MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mikepurvis | 2025-04-03 20:18:41+00:00
Ehhh I see where you're coming from but I don't think it's quite the same. Here on Earth is the default, and while each individual's opportunities are greatly affected by the circumstances of their birth and parentage, with effort and luck there's a fair chance to change one's stars.

Opting into an interstellar voyage is a significant reduction in opportunity for almost anyone.

And yes, the same could be said for a European colonist crossing the Atlantic to the Americas in the 16th century, and many of them did face starvation, exposure, etc, but it's different when you're largely committing yourself and your immediate family to those hardships, under the belief that the timeframe for "a better life" is the next generation. Committing intermediate generations is a different beast.
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by papa_bear | 2025-04-03 20:18:53+00:00
This is neat. I've spent a lot of time thinking about implementing something similar for my company Eat This Much, but end up pushing it off in favor of focusing on our core meal planning features.

When something doesn't have a reference listed, and just says "sourced from a publicly available first-party datasource", what does that mean? Crawled from other sources and you'd prefer not to say? The wording does feel a little sketchy when contrasted with entries that do list sources.

When something does list references that don't seem super close to the actual food, what is the process like there for interpreting those values? Example, this Chicken Salad inheriting from Chicken Spread: https://www.opennutrition.app/search/chicken-salad-37mAX17YX...

The quality of the data might feel rough now, but I can see this being valuable for our users even if it's just an opt-in "show estimated micronutrients" or something. Would require labeling values as not being directly from a source of truth.

One thing that a lot of people are missing is that there is already a lot of inaccurate nutrition data out there. Even on information directly from the manufacturer, sometimes there are errors, or just old versions of the product that never get scrubbed from the internet (I imagine the latter case would be tricky for an LLM to deal with too). Just logging your dietary intake in any form will get you 80% of the benefit of tracking via some self awareness of your intake. Of course, it's an easy argument to point out that if you had the choice between verified data and fuzzy LLM data, you should go for the human verified data (for now).
by arandomusername | 2025-04-03 20:19:21+00:00
So you are okay with exploiting people for labour, often in inhumane conditions just so you can buy some unnecessary junk for cheaper?

> US economy right now is heavily biased towards providing services and high-tech goods because that is the most valuable use of its citizens according to market dynamics

So basically geared for upper class / banking industry? US has some of the highest wealth inequality of the developed world.

But by far the most important aspect is military. Manufacturing capability is extremely important for military. US may be the most advanced, but a $10m rocket will not beat 10,000 $1000 drones.

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/05/business/worldbusiness/05... https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/business/ieconomy-apples-... https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/dhs-crac...
by recursive | 2025-04-03 20:19:24+00:00
Provide a way to get a lower-cost credential without using the tuition to subsidize research/athletics/arts/social programs.

But that might be counter to their whole nature. Doesn't mean anyone's being irrational though. They're now de-facto gatekeepers on entering the professional class. I don't think it's unreasonable for the gate-kept to have opinions about the -keepers.
by burnished | 2025-04-03 20:19:24+00:00
Oooh those guardrails make me angry. I get why they are there (dont poke the bear) but it doesn't make me overlook the self serving hypocrisy involved.

Though I am also generally opposed to the notion of intellectual property whatsoever on the basis that it doesn't seem to serve its intended purpose and what good could be salvaged from its various systems can already be well represented with other existing legal concepts, i.e deceptive behaviors being prosecuted as forms of fraud.
by daanlo | 2025-04-03 20:19:34+00:00
Imho opinion, what you are describing are republicans of the past. As parent says, there used to be shared values. Two of the shared valued were peaceful transition of power and respect for the rule of law / division of power between executive, legislative and judiciary.

Imho the values of MAGA republicans are clearly distinct from GWB republicans (even if it may be precisely the same voters). Specifically the two values described above are no longer shared values.

I believe there are more, but for the two values above we have irrevocable proof.
by kelnos | 2025-04-03 20:19:47+00:00
It's not an indicator of intelligence, but mail providers (including Google) could offer this if they want to, with a simple "Choose a personalized email address, like john@smith.com, for $9.99 per year" radio button on signup. They don't do this because:

1. Most people will choose the free option, so it wouldn't be much of a useful revenue stream.

2. People having @gmail.com email addresses is a little bit of zero-cost marketing for them.
by jollyllama | 2025-04-03 20:19:51+00:00
Yes, in as much as it can be true for anything, because they make their money from poor people spending.

Edit: as a follow up, you can basically think of this as the "Monkeys Reject Unequal Pay" experiment as implemented by those who are averse to socialism. If you're already poor, tanking the economy hurts you less than it hurts those who are benefitting.
by solatic | 2025-04-03 20:20:00+00:00
> The obvious solution is... for the government to lower the cost of high-quality education

Not everyone is smart enough to land in the professional class. The US does its young population an enormous disservice by pushing low academic performers to go to college. There needs to be, somehow, a way for people to make a living with their hands, because for some people, that is genuinely all they are capable of.

> ... build out social systems...

The way you build out the social system is by enabling people in the working class to find genuine work that produces value, not some ditch-digging make-work government program. You don't take those jobs away by offshoring them.

I'm not saying I'm against offshoring in general or that I support Trump's tariffs - I don't. But it's not exactly controversial to point out that, since the end of the Cold War, the US prioritized the recommendations of economists over social cohesion and socially harmonious policy. A lot of people were thrown out of work and were left to fend for themselves. Many of them ended up as victims of the opioid epidemic. I'm not convinced that the prior system was completely peaches as cream.
by don-code | 2025-04-03 20:20:11+00:00
Yes! This is actually where I learned about the patched "_0024" images for IDE drives.

Unfortunately, at boot, the drive is recognized but can't be mounted. I suspect it has something to do with the LBA card (Promise EIDEMax) I have in the machine I was trying to install it in, since the machine only supports C/H/S drives out of the box.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-04-03 20:20:25+00:00
>The issue is many are not trespassers.

No, because trespass refers to a smaller scale and a personal property sort of circumstance. But if we can extend that to the national level, just because they were invited (or in many cases overlooked and ignored) doesn't mean the property owner can't change his mind and uninvite them, or to decide that enough leeway has already been given and that they must be evicted.

>Instead of ending it in a reasonable fashion and showing them out sensibly

They were shown out sensibly. There's no need to give them extra time so they can go making public appeals and trying to weasel their way into staying. In fact, if they can do that long enough, a judge might just decide they're a tenant and allow them to stay indefinitely. No thanks.

>I never elected Rubio to decide on such things,

But you were fine with Democrats when they were elected? Isn't that just you being upset that public opinion swung a different direction and now the majority doesn't agree with your views?
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by notepad0x90 | 2025-04-03 20:21:14+00:00
This take is too far removed from reality. There isn't even a good minimum wage for people who want to and can actually work. employment laws are too much against workers and for employers. there are endless social issues that require funding, why would UBI be a good idea given all that?

Yeah, treat humans as humans. the disabled, the elderly, the mentally ill, those who can't care for themselves, they should get help first right? Some situations are not zero-sum, this however is a zero-sum situation where UBI is funded by tax payers who would rather see their money spent elsewhere.

Either it is a general solution that addresses many social issues or it is a welfare program. If it is welfare then it needs to reflect society's appetite on who should get assistance. I do think even when the scope is narrow, it is better than what we have today where you really have to fight tooth and nail and surrender your privacy and dignity to get things like food stamps. But wealth distribution itself needs a huge shake up as well as a dramatic increase in taxation before UBI can be practical at a national level.
by fidotron | 2025-04-03 20:21:36+00:00
It totally is: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Notificatio...

"The idea of notification tags is that more than one notification can share the same tag, linking them together. One notification can then be programmatically replaced with another to avoid the users' screen being filled up with a huge number of similar notifications."

Apple are the only ones not supporting this, and much of the time with web stuff they have a point, but this one just seems obtuse.
by lpzimm | 2025-04-03 20:21:52+00:00
Oh sorry, these are two separate chats, I wasn't clear. I would agree that if I had asked them in the same chat it would sound pretty normal.

When I ask about best practices it does still give me the volatile keyword. (I don't even think that's wrong, when I threw it in Godbolt with -O3 or -Os I couldn't find a compiler that optimized it away.)
by rstarast | 2025-04-03 20:21:57+00:00
With the huge differences in per-country tariff, there seems to be a large incentive to reroute and relabel imports. E.g., build a bike frame in China, export it to a sister company in Japan, and export it to the US from there, claiming production in Japan. How effective are existing controls against that? (And what are they even, I'm ignorant.)
by evanelias | 2025-04-03 20:22:17+00:00
As a concept, declarative schema management isn't crazy at all. Several thousand companies use this approach, including some huge names like Google, Meta, and GitHub, but many smaller companies too.

When implemented well, with appropriate guardrails and linters, it's perfectly safe. And it has many benefits over imperative schema migrations, such as a substantially better Git versioning flow, and ability to synchronize environments / solve schema drift natively.

The only major conceptual downsides are the inability to handle row data migrations, and inability to handle renames. These can be major hurdles for some smaller companies, but are more irrelevant at companies with large DB infrastructure, who require special-case handling for those operations anyway. In other words, if you have large tables, row data migrations are already substantially more complex than running a single UPDATE statement, and you can't do them using a traditional imperative migration tool anyway.

> there is no chance I wouldn't inspect and possibly modify the generated "diff" migration

Of course, you're generally supposed to do that with these tools. Database changes should always be reviewed carefully. Same with non-database-related infrastructure-as-code tools.
by mmooss | 2025-04-03 20:22:26+00:00
Of course there are enormous benefits to globalization: economies of scale, efficiency and lower prices, quality from specialization (wine from France, beer from Germany, etc), increased competition, etc. To think protectionism will benefit the economy is ignorant.

The global system of free trade and human rights has been the most free, prosperous, and peaceful era of humanity by far. Whole nations lifted from deep poverty, such as China and India (with still more to be done!). Incredible prosperity for the wealthy. Freedom, self-determination, democracy and human rights as the global norms.

Why are we throwing it away again? Much could be done to reform it, but we'll just throw it out?
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-04-03 20:22:27+00:00
[2] is an interesting article, but it doesn’t go into why male participation rates are going down more than female rates, outside of the fact that men are much more likely to be convicted of felonies which makes work prospects worse.

Anecdotally what I have seen most in men are the shut in NEETs who live with their parents and/or collect disability and play video games all day. Why this is uniquely a phenomenon for men is unclear to me, but on the other side I know of lots of trophy wives who just go to yoga class and salons all day and do not produce economic value, and they are not put under the same microscope as NEETs.
by genewitch | 2025-04-03 20:22:35+00:00
i was being glib. Of course it's possible to have functional search for people that remember the good old days of google dorks and switching search engines to find deeper links. That's gone away, for the reasons you and sibling(s) mentioned - ad revenue.

I am unsure if it is possible to run a "free" web search without having a benevolent benefactor paying for the scraping and maintenance and staffing. Furthermore, someone has to play mouse and mousetrap with the "gaming" of whatever "algo" one chooses to use to rank results. Maybe a list is the wrong way to display search results. maybe a contemporary snapshot of the page with the search text highlighted might work better. It might even convince a lot of sites to clean up their landing pages and their blog/article formats.

I know how to stand up and start a web search engine, and probably could implement a decent chunk of functionality myself. it'd be slow and fall down if 100,000 people hit it at once, but nonetheless, the hard part isn't getting one running and starting the scraping. The hard part is results and funding.

I envisioned, last night, in a fever dream: maybe some metadata that the crawler and the sites share, to encourage Value for Value. If a site is willing to be scraped, but would like some nominal bandwidth costs recouped, or perhaps some sort of data agreement that is mutually - mutually - beneficial; or a site like NYT chipping in to the search hosting costs if the search company has really good results, like better than NYT could implement, then there could be some value for value there, too.

Search engines provide a valuable service for humanity, as a general concept. Search engines as they exist now provide a valuable service for their shareholders. remove the shareholders, make the service valuable for humans, and the human stakeholders in the search company (employees, vendors, etc) might not be so greedy or "legally obligated to make numbers go up".

Encarta and Britannica existed. Wikipedia exists - as well as the forks and archives.
by bee_rider | 2025-04-03 20:22:49+00:00
Chain of thought does have a minor advantage in the final “fish” example—the explanation blatantly contradicts itself to get to the cheated hint answer. A human reading it should be pretty easily able to tell that something fishy is going on…

But, yeah, it is sort of shocking if anybody was using “chain of thought” as a reflection of some actual thought process going on in the model, right? The “thought,” such as it is, is happening in the big pile of linear algebra, not the prompt or the intermediary prompts.

Err… anyway, like, IBM was working on explainable AI years ago, and that company is a dinosaur. I’m not up on what companies like OpenAI are doing, but surely they aren’t behind IBM in this stuff, right?
by gruez | 2025-04-03 20:22:55+00:00
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how TLS fingerprinting works. The "fingerprint" isn't from chrome sending a "fingerprint: [random uuid]" attribute in every TLS negotiation. It's derived from various properties of the TLS stack, like what ciphers it can accept. You can't make "stop sending as much of a fingerprint", without every browser agreeing on the same TLS stack. It's already minimal as it is, because there's basically no aspect of the TLS stack that users can configure, and chrome bundles its own, so you'd expect every chrome user to have the same TLS fingerprint. It's only really useful to distinguish "fake" chrome users (eg. curl with custom header set, or firefox users with user agent spoofer) from "real" chrome users.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-04-03 20:23:00+00:00
You're not listening.

Oil may go down. Flour? The combine to reap the wheat will go up, why would flour go down?

Poor people in the hood still wear clothes. Clothes will go up.

That car on the verge of breaking down? Car parts will go up.

Poor people still have a supply-chain footprint that has many branches outside the country. At least some of the things they need are going to get more expensive.
by krasin | 2025-04-03 20:23:07+00:00
DeepSeek R1 has 671B parameters. If you want to run at 8 bits/parameter (the native format for DeepSeek R1, in which it was trained, so the top performance possible for the model), one would need about 32 Blackhole p150a ([1]), which is around $42k and 10kW power consumption.

So, yes, you can run DeepSeek R1 on it, but there are cheaper options (if we only talk about inference).

1. https://tenstorrent.com/hardware/blackhole
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-04-03 20:23:16+00:00
> I don't think any sort of "UBI" (assuming you mean direct cash payments) is a realistic solution, either. People need to "work" in some organized fashion to avoid the common negative outcomes associated with "welfare" scenarios.

That's actually the point of a UBI.

The problem with existing welfare programs is that they're a poverty trap. If you have no job or a very low paying job, you get benefits. If you make any more money at all, you lose the benefits, and simultaneously you lose the time and expenses of taking the job. If that means you e.g. have to buy a car to go to work, taking a job causes you to lose money. Sometimes you lose money even before your working expenses because overlapping benefits phase outs can consume more than 100% of marginal income.

With a UBI, the amount you get is only the amount you need to avoid starvation and homelessness, but you get that amount unconditionally. If you can find any work at all, you get the UBI and your wages, instead of getting your wages instead of welfare programs. Which allows you to work, even if you're only qualified to do low paying jobs, without being put in a worse position than you'd have been if you just stayed on welfare.
by nonrandomstring | 2025-04-03 20:23:38+00:00
An "accelerating situation". Jay Forrester [0] spoke about system dynamics and how, if you focus on rate of change (at different orders) you see distinct linear or non-linear situations.

If systems are linear, then if they go wrong you can correct them. When systems exhibit non-linear (accelerating) behaviours... watch out. Tech always had a non-linear growth (Moore). I suspect tech is entering a new non-linear phase, going south, as many accumulating factors come into play.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Wright_Forrester
by abelanger | 2025-04-03 20:23:39+00:00
Yep, durable execution-wise we're targeting a very similar use-case with a very different philosophy on whether the orchestrator (the part of the durable execution engine which invokes tasks) should run in-process or as a separate service.

There's a lot to go into here, but generally speaking, running an orchestrator as a separate service is easier from a Postgres scaling perspective: it's easier to buffer writes to the database, manage connection overhead, export aggregate metrics, and horizontally scale the different components of the orchestrator. Our original v0 engine was architected in a very similar way to an in-process task queue, where each worker polls a tasks table in Postgres. This broke down for us as we increasing volume.

Outside of durable execution, we're more of a general-purpose orchestration platform -- lots of our features target use-cases where you either want to run a single task or define your tasks as a DAG (directed acyclic graph) instead of using durable execution. Durable execution has a lot of footguns if used incorrectly, and DAGs are executed in a durable way by default, so for many use-cases it's a better option.
by comex | 2025-04-03 20:23:45+00:00
> I think they have said somewhere that Headscale is actually revenue positive for them.

I have the same memory. But they may not feel that way forever. Many a company started by attracting developers with a generous free tier or open-source offering, then started to clamp down once the going got tough.

Heck, it happened to one of Tailscale's competitors, ZeroTier, which used to release their client software under GPLv3 but eventually switched to BSL.
by goldchainposse | 2025-04-03 20:24:31+00:00
On the other side of this, I doubt the police would have done anything if they reported it stolen.

There are questions online about "what if a former employee doesn't return their laptop." They almost always end with "send a threatening letter in legalese." They stop after that because the the next step is get a $300 per hour lawyer involved for a $600 laptop.