MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zamadatix | 2025-04-30 16:10:12+00:00
I fully agree it can, I was replying to your initial comment "I can't see how Google sells off Chrome and remains Google". It should be quite easy to see Google remain Google without a web browser, especially since it reached $200 billion market cap before adding one.

The important integrations have more to do with profile sync, crash reporting, the branding, the Chrome+ChromeOS portions of Google Workspace, or things of that type. Actually accessing the Google websites to the level you could from any other browser is not one of the tie-in issues. The same goes for the removal any cross promotion of services (e.g. google.com promoting installing Chrome) but that'd be pretty naturally severed if Chrome were 3rd party rather than Google (and is another example of how Chromium existing is not really the same story).
by ksec | 2025-04-30 16:10:30+00:00
Margin Call - The traders perspective

The Big Short - Banking, investor, hedgefund perspective

Too Big to Fail - Government perspective

Most of my friends dont like any of the these. Even those who somehow got through them liked Big Short most.

For me Big Short is the last on that list. Margin Call being first by a long short and then Too Big to Fail.
by intended | 2025-04-30 16:10:45+00:00
Your question: Is it possible. Answer: Anything is 'possible'.

This is a sufficient question, and sufficient answer for a meager understanding of how economies work.

For the kind of place America is, with the kind of intellectual, economic, and procedural fire power it holds?

Again, he isn't President of some backwater, and he isn't lacking for advisors, to give even more sophisticated analyses than what any Econ 101 student can do.

And now, to your own point:

> he tries [even just being president] will be fought,

by who? the Repubs have all 3 branches. Thank god, otherwise people would spend another decade ignoring the obvious and blaming forces other than Trump and Trumpism for Trump's actions.

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The emperor has no clothes. Everything else, is people projecting from past Presidents upon the tableau they see.
by cardanome | 2025-04-30 16:10:50+00:00
The most infuriating thing is that there is no technical reason for vertical filming sucking so much.

The phone camera sensors often have a aspect ration of 4:3 but the sides are cropped in software. So the videos just get mutilated because convention.

Though at least 4:3 format is making a come-back because it is the prefect comprise format. Looks great on a tablet, is usable in both landscape and portrait mode. On Desktop it leave space to read comments. Perfect for youtube videos.
by renewiltord | 2025-04-30 16:11:17+00:00
Making sure everyone is using LLMs is smart. It’s a transformative technology and some people are just slow to adopt. Org wide process improvements often need mandates or they won’t happen.

No different than using version control etc. There were and are engineers who would rather just rsync without having to do the bookkeeping paperwork of `git commit` but you mandate it nonetheless.
by sidkshatriya | 2025-04-30 16:11:22+00:00
> It just shows the mindset of its devs was a little behind the realities of the industry, or they simply didn't care about concurrency.

OCaml cared about concurrency (e.g. Lwt, Async are old libraries that provide concurrency -- they didn't need multicore Ocaml). OCaml didn't care so much about true _parallelism_ in threads until recently. Parallelism was to be obtained via processes and not threads in pre OCaml 5.0. True parallelism in threads is available in OCaml >= 5.0

Python is actually trying to go multicore too ! OCaml however beat it to the punch. The strengths of Python are elsewhere though, a topic for another day.
by gadders | 2025-04-30 16:11:33+00:00
There were a lot of regulatory change projects, that kicked over into technology, but not a lot of other impact (speaking as someone who works in banking).

For me personally, nothing much really has changed. You can't bring as much wine back from France on holiday, and it is harder to take your pet to Europe.

The UK economy is shite, but it's not a significant outlier amongst other EU countries.
by Spellman | 2025-04-30 16:11:40+00:00
I also highly recommend The Sourdough Journey for a lot of the science and showing how different variable can affect the results.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMNnFRtsaxxzZsbxK3yAj...

His chart showing Temp and Time for Bulk Fermentation gets referenced A LOT. Key is higher temp means faster bulk fermentation.

https://thesourdoughjourney.com/tools/
by wslh | 2025-04-30 16:12:04+00:00
It would be great if it is available as a torrent. There also mutable torrents [1]. Not implemented everywhere but there are available ones [2].

[1] https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html

[2] https://www.npmjs.com/package/bittorrent-dht
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-30 16:12:08+00:00
Sure, and if there were a law proposed in Congress to restrict federal research funding to public institutions and bar all private institutions, we could debate the merits of that.

That is not, however, what is happening. Institutions, without regard to whether they are public or private, are having research funding used as a lever to secure adherence to the political ideology of the ruling party, unilaterally by the executive branch.

The attempt to make this a debate about public vs private institutions is a distraction from and cover for that.
by olalonde | 2025-04-30 16:12:09+00:00
7.5KB/s (aka 7500 characters per second) didn't sound realistic... So I did the math[0] and it turns out it's closer to 34 bytes/s (0.03 KB/s). And it's really lower than that because of all the metadata and syntax in the JSON. You were right about the "over 2MB per day" though.

[0] Well, ChatGPT did the math but it seems to check out: https://chatgpt.com/share/68124afc-c914-800b-8647-74e7dc4f21...
by Spivak | 2025-04-30 16:12:14+00:00
Yes! Well specifically someone who is a concert pianist and then who also set out to be a software developer. The ability to get very good at a difficult thing is highly correlated to being able to get very good at another really difficult thing.

Case in point I have a friend who is a top 32 magic player in NA. She recently, not even a year ago recently, made it her goal to become a chess grandmaster and she's already 2000 ELO. You could argue that maybe some skills transfer but it's pretty shaky reasoning.
by PeterStuer | 2025-04-30 16:12:29+00:00
I grew up on a solid diet of 1980's distopian cyberpunk. Glory days for the inquisitive and rational analytical mind.

Star Trek ToS and TNG were more utopian, but I loved those ss well. The difference with today? It was about grand ideas and exploration, not pew pew and 1 sec crosscut fisticuffs by toddlers throwing a tantrum at a pindrop.
by fanf2 | 2025-04-30 16:12:30+00:00
As well as NIST there is Schriever spave force base https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schriever_Space_Force_Base which is the ground operations centre for GPS. They have the USNO alternate master clock, which maintains a copy of the USNO time scale based on caesium beam and rubidium fountain clocks.
by simianwords | 2025-04-30 16:12:47+00:00
One of the things I noticed with chatgpt was its sycophancy but much earlier on. I pointed this out to some people after noticing that it can be easily led on and assume any position.

I think overall this whole debacle is a good thing because people now know for sure that any LLM being too agreeable is a bad thing.

Imagine it being subtly agreeable for a long time without anyone noticing?
by pera | 2025-04-30 16:12:54+00:00
Not from my point of view: Last year I paid for a product from a shop that was using Shopify, you would think that given that this was a one time transaction, once the payment has been processed they wouldn't keep storing your PII forever but guess what? A couple of months ago I was going to buy a product from a totally unrelated shop also using Shopify and as soon as I typed my email address they sent me an OTP to my phone to autocomplete all my personal details. So paying for a product equals to creating an account with Shopify.

This is incredibly shady and I wonder if it's even legal here in Europe.
by fencepost | 2025-04-30 16:13:08+00:00
The problem is the chaos.

No competently run company is going to invest in more-expensive domestic production based on what the administration is doing because there can't be any expectation that policies will remain in place until production can be brought online. It doesn't even make sense to consider planning to onshore production because there's no reasonable expectation that the current policies will be in place in a month, much less in the year or more needed for a production change.
by hollerith | 2025-04-30 16:13:16+00:00
You did not read your own linked page: food that are already heated-up and ready to eat are taxable, but most foods are not. Whether it is a whole food or a processed food products with many ingredients does not matter. Also, NY taxes soft drinks and other unhealthy foods (but most states do not).

Also, you are wrong when you wrote, "Given that the lower and middle classes pay a disproportionate amount of income tax".

In fact, most Americans who earn under about $40,000 a year pay no federal income tax. I believe the vehicle that effects this outcome is mainly the earned income tax credit.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-04-30 16:13:41+00:00
FWIW he seems to be losing this power. The last two weeks it feels like the market seems to be treating his emissions more like "whatever you say, old man" than it was last month.

Now it's just about the concrete numbers and "wait and see." It all looks a lot higher right now than I imagine makes any sense, but you know what they say about the market and irrtionality...
by swatcoder | 2025-04-30 16:13:42+00:00
> Do what I tell you to do!

Maybe a good opportunity to remember that you watching the videos you want to watch is actually just a workaround Google suffers through in the YouTube product.

They have to do it so that you come to the site, but it costs them money and makes it harder for them to optimize the revenue they get from your eyeballs.

Strycturally, their goal is to push the line as far as they can, and they spend a lot of product design and engineering effort to do so. They're only going to get better at it as time goes by.

And of course this principle doesn't just apply to YouTube, but at pretty much all media sites once they get large enough to pivot from growing their audience to optimizing its profitability.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-04-30 16:13:59+00:00
It's not. Van Rossum is Dutch but Python always had a strong marketing push in English.

The first version was announced in English on Usenet. Van Rossum moved to the USA quite quickly to work on Python from CNRI in 1995. Then, it got funding from DARPA in 1999 with this as part of its pitch: "Create a code that is easy to understand and looks as easy as the English language."

Ocaml meanwhile is an INRIA child made by a French team to develop another INRIA child made by another French team. I think in Europe, that's approximately as US hostile as you can be.

Actually, Ocaml has only become somewhat popular since it's pushed a bit from the UK which I find amusing.
by Take8435 | 2025-04-30 16:14:08+00:00
> Sometimes, I feel like the whole downwards trend having a single kid loses the family aspect of my previous generation

There are many reasons folks have no kids or only one kid. I don't think opining for a larger family 'for the chance' of having a family member with similar tastes is really... compelling.

> Nobody to pull them up and nobody to pull up in term. Not dynasties of tiger children, but simply support in minor ways.

Are you saying friends cannot provide support in minor ways?

In my view, it's more compelling to solution the many downsides of nepotism (esp. in governments not just private entities) rather than endorse or perpetuate it.
by skrebbel | 2025-04-30 16:14:33+00:00
Another counterpoint, he's been a pretty pro-nuance voice for a long time, very un-Elon like. Eg I still frequently quote some of this thread to people: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1210242184341000192.html

My favorite part:

> I've never worked through a night. The only times I worked more than 40 hours in a week was when I had the burning desire to do so. I need 8ish hours of sleep a night. Same with everybody else, whether we admit it or not.

> For creative work, you can't cheat. My believe is that there are 5 creative hours in everyone's day. All I ask of people at Shopify is that 4 of those are channeled into the company.

Obviously, as I'm replying to someone with first-hand Shopify experience, which I don't have, take all this as you wish. I only know the Twitter Tobi. (and I think his "AI first" memo is ridiculous, to the point that I struggle to imagine that the same person wrote this twitter thread)
by ringeryless | 2025-04-30 16:14:37+00:00
almost like they think a desktop monitor is a portrait mode phone screen... it's not like we dont have media query API, google, but hey, it fits with the general dumbing down and phonification of all interfaces that should have stopped by now.

it's not like they don't have 3 layout sizes already enshrined, it's that they are forcing the desktop layout to act like a portrait mode phone screen for no apparent reason other than trying to be on trend with enshittification or somesuch.
by benterix | 2025-04-30 16:14:47+00:00
Interesting how this trick plays out. After drastic changes on the part of Trump, it became obvious Europe needs, among others, strong EU-based datacenters for public use ("European cloud"). Now, a big American cloud claims they will build an European cloud.

Who's going to buy it, though? AWS, Google and Microsoft do have European datacenters and many users here use these regions but the whole point is to be politically, financially, and "privacy-ally" completely independent from the USA. Not to mention Azure might not be the most secure of public clouds.
by cloverich | 2025-04-30 16:15:07+00:00
This line of thinking IMHO requires strategic tarrifs. I think many people on both sides would (did, under Bidens last term?) support tariff's for national security. The reason blanket tariffs are a bad strategy here, even if they also cover the national security aspects, is because the voting population doesn't like prices to rise across the board, and will nearly 100% vote out whoever implements them, with the aim of supporting someone who claims they will reverse the policy.
by Retr0id | 2025-04-30 16:15:19+00:00
They both influence each other, yes. But GDP is largely a measure of consumer spending in the present, whereas stock markets are more forward-looking. Consumers, for the most part, respond to prices in the present. Savvy consumers have been stocking up in advance of anticipated price increases, and the less-savvy aren't really changing their spending yet because of stock buffers etc.
by breuleux | 2025-04-30 16:15:20+00:00
> As long as we don’t have ranked choice voting ... we will continue to vote in the servants of the billionaire class.

I don't think RCV would do much to change that. In order to be elected, you need to be seen, so you need a sizeable media presence. The billionaire class controls enough of the media (traditional, social and "independent") that the people will keep voting for their servants under pretty much any voting system, bar a few exceptions here and there. It's a fundamental issue of electoral democracy, not of the voting system.

One potential alternative would be to switch to non-electoral democracy, e.g. drawing representatives at random rather than electing them, but that's even less likely to happen, and it may end up having different problems. At least it'd suppress all the circus around elections and all that party nonsense, so there's that.
by ryandrake | 2025-04-30 16:15:24+00:00
If it was just politics, I'd agree with you. And I hate to be the "but this time it's different" guy, but I really think it is different this time. Trump is more of a religious figure than a politician. His fans literally (in the literal meaning of the word literally) worship him, and he can do no wrong in their eyes. People have made him their entire personality. My wife's church sometimes spends more time talking about Trump than Jesus. In a religious context, personal hardship just strengthens their resolve and convinces them they're being persecuted for Knowing The Truth, just like debunking a conspiracy theory only serves to further convince the conspiracy theorist.

America is getting less and less involved with traditional organized religion, and I honestly think this personality cult is taking a lot of its place.
by Scoundreller | 2025-04-30 16:15:33+00:00
Not saying they should, but as a PSA, if you’re anglophone and looking something up about a place in the non-Anglo world, it’s always worth switching to that area’s language and auto-translating. Even the images won’t be shared. Structure might be all different. Perspective may not be the same.

E.g. a city in France’s BRT system:

Contrast: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantes_Busway

With: https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busway_de_Nantes
Show HN: 1.2 users a day to keep the 9–5 away
by dmasiii | 2025-04-30 16:15:36+00:00
In my long career as an “almost digital entrepreneur” (a fancy way to say I’ve tried a thousand things online without making a single cent), I never really felt that “this is it, I’m so close, I’ll finally quit everything and update my passport: job title? SaaS founder.”

(Small detail: I don’t even have a passport. But I like to imagine that if I did, I’d want something cooler than “unemployed creative” written on it).

For years, I collected side projects, hobbies, half-dead MVPs, and random nonsense, all with the same ending: super hyped at the beginning, burned out in the middle, completely abandoned by the end.

But a couple years ago, I decided to take things more seriously (well… I try). I started building SaaS products. Simple, fast stuff, nothing too fancy. And finally, after a long toxic relationship with perfectionism, I realized something super basic but actually powerful: I don’t need thousands of users. I just need 1.2 paying users a day. Literally.

Not to get rich, no Lamborghinis parked outside (also, I live in an apartment with no garage), but enough to live well, keep building, and maybe say “this is my job” without looking down in shame.

It’s part math, part mindset. Like they told us in the first year of computer science: big problems get solved by breaking them into smaller ones. 100 users a day? Anxiety. 1.2 users a day? I can breathe.

So yeah, this is my new mantra: “1.2 a day to keep the office job away.”

Let’s see where this road takes me
by ericmay | 2025-04-30 16:15:53+00:00
Well yes, as I mentioned in my post China does make more than cheap junk. And our inability to make those advanced electronics is a specific problem I called out.

With respect to the “man up” piece of it - well if you can’t go without TikTok and Temu junk you have a big problem.

Both items: inability to manufacture advanced electronics, and inability to not go without cheap junk are separate but related problems.

While I think the Trump admin is weak and will capitulate on tariffs, and that’s aside from the asinine way in which we are treating our allies with respect to the same, him and others are very much right to point out the underlying concern. Tariffs can help to address those concerns, but they are just one tool amongst many.
by jjulius | 2025-04-30 16:15:58+00:00
Those are broader economic embargoes, not tariffs. A lot more is involved in that situation and it's much more nuanced than what's happening with tariffs today. Hence my comment, "sans near-total embargoes on a country". Tariffs are taxes on goods allowed to enter the country - embargoes are a total elimination of trade (meaning we can't receive and we can't ship to) with a country.

This is another apples/oranges comparison.
by pizzathyme | 2025-04-30 16:16:17+00:00
I always laugh at these shots from the hip criticizing YouTube and Google. As though Google doesn't have a entire team of data scientists and top tier engineers managing this experiment and driving it to optimal results. (Spoiler: they do)

If you don't like the service, you can stop using it. And if you do, they have already factored that into their metrics guardrail, and it was the right decision.
by faramarz | 2025-04-30 16:16:53+00:00
That's cool! thanks for making it easy to fork and play with this!

I've just begun my own iteration of adding Nash Equilibrium (NECoRT?) and reframing the "prompt engineering" to be a multi-agent negotiation. Curious what others think? https://github.com/faramarz/NECoRT/

my reasoning is that enterprise LLMs wont have any issue with the extra compute costs and would rather reconcile complex financials with various modeling optimizations.

I'm very new to public repo and contributions, and hope someone can point out if I'm doing it wrong.

my intention was to fork the ops codebase so I can test out my theory, and push as PR eventually
by deadeye | 2025-04-30 16:16:56+00:00
We are at an inflection point in manufacturing. The next industrial revolution will combine AI and robots.

Manufacturing jobs of the future will be fewer and higher in the value chain, requiring technical abilities. Workers won't be mindless stamping parts over and over.

Now, the question is, do you want our adversaries to develop and own this new era or do you want the US to lead this next generation of industrialization?

Finally, if you don't think China is our adversary, then we're not living in the same reality.
by jaydenmilne | 2025-04-30 16:17:05+00:00
Yup, and that's what I meant by them turning the pain dial all the way towards money. Presumably they can run A/B tests and will no doubt be able to prove that this change makes them $X more money (since it's 1/6 a full screen ad after all). At the cost of being a miserable tasteless change.

The YouTube team has been blindly chasing monetization at the expense of their website being useful and pleasant for a while now. Unfortunately it seems they can get away with it. I wrote this post to just shake my fist at the cloud
by ViktorRay | 2025-04-30 16:17:17+00:00
Reading through the links you posted from the 2000's it's interesting how...innocent some of those users seem.

The word "innocent" may seem absurd to describe 4chan users...but those comments really do come off as being posted by kids in suburban middle class families who seem gleeful they can anonymously say things on a computer that they cannot say in real life at school or at home because their teachers or their parents would put them into time out or something...

I don't think anyone would ever use the word "innocent" to describe 4chan of the 2010's or nowadays though
by mahogany | 2025-04-30 16:17:38+00:00
Is everything in the store junk? This is ultimately a non-sequitur -- the tariffs are not targeting junk, and not everything made in China is junk. Prices across the board will go up, a tax on everything.

It's funny that the same party that likes to warn of "you will own nothing and be happy" is now defending economic policy that will decrease material wealth, but it's ok because it is "good for you" to practice having less.
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-30 16:17:49+00:00
> Prices on goods used to stay relatively static for months or years at a time, and sometimes even trended downwards. Prices have basically only gone up on almost everything for the past 5 years

No, consumer prices trending downward is called deflation and the economy has been actively managed to try to prevent that for a very long time. Mild inflation has been the target and rule for a very long time, with the deviations being high inflation outside of a few major economic collapses. This is not a new trend of the last 5 years.