MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by frizlab | 2025-04-25 06:05:25+00:00
Personally I initially come from the « Apple world » but now I use Swift on the server and it’s a joy. By far my favorite language ever. I even wrote a tool to be able to run Swift scripts that have non-system dependencies![1]

[1] https://github.com/xcode-actions/swift-sh

PS: Yes, it’s a fork, but at the point I’m at there is nothing left from the original implementation. Even the way the program works is different.
by bjelkeman-again | 2025-04-25 06:05:35+00:00
It would be interesting to see data on this. How many people subscribe to multiple streaming services, vs the opportunity to license the content to an aggregator and sell to those that miss a lot of content because, like me they don’t want multiple services. I refuse to subscribe to all the services that have the content I want to watch: Netflix, Apple, Prime, HBO Max, Discovery… the high seas become an inconvenient option at this point.
by slfpn | 2025-04-25 06:06:36+00:00
That's indeed the second worst issue with current model architectures. For a model to be trained to something nearing usability for an actual task it needs an amount of data that is far beyond what can be obtained. Companies like Facebook and OpenAI downloaded pirated copies of every single book humans have written to reach the current level of text generation, and even with that, it's not like those models are perfect or that intelligent.

It is going to severely limit the possibilities of building actual agentic AIs. We do not have an endless amount of data of humans performing menial chores. And normal people will probably more hostile than the kool aid drinking software developers when it comes to being spied on, who's going to agree to wear a camera while working so as to help train their own replacement? Yet it's kinda what devs are doing gleefully adopting software filled with telemetry and interacting with copilot.
by sillyfluke | 2025-04-25 06:06:43+00:00
Hilariously, this is kind of how I felt reading the comments here. I thought every commet would start of by saying this is such a pathetic superficial ploy for the trial in question that it's idiotic to respond to it in earnest outside of a courtroom. But then obviously the comment would go on to explain why that's the case.

Whatever sort of business Facebook, Insta, TikTok and Twitter are called now, it's pretty clear they co-evolved into it near identically by watching the others' product. If fb isn't social media, then neither are the rest. If fb is a purple cow then so are the others. The point is they were called "social media" at the time FB purchased Insta.

If Zuck is going to show a graph illustrating how force fed cows in a cage were unable to walk by themselves as time progressed, then someone should put up a graph tracking the number of Whatsapp groups that were created as time went by. If that number was going up, what is left to talk about for fuck's sake.
by watwut | 2025-04-25 06:07:58+00:00
Nah, nonsense. It was republicans who made trans issues big - because it rally their base. Same with abortions - republicans made them big topic and successfully removed them.

Centrist democrat strategybis what democratic party does, again and again and it just empowers hard rigt to move more right.

Stop constantly blame "the other side" for what republicans consistently do. Democrats did led the economy much better, they cause less debt. Republicans do the above worst and then they blame democrats.

Conservatives dislike it when things improve, again and again. They are in fact hateful and take pleasure at causing harm. The social issues is what motivates republican base.
by jsphweid | 2025-04-25 06:08:31+00:00
I'm getting a little tired of hearing this quote at this point.

What about humoring the opposite?

I want AI to automate art so I can spend more time doing dishes and doing laundry. Dishes and laundry are purely analog human experiences. Art, at this point, is essentially digital, and digital is the domain of machines so we can let machines do that now.
by saxonww | 2025-04-25 06:08:36+00:00
I think the answer to your question is that most people impacted to the severe degree you're imagining don't live till 70.

I don't know what the condition was, but I had an aunt who was affected by 'something' and was disabled in many of the same ways you imagine; she was nonverbal and needed full time care from a young age. She lived to 43, and towards the end they had to put in a feeding tube for her.

I have a couple of questions for you:

1. Have you ever personally seen a 'severe case' of autism where someone needs full time care for their entire life? Where are you getting your information about the degree and prevalence of this?

2. Putting "cases are clearly on the rise" alongside "where are the 70 year old severely autistic people" implies that you (via RFK Jr.) think that the number of severe cases is on the rise, not just that more people are being diagnosed with some level of autism. Do you know severe cases are on the rise, or are you (or RFK Jr.) just making some assumptions?

The reason I ask #2 is that the 'severe autism' we're imagining in this narrative would be, as you point out, obvious. But what if our understanding of symptoms has gotten better, and we're diagnosing more not-obvious cases, i.e. not severe cases.

Please keep in mind that the first person officially diagnosed with autism only died a couple of years ago. Donald Triplett. He lived to be 89, by the way.
by Wololooo | 2025-04-25 06:08:48+00:00
Noether was one of a kind communicator and scientist and she should be more widely known because she is a role model for everyone.

Einstein was just not a random person doing something, it was an academically trained person, still in contact with people from academia, with extreme talent and found himself in a situation with a lot more free time and in an environment that was promoting his thinking. Mind you it does not take anything away from the achievements because the overall work was astounding, but it is disingenuous to present him as "a random outside of academia".

Noether was just not correctly widely recognized outside of the field, as much as she should have been at the time, because, let's face it, she was a woman. Her achievements are on par with Einstein's in term of scope and range. Noether's theorem alone is a huge cornerstone of modern physics and guiding the design of Quantum Field Theory and pinning symmetries as the way to tackle the building of physical Lagrangians that lead to the expression of the current standard model.

Her work on algebra is so massive, it is hard to wrap your head around it, the contributions especially to rings and topology are to be mentioned. She has shaped so many parts of mathematics that it boggles the mind and her achievements are well within the once in a several centuries type of scope.

I will not try to compare people because it is pointless because circumstances and "importance of achievements" is a difficult to measure metric, especially for people working outside of the fields where those achievements have been made, but subtly painting Noether as not widely known because she has not achieved "once in many centuries type level of achievement" or that she was not great at communicating, is blatantly false, because she has, in fact, several times over done both of those things.

She was known to be gentle and gracious and always there to offer help and or advice or explanations, sharing her knowledge, and wisdom. She is one of those model scientist that any scientist, regardless of gender or ethnicity, should look up to as a role model, and she embodies what most of us think that science could and should be.
by motorest | 2025-04-25 06:09:36+00:00
> There's the old paradox about self-help gurus and how they're rarely successful because they take their own advice, but because they get paid to share their advice...

That's not a paradox. It's plain old fraud, or to put it mildly it's marketing and self-promoting. The self-help gurus that get paid are those who convinced people who see help to pay them instead of the next guy. What gets the foot in the door is not substance, but the illusion and promise of substance.
by awoimbee | 2025-04-25 06:13:28+00:00
It looks like what the grafana stack does but it's linking specialized tools instead of building one big tool (eg linking traces [0]).

The only thing then is that there is no link between logs and metrics, but I guess since they created alloy [1] they could make it so logs and metrics labels match, so we could select/see both at once ?

Oh ok here's a blog post from 2020 saying exactly this: https://grafana.com/blog/2020/03/31/how-to-successfully-corr...

[0]: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/datasources/tempo/tr... [1]: https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/
by pjmlp | 2025-04-25 06:14:15+00:00
It is a great language for developers on Apple ecosystem, for portable code not so much.

It stands with .NET on Windows, or Kotlin on Android, however outside Apple is at tooling level of .NET Core early days, think .NET Core 2.0.

Mostly usable for Apple shops that need to deploy into Linux servers for their app backends, and share code.
by Jtsummers | 2025-04-25 06:14:22+00:00
This truck only offers 150 miles in the base model. That's the problem. If you consider the round trip distance, unless you have a chance to charge it at your destination or reliably on your route it gives you about a 60-70 mile practical range from home. And that's if you do a there-and-back with no detours.

GP is pointing out that anything less than 300 is not practical, and they're not wrong. 150 miles, in particular, is just too low to be used for anything other than a basic commuter vehicle. It's useless on highways (try driving I-70 through KS in this thing) and if you change job sites more than once, you're likely to run out of range in one work day. Traveling between cities is going to be unreliable if you're not able to stop and charge at your destination. Live in Colorado Springs and want to go to Denver? You probably have to stop and charge before coming home.
by spauldo | 2025-04-25 06:14:56+00:00
Corn isn't particularly great for producing ethanol. I'm guessing that a synthetic process won't be able to get close to 100x less land usage, but any improvement would be welcome.

The problem I see is that there's not enough money in in to develop a new process. Cellulosic ethanol outperforms corn on nearly every measure, but there's not enough money in it to pay for the development needed to scale it up to industrial levels.
by bufferoverflow | 2025-04-25 06:15:04+00:00
> No one wants to hear other people's ai songs because they lack meaning and novelty.

That's not true. I already found a few tracks that I like. It's actually impressive what Udio can produce. Also ElevenLabs demoed their music generator, and their demo tracks were all quite cool.

I do agree with you that fine controls are missing, and also splitting instruments/voices into separate tracks.
by valyala | 2025-04-25 06:15:29+00:00
There is no need in loading data block, which has no rows with column values, which might be included into the final set of rows. If every column in every granule has a header containing the minimum and the maximum value seen in the granule, then ClickHouse can read and check only the column header per every granule, without the need to read the column data.
by th0ma5 | 2025-04-25 06:17:20+00:00
There's simply no way to verify everything that comes out of these things. Otherwise why use it? You also can't possibly truly know if you know more about a topic since by definition the models know more than you. This is automation bias. Do you not know the problems with even verifying or watching machines? This is a core part of the discussion of self driving vehicles. I guess I assumed you knew stuff about the field of AI!
by yetihehe | 2025-04-25 06:17:45+00:00
I read this. There is nothing that could indicate that those cellular automata match any physics, besides author saying so. There is only some diagrams and a lot of statements like:

> "d" represents the big bang singularity, which creates alot of (but not all?) matter. So this variation has inflation as a pocketed expansion of matterfilled space. (& "b" & "b1234" make alot more sense in this context.)"

There is nothing that would explain how "d" represents the bing bang, matter or dimensions. I think this is rambling of someone who read too much Wolfram works. It looks very impressive, like TempleOS.
by ForOldHack | 2025-04-25 06:19:49+00:00
But what happens when you anger the wizards? Some guy gets 4 two liter bottles of Mt Dew, and in a weekend comes up with a better plugin, and open sources it. Look it up on Monday. I just went from VSCode 1.52 to 1.99, and it's not pretty, but... Can someone convince copilot to rat out it's owners and write out a extension that runs cLisp? And all the emacs code runs in VSCode? ( I am saying this so facietously... ).
by carlmr | 2025-04-25 06:22:20+00:00
That is actually slightly different. I guess I misremembered this. Probably a good question is also how quantifiable other bugs than security vulnerabilities are. Security vulnerabilities are probably the only measurable bugs in that sense, since they are analyzed for root cause and listed consistently. While other bugs can often be explained away and are harder to get numbers for.

In any case the question was about CVEs in coreutils so it's still somewhat relevant.
by lordnacho | 2025-04-25 06:22:39+00:00
In fact, part of the reason for the current cacophony is that everyone has discovered this fact. Better to invest your time being seen than being good.

It's a kind of tragedy of the commons. Instead of our attention being taken up by creatives who are mostly competent, it is taken up by everyone who wants to short circuit the system. (This would be even more interesting if I could find that article that suggests our taste in music is actually created by exposure.)

There used to be editors of various sorts, whether it be in writing, art, or music, who would be the arbiters of taste. You could indeed take issue with who they decided to elevate, but they definitely provided a useful function.
by ahartmetz | 2025-04-25 06:23:07+00:00
> The 78-year-old, who has seen his approval rating sink in recent opinion polls, has not ruled out serving a third term – though most spectators consider that highly unlikely.

Unlikely? Maybe in wishful thinking mode. No, it is very likely that he will try, and he has said so several times. Just listen to the guy's own words!
by iagooar | 2025-04-25 06:24:04+00:00
I have probably never felt more insecure (and disgusted at the same time) in a Western country, the way I felt on the streets of LA. Not all of them, of course, some are obviously well guarded - which in turn makes me think the government and city council is not doing a great job really.

Is the situation as bad in San Francisco?
by claiir | 2025-04-25 06:24:21+00:00
Likely not the case, given (1) the body was peri-mortem decapitated (by a human) and (2) apparent structural damage was limited to a single bite mark (on the ilium), with no signs of "taphonomic" damage (indicating limited soft tissue trauma)? [1]

(1) > 6DT19 had been decapitated with a single cut between the second and third cervical vertebrae , delivered from behind.

(2) > Additional [to the decapitation] peri-mortem trauma was present in the form of a series of small depressions on both sides of the pelvis [..]

> Taphonomic damage alone is also unlikely due to the appearance and margins of the lesions, which are the same colour as the surrounding bone (this differs if the break is post-mortem; [56]), and the adherence of bony fragments at the injury site (which occurs when soft tissue is present) .

[1]: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
by killme2008 | 2025-04-25 06:24:27+00:00
Yes, that's the LGTM(Loki, Grafana, Tempo, and Mimir) stack.

First, the main issue with this stack is maintenance: managing multiple storage clusters increases complexity and resource consumption. Consolidating resources can improve utilization.

Second, differences in APIs (such as query languages) and data models across these systems increase adoption costs for monitoring applications. While Grafana manages these differences, custom applications do not.
by th0ma5 | 2025-04-25 06:24:31+00:00
Not actual knowledge but adages ! Lol "here is my magic potion that I can't tell you how it differs from the other magic potion!" That is not fixing anything. That's trying to string people along and insert yourself otherwise you'd be able to point so some kind of empirical documented experience as to why one vendor is better than the other or why older models have the problem but newer ones don't, and more importantly assurances that future models or even future unannounced changes to the models you mention will even work the same as they do today. What knowledge are you actually imparting other than "I think this is a road you could try." Thanks.
by fragmede | 2025-04-25 06:24:43+00:00
The UMI gripper project is working on this. they have a handheld gripper device full of sensors that they use to record doing things in the field, like picking Starbucks, which they then use as training data.

https://umi-gripper.github.io/

The other thing to note is part of the aloha project isn't just to record people folding laundry and loading the dishwasher, but to take that data and plug it into a simulator with a physics engine, and use a digital twin to get 10x the amount of data to be used in training the model than if they'd just used real world data. So yes we need that data, but not as much as we would otherwise.

https://mobile-aloha.github.io/ https://github.com/tonyzhaozh/aloha
by cess11 | 2025-04-25 06:25:40+00:00
Last year The Array Cast republished an interview with Iverson from 1982.

https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode92-iverson

It's quite interesting, and arguably more approachable than the Turing lecture.

In 1979 APL wasn't as weird and fringe as it is today, because programming languages weren't global mass phenomena in the way that they are today, pretty much all of them were weird and fringe. C was rather fresh at the time, and if one squints a bit APL can kind of look like an abstraction that isn't very far from dense C and allows you to program a computer without having to implement pointer juggling over arrays yourself.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-04-25 06:25:54+00:00
The title almost implies that CA had some unnatural acceleration to put it past japan. I think it's more that japan has been declining.

This won't last once the US population starts declining. We've been held afloat by immigration but even that's running out.

Japan was ahead of the curve in terms of modernity. Looking at them is almost like looking at our own future.
by neilv | 2025-04-25 06:25:57+00:00
It's kinda charming when some old-school address or phone number, that perhaps few have used in a long time, still works.

Circa 2010, I bought a vintage Concept2 Model B rowing machine, made in the 1980s, and wanted to fix it up. The paper order form I found for parts was similar to those tiny order forms at the bottom of an ad in an old comic book, where you'd handwrite your return address, and it told you the address to mail it to, with your payment.

Somehow, not only did this address still reach them, but they were set up to fulfill parts orders this way, they actually had the parts for this decades-old model, and sent me the parts (for a pittance), and they tossed in a free service manual.

I already loved the product (from using it at gyms), and now I loved the company.

I wonder what percentage of 25 year-old URLs still work.
by AngryData | 2025-04-25 06:26:15+00:00
That would be silly, California is what it is today because it is part of the United States. The ports by themselves bring in a lot of money and being another country introduces two new borders that the United States would want to avoid and go around. It also has a lot of money in the financial sector, which would gain significant extra barriers and costs with the rest of US businesses if it wasn't part of the US. Plus the only places where you get majority support for that sort of thing in more dense urban areas and losing large chunks of the state's landmass would definitely hurt the California economy.
by TrianguloY | 2025-04-25 06:26:37+00:00
On my city there are a couple tram stops that were moved a decade or so ago. Google maps still show them at the old locations. All the comments say this, all the photos show this, even street view show it! But any time I send a change request it is rejected.

I've always wondered who reviews the requests, if you are a local, or even spend 2 minutes checking, you'll notice the mistake...
by abcd_f | 2025-04-25 06:27:25+00:00
A bit of bizarre time to release this at, isn't it?

This needs reasonably predictable markets and the economy to work ... both of which are currently lacking. The market yield and the inflation rate are now just two big blurs and the average answer will be "your FIRE is achievable within 7 to 177 years depending on random things that may or may not happen next".
by ein0p | 2025-04-25 06:27:42+00:00
It's kinda like Suno, except Suno sounds pretty good sometimes. Even so, I played with Suno for a few days and lost interest. There are some amazing examples on Suno, though: https://suno.com/song/9a7fd58e-132c-4ac5-9a25-f40d7f6f8c9f. This is one of the early tunes, it probably can do better now.
by BrunoBernardino | 2025-04-25 06:27:57+00:00
The Chrome and Firefox extensions for Safelyx are now public! If you'd like to simply right-click to verify if a link is safe (including anti-virus if it's a file) or if an email is legit, check it out!

The code is OSS at https://github.com/safelyx/browser-extension and you get 5 checks for free per month, per IP address.

Thank you for your attention!
by piotmni | 2025-04-25 06:28:23+00:00
yep for now it is focused on telegram:

- simple todo/link collection bot with telegram custom keyboard

- markdown from pdf message

- bot that returns top 5 posts on hn

- simple settlement bot

- friend manage to build a bot that after getting a url to recipe generated image about it

- "cookie clicker" app

- basic shop app
by LambdaAndLatte | 2025-04-25 06:28:24+00:00
Thanks for the feedback - we can pick a more representative plan for the front page / videos.

To add some more color: - Yes - unsurprisingly - we have found our initial users have strong representation from San Fran/FANG engineers and NY with high incomes. However, they are under half. We have users from almost every state and more 'normal' incomes. We were thinking of creating a blog with some aggregate data if it is of interest?

- What we also find is that the majority of the steps (what we call the 'waterfall') are consistent for most people. There are some differences (when 401k and IRA absorb most of peoples savings income).

- On housing specifically, this is a very common question. For people pursuing financial independence their primary residence does not count towards income generating assets (slightly different story if they plan to downsize). For people with very low mortgage rates then the most optimal planning is not to pay the mortgage off but to accumulate enough to offset it.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-04-25 06:28:32+00:00
Disparate impact rules (and similar rules that encourage quotas) aren't solving a real problem today.

Employers aren't choosing inferior employees because they don't like certain ethnicities or sexes. They want to make money and get the best employees they can.

You claim that without disparate impact there are groups who would be discriminated against.

I don't believe it, so I asked for an example.