MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by riknos314 | 2025-04-09 03:27:48+00:00
For me, impartiality is the wrong goal for a primary news source.

I want as close to the truth as is possible, with as little influence of the publication as possible. I want to have the option to take the in raw facts and contextualize them myself before I engage with external contexts.

Due to this, I've been quite a fan of the forbes YouTube channel of late. They've been uploading unedited clips of events with zero spin, commentary, or contextualization.
by famouswaffles | 2025-04-09 03:28:13+00:00
I suspect we are not orders of magnitudes more intelligent than some of our cetacean friends in the deep sea.

At the end of the day, all the achievements you've listed are not only the result of massive intelligence but opposable-thumb hands (for tool use and writing) and fire (for an easy early source of energy to runaway with).

If humans were just as intelligent but never had these, we'd never reach the moon or build machines.
by noduerme | 2025-04-09 03:28:20+00:00
Not completely unrelated, the mechanical horse race game that used to be at The D in Vegas, and now is at the Linq (I think?) has a similar effect on the human psyche. As does gambling on most sporting events. Anything with a lot of ups and downs. I really started to think about this when I was developing casino games about 15 years ago. But the same is true with any game, or any future event. When an outcome is unknown, we experience time as a set of discrete emotional peaks and valleys - we experience an extra dimension of time, the high/low. Apart from being a highly successful design hook, I think it can be a really powerful way to encode information. Especially if you have time-referenced data and you've already exhausted the other axes or relative sizes you might use to convey your dimensions. Like, my main argument with using that "race" is that you could use the x-axis for something else, and have the whole graph change over time.

But you're very right that this indeed relies on an emotional component to achieve the full effect of conveying time in two dimensions. If there's no emotional attachment to the outcome, our brains don't process the highs or lows. In that case, a variance chart like open/close prices on the stock market might work better.
by smashed | 2025-04-09 03:28:26+00:00
> * Better tooling to determine why it's falling back to DERP instead of direct for remote clients. DERP relays should be an absolute last resort to provide connectivity for Business-plan-level customers (very slow), and the way TS works just assumes any connectivity is fine.

Tailscale touts all the perf benefits of the wireguard protocol but in practice between the userland wireguard that seems to be used all the time on all platform (even linux) and the over reliance on DERP, it has none of the performance benefits of the real thing.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-04-09 03:29:26+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/02/germany-depend...

> The relationship would benefit both sides: Germany would supply the machines and high-quality industrial goods; Russia would provide the raw material to fuel German industry. High-pressure pipelines and their supporting infrastructure hold the potential to bind countries together, since they require trust, cooperation and mutual dependence. But this was not just a commercial deal, as the presence at the hotel of the German economic minister Karl Schiller showed. For the advocates of Ostpolitik – the new “eastern policy” of rapprochement towards the Soviet Union and its allies including East Germany, launched the previous year under chancellor Willy Brandt – this was a moment of supreme political consequence. Schiller, an economist by training, was to describe it as part of an effort at “political and human normalisation with our Eastern neighbours”.
by caleblloyd | 2025-04-09 03:30:35+00:00
Dockerfile seems very specific to Docker still, I don’t think they have to go through a committee to add anything to the spec

https://docs.docker.com/build/buildkit/dockerfile-release-no...

If any organization adopted the spec I would hope they would at least make it adopt a standard file extension like .oci so it would at least be more easily recognizable by IDEs, I have never liked having to put the use case as the extension like Dockerfile.dev

But I do like that docker and buildkit have been able to freely evolve the spec with things like advanced caching directives that work great in buildx
by goatlover | 2025-04-09 03:32:12+00:00
I don't see how an independent press striving for impartiality is somehow maintaining the status quo. It's just trying to report whatever news it has, which may or may not be challenging to the status quo. The alternative is propaganda.

Also, I don't know why the status quo is inherently a bad thing, wouldn't it all depend on what that status quo was in relation to whatever issue? Shouldn't we ant a society where the status quo is optimal? Not simply being contrarians.
by colonial | 2025-04-09 03:32:49+00:00
Buildah is the only serious alternative in my opinion.

You lose automatic layer caching, but in exchange you can use the same tools (RUN, ADD, etc) within a much more powerful shell environment.

I wrote a Buildah wrapper that uses a shell script harness to polyfill the familiar Dockerfile syntax while adding several extra goodies - mainly the ability to bake runtime arguments (mounts, ports...) into the image. Very handy!
by eli_gottlieb | 2025-04-09 03:33:01+00:00
Not sure what's meant by "intelligence" or "twice" here, since the study in question (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv2609) concerns the pallium in both birds and mammals. So it seems something about the basal pallium in reptiles was suitable to give rise to bird pallia and the mammalian isocortex, under suitable evolutionary pressures.
by mmooss | 2025-04-09 03:33:27+00:00
It's a revolutionary economic argument that specialization doesn't apply to countries, and you omitted organized groups of individuals called 'companies'. Economic structures are far larger and deeper than individuals (or companies).

> a country the size of the US could certainly contain someone who knows how to do any given thing.

Ore may be much cheaper to mine in another country - maybe because of geology or weather or because they have a great tradition of mining including more local skills, or because their economy is better structured for it - financiers with expertise in financing it, laws and regulations that are better designed (because of greater local knowledge).

Those things actually happen.

And don't think such specializations are transferrable; nobody really succeeds in doing that - just try changing one company's culture. Why haven't other Silicon Valleys and Apple Computers been developed, despite so many efforts?

What is the sense of wasting resources on things the country doesn't do well, so some nationalists can ... do what?
by bob1029 | 2025-04-09 03:33:41+00:00
You can abstract this to any RDBMS, and the justification is that it makes everything a lot faster & easier.

I just got off a call with a client where their developers were using ORM-style abstractions to manipulate data for downstream processing in code, turning what should have been a few seconds of one custom SQL command into several hours of passing objects around multiple computer systems.

If we can put the FTS engine inside the SQL engine, we can avoid the entire space of APIs, frameworks, 3rd parties, latency, etc that goes along with otherwise integrating this feature.

Modern SQL dialects represent universal computation over arguably the best way we know how to structure complex data. Adding custom functions & modules into the mix is mostly just syntactic sugar over what is already available.

There is ZERO honor in offloading what could have been a SQL view into a shitty pile of nested iterators somewhere. I don't understand where any of this energy comes from. The less code the better. It's pure downside.
by andrei_says_ | 2025-04-09 03:33:57+00:00
A bit hard to believe especially given the amount of time between the community raising the alarm and any coherent response from the new owners.

Still no individual’s names or contact info on the website.

I am a paying user who uninstalled the app from all my Macs and replaced with ice.

Ice lacks my favorite bartender feature (show the extended app bar when mouse hovering over the camera island) but I still prefer it to a shady alternative.
by Tiktaalik | 2025-04-09 03:36:12+00:00
The USA is already a lot more productive than everyone else. This is because the USA generates an enormous amount of wealth through very few people thanks to its technology and finance industry. Irony is that there's no end to handwringing editorials in Canada about our "productivity gap" between us and the USA and the USA under Trump is wanting to move itself backward and become less productive. Everyone else in the G7 wishes they were as productive as the USA.

The solution to the problem posed here is for the USA to use its incredible wealth deriving from its incredible productivity to buy the warships from Poland etc.
by petesergeant | 2025-04-09 03:37:10+00:00
It’s free, it’s stable, it’s excellent, and it’s everywhere. The question should be “why don’t people put everything in Pg?”

The only things you shouldn’t put in Pg are things where there’s an obviously better alternative that’s so much better as to make running an extra service worth it. There definitely are cases where that’s true (Redis when you need exceptionally quick responses, for example) but it’s a high bar to clear.
by somenameforme | 2025-04-09 03:37:53+00:00
The headline is false. As per the data from the article itself, only 24% of Americans preferred partial or biased media. The overwhelming majority of people without power prefer impartial media.

It just happens that of the relatively small percent of people that prefer partial or biased media, it's mostly made up of people with "no power." But even that is also dubious to plainly false since the article's definition of "no power" is very weird and includes anybody who is "ideologically or politically engaged", which is essentially every single person at the highest levels of power in the country.
by alganet | 2025-04-09 03:38:11+00:00
I am more interested in founding the United States. It appears that it hasn't happened yet.

'Ben Franklin' just sent the JWST kite up to discover the lightning rod with a copper key and we are still fighting slave owners.

Once it has been estabilished, and the Musket fights end, then I will be on it.

Don't worry about it, imagine I am a big conspiracy nut or a sci-fi fanfictioner or something.

If you are thinking about taking a boat and becoming a worker overseas, I think that's your choice to make. It is for sure an attractive proposition. Hey, maybe you'll end up in one of the good companies, one that will make you free.
by sfink | 2025-04-09 03:38:18+00:00
"Impartial" to me implies avoiding any slant, and omitting anything that is biased in any particular direction. I don't think I want that. At least, not anymore; I used to consume lots of science-related news that would probably fit in that category.

But for most things, I don't want to avoid hearing whatever the "sides" have to say -- I want to hear from every perspective. Sure, I don't want to hear from the extremes, because they aren't going to contain much information. It's all "See?! This proves that [preconceived notion is true]!" bullshit.

I'm going to promote my preferred news source Tangle: https://www.readtangle.com/?ref=tangle-newsletter

It's US-centric and just talks about "left" vs "right". But then, that's all we really have left in this country anyway. It talks about a single topic each day, has quotes that tell you what each side is saying, and then some analysis and opinion that you may or may not agree with, but at least you'll have some sense of the space in which to think. I am certainly partisan and favor one side, but I will often find some sense in what the other side is saying, and likewise I will often find that many on "my" side are full of crap with respect to some particular issue.

It's a good way to add nuance to one's own perspective on things, and to consider deeper questions than you would by constantly trying to justify your side's take on anything and everything.

tl;dr: "all sides" news > "no sides" news
by brynary | 2025-04-09 03:39:03+00:00
It's great to see auto-formatting continuing to become universal across all languages. As LLMs write more code, full auto-formatting helps keep diffs clean.

For anyone looking to try dockerfmt, I just added a plugin to Qlty CLI, which is available in v0.508.0. The plugin took about ten minutes to add: https://github.com/qltysh/qlty/blob/main/qlty-plugins/plugin...

Full disclosure: I'm the founder of Qlty, which produces a universal code linter and formatter, Qlty CLI (https://github.com/qltysh/qlty). It is completely free and published under a Fair Source license.
by Animats | 2025-04-09 03:39:29+00:00
And that's 30 years ago. It's worse now.

The US isn't producing much manufacturing machinery.

Machine tools last a long time, many decades. Replacement of worn-out machine tools does happen, but slowly. Because of this, the market for new machine tools is mostly driven by the growth rate of manufacturing, not the total level of manufacturing activity. If manufacturing is flat or in decline, new machine tool sales become rare. The US does have a big used machine tool market, and much demand is filled from there.

China now makes quite good machine tools. (Plus many crappy ones.) Search Alibaba for "CNC mill". There are decent 3-axis machines below US$20,000, and 5-axis machines below $30,000. Haas, the biggest machine tool builder in the Western world, has almost nothing below $70,000.[1]

As a rule of thumb, 10x the volume cuts manufactured product cost in half. It's hard to come back from being a small volume producer.

[1] https://www.haascnc.com/index.html
by 999900000999 | 2025-04-09 03:40:41+00:00
Time to be blunt. No.

A few years ago, I would of said if your white ( and I guess of certain Asian ethnicities), it might be a good idea. But their locking up British nannies now.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/i-was-a-brit...

Ohh Lord, she might of did some house sitting without a permit. She might of even cooked a few meals for friends who let her crash for a few weeks.

Instead of just allowing her to go home, straight to indefinite detention.

Even aside from this America has always offered immigrants a Faustian Bargain. It's much more dangerous here than in almost any other developed country. Our food is near toxic, our public health system is in shambles.

Given the typical demographics of this website, this is probably not your immediate concern, but our understanding of women's health is somewhere in the 1940s. In large parts of this country people don't understand there's a thing called a miscarriage, and forcing someone to carry a nonviable pregnancy is probably not going to produce a miracle.

Not to mention the rapid disintegration of rights for LGBT people.
by ethbr1 | 2025-04-09 03:40:44+00:00
> this one is super easy for an MBA to point at and sort of see a way to integrate it

Because a core feature of LLMs is to minimize the distance between {quality answers} and {gibberish that looks correct}.

As a consequence, this maximizes {skill required to distinguish the two}.

Are we then surprised that non-subject matter experts overestimate the output's median usefulness?
by Suppafly | 2025-04-09 03:41:05+00:00
>You don't see a massive difference in the shear number of images that the AI can look at and the speed at which it can imitate it as a fundamental difference between AI and a human copying works or styles?

I don't.

>For a human it took a lot of practice and a lot of time and effort. But now it takes practically no time or effort at all.

So effort is what makes it ok?
Show HN: Kubeterm – A new GUI for K8s cluster management
by daiming | 2025-04-09 03:42:20+00:00
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Check it out here: github.com/kbterm/kubeterm
by naught0 | 2025-04-09 03:42:37+00:00
I recently had the need to create a gradient line chart with each step on the y-axis representing a color which should blend with its neighbors, and echarts was the only option that made sense to me after trying a few. The lack of obvious react integration initially put me off, but like any js lib it was pretty easy to use anyway. Echarts surprised me - it's great.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-04-09 03:43:41+00:00
Yes, of course, because i find it way more informative to search in broad terms, digest varying sources and arrive at conclusions rather than by asking a question that invariably lacks enough context (that I’d find by reading docs or SO posts) to actually produce helpful results, let alone a deeper understanding of the topic than before i started.

Learning is fun! Reading is good for you! Being spoon fed likely-inaccurate/incomplete info or unmaintainable code is not why i got into computers.
by chamomeal | 2025-04-09 03:44:32+00:00
I love visx! Surprised to see your comment is the only mention of it here.

I guess it’s specifically a react library, but it’s such a sweet spot of control and built-in convenience. Having all the annoying stuff like curves/axes/scales/shapes handed to you in a pretty un-opinionated way is really nice.

I was at a startup for a few years and I built all of our client’s dashboards in visx. I loved it from the first minute to the last, and have almost no complaints. And there are few few libraries I can say that about!
by georgeburdell | 2025-04-09 03:45:18+00:00
Talking about the realties of raising young children is taboo. Anything other than an effluence of love is scorned, especially for women. I do believe most parents get caught off guard by some things. For example, how many times you get sick the first year in a group childcare setting (and how little it seems to slow down your kids). Or how your child will literally scream for your attention if you focus on something else for more than a few seconds, stop holding them, etc., until they’re in the 18 month range. Helping out with your siblings’ kids for a few hours isn’t the same.
by peteforde | 2025-04-09 03:47:23+00:00
I sat with your comment, and here's the thing: if there are "left wing" commentators saying that these tariffs make sense or that America can spin up a manufacturing economy in a few weeks "or just stop buying stuff", I haven't seen/found/heard them.

In other words, it's a genuine false equivalency, at least in this case.

I am most definitely not suggesting that all left-leaning commentators are smart or good-faith actors. The left gets plenty wrong.

However, if you're going to force me to take a side on who is currently winning at stupid, I suppose my cards are on the table.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-04-09 03:48:02+00:00
I don't know where he is from, but we have something very similar here in BC, Canada. It covers mostly electronics, but we also have a large appliance program which is similar.

Basically you just drop them off at your local recycling center, and they have a program that ensures they go to an audited recycler. There is a small fee when you buy electronics that pays for the program.

https://www.recyclemy-assets.com/1738262511-epra_bc_obligate...
by mkoubaa | 2025-04-09 03:50:11+00:00
As long as they peddle "stories", they are not impartial.

As long as they explain what happened, they are not impartial.

I want information. I want it to look like this:

Reporter X has information from Individual Y in the newsroom that the organization Z says, "direct quote".

Then I want to mercilessly cull any entity in all chaina that has been shown to be misleading. I mean until the end of time.

And I want this to be done algorithmically.
by averageRoyalty | 2025-04-09 03:50:20+00:00
Agreed, for resource location, Kagi feels like Google did 20 years ago.

I use LLMs as a sounding board. Often if I'm trying to tease out the shape of a concept in my head, it's best to write it out. I now do this in the form of a question or request for information and dump it into the LLM.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-04-09 03:50:22+00:00
>>AI use makes the metric for success speed-to-production

> Wasn't it like that always for most companies? Get to market fast, add features fast, sell them, add more features?

This reminds me of an old software engineering adage.

When delivering a system, there are three choices stakeholders have: You can have it fast, You can have it cheap, You can have it correct. Pick any two.
by schrodinger | 2025-04-09 03:50:36+00:00
it's especially great in voice mode. I love to take a long walk or jog with earbuds in and use it to learn a new topic. I don't well through indoctrination, I learn much better by asking it to give a very big picture overview, start to build an intuitive understanding, and then start asking pointed questions to fill in the blanks and iterate towards a deeper understanding. I find ChatGPT's voice mode to be very engaging in that use case—far more so than Gemini's actually—and I've used it to learn a bunch of new technologies. It's like having a never-bored professor friend you can call and ask endless questions and keep getting answers without annoying it!
by dmix | 2025-04-09 03:51:03+00:00
It's also arguable whether or not the list of people who prefer that sort of media "don't have power". It is defined in the article as:

> (a) the ideological and politically engaged; (b) young people, especially those who rely mainly on social media for news; (c) women; and (d) less socioeconomically advantaged groups.

People in all of these groups can still have varying forms of power and influence in society. Politically, culturally, or economically.

This is borderline clickbait, which is sad because I like neimanlabs.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-04-09 03:51:53+00:00
Unfortunately my place is still stuck on ipv4.

Hypothetically it is not hard, you split your ipv6 prefix per datacenter. Then you use etcd to coordinate access to the ipv6 pool to hand out immutable addresses. You just start from the lowest address and go to the highest address. If you get to the highest address you go back to the lowest address, as long as your churn is not too high and your pool is big enough you should only wrap addresses far enough apart in time that address reuse doesn't cause any problems with false attribution.

In the etcd store you can just store KV pairs of ipv6 -> workload ID. If you really want to be fancy you can watch those KV pairs using etcd clients and get live updates of new addresses being assigned to workloads. You can plug these updates into your system of choice which needs to map ipv6 to workload such as network flow tools.

Unless you are doing something insane, you should easily be able to keep up with immutable address requests with a DC local etcd quorum.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-04-09 03:52:18+00:00
Most places in North America people will pay you to take your old dead car away. They strip the useful parts, and send the rest for metal recycling.

Why does Toyota need to get involved if there is already a multi-billion dollar salvage industry doing what you already propose with no obligation?

My last car I was paid ~$200 and that was low because I had them tow it from my home.