MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-04-16 16:17:33+00:00
This is the root issue

The idea that “labor is cheaper elsewhere” is simply a neutral statement of economics is wrong — “lower living standards” is not just a economic measure, it’s a political statement about the value of labor and labor conditions. The US and by extension the “western capitalist world” has been exploiting labor since day 0 with chattel then later globally slavery.

The reason Japan was the biggest manufacturer exporting to the US post war, is because the SCAP forcibly rewrote their constitution to be explicitly capitalist. Read “Understanding Defeat” for detailed proof of the 7 year occupation of Japan, explicity to destroy any semblance of Japanese imperial/keretzu culture, and replace it with explicitly capitalist structure. To be fair to MacArthur, they did suggest labor practices, like unionization, but it was a thin veneer suggestion, not forced into cooperatives and syndicates.

China moved into that position post 70s, because Japanese labor began getting “more expensive.” Nixon and Kissinger saw an opportunity to exploit “cheap” labor because there were no protections for workers or environmental protections - so “opening up china,” plus the Nixon shock and floating of interest rates allowed for global capital flight to low cost slave-like conditions. This is why labor and productivity began to separate in 1971, there was a “global south” that now could be exploited.

NAFTA made Mexico and the southern americas the agricultural slave countries etc…starting in the 90s, and on and on just moving the slave-wage ball until there’s nowhere else to exploit.

It’s not a conspiracy to demonstrate that capital will move wherever it needs to in order to exploit “arbitrage opportunities.” Its good business/MBA capitalism 101.

Just like #2 in Austin powers said:

> Dr. Evil, I've spent 30 years of my life turning this two-bit evil empire into a world-class multinational. I was going to have a cover story in "Forbes". But you, like an idiot, wanted to take over the world. And you don't realize there is no world anymore. It's only corporations.
by DougN7 | 2025-04-16 16:17:37+00:00
Funny anecdote - I was flying through Minneapolis and the passengers on a plane about to depart had to get back off the plane so it could be rebooted. It takes 20 minutes to power down to zero and 20 minutes to boot back up. The gate agent said it was a known touchy computer on that plane - I was wondering if that was true.
by bsenftner | 2025-04-16 16:18:41+00:00
What is that aspect of humanity that causes unchecked power to imbalance anyone and everyone? I'm saying it is unchecked immaturity. Recognition is step one. If the species identifies en mass there is an unchecked immaturity issue in adults, a huge amount of it will evaporate, and people will be given an excuse to start calling other adults on their immaturity. Harsh, but necessary as the immature are actively justifying destroying people all over the place.
by lupusreal | 2025-04-16 16:19:23+00:00
It's just a casual way of saying friend, used in the same contexts as "bro". Popular with young people, on discord, in games, etc. And yes, also on 4chan. There have been some people trying to retroactively turn it into an acronym for " Far Right Entho Nationalist", to spark a moral panic because they think that's funny. Probably the poster above was credulous enough to fall for that. The overwhelming majority of people who say fren are using it in the simple "bro" sense.
by Topfi | 2025-04-16 16:19:58+00:00
Counterpoint, ChatGPT as a brand has insane mindshare and buy in. It is synonymous with LLMs/“aI” in the mind of many and has broken through like few brands before it. That ain’t nothing.

Counter-Counterpoint, I still feel investors priced in a bit more than that. Yahoo! Had major buy in as well and AGI believers were selling investors not just on the next Unicorn, but rather the next industry, AGI not being merely a Google in the 90s, but rather all of the internet and what that would become over the decades to this day. Anything less than delivering that, is not exactly what a large part of investors bought. But then again, any bubble has to burst someday.
by trehalose | 2025-04-16 16:20:46+00:00
> In a frontside design, the silicon substrate can be as thick as 750 micrometers. Because silicon conducts heat well, this relatively bulky layer helps control hot spots by spreading heat from the transistors laterally. Adding backside technologies, however, requires thinning the substrate to about 1 mm to provide access to the transistors from the back.

This is a typo here, right? 1mm is thicker, not thinner, than 750 micrometers. I assume 1µm was meant?
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-04-16 16:20:47+00:00
> Assuming current trends are unchanged we’re still talking about having billions of humans for hundreds of years. On that kind of timescale we might see significant life extension, artificial wombs, and hard core genetic engineering.

The absolute number of humans isn't the issue. It's that people expect to retire at 65, but are now living into their 80s and 90s. Retirees have to be supported by working people, i.e. younger people. If the ratio of younger people to older people gets out of kilter, there's huge problems. Life extension makes this worse rather than better.
by teleforce | 2025-04-16 16:22:02+00:00
This is awesome, not long ago (ten years ago) a double digital GHz frequency ranges VNA can cost you a new sport car money.

Just wondering how the frequency range of VNA is up to 15 GHz when you're using the receiver chip ADL5802 with frequency up to 6 GHz not the more expensive ADL5961 with much higher frequency ranges up to 26.5GHz?

If you're looking a kind of learning kit for building your own 2-port VNA this one from Mini-Circuits is excellent although it's bit more expensive (USD2000++ when launched, now USD3000++) [1].

Fun facts, VNA is called small-signal network analyzer utilizing s-parameter and it's the special case of LSNA (see later). For the four receivers architecture with complete real-time transmitted and reflected waves availability of a1, a2, b1, b2, you can build a comprehensive large-signal network analyzer or LSNA utilizing X-parameter, of course with elaborate RF/Microwave components for signal flow control [2].

More fun facts, with advent of high bandwidth and high frequency direct RF ADC and DAC popularized by ADI, TI and AMD, this will turn RF and Microwave measurements into its head [3]. Essentially you don't need separate and dedicated specialized RF signal generator and receiver. The RF ADC and DAC are your sources of generic synchronized signal generators and receivers of the a1, a2, b1, b2 waves for building the next generation LSNA based on RFSoC.

But for now anyone building a VNA (or any RF/Microwave instrument for that matter) can utilize the newly release high frequency ADL5961 for a very low cost but very capable RF/Microwave system. For USD200 per unit, it's not a bargain it's a steal. Anyone looking for motivation (I saw one asking for motivation), this one is your motivation. Just build a RF/Microwave instrument for below the ground object detector looking for freely available expensive exotic foods for examples bamboo shoot if you're in Japan or truffle if you're in France, you can thank me later.

ADI is probably the most underrated US company, if you have money just buy their stocks, period.

[1] UVNA-63 | DIY Vector Network Analyzer Kit:

https://www.minicircuits.com/WebStore/uvna_63.html

[2] X-parameters:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-parameters

[3] AMD adds RF-sampling data converters to Versal adaptive SoCs (2024) (21 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42899304
by anonfordays | 2025-04-16 16:22:03+00:00
>He can't eat with his shares.

You can't eat with your brokerage account either, what is the point?

>He can use them as collateral for debt.

Yes, you can use your brokerage account, house, etc. as collateral for loans, this is not new or unique.

>Presently, that's how he dodges taxes.

What does this even mean? Loans are not taxable as you have to pay them back.

>You'd close that loophole.

That's not a tax... This is what happens when you get your financial understanding from reddit comments.
by hammock | 2025-04-16 16:22:14+00:00
The "analyze" feature works pretty well.

My comments underindex on "this" - because I have drilled into my communication style never to use pronouns without clear one-word antecedents, meaning I use "this" less frequently that I would otherwise.

They also underindex on "should" - a word I have drilled OUT of my communication style, since it is judgy and triggers a defensive reaction in others when used. (If required, I prefer "ought to")

My comments also underindex on personal pronouns (I, my). Again, my thought on good, interesting writing is that these are to be avoided.

In case anyone cares.
by boringg | 2025-04-16 16:22:28+00:00
Children — (if it Please God) — Constant companion, (& friend in old age) who will feel interested in one, — object to be beloved & played with. — better than a dog anyhow.– Home, & someone to take care of house — Charms of music & female chit-chat. — These things good for one’s health. —

"""but terrible loss of time. —""" !!!!

So ruthless in his calculus. One wonders if he was on the spectrum?
by mrinterweb | 2025-04-16 16:22:45+00:00
One thing that's not very clear from the documentation is what the application of this may be. I see that it parses ERB and or HTML into an AST. Is this intended to enable improved HTML and ERB linters and language servers? This seems like a tool that other development tools will benefit from.

I realize this is new, but as tools start using herb, it would nice to link to those tools from the herb website and or github readme.
by tdaltonc | 2025-04-16 16:22:46+00:00
I think it's unlikely that much of the total capacity registered by Jasmine will be pre-2025 builds. So I think your last line is the most likely outcome. More access to the program means more efficient use of the incentive, means (hopefully) more aggressive RPS timelines.

Why do I think that we're unlikely to see a lot of pre-2025 builds?

1) Solar is on an exponential deployment curve, so by definition there's much more capacity in front of us than there is behind us.

2) As a practical matter, the go-to-market motion of on-boarding newly built systems is much easier than the go-to-market motion of on-boarding legacy systems. Channel parters (solar installers, solar point-of-sale systems, solar financiers) all deal with new systems, and new systems are top of mind for recent buyers. Getting our product in front of old system owners is just much harder.
by zenlikethat | 2025-04-16 16:22:52+00:00
Yep, staying service.

RE: workflow orchestrators. You can use the Bauplan SDK to query, launch jobs and get results from within your existing platform, we don’t want to replace entirely if it’s doesn’t fit for you, just to augment.

RE: DuckDB and Polars. It literally uses DuckDB under the hood but with two huge upgrades: one, we plug into your data catalog for really efficient scanning even on massive data lake houses, before it hits the DuckDB step. Two, we do efficient data caching. Query results and intermediate scans and stuff can be reused across runs.

More details here: https://www.bauplanlabs.com/blog/blending-duckdb-and-iceberg...

As for Polars, you can use Polars itself within your Python models easily by specifying it in a pip decorator. We install all requested packages within Python modules.
by collingreen | 2025-04-16 16:22:54+00:00
It's funny and sad when it's hard to tell the difference between satire and an earnest post.

I don't understand opposition to diversity, especially in this country, but hey at least we agree on the the fact that "kowtowing to special interest groups" is probably a bad thing to do.

If you're serious, I hope you reflect on the fact that you're bragging about intentionally removing opposing views from society. I don't believe I can change anyone's mind with a comment but just asking you to double check your internal compass on if you think that kind of thing is actually a good idea.
by Jensson | 2025-04-16 16:23:14+00:00
Republicans would have voted for a Republican woman, they aren't the misogynists. Its more common for conservatives to elect women than for progressives to around the world, most female national leaders are right wing.

The reason there aren't many women in the Republican party isn't the voters, its that not many women likes right wing politics no matter where in the world you are.
by Danmctree | 2025-04-16 16:23:24+00:00
The toll was far greater than just that of conflicts. If you look at increased mortality during the period you'll see excess death in the millions. Wiki says 3.4 million: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Un...

In absolute terms it's one of the harshest death tolls in the last decades. It's far from a joke. Though for completeness, AIDS was also going on there and it's hard to tell from the stats the proportion of impact
by pmarreck | 2025-04-16 16:23:28+00:00
Based on that description (which is all hearsay btw), no. Not a saint. But also no different from someone who grew up in a country that was infused with a certain narrative.

> This guy is not a Buddhist.

Literally counter to what he claimed. Even claiming publicly as a lie that you are a Buddhist, this endangers your life in Islam... and Palestine is VERY Muslim. That's what doesn't make sense. He's not (at least not anymore) a death-cultist, even if he does use some of the same language.
by sleepybrett | 2025-04-16 16:23:33+00:00
There are ways to battle waste, fraud, and abuse that do not resort to 'parachute into the middle of an agency, fire most of the staff and then walk away congratulating yourself because you eliminated waste, fraud, and abuse.'

Sure you lowered the spend of the agency, but you probably, by removing all the people who actively investigate/police waste, fraud and abuse, promoted more people to defraud the agency and not get caught.

Congratulations, you played yourself.
by im3w1l | 2025-04-16 16:23:55+00:00
> So even if your UB code isn't called, the simple fact it exists may make some seemingly-unrelated code behave wrongly.

This is fortunately not true. If it were, it would make runtime checks pointless. Consider this code

free(ptr) already_freed = true; if (!alread_freed) { free(ptr) }

The second free would be undefined behavior, but since it doesn't run the snippet is fine.
by thatcat | 2025-04-16 16:24:16+00:00
Universities could pay for all of the research themselves theoretically considering they're the largest business in most states. Their portfolio income, the sports income, the donations, and the free real estate given to land grant universities that has been heavily monetized all add up. Of course I doubt they will allocate money to research, but they could if that was truely their purpose as an organization.
ChatGPT's biggest shortcoming? It can't process Excel row by row
by mindcase | 2025-04-16 16:24:20+00:00
We kept running into the same issue: ChatGPT is great, but when it comes to generating a new column based on each row of a spreadsheet , it just doesn’t cut it.

So we built an internal tool that could. It started as a way for our team to clean scraped data, extract key information, enrich datasets with context , tasks that took hours manually. We tried Excel/Gsheet add-ins, but they’d often break midway or take too long to run row by row. Now, with just a few inputs , your file and a task description, the tool gives you a preview, and then processes the full file in seconds.

It handles everything from cleaning messy text, summarizing long content, extracting keywords, and generating contextual data for each row, anything that needs to run row by row.

We’ve used it daily for months, and it’s been a game-changer for working with messy or large datasets. We're finally opening it up for public use.

Use this until ChatGPT has it built-in :)
by martin_a | 2025-04-16 16:24:41+00:00
That heavily depends on your definition of "positive impact". In design/typesetting theory there are different "kinds of reading" and some fonts have positive effects, as in "works well with that kind of reading", while others are not very well suited for a specific task.

For example letters with very distinct shapes and different heights between lower and uppercase letters, like often found in serif fonts, are generally said to be easier to process for your eyes and brain.

Your brain learns to "read without reading" by scanning for known shapes and groups of shapes and just recognizing letters and words by that. You start to skip words, letters, whatever, once your brain has internalized that font.

That effect helps with reading faster and with less "stress" which is ideal for longer texts like in a book. Combine that with a good mixture of line length, font size and line height and you can create long texts that can be read very well.

Now take the same font, set it really tiny because you're working on an Encyclopaedia and don't want it to have 300 pages more and those font features that helped you before, actually make it more difficult to read.

Fine shapes might break away in the printing process or run up and your text will be harder to read. A sans-serif font might be better suited here. Straight crisp lines, that can be reproduced very well might actually make a better job here.

So... Fonts can have a positive impact on reading, depending on your definition of impact. ;-)
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-04-16 16:24:44+00:00
Well, well, well, cocktailpeanuts. :spiderman_pointing:

I suspect, antirez, that you may have greater success removing some of the most common English words in order to find truly suspicious correlations in the data.

cocktailpeanuts and I for example, mutually share some words like:

because, people, you're, don't, they're, software, that, but, you, want

Unfortunately, this is a forum where people will use words like "because, people, and software."

Because, well, people here talk about software.

<=^)

Edit: Neat work, nonetheless.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-04-16 16:24:56+00:00
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_the_Frog

On a serious note, that doesn't appear to be a font named Kermit, so it's unlikely that there will be confusion with this if someone is talking about replacing their typeface.

> a way to set up microcomputers as terminals to our central mainframes and allow files to be transferred reliably back and forth so students could archive their files on floppy diskettes
by xattt | 2025-04-16 16:25:14+00:00
> I have seen painfully firsthand how giving customers free things almost always backfires and just creates extremely demanding customers

I appreciate that. Running a small business is no small feat, and takes every bit of blood, sweat and tears to make it work.

I also want to draw contrasts to the indie music scene in the mid-aughts and the situation with Nintendo now. A number of bands had their music pirated or offered for free, but truly appreciated by fans. As a result, these bands saw at least moderate successes when they toured: fans saw the effort of touring as actual work, rather than nickel-and-diming.

Nintendo should be following this “indie” path (continue creating innovative games), rather than aggressive rent-seeking (legacy IP property protectionism).
by 542354234235 | 2025-04-16 16:25:24+00:00
>My main gripe with audiobooks is the readers voice. I cannot stand the squeeky, high pitched, robotic, nasally, sounds like AI, might well be AI, especially american female voices. Being British, just one paragraph and I am immediately put off and turn them off.

I would say that this could be said about books and the writing style. Whether it is Hemingway's bare bones style or Cormac McCarthy's lack of punctuation, they can put you off the whole book. To be fair, the voice of the narration is in addition to everything in a written book that could put one off.

>Do authors select who reads their books

I am no authority, but as a general rule, authors only have some input in the process, but the publishers are the main and final deciders (unless it is a big name author).
by licebmi__at__ | 2025-04-16 16:26:24+00:00
Hard disagree, people were quick to believe that migrants were eating pets, that trans people were taking over the country, that cancel culture was destroying free speech, even that a cabal of satanic pedophiles were operating on a pizza place. Not only they were willing to believe, but actively pursued media that agreed with their biases of how awful things really were and how worse were getting.
by bumby | 2025-04-16 16:26:25+00:00
>You seem to be assuming that being in it for the money implies corruption.

No. There are plenty of other ways of selling your constituents out for money that aren't corruption. I am assuming that people who value money over most everything else will tend towards decisions that optimize money at the expense of other values. It is a self-evidential claim.

Yes, there is a balance. My point is I don't wish for people where the balance is biased towards favoring money as a primary motivation for the above reason. I would much rather have someone willing to forgo excess money to help their constituents when they are in conflict.

Consider a sports analogy. There are baseball players who will put their team winning at jeopardy to pad their stats. They may refuse a sacrifice fly because it hurts their batting average. That doesn't mean they'll cheat (the equivalent of your corruption claim). But it does mean I don't want them on my team; I'd much prefer someone with winning as their primary motivation, not maximizing their personal stats.
by JackYoustra | 2025-04-16 16:26:34+00:00
I mostly agree, although I really disagree with 'speaking truth to power' — I feel like the outsized reverence for this is exactly what got us into this mess. For YEARS, there's been a culture of celebrating opposition for opposition's sake, a performative stance of always positioning oneself against the perceived holders of power, rather than critically evaluating the actual accuracy or value of what's being said.

Democrats are repeatedly pilloried simply because they govern while the Republicans cosplay as a permanent opposition, and therefore became 'the power' to speak against. Governing inherently involves trade-offs, compromises, and complex realities that never match ideological purity. Thus, an atmosphere developed where people who engaged in governance—and therefore took responsibility for difficult, real-world outcomes—became easy targets for criticism that was more interested in the aesthetics of "truth to power" than in providing accurate analyses or constructive solutions.

As a result, "speaking truth to power" became a performance, disconnected from accountability or genuine insight. The loudest critics weren’t necessarily those with the most accurate or useful truths, just those who most visibly positioned themselves as opposing power structures. This reinforced public cynicism and undermined nuanced understanding of governance and policy, further obscuring genuine critique and necessary reforms.
by wredcoll | 2025-04-16 16:26:39+00:00
I was curious and open-minded enough to go and look up several layers of citations from the article you didn't even bother to link. It wasn't convincing.

It turns out that when people actually read your citations, sometimes they find out you're full of crap.

Arguing that women are in danger because one woman got hurt by another woman hitting a volleyball at her is ludicrously patronizing.