MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by HenryBemis | 2025-04-30 00:42:22+00:00
> we are limiting resource on key teams

Yes, growth without the 'human tax'! Cost-savings all the way to 11!! (also no dependency/no key-employees risk/backups/shifts/etc.)

I remember this vid from a year ago where it's pretty clear what every CEO's wet dream is: reduce headcount, improve output, more profits. It's sad in a funny way: https://youtu.be/20TAkcy3aBY?t=230
by Waterluvian | 2025-04-30 00:42:33+00:00
Long term I think this may be good for the 95% of us non-Americans. It’s forcing us out of a cozy minima, building new supply chains and trading partners. All while everyone is eager to find someone else to buy and sell to, which makes it easier. Maybe it’ll be a net positive for the world as long as he doesn’t destroy the world in the process.

In a way this represents a redistribution of wealth away from the rich, which is what I think a lot of people want (though maybe they’d wish it wasn’t away from them)
by runarberg | 2025-04-30 00:43:04+00:00
Shameless plug: I created a free and open source alternative to WaniKani https://shodoku.app/ using open dictionary data and the same SRS system as anki.

It actually has a very different learning philosophy from WaniKani so it is not really an alternative.

* shodoku teaches writing as well as reading, the point being that writing it helps you remember it.

* You learn components (radicals) and vocabulary at the same time as the associated kanji.

* The order doesn’t need to be by simplicity. This is deviates from both WaniKani and Remembering the kanji.

* You rate your self, just like anki.

I find it is actually more important to learn the kanji in the words you are learning, if a new kanji has three new components, it is not hard to simply learn these new components at the same time (and create a story / connection of them). And learning the reading of the kanji is easier if you learn words containing it. So what I do is I bookmark a couple of words each time I start a new kanji card, and during reading review, if I remember how these words are pronounced, I rate it as good.
by trealira | 2025-04-30 00:43:09+00:00
I do think recursion schemes are pretty cool, particularly the idea that a list fold could be generalized to the concept of catamorphisms, which could be mechanically derived upon defining a data structure, because the shape of the recursion that's defined is the same as the shape of the recursion of the data constructors. It makes me realize that programming languages still could be higher-level; what if a programming language automatically derived the equivalent of the "fold" and "map" functions for any recursive data type defined by the programmer?

At the same time, the way it's implemented in Haskell's recursion-schemes library might be hard to wrap one's head around at first, kind of like how the list functions "foldr" and "foldl" are also often confusing to newbies, even though they're like the go-to, default way to make list functions in Haskell.
by firesteelrain | 2025-04-30 00:43:13+00:00
Put aside the politics

It’s a terrible metric to show because it’s not like they are buying these things in single pieces - they get the products in bulk from Chinese suppliers presumably at a discount. I am not sure of the point of including this - it is sort of like when you go to a restaurant and they add some stupid service charge on your bill as a protest against something like paying their workers more because wage went up
by cj | 2025-04-30 00:43:21+00:00
I’m curious how well their recent “improvements” around chat memory will impact portability between AI’s.

Most ChatGPT sessions I have these days include ChatGPT reminding me or referencing something that I only shared with it days or weeks earlier in previous chats. So far it does increase quality of the chats, although not valuable enough (yet) to prevent me from using a different model.
by spencer5512 | 2025-04-30 00:43:24+00:00
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by OJFord | 2025-04-30 00:44:16+00:00
Horizontal tabs, tab groups, seems native Firefox is almost if not at the point where I don't need an extension for tabbing any more, which would be great in my books. (Currently and for almost a decade using Sidebery. The containers integration and 'panels' is what I think might still be missing for me to switch. I'd probably sacrifice the former, but I love panels.)
by matthewdgreen | 2025-04-30 00:44:21+00:00
I’m not telling people stories about “racist highways” or “periods in transgender men.” I’m sure you’re not either. Maybe the problem here is whoever is telling those stories.

But in all seriousness, the time to have discussions about this was last year. The time for discussion has passed at this point. The damage is locked in now, as is the blowback that will result when people realize what was done.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-04-30 00:45:17+00:00
From my personal notes (I love taking notes on this kind of stuff):

As far as I can see all of this [he's speaking about the Loebner Prize and the Turing test in general] is entirely pointless. It's like asking how we can determine empirically whether an aeroplane can fly the answer being if it can fool someone into thinking that it's an eagle under some conditions.

https://youtu.be/0hzCOsQJ8Sc?si=MUXpmIwAzcla9lvK&t=2052
by neilv | 2025-04-30 00:45:31+00:00
Yep, I prefer the Firefox keywords for various sites, and to disable search support entirely.

For those who haven't tried this yet: the bookmark for Wikipedia might look something like this:

Name: [SEARCH] WIKIPEDIA URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%s Keyword: w

Then, when you want to do a Wikipedia search, go to the URL&search bar, and enter `w` as the first word, followed by the search term, such as `w cats`.

Also, you might want to disable the other search engine and portal page features as much as you can. This requires setting some preferences not on the Preferences pages, so going to `about:config` preferences, to set, e.g., `keyword.enabled` to false.

Note that you control the keywords. So I thought Wikipedia deserved a one-letter keyword. But `a` went to archive.org Wayback Machine (which also meant I could just prefix any URL with `a` and a space), while I made myself spell out `amazon` every time I was in danger of unnecessary consumerism.
by standardUser | 2025-04-30 00:45:35+00:00
I know we Americans just love to own cars, what with the rapid depreciation, constant maintenance and massive storage requirements. Who could resist? But isn't the promise of self driving vehicles that we don't all need to own, maintain and operate a 4000lb machine? I know it's hard to resist dropping the $30k, $40k or even $50k and paying that monthly insurance we all love. But wouldn't it be better if we could just summon whatever vehicle we need for the hour and then get on with our lives? And more importantly, don't we all want the benefits that will come from having mostly robo-cars on the road - such as fewer accidents and injuries, less traffic, faster trips and more parking?
by Spivak | 2025-04-30 00:45:52+00:00
Eh, I think it's actually something subtly different. I think OpenAI does believe that a moat exists and actually that they're on the losing end of it. They seem to have realized that Google is going to (arguably already has) eaten their lunch because of their privileged internet content scraper. Google can/has amassed more data than OpenAI could ever hope to because they provide reciprocal value to the sites they index, so much value that Googlebot gets let through captchas and paywalls. I think this is OpenAI trying to get some momentum that convinces site owners to not just up and block them.

Because the first thing you have to do to surface your products on ChatGPT is opt your site into the scraper.
by josephg | 2025-04-30 00:45:59+00:00
> Having gone full-in on this approach before, with some good success, it still feels wrong to me today. Contiguous storage may work for reasonable numbers of elements, but it's potentially blocking a huge contiguous chunk of address space especially for large numbers of elements.

That makes sense. If my btree was gigabytes in size, I might rethink the approach for a number of reasons. But in my case, even for quite large input, the data structure never gets more than a few megabytes in size. Thats small enough that resizing the vec has a negligible performance impact.

It helps that my btree stores its contents using lossless internal run-length encoding. Eg, if I have values like this:

{key: 5, value: 'a'} {key: 6, value: 'a'} {key: 7, value: 'a'}

Then I store them like this:

{key: [5..8), value: 'a'}

In my use case, this compaction decreases the size of the data structure by about 20x. There's some overhead in joining and splitting values - but its easily worth it.
by naasking | 2025-04-30 00:47:55+00:00
> But to model a general tree, you'd need a dynamically allocated list of children for each node, adding a layer of indirection that can noticeably worsen performance.

I hate to be a broken record, but this again goes back to the assumption of a specific sequential computation model. Modelling relations as in SQL automatically supports for N-ary child relations. There are other computation models! eg. logic, relational, etc.
by stavros | 2025-04-30 00:48:04+00:00
It does seem pretty viable, TRMNL are pretty popular:

https://usetrmnl.com

I made some stuff of mine for that display too, but the easiest way is to just use TRMNL's firmware, as it supports autoupdates and a few other nice features.

Here's mine:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/making-a-trmnl-device/

Plus this:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/making-the-timeframe/

And a few more things I never wrote about.

The Kindle project is just because I have a few Kindles lying around, so I might as well use them!
by cswilliams | 2025-04-30 00:50:33+00:00
Interesting. At a previous company, when we changed the pg_dump command in a backup script to start using parallel workers (-j flag) we started to rarely see errors that suggested inconsistency when restoring the backups (duplicate key errors and fk constraint errors). At the time, I tried reporting the issue to both AWS and on the Postgres mailing list but never got anywhere since I could not easily reproduce it. We eventually gave up and went back to single threaded dumps. I wonder if this issue is related to that behavior we were seeing.
by tptacek | 2025-04-30 00:50:48+00:00
The title is obviously editorialized, and also hyperventilating.

Local and state policing policy is controlled by local and state politics; overwhelmingly, local municipal politics. It couldn't be further from Trump's reach or closer to any of yours. If this is something you care about, you should know this already and be engaged. Many of you live in places where you could get an astonishing amount done. I'm shocked by how much I got done with how little effort.

The whole concept of a consent decree is that it's manage by a federal judge. The administration can ask to eliminate a binding consent decree. The presiding judge doesn't have to agree.

He says a lot of these things just to rile you up.
by owyn | 2025-04-30 00:51:39+00:00
Yeah, that's pretty amazing corporate speak. And the development time lines are long. I'm cautiously optimistic about this. Even if it is just a Toyota vehicle with Waymo brains, there is a Taxi/Van in Japan called the Alphard and it's pretty nice! Toyota also has the e-pallete, which is a self driving bus for their new Woven City project. It would be great to see a new vehicle platform co-developed for those purposes because the Toyota "electrical" architecture is about 10 years behind (all CanBus). If I was them I would sort that out before building new EVs. If you look at a bz4x and pop the hood, it looks like an IC vehicle! There is no frunk, just legacy junk. It was never designed as an EV, they just put an electric motor and a battery in a Rav4 type platform and called it a day.
by AdrianB1 | 2025-04-30 00:52:06+00:00
I grew up with sci-fi as it was one of the very few genres allowed in Communist Romania. It was a mix of authors from Asimov to Strugatski, from Philip K. Dick to Ursula K Le Guin. It was sometimes very dark, sometimes moderate, but overall even Asimov's future is not optimistic in many ways, but I don't think I missed anything or it was better to be different. I did not become a grumpy pessimist nor an antisocial geek, I think reading a lot made me a better person overall, including the mix of sci-fi that was for sure not optimistic.
by trealira | 2025-04-30 00:52:14+00:00
So a news site had some report that indicated that Amazon was considering displaying the cost of the tariffs next to the prices on their website. Trump responds to it as though it were fact. The headlines imply it's fact and not just a rumor. Now after Amazon representatives correct the record, saying that it was never approved, and journalists like this opinion writer act as though Bezos is changing his mind because Trump asked him to, and not because it likely wasn't going to happen in the first place. It's like they don't care about what actually happened, rather just about the story being compelling.
by martin-buur | 2025-04-30 00:52:42+00:00
Thank you so much for your kind reaction! Some people could argue this could just be an AI chat bot, and that's true, it could. But I really wanted to build a very specific set of tools with issues that I was dealing with.

I really like what you shared and added your idea to my feedback forum: https://neurotools.featurebase.app/p/new-tool-reality-check
by waterhouse | 2025-04-30 00:53:37+00:00
Theoretically, if there's not enough visual information for AI drivers, then there's not enough visual information for human drivers, and that's a problem with the road. (Which, to be sure, occasionally there are roads like this: e.g. merging onto a higher-speed thoroughfare from a lower level, with a very short distance between "where you're in a position to see the merging traffic (and not that much of it)" and "where the roads have fully merged (and there's no shoulder)".)
by eli_gottlieb | 2025-04-30 00:53:45+00:00
I'm saying: I can imagine ways of running a political economy other than capitalism, and I know of other people who have done more work than I have to imagine such things, but there just doesn't seem to be very much interest in an authentically post-capitalist system relative to the vast interest in taking some other political issue entirely (technology, the environment, race, gender, various national or inter-imperial rivalries, etc) and conflating it with capitalism to encourage pouring a lot of effort into it (the thing conflated with capitalism).
by Tainnor | 2025-04-30 00:53:55+00:00
> If finding proper Anki decks for languages wasn't such a massive pain in the ass

https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks

The difficulty, obviously, is in finding out which decks are good and which aren't. But that's a discoverability problem that is hard to avoid since people are just going to have different requirements and preferences. You can try going by the ratings or check language learning subreddits for recommendations, but ultimately it's up to you to try out decks and see if they work for you. If you just use Duolingo instead, you're arguably not using a better deck, just one with better marketing.
by RC_ITR | 2025-04-30 00:54:57+00:00
I have to pay to store my manually-driven car 90% of the day, because there's nothing else it could be doing while it waits for me.

A driverless car can very easily do things and make money while I'm waiting for it.

In some scenarios, people rent out their owned cars during the day to avoid this massive opportunity cost, but I doubt that will be the most efficient model.

In what other asset class ever has it made sense for the capital owners to be an extremely long tail of people, rather than a large corporate owner? Especially something as high velocity and fungible as cars.
by JohnMakin | 2025-04-30 00:54:58+00:00
Honestly, and I’d been reading this over the years - he seemed to have been thriving (in his own way). forgive the yahoo article:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-unabomber-s-not-so-lonely-pri...

guy was extreme end of the loner spectrum, probably into personality disorder range, and didnt mind solitude at all, the lack of freedom was probably what bothered him. he did maintain a ton of correspondence and probably ended up forming more relationships in a supermax than he ever had his entire previous life, by quite a bit.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-04-30 00:55:05+00:00
I have a hard time believing that the differentiating factor between the top models is data volume. Sure, Google has all of the internet mirrored internally, but the vendor models are seeing unfathomably large collections. Clever engineering is doing more to getting better performance. I doubt DeepSeek had better English datasets than OpenAI or Google.
by slibhb | 2025-04-30 00:55:12+00:00
What I posted there was a bit muddled. Economics is attempting to be a science. To the greatest extent possible, it should not be value-based. Politics is value-based, and it has priority over economics when it comes to making decisions. But if your politics is "we need more manufacturing in the US" then you should listen to economists in pursuit of that goal.

Bringing back manufacturing with tariffs is like banning fossil fuels to combat climate change. It's not good policy.
by kirrent | 2025-04-30 00:56:06+00:00
As another example you can consider the apparently successful DOTA2 and Starcraft 2 bots. They'd be interesting if they taught us new ideas about the games in the same way that AlphaGo's God move uncovered something new about Go. But they didn't. They excelled through superior micro and flawless execution of quite simple strategies. Watching pros trying to hold off waves of perfectly microed blink stalkers reminded me of seeing a chess engine in action. A computer grinding down their doomed human opponent using the advantages offered by being a computer rather than superior human-like play.
by hnav | 2025-04-30 00:56:15+00:00
Toyota does not want to sell a lot of EVs, because that could mean investing heavily to scale up the manufacturing of a dead-end technology that ends up losing out. Meanwhile they've been iterating on their hybrid tech and are selling 50 MPG vehicles by the millions. When the dust settles, a lot of EV companies will be out of business and their products will be e-waste with 0 spares anywhere. Toyota on the other hand generally uses the same technology for decades to build very predictable appliance-like vehicles. This is why a 3 year old EVs have 40% residuals while used Toyotas are 60%.
by jsjohnst | 2025-04-30 00:56:42+00:00
> This is the power consumed by the light source for one photo tool on one line.

Actually, it’s not if you read the linked article. Try harder with your indignant reply next time to an entirely factual post. Sheesh!

Further, here’s a >one hundred megawatt generator installation (yes, used, but it’s always call for quote otherwise online) for a small fraction of the price of the EUV machine in case I need to further prove my point.

https://www.uspeglobal.com/listings/1705462-used-100-mw-2004...

There’s also multiple GE LMS100 generators installed in Texas and they each provide ~115MW of power. So not unprecedented for installation in the state either!
by arctek | 2025-04-30 00:57:33+00:00
Perhaps need to semi-randomize the file size? I'm guessing some of the bots have a hard limit to the size of the resource they will download.

Many of these are annoying LLM training/scraping bots (in my case anyway). So while it might not crash them if you spit out a 800KB zipbomb, at least it will waste computing resources on their end.
by Jaskolka | 2025-04-30 00:58:20+00:00
Malta’s “golden passports” were found to violate EU rules, according to the European Court of Justice. The island must end its scheme granting foreigners Maltese citizenship—and thereby the right to live and work anywhere in the EU—in exchange for investing €1m ($1.1m). The court said that it had rendered “the acquisition of nationality a mere commercial transaction”
by billti | 2025-04-30 00:58:41+00:00
I have no 'recently' to compare to, as I'd never been in a Tesla before. I was dubious because of all the "this year for sure" history, but after test driving one, I bought the new Model Y, and it now pretty much drives me to work and back every day with little to no intervention.

Knowing how prone to exaggeration Elon is, my bar was low. But it blew me away honestly. After nearly 30 years working in software and with some background in machine learning and computer vision and generally just trying to make software that works reliably, it's a pretty jaw dropping experience.

Would I take a nap in the back seat and let it drive? No. But does it allow me to sit there focused on a technical podcast or an audiobook so I feel like I'm getting back an hour or two a day instead of worrying about driving? Absolutely.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-04-30 00:58:54+00:00
I would go as far as saying, that almost no one outside the US knows about state specific rules. People watch or read some news, but they are usually not that much into the US inner political theater, that they additionally make an effort to learn what state has what other rules.

I am not even sure how impactful it is, that Washington state does something different. Like ... Are things built or sold there by a large amount? What makes Washington state special? And what are their intentions? And can their lower level rules actually override what is decided at the country level by Trump's gang?

It is bad enough, that people have to deal with hearing about all the crazy stuff the orange clown or his henchmen do on a daily basis. There is a limit to how much people want to deal even more with political stuff from the US, you know?