MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by blululu | 2025-04-09 02:41:13+00:00
Well China made its own masks and also managed a staff a fully operational medical system and pharmaceutical industry ad the same time. So clearly a single country can do all of this. Furthermore I think most countries would look at how China managed the pandemic and be impressed by the results. The masks are not a singular item. They generalize to a whole slew of critical components that a functioning society needs like pharmaceuticals (and their precursors), or half the global electronics supply chain. These resources exist in a time of peace but in a crunch they will disappear.
by VaiTheJice | 2025-04-09 02:43:15+00:00
Ahh! Nothing like watching pods fail to schedule because you ran out of assignable IPs in a subnet you thought was generous.

Immutable addressing per workload with IPv6 feels like such a clean mental model, especially for attribution, routing, and observability.

Curious if you have seen anyone pull that off cleanly in production, like truly immutable addressing at scale? Curious if it’s been battle tested somewhere or still mostly an ideal.
by mrangle | 2025-04-09 02:44:43+00:00
My opinion stands. Claiming that I'm not being honest in my opinion is not a valid escape from the conversation. But be my guest.

Tariffs were inevitable, in any administration. Unless the plan was to have been much worse. With all due respect, truly, I'm sure that you don't understand how the international monetary system works at a basic level. For reasons, tariffs were inevitable. All sides have been preparing.

Kamala Harris had zero chance of winning, lost in a landslide, and could have said whatever she pleased because she was never going to be there to follow through. Believe they knew she didn't have a chance. She was truly a candidate who could not win. Hillary Clinton could not beat Donald Trump, and she was a vastly superior candidate. Anyone with political horse sense knew that the first woman POTUS would not be Kamala Harris. Forcing Biden out was equivalent to throwing the election. Though, I'm not saying that I know that he would have won.

Second, I look at policy to inform on politician intention. I recommend that you do the same. Instead of looking at stated intent.

Preparation for reshoring under Joe Biden:

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

https://www.wri.org/insights/inflation-reduction-act-anniver...

Herded via tariffs, look for foreign-owned companies to begin setting up in Foreign Trade Zones on US soil. Thereby avoiding tariffs.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/economy/foreign-trade-zones-...

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/04/17/2023-08...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign-trade_zones_of_the_Uni...
by voidmain | 2025-04-09 02:45:18+00:00
Games drawn from this uniform distribution can't even be implemented in our physical universe (you would need exponentially large lookup tables to store the rules). There is no chance of ever encountering any of them.

Of course, there are "games" like "invert sha-512" that can be implemented in our world but are probably impractical to learn. But NFL has nothing to say about them; a game that simple has zero measure in a uniform distribution over problems.
by trhway | 2025-04-09 02:45:51+00:00
>the gist is: When you can manufacture ships, you can also manufacture warships.

Not really. Most of the complexity and value and technology lies in the difference between a civilian ship and a warship. Guns, radars, missiles, gas turbines - all that much more complex and involved tech than just a metal bathtub with a diesel that a regular civilian ship is. Nuclear aircraft carrier has even less common with a civilian ship. Submarine - pretty much nothing in common.

>or: If all you sell are financial services, and a pandemic hits and you need to protect your people, where will you find masks?

Well, we know that emergency stockpile wasn't maintained as a money saving measure. When you sell finservices you actually have more money to maintain stockpile than when you're manufacturing masks. Yet if you're choosing to not maintain the stockpile ...
by motorest | 2025-04-09 02:46:55+00:00
> And what happens when another candidate has the same skills and a bunch of other skills on top of those?

Perhaps the first step anyone should take is to arrive at the realization that the point of a hiring process from the perspective of a hiring manager is not to find the absolute best candidate. The goal is to pick anyone, anyone at all, from a pool of acceptable candidates. If they are able to get through the door and not shit the bed, they are a superb hire.
by neo4llm | 2025-04-09 02:47:22+00:00
Probably not. I'd be more afraid of what the country can do to you. In case you are not following the immigration news, here are some news:

# Phd student detained (Rumeysa Ozturk) https://bsky.app/profile/democracynow.org/post/3llecj2d4ec27

# Even citizens could be deported https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43627611

# Germans https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/world/europe/german-touri...

# Canadian detained - Jasmine Mooney https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-det... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0niuiBzK5Vw

# French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-f...

# Is it safe to travel with phone https://archive.is/taZBx

# Indians https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/elderly-indian-g...

Edit: It is important to mention that this is what has happened in the past 79 days. Things can get a LOT worse.

From the first of Newton's laws: "An object in motion will remain in motion with the same speed unless met with a force of resistance".
by runako | 2025-04-09 02:47:39+00:00
This was not true in the immediate postwar period. The turning point was roughly the 1980s.

Wealth concentration has been a deliberate US domestic policy for decades. This is, to a large degree, separate from the stability of our currency or military protection. It's the stated intent and logical result of relaxing taxes on the rich while enacting policies designed to hurt the working classes (e.g. reducing union power, not indexing minimum wage to inflation, refusal to address healthcare & housing costs, increasing fees at public universities, cutting existing safety net programs, etc.).

Concentration of wealth is a choice. America is a very rich country and has not always chosen to distribute our wealth this way. Other countries make different choices. We are also allowed to make different choices.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-09 02:48:53+00:00
Google is extremely conscious for their privacy of their data which they’re collecting from you.

Google calls it “my privacy” but it’s not their business model to keep my stuff private to me but to Google and their partners.

https://m.xkcd.com/1150/

Google is trying to keep their own secrets like what their hardware MAC address really is, (because Google themselves are tracking everyone’s radio-enabled devices in every public space with far more sophisticated methods)

or hide/virtualize my credit card details, and protecting the card from crackers who wear hoodies, build EBM playlists, and use Firefox? that is a side-effect at best, especially considering how they are already a crazy non-bank middleman 3rd party with a miasma of shifting TOS and hundreds of advertising partners salivating to know what you paid for 3 milliseconds ago. Sheesh.
by 0x6A75616E | 2025-04-09 02:50:29+00:00
WeChat. And let me explain why. I'll stick with technology and usability and leave politics aside.

They've integrated literally everything with wc. Going to an event? Amusement park? Metro ride? Flight? Restaurant booking? The hospital? You guessed it. WeChat. Every place has a QR code (they've also have a custom QR code format they support) and any business/individual can set up to receive payments, reservations, form data, or literally anything else that can be built as a web app. There's no secret sauce to how it's done; WeChat allows you to "install" web based apps inside wechat and integrates your profile and payment abilities with it.

If you want to set up a point-of-sale device to receive payments here you have to get something like Square, and set up an account, and you often need special equipment, etc. Not a great UX. With WeChat, everybody already has their payment profile linked up, so you just show your QR code, people pay, you get notified, and you're all set.

It's not the best built app, though. It's glitchy, and the web-based stuff is slow. The Chinese are great at many things, but UI design/UX isn't one of them haha. It seems to work, though, and I can only imagine the gargantuan amount of payment events their infra handles. Probably many millions per second.
by 1659447091 | 2025-04-09 02:51:34+00:00
> Your brain is very good at localizing sounds. ... You'll develop an ear for it the more you practice.

My grandfather would be able to do this almost instantly. We would be out on his ranch and hear them all the time; every once in awhile he would listen, turn and point in a direction to show me where the bird was that he spotted, and tell me what kind of woodpecker it was. I never saw the bird myself as much as he tried to point it out to me.

The man had hearing and vision super powers to me. He would spot edible plants in overgrown pasture and woods, spot a particular type of tree in the middle of a bunch of other trees and hear the location of wildlife stalking about the woods. And it was insane how much information he had about the natural world around us and the skill to utilize it.
by Suppafly | 2025-04-09 02:52:02+00:00
>This is because in the workflow that is one of the steps that is naively applied without consideration of multi edit possibility. If this was a one shot solution where editing is done within 4o image model by itself, the sepia problem wouldn't be there.

I don't really see that with chatgpt, what I do see is that it's presumably running the same basic query with just whatever you said different each time instead of modifying the existing image. Like if you say "generate a photo of a woman", and get a pic and then say "make her hair blonde", the new image is likely to also have different facial features.
by didericis | 2025-04-09 02:53:01+00:00
The message is absolutely America first, and the motivation to boost the middle class through reindustrialization is a huge factor.

The desire to eventually back out of defense commitments in Europe is not in contradiction to that.

The political will to commit troops and to defend Ukraine simply isn’t there, especially not while Taiwan is looming. Wanting Europe to reindustrialize and handle it’s own defense allows America to focus more domestically and on potential wars more aligned with American interests (disruption of chip manufacturing affects America much more than Russian occupation of Ukraine).

I linked to a hoover institute interview with Niall Ferguson explaining a lot of the thinking. You can also just listen to what the administration has been saying themselves. You don’t have to agree with it, but the goal is reindustrialization of both America and Europe so America doesn’t lose it’s defense capabilities and so Europe can defend itself without relying on American support.
by taeric | 2025-04-09 02:53:12+00:00
I was prepared to disagree. I don't, though. I may go so far as to say this is one area the humanities seems to have really gone off the rails.

Is there evidence to support such a heavy reliance on these essays? We seemed to throw out standardized tests when those had stronger evidence as highly effective predictors. Why are we rewarding essays above that? (Assuming,of course, accurate reporting in story.)
by aobdev | 2025-04-09 02:53:25+00:00
It's a generated column, so there's no overhead to keep it up to date, but all generated columns in PG are stored. The corpus for text search will be stored 1x in the source column, 1x as a tsvector in the index, and an additional 1x in the generated column if you do so. That's a 50% increase in disk space.
by cnnrobrn | 2025-04-09 02:53:28+00:00
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by robocat | 2025-04-09 02:54:58+00:00
As a New Zealander, the arguments about foreigners owning tech companies is shit.

Maybe foreigners own 40% of US tech companies, but if 40% of US tech company income is coming from outside of the US then that is fair.

The US got a big slice of a bigger pie due to foreign investment. That investment surely supercharged the growth of tech companies (especially via IPOs) - just like good VC can do.

And meanwhile the US government is wanting to buy our businesses - and they use policy and agreements/accords to push that agenda to the benefit of the US. New Zealand sells good businesses cheaply to US and EU owners. Our government wants to give away equity and earnings. The right leaning minority party (ACT) are financial plonkers trying to sell New Zealand cheaply like a child loving a credit card. Sell NZ for some immediate income but cost us income over the years (that's the bargain you get with investors). Fine if the pie size is increased, but it isn't.
by motorest | 2025-04-09 02:55:30+00:00
You touched on an important topic: if a candidate has potential but HR has no way to tell if that candidate is any good, should they hire him?

How can they tell apart a candidate with potential but an abismal CV from a candidate who is utterly incompetent and a bonafide scrub?

The problem is that this is not a HR problem. This is a you problem. Why are you failing to stand out and prove your value?

The problem with HR is not buzzwords. Their problem is that they need to justify their choices with objectively verifiable data. What are you giving them that allows them to say you are a safer hire than any other candidate around you? You are not giving them anything to work with. They can take a gamble on you, but they can also take a gamble on anyone else walking through their door. If they are going to take a gamble, wouldn't they bet on someone who on paper leads to better odds? What are you giving them to work with?
by thescriptkiddie | 2025-04-09 02:56:24+00:00
obviously re-industrializing a de-industrialized economy is not something that has ever been tried before, it's not clear it would even be desirable, and industrializing in the first place was a traumatic process. that said, machine tools and similar specialized equipment are exactly the kind of high-margin low-volume goods that you want to be manufacturing in a developed country. well, that and microchips.
by sgarland | 2025-04-09 02:56:35+00:00
Tbf everything you mentioned, MySQL also has (in the latest version, for vectors).

But either way, the answer is simplicity and cost. I assume you’ve heard of Choose Boring Technology [0]? Postgres is boring. It’s immensely complex when you dive into it, but in return, you get immense performance, reliability, and flexibility. You only have to read one manual. You only have to know one language (beyond your app, anyway – though if you do write an app in pure SQL, my hat is off to you). You only have to learn the ins and outs of one thing (again, other than your app). ES is hard to administer; I’ve done it. Postgres is also hard to administer, but if I have to pick between mastering one hard thing and being paged for it, or two hard things and getting paged for them, I’ll take one every day.

[0]: https://boringtechnology.club/
by muzani | 2025-04-09 02:56:56+00:00
GPT-4o already one-shots Leetcode hard with just a screenshot. I know, it's trained on the answers. But it clicked in my head that if you give the LLM a very detailed specification + tests to the level of detail that Leetcode does, you might actually be able to one-shot any code you like.

Over the weekend, I made a game. It's heavily dialogue based. I wanted a screen and game content that centers around this gameplay. It's not a classic VN, more customized like Ace Attorney.

It's a free game so I need an intro that hooks people in the first 30 seconds. What examples are good for this? Since there's few games like this, I look into movies. I don't want that scene from Inglourious Basterds, that's too fresh. There's a lot of good stuff in classic film, before the 80s that nobody has seen. These movies had to carry themselves on content because they didn't have special effects.

And that's where DeepResearch comes in.

I'm looking for specific films that fit the tutorial of the game that I'm trying to build. Without going into details, there's 4 mechanics I want to squeeze into the tutorial level. I'm looking for specific scenes that capture these mechanics.

One intent is "How do I get players to not skip dialogue like they would with a VN?" AI's interpretation of this is "scripts that encourage impatience". I didn't even know what question to ask, and it helped to rephrase my intent into the right questions then find examples of those.

It wrote a 6000 word essay, plenty of citations, some with clips. I don't have to spend a couple nights watching Psycho or The Night of the Hunter. I can just jump straight to the clips I want. I can skim 24 different movies in the same two nights.
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-04-09 02:56:56+00:00
>It's like saying you can use the internet for copyright infringement.

I think that a comparison that could help to elucidate the problem here is to a search engine. Like with imagegen, an image search is using infrastructure+algorithm to return the closest match(es) to a textual input over some particular space (whether the space of indexed images or the latent space of the model). Immediately, however, there are qualitative differences. A search company, as an entity, doesn’t in any way take credit for the work; it bills itself as, and operates as, a mechanism to connect the user to others’ work, and in the service of this goal it provides the most attribution it’s reasonably able to provide given technical limitations (a url).

For me this is the difference. Image gen companies, at least all that I’m aware of, position themselves more as a kind of pseudo-artist that you can commission. They provide no means of attribution, rather, they deliberately obfuscate the source material being searched over. Whether you are willing to equate the generation process to a kind of search for legal purposes is really the core disagreement here, and beyond an intuition for it not something I feel I can prove.

So what’s the solution, what’s a business model I’d find less contentious? If an AI company developed a means to, for example, associate activation patterns to an index of source material, (or hell, just provided an effective similarity search between output and training data) as a sort of good-faith attribution scheme, made visible the training set used, and was upfront in marketing about its dependence on the source material, I’d struggle to have the same issues with it. It would be leagues ahead of current companies in the ethical department. To be clear though, I’m not a lawyer. I can’t say how image gen fits into the current legal scheme, or whether it does or doesn’t. My argument is an ethical one; I think that the unethical behavior of the for-profit imagegen companies should be hampered by legality, through new laws if necessary. I feel like this should answer your other questions as well but let me know if I missed something.
by karaterobot | 2025-04-09 02:57:09+00:00
> All of which is to say that audience desire for “impartiality” is profoundly contextual — embedded in the particular political, social, and economic environment that people live in. It’s less an iron law of journalism than an incentive-driven response to conditions. “It is up to news organizations and journalists, therefore,” the authors conclude, “to evaluate which approach better suits their contexts.”

I'm not ceding this ground. We need news that strives for impartiality, and even if people don't want it, they need to get it anyway. The customer is not always right, and everything is not relative.
by tpougy | 2025-04-09 02:57:55+00:00
> Perhaps if you contact the bank, but as far as I know it is not a feature :-( Acctually there is a feature to request the central bank to retrieve money stolen through PIX scam. It is called Special Return Mechanism (MED PIX). Link here: https://www.bcb.gov.br/meubc/faqs/p/o-que-e-e-como-funciona-...
by ashton314 | 2025-04-09 02:58:13+00:00
MB over-engineered that book. Example: look at the paragraph that stars “But I don’t have visual skills” on this page: https://practicaltypography.com/why-does-typography-matter.h...

Notice how the open quotation marks hang into the left margin. There’s been some recent work with CSS to make this automatic, but that’s newer than this book and support is spotty. MB made it happen with a (iirc) custom filter inside the Pollen setup he made for this book. Wild. And beautiful.
by _factor | 2025-04-09 02:58:53+00:00
HTML and CSS with a sprinkle of JS, combined with the hardened web standardization we see today paints a pretty clear picture.

JavaScript is here to stay, web browsers are here to stay, they can make GUIs that are durable.

I find it comical that X was the chosen target in this article, as it will most certainly be more than crufty in 5, let alone 20 years from now.
by mmooss | 2025-04-09 02:59:30+00:00
> historically very popular

When? Not for a long time. Slavery and witchcraft were historically very popular ...

> when you buy stuff you're losing wealth

That's a incredible failure of understanding. I can't believe that's the basis of mercantilism. Why would anyone buy something?

If you buy a house for $100,000, your wealth remains the same - you replace $100,000 in cash with a $100,000 house (ignoring complexities like a mortgage, transaction costs, etc.). That is basic accounting, of course.

In fact, your wealth probably increases: The house's value is <$100,000 to the seller and >$100,000 to the buyer, or else they would be disinclined to make the effort of making the deal - it would be like trading a $10 bill for a $10 bill, with lots of time and transaction costs. Market value - the value to others - may remain the same or vary, of course.

The economy works because people make these value-increasing transactions. I take $10 of inputs, manufacture $20 worth of output, and sell it to you for $15. We both gain $5. If your business isn't producing more output than its input, you're going to be out of business soon.

Many transactions are better with people who happen to be outside the borders of your country - why wouldn't they be?
by keepamovin | 2025-04-09 02:59:47+00:00
I like how Tao put out the call, and you answered it. Very cool! I was waiting for someone on here with engineering and math chops to attempt devising a more efficient approach teased in that article. Super cool to see you do it! You might be co-author on his paper, I think that's what he said, hahaha ! :)