MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pc86 | 2025-04-30 15:46:45+00:00
Gerrymandering is at the state level. The electoral college is in the Constitution.

What does "senate reform" mean other than filibuster reform, which if you ask anyone who has studied government will tell you is an intentional design decision for a more deliberative body. "Pass laws quickly" is, depending on who you ask, either not the right thing you want to optimize for, or the exact opposite of what you want.

"Tax law reform" okay great but that's going to mean 15 different things to 10 different people.
by pmags | 2025-04-30 15:47:39+00:00
The journal in question, Environmental Health Perspectives, doesn't charge submission fees and is open access (articles are freely available to everyone to read). Its impact factor puts it among the top journals in the fields of toxicology and Public and Environmental Health (https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/journal/ehp/journal-impact-factor).

The article notes that two other open access journals, published by the CDC are also potentially on the chopping block at HHS:

• Emerging Infectious Diseases • Preventing Chronic Disease
by dmart | 2025-04-30 15:48:08+00:00
My guess would be that this is in support of the preview hover feature. For a while now, you can watch an entire video just by hovering over it, complete with captions, scrubbing and audio. This wouldn't be very useful if the thumbnails were still tiny like in the past. Personally, I like this feature and don't often need to look at tons of thumbnails at once, but to each their own.
by hyfgfh | 2025-04-30 15:48:12+00:00
> The return to office fad was a big part of this effort, often largely motivated by reacting to the show of worker power in the racial justice activism efforts of 2020.

Not against this point, but I don't get it, maybe because I don't live in the US, but I see as another way to "soft-fire" people, as is this AI crazy What I'm missing?
by roughly | 2025-04-30 15:48:26+00:00
One thing that’s been interesting (in a Ralp-Wiggins-esque “I’m in danger!” type way) to watch over the last few years is all the “end of history” types re-learning that Mao was right and that economic might only translates into real power when you use it to buy guns. Europe spent a decade trying to tie Russia into the global economy only to find all that cheap energy meant that when Russia walked into the Ukraine, they were on the wrong side of the ledger to throw their weight around. In the US, our oligarchs didn’t realize how much they were relying on the fact that US government officials believed the same lies about the power of capital that they did, and were caught entirely off guard when Trump walked in, picked up the gun on the table, pointed it at them, and said “I’ll take your wallet, please.”

There’s a whole generation of neoliberals learning Littlefinger’s lesson these days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifaRhL95HUM - it’s a shame the rest of us are stuck on this ride with them.
Show HN: A heatmap of New York City freight trucks
by o1nder | 2025-04-30 15:48:29+00:00
I built this on top of a synthetic dataset from a 2023 paper out of NYU's C2Smart Center. The trucks represented aren't real, but the patterns closely mirror real freight truck behavior. I wrote a blog post further explaining how this works and the story behind it: https://infrastructure.bearblog.dev/steel-arteries/

Cheers!
by voytec | 2025-04-30 15:48:40+00:00
FYI: YouTube provides RSS feed for every channel. The URL is as follows:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNEL_ID

And without downloading with yt-dlp, videos can be watched from youtube-nocookie.com in full-window mode (no distractions) under:

https://cinemaphile.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID
by mattgreenrocks | 2025-04-30 15:49:02+00:00
> the whole debacle of beta vs alphas was based on studies on wolfs on stressful conditions (i.e., cages).

The whole alpha/beta meme is a perfect microcosm of what we see today: ardent denial of the complexities of reality. It is a half-truth (some people fare better in the sexual marketplace) that gets elevated to the status of belief. When it becomes a belief, then intellectual heels are dug in. Conflicting information is downplayed, and no amount of reality seems to shift opinions. Perception is twisted to confirm pre-existing beliefs.

The belief must be held. It has been made to serve some psychological purpose for the holder, even if it just a subconscious justification for their own behavior.

You need humility to transcend the local maxima that every human falls into. It's the only way to counterbalance the prone-to-flaws hardware our brains run on. But a lot of our society tries to beat it out of people.
by orwin | 2025-04-30 15:49:08+00:00
That doesn't make any sense. The percentage of people with severe autism barely grew, and is loosely correlated to the mother age.

The diagnosis of autism grow, but mostly because a lot more people are diagnosed with autism. I don't like that sentence, but modern autism is more of a social construct than what autism used to be.

'on the spectrum' is probably to me a big lie. I've worked (as a counsellor) with genuine autistic people, non-communicative or not, and frankly if you've learned to mask and to lie on your own, with intent (I did) or naturally (most people do), you shouldn't be considered autistic. Or at least you shouldn't hide behind your diagnostic.
by treis | 2025-04-30 15:49:13+00:00
There's a lot of levers and people to squeeze along the way:

Currency Manipulation to relatively increase Chinese manufacturing income

Relocating manufacturing based on tariffs

Retail margin

US based design & engineering of products

Advertising and other marketing activities

Depending on the product some will be passed onto consumers. But for something like Nike's it's probably more like fewer shoe designers, Footlockers, less advertising, smaller contracts to athletes, more manufacturing in non-China countries, and so on. Everyone is going to take a bit of a bit and it's probably not going to be super noticable to any one part.

No reason to expect empty shelves. Higher prices for stuff that can't be moved out of China. Sure. But it's a tariff, not an embargo.
by o11c | 2025-04-30 15:49:32+00:00
The parameters (prompt, etc.) should be set only in the new modelfile (passed to `ollama create`), using a FROM referencing the previous ollama model. Parameters in a Modelfile override the hard-coded parameters from the GGUF itself (which are sometimes buggy); in fact from elsewhere in the thread it sounds like Mimo is missing proper stop tokens, or maybe templates in general; I'm not an expert).

This will show a separate entry in `ollama list` but only copy the Modelfile not the GGUF.

Alternatively, if you use the API, you can override parameters "temporarily". Some UIs let you do this easily, at least for common parameters.
by lesostep | 2025-04-30 15:49:38+00:00
For me it implies that we need a better way to quote credentials. We have plenty of skeptical experts, who were researching machine learning for decades.

AI experts is the same crowd as blockchain "experts". I used to work in the industry. Between me and my employer, I knew how the whole thing worked, but it was him who was quoted as an "expert". And I can't even call myself an expert, because for sure experts at the time were writing protocols and not implementing parts of them.

If there is a rift on whether or not AI benefits people right now, and the rift is between users and experts, the problem is the experts that were asked. People don't need much convincing to find something helpful, we love to cut corners.
by shayway | 2025-04-30 15:49:38+00:00
Fascinating! Space programs post ~1970 are one thing, but they reached orbit by 1963! That would make them third in the world after USSR and US. I'm surprised I haven't heard of this before - I'll definitely be watching the documentary mentioned here, "The Lebanese Rocket Society".

I don't care for the writing of this article though, a bit fluffy and scant on information. And does anyone know what this is referring to?

> The Lebanese Army and what remained of the Rocket Society would go on to launch another rocket, the Cedar-10, and western powers decisively stepped in to end Lebanon’s experiment once and for all.
by the_af | 2025-04-30 15:50:12+00:00
The tasks for which they are planning to use AI make sense. These are good use cases.

What must be avoided is Wikipedia becoming a repository of AI-generated slop (and possibly feeding the next generation models, becoming a recursive loop of even more slop).

But this way? It makes sense. This won't create content for articles, it's just assistance for editors.
by getnormality | 2025-04-30 15:50:20+00:00
If you heard this from an acquaintance you didn't really know and you actually wanted to help, wouldn't you at least do things like this:

1. Suggest that they talk about it with their doctor, their loved ones, close friends and family, people who know them better?

2. Maybe ask them what meds specifically they are on and why, and if they're aware of the typical consequences of going off those meds?

I think it should either do that kind of thing or tap out as quickly as possible, "I can't help you with this".
by s1artibartfast | 2025-04-30 15:50:28+00:00
What is wrong with kids getting christmas toys?

What is the upside from the tariffs?

Cost increases from onshoring are more than wage increases from onshoring.

There is no problem with trade deficits. Countries accumulating USD means they have to lend it back at cheaper and cheaper rates.

The real problem is the federal deficit. In 2024 the USA had to borrow $2 trillion to keep the lights on, while foreign countries only had $1 trillion from net trade deficit to lend.

By analogy, the problem isn't that the USA is buying discount goods, it's that it's funding its lifestyle with a credit card. Paying more for the goods and still using a credit card doesn't solve this problem. It makes it worse
by giraffe_lady | 2025-04-30 15:50:48+00:00
Yeah though iirc they did have to rewrite the runtime to get multicore so who knows what sort of tradeoffs they'd have had to make to have had it be like that from the beginning. A lot of what made it good (to the extent it was) in the 2000s was you got a very sophisticated type & module system and a fast compiler without giving up any runtime performance compared to its peers. I don't know if that would have been achievable with its dev resources alongside multicore early. I don't know that it wouldn't either though. Just a big what if all round.

I suspect a larger or at least comparable limitation was essentially pretending windows didn't exist for uh like thirty years. If you knew what you were doing you could cross compile for it but it was not easy. Getting a dev environment running on windows was basically impossible until like five years ago.

The syntax idk I don't have strong feelings about it. I initially recoiled like everyone else of course, but to me style and naming conventions are almost as important and on that front ocaml's are also among the worst in the world lol. Once you get used to it it's kind of endearing how fucked up it is.
by insin | 2025-04-30 15:50:49+00:00
I make an extension which lets you fix this to your liking (choose the minimum number of videos you want per row, while also fixing the spacing issues overriding the underlying --ytd-rich-grid-items-per-row CSS variable causes), plus many, many more annoyances and what I felt were missing options and features for YouTube, like being able to completely hide Shorts:

https://soitis.dev/control-panel-for-youtube

Edit: for comparison with the screenshot in TFA, this is my Home feed on a 14" MacBook. No Shorts, no Mixes, videos which are 85% (configurable) watched or more are hidden, stream VODs from channels which also stream, Movies and TV, and any channels "Don't recommend channel" refuses to work on, can all be hidden for you:

https://imgur.com/LUnpz9e
by mikestew | 2025-04-30 15:51:21+00:00
Because if you look at the entire history of presidents with the notable exception of Barack Obama, every president has been a geriatric white dude.

That’s not even true within my lifetime, let alone historically. People freaked the fuck out because Reagan was going to be all of 70 when he took office in 1982. That’s nothing compared to the fossils that they’re propping up in front of a microphone these days. 70 year olds in Congress these days are nicknamed “The Kid”.
by infogulch | 2025-04-30 15:51:42+00:00
Cesium-based atomic clocks ("fountain clocks") like these use the natural resonance frequency of electron orbital energy states under a microwave laser which can be counted to measure time. Since there is a natural background noise of microwaves and many frequencies can interact with orbitals it's important to isolate the atoms from outside sources of electromagnetic radiation and heat in order to maintain accuracy.

Earlier this year there was a big leap in so-called "nuclear clocks" which uses the resonant frequency of energy states of a nucleus itself as opposed to electron orbitals around it. Besides the "more frequency = more better" factor that has always driven clock accuracy -- thorium-229 nuclei excites in ultraviolet wavelengths -- nuclear clocks are better isolated than electron orbital-based clocks because the frequency band where they interact is impossibly narrow. In fact, the reason why it was only recently demonstrated is due to the difficulty of producing the required frequency at a high enough precision to interact reliably. This could lead to more accurate and more compact and cheaper clocks.

Discussion 4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42362215 | Major Leap for Nuclear Clock Paves Way for Ultraprecise Timekeeping (nist.gov)
by Twirrim | 2025-04-30 15:51:53+00:00
As a subscriber, I get 6 algorithm suggested videos (even split 50/50 on subscribed vs suggested).

Then of course the content is also routinely interrupted by rows that take up more space than a row of video suggestions: * Premium movie suggestions, which also manages to take up half the width with just two sentences: "Discover your next favourite movie. Watch without ads, included with your Premium membership" * Shorts, despite me continually pressing the triple dots and saying "Stop showing me this crap". * Interactive Apps (same, I keep saying "not interested" or whatever variant message it shows me).

I think I'm more irritated that youtube gives me the choice to say "don't show me this" and ignores it, than I would be by not having a choice in the first place.
by neom | 2025-04-30 15:52:19+00:00
Technically I think we were first with deviantART, 2000. Myspace was after us, only thing I know around the same was was Habbo Hotel, but it didn't come out of beta till 2001 iirc. Either way, I was dealing with edgelordies uploading crazy shit to dA long before 4chan. The things I've seen...
by HellMood | 2025-04-30 15:52:31+00:00
"Enchanted" is a 256 bytes(!) program that achieved 2nd place at this years "Revision" 256 bytes competition. The music you hear is also produced by these 256 bytes of code.

Youtube Capture -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3SgDwyblis

Revision Website -> https://2025.revision-party.net/blog/afterparty/

Code -> https://hellmood.111mb.de//enchanted.asm
by seanw444 | 2025-04-30 15:53:16+00:00
The government doesn't need to take action when I already shot him dead, because they didn't infringe on my already-existing right to keep and bear arms.

The "cute wording" is important because the mindset matters. If enough of the population believes that rights are permitted to a person, they will attempt to revoke the permission. If they believe that rights are fundamental and inalienable, they wouldn't dare to think of trampling it in the first place. Of course, through the years, that perspective has shifted a lot away from the latter and to the former, to which I say "the tree of liberty must be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
by edding4500 | 2025-04-30 15:53:34+00:00
Sorry, I did not mean to downtalk the blog post :) I did not mean silly as in stupid. It's rather the title that I think is misleading. Can a LLM do randomness? Well, PRNGs are part of it so the question boils down whether PRNGs can do randomness. As mentioned here before, setting the temperature of say GPT-2 to zero makes the output deterministic. I was 99% sure that you as the author knew about this :)
by pixl97 | 2025-04-30 15:53:35+00:00
Moderates typically have a lot less to say than extremists and don't feel a need to have their passion heard by the world. The discussion ends up being controlled by the haters and hypers.

New technologies in companies commonly have the same pitfalls that burn out users. The companies have very little ability to tell if a technology is good or bad at the purchasing level. The c-levels that approve the invoices are commonly swayed not by the merits of the technology, but the persuasion of the salespeople or the fears of others in the same industries. This leads to a lot of technology that could/should be good being just absolute crap for the end user.

Quite often the 'best' or at least most useful technology shows up via shadow IT.
Show HN: Create your own finetuned AI model using Google Sheets
by QueensGambit | 2025-04-30 15:53:36+00:00
Hello HN,

We built Promptrepo to make finetuning accessible to product teams — not just ML engineers. Last week, OpenAI’s CPO shared how they use fine-tuning for everything from customer support to deep research, and called it the future for serious AI teams. Yet most teams I know still rely on prompting, because fine-tuning is too technical, while the people who have the training data (product managers and domain experts) are often non-technical. With Promptrepo, they can now:

- Add training examples in Google Sheets

- Click a button to train

- Deploy and test instantly

- Use OpenAI, Claude, Gemini or Llama models

We’ve used this internally for years to power AI workflows in our products (Formfacade, Formesign, Neartail), and we're now opening it up to others. Would love your feedback and happy to answer any questions!

---

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Demo video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1CTin1bD0w

Why we built it - https://guesswork.co/support/post/fine-tuning-is-the-future-...
by gymbeaux | 2025-04-30 15:53:48+00:00
A consumption tax would affect the lower class more than the 1% for two main reasons:

1. Non-discretionary spending as a percentage of income is much larger for the lower (and middle) classes, who spend 100% or near 100% of their income on “essentials” like food and shelter.

2. The tax itself is obscene- 30% or thereabouts. As others have pointed out, the poorest of the poor don’t pay any income tax, and many essentials (like unprepared food) are not currently taxed. I don’t recall if the bill would add a tax on unprepared food. I wouldn’t be surprised if it does.
by spacemadness | 2025-04-30 15:53:52+00:00
That’s because no amount of reality can make its way into someone’s algorithmic feed. On every social media platform I’ve been on with engagement algorithms, the algorithm creates an intellectual prison where bad ideas that speak to our emotions get reinforced. I see this in my own feeds where it decides, since I like video games and fitness, that I probably should check out these alt-right grifters and the manosphere. Once you click on one of those videos, you quickly get locked in to that content. And unfortunately, I don’t think people have a clue that it’s happening as it speaks to their pain, delusions, what have you.
by mindslight | 2025-04-30 15:54:17+00:00
There are also the larger flawed premises that this autocratic administration actually cares about digital security or is working for the larger interests of the United States. I certainly understand Schneier's desire to push for more secure systems, and hoping to use the current political winds to do that. But autocrats only reference higher ideals as a cover for their actual agenda of power and control - they're frustrated they can't (yet) just pull this journalist's fingernails out for having embarrassed them. Treating their announcements as if they contain earnest statements of universal values we can work with is actually just validating their propaganda and supporting them.

What we need to be doing is mocking them instead. Like, really, "I didn’t see this loser in the group" ? Maybe the problem was that he was only expecting to see a list of fellow losers like himself? And maybe this loser-who-failed-upwards needs to listen to his grandkids when they try to tell him that a cell phone works a little differently than TV remote?

Discussions of digital security are better when they are focused around how us citizens can protected ourselves from the government, and that goes so much more with this current government.
by devenjarvis | 2025-04-30 15:54:42+00:00
This is great feedback, thank you!

I agree RunSecret adds a level of indirection at this stage that op doesn’t (if you are using 1pass). This is something I plan to polish up once more vaults are supported. You’ve given me some ideas on how to do that here.

And thanks for the advice on doing a Show HN, planning to do so once a few more rough edges are smoothed out.
by jmwilson | 2025-04-30 15:54:47+00:00
Working for a great company in its heyday is a gift - one that I wish for everyone. Stories like this are a comfort when the industry is near its nadir, and reminder that the industry moves in cycles, and all glory fades. I got my turn at Facebook in 2010. A bunch of times I'd see a name I'd recognize pop up in internal discussions: an esteemed classmate or colleague had joined, and you knew with all this talent concentrating in one place, good things were to come.
by olalonde | 2025-04-30 15:54:59+00:00
I'm no fan of Trump, but it's important to approach studies like this with a healthy dose of skepticism. Macroeconomics isn’t an exact science, and studies like these often rely on dubious assumptions and extrapolations. For example, what are the odds that current public R&D spending is really at an optimal theoretical level? Do these models account for potential substitution by private industry if government funding is reduced? etc.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-04-30 15:55:51+00:00
Yeah in retrospect, it feels somewhat inevitable to me that Linux (or something similar if that hadn't happen) would displace it all and demolish the business model of "Unix as commodity", given Unix itself was clearly initially aimed at trying to popularize/democratize a set of technologies/techniques/concepts that had been previously locked up inside larger corporations and projects. The motive force of "getting this out there" was there, and was bound to escape the workstation maker's clutches.

I didn't live through the minicomputer era, but definitely grew up in the "Unix [and then Linux] ascendant" era and was an early adopter (as a user) of Linux on my 486. We just wanted what all the cool kids [err, adults] had. I spent many hours fine tuning my X11 environment to look like the screenshots I saw in UnixWorld of real Unix workstations, etc. ... without doing any actual "real work" with it...

Looking back, it was inevitable that Unix would become less and less a sale-able commodity and more and more a free standard that hackers would just ... assume.

I'm not sure how Sun could have saved itself without just turning itself into a services company, just too hard to win on economies of scale making actual hardware. They made hay while the Sun(tm) shone, I guess.