MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by padjo | 2025-04-30 23:37:15+00:00
Brexit was a vote by Britain to lose all influence in its largest export market and instead hamper its industries with dual regulation and increased barriers to trade. Nobody thinking rationally would think it was a good idea. The referendum passed because people were largely ignorant of what Europe actually is and because the referendum put a boring, complicated state affairs against a fill-in-the-blanks fantasy option.

The fact that they had literally no idea what would happen to Northern Ireland after Brexit tells you all you need to know about how well considered the idea was.
by ramesh31 | 2025-04-30 23:37:32+00:00
Mark my words, the lower Hudson valley is the number one place on earth I would be buying real estate right now if possible. Best public transit in the entire country; you can be at Grand Central in an hour flat, trains run every 30 minutes all day. And homes are still attainable by normal human beings (~$500k gets you something nice in a decent area). Completely slept on region atm.
by moritzwarhier | 2025-04-30 23:38:22+00:00
What you say sounds very disturbing, and also resonates with me in a way.

But one can still hope that the economic "warfare" won't become a literal one.

I'm not saying that I can tell how likely a real military conflict between any of China, Europe, India, Russia, the US actually is.

What I can tell is that even fellow agnostics should... pray (or hope) that this isn't the most likely scenario.

In this regard, I don't care about globalization, injustice + capitalism.

I truly just hope for the lesser evil.

Regardless of the continent, political system, leaders.
by disqard | 2025-04-30 23:39:03+00:00
This has been a thing since (at least) 2019, as this article shows:

https://redarrowlogistics.com/international/dodging-tariffs-...

Excerpt:

> Put simply, transshipping is when a country ships product through a third country so that the product will look like it’s coming from the third country, thereby avoiding duties or tariffs. For example, one supplier, Settle Logistics, goes through Malaysia: a 4600 miles diversion compared with sending a container from China straight to the US.

> This is much more expensive: shipping via Malaysia costs $3,000 to $4,000 more per shipping container, at least $2,000 more than shipping direct. Those costs are still worth it in order to avoid tariffs.
by miguelmurca | 2025-04-30 23:39:47+00:00
Ginga is a Brasilian Portuguese word. I spent all of the day of the blackout listening to the radio (as you might guess) and not once heard the terms "ging" or "ging-induced". Also, ginga would not be swing as in cable swing, it would be swing as in swing dance (rhythmic movement specifically to music). When possible explanations were put forward in the media, they were attributed, usually either to the portuguese representative of REN (the Chinese company supplying power structure to the country) or to an analogous representative of Spain (where the fault originated). It was always pretty clear that the fault was unknown, since this was stated plainly by the aforementioned representatives and the prime minister. I respect the language barrier, but it would be good to take it into account.
by filoleg | 2025-04-30 23:40:21+00:00
> drug abuse

> vandalism

> unlawful possession of weapons

> drug trafficking

> foreigners who overstay by more than 90 days

Majority of the things you listed, for which caning is either allowed or mandatory in Singapore, would cover a crazily massive number of cases in NYC.

And I am not saying this as someone who is in favor of this happening. I am not at all in favor of caning laws (similar to Singapore or otherwise).

Just saying that the argument you make does not sound as convincing as you imagine it might to most people who live in NYC. It essentially feels like hearing "all those people having misconceptions about caning as a punishment for committing crime in Singapore being common. It only applies to some very specific crimes, such as <proceeds to list the types of crime that are a bulk of crimes that people in NYC experience>". By that metric, me walking past a double-digit number of people per day doing things, for which they could get punished with caning in Singapore, counts as rare.
by xyzzy123 | 2025-04-30 23:40:59+00:00
This is fair - no it won't work in every situation, just didn't see good old air and sunshine mentioned in the thread anywhere.

Surely the only scalable solution in a medical context is to get workers to change out of uniform at work and hand over to industrial laundry service, everything else relies on procedure outside the work environment which not everyone is going to do reliably and is difficult to supervise / QC.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-30 23:41:09+00:00
> I think we do a pretty good job of educating people who are already educated—people inside the coastal bubbles

I wish the people doing communications like this would get some minimal training about how to avoid alienating and unhelpful generalizations like this.

Implying that people in “coastal bubbles” are educated and everyone is not is a great way to turn the people you want to reach against you. This is a prime example of the “coastal elites” mentality that turns so many people off. It’s also completely disingenuous to pretend that coastal people are immune to the anti-science takes, as anyone who was spent time in those cities can tell you.

Can we please just stick to the issue and not leap into unnecessary divisions and finger pointing before we even get started?

Edit: The rest of the article spends so much time talking about 19th century history of food safety and things like “eugenicist individualizing” that it’s hard to pick out what this article is claiming, other than being one very long and disconnected rant.
by xyzzyz | 2025-04-30 23:41:43+00:00
At the time, nobody, including the authors, considered these laws to be a shield to protect white and Asian people from discrimination.

This is very much false, and can be easily refuted by reading what the lawmakers were saying as the law was being passed. For example, here's from the DoJ's memorandum, as quoted on the Senate floor by Senator Clark:

> "Finally, it has been asserted that title VII would impose a requirement for 'racial balance.' This is incorrect. There is no provision . . . in title VII .. .that requires or authorizes any Federal agency or Federal court to require preferential treatment for any individual or any group for the purpose of achieving racial balance. . . . No employer is required to maintain any ratio of Negroes to whites .... On the contrary, any deliberate attempt to maintain a given balance would almost certainly run afoul of title VII because it would involve a failure or refusal to hire some individual because of his race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. What title VII seeks to accomplish, what the civil rights bill seeks to accomplish is equal treatment for all."

This explicitly says that you cannot have a racial quota, because it would be against Title VII of the proposed Civil Rights Act, meaning that the lawmakers proposing the bill explicitly said that the Title VII will protect whites (and all other races) as well as blacks.
by AtNightWeCode | 2025-04-30 23:42:08+00:00
Google has always been hostile towards indiedevs but they have become complete garbage. They do things like removing apps because they have "banned" keywords in the naming. Apps that been around for +5 years. Or you have to comply to some new bs. Or they tried to force you to use Google pay and so on.

Google play has always been totally corrupt. But it is even worse today. The amount of trash spreading through their own programs is massive and then they are banning apps that does not even claim any permissions.

As always with Google, money talks. If you are a small corp you are pretty much screwed. If you are a big client Google will call you and tell you how they fixed your issues before you even knew about them. I really hate working with Google and hope they get split up and destroyed in the anti-trust case. (Yeah, I know the corp is named Alphabet)
by rpgwaiter | 2025-04-30 23:42:20+00:00
In what way is knowing the full legal name of a developer relevant to end users? I work in the App Store analytics space and even I have never once thought “I wonder what the full legal name and address of the app developer is. I’d love to drive to their place physically or mail a letter 1800s style to discuss their app”

The most I’d ever wonder about is maybe their country of origin.
by rayiner | 2025-04-30 23:42:57+00:00
> > Otherwise, all authority in the executive branch effectively belongs to the president and random midlevel bureaucrats can only exercise it on his behalf.

> This is factually wrong.

It’s literally the first sentence of Article II! “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” Article II doesn’t even talk about an “executive branch.” It assigns powers and responsibilities to the President.

It’s an extremely easy to understand structure that has been obfuscated during the 20th century. The constitutional actors are: the President, the 100 senators and 435 Congressmen, the 9 Justices, and Article III judges. They hold all the powers of their respective offices.

Can Congress appoint employees to be part of the Supreme Court, and provide for them to exercise judicial powers independently of the Justices? Of course not! Can Congress delegate to a staff of employees the power to make laws independently of the Congressmen? No! Obviously not! That would be absurd.

The executive branch isn’t any different.
by jtonz | 2025-04-30 23:43:22+00:00
I would be interested to see how people would apply this working as a coding assistant. For me, its application in solutioning seem very strong, particularly vibe coding, and potentially agentic coding. One of my main gripes with LLM-assisted coding is that for me to get the output which catches all scenarios I envision takes multiple attempts in refining my prompt requiring regeneration of the output. Iterations are slow and often painful.

With the speed this can generate its solutions, you could have it loop through attempting the solution, feeding itself the output (including any errors found), and going again until it builds the "correct" solution.
by rogerrogerr | 2025-04-30 23:43:24+00:00
I also fly Skyhawks - it seems to me, as a helicopter outsider, that they think in hundreds of feet where we fixed wing pilots think in thousands of feet. It would be interesting to hear from a RW instructor, especially one from the army, whether a 100ft altitude deviation is more akin to a student deviation 100ft or 1000ft in the fixed wing context.
by schappim | 2025-04-30 23:43:32+00:00
It's nice to see a team doing something different.

The cost[1] is US$1.00 per million output tokens and US$0.25 per million input tokens. By comparison, Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview charges US$0.15 per million tokens for text input and $0.60 (non-thinking) output[2].

Hmmm... at those prices they need to focus on markets where speed is especially important, eg high-frequency trading, transcription/translation services and hardware/IoT alerting!

1. https://files.littlebird.com.au/Screenshot-2025-05-01-at-9.3...

2. https://files.littlebird.com.au/pb-IQYUdv6nQo.png
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-04-30 23:43:42+00:00
It's a beautiful app, well documented, with lots of potential and a few rough edges still.

But it does local models via ollama, supports multiple chats, and can get an app stood up just the same as Bolt, v0, Lovable, et al.

Stoked this is being built, looking forward to seeing what it becomes!
by eth0up | 2025-04-30 23:43:58+00:00
First, I neither have an eidetic memory or links to the patents nor lawsuit. However....

I remember finding a lawsuit, if I remember correctly, between Samsung and a certain municipality of an unremembered state.

The patent involved a lining within surfaces of the washing and drying systems for hospitals which impart silver particles. The marketing part suggested it would spare x amount of bleach and have equal or greater efficacy.

The municipal water waste management objected based on the breakdown phase of the sewage relying on bacteria. The silver, they surmised, would obviously hinder this process and so on.

Then, as a side note, you have products from waste management called eg Sludge, which is used as fertilizer. Supposedly it is forbidden on vegetable crops, but I once interviewed a cattle rancher who said his subsidies were dependent on his acceptance and use of Sludge.

Further aside, the real problem here is the 'forever chemicals' that accompany these products. It tends to permanently compromise the land it's used on.

I remember the rancher telling me he's seen his cows chewing on condoms.
by wnissen | 2025-04-30 23:45:31+00:00
Since less water would increase the detergent concentration, I was wondering if the opposite was the case. My family's old washer filled up the entire tub with water, so any detergent (and any pathogen, to be fair) would be quite diluted.

Short cycle length certainly makes sense to be correlated with pathogens. The lousy LG "TurboWash" only takes 28 minutes to do a full load of laundry but certainly doesn't get very much clean in that time.

I have to admit it was surprising that textiles have been identified as the source of hospital acquired infections. You'd think that even if the laundering didn't eliminate pathogens, it would greatly reduce them and make any clusters more diffuse.
by kragen | 2025-04-30 23:45:36+00:00
No, no, not at all! That kind of thing is very speculative, and I don't think anybody knows very much about it. What I'm saying is that the position of a nucleus is very, very much more precisely measurable than the position of an electron, so it has a much weaker tendency to tunnel to places you don't want it to be, causing computation errors. That allows you to store more bits in a given volume, and possibly do more computation in a given volume, if the entropy production mechanisms can be tamed.

We routinely force electrons to tunnel through about ten nanometers of silicon dioxide to write to Flash memory (Fowler–Nordheim tunneling) using only on the order of 10–20 volts. That's about 60 atoms' worth of glass, and the position of each of those atoms is nailed down to only a tiny fraction of its bond length. So you can see that the positional uncertainty of the electrons is three or four orders of magnitude larger than the positional uncertainty of the atomic nuclei.
by twic | 2025-04-30 23:46:05+00:00
Interesting, the materials and methods says:

> Each wash cycle was performed with either biological (14g per kilogram of fabric) or non-biological detergents (20g per wash).

But your quoted passage describes two non-biological detergents. So did they use a biological detergent or not?

Anyway, the first one sounds like Persil liquid:

https://www.ocado.com/products/persil-laundry-washing-liquid...

> 15-30%: Anionic surfactants. 5-15%: Nonionic surfactants. <5%: Perfume, Phosphonates, Soap, Optical brighteners, Methylisothiazolinone, Octylisothiazolinone

And the second one sounds like Persil powder:

https://www.ocado.com/products/persil-fabric-cleaning-washin...

> 5-15%: Oxygen-based bleaching agents, Anionic surfactants. <5% Nonionic surfactants, Polycarboxylates, Soap, Perfume, Optical brighteners, Zeolites, Tetramethyl acetyloctahydronaphthelenes

Not quite the same, but similar. Both are perfectly normal brand-name household laundry detergents.
by matt_s | 2025-04-30 23:46:10+00:00
When the dot com bubble was inflating it attracted a lot of people that were chasing the money that came with software jobs, or equity or promises of equity. I think that trend has happened again with the 0% interest rates and then the pandemic hiring craze a lot of tech and related companies went through.

You pushed through a math refresh and excelled in a technical institute towards the goal of working in software. Also, getting a Masters degree is no joke - that's a lot of effort and likely takes getting accepted to two programs, pushing through all the work required, possibly doing presentations, etc.

Looking ahead - your current job/contract isn't giving you opportunities to grow so you're doing the right thing by looking for something better.

> worked in the post-secondary and non-profit sectors

I think you should try using your background here in looking for that next software job - looking for non-profits or post-secondary companies that could use someone with your background but in a software development context. Maybe volunteer at a non-profit that interests you personally and see if they have IT or software related things they need help with. It might help bolster the resume to work for free and build up some experience. These usually are industries disregarded when it comes to technology.

By post-secondary do you mean teaching? There's a lot of ed-tech companies out there or education related.

Also learn to use AI in your coding efforts. I don't mean become a "prompt engineer", I mean AI is a tool and if you learn to add it to your tool belt and use it well, it can help you be a better software developer. Use it to help teach you things, then once you know them, ask it to do the work and then ask it to check its own work, it will find errors and is wrong.
by shoelessone | 2025-04-30 23:46:43+00:00
Any chance you could explain this to somebody who is just learning about HID and has run this example: https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/tree/master/examples/pe... ? "non-boot protocol" I'm guessing is the key here? I don't have a super deep understanding of HID or what the "boot-protocol" refers to.
by mmoskal | 2025-04-30 23:47:24+00:00
To put this into perspective, driving for an hour in an electric car (15kW avg consumption) consumes about as much energy as 50,000 chatgpt queries [0] Running your laptop for an hour would be around 100 queries.

[0] https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-much-energy-does-chatg...
by zahlman | 2025-04-30 23:47:50+00:00
I've been here since August and I haven't seen anything that even remotely resembles

> semantic arguments about why it’s ok for ICE to bust down random doors looking for brown people to deport to the death camps

If you feel you have, I humbly suggest you go back and re-evaluate whatever it was that you read. Keep in mind that in order to qualify as such, the other party would have to agree with you that ICE's actions could be fairly described as such, in every aspect.
by freeqaz | 2025-04-30 23:47:55+00:00
If it's like the other ESP32s with PSRAM support then 2-8MB most likely. IIRC it is addressed in the same way as the NAND, so the more RAM the less NAND you can have.

Maybe not applicable for this new one, but that's my understanding for the S3/C5 models. (something like 16mb NAND and 8mb PSRAM)
by don-bright | 2025-04-30 23:48:26+00:00
They are part of gnu compile farm which donates compute to open source projects.

I used them a lot when I worked on OpenSCAD build system, there weren't a lot of places 12+ years ago you could go 'make -j 30' on a PowerPC or 'ctest' and have it run dozens of builds/tests in parallel. Really helped alot, that C++ template stuff would barely build at all on my personal machine.

Sorry to hear this
by fnordpiglet | 2025-04-30 23:48:54+00:00
I was an early Netscape guy and got to know Marc. He was always a bit of a putz. Especially compared to Jim Barksdale, which would be an inescapable comparison as Marc would often follow or precede Jim at all hands and stuff. Marc also had a weird life style where he bought this really nice Palo Alto mansion where he kept untrained dogs that ruined the place by pooping and peeing and tearing the entire place up. It was sort of a metaphor for his general responsibility in life and effectiveness as a leader.

We went different ways in life and I’m sure he wouldn’t remember me - I went to Wall Street and then PNW and stayed close to real technology with computers. He did what he’s doing now. I’ve always been glad I am not Marc. That’s been sort of a core theme in my life. Whenever I feel down, I just look up what he’s up to now.
by filoleg | 2025-04-30 23:49:19+00:00
> the dollar lost about 10% of valuation, and GDP is contracting .3% in Q1

> How this relates to property valuations isn't clear to me

If I was a rich person living outside of the US, and I wanted to find a solid way to park my money in times of such uncertainty rn, I would probably want to invest in property in the US. It could be a complete nothingburger in terms of total numbers to cause such property value growth, but I am just saying.
by anigbrowl | 2025-04-30 23:49:29+00:00
It's also instructive to look at American attitudes toward the Iraq war. I'm pretty sure that many people who now say it was a terrible idea and that they voted for Trump because they don't want to be in any more wars were absolutely rock-ribbed supporters of it at the time. Asking if they think Obama did a good job in extricating the US from that conflict serves as a useful litmus test.
by paulj5 | 2025-04-30 23:49:47+00:00
I would say daily high level cardio for at least half an hour and optimal sleep is important for good mitochondrial function. nootropics are a big subject, but some omega 3 and other lipid type supplements would be important for brain function, and I would think electrolyte balance would be important, all the electrolytes, not just sodium and potassium.
by runako | 2025-04-30 23:51:10+00:00
> The primary check on the President is elections, not “the law.” Secondarily, there’s impeachment, and Congress’s power of the purse.

Right, that's where this discussion started. What we are looking at right now is the erosion of that second piece, Congress's power of the purse. The Constitutional checks and balances (not the 20th-century stuff you detail) doesn't work as well without this key Article I power. I have not seen it explained under what principle this power of Congress has been arrogated instead to the Executive.
by nullc | 2025-04-30 23:52:00+00:00
::nods:: in the case of diffusion though "conditional on its own (eventual) output" is more transparent and explicit.

As an example of one place that might make a difference is that some external syntax restriction in the sampler is going to enforce the next character after a space is "{".

Your normal AR LLM doesn't know about this restriction and may pick the tokens leading up to the "{" in a way which is regrettable given that there is going to be a {. The diffusion, OTOH, can avoid that error.

In the case where there isn't an artificial constraint on the sampler this doesn't come up because when its outputting the earlier tokens the AR model knows in some sense about it's own probability of outputting a { later on.

But in practice pretty much everyone engages in some amount of sampler twiddling, even if just cutting off low probability tokens.

As far as the internal model being sufficient, clearly it is or AR LLMs could hardly produce coherent English. But although it's sufficient it may not be particularly training or weight efficient.

I don't really know how these diffusion text models are trained so I can't really speculate, but it does seem to me that getting to make multiple passes might allow it less circuit depth. I think of it in terms of every AR step must expend effort predicting something about the following next few steps in order to output something sensible here, this has to be done over and over again, even though it doesn't change.
by freeqaz | 2025-04-30 23:52:17+00:00
Facebook has their Chameleon model from 2023 that was in this space. Ancient now.

There is also this GitHub project that I played with a while ago that's trying to do this. https://github.com/GAIR-NLP/anole

Are there any OSS models that follow this approach today? Or are we waiting for somebody to hack that together?