MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fakedang | 2025-04-22 20:44:52+00:00
Granted, Supabase does provide a lot under the hood, and it's excellent for whipping out a quick MVP, but I wouldn't count it production ready even today, simply because of the downtime I've experienced at times (even if their dashboards say otherwise). And it's not just an isolated case - a lot of folks on reddit complain with the same issues. Perhaps your treatment is different because of the high spend you guys have.
by alexykn | 2025-04-22 20:45:31+00:00
Anyway, please do not expect progress to be too rapid. I have a full time job and do most work on this on weekends. I fully intend to make it a stable, "finished" (as much as this is possible in software) thing, it will take a while though. If anyone want's to help out I do open the bugs I find as Issues to keep track and give people an idea of things that do not work. Good Night!
by FloorEgg | 2025-04-22 20:45:34+00:00
1. Yes. I don't know, but there is lots of geological evidence that 12-13,000 years ago there were several cataclysmic meteor strikes, and the earths temperature swung up and down wildly, eventually settling at a much higher temperature (ending the ice age). I am pretty sure this is accepted by the geological community.

2. There is evidence of tremendous flooding, yes. You can actually see it on google earth yourself if you go look...

3. The theory assumes there was massive flooding, which is why we have to look harder for evidence (careful subsurface excavation) compared to sites like Macchu Pichu. Also Macchu Pichu is 600 years old, and the theory of the Richat structure housing a city assumes it was destroyed 12,900+ years ago.

4. Keep in mind that it's widely accepted that 13k years ago the Sahara was lush grasslands and forests.
by Scramblejams | 2025-04-22 20:46:14+00:00
Cool project, good luck with it!

If I may surface one use case: Several years ago I had to manage a bunch of Macs for CI jobs. The build process (Unreal's UAT) didn't support running more than one build process at a time, and Docker was really slow, so I'd hoped to use different user accounts to bypass that and get some parallelization gains. Homebrew made that very difficult with its penchant for system-wide installs. So a feature request: I'd love to see a competitive package manager that limits itself to operating somewhere (overridable) in the user's home directory.
by ryandrake | 2025-04-22 20:46:39+00:00
Additionally, people flake out now more than ever. Back in the 80s, if you managed to win the game of Phone Tag and arrange for your 5 friends to get together at the mall at 2:00PM on Saturday, you could pretty much rest assured they would all make it. Just getting it scheduled was a massive investment in effort and time.

Now, someone will plan a birthday party or something, the kid will invite 15 other kids from school, and it's not unheard of that only one or even zero people actually come. You also see adults doing this. Totally flaking out and not showing up, with not even a call or text in explanation! Culturally that would have been an outrage back in 1980.
by dandersch | 2025-04-22 20:47:02+00:00
>And I'd rather keep the library warning free instead of telling the users to switch warnings off.

Why not push/pop warnings to ignore in the library?

_Pragma("GCC diagnostic push") _Pragma("GCC diagnostic ignored \"-Wshadow\"") int a = 1; { int a = 2; } _Pragma("GCC diagnostic pop")
by woodpanel | 2025-04-22 20:47:24+00:00
That’s correct. It even applies to the other segments I mentioned: Smart Toilets aren’t even necessary, as most people won’t sit on an analog one without their smartphone in their palms.

And yeah, about the voting booth: many of those who now demand a right to be left alone just a couple of years ago vehemently defended the practice of proprietary voting machines.
by wkat4242 | 2025-04-22 20:47:27+00:00
Meh not really. I'm running BSD with the very latest software. KDE, Firefox, Chrome, LibreOffice. All rolling unlike most Linux distros. I really don't care how 'big' my OS is.

But yeah grassroots was perhaps not the right term. I meant the status quo, not the origin. I don't know what the right word is then though.
by chollida1 | 2025-04-22 20:50:10+00:00
This is incorrect under most cases.

A company is not required to update any previously given guidance and can just let their quarterly reporting speak for itself.

The reason why most companies give guidance, which they re not required to and many companies don't, is to manage wall streets expectations.

So given that, you can see why they'd update their guidance for material changes, though under REG FD they are not required to update guidance once they learn its incorrect.

They do modify their guidance so as to not surprise analysts on earnings releases and again as a way to manage expectations.

But as to the question asked, no they are not required to modify their guidance, even if they learn its not true.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-04-22 20:50:14+00:00
> HN is its community, and the community is speaking loud and clear about its allegiance.

This seems to be over-simplifying. Flagging only requires some flat amount of flags for a post to be [flagged], meaning a small minority can shut down discussion on these topics even if some small subset of that minority is flagging a given post. The first tracks with all of the posts being flagged and the second tracks with moderator claims (which I personally believe) that there is not an obvious brigade of users doing the flagging.

Regardless of all of the posts being flagged, there seem to be many still who find them and think they should not have been flagged. That suggests to me that there is a sizeable portion of the community with either a more friendly allegiance or none at all.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-22 20:50:47+00:00
> the ability to trace unpopular speech back to the speaker puts their life in danger and robs them of their freedom under threat of violence. Am I missing something

Yes. Freedom of speech doesn't require privacy in most constructions as it typically concerns, first and foremost, publicly-made political speech. This finds its way into U.S. law through the expansion of the First Amendment's protections by its press and religion clauses [1].

[1] https://law.justia.com/constitution/us/amendment-01/06-diffe...
by constantcrying | 2025-04-22 20:50:47+00:00
No. All the textbooks know that polynomials of high degree are numerically dangerous and you need to be careful when handling them.

The articles examples only work because the interval 0 to 1 (or -1 to 1) were chosen. For whatever reason the author does not point that out or even acknowledges the fact that had he chosen a larger interval the limitations of floating point arithmetic would have ruined the argument he was trying to make.

10^100 is a very large number and numerically difficult to treat. For whatever reason the author pretends this is not a valid reason to be cautious about high degree polynomials.
by MoonGhost | 2025-04-22 20:51:08+00:00
> The intent of the open source movement is sharing methods, not just artifacts, and that would require training code and methodology.

That's not enough. The key point was trust. When executable can be verified by independent review and rebuild. It it cannot be rebuilt it can be virus, troyan, backdoor, etc. For LLMs there is no way to reproduce, thus no way to verify them. So, they cannot be trusted and we have to trust producers. It's not that important when models are just talking, but with tools use it can be a real damage.
by MattGrommes | 2025-04-22 20:51:36+00:00
In the book of 2001, one of the big "events" of that far-future world was all the phone companies making long-distance free on 1/1/2000. Even when I read the book in probably 1990, I remember my dad thinking that was ridiculous. Now the idea of even international long distance call charges are going away and most calling is as you say, done for free via the internet, including with video!
by ty6853 | 2025-04-22 20:51:45+00:00
It's a cultural rift. I also built a house with no code inspections, no building plans, and no trade licensing. Which seems to scare the shit out of a large segment of commenters on HN, meanwhile living in a place where that is actually allowed has enabled me to have neighbors who think alike, since these kind of neighborhoods scare the ever living shit out of the collectivist authoritarian types.

It's really hard for me to put into words the cultural rift, but it's almost like aliens colliding, the only solution I have found is to live in a different world and try to tread carefully away from theirs. By identifying a few topics like "is it wrong to exist in remote undeveloped public forest without a permit" I can immediately identify the sort of people I have irreconcilable differences with.
by hotrod46 | 2025-04-22 20:51:52+00:00
I was writing a blog for the last 3 days: https://hotrod462.vercel.app/blog/how-a-video-game-addict-sn... ,and had some issues sharing drafts. Knocked this out in about 2 days, lmk if you find it useful. Repo is public, contributions are welcome : https://github.com/hotrod462/notehub
by shortrounddev2 | 2025-04-22 20:52:31+00:00
Every company I ever worked for constrained it in many ways

1. Masters degree only, they won't pay for anyone to get a bachelor's or associates

2. Must maintain a B average or better

3. Cannot take any time off, it has to be entirely on nights and weekends

4. Reimbursement after the fact, so you're taking on the initial financial risk up front.
by mort96 | 2025-04-22 20:53:20+00:00
It's actually one of the main reasons I landed on using Axum for a web server in Rust instead of Rocket: I got fed up with the additional level of semantic indirection the cutesy names added. I didn't wanna burn brain cycles decoding what it means to install fairings or launch rockets, or what "ignition" means contra "liftoff". I like boring names for things.
by deng | 2025-04-22 20:53:28+00:00
I'm short on Tesla, but I fully expect these brutal numbers to not have a big effect. The Tesla bulls have already said that 2025 will be a "throwaway year" but it doesn't matter because in 2 years we'll all be riding Tesla robotaxis and have an Optimus at home doing the laundry. In the meantime, I fully expect Tesla getting big orders from government agencies, unless Elon has a fallout with his buddy.
by alphazard | 2025-04-22 20:55:44+00:00
You could frame the entire project of building a political system as just solving this problem without extra side effects.

If you want the right to be left alone, you have to concentrate power, so that people who don't leave other people alone can be effectively punished. That concentrated power attracts the kind of people who don't like leaving other people alone. To these power-seekers, people left alone are an opportunity cost, they could be forced to work towards some goal set by the power-seekers.
by jsight | 2025-04-22 20:56:06+00:00
Yeah, I'm amazed at how convenient tap to pay is now. It is almost always significantly faster than chip readers.

Strangely, it hasn't always been the case. Early on, I really wondered if the tech would catch on, as I had a lot of issues. Lots of places didn't support tap, or had the hardware but had it disabled. For some reason, it wasn't fast at all, often taking as long as a regular card too! And worse, a tap failure seemed to require the person at the register to have to cancel the transaction on their end to allow a retry. They weren't used to tap-to-pay and would often act annoyed.

Somewhere along the way, this all changed. Taps are near instant, they rarely fail, and they usually reset pretty quickly when they do! I'd guess a lot of people who are hesitant were bitten by some of the early problems and don't realize how much smoother it all is now.
by lucasoshiro | 2025-04-22 20:56:47+00:00
I was born in 1996 but I really love the past. 90% percent of the music that I listen to is from before 1990; I have a typewriter and I really find it fun to use it; I have some vinyl records; I have two SNES (one I that we have at home since the 90s and another that I found for sale); half of the movies that I watch were released before the 90s; I have a cuckoo clock working in my living room; I have a street atlas in my car and thanks I'm poor because of course if had money I would have spent it buying an old car.

But know what? Probably I'm happier living in 2020s. Technology allows me to watch more 80s movies that I would do if I lived in the 80s; it allows me to know more 80 bands than most of people who I know that actually lived in the 80s; I'm not restricted to watch only 80s movies or listen to 80s music, I have available everything from the 90s, 70s, 60s, 50s and so on; using a mechanical typewriter is fun but it might be a nightmare needing to use it. And so on.

In fact, I love the past because the present allows me.
by ForceBru | 2025-04-22 20:56:55+00:00
However, if you normalize your data to [0,1], you'll never have to compute 10^100 and thus never face any numerical issues. "Never" assumes no distribution shift.

Indeed, the examples work thanks to this choice of the interval, but this comes with the choice of the basis. Of course Bernstein basis functions explode outside [0,1], but I think the point is that high-degree polynomials pose no danger if you scale the data *according to the polynomial* (use [0,1] for Bernstein and [-1,1] for Chebyshev, for example). So the "magic combo" is polynomial + scaling to its interval. Otherwise all bets are off, of course.
by dheera | 2025-04-22 20:57:02+00:00
What I am suggesting is that whether or not the people are predatory, they created a system that is mathematically predatory.

In the pre-Uber world taxis would line up, the fare wouldn't be any different whether or not it is just after a train left, and more drivers would just know that there is higher demand at that location at certain times, without fare surges.

I do love being able to hail rides with a phone app, but I detest this fluctuating pricing.

It reminds me of why I like train travel in other countries but not so much in the US: In almost all of Europe and Asia, train tickets are fixed price based largely on distance travelled and class of train. In the US, Amtrak plays the idiot capitalist game of predatory money grabbing you if you need to make last minute emergency travel plans or changes.
by xiphias2 | 2025-04-22 20:57:05+00:00
It's not _just_ the infrastructure that is awesome for homebrew. The help I got from the team, answering in real-time when I didn't know how to get through the CI bugs is amazing. It's the boring maintainence work that makes it so special for me.

I also feel that there could be a lot of automation in the backend part, catching bugs early (maybe even on local machine before CI run) for example.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-22 20:57:05+00:00
> I’ve backpacked into several parts of the Cascades without a special permit, because none were required, and never been hassled by a ranger

I mean, yes. You followed the rules. If you wandered somewhere that does require a permit, you'd have been at risk of being stopped.

I live around national parks. A single obnoxious tourist can disrupt the life cycle of dozens of protected species by running feral through their mating and nursery grounds. (It's also not obvious that you're re-routing e.g. a herd of pronghorn from the safe valley whose floor you're on into the territory of a new pack of wolves.)
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-04-22 20:57:07+00:00
Agreement with the list:

Induction Stoves. We've switched to an induction stove and love it. We cook a lot and I'm fairly sensitive to gas. The air quality in the house is so much better after doing a lot of cooking, but also the second order effects. No more face and arms feeling singed after looking over 3 flame burners. No more sauces getting singed on the side of pots or pots being burned on the sides due to gas. No more concern over draping clothing or hair singing. Fast heating times and a cooktop that doesn't stay hot for too long after you remove the pot.

More stuff I'd like to see on the list:

Digital Photography and Videography. Now a single person or a few people can do what used to take an entire staff to do. Short films and CGI are viable with just a few people. A photographer can take pictures of events that used to take studios with photo lighting to handle.

Disagreements with the list:

Ubiquitous HVAC use is more of a curse than a blessing. Ubiquitous HVAC has led to badly ventilated, badly designed apartments/houses that need constant HVAC usage to even be moderately livable. Central HVACs also often cannot deal with hot/cold areas in the house. Awareness is growing over the need for clean indoor air and that people enjoy air CFMs higher than most guidelines purport. Along with growing use of mini-split HVACs, ERVs and HRVs, this is a great direction. But too many cheap homes throughout the world are designed only around blind central or single unit HVAC use and that is just bad IMO.
by Swifcheese | 2025-04-22 20:57:20+00:00
for sure! I've had a bunch of people in the community ask for tvOS so I'm excited to be able to make it reality.

The OLED consideration is something I wouldn't have thought about, but that's a really good thing to keep in mind. even if I can't mess with the video itself, it's not an issue to display content over top of it. It really just comes down to what's needed to ensure no issues with burn in.
by duxup | 2025-04-22 20:57:28+00:00
I think sometimes a lot of these topics take place within artificial narratives, and that doesn't really address how harassment (or worse) of any kind occurs.

Not far from me a local football team that had a guest speaker, she was a fairly popular speaker traveling all over telling her story about how she was assaulted and her experiences with that and the aftermath. Her ending narrative was that the "good guys" on the team should be telling the "bad guys" to stop doing bad things. She used the terms good guys and bad guys.

While I think her speech was worthwhile, especially about her personal experience. I later wondered (and got an earful for daring to ask) if "good guys" telling "bad guys" to not sexually assault women was shown to actually prevent this kind of thing... or if that even is the dynamic on a sports team. I didn't get an answer.

Same thing goes for these gender-equity hot spots. It doesn't make sense to me to think that someone with the desire to harass someone is likely to do it any less in such a hot spot. And the challenges / unknowns a victim faces coming forward are no less challenging even if it is an equitable place otherwise.

I think these situations are mostly very personal decisions, by those who victimize and the victims and the narratives we build around society as a whole or in part obscure how granular things play out.
by emchammer | 2025-04-22 20:59:00+00:00
I think that this cartoon was a play on a booklet from that era which the electric company gave out. It illustrated the grid and all kinds of possibilities around the home and farm for those who were not used to electrification. My dad had kept it around and I remember reading it when I was little. It had all the wiring plotted out like a Richard Scarry book. I have not been able to find it since.
by woodruffw | 2025-04-22 20:59:22+00:00
> The reward scheme is built in already: the client uploads while it's downloading and installing and prioritizes the clients it is downloading from.

These are asymmetric: brew runs at a point in time, and most people decidedly do not want brew running in the background or blocking while leechers are still being serviced. They want it to exit quickly once the task at hand is done.

> Generating additional metadata at bottle build time doesn't appear to be much of a technical challenge either.

That's not the challenge. The challenge is distributing those updates. My understanding is that there's no standard way to update a torrent file; you re-roll a new file with the changes. That means staggered delivery, which in turn means a long tail of clients that see different, incompatible views of the same majority-equal files.
by ziddoap | 2025-04-22 20:59:37+00:00
>Yet, my privacy rights always imply a lessening of someone else's right to knowledge.

Is there a "right to knowledge"?

I'm aware of rights to speech, thought, movement, conscious, religion, expression, assembly, association, etc. But I've never heard anyone claim, or read any charter/constitution/etc. that has a "right to knowledge" clause.

Is there a country which has enshrined a "right to knowledge"? Does it have any limits (alluding to what you mentioned, how does the right to knowledge interact with other rights)?
by ramraj07 | 2025-04-22 21:00:10+00:00
I don't see how that's the root cause. ClickHouse and snowflake run on your so-called slow vms on overprovisioned cloud hosts and they're efficient as hell. It's all about your optimizations.

The real problem is the lack of understanding by most engineers the degree of overprovisioning they do for code that's simple and doing stupid things using an inefficient 4th order language on top of 5 different useless (imo) abstractions.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-04-22 21:01:04+00:00
Even since the '90s a lot has changed. Innovations in MEMS have allowed for much smarter rice cookers and the creation of the sous vide cooker, along with small air fryers with cheap, precise temperature control. Powerful DC motors have allowed us to have hand blenders, spice grinders, and food processors that take up little counter space but do their work admirably. The only reason I have enough time to cook as much as I do from scratch is because so many of my appliances are precise set-and-forget. My mom cooks a lot as well and I watched how advances in appliances changed the amount and precision with which she could cook.
by ziddoap | 2025-04-22 21:01:49+00:00
>That comment has exactly what you're asking for

No, it doesn't.

I was hoping to read something that addressed this specific paper. All of those links are papers published before Lior Shamir's paper was published.

The comment I originally replied to said "people pointed out he cherry-picked results". I thought "people" might be "scientists" and they might have pointed it out in a subsequent paper or something.

Thanks though.
by timoth3y | 2025-04-22 21:01:50+00:00
Planet Money had a wonderful series of episodes where they did exactly this a few years ago.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/08/26/491342091/plan...

They traced the path of their barrel from purchase, to production, to refining, to the sale of the various hydrocarbon products.

It's a great listen.
by wolrah | 2025-04-22 21:02:01+00:00
And for what it's worth, Macs have had this ability for basically as long as they've had Thunderbolt. The same can also be done over Firewire on all major platforms, but these days 400/800mbps just isn't what it was back in the day.

edit: Also meant to mention that while Thunderbolt has always been rare on AMD due to its requirement of an Intel chip, USB4 is somewhat common nowadays as it's officially supported on the Zen 3+ and newer CPUs
by eesmith | 2025-04-22 21:02:05+00:00
I think you are using gross sales?

We can see from Apple's 2024Q4 10-Q that "Revenue" is described as "Net sales", and that Q4 had $8 billion for the IPad, so about $32 billion for the year - comparable to the prediction of "$30 billion ad business by 2026".

Total net sales in Q4 was $124 billion of which $26 billion was services (where ads and Google income are placed).

The $4 billion was from a few years ago. The actual number doesn't seem to be published, but the numbers seem more like 7-8 billion, which is about 5% of revenue, not less than 1%.
by kevin_thibedeau | 2025-04-22 21:03:23+00:00
This sort of thing is better set in CMake or equivalent with file specific flags to disable diagnostics. Then you don't have non-portable cruft littering the code, you don't have to touch third party code, and there is a more centralized accounting of what marginal code you're hacking around. The loss of specificity is rarely going to be a problem.