly the LLVM build time dwarfs the configuration time, but still. If you're only building a smaller component then the config time dominates:

ninja libc 268.82s user 26.16s system 3246% cpu 9.086 total
by Twirrim | 2025-04-26 16:01:20+00:00
Google Maps can be downright dangerous in its lack of knowledge, and it'll make routing decisions that other GPS devices don't make (despite similarly working around the world). For example, it cannot comprehend the idea of country lanes in the UK, where e.g. TomTom can. Country lanes are narrow, twisty, and single file with passing places. But they're "national speed limit", or 60mph. You will never, ever go down one of these at 60mph. In most cases it's flat out impossible. Google Maps thinks you can go that fast.

If enough people using google maps have been down it in the right time frame it'll know the road is slow and account for it in time calculations, and generally not send you down it. The fact that no one using google maps has ever managed to go down that lane at 60mph never seems to enter into its consideration.

I've never had TomTom send me down a country lane unless it's literally the only way to get to where I'm going.
by mgdev | 2025-04-26 16:02:38+00:00
Thinking on this more, I've realized there's an additional problem with Koomen's vision that might be even more significant than what I initially described.

It's actually potentially harmful that current AI email assistants try to impersonate their users. When these systems are designed to write as though they're you - using your voice, your style, your signature - they create a kind of social deception that undermines genuine human connection.

Consider what happens when you meet someone after your AI has "written as you" in an email exchange. They might reference specifics from "your" message that you have no actual knowledge of. You're supposedly continuing a conversation you never actually had. This creates an awkward disconnect that erodes the authenticity of human interaction.

In our rush to make AI communications feel natural by mimicking human writing styles, we risk something more valuable: genuine connection. The problem isn't just that current AI systems don't sound enough like us (Koomen's concern), it's that they're pretending to be us at all.

A more honest and ultimately more useful approach would be for AI agents to have their own distinct identities: "Sent on behalf of Mason" or "Read on behalf of Sarah." This transparency preserves both the utility value of efficient communication and the personal value of authentic human interaction.

For AI-mediated communication to truly succeed long-term, we need to separate:

1. Utility communications (scheduling, information sharing, routine updates)

2. Personal communications (relationship building, creative collaboration, emotional connection)

When we blur these lines by having AI impersonate us for utility communications, we risk devaluing the currency of genuine person-to-person exchanges. After all, part of what makes a personal message meaningful is knowing that another human took time specifically for you.

So while I still believe agent-to-agent negotiation is the future of routine communications, I think transparency about AI involvement is equally (if not more) important. The end state isn't AI that perfectly mimics our writing styles; it's a communication ecosystem where AI handles routine exchanges transparently, while preserving the special value of genuine human connection.
by klodolph | 2025-04-26 16:03:22+00:00
https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup/pricing

$99/year with no limits on data, as far as I can tell. The context here is someone talking about personal backups, not Backblaze’s broader offerings. We know the market rates for cloud storage, more or less, since they’ve converged somewhat, across the industry. This makes it easy to calculate what kind of usage patterns would lead someone to save money at Backblaze.

Cloud services often have a free tier or cheap tier to attract new customers. IMO, this is not it. This is a product. These people are not turning around and signing contracts with Backblaze at work. At least, not many.

So it could be that people are just using it below its limits, or it could be that it’s subsidized by other parts of the business. Overall P&L is irrelevant—you want to be able to explain this product as a profitable product, as some viable sales channel, or as marketing.

My recommendation is to buy storage products where the company is making money off you, or nearly.
by neurostimulant | 2025-04-26 16:04:29+00:00
> when I asked it how, it mentioned that it knows I live nearby.

> The process for how it arrives at the conclusion is somewhat similar to humans. It looks at vegetation, terrain, architecture, road infrastructure, signage, and it just knows seemingly everything about all of them.

Can we trust what the model says when we ask it about how it comes up with an answer?
by kevinsync | 2025-04-26 16:04:42+00:00
I get all the proximity-based aggregation, and creating graphs of relationships to leak content between personal "algorithms" (dislike that wording but that's the colloquial usage), and tracking between sites + social networks, and all the basic stuff ... but can somebody explain how I immediately get served ads relevant to text typed into (presumably-encrypted) iMessage conversations?

I also have a couple distinct memories of getting served ads for products I've never searched for or never bought before, after I either bought it in a store or, even weirder, literally just picked it up, looked at it, and put it back on the shelf in a store?

I can craft some kind of super-surveillance-state theory as to how you could achieve that, but it feels very unlikely to be deployed at a small CVS lol

Anyways, these might just be coincidences but still perplexing to understand how it's done.
by generalizations | 2025-04-26 16:05:01+00:00
> American right-wing reeks of elitism

Common notion, but based in ignorance. I've found that the left wing is more idealistic, but in the sense that they have chosen not to learn from history and rely on immediate emotional values. The right wing sees second order effects and acts on them.

Thus, you get the left calling the right heartless/immoral/racist, and the right calling the left idiots.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-04-26 16:05:04+00:00
Would love to see one for Spain (1 year digital nomad visa, 3 years if you apply in country, eligible for perm residency at 5 years, etc). Someone else put together a list of digital nomad visas here https://lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/b58914ce-b98d-4330... if inspiration is needed.