MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by red_admiral | 2025-04-12 06:58:17+00:00
If the lowest package you can buy is 100 shinies = 4 EUR, then an item costing 1000 shinies gets shown as 40 EUR. This is independent of whether you can get 1000 shinies for 35 EUR as a bundle deal, or you can earn 10 shinies per day from logging in and completing other in-game tasks.
by dataflow | 2025-04-12 06:58:19+00:00
> Notice that from the point of view of the anonymous counter party trading with you on the stock exchange, both situations look exactly the same. [...] So making insider trading legal in the US wouldn't make the general public any worse off.

Eh? If nothing else, doesn't it magnify the public's risk beyond whatever impact Buffet could have on his own? How can you possibly claim there is no difference?

You might as well say: imagine you secretly give another country nuclear weapons, and assume that that country plans to use them. Now imagine you plan to use them for the same purpose yourself. From the viewpoint of the public, the situation is exactly the same. So nuclear proliferation wouldn't make the general public any worse off.

Or imagine the president picks a random person by lottery every day to run the country while he goes to play golf. The president can take the same actions himself, so from the standpoint of the general public, nobody would be worse off.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-04-12 07:00:18+00:00
> In any case, the definition of what is exactly niche optimization is besides the point. The point of the post is: the literature gives you the impression that there's one limited form of enum size optimization in the Rust compiler, but in fact there are other optimizations too. And knowing this is useful!

It's useful if you got that specific impression.

But I didn't. So I was disappointed and unenlightened because I was promised a non-niche optimization and I didn't get one.
by jofzar | 2025-04-12 07:01:56+00:00
I have to seriously disagree on it for the "assistant" part. It is so terrible vs Google assistant.

There have been two really bad experiences that I had which boggled my mind.

These are transcribed because these were so bad I took a screenshot.

Example 1: "set an alarm for 15 minutes"

> Gemini sets the alarm for 1:15pm

"I want that to be 50 minutes"

> "you can change the duration of alarms in the clock app"

Example 2:

"what the temperature today"

> It is currently 5 degrees Celsius

- It was October in Sydney, the temperature was 22c with a low of 12c.....
by weinzierl | 2025-04-12 07:01:57+00:00
"I have been through layoffs where other people on my team, doing the same job I did approximately as well, got laid off. No explanation given for why them and not me. And it could happen to me at any time."

Usually there is a hidden variable that you don't know. It is your salary. That is why it sometimes looks surprising when senior roles are cut that look extremely valuable to the company from the outset. Maybe they were that valuable but still deemed to expensive.
by hello_computer | 2025-04-12 07:02:25+00:00
You can have a market economy without immortal corporations. This is something Quigley pointed out a long time ago. The varieties of persona ficta we have created is unlike anything in history. Even the old British charters were limited in terms of either duration, operations, or both. Modern corporations can do whatever they want for as long as they want. They are mostly insulated from criminal law. An individual poisons the town, he gets the lynch mob. A team of executives poisons the town (after days/weeks of cool deliberation), they get bonuses.
by gala8y | 2025-04-12 07:02:40+00:00
I would conceptualize it rather differently. Let say you have two daemons inside, Fast Coder and Detail Scrutinizer. It is about checking how much power every one of them is given on two separate scales (every each of them working in their dominion). If you switch on only one and neglect the other, you can get into trouble (or not, depending on the circumstances). Anyway, these are two variables, two facets, and knowing how to mix them appropriately makes the whole difference. It's like internal combustion engine mixing few kinds of fuel. What you get at given moment depends on the mixture of these different qualities.
by xingped | 2025-04-12 07:04:08+00:00
I fully believe this to be true as well. Aside from possibly the endless red tape and bureaucratic hoop jumping of making a purchasing decision. "Promotion driven development" is a scourge. Endless waste of time and resources for everyone, including the company, but somehow management and leadership doesn't care. Make it look like you did lots of work instead of the right work and somehow that's what matters? I know growing up I was always told work smarter not harder, but apparently harder not smarter is what management actually wants. Personally I think they're too brain-dead to know the difference and just think hurr-durr more code mean better. It's been a pretty universal experience/observation for me.
by discordance | 2025-04-12 07:04:08+00:00
Instead of renaming files to .txt, you should try Gemini 2.5 pro through OpenRouter with roo, Cline or using Github Copilot. I've been testing GH Copilot [0] and it's been working really well.

0: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-04-11-copilot-chat-users-...
by hello_computer | 2025-04-12 07:04:40+00:00
The brilliant thing is that they have woven it deep into the retirement ponzi-schemes, so nothing short of a cataclysm will unwind it.

There is also the Machiavellian consideration of external threats. We need these corporations to make the tools of Ahriman. Without them, another country's corporations will make them first, and use them to subjugate us. People who believe in God (not just the Abrahamic one, but any good creator) prefer not to play this game, but most people are strict materialists, so they are locked into this equation.
by 7373737373 | 2025-04-12 07:05:45+00:00
I do hope watchmakers start to integrate "computational" (instead of temporal) complications into their watches, like a mechanical turing machine or other tiny mechanical computers or calculators which I believe have never been constructed this small.

Inspiration:

Wooden Turing Machine: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vo8izCKHiF0

Curta Calculator: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZDn_DDsBWws

Zuse Z1 Computer: https://youtu.be/R5XnuT6ZLKg?t=283

Maybe also analog ones!: https://youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4
by aetherspawn | 2025-04-12 07:05:58+00:00
It makes sense to allow public investment in companies, but base it off (regulated) external valuation rather than real time supply/demand.

Have a limit on how frequently a company can get revalued (months).

Do everything possible to make it a long term investment tool and not something that can be easily gamed. This is also less stressful for the individual investor — most people I know who trade stocks also check the stocks 10+ times per day and it occupies such a large area of their headspace.
by trinix912 | 2025-04-12 07:06:09+00:00
> The ribbon is a great fit for Office style apps with their large number of buttons and options.

To me this is the exact use case where it fails. I find it way harder to parse as it's visually intense (tons of icons, buttons of various sizes, those little arrows that are sometimes in group corners...).

Office 2003 had menus that were at most 20-25 entries long with icons that were just the right size to hint what the entries are about, yet not get in the way. The ribbon in Office 2007 (Word, for example) has several tabs full of icons stretching the entire window width or even more. Mnemonics were also made impractical as they dynamically bind to the buttons of the currently visible tab instead of the actions themselves.
by ashishb | 2025-04-12 07:06:11+00:00
> It is an underrated country, I remember that after Tikal I ended up at ChichenItza and it just felt boring (and way too touristy) compared to the lush jungle beauty in Tikal and Yaxhá.

Yeah, Chichen Itza has its pleasure of being a comfortable but touristy place. Tikal is much better for travelers, though.
by giorgioz | 2025-04-12 07:06:29+00:00
No it's not obvious at all Google is winning AI on every front. There is few stuff Google is systemically behind: 1) UX 2) product and use case innovation

I just open Google Gemini Android app and asked to generate a JS script with Gemini 2 Flash and did the same with ChatGPT.

Gemini did not highlighted with colors the code. ChatGPT did highlighted with colors the code.

Colors in code are extremely useful to grok the code and have a nice DX.

I'm sure if I dig into Gemini's product I'll find dozens of UX/DX ways in which ChatGPT is better.

Google is still playing catch-up with LLM products. ChatGPT is still the one making the announcements and then Gemini doing the same UX/use case enhancements weeks/months later.
by re-thc | 2025-04-12 07:07:18+00:00
> F500/government are conservative and tend to stick with the vendors they know, which is why Azure has gained so much traction

Outcome is the same, but being "conservative" isn't the real reason.

Adding a vendor requires compliance work, process, finance etc that it's just effort.

99% of medium-large companies use Microsoft in some form so Azure can skip all of that to some extent.
by pastage | 2025-04-12 07:08:07+00:00
Actually moral rights is what allow you to say no to AI. It is also a big part of copyright and more important in places were fair use does not exist in the extent it does in the US.

Further making a variant of a famous art piece under copyright might very well be a derivative. There are court cases here just some years for the AI boom were a format shift from photo to painting was deemed to be a derivative. The picture generated with "Painting of a archeologist with a whip" will almost certainly be deemed a derivative if it would go through the same court.
by pjerem | 2025-04-12 07:08:19+00:00
I’m sorry for what happened to you.

I don’t know if it can comfort you but personally I’m trying to accept that it’s ok to be "vulnerable" with mostly everyone. Most of the time it creates interesting bonds with people. Sometimes you are being "vulnerable" to authentic jerks and so what ? Most of the time you can just ignore them.

I find that acting like this is actually an effective automatic filter for my social interactions.

The only place I’m more protecting myself (without being totally closed) is at work because, probably due to the environment, people aren’t acting normally at work.
by adolph | 2025-04-12 07:10:53+00:00
Could a president pardon everyone for all time?

Or maybe just all future times: the Court has indicated that the power may be exercised at any time after [an offense’s] commission,8 reflecting that the President may not preemptively immunize future criminal conduct.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S2-C1-3...
by Smithalicious | 2025-04-12 07:11:18+00:00
I agree with all of these broadly, though I've never run into a case where sleep doesn't work fwiw, but people are also really blind to how many warts windows has. Multi monitor stuff is a shitshow there too for instance, or Windows Update, or... I haven't personally used Windows for well over a decade but I have loved ones who do and I would say as of recent years we really have crossed over to where Windows has more shit like this than Linux I reckon.

I wish X supported mixed DPI per monitor, ugh.

I will say one notable difference is that Linux issues as a rule at least are debuggable, whereas Windows issues can just be utterly intractible. It's not that rare for me to watch friends with computer science degrees frustratedly embark on the long misadventure that is "reinstalling Windows".
by jgil | 2025-04-12 07:13:29+00:00
Not OP but -- there is reporting by The Intercept on a leak of guidance that explicitly contains double standards. [1]

Before the leak there was already data-driven analysis about coverage that, in aggregate, shows imbalance. [2]

1 - https://archive.ph/eEwi0

2 - https://archive.ph/fp4vQ
by EarthLaunch | 2025-04-12 07:13:45+00:00
Useful take, thanks for mentioning specifics. Some of these I wasn't aware of.

- What makes load balancing easier with SSE? I imagine that balancing reconnects would work similar to WS.

- Compression might be a disadvantage for binary data, which WS specializes in.

- Browser inspection of SSE does sound amazing.

- Mobile duplex antenna is way outside my wheelhouse, sounds interesting.

Can you see any situation in which websockets would be advantageous? I know that SSE has some gotchas itself, such as limited connections (6) per browser. I also wonder about the nature of memory and CPU usage for serving many clients on WS vs SSE.

I have a browser game (few players) using vanilla WS.
by levocardia | 2025-04-12 07:14:00+00:00
Google is winning on every front except... marketing (Google has a chatbot?), trust (who knew the founding fathers were so diverse?), safety (where's the 2.5 Pro model card?), market share (fully one in ten internet users on the planet are weekly ChatGPT users), and, well, vibes (who's rooting for big G, exactly?).

But I will admit, Gemini Pro 2.5 is a legit good model. So, hats off for that.
by calmoo | 2025-04-12 07:14:10+00:00
I’m familiar with your site and appreciate it a lot, and I don’t dispute anything you said, but that does not contradict anything in my comment. Those people you mention who apply the rules differently everywhere are inflexible and unwilling to give leeway or look further then their own way. This is a cultural issue in my opinion and can explain most of excessive bureaucracy here. You’re also talking specifically about the ausländerbehörde, which is one manifestation of bureaucracy here, there are many other forms.
by trinix912 | 2025-04-12 07:14:15+00:00
That's "It works on my machine". Especially with ThinkPads, Dell XPS, and other laptops usually used by the Linux folks. Try it on a random cheap HP and you might not even have sound working (I've gone through this a few months ago). You can sometimes easily fix it through the terminal, but then we get into the debate of whether a normal user would be able to do that.
by lukaslalinsky | 2025-04-12 07:15:04+00:00
This is a good write up. Thank you for it. My experience with Haskell only comes from university and the focus there was primarily on the pure side of the code. I'll have a look at how Haskell deals with the pure/inpure split for some real-world tasks. The Lisp way of doing it just seems weird to me, too ad hoc, not really structured.
by LeafItAlone | 2025-04-12 07:15:10+00:00
Let’s be real: Pelosi became famous for it because right-leaning groups were looking for yet another thing to put on her and then it was picked up by WSB and became a meme.

Pelosi’s rate of return isn’t the highest (in 2024, it was 10th, less than half the highest). If you analyze their trades, very few are suspect of timing. They just make a bunch of long term bets on tech.

https://www.fool.com/research/congressional-stock-trading-wh...
by morsch | 2025-04-12 07:15:14+00:00
Gemini never sets alarms for me and always points me to the app. Trying to call people is a crap shoot. Presumably there are settings for this somewhere, but there are like fifty sharing settings in four different places and it's impossible to know which apply to the old assistant or Gemini or both or just on the lock screen or to connected devices or... It's a mess.

It's even worse, when I tell it to set a timer now, it'll happily tell me it's been set -- but it hasn't (nothing in the app and I waited, to be sure). This is all reproducible and on a Pixel 8.
by vintikzzzz | 2025-04-12 07:15:47+00:00
There are currently around 14 individual components involved — torrent engine, HLS pipeline, subtitles, storage, APIs, etc.

It’s technically possible to run everything manually without Docker, but you’d need to wire all services together, manage configs, ports, and background jobs.

That’s why I strongly recommend the Docker setup — it’s the easiest way to get things running.

You can absolutely take a look at the Dockerfile (https://github.com/webtor-io/self-hosted/blob/main/Dockerfil...). It should give you a clear idea of how things are connected, if you want to replicate it manually on FreeBSD.
by 8f2ab37a-ed6c | 2025-04-12 07:16:48+00:00
A tremendous amount I have paid for in the past or still pay for today. Github, Github Copilot, Rider, Reviewable, Lucidcharts, Heroku, Render, CircleCI, Browserstack, Datadog, Launchdarkly, Postman, Sentry, Amplitude, Imgix, Zeplin, Cloudinary, ngrok, dbt, ... the list goes on and on.
by NKosmatos | 2025-04-12 07:17:48+00:00
Whenever I see similar articles I get reminded that all these are worthless paperless money, exchanging hands and playing a game. Futures, options, securities (and all the rest financial jargon) proves that there is a very big economic game at play in a global scale. No wonder the whole planet owes some trillions (to whom?) :-)

There is no need for scientists to prove we’re living inside a simulation, this whole global turn based strategy financial game, affecting our lives, is the proof that someone is having a laugh at/with us ;-)
by throwanem | 2025-04-12 07:18:17+00:00
> Substantive as in about Heinlein's work, rather than attacks on me or my motivations.

We could have done that fifteen hours ago [1], or eleven hours ago [2], or nine hours ago [3] [4], or any time you wanted. You haven't. What's changed?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43655066

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43657766

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43659136

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43659187
by 1oooqooq | 2025-04-12 07:18:44+00:00
i doubt its a hardware upgrade. more like a worse test just to make it easier to the system (malice? incompetent?)

mark's original test didn't have side trees that are very obvious not moving when you drive closer.

imho, this test is awful, and some models still failed lol. just pick a desert or a road without greenery so close, like the original tester did. or at least go full willy and draw a tunnel entrance.
by DeathArrow | 2025-04-12 07:18:45+00:00
But not only the physicians know a CEO will be out of commission. And there are many more cases where a CEO will leave a company without being ill.

And there are much more situations that will influence stock prices than a company changing its CEO. Those situations can be both internal and external to a company.

So I think we potentially have thousands or tens of thousands of people who learn information that make them rich if they act quickly. And even that has a multiplying factor since those people have friends and family.

"Hey Bill, wanna make a quick buck? As soon as market opens buy XYZ. You don't know it from me and I didn't call you today."
by namaria | 2025-04-12 07:19:54+00:00
Another issue I see is the "Machine Stops" problem. When we come to depend on a systems that fails to foster the skills and knowledge needed to reproduce it (i.e. if programming comes to be so easy to so many people that they don't actually need to know how it works under the hood) you slowly loose the ability to maintain and extend the system as a society.
by eru | 2025-04-12 07:20:18+00:00
> Eh? If nothing else, doesn't it magnify the public's risk beyond whatever impact Buffet could have on his own? How can you possibly claim there is no difference?

Let me be more explicit: Warren Buffett usually doesn't physically execute his own trades. So the only difference between the two scenarios I outlined is that in the second one Warren Buffett tells you (as his employee) to trade. In the first one, you trade without him telling you to do so.

But it's the same person doing the trades in either scenario.

> Or imagine the president picks a random person by lottery every day to run the country while he goes to play golf. The president can take the same actions himself, so from the standpoint of the general public, nobody would be worse off.

Sortition might actually be a good idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
by mdhb | 2025-04-12 07:21:11+00:00
I think there’s a bit of a mismatch here between data Google collects on me as a regular user which they can and due process in a million different ways in order to sell shit to you. This extends to AI unless you’re paying for it in which case it’s a very different ballgame.

Then there is data that I put into a Google service like drive or cloud which genuinely is probably the single safest consumer option I know of in 2025.
by torginus | 2025-04-12 07:21:30+00:00
Most of German standardization boils down to creating artificial competitive moats to their existing companies, while propping up an incredible lucrative 'standardization industry'.

This allows most Germans to sleep soundly at night knowing some company won't show up at the door selling the same product they do, but better and cheaper.

This is a well know playbook, and is appealing to bureaucrats who conflate a stack paperwork with actual quality, and is not exclusive to Germans (why does FDA approved medicine cost 100x of chemically indentical stuff sold in other countries etc.)/
by ggm | 2025-04-12 07:22:00+00:00
I wish:

1) they respected eu, uk and au norms and guaranteed safe harbour data held in respective countries, with no automatic US warrant action.

2) they reported product availability worldwide on equitable terms when they release in the US.

Until this starts happening, it feels like EU anti monopoly action is justified.

We'd be better of with Google de-amalgamated into a software and wholesale design and federated status across economy specific entities with no transfer pricing.

The size of e.g. EU and Indian federal and national and provincial and education/medicine is huge. Per bum on seat count, per user cost it would be significantly larger than the US Fed. Same when it comes to pixel features: announce US, 275m consumers. India, 175m active, 300m aspirational. Europe 440m consumers. "Oh Americans spend more" please.. do the arithmetic so do they spend that much more? No.

It's low hanging fruit. It's "visible to me here in mountain view" thinking.
by 3np | 2025-04-12 07:23:32+00:00
Sorry but if an expected $9k expense is hurting to the point that you are seriously considering such risky and costly (what's your time and attention worth?) plays... Do have any buffers or margins? It sounds naive to just expect everything to work out within budget when you're trading cross-border. Hopefully you can address that before you grow further in other dimensions.
by eru | 2025-04-12 07:23:42+00:00
> At this point I believe too that they are likely to win the race.

I'm not so sure.

In the mid 2010s they looked like they were ahead of everyone else in the AI race, too. Remember the (well-deserved!) spectacle around AlphaGo? Then they lost steam for a while.

So I wouldn't bet that any momentary lead will last.
by anthk | 2025-04-12 07:24:17+00:00
>Managers and marketing

Ah, well, the most irrelevant place from a company compared to the actual product development.

Thus, no wonder everyone sees Macs as fancy toys just to show off instead of doing actual work. The times from OSX under G4 being a really good system for A/V and press/journalism production are long gone.

It can be, but any Windows or even some Linux machine with Krita and some medium A/V tools with some -rt kernel with Pipewire can destroy OSX on performance. Ardour is no joke and people has tools like DavinCi. There's no need to spend $4-6k on a Mac Pro any more. Pick any high end Nvidia card with hardware encoding/decoding and A/V producing can be trivial.

If OSX it's just a tool do bullshit presentations, OSX it's doomed in the desktop.

The iPad it's everything else. It's really good at handwriting, and it's really good for students at uni doing tons of writtings and notes, and OFC for painting and photo manipulation.