MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TSUTiger | 2025-04-04 17:52:07+00:00
You mentioned there are multiple occasions: You got a quote on that? I did a quick Google search, but the most recent events are hogging up the results and I didn't hear anything literal about him saying what you claim he was saying. If you're referring to the most recent question asked by a reporter, what you're saying is false -- there was nothing literal or explicit about it.

The specific text in the 22nd Amendment states: "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once"

Key word is "ELECTED," (the loophole) but this is up for debate as the intent of the amendment. Deeper dive here: https://www.factcheck.org/2025/04/legal-scholars-dispute-con...
by bitshiftfaced | 2025-04-04 17:52:29+00:00
JD Vance outlined the administration's view on globalization here: https://youtu.be/U1bd-D1PIZg?si=8oECgV3qYYEbdXy3

In summary he claims that there are two issues:

1) People had thought that globalization would mean that high-income countries would remain at the top of the value chain and design products and low-income companies would produce the simple things and manufacture. But, he claims, there are network effects to manufacturing. Those countries low on the value chain, once they learn how how to build things, are better equipped to rise in the value chain and replace companies completely.

2) He claims that companies became addicted to cheap labor from overseas, and it's stifling productivity gains. He brings in the analogy of how higher minimum wage tends to motivate fast food restaurants to develop better kiosk technology.
by nomadpenguin | 2025-04-04 17:53:11+00:00
This is correct, it's called empiric treatment. If a patient comes in with altered mental status and neck rigidity, you don't have time to take a lumbar puncture and culture bacteria. I don't know anything about phage treatment, but from what the other commenter said, it seems like then you'd have to do some sort of PCR test as well. You simply don't have time for any of that -- your only choice is to blast them with vancomycin + ceftriaxone.
by ashvardanian | 2025-04-04 17:53:22+00:00
In case someone is looking for some performance examples & testimonials, even on RTX 3090 vs a 64-core AMD Epy/Threadripper, even a couple of years ago, CuPy was a blast. I have a couple of recorded sessions with roughly identical slides/numbers:

- San Francisco Python meetup in 2023: https://youtu.be/L9ELuU3GeNc?si=TOp8lARr7rP4cYaw - Yerevan PyData meetup in 2022: https://youtu.be/OxAKSVuW2Yk?si=5s_G0hm7FvFHXx0u

Of the more remarkable results:

- 1000x sorting speedup switching from NumPy to CuPy. - 50x performance improvements switching from Pandas to CuDF on the New York Taxi Rides queries. - 20x GEMM speedup switching from NumPy to CuPy.

CuGraph is also definitely worth checking out. At that time, Intel wasn't in as bad of a position as they are now and was trying to push Modin, but the difference in performance and quality of implementation was mind-boggling.
by os2warpman | 2025-04-04 17:53:23+00:00
The department of education is not a service provider.

It is a conduit through which funding flows and is a standards and enforcement body.

They (or at least, they used to) insure that "state's rights" advocates don't implement curricula that teach children that the world is 6,000 years old and flat. They are in the process of being dismantled.

One's local school district is responsible for a vast majority of one's critical thinking skills and it has been this way in the United States since at least the early 1800s when people realized that only wealthy parents had the time, energy, and money to hire private tutors to impart critical thinking skills on their children.

I imagine that in other countries, especially western countries, the story is the same.

We can look back far into history to see that people have used state-run or sanctioned institutions to teach critical thinking skills since well before the Platonic Academy, from which much of our modern system is derived, based on evidence of organized vocational education ranging from Siberia to Ancient Egypt to city states that dotted the land prior to the Old Babylonian Empire.

The main difference between those ancient systems and today is that, for now, all children get the chance to have a formal, standardized education, instead of just the children of the wealthy, well-connected, or lucky.
by csallen | 2025-04-04 17:53:28+00:00
Games:

> "On platforms like Steam, indie games constitute the vast majority of new titles. For instance, in 2021, approximately 98% of the 11,700 games released on Steam were from indie developers. This trend has continued, with indie games accounting for 99% of releases on gaming platforms between 2018 and 2023."

Written content:

> "Every year, traditional publishers release around half a million to a million new books in the U.S., but that number is dwarfed by the scale of independent writing online: WordPress users alone publish over 70 million blog posts per month, Amazon sees over 1.7 million self-published books annually, and platforms like Medium, Substack, and countless personal websites generate millions more articles and essays. While the average quality of traditional publishing remains high due to strict editorial standards, consumer behavior has shifted dramatically—people now spend far more time reading informal, self-published content online, from niche newsletters to Reddit posts, often favoring relevance, speed, and authenticity over polish. This shift has made the internet the dominant source of written content by volume and a major player in shaping public discourse."

Video content:

> "Today, the overwhelming majority of video content is produced not by Hollywood or television studios, but by individuals on the internet. YouTube alone sees over 500 hours of video uploaded every minute—more than 260 million hours per year—vastly outpacing the combined annual output of all major film studios and TV networks, which together produce only a fraction of that volume. Despite questions about quality, consumer habits have shifted dramatically: people now watch over 1 billion hours of YouTube content per day, and platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and Twitch are growing rapidly, especially among younger audiences. While Hollywood still commands attention with high-budget blockbusters and prestige series, user-generated content dominates the daily media diet in both time spent and engagement."
by hinkley | 2025-04-04 17:54:04+00:00
I know some people are pushing back on Thinking, Fast and Slow’s assertions but whether everyone’s brains work that way or not, there’s at least a visible minority of people whose brains do, and I’m among them.

We do many things based entirely on intuition, and then afterward gin up a reason for having done them that doesn’t make us sound insane, or like five year olds. It’s part explanation/excuse and part description, but presented as description.

And if you’ve read anything on anger management, there’s a split second where the angry individual is experiencing some other emotion, like vulnerability or betrayal, before they sublimate it into anger. The problem is in how fast and to what degree they perform the substitution, and often even they miss the event, which takes away their own agency in the response. Recovery involves clawing back that agency.
by soupfordummies | 2025-04-04 17:54:16+00:00
it's getting harder each day to discount that theory.

It's also harder to tell if this is more or less harmful than the other terrifying theories such as:

-the whole elon/curtis yarvin thing

-just burning the building down so you can loot it on the way out (aka plain old greed)

-"hey guys trump is a russian asset"
by matthewdgreen | 2025-04-04 17:54:22+00:00
You seem to have a strong claim you'd like to make on this point. It might be true, but it's a claim offered without much evidence.

I guess one thing I'd be curious about is: were non-synthetic non-animal alternatives substituted for whale oil in large quantities before synthetics took over? If so, that would be one data point in favor of the idea that regulation (and possibly the decline of the species) was the driving factor, rather than the superiority of synthetics.
by feoren | 2025-04-04 17:54:42+00:00
I'm assuming the downvoters are the ones who get offended at the sight of an Asian Viking, so let me ask you this:

In a work of fiction -- which you're automatically asking for when you ask an AI to generate an image -- in a work of fiction, would you be offended if you saw a white Ninja? A white Samurai? A white Middle-Eastern Jew born in Roman times? Would there have been internet outrage over pictures of white Samurai? We all know the answer: no, of course not. So why is an Asian Viking offensive when a white Samurai is not? Why are we supposed to get angry about an Asian Viking, but a white Jesus is just A-OK? What could the difference possibly be? Anyone?
by prepend | 2025-04-04 17:55:14+00:00
I visited Amsterdam a few years ago and the hotel had this cool wallpaper that had history of Amsterdam. I read about corporations and trade and banking and was surprised at how huge, rich, and long lived they are.

I think the smart move isn’t in being the hegemon. It’s having a hegemon that protects your interests and allows you to thrive. That way you don’t pay for a massive military and whatnot.

Maybe this is the US backing out of its commitment to have military bases all over the world in exchange for wealth. If Europe steps up and becomes hegemon then the US can cruise by with 1% gdp for military and maybe set up universal healthcare. Although they’d likely end up as yachts for billionaires or something.

Anyway, I think in 100 years, I’d rather be Netherlands than the US. More peace, more money.
by hottakesbun | 2025-04-04 17:55:39+00:00
> I won't go so far as to claim that we are in a Manchurian Candidate scenario, but I also cannot exclude that possibility.

You probably know this already, but you don't need to. The relevant question is not "Is the president working on behalf of America's adversaries?"; rather it is "If he was, what would he be doing differently?"
Show HN: Inspect-HTTP-Proxy: a tool to pretty-print JSON requests/responses
by mmx1 | 2025-04-04 17:55:39+00:00
A simple Go-based HTTP proxy designed for detailed inspection of requests and responses. It logs traffic to the console with colorization, automatic decompression, and formatting for common content types, while remaining transparent to the client application.

Ideal for debugging API interactions, understanding middleware behavior, or simply getting a clear view of HTTP traffic flow with jq-like pretty-printing & colorization of request/response. Automatically redacts parts of Authorization header to avoid token leakage.
by ceejayoz | 2025-04-04 17:55:40+00:00
> They already run dictatorships.

Yes, and as such, their primary threat is large-scale popular unrest. They aren't going to lose an election, they aren't going to be reined in by other branches, they aren't going to voluntarily retire.

Which, in general, means you have to at least try to do things that don't piss everyone in the country off.

> Putin for example has invaded Ukraine, and can never lose power or he will be murdered by one of many.

Great example! He thought it'd go quickly and smoothly. It didn't, and for years now he's avoided the mass mobilization he'd need to win outright, because the regular people would hate it.

> Stalin and Mao never lost power despite their insane policies and ruthlessness.

Both had to backtrack when they pissed people off too much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan_incident

"Fears of a more widespread PLA revolt led Mao and his core associates to scale back the movement's most radical components."
by yqiang | 2025-04-04 17:55:48+00:00
I'm working on an app in this area [1], and I've spent a lot of time exploring how to responsibly use AI for food tracking.

My conclusion is that while AI is excellent for augmenting your tracking experience, it's not yet reliable enough to be the sole tracking method. Consistency is key to successful food tracking, and AI can certainly help users avoid the common issue of missing a meal and losing momentum. However, inaccuracies, like consistently being off by 100-200 calories per day, can significantly impact results, especially for those on lower-calorie diets (like 1,200-1,500 calories/day, which is common for many women due to their physical size).

With FitBee I landed on communicating to the user that these are estimates and you probably shouldn't use it as your primary method of tracking calories.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fitbee-calorie-macro-counter/i...
Show HN: I made an online free tool site
by JayWongX | 2025-04-04 17:56:23+00:00
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So I built UFreeTools as a modern SPA using Vue 3 and Vite with:

- 100% client-side processing for all tools - Progressive loading with dynamic imports (only load what you use) - Dark/light theme support - Offline capability for most tools - Responsive design that works well on mobile

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Some of the more technically interesting implementations:

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The biggest challenges were:

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by nucleogenesis | 2025-04-04 17:56:36+00:00
> There should not be a two-tier legal system.

That’s a fine philosophical debate, but the law is designed by the rich to favor the rich and while there are a number of exceptions there is little you can do with the legal system without money and lots of it. So while having a truly just system would be neat it just isn’t in the cards for humanity (IMHO) so long as we allow entities to amass “fuck you” money and wield it to their liking.
by ALLTaken | 2025-04-04 17:56:55+00:00
Not jus being impressed that every paper coming out is SOTA, but also leads the way in being Open-Source in the pure definition of OSS, even with permissible licensing.

Let's not confuse the company with the country by over-fitting a narrative. Popular media is reenforcing hatred or anything that sponsors them, especially to weaker groups. Less repercussions and more clicks/money to be made I guess.

While Politicians may hate each other, Scientists love to work with other aspiring Scientists who have similar ambitions and the only competition is in achieving measurable success and the reward it means to the greater public.

Without any bias, but it's genuinely admirable when companies release their sources to enable faster scientific progress cycles. It's ironic that this company is dedicated to finance, yet shares their progress, while non-profits and companies dedicated purely to AI are locking all knowledge about their findings from access.

Are there other companies like DeepSeek that you know of that commonly release great papers? I am following Mistral already, but I'd love to enrich my sources of publications that I consume. Highly appreciated!
by stuartjohnson12 | 2025-04-04 17:56:56+00:00
It has been trendy in Silicon Valley recently to use inappropriate accounting methods to measure ARR.

Joe, a regular guy: Makes $120k at his desk job

Joe, the businessman: Made $20k in 32 days, $228k ARR

Joe, who launched 5 months into development and did 60k in the first 2 weeks: $1.5M ARR

In all three of these examples, Joe's financial outcome is the same. This business does not have any longevity, and all of its revenue is from converting paid advertising of various kinds. It's still impressive, but is most likely a >10x exaggeration on even the lifetime revenue he makes from this. Which is of course circular, because the reason he's doing all this is to make a business out of monetising the audience of people who want to make money.

All of this is clever social climbing, but is clever social climbing the thing that should be rewarded by colleges?
by amflare | 2025-04-04 17:56:57+00:00
> The very experience and accumulated know-how in software engineering and project management — which might seem obsolete in the age of AI — are precisely what enable the most effective use of these tools.

I agree with the author here, but my worry is that by leaning on the LLMs, the very experience that allows me to uniquely leverage the LLMs now will start to atrophy and in a few years time I'll be relying on them just to keep up.
by lordswork | 2025-04-04 17:57:13+00:00
Emissions are trending downward because of shift from coal to natural gas, growth in renewable energy, energy efficiencies, among other things. Major oil and gas companies in the US like Chevron and ExxonMobil have spent millions on lobbying efforts to resist stricter climate regulations and fight against the changes that led to this trend, so I'd say they are the closest to these evil corporations OP described. Additionally, the current administration refers to doing anything about climate change a "climate religion", so this downward trend will likely slow.

The climate regulations are still quite weak. Without a proper carbon tax, a US company can externalize the costs of carbon emissions and get rich by maximizing their own emissions.
by freedomben | 2025-04-04 17:57:27+00:00
I mostly agree with you.

> Those both seem pretty obvious, but put the two of them together and it means people can lose their jobs or not be hired for stuff they tweet. How do you resolve that?

If the employer happened to see it, then yes I think that's well within rights. But I think having some random stranger see something and actively campaign against the employee to their employer is a little bit different. It's not illegal, nor should it be, but there are plenty of things that are legal but still not good behavior. I would consider this under that umbrella.
by mancerayder | 2025-04-04 17:57:28+00:00
Not part of the rest of the conversation, just narrowing in on the idea of speech being free if there are consequences. That sounds like some sort of 1950's-era doublespeak. If there are consequences, how would speech be free? It's a very American-centric perspective that "Free Speech" is defined as "1st Amendment". Free speech means not getting fired, jumped, killed, poisoned, expelled, etc. Fired is something that would happen in Soviet Times as well, in the USSR, and in the McCarthy era, in the U.S.

Apologies for the "two sidesism".
by Rooster61 | 2025-04-04 17:58:01+00:00
Yeesh. I didn't realize they had that much trouble up there, and I'm disheartened that more wasn't disclosed when the event happened. Losing rotation and translation control in that context would be utterly terrifying. These astronauts clearly have the right stuff.

Also, title should read "far more dire". Missing an adverb there.
by glenstein | 2025-04-04 17:58:05+00:00
I'm not seeing how that context makes your comment make more sense. I am not seeing that they were charged with any kind of unreasonable extrapolation along the lines of "wanting to end meat consumption," nor why that would create context that sets up your dichotomy.

Now it sounds like you're saying you know there was a middle ground but were saying it anyway to make some kind of rhetorical point, but I don't know what rhetorical point you are making.
by taeric | 2025-04-04 17:59:11+00:00
I'm not dismissing, I'm pointing out that you made a hard claim, even if you didn't intend it.

Again, I can agree if you are claiming it is of diminishing benefits. I'll go further and agree that there have been predatory practices to get people to take out loans they shouldn't take out. This is directly addressed by your source. Which, notably, still supports that people have higher incomes after graduation.

What I cannot at all agree with is it being "inverted." Nor can I agree that they are failing to educate people. By the stats I have seen, this just isn't the case.
by beefnugs | 2025-04-04 17:59:19+00:00
Maybe crashing the stock market really is part of the plan, i mean if you arent investing maybe you should use that money to open a factory? I hear AI will do all the labor for you and that will "only get better (TM)"

Although all those nvidia racks apparently use more power than any datacenter in the world has ever deployed in the past... so i hope you know how to run your own power plant onsite too

Oops you also need to install prison level security around all your buildings and homes because the entire population wants your blood, thats ok its an excuse to diversify into weaponized drone manufacturing and local deployment which is another big business opportunity. Wow so many opportunities for rich people!
by JackFr | 2025-04-04 17:59:25+00:00
The impotence of Congress is astonishing. Constitutionally the tariff power is exclusive to Congress, and Trump is exercising it only through emergency powers. Congress could end this easily had they a mind to. Presumably someone could make a challenge to the Supreme Court, but IANAL so it's not clear who has the standing to sue.

As a former Republican, and a Reagan conservative the utter cowardice and corruption of the Republican party nauseates me. No principles, no ethics.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-04-04 17:59:38+00:00
Unlike what "The Big Short" would have you believe, there are lots of people who saw 2008 coming. The American property market bubble was on the cover of the Economist many times in the decade prior to 2008.

However, the collapse came a lot later than many people expected, so many people who correctly shorted the market got burned via coverage calls before the market collapsed.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-04 17:59:45+00:00
They just kept thinking he wouldn't really do it.

And he still hasn't! Most of the tariffs, AFAIK, haven't kicked in yet. His "they start at midnight" stuff in his long ramble-fest appears to have been BS.

I think there's a wave on the 9th, and the last big wave is the 2nd of May.

The current fall is because he took a big step closer to doing it, and did a little of it. The chance he won't go all the way is priced in, so there's plenty of room to fall as those dates get closer.