MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xelxebar | 2025-04-25 09:36:15+00:00
You stole the words from my mouth!

One of the issues DSLs give me is that the process of using them invariably obsoletes their utility. That is, the process of writing an implementation seems to be synonymous with the process of learning what DSL your problem really needs.

If you can manage to fluidly update your DSL design along the way, it might work, but in my experience the premature assumptions of initial designs end up getting baked in to so much code that it's really painful to migrate.

APL, on the other hand, I have found extremely amenable to updates and rewrites. I mean, even just psychologically, it feels way more sensible to rewrite a couple lines of code versus a couple hundred, and in practice, I find the language to be very amenable for quickly exploring a problem domain with code sketches.
by sureglymop | 2025-04-25 09:36:44+00:00
Zed is nice but I still prefer vs codes configuration scheme. Was working on a web/frontend project a while ago and had honestly a very hard time to set up Zed to do everything from formatting to linting and syntax highlighting correctly. Meanwhile in vscode I had to install 3 extensions, enable them for the workspace and they were already aware of each other and seamlessly worked together.

I also think it's a mixed opportunity not to allow for something like Lua or a Lisp to configure Zed in. It's very promising but I'm not willing to switch just yet.
by thewisenerd | 2025-04-25 09:38:44+00:00
> having a decent way to get metrics from logs ad-hoc completely solves the metric cardinality explosion.

last i checked, the span metrics connector[1] was supposed to "solve" this in otel; but i'm not particularly inclined, as configurations are fixed.

any data analytics platform worth it's money should be able to do this at runtime (for specified data volume constraints, in reasonable time).

in general, structured logging should also help with this; as much as i love regex, i do not think extracting "data" from raw logs is lossless.

[1] https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co...
by dataflow | 2025-04-25 09:38:55+00:00
I really wanted to, but that bit wasn't some minor detail. It felt pretty darn central to the whole thing, as it undermined what seemed like the central point.

Imagine this from a tobacco-company ex-salesman: "I don't let my kids smoke, I don't think it's healthy. I eventually left Camel because I couldn't stomach the Marlboro-ification of our product." So what we're being told is... after so many years of people complaining tobacco is harmful, they're saying they knew that all along and would've been totally cool with it while the money was coming in, but the straw that actually broke their (pardon the pun) Camel's back was that... their product suddenly started resembling their competitor's?? Or perhaps they're saying they don't believe it was harmful until the product stopped differentiating itself from their competitor's (but then the salary aspect would've been moot before that point)? And, either way... so we are reading all this after the rest of the world has been (pardon the second pun) fuming for much longer over much more concerning reasons?

It seems pretty darn important to understand what the regret is -- and I don't even mean this for judgment purposes (although it would inevitably impact that); I mean this for the larger purpose of understanding the thought process itself, for dealing with it in the future. i.e. if the reality we're facing is that product differentiation is what keeps people in such positions, rather than a disregard or misunderstanding of the societal or public-health impact, that's... news to me. And so (to me, anyway) this seems like an absolutely crucial detail to unpack, not an unimportant detail to gloss over.

But, yes, I very much appreciate that they shared this, and I'm sure it wasn't easy to in any case.
Privacy folks – what's your take on using LLMs at work?
by adeebaslam | 2025-04-25 09:41:00+00:00
Hey everyone! :wave: I’m building a product called Privacy AI, and I’m trying to learn how people think about data privacy when using AI tools at work — especially in industries like finance, healthcare, or anywhere with sensitive data. If you: - Use tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc. for work - Work in privacy, infosec, compliance, or deal with sensitive data …I’d love to hear how you're handling that today. No pitch, no selling — just looking to learn from real experiences. If you’re open to a quick 20-min chat, drop a comment or shoot me a DM. Really appreciate it
by exegete | 2025-04-25 09:41:33+00:00
It’s an interesting thought but I think there are better ways to do this than having some external disk. You could download all of WikiPedia, medical articles, etc to a laptop to the same effect. A survivalist book is probably even better since it won’t rely on power.

The product offering of an AI chatbot for when the power goes out made me laugh out loud.
by watwut | 2025-04-25 09:42:20+00:00
Take it to the person who claimed their CEO is doing that fight. My argument was that their CEO is not fighting anything.

> Why would a company "fight the administration"? That sounds like a recipe for bankruptcy.

Just for the record, I agree that this administration is abusing power right and left. And also that it reflects very badly on those who support it or defend it.
by the_duke | 2025-04-25 09:43:03+00:00
There are a whole bunch of attempts to unify metrics, logs and traces into a single DB now.

* InfluxDB (the newest Rust rewrite)

* http://openobserve.ai/

* https://uptrace.dev/

* Clickhouse powered solutions (eg https://signoz.io)

* ... ?

I'm quite skeptical about the "store raw data" approach. It makes querying much more complex and slower, storage much more expensive, etc.

Columnar databases that can store the data very efficiently are the way to go, IMO. They can still benefit from cheap long-term storage like S3.
by theodric | 2025-04-25 09:43:47+00:00
I would be concerned about long-term data viability on an SSD that would likely be mothballed until SHTF, especially in light of the recent update released by HTWingNut ( https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/unpowered... + https://youtu.be/rx3Y5x6uzKQ )
by WhyNotHugo | 2025-04-25 09:44:26+00:00
It’s the same for me (in my thirties). A decade ago, Instagram showed me photos that my friends shared. Today it’s ads, memes and other crap with a small proportion of photos of friends. The noise:signal ratio is so high that I don’t even bother.

Facebook was the same a long time ago.

Social media in the form it had 10-15 years ago has died. But I don’t think it’s an inevitable path: I think Meta has iterated in their services in a way that killed what was previously there.
by wqaatwt | 2025-04-25 09:44:43+00:00
US has a higher proportion of university graduates than almost every European country. Especially e.g. Germany is almost 2x lower.

It’s not strictly true in all cases but generally it seems that free or subsidized higher education results in rationing and lower accessibility (which is not really such a bad thing if other options like trade schools etc. are available).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tertiar...
by genewitch | 2025-04-25 09:45:18+00:00
This is a true story:

I ordered a used playstation 4 from amazon or eBay, irrelevant which. The UPS (parcel carrier) driver said hey this box doesn't look right, it's been retaped, do you want to open it? I'm not supposed to let you open it to reject it, but go ahead. "

It was a bucket of tile mud and an ornamental brick. Someone at the local UPS hub had stolen my PS4 and put the label on a shipment originally going to Lowe's.

Now, say the UPS driver and I didn't have that conversation. How do I get my money back? How do I prove the box had a brick and a bucket of tile mud? This isn't rhetorical. Keep in mind, the seller shipped me a PS4. The theft occurred at the carrier.

I find it laughable that any law enforcement would entertain anything other than "filling out a complaint", but the seller shipped a ps4. I paid for a ps4. How do I get a ps4 or my money back in your system?
by rsynnott | 2025-04-25 09:45:20+00:00
It's not even really that, I think; given that it's nominal GDP, it's likely mostly currency fluctuations, likely taken at end of 2024. If so, the nominal GDP situation has likely reverted, as the dollar has fallen about 9% vs the yen since the start of the year.

This is one of the reasons that nominal GDP isn't all that useful a metric.
by johncoltrane | 2025-04-25 09:45:52+00:00
> The general consensus among web developers seems to be to just let a third party do it.

Outside of personal projects, third-party auth providers must be audited (think GDPR or PIPL), budget must be allowed, contracts signed, etc. so web developers rarely, if ever, have their say on the matter. The decision is taken long before anyone wrote a single line of code. From a project management perspective, it's an easy trade-off to make: one sprint for integrating Okta versus who knows how many for badly implementing something that requires a level of expertise that no one on the team has reached.

For personal projects, the trade-off is a bit different. Resources are scarce so, even if implementing auth is actually not very complicated(1) and can even be quite fun, there are probably more immediately interesting things to do. So you integrate a third-party solution in a wednesday night and you move on.

[1] https://thecopenhagenbook.com/
by the_mitsuhiko | 2025-04-25 09:48:36+00:00
If you enforce an organization to have a 2FA sign-in then yes, it's enforced that the session was created with a second factor. In Sentry's case you also need to go through SSO once every 24 hours. There is no way for you to get a valid session token without going through that which can be used to create a signed merge commit.
by jsnell | 2025-04-25 09:49:09+00:00
20 years ago I think the coverage area of Google Maps was still strictly limited to the US + UK. Like, the rest of the world map was empty.

But I worked on Google's geocoding (mapping names to locations) and reverse geocoding (mapping locations to names) systems 15 years ago, and encoding every local ruleset was absolutely not how it worked. Or even encoding any of them.

And what's described in the post are exactly the kinds of problems you'd have back then as well.

Some of these were upstream data quality issues, some were due to deep infrastructure problems that could not have been addressed without a complete rewrite, and others just basic recall/precision tradeoffs around the value of returning a result that doesn't match the query exactly.
by cjs_ac | 2025-04-25 09:49:16+00:00
I used to be a schoolteacher, so whenever I read about someone's shiny new EdTech idea, I can't help but think that it's a tarpit idea.

Every developed country has a set of professional standards for teachers, and teachers who don't live up to those standards are pushed out, sometimes by having their teaching accreditation revoked. In Australia, for instance, there's a set number of hours of 'professional development' that teachers have to do every few years, and if you don't complete them, you lose accreditation and have to find a new career. The professional development activities and courses that meet the requirements are audited by the Department of Education, and have to draw on the latest research in educational psychology: keeping up with the latest research is the entire point of that professional standard.

When I did my teacher training, the first thing we were told in the first lecture was to never cite any research older than ten years, because it would be out of date. Now, if you've trained in the sciences - I was a physicist - you should be troubled with this, because a discipline can't really accumulate knowledge about the world if it throws everything out after ten years. That's why, when I broke the rules and searched through the databases of academic literature going back more than ten years, I saw the same ideas being reinvented under different names in different decades.

So there seems to be a bit of a trend for people to build flashcard-type tools at the moment, probably because someone's seen a paper on spaced repetition. That's nice, but you can't build a business around this. It doesn't matter if all the thought leaders are all in on spaced repetition this year, because next year they'll have moved on to something else, because they need to have something new to talk about. In Australia and the UK at least (I don't know the figures for other countries), half of all teachers leave the profession within five years of joining it, so most of your user base is overenthusiastic twenty-somethings with no life experience (yes, I was one of these) who will do whatever The Research tells them, and the ones who stay long enough to gain leadership positions tend not to grow out of this, so the classroom side of EdTech is basically a bunch of fads, so it's impossible to build a stable business in this space.

If you want to sell software to schools, go and work in a bunch of them, find some obscure administrative problem, and solve that.
by metalman | 2025-04-25 09:50:00+00:00
a few years back, China did offer to buy EVERYTHING, that Alberta could produce....but not the actual place.....bet there are some realy hard talks happening right now The bottom line is that there is only so much stuff to go around on the planet, so all that CAN happen, is a big fucking game of musical chairs, but maybe thats, a good thing.
by concats | 2025-04-25 09:50:34+00:00
Personally I don't like to gatekeep art.

For example: If someone walks out into the wilderness and encounters a particularly fascinating rock formation or plant, something that was created completely by accident and without a artist or designer, but they find that the sight instills in them strong emotions or deeper thought, I believe they should be allowed to call that art.

Maybe this is just petty linguistics and semantics though, in which case we're drifting away from the topic at hand, and I'm sorry.
by aniviacat | 2025-04-25 09:50:40+00:00
> That is not a water bottle, it's a domesticated puddle.

Many (most?) people don't care about the artists behind songs (even less so about their culture). They care about the "organised sound" being enjoyable to hear. And to them, AI music is just as valuable as manual music.

Gangam style didn't become popular because people cared about PSY. It didn't become popular because of its thoughtful lyrics and insightful message. It became popular because it sounds good.
by Turboblack | 2025-04-25 09:51:07+00:00
my page http://elpis.ws located on web 1.0 hosting http://web1.0hosting.net/

This is a community of ascetic bloggers and web builders that can be seen as sites from the 90s, there is access to HTTP (it was very important for me because I would like the site to open from absolutely any piece of iron, given its direction and subject). I am writing about the old Internet, the formation of the Internet, and what is happening at this time in small web.

Perhaps you will be interested in this course as a direction, this is not neosities, it is more minimalistic and rough (but only in a verd look)
by throwaway290 | 2025-04-25 09:53:19+00:00
What you and mijoharas allude to is a cute urban myth. Pornhub never appeared as Pornhub on your bank statements and the same goes for every serious adult content site for decades. And if it was about chargebacks Visa would never even touch Amazon or AliExpress.

Read why Pornhub was ditched in 2020/2022. Trigger alert, it involves rape and trafficking victims.

Or read the sources mijoharas posted. They specifically say that payment processors simply do not like porn. I guess he did not read his own links.
by wiether | 2025-04-25 09:54:04+00:00
Except that your example is not reflective of the situation.

The right example should be: you are enjoying surfing, then a shark arrives and constantly try to eat you.

Now you either keep surfing, at the risk of being eaten or simply hurt by the shark, or you just take your board and go back home.

Either way, your surfing session is ruined.
by genewitch | 2025-04-25 09:54:17+00:00
On the one hand, sure, fine. He has raked people for less. However this is just an RC. Further, how long has Linus been doing this?

I remember Maddox on xmission having a page explaining that while he may make a grammatical error from time to time, he has published literally hundreds of thousands of words, and the average email he receives contains 10% errors.

However, Linus is well-known for being abrasive, abusive, call it what you want. If you can't take it, don't foist it, Linus. Even if you've earned the right, IMO.
by FinnLobsien | 2025-04-25 09:55:09+00:00
I think an underrated aspect of this is also that YC is ultimately a VC fund and so they're talking about companies that have the potential to be massive, multi-billion dollar companies.

Many typical tarpit ideas (to do apps, habit trackers, note taking etc.) can be great businesses for a couple of people building software together but not have venture-scale outcomes.

I do agree that as soon as you get network effects (recommendations, marketplaces etc.), SOOOO much is tarpit.
Show HN: Incognito Multi-LLM Windows App
by llmsymphony | 2025-04-25 09:56:15+00:00
LLMSymphony is a Windows application for incognito chats with frontier AI models using your own API keys. Enjoy direct, encrypted conversations with ChatGPT 4o, Claude, Grok 3, DeepSeek & Gemini while maintaining complete control over your data.
by _1tem | 2025-04-25 09:56:28+00:00
No, not Albania. Yes, the people are poorer when measured in USD, but infinitely richer in quality of life. This is not just my observation, I knew quite a few expats from the West (US/UK) that share my opinion after living here for years. I know people who work minimum wage jobs in this country earning less than $500/month that live far better lives than those earning minimum wage jobs in Canada and the US. You can get an apartment here for $100/month. They have their own apartments (or share with friends or family), live dignified, independent, interesting, non-lonely lives with lots to do and enough free time. Meanwhile, the minimum wage workers I know in Canada and the US struggle to survive and have nothing to live for. Admittedly this is not just about cost optimization, this is about something gone wrong with culture and way of life in the West.

And restaurants are not just "cheap for me" because I earn in USD. It's also relatively cheap for them, i.e. they can afford to occasionally enjoy a beautiful restaurant even on a minimum wage salary. Anyway cost is not the issue, the point is that they do things that make no sense financially, such as maintain a collection of live houseplants and vintage artwork in their restaurants and stores, just because there's a culture of beauty and art as opposed to a culture of pure profit.
by apercu | 2025-04-25 09:57:25+00:00
I absolutely pay more for local goods. In the grocery store I try to purchase things from my state, or at least adjacent states. If it’s something that will last for decades or something I will use constantly I will absolutely pay more for made in US, Canada or Mexico.

But, this study feels a bit off - as much as Americans aspire to be wealthy, the vast majority are not and have to make compromises and can’t always justify paying double for something out of some economic or emotional principle.

Of course, I learned a long time ago that “stuff” does very little for my quality of life so I try not to be acquisitive. Except for guitars, sigh.
by chii | 2025-04-25 09:58:04+00:00
> scenario where AGI actually exists and is vastly better at software development than any human

then humans deservedly should no longer be doing software development, and those who were doing it would necessarily be the economic sacrifices. This has happened to many industries before, and shall continue to happen to others. I don't think there's any necessity to stop it - just ease the transition via taxpayer funded schemes.

However, none of this stops anyone from persuing an artisanal craft - because otherwise, they would be persuing it for economic reasons rather than artistic reasons.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-04-25 09:58:45+00:00
> The product offering of an AI chatbot for when the power goes out made me laugh out loud.

To be fair, the current iteration of this is of course bullshit but imagine this in 10 years when raspberry pi sized devices can easily host AIs that outperform or at least match current best models and has been specifically trained to be an emergency assistant.

Kinda reminds me of the public access defibrillators that talk you through an emergency [0]. I can see an AI Assistant be useful during emergencies.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zApKRGDs1sk
by golol | 2025-04-25 09:58:50+00:00
All these art producing AIs are a byproduct of the research progress towards AGI and AI that can do your chores. It is inevitable that somebody has made image or music generating AI in a world where household robots exist. So I don't see any problem with DeepMind trying what they can do with current technology. It's just a reality of the world we have to live with.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-04-25 09:59:26+00:00
"Revealed!" lol.

This is really naked propaganda that gives zero consideration to China's geopolitical situation. The "West" (broadly defined) has been trying to hem China in -- and China is a net energy importer, which is among its greatest strategic liabilities. Broadening strategic cooperation with Russia -- the world's largest gas station -- is so clearly in China's best interests that it's actually quite surprising that it's not doing more in Russia's support.

Russia is also a captive market, of sorts, for surplus trade and consumer goods. And not a small one, either. Again, given China's position, it would be frankly insane to not take advantage of this.

Now what does the Telegraph have to say of the UK's role in prolonging the war and supplying its combatants? The Chinese have a clear geopolitical motivation. The UK does not -- the UK really has nothing to do with anything, as hard as it is for its politicians to accept -- and yet, perplexingly, it is among the war's most ardent cheerleaders.

What's needed is more realism, less dramatics.
by potato3732842 | 2025-04-25 09:59:32+00:00
We're talking about the Bronco 2 here, not the normal Bronco. Rollovers compared to production numbers. Someone crunched the numbers and IIRC it comes out to 20-something percent of Bronco 2s were rolled. I can't find those numbers but I did find that the fatality rate almost doubles the Samarui.

https://www.motortrend.com/features/ford-bronco-ii-history-e...

And I found this hilarious gem:

https://www.broncocorral.com/articles/ford-bronco-ii-rollove...

I don't think anyone would expect to do a 30mph J turn in anything except the most car-like of modern SUVs and expect to maintain upright. Perhaps getting away with that sort of stuff is a reflection of the kind of tires they had at the time.