MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mason55 | 2025-04-04 18:39:21+00:00
FYI - you aren't handling the "scroll up" case.

To see what I mean, click "Creating a Feature" then start scrolling up. Notice that "Creating a Feature" is still highlighted even though the entire screen is made up of text from the "Software" section.

I probably only noticed this because I recently implemented a similar "active anchor" solution with Intersection Observer.
by brendan_bormann | 2025-04-04 18:39:22+00:00
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by ameliaquining | 2025-04-04 18:39:39+00:00
Yglesias's position, which he's articulated in a number of posts over the years, is that procedural barriers are a poor and ineffective way of preventing this failure mode, because they don't differentially retard bad projects compared to good projects; they just slow down everything, and impose other costs besides. You might like this if it's your considered opinion that change is in general bad, but I think most sane people recognize that that's not the case.

According to this position, the thing to do is to reduce the influence of bureaucrats and courts over what kind of building is allowed, and instead concentrate authority in a small number of elected officials who are empowered to do whatever they judge best—while making very clear to voters that those elected officials are responsible for whatever outcomes come of this, so that if those outcomes are bad (as judged by voters), the officials won't be reelected. In short, let democracy do its job.
by xracy | 2025-04-04 18:39:41+00:00
Gosh "who is an oppressive elite?"

Musk, Trump and the billionaires in their administration sure look like "oppressive elites" to me. Can you name multiple oppressive elites?

Edit: I think you answer your own question here. The actual oppressive elites have convinced the masses (and you) that there's a different amorphous group of "oppressive elites" that aren't the obvious ones standing right in front of your eyes. Obligatory https://xkcd.com/1013/
by TimorousBestie | 2025-04-04 18:41:15+00:00
Comparing homeless people and drug addicts to zombies is not helpful.

Instead we could talk about returning to the horrors of the involuntary hospitalization era pre-Reagan, or we could talk about the current push to incarcerate the entire class in order to use them for forced labor (Grants Pass v. Johnson, 2024).

The most humane solution would be to house them and give them a robust social assistance network, of course, but that’s obviously so far off the table that it fell out the Overton Window.
by the8472 | 2025-04-04 18:41:23+00:00
Many tasks are amenable to simulation training and synthetic data. Math proofs, virtual game environments, programming.

And we haven't run out of all data. High-quality text data may be exhausted, but we have many many life-years worth of video. Being able to predict visual imagery means building a physical world model. Combine this passive observation with active experimentation in simulated and real environments and you get millions of hours of navigating and steering a causal world. Deepmind has been hooking up their models to real robots to let them actively explore and generate interesting training data for a long time. There's more to DL than LLMs.
by nothrabannosir | 2025-04-04 18:41:34+00:00
When I see the left's recent brazen devotion to "winning" and "sticking it to the other side", sometimes it feels like Democrats have started acting like Republicans.

And it turns out that wasn't sustainable.

I know it's glib and coarse and lacking in nuance but when I hear American conservatives complain about the ways of the liberal countrymen I can't help but think, "That's how you guys sounded for a long time. Now they're doing it, lo and behold: everyone loses."
by Gud | 2025-04-04 18:42:13+00:00
There is a vast difference between the UK and the rest of Europe, in this regard.

Full disclosure, I travel all over Europe for work and in the last 3 years, 1 of them was in the UK. The divide between the rich and poor is incredible.

Further, the only place I’ve seen so many young homeless men on the streets is in the UK. Not seen it anywhere else.
by slg | 2025-04-04 18:42:20+00:00
How do you define which speech is speech worthy of protection and which speech is a consequence of speech and therefore not worthy of protection?

For example, imagine some CEO says something politically objectionable, as is their right granted by allowing free speech. Do I have the right to protest or boycott their company as part of my free speech rights or would that be illegal because I'm rendering a consequence for the CEO's speech?

I just have trouble conceptualizing what you think a world with consequence free speech would actually look like.
by antisthenes | 2025-04-04 18:42:22+00:00
If you let yourself get scammed by contractors who charge you double when you have "money" there's no limit to the number you can pay for a kitchen.

Obviously there is more hands-on involved the cheaper you want to go.

Also "full" is probably doing a lot of lifting here. He likely didn't do plumbing for the kitchen from scratch nor electrical.

If you just need to replace cabinets + appliances, there's no reason why you can't get any kitchen done under 30k.
by cduzz | 2025-04-04 18:42:26+00:00
Are these people in your realm being picked up off the street by the police, drugged, put into an airplane, and then being dropped into the ocean over international waters?

Or are these people having the things they've said repeated widely, perhaps out of context, to other people, who then decide "sheesh, maybe I don't want to hang out with / work with this dude." ?
by bombcar | 2025-04-04 18:43:28+00:00
Home building is rampant in some areas, it's just not in the insanely VHCOL coasts.

Tax incentives or other reasons to have companies offer jobs in places like Milwaukee or Boise reduces housing pressure on the big cities.

What we used to have is smaller (in area) cities, who were not governed in lock-step, and if housing was needed, entire new cities would pop up (sometimes called suburbs, but check them - often they're their own legal entity).
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-04-04 18:44:17+00:00
Not endorsing here but it's not like that's not over entirely nothing. Our car-centric infrastructure means anywhere that is busy is basically impossible to navigate, which... I mean nearly every other G20 nation has a much more diverse transportation system than us, and car focused infrastructure is by far the most inefficient way to move people. It's why I'm still a remote worker despite loving my job, coworkers, and the office: I don't want to deal with commuting in a major metro. Numerous others who work where I do regularly clock commutes in the 30 minute range to travel 10 miles. It's absurd.

And it's not JUST inconvenient, it's costly. Living in a place with more people and more traffic means you pay higher insurance premiums and spend more on fuel, unless you have an EV of course.

Again I don't mean to fully cosign NIMBYism I'm just saying, especially with the shit way the United States goes about building, it isn't a position completely without merit.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-04-04 18:45:19+00:00
> That's like also saying bankrupting consumers means they'll eat less.

I would presume that this is true, in the sense that the overall economic footprint of what these bankrupted consumers eat will be smaller.

The caloric difference will be insignificant. But instead of having it come from meat, and especially cattle, have it come from vegetables and poultry.

No one needs to eat red meat every day.
by rsynnott | 2025-04-04 18:45:27+00:00
> Europeans do drink a lot, but it's in moderation, if that makes sense. Less binge drinking all at once, more drinks during meals and spread throughout the week. We all know the liver processes alcohol at a specific rate so this is less damaging to health.

I'm sceptical that this is a big factor. Ireland and the UK have a big binge drinking problem, but Ireland's in the top end of European countries for life expectancy; the UK's a bit lower down the list, but still just about at the EU average.

Though, you also have to be careful with small differences, because the data is often imperfect. One darkly funny thing to come out of the covid pandemic was that there were significantly more very elderly people in Ireland than it was generally believed; this showed when the covid vaccination rate for the over-85 age cohort went over 100% (I think it hit 109% by the end). It turned out that the central statistics office's population estimates had simply been wrong; they had been running off an assumed death rate since the last census which turned out to be overly pessimistic.
by bigyabai | 2025-04-04 18:45:54+00:00
Well, Apple has done nothing to replace the common standard they abandoned. They failed to develop their proprietary alternatives into a competitive position and now can't even use their own TSMC dies (imported at great expense) for training: https://www.eteknix.com/apple-set-to-invest-1-billion-in-nvi...

However you want to paint the picture today, you can't say the industry didn't try to resist CUDA. The stakeholders shot each other in a 4-way Mexican standoff, and Nvidia whistled showtunes all the way to the bank. If OpenCL was treated with the same importance Vulkan was, we might see a very different market today.
by amazingamazing | 2025-04-04 18:46:14+00:00
> The contents of the shopping cart of the person in front of you is an indicator.

yes.

> It’s all correlates, some leading, some trailing, some accurate, and some inaccurate.

no. some things are actually measured, like employment rate.

sentiment also can be measured, but is meaningless, because it can contradict behavior, which actually affects the real world. sentiment certainly is correlated to behavior, which is why it's a good leading indicator, but is often wrong about what is happening (see the USA 2024 election, and covid).
by abdulhdr1 | 2025-04-04 18:46:25+00:00
Hello HN

We’ve been frustrated with how hard it is to integrate AI into applications. Right now, AI workflows are:

Hardcoded into business logic

Locked to a single model (GPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.)

Difficult to update—every prompt or model change requires code changes & redeploys

Only manageable by developers

So we built Itzam, a platform that lets you manage AI workflows through a dashboard & API.

With Itzam, you can: - Swap AI models instantly - Update prompts & context without redeploying - Let non-devs manage AI workflows - Optimize AI costs (e.g., auto-switch to cheaper models)

It’s designed to make AI integration flexible and future-proof.

Would love to hear your thoughts & feedback!
by maxglute | 2025-04-04 18:46:37+00:00
Most of that $600 is BOM inputs where most of high end components worth $$$$$ is ultimately captured by US / western suppliers (i.e. chips, sensors, screens for iphones). The actual value of export from PRC in terms of material and labour is $, but still counted as $$$$$+$. Though iphone/high tech unique since US plays hand - sanction $$$$$ PRC components so Apple can't integrate them and raise PRC share of Apple BOM, which IIRC grew to ~20% and on way 40%+ (prc memory + screen) and now <20%. This is something PRC stats has started adjusting for.
by abofh | 2025-04-04 18:46:46+00:00
I have to assume /s, but lacking that -- Why can't you just allow `curl`? You need a human for advertising dollars or a poor mechanism of rate limiting. I want to use your service. If you're buying me a fragment shader, I guess that's fine, but I'm feeding it to the dogs, not plugging in your rando hardware in to my web-browser.
by steviedotboston | 2025-04-04 18:47:00+00:00
Here's one example: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judge-rules-jewish-stud...

"the protesters created a “Jew Exclusion Zone” where in order to pass “a person had to make a statement pledging their allegiance to the activists’ view.” Those who complied with the protesters’ view were issued wristbands to allow them to pass through, the complaint says, which effectively barred Jewish students who supported Israel and denied them access to the heart of campus."
by bananapub | 2025-04-04 18:47:06+00:00
the american media is just completely unable to handle endless bald facing lying to their face.

> "DOGE, a made up agency the government lies about Elon Musk not running, is planning to absolutely fuck up the way that Social Security works"

it's much longer, but much more honest. if they actually wanted to "modernise" things then they'd calm the fuck down and spend three years trying to understand the current system, then design an incremental replacement.
by zpeti | 2025-04-04 18:47:12+00:00
I think you have to consider personality types when discussing things like this. Rand seems to me like she probably had Asperger’s, which explains why she is attracted to rationality, and her heroes are like that too.

That works for some people.

I read Nietzsche after rand and I thought his philosophy had some similarities to rand but from a more emotional perspective. They say very similar things about being yourself and being selfish, but one from rationality the other from emotions.

For me the difference between musk and Steve jobs demonstrates this. One is an engineer entrepreneur the other an artist entrepreneur. Both incredibly successful but couldn’t be more different, but of course both are assholes too and took what they wanted from the world.
by taikahessu | 2025-04-04 18:47:38+00:00
I was also wondering what this was about. Should I care and why?

It's not only that I don't want to, but literally can't use extra 2 minutes for _every_ link I open while browsing news sites. And that attention span window is only getting shorter.

It's definitely not the first or last time for github repo not using the best real estate they have in "selling" their product.
by echelon | 2025-04-04 18:47:49+00:00
It varies on a company to company basis. BOOX, for instance, are notorious GPL violators.

There's also significant alpha in releasing open weights models. You get to slow down the market leaders to make sure they don't have runaway success. It reduces moats, slows funding, creates a wealth of competition, reduces margin. It's a really smart move if you want to make sure there's a future where you can compete with Google, OpenAI, etc. There's even a chance it makes those companies bleed a little. The value chain moves to differently shaped companies (tools, infra) leaving space for consumer and product to not necessarily be won by the "labs" companies.
by alt227 | 2025-04-04 18:47:54+00:00
You are correct. we have indeed solved some of these issues, we have even built incredible solutions such as Electric Mountain in Wales[0] to store and release incredible amounts of energy almost immediately. However this just serves to prove my point. Even an entire lake being flushed down a mountain is not enough to offset all the peaaks in just the UK, a relatively small country. To solve this issue on a global scale enough to provide the worlds power from solar is an unthinkable challenge IMO.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinorwig_Power_Station
by kjkjadksj | 2025-04-04 18:48:10+00:00
It’s because antibiotic resistance is a misunderstood issue. If one antibiotic doesn’t work, you move on to the next. Maintaining antibiotic resistance is energetically costly to the bacteria. If you aren’t actively selecting with that antibiotic, its resistance will be lost before long as mutants with deficient antibiotic resistance are now more fit and outcompete those with functional antibiotic resistance.
Ask HN: Where are the Mac ergonomic keyboards?
by donnachangstein | 2025-04-04 18:48:26+00:00
I have terrible wrist pain and have been a slave to ergonomic keyboards for relief for the past decade.

However, the Mac segment of this market is sparse and dry. Mac meaning a keyboard with proper ⌘-Command and ⌥-Option buttons.

If any good options exist, I can't seem to find them. Nothing fancy or exotic, I just want a version of the old Microsoft Natural keyboard with Mac keys and USB-C, most importantly wired not wireless. Comparable attempts seem to be poor quality and/or discontinued.

Why does this not exist? Patent encumbrances? There had to be a market for such things; I can't be the only one. I'm willing to pay up to $150 USD for a quality product.

If anyone knows of any good products, please share!
by anonym29 | 2025-04-04 18:49:04+00:00
I'd like to address two points here: the first being the idea that taxes are voluntary, and the second being implicit claims about the nature of the democratic process itself. I will raise some labelled and ordered questions if you care to respond, I understand that this is a subject that can lend easily to hostility, but I want to remind everyone that I am not necessarily refuting what you are saying here, I am just asking follow-up questions to achieve a better understanding of your point of view. I hope we can continue this dialogue respectfully, and if at any point any points I am raising strike you as disrespectful or unkind, please let me know.

First: If paying taxes hypothetically became completely optional, and there were no legal penalties for not paying them (coercion, threat of force, state-sanctioned violence),

1a. Do you think tax revenues would stay almost the same, or be dramatically reduced by this change?

1b. Do you suppose most people would still voluntarily choose to pay taxes of their own free will if there were no individual consequences for not paying them?

1c. If answering in the negative to 1b, how do you characterize taxes being any more "voluntary" than the act of handing my wallet to an armed robber can be considered "voluntary"? i.e. if the motivating force that compels me to pay is a threat of force (either implicitly and roundaboutly, through the legal system, which eventually ends with one staring down the barrel of a gun, or explicitly and expediently, just skipping the other steps and going straight to staring down the barrel of a gun), isn't that ultimately the same act of extortion being justified with / "backed up by" the same threat of force from the same mechanism (firearm) regardless of whether it is by one man calling himself a robber or a million men calling themselves a government?

Second: As individuals, we do not exercise "control" through the democratic process, we express preferences.

2a. From my understanding (please correct me if this is wrong), the DNC has made it clear in both 2016 and in 2024, that the voters do not get to pick the nominee, the DNC's superdelegates do, and they retain the right to nominate candidates that do not have the majority or plurality of popular support even from within their own party, right?

2b. Expanding out to a broader level, does your comment intend to suggest or imply that all results of democratic processes are inherently and automatically voluntarily consented to by the populace on the basis that we were all allowed to vote on it?

2c. If the proposition made in 2b were true, wouldn't that necessarily imply that we both voluntarily consented to the election of Donald Trump, or the invasion of Iraq in search of WMD's that didn't exist? I can't speak for you, but I certainly did not consent to either of those.

2d. If, on the other hand, the proposition made in 2b were false, why is it we can choose not to consent some democratic process outcomes, like a president that we disapprove of, but not others, like the specific details of tax policy?
by lliamander | 2025-04-04 18:49:05+00:00
> cheaper

One major reason why it is cheaper to make these clothes overseas is because we have such a stringent regulatory regime for worker and environmental protections, and using foreign manufacturers is essentially a loophole through those regulations. Whether those regulations are useful or not is entirely beside the point: if they are good, then moving manufacturing over to lower regulation countries is bad and we should impose tariffs on all of those goods. If those regulations are bad, then we should just repeal them and let domestic manufacturers compete on an even playing field.
by Jun8 | 2025-04-04 18:49:12+00:00
Hallow Earth, perhaps with dinosaurs still living there is, of course, BS. However, it may not be all barren in there either, e.g. this report from 2006 talking about bacteria nearly 2 miles in: https://www.princeton.edu/news/2006/10/20/two-miles-undergro....

So, as a Friday afternoon thought, one can hypothesize the existence of large-ish (~hundreds of meters) empty cavities within the mantle with some simple animal life (worms, insects?), which doesn't sound totally off the rails to me. I wonder if our current seismic analysis technology can detect such cavities (chatGPT says waves to propel core have wavelengths on the order of kilometers).
by gamblor956 | 2025-04-04 18:49:36+00:00
It really isn't.

The U.S. can't "reward" local manufacturing (through subsidies, etc.) enough to offset the absolutely massive subsidies that China gives out like candy. (See, e.g., what China has done in the solar panel and steel spaces. Conservative estimates place the value of Chinese subsidies in those two markets alone at nearly $1 trillion dollars over the past decade.)

The point of tariffs is to eliminate the financial benefit of using lower-cost foreign providers for sourcing products for local sale.

The problem with the Trump tariffs are not that they exist, but that they are being thrown about without any thought into who or what should be subject to tariffs.
by piokoch | 2025-04-04 18:49:38+00:00
Typical "femme fatale", she destroyed The Beatles, she turned Lennon into "working class hero", who had servants and used air condition to lower temperature in his home, so he and Yoko could wear furs inside.

The only worthy Lennon's post-Beatles album is Mind Games, the rest was a daub, with Imagine on the top of it.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-04-04 18:49:44+00:00
The client/server model is why I like Chef more than Ansible, tbh. Having my machines run a service which pulls configuration on a schedule is, to me, much saner and easier to manage than having to push configuration from a central source over ssh. But that is obviously just my preference, and if someone doesn't like the client/server model then I can totally understand if they don't like Chef as a result.
by kevmo314 | 2025-04-04 18:50:02+00:00
A strict C variant would indeed be quite nice. I've wanted to write CUDA kernels in Go apps before so the Go app can handle the concurrency on the CPU side. Right now, I have to write a C wrapper and more often than not, I end up writing more code in C++ instead.

But then I end up finding myself juggling mutexes and wishing I had some newer language features.