MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bb1234 | 2025-04-30 16:41:00+00:00
I don't like them either. I find it hard to articulate why I don't like them. I definitely have experienced problems with them where they get into some state where the cell results are incorrect. Then, if I restart the kernel and run the cells again, I get the correct result. But I don't like them for reasons other than this one, and cannot explain why. I prefer the ipython REPL to the notebook.
by shwaj | 2025-04-30 16:41:05+00:00
It’s true that the large majority of aid came in the form of weapons that the military industrial complex wanted to replace anyway. However, there has still been many billions of “cash” sent, totaling over $40 billion. That’s nothing to sneeze at. For example, from two years ago: https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-us-aid-ukraine-money-e...
by rbanffy | 2025-04-30 16:41:07+00:00
> Every American currently has well over $100,000 in government debt

Spoiler: it won't be by gutting research Americans will recover that money.

> science has become a leisure activity for kids of the wealthy

Taxing the wealthy is a much better option.

They ask "what has scientific research ever done for the American?". Well...

"Apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system..."

The military, for instance, are fond of their weapons and all that came out of government funded research. You might say, for instance, Northrop, not the government, built the B-2 bomber, and you'd be somewhat right, but only the US government buys B-2's and, therefore, it is fully funded by the government.

Also, each and every ICBM and nuke on them came out of scientific research. A WHOLE LOT OF IT.

The internet we know and love today started as ARPANET.

Microwaves.

Teflon.

MRI machines (and CAT machines before them).
by bArray | 2025-04-30 16:41:07+00:00
> You’ve misinterpreted your first source — that’s the _youth_ unemployment rate and not the overall rate. The correct comparison is 5.1% to the US’s 4.2%.

You are correct, I cannot edit any more.

In any case it is definitely trending upwards [1], and I'm hearing from people inside China that unemployment is rapidly increasing. A lot of factories are either on pause or shut down until further notice.

That all said, it's unclear how many of those are gainfully employed, or how that would even be measured in China. There are many working in the delivery economy that sleep homeless. I think those working unsustainably is also on the increase.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment_in_China
by amatlas | 2025-04-30 16:41:29+00:00
Just published my latest research on: 'Recursive KL Divergence Optimization (RKDO)' - a new approach that reframes representation learning as a dynamic recursive process rather than a static one. Our experiments show RKDO achieves ~30% lower loss values and requires 60-80% fewer computational resources compared to conventional methods. Check it out if you're interested in more efficient representation learning techniques, especially for resource-constrained applications!
by colechristensen | 2025-04-30 16:41:33+00:00
Every group has these people. Whether it's churchgoers, world leaders, tech CEOs, high schoolers, beer league softball, or even chimpanzees. Social bullshitters who do most things for the image among a small group of peers. It's a good skill to recognize this kind of pattern and how so many kinds of patterns are the same things repeating themselves in a different environment.
by mystified5016 | 2025-04-30 16:41:33+00:00
This is a concept that is seemingly alien to Americans.

The consequences of your actions matter even if you disagree. When your actions hurt people, you've still hurt people. Doesn't matter what you thought you were doing.

You see this kind of thinking through all levels of American life. You, personally, are the only person on the planet who matters, fuck everyone else and let them deal with the consequences. You run a red light and someone else gets T-boned and killed? That's their problem, you got to your destination 3 minutes faster.

The trump administration is simply the manifestation of how sick our country is.

It's going to take us generations to recover from this kind of societal illness, if we ever can.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-04-30 16:42:05+00:00
I don't think so really. It might help lure people over from haskell or rust or whatever but ocaml has its own solutions to the problems solved by ad hoc polymorphism. Usually in the module system, sometimes a ppx.

There's nothing comparable to ocaml's module system that I know of in any other mature language so no one really arrives in ocaml with well developed intuition for what sorts of things are possible and worth doing with it. But once you've put the time in it's usually the correct answer to "how to do I do <haskell type system thing> in ocaml."

I'm not a type systems expert though and it's likely there are some novel & unique situations where it's the best or only solution. Just maybe not as much as people assume from outside. Anyway I think there is a proposal for it so it'll probably work its way in eventually.
by Teever | 2025-04-30 16:42:23+00:00
That isn't the lesson from Russia invading Ukraine.

The lesson from Russia invading Ukraine is that the presence of authoritarians anywhere is a threat to democracies everywhere.

The kind of people who crush freedom aren't content to just do so within their own borders and will eventually do so to others around them.

As such it should be the priority of all democracies to extinguish authoritarians whenever possible.
by thadt | 2025-04-30 16:42:31+00:00
Agreed. The bullet point "Helping editors share local perspectives or context by automating the translation and adaptation of common topics" could be unfortunate if not carefully reviewed - and hopefully it will be.

Having recently spent some time doing translations with the current models, my experience is that their output quality can have a rather high variance. That, along with a tendency toward hallucination, often makes them a "fuzzy guess" at best. When I'm the user asking for that translation, I can factor that fuzziness into my understanding of the output. If its already translated for me, I'm depending on someone else to have done the work of making sure it is faithful to the original.
by dowager_dan99 | 2025-04-30 16:42:38+00:00
>> AI can be extremely useful and there’s a lot of people out there who refuse to give it a proper try.

My take-away was this is exactly what the OP is targeting. Management's job is to convince you to try and help you make it demonstrate value; mandating "though shall be AI-first" does neither of these effectively - ironically some of your best developers will: require the most evidence to be convinced, fight the hardest, and have the best options to jump ship if you go far enough. It's just weak management when there's the obvious alternative. Dash is a developer relations/evangelist so it's not surprising he bristles at this approach.
by gwf | 2025-04-30 16:42:51+00:00
Not trying to "Schmidhuber" this or anything, but I think my 1999 NIPS paper gives a cleaner derivation and explanation for working on the Jacobian. In it, I derive a Jacobian operator that allows you to compute arbitrary products between the Jacobian and any vector, with complexity that is comparable to standard backprop.

[*] G.W. Flake & B.A. Pearlmutter, "Differentiating Functions of the Jacobian with Respect to the Weights," https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/1999/file/b...
by tmountain | 2025-04-30 16:42:57+00:00
The die hard supporters, yes, but his approval is already in decline across a bunch of key demographics (women, independents, hispanics). The only President that has been less popular in the first 100 days is... Trump (first term). The majority disapprove with the current handling of the Ukraine war, ending foreign aid programs, and immigration (his strong point). His approval on the economy has fallen 13 points since December, which should be alarming for his party, as that was a key factor in his re-election (Biden inflation concerns). He can blame Biden all he wants, but the majority of Americans identify current economy as belonging to Trump. It's hard to blame Biden when he's been so vocal and brazen about the tariffs.
by hosh | 2025-04-30 16:43:07+00:00
The company I work for is getting bought out by another company. That acquiring company built their whole business and product on "people-first". They are making a lot of profit in an industry (real estate) that has been contracting. I don't know what their AI plans are, only that they have them, and I would not be surprised if they are building "people-first" AI into their products.

I guess people, not things, creates value.
by -__---____-ZXyw | 2025-04-30 16:43:21+00:00
I heard a variant of this recently. I told a colleague I don't use my phone for long periods, days at a time, that I miss nothing, am a happier person, do stuff with my time that makes me happier, etc, and she broke out in a mild panic, along the lines of:

"What about emergencies?? What about when you need to phone someone about X, or phone someone else because Y happened?"

It's a good argument - the typical phone in 1998 was a useful and practical device. Seriously, being able to ring people has many excellent and real use cases. Phones aren't just calling devices anymore, though.
by alistairSH | 2025-04-30 16:43:21+00:00
The route is a public/known helicopter flight path. There's nothing secret about it.

Here's a map of the helicopter routes in the area. In this case, they were flying on route 4... https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3851p.ct004873/?r=0.67,0.258,0...

Yes, this group transports VIPs and sometimes does so in secret. This training flight was a "simple" check-ride for the pilot (simple in scare quotes because part of the ride was using the NVGs, which strikes me as fairly ridiculous in the DCA air space).
by Raiev | 2025-04-30 16:44:52+00:00
Yes, you’re absolutely right. I’ve faced the same thing — there are no real investors out there, not in the sense of those who take risks and make their living from it. I registered on OpenVC and completed their form — the system gave me 27 out of 100 points. That’s how investors evaluate projects: not by studying the idea, but based on standard template parameters. This is just one example, but others work the same way — “how many people are on the team,” “what’s your education,” and so on.

They don’t care about pre-seed at all — only ready-made projects that already bring in money. I may not be an expert in investing, but honestly, why would I need an investor when everything already works and makes a profit?

What you said about unicorns is also true. I believe my project has huge potential — for now, it’s just my opinion, but I’ve already spent about €1200–1500 on the prototype and around 1000 hours on the mathematical model, presentations, videos, and website. I know some will laugh at that number — I used to think it would take €30,000 through an investor just to build early-stage prototype. I was wrong.

But at some point, I realized: I don’t need an investor. I can handle this myself. AI helped a lot too — it sped up many processes.
by rbanffy | 2025-04-30 16:44:55+00:00
> and western powers decisively stepped in to end Lebanon’s experiment

Western powers always stop countries before they get the ability to make reliable ICBMs. Brazil was making some good progress on their satellite launcher, but I believe there US wasn't too happy the rocket used solid fuels, and solid fuel rockets, as we all know, are excellent for ICBMs because they can be launched as soon as they are pointing up-ish.

So, the lesson is to not make something with obvious military applications, because only big kids can have these toys, and your factories tend to explode (as if rockets themselves weren't already dangerous by themselves) if you continue.
by mystified5016 | 2025-04-30 16:45:12+00:00
I love how YouTube makes it impossible to resize your browser window to cover the title and description and all the flying animated like and view numbers. If you try to resize vertically, it pillarboxes the video to make the title box fit.

I have a vertical monitor and all I want is to put the video on one half of the screen without all this crap constantly cloying for my attention.
by hnaccount141 | 2025-04-30 16:45:19+00:00
> In other words, the relationship with hundreds of countries has been very one-sided for a long time. US industry needs to export to thrive, but if countries like Turkey impose 140% tariffs on our autos and trucks, markets are de-facto shut down.

These comparisons (and conclusions of one-sidedness) always leave the greatest benefit the US has enjoyed: access to a massive labor force willing to do work most Americans aren't[1] at wages lower than are Legal in the US.

[1] https://www.cato.org/blog/americans-think-manufacturing-empl...
by photochemsyn | 2025-04-30 16:45:37+00:00
Suggestion: use LLMs coupled to playwright/puppeteer etc. to detect broken links to supporting references, and also use LLMs to analyze whether the supporting reference really does back up the claim being made in the Wikipedia article.

This raises the thorny issue of what constitutes an 'authoritative reference' and given that many if not most such references are hidden behind various paywalls, and that the editors and volunteers are anonymoous actors with unknown special interests and biases, the conclusion is that Wikipedia is not a reliable source of information, and a wikipedia citation is essentially useless and should never be allowed in any reputable publication.
by homefree | 2025-04-30 16:45:39+00:00
The annoying bit is similar to reels, shorts are good for engagement.

It’s similar to why I don’t buy Oreos. I like Oreos, everyone likes Oreos - they’re engineered to be liked, but they’re bad for you. The best way to not eat them is to not have them in the house.

Short form videos are the heroin of media consumption - meta having to pivot instagram to it is because they’re facing competitive pressure. Same with YouTube. You can’t only have vegetables when your competitors are dealing heroin and your revenue is engagement based.

It seems the revealed preference of addicting consumption for engagement is tv with with a novelty button. TikTok and short form videos are that distilled to its purest form.

These companies can’t turn them off - they’re trapped by market incentives, it’s moloch. A few years back when Facebook had a more dominant market position Zuck said they were intentionally going to focus on human connections and friends despite the revenue cost that would cause because it was the ideal he wanted. In battle against TikTok you can’t hold those kinds of ideals unfortunately.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-04-30 16:46:17+00:00
Recent years don't make a "long history".

The earlier you course-correct, or OTOH deviate, the more outsized the effect on your destination.

Remember when GNP was fired and replaced with GDP? And how it got that way?

That should be easy to pinpoint.

If not, you pretty much had to be there, and it would take some math back then that wouldn't do you any good at this point now.
by ty6853 | 2025-04-30 16:46:18+00:00
Argentina's people seem to have dealt with this through mass tax fraud, hiding money in crypto/cash/real assets, insubordination to law, and electing a self proclaimed anarcho-capitalist. Somehow they've managed to thrive in a lot of ways, and not only that they can deal with an arbitrarily incompetent government through self-resilience.

Americans will learn too.
by aaroninsf | 2025-04-30 16:46:44+00:00
If this were Reddit, it'd qualify for r/noshitsherlock

Those holding power today are a generation that never ceded power in the fashion that previous generations did, which directly contributes to the contemporary shitshow of abominable wealth inequity married to the ossified world view, lack of sophistication and comprehension of either contemporary problems nor their solutions, and lack of timeline, characteristic of their ages.

While there is no shortage of shrill grifters and abused now abusive collaborators, we are ruled by a bunch of selfish morons and sociopaths in their 70s, many of who are showing active cognitive decline.

Why would anyone be happy? This is literally the worst historical moment I have lived and I'm not young myself, and I lived through the Cold War and 9/11.

The destruction being wrought in and by the US today is literally incalcuable, a total dismantling of generations of work and careers spent dedicating genius and sweat toward a vision now being shit on openly by those who apparently literally believe they can change reality simply by force-feeding idiocy through entirely owned or coopted media channels on an impoverished fearful populace 24/7.

The sooner we see a general strike the better.

Which hopefully will result from the entirely predictable absolute economic devastation as tariffs bite.

It's January 2020—how are you preparing?

Tick tock.
by Havoc | 2025-04-30 16:46:46+00:00
Yes, for all their A/B testing they could really do with a bit more common sense.

Like why do thumbnails have an invisible overlay that appears on hover over, hijacks the click and takes you to a support page about paid product placement?

I'm clicking on the thumbnail to watch the video not for a jarring detour off the youtube page to a boring help article. Honestly WTF. Maybe the UI designers don't use youtube themselves?

This freakin page:

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10588440?nohelpkit...
by dgfitz | 2025-04-30 16:46:56+00:00
So how do we fix that?

I get Covid was a mess in real time and it was used as a political pawn, which really sucks. Trillions of dollars went into the US economy, and most of the country feels broke.

I don’t care how the market did, fuck the market, it’s a bubble that’s been waiting to pop for years.
Show HN: I made a tool to download all of Wikipedia on a weekly basis
by ternera | 2025-04-30 16:46:59+00:00
Hi everyone. This tool exists as a way to quickly and easily download all of Wikipedia (as a .bz2 archive) from the Wikimedia data dumps, but it also prompts users to automate the process by downloading an updated version and replacing the old download every week. I plan to throw this on a Linux server and thought it may come in useful for others!

Inspiration came from the following comment on Reddit, which asked about automating the process:

https://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/whxmhc/comme...
by mindcrash | 2025-04-30 16:47:20+00:00
April 27 2025: Port of Seattle - EMPTY

April 30 2025: Port of Rotterdam - Congesting shipment containers originally inbound towards the United States but halted (by Chinese exporters?). Also risking storage and transhipment of containers inbound to Rotterdam. (Heard on local news a few minutes ago)

If Trump keeps this up, within ~12 weeks he is not going to destroy the economy of the United States but the entire West...
by jmb99 | 2025-04-30 16:47:33+00:00
Genuine question. I’m assuming that, since YouTube is owned by one of the largest tech companies in the world that they’ve optimized their delivered JS to only what is necessary to run the page.

What on the YouTube home page could possibly require 12MB of JS alone? Assuming 60 characters per line, that’s 200k lines of code? Obviously ballpark and LoC != complexity, but that seems absurd to me.
by ceejayoz | 2025-04-30 16:47:35+00:00
The route itself, sure.

When this specific helicopter/mission joins the route, how fast it goes, what callsign it uses, when it leaves the route, etc. may not be so public. Or at least be treated as "try not to make it unnecessarily public".

Overclassification is absolutely a thing, too. I recall when the Snowden NSA leaks came out, government employees were still forbidden from reading the documents, even if they were published in the newspapers. Pointless? Yes. But those were the rules.
by isaacremuant | 2025-04-30 16:47:50+00:00
I don't know what kind of hours and dedication that private tutoring is but you could do online classes with good tutors for way less than that.

You can't chase me with the "it's only reserved for people with money". There's ways to invest well and less than those numbers. Those numbers may not be bad either if you compare it with how much people invest in other types of education in the US, which I presume is what you're talking about.
by sitkack | 2025-04-30 16:47:55+00:00
> Sunflower sea stars — vividly colored creatures with up to 24 arms, and which can weigh as much as a small dog — once thrived along the Pacific Coast between Alaska and Baja California. Then, in 2013, a mysterious disease linked to a marine heat wave began to ravage the population. An estimated 5.75 billion sunflower sea stars perished, amounting to 94% of the global population. California lost about 99% of its Pycnopodia helianthoides to the wasting disease. Sunflower stars landed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s critically endangered list in 2020.

I had no idea.
by dowager_dan99 | 2025-04-30 16:48:02+00:00
>> But with the current crop of LLMs, people who don't know how to program, but recognize that a program could do this task, finally can now summon that program to do the task. The path still has a tech-ability moat, but I can only imagine the AI titans racing to get programming ability into Supply Chain Technician Kim's hands. Think Steve Jobs designing an IDE for your mother to use

Brooks has yet to be proven wrong; even if this appears to be the silver bullet it could be just as likely that this widens the tech moat when non-programmers paint themselves into corners where they can't do their jobs without all the brittle, impossible to maintain code they've written. Think of the skilled trades vacuum we have in much of the Western world. Can Supply Chain Technician Kim Jr do her job without AI if she's never seen that before?
by mattmaroon | 2025-04-30 16:48:08+00:00
Other ecosystems are smaller (probably nothing has more consumers than the two major app stores) but often much higher intent. The same person who you have to coax into paying $1 for an iOS app won’t bat an eye at a productivity tool that costs $20/mo.

So while the platform has less reach the lower competition and higher RPUs make them great. If I were still making games I’d be looking at Steam before iOS, for instance.
by remich | 2025-04-30 16:48:17+00:00
Re your third paragraph - can they though? I'm not trying to be combative, it's just that what you wrote has been the promise of all no-code/low-code technologies for literal decades.

The exclamation "finally, all of the back-office people can write their own software!" is just the other side of the "finally, we can get rid of all the software engineers!" coin.

But, so far, every single other time this has been tried it runs into the ease-of-use / customizability problem. The easier a tool is to use/learn, the harder it is (or impossible) to use for specific use-cases. And, vice versa, the more flexible / customizable a tool is, the harder it is to use/learn (looking at you Jira).

Maybe this time is actually different, but I'll believe it when I see it.
by bluGill | 2025-04-30 16:48:17+00:00
> Why would the US and EU losing manufacturing be bad?

Because if they can't make thing you can win a war - just stop all their trade and then invade. When they are limited to stick and stone while you have guns war is easy to win.

Of course in reality the US and EU are not in danger of losing all manufacturing, and their military leaders are will aware of this and so put extra effort into keeping some important manufacturing in the country. Politicians are generally (but not always!) aware of this and try to be friends with others who can make things you don't make locally.