MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dredmorbius | 2025-04-18 00:23:30+00:00
Expanding on a point raised in the original post: I've had some thoughts as to why news-site UI/UX is so abysmal from a reader standpoint. I suspect it mostly boils down to multiple perverse incentives.

Publishers are largely motivated by revenues, whether from advertising or subscriptions, each of which carries its own distortions. The problems of advertising are well known, Ezra Klein of the New York Times has touched on the distortions subscriptions focus brings, specifically. That's increasingly close to his work as his NYT podcast is now increasingly under the paper's subscription umbrella, with current content available but archives paywalled. This strikes me as unwise and I've said as much to him via email. Even noncommercial publishers (say, BBC, PBS, NPR, Deutsche Welle, etc.) heavily cross promote other content and partners (e.g., PBS/NPR over-the-air broadcast stations). All of which distract and detract from the news content itself.

Readers ... mostly don't get news from publishers' sites directly, relying instead on various social aggregators, say, Mastodon/Fedivers, HN, TikTok, Reddit, and the like. Part of this may be the more compelling nature of those services, but I can't help thinking that the annoyances presented by publishers' sites, and their design, features, and behaviours specifically, doesn't factor in strongly. I'm not sure that a text-dense site wouldn't be appreciated, though it doesn't directly address the social-sharing aspect.

RSS seems ... largely dead. CNN does have RSS links, various at <http://rss.cnn.com/rss/> (e.g., http://rss.cnn.com/rss/edition_meast.rss) and <http://edition.cnn.com/> (e.g., <http://edition.cnn.com/china>), though these are very poorly advertised if at all. Searching for RSS/Atom feeds on other sites of interest is ... frustratingly slow. The actual content provided via feeds is also often sub-par, making direct site scraping the more attractive alternative.

Aggregators of course run into copyright issues. So far this is an own-work / personal project, and past the limited lede context my page offers I'm still clicking through to the parent site. But I've had significant pause to consider further plans should I want to pursue them. I'm also well aware that I'm not helping the already abysmal advertising situation at all, on which I'll point to my proposal for a government + ISP + other entities public content syndication mechanism: <https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/867c94d0ba87013aca4144...>.

(Note that "government" != "federal government". The United States, for example, has ~90,000 governmental units: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41677616>.)
by maujun | 2025-04-18 00:24:27+00:00
It doesn't make sense financially. But money is not the only thing that matters.

My emotions matter. If I see a scary person who is not my friend, I yell "put him down" in my head, and take actions.

If that scary person knows more about me than I know about myself. I bark like a small dog. Arf! Arf! Arf! In English, that roughly translates to "Get out of my sight! Get out of my head! Then I'll feel fine again."

If this doesn't make sense to you, then you are suggesting a world where money/truth matter more than emotions. But then why do people make money, if not just to survive? Arf! Arf! Arf! (This originally translated to: "Don't engage with me unless you value low-status people")
by RetroTechie | 2025-04-18 00:25:42+00:00
> Now that it is well understood, moves of that type are common even in intermediate level play. Changed the game forever.

That's an important takeaway from the AlphaGo saga:

It played moves that (at the time, for human players) seemed weird. And while playing those, outperformed humans.

But as understanding of how/why of such moves grew, it showed humans new ways of doing things. And in doing so, become better players themselves.

AlphaGo broke new ground, humans followed. And like you said: changed the game forever.

Also, the subtlety of what makes a win:

Humans, before AlphaGo: try & grab as much territory as possible to beat your opponent.

AlphaGo: just try to grab more territory than opponent (so, not necessarily much more). End up with only 1 point advantage = still a win.

Different viewing angle, different strategy, different outcome.
by gsf_emergency | 2025-04-18 00:26:43+00:00
It's hard to stay on that razor edge (except in aggregate)..

There's another hidden razor edge in the call to download accountabilities. (The other side advocates for only distributing resources, for good reason: local centers of power are also ripe for abuse)

Crucially, it's the abstractions themselves that need to be fine-tuned. Jacobs had her own blunt ones-- I'd even say that yours sharpens the (overly-)general prescriptions that came out of Systems of Survival :)

It won't be a bad idea to fixate on oxymorons, because that's what these "life-giving razor edges" shall look to like to us mortals, for now. An older one is festina lente, due to Augustus. A center of power handing out .. Something
by peterbecich | 2025-04-18 00:27:47+00:00
There is a statistic that the average teenager gets 240 smartphone notifications a day: https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/study-average-te...

Young people have more time ahead of them than anyone. Consequently, in my opinion, young people should be receiving information with a long time period of usefulness. Smartphone notifications have a very short half-life.
by hirvi74 | 2025-04-18 00:28:19+00:00
I find the analysis interesting in terms of a hobby project, but I'd be careful extrapolating too much out of this. 680k is quite the sample size, but my issue lies within the myopic selection of one instrument and the issues that arise from the platform of Ultimate Guitar.

1. I am curious, how many of the 680k songs are unique? It is rather uncommon for massively successful songs to only have one version of tabs out in the wild, so I am curious how many songs individual songs were counted multiple times.

2. This analysis only looks at guitar tabs or instrumentations there were transcribed for guitar. Chords can be made with more than just one instrument, thus that missing 7th note could actually be played by another instrument not included in the tabs.

3. As music progressed from the pre-jazz era to modern times, it became more common for people to play an instrument, like piano or guitar, while singing at the same time. Obviously there are exceptions to everything, but often times guitar pieces are simplified if the guitarist is also singing for practical reasons.

4. Music has also become more accessible as time progressed. It would be hard for an average person to learn the organ or hurdy-gurdy without access to one. It's much easier to acquire and learn piano when it can be a 4 inch thick plastic keyboard on a stand.

5. People tend to have a warped concept of the history of music. Pachelbel's Canon in D is by no means a complex song and has stood the test of time. Music through out time has also served different purposes. Hell, go back to Ancient Greece, Gregorian chants, and Medieval music. Those various time periods were not generally fully of complexity either. I would argue such times were generally less complex than modern music.
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by vwcx | 2025-04-18 00:31:04+00:00
The FAA puts on workshops around the country with a portable reduced oxygen training enclosure (PROTE). You sit in the enclosure (looks like a sealed vinyl tent), they reduce the available oxygen and simulate hypoxia. You've got a clipboard with some basic math problems, a maze to trace, etc. The trainers continually engage you for 3-4 minutes as you slowly get more hypoxic.

As a pilot, it was eye opening to see first-hand what happens to me when experiencing hypoxia. The trainers were talking to me, and I was replying, but was unable to tell them what 17 minus 4.5 was. My pulse oximeter was in the low 70s. Two sips of oxygen from a mask and I was right back to normal. I learned that my first symptom (the clue that something is really going wrong in the cockpit) is tunnel vision.
by kristianp | 2025-04-18 00:31:27+00:00
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by alexjplant | 2025-04-18 00:32:35+00:00
Interesting analysis. Some observations:

- Ultimate Guitar isn't exactly known for the sterling quality of its transcriptions. Teenage me submitted at least a few tabs that were clearly incorrect that still got 4 and 5 star ratings. Amateur guitarists are also infamously bad at figuring out voicings and extensions so something like a 9 might end up as a maj7 or just a triad. Adult me checks Songsterr first then uses his ear to figure out what's _really_ going on when I run across incorrect parts in the tablature.

- Some genres of music like downtuned metal are largely monophonic and instead rely on quick melodic movement or drone-y background guitars to imply harmony. This data set doesn't seem to account for this.

- There's no way that power chords only account for single-digit percentages of chords in rock, metal, and punk. There are albums that have been certified Platinum that are 90% power chords (technically power intervals, I suppose).
by shoo | 2025-04-18 00:33:00+00:00
That history of the bank of Vernal was fascinating, thank you for sharing. Parcel post offered for packages of up to 50 pounds + price charged to post parcels from Salt Lake City to Vernal being less than half the cost charged by private carriers ==> lots of freight to Vernal starts getting sent by post! Then, bank director wanting pressed bricks for the front the new bank building in Vernal + closest pressed brick manufacturer to Vernal being in Salt Lake City + post still the cheapest freight option to Vernal ==> 37.5 tons of pressed bricks packed into 50 pound crates and posted!

Anyone interested in the history of freight & trade may also enjoy reading Marc Levinson's book "The Box" about the shipping container. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691170817/th...
by Nihilartikel | 2025-04-18 00:33:30+00:00
For what it's worth, I did check over many hundreds of them. Formatted things for side by side comparison and ordered by some heuristics of data nastiness.

It wasn't a one shot deal at all. I found the ambiguous modalities in the data and hand corrected examples to include in the prompt. After about 10 corrections and some exposition about the cases it seemed to misundestand, it got really good. Edit: not too different from a feedback loop with an intern ;)
by Aloisius | 2025-04-18 00:33:39+00:00
A simple test is if you got rid of a product, what would customers use as a direct replacement? Those competitor products, the product you got rid of plus the customers of those products, are a market.

Here, the products are Google Ad Exchange (Doubleclick Ad Exchange) and the Publisher Ad Server (DoubleClick for Publishers) which are now Google Ad Manager and the customers are publishers selling space for ads on their websites.

Website publishers can't really use Facebook as a direct replacement, so they're not in the same market.
by m463 | 2025-04-18 00:35:52+00:00
If I were in his place, I would make the small car, make a decent less edgy pickup/suv and add dashboard/stalks as an option on all cars.

(and remove the silly wide front light on the y)

I know it sounds boring, but I think more "normal" people would buy.

I mean, think about yourself - would you drive a cybertruck around town? Would you drive a conventional pickup around town? People I've talked to feel silly about driving a cybertruck.
by bayarearefugee | 2025-04-18 00:36:36+00:00
As another person that cancelled my Claude and switched to Gemini, I agree that Claude Code is very nice, but beyond some initial exploration I never felt comfortable using it for real work because Claude 3.7 is far too eager to overengineer half-baked solutions that extend far beyond what you asked it to do in the first place.

Paying real API money for Claude to jump the gun on solutions invalidated the advantage of having a tool as nice as Claude Code, at least for me, I admit everyone's mileage will vary.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-04-18 00:37:10+00:00
Pretty high. Antitrust against Google started during the first Trump administration and continued during Biden. Dealing with Big Tech is a bipartisan issue, though each side has partisan reasons for it: Republicans argue tech companies have a liberal bent, Democrats argue tech companies allowed misinformation to get Trump elected. At the end of the day, we can all agree it's time for Google to go.

I think the only real risk is that Google could just buy Trump out on the matter, now that we live in Russia of the West, resolving a dispute like this can just be lining someone's pockets enough.
by shoo | 2025-04-18 00:37:11+00:00
Another great postal history article: "The Pneumatic Mail Tubes: New York's Hidden Highway And Its Development" https://about.usps.com/who/profile/history/pdf/pneumatic-tub...

Throughput:

> The operation of the Pneumatic Tube System involved air forced cylinders known as "carriers", traveling in a spinning motion, through a well-greased tube at 30 miles an hour. At its peak productivity six million pieces of mail would whisk through the system daily at a rate of 5 carriers a minute with each carriers maximum load of approximately 500 letters

Shaking out the system:

> The first cylindrical carrier to travel through the New York City [pneumatic tube] system was one that contained a Bible, a flag and a copy of the Constitution. The second contained an imitation peach in honor of Senator Chauncy Depew, a driving force in this project. He was fondly known as "The Peach". A third carrier had a black cat in it, for reasons unknown to this author.

Diagnosing and fixing stalls in the network:

> The occasional carrier stalls in a tube it could be easily detected. Each receiving machine was equipped with a "tell-tale" fan. If a carrier failed to arrive on time the air pressure would fall to level that would cause the fan to stop revolving. The operator at the affected station would call the switchboard at the telephone number PE 6-7000. On a control board there, the blocking carrier could be located through colored lights designating each station. In 99% of the cases the arrested carrier could be made mobile again by increasing the air pressure behind the blockage and decreasing air pressure in front of it. This would in effect cause a vacuum. In the 1% of the time that these methods did not work a maintenance crew would have had to go out and dig up the streets.

Perks for staff operating the system:

> Recently I met an old friend who told me her father was once a rocketeer [responsible for the sending and receiving of the carriers]. In conversation with him I learned that he had spent some time working on the Pneumatic Tube System at the Bronx General Post Office. [...] He told me something off the record. Since there was a renowned sandwich shop in the vicinity of the Bronx General Post Office, they often got orders from the downtown postal stations. The sandwiches were delivered through the system. Now that's what I call a real submarine sandwich!
by dukeofdoom | 2025-04-18 00:37:37+00:00
I don't mean to be too critical, but why is breathwork/meditation so popular in Atheist circles? When I would presume rationality is the goal, and this seems like it would alter it in a negative way. (depriving your brain of oxygen, presumably decreases its ability to think rationally, or at least run at full capacity)

I get that someone like Sam Harris, makes bank promoting his meditation app. But his atheist audience is very receptive.
by ajross | 2025-04-18 00:39:26+00:00
This nonsense drives me bananas. It's not true. There are no numbers showing that the median/average/working-class/whatever American citizen is worse off in any meaningful way. Period. It didn't happen. Americans are wealthier now[1] than they ever have been. Americans are wealthier now than anyone[2] has been, ever, in the entirety of human experience.

That they (and you) don't believe this to be the case is important and interesting. But it's not true.

[1] Maybe not for that ←long once the Q2/Q3 results show up with the tariff impact and the layoff start

[2] Anyone with a broad enough sampling I guess. There are always tiny states with skewed statistics.
by MattGaiser | 2025-04-18 00:41:31+00:00
I have found Google Lens fit for that purpose for years as mountains are fairly distinctive. Using less known landmarks or even random real estate photos, it doesn’t seem to be great.

I just tossed a few GeoGuessr places in it and it was confidently incorrect for all three. In one case it swears it knows the exact building and street. It’s thousands of KM off.
by Edmond | 2025-04-18 00:42:46+00:00
Each trust anchor gets issued a single certificate that can have delegation ability, ie the ability to issue new trust anchor certs to others.

So if say a UPS store is issued a cert and they go rogue, we can just revoke the trust anchor cert that was issued to the store, all certs issued further down are also automatically revoked...the revocation check is done either in the app or in the case of a third-party performing the verification they will recognize that there is a cert on the issuing chain that is revoked and reject the cert.

This is how TLS certs are handled too, if a CA goes rogue, all certs issued by that CA are revoked once the CA's root cert is revoked.

As for refund issues, that's a problem for the cert issuer to deal with.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-04-18 00:43:48+00:00
Was actually sort of a sideways pivot, and hard for me to do, because of the involved mathematics.

Initially it was more of general 'architecture astronautics' in the context of dynamically reconfigurability/systolic arrays/transport triggered architecture/VLIW, which got me some nice results.

Having read and thought much about balanced ternary hardware, and 'playing' with that, while also reading how this could be favourably applicable to ML lead to that 'pivot'.

A few years before 'this', I might add.

Now I can 'play' much more relaxed and carefree, to see what else I can get out of this :-)
by davidsainez | 2025-04-18 00:43:51+00:00
The second example she uses is really important. You (used to) see this a lot in stackoverflow where an inexperienced programmer asks how to do some convoluted thing. Sure, you can explain how to do the thing while maintaining their artificial constraints. But much more useful is to say "you probably want to approach the problem like this instead". It is surely a difficult problem and context dependent.
by Crestwave | 2025-04-18 00:43:54+00:00
This isn't just referring to GeoGuessr the game, but locating photographs in general. The source post sums it up very reasonably and concisely:

> PSA: When posting any outdoors photos, update your threat model from "someone skilled and dedicated could theoretically locate this" to "any stalker can do this for 20€/mo"
by sashank_1509 | 2025-04-18 00:44:15+00:00
Just keep applying and don’t think too much of it. Once you have 4-5 years of experience, you will be telling recruiters to back off and not spam your LinkedIn. Yet as a new grad the tables are reversed (for now at least).

Also since you’re still in school, I recommend pivoting to AI. AI still has a very hot job market, even if rest of software development doesn’t. In fact I’d say, AI is an employees market right now.
by bee_rider | 2025-04-18 00:44:27+00:00
Of course, it is pretty impressive.

It isn’t magic. I think there we’ll often be surprised by the “hits,” but it’ll also get a lot of “misses.” A random photo in your back yard that doesn’t show the horizon will probably be a miss, right?

Meanwhile, lots of photos already include GPS coordinates… data you can strip out, but which is enabled by default for millions of people. Privacy, eh, never knew it I guess.
by juped | 2025-04-18 00:44:41+00:00
No one is "replying obliquely", I don't think. Generally when I post about this, there's a profusion of indignant outrage (usually about how I should use their magic ritual to propitiate the dishwasher), and one or two people also willing to spend the karma points to say that tracks with their experience.

I'm willing to believe commercial-grade dishwashers are actually effective, because only very occasionally do restaurants give me dirty dishes or cutlery. In personal homes, however, I've only encountered totems and superstition, but unlike internet commenters they don't usually get super outraged.
by m463 | 2025-04-18 00:45:18+00:00
I think that heavily depends on the specific dishwasher.

I inherited a dishwasher and became more uptight after:

- dishes that left the soap partially unused

- wet dishes

- melted stuff

- stuff that blocked the upper rotating thingie

- stuff that fell into the heating element and bottom rotating thingie

maybe seeking a racoon-friendly dishwasher would be a relationship saver.
by jorvi | 2025-04-18 00:45:42+00:00
> and the earlier Geminis had more refusals.

Its more so that almost every company is running a classifier on their web chat's output.

It isn't actually the model refusing, but rather if the classifier hits a threshold, it'll swap the model's out with "Sorry, let's talk about something else."

This is most apparent with DeepSeek. If you use their web chat with V3 and then jailbreak it, you'll get uncensored output but it is then swapped with "Let's talk about something else" halfway through the output. And if you ask the model, it has no idea its previous output got swapped and you can even ask it build on its previous answer. But if you use the API, you can push it pretty far with a simple jailbreak.

These classifiers are virtually always ran on a separate track, meaning you cannot jailbreak them.

If you use an API, you only have to deal with the inherent training data bias, neutering by tuning and neutering by pre-prompt. The last two are, depending on the model, fairly trivial to overcome.

I still think the first big AI company that has the guts to say "our LLM is like a pen and brush, what you write or draw with it is on you" and publishes a completely unneutered model will be the one to take a huge slice of marketshare. If I had to bet on anyone doing that, it would be xAI with Grok. And by not neutering it, the model will perform better in SFW tasks too.