MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tyleo | 2025-04-29 14:08:40+00:00
The placement is intentional. I passed my eyes in a ring around the keys on my left and right hands and roughly placed the Rad Type characters in the position of the corresponding key. V is below F on the keyboard so it's below F on Rad Type.

There is a bit of voodoo in the placement. I wouldn't claim it's perfect. If this idea is ever productized, key placement would be an interesting optimization.
by Fokamul | 2025-04-29 14:09:43+00:00
Truth to be told, Google Cloud console is horrible mess for new people, who just wants quickly setup API, pay and don't have time to care about it anymore.

Well, you should hire contractor to set console for you.

"Designed for MacOS", aah don't worry, you will have the money from apes back in the no time. :)
by ericmay | 2025-04-29 14:09:48+00:00
It's a little difficult for me to make the point I want to make here because I don't disagree with you, but the usage of the word "brand" is not as descriptive as I'd like it to be.

If you're buying good copper cookware the manufacturer "brand" matters, they build a reputation for having quality products, ideally continue to make those quality products at a fair price, etc. and life is good.

But then there are brands and unfortunately when we use the term brand we wind up lumping together "high quality brands" with "cheap, useless dog shit products" and it can be difficult to differentiate. At least for me and my limited vocabulary.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-04-29 14:09:58+00:00
Well, it seems to have elicited a Trumpian response:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2025/apr/29/hsbc-t...

> The Trump White House is furious with Amazon over reports that it plans to display the cost of tariffs on items it sells.

> Press secretary Karoline Leavitt has just given the company both barrels, at her briefing with the media today.

> Leavitt claims the move is “a hostile and political act by Amazon”, and asks why Amazon didn’t take a similar step when inflation hit 40-year highs under the Biden administration.
by jetbalsa | 2025-04-29 14:09:59+00:00
I guess I'm a power user, I'm at > Total searches this period 1,216 > Assistant interactions this period 92

I feel the 25$ is worth it for a product that I use this much and along with knowing the costs of trying to keep all this stuff alive at the smaller scale can be hard. until they get much larger I don't expect the prices to go down.
by ineedasername | 2025-04-29 14:10:33+00:00
At its core, I think it comes down to the language of morality that’s used. Differences aren’t framed as disagreements, but often as deliberate attacks for their own sake.

It goes further: the language often doesn’t just describe policies as harmful, but conveys them as evil or immoral, either directly or by implication.

This makes compromise almost impossible. In normal negotiation, sides might trade policy priorities—accepting cuts in one area to strengthen another. But when every issue is framed this way it’s no longer a deal making compromise. It’s compromising, moral values.

This is then especially a problem in primary races where a challenger can attack any and all bipartisanship as absolute failure.
by Pass_Quest | 2025-04-29 14:10:33+00:00
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by goda90 | 2025-04-29 14:10:49+00:00
My state, Wisconsin, has had a long political and legal battle over the construction of high voltage lines from the Madison area to Dubuque, Iowa. Opposition ranges from aesthetics to wildlife conservation to it just being a waste of money.

One line of arguments I found intriguing is that the lines should be buried instead of on towers, for a multitude of reasons. The company building it would extract profit and then long term maintenance would fall on the state. If the lines were buried, there'd be less maintenance caused by weather events, less transmission losses, and overall more efficient and resilient operation.

Obviously burying such lines has much higher up front costs and the companies looking to profit don't want to pay it.
by mohaabdulahi | 2025-04-29 14:11:11+00:00
I’m Moha from Somalia .

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by ValdikSS | 2025-04-29 14:11:23+00:00
I'm running an anti-censorship proxy service which uses Proxy Auto-Configuration (PAC) file which you can configure OS-wide or in the browser.

If the file contains invalid JS (syntax error, or too new features for IE on Win7/8), or if it's >1MB (Chromium-based browsers & Electron limit), and the file is configured system-wide, then EVERY APP which uses wininet starts flooding the server with the requests over and over almost in an endless loop (missing/short error caching).

Over the years, this resulted in DDoSing my own server and blackholing its IP on BGP level (happened 10+ times), and after switching to public IPFS gateways to serve the files, Pinata IPFS gateway has blocked entire country, on IPFS.io gateway the files were in top #2 requests for weeks (impacting operational budget of the gateway).

All of the above happens with tight per-IP per-minute request limits and other measures to conserve the bandwidth. It's used by 500 000+ users daily. My web server is a $20/mo VPS with unmetered traffic, and thanks to this, I was never in the situation as the OP :)
by jeroenhd | 2025-04-29 14:11:44+00:00
I think there's more to this than Amazon being annoyed at the stupid taxes raised on imported goods. Same with price labels on items with and excluding tax; people just like the lower numbers better, and stores that don't show low numbers will lose customers even if they operate at the same price point.

Studies have shown that consumers will gladly visit restaurants that don't include tips in their prices over restaurants that do, even when the prices are exactly the same.

In a country used to not seeing the total price on store goods, hiding the tariffs away as a "+145% tariff" label makes perfect sense. Just raising the total cost and hiding the tariff, what the American governments probably would prefer, would put Amazon at a disadvantage against other stores that do show the split.

On another note, Apple got very upset at Facebook when they tried to pull the same trick regarding the 30% Apple tax. In that case, Apple forbade Facebook from making it explicit how much of the transaction was a tariff raised by an external party. Same trick, but different outcome (because Apple can force Facebook's hand).
by pixl97 | 2025-04-29 14:12:23+00:00
>google search still has a place of power as something that doesn’t hallucinate.

Google search is fraught with it's own list of problems and crappy results. Acting like it's infallible is certainly an interesting position.

>If I was Google I’d simply cut off public api access to the search engine.

The convicted monopolist Google? Yea, that will go very well for them.
by lutusp | 2025-04-29 14:13:01+00:00
The article's thesis relies on the idea that a genuinely primitive traversal action exists, in the way that a for-loop is primitive and widely applicable, or adding two floats is common enough to justify building it into the language (or processor).

But tree traversal doesn't have this universal property. There are too many methods and purposes for traversing a tree, sufficient that IMHO no single primitive embodiment could materially improve a language. Also, modern compilers efficiently break down high-level traversal code so well that expressing the idea at a high level incurs no serious penalty compared to having a primitive for that purpose, or a series of them.
by kebokyo | 2025-04-29 14:13:05+00:00
I can’t read the actual article because I can’t find a way past the paywall… but I am fairly certain this is a political play.

If consumers see two products, one from China and another from Vietnam, both with their tariff markups listed, I have a feeling they’d pick the Vietnam product more often due to the lower markup. This makes Trump happy because he clearly wants us to stop buying Chinese products.
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-04-29 14:13:30+00:00
Beautiful work on that box! The joinery is super tight and clean. I suspect I’d love to have one of these around but I’m not sure I (or my family) could stomach that price tag, haha.

I’m also expected to finish projects so quickly, it seems like power tools are my only sane option these days. Maybe some day, though. I love the idea of working with quieter, slower, calmer tools like I used to.
by righthand | 2025-04-29 14:13:42+00:00
It’s a refining service in that you the user can refine search results. I’m not sure what refinement you think Kagi is doing but they aren’t combing through search results for you. No other search engine allows you to do this. It is very powerful and worth every penny. It has shown me that there are indeed more content sites outside of the major ones on the internet. I have completely deranked reddit and spam sites and now get great variety of content and control of that content through Kagi.
by cogman10 | 2025-04-29 14:14:07+00:00
I'm an AI pessimist, yet I don't see this happening (at least not without some major advancements in how LLMs work).

One major problem is the payment mechanism. The nature of LLMs means you just can't really know or force it to spit out ad garbage in a predictable manor. That'll make it really tricky for an advertiser to want to invest in your LLM advertising (beyond being able to sell the fact that they are an AI ad service).

Another is going to be regulations. How can you be sure to properly highlight "sponsored" content in the middle of an AI hallucination? These LLM companies run a very real risk of running a fowl of FTC rules.
by ceejayoz | 2025-04-29 14:14:25+00:00
> Pretty sure those bananas are grown elsewhere.

Yes. But the tariffs are on the import price, not the shelf price.

The shelf price went up as if it were on the shelf price, because consumers won't realize/understand the distinction. (Hell, a good proportion of the population still thinks someone else eats the costs entirely.) We saw the same thing during COVID - "it's because of COVID / supply chain issues" was the magic wand you could wave around to raise prices. Some of those increases were warranted, for sure. But all? Almost certainly not.
by jasperry | 2025-04-29 14:14:26+00:00
These are what I think the author is looking for. But it shouldn't be a "primitive" in terms of code automatically generated by the compiler, but an interface or typeclass like your examples (in a language advanced enough to have them.)

The problem is that 'lens', 'monocle', etc. are famously abstract and difficult for people to apply to their actual problems. IMO, the solution would be for standard libraries to specify interfaces called 'BreadthFirstTraverse', 'DepthFirstTraverse', etc.
by HPsquared | 2025-04-29 14:14:29+00:00
In electrical terms 4 GJ is 1,111 kWh. That's about 15 EV batteries' worth, or about £220 worth of retail electricity (at 20p/kWh). So it's a lot compared to the usual domestic things people are used to, but not much in grid terms.

Or if you consider the Irish grid (average consumption around 5 GW) that's enough energy to power the grid for about 0.8 seconds (obviously it's not going to have enough instantaneous power output to do that, but again for a sense of scale).

If Ireland had 10 of them, that'd be 8 grid-seconds worth of energy. Although, of course, actual disturbances aren't going to be that large. A few percent imbalance perhaps?

So if the whole grid had an instantaneous 10% imbalance, one of those units could carry it for 8 seconds.

(EDIT: changed energy numbers to fit the appropriate power grid)
by conductr | 2025-04-29 14:14:34+00:00
The article being discussed isn’t about what Amazon has to do. It’s about them trying to expose the cost of tariffs so consumers know more than they typically do. It’s completely voluntary and intentional on their part. They’re basically quantifying the impact of trumps policies, probably in a way that will change people’s ideas about how it affects their pocketbook. In a way, they’re playing politics with this.
by chollida1 | 2025-04-29 14:14:51+00:00
I've talked to a few economists about this and non agree with Elon on this.

The biggest issue one person raised is how do you separate out government spending form GDP?

If a US town has a big military base, does that mean the entire towns' GDP is just government spending so ignore it?

The government essentially pays for everyone's salary in the town.

Where do you draw the line at what is government spending and private spending?

Cause if the base went away tomorrow then so does the town and about 95% of its spending, so it would be hard to include any of the towns economy in the GDP calculations if you only want private spending as the private spending in this case is almost all first or second order based solely on government spending.

Or at a more macro level. Boeing is a legitimate company but more than 50% and more than 75% depending on how you account for it, comes from government spending.

So do you just not include 75% of Boeings spending in GDP?

How much of the Boeing employees spending do you include in GDP then as if 75% of their salary is government spending and you are trying to exclude government spending.

If you allow their spending to be part of GDP then you are saying you are including government spending in GDP just as a second order event.

I'm told people still do their Phd in economics on this topic so its clearly a very hard problemm.
by js2 | 2025-04-29 14:14:53+00:00
> 1972 March 31 - . 04:02 GMT - . Launch Site: Baikonur. Launch Complex: Baikonur LC31. LV Family: R-7. Launch Vehicle: Molniya 8K78M. FAILURE: The escape stage Block L's engine cut off 125 seconds after ignition due to timer failure.. Failed Stage: U.

http://www.astronautix.com/v/venera.html via https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4384/1 via Wikipedia article on the probe.
by ryao | 2025-04-29 14:14:57+00:00
Having worked on performance sensitive code (OpenZFS), I have found less to be more.

While C code makes more heavy use of linked lists than C++ code, most of the C code I have helped maintain made even heavier use of balanced binary search trees and B-trees than linked lists. It also used SLAB allocation to amortize allocation costs. In the case of OpenZFS, most of the code operated in the kernel where external memory fragmentation makes dynamic arrays (and “large” arrays in general) unusable.

I think you have not seen the C libraries available to make C even better. libuutil and libumem from OpenSolaris make doing these things extremely nice. Some of the first code I wrote professionally (and still maintain) was written in C++. There really is nothing from C++ that I miss in C when I have such libraries. In fact, I have long wanted to rewrite that C++ code in C since I find it easier to maintain due to the reduced abstractions.
by Zigurd | 2025-04-29 14:14:58+00:00
If you look at their marketing material, you find that they are marketing Kuiper almost exactly the way that SpaceX markets Starlink. Except for specialty markets, and what are literally edge cases, they both face a shrinking TAM due to the expansion of terrestrial wireless.

I also can't find any compelling synergies with AWS, which seems like the obvious place to look for an advantage if you are Amazon.
by vitro | 2025-04-29 14:15:02+00:00
Try Spanish in Latudio [0]. It is not quite for beginners, you need to have at least basic vocabulary, but regarding immersion, it should fit what you are looking for. It uses a listening-first approach and contextual translations with vocabulary and lets you explore words you didn't get in other contexts.

[0] https://www.latudio.com/
by mieko | 2025-04-29 14:15:14+00:00
For people finding this thread via web search in the future:

screen.studio is macOS screen recording software that checks for updates every five minutes. Somehow, that alone is NOT the bug described in this post. The /other/ bug described in this blog is: their software also downloaded a 250MB update file every five minutes.

The software developers there consider all of this normal except the actual download, which cost them $8000 in bandwidth fees.

To re-cap: Screen recording software. Checks for updates every five (5) minutes. That's 12 times an hour.

I choose software based on how much I trust the judgement of the developers. Please consider if this feels like reasonable judgement to you.
by danesparza | 2025-04-29 14:15:15+00:00
From https://www.newsweek.com/walmart-loses-22b-consumer-confiden...

"You can see that the money runs out before the month is gone, you can see that people are buying smaller pack sizes at the end of the month," McMillon said.

They do need to eat, but they are eating less - and not by choice. They don't have the money to buy what they want to. No amount of advertising will fix that.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-04-29 14:15:26+00:00
Followed a couple of links and found his HN account:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=moldbug

2nd last comment starts:

moldbug on May 29, 2012 [dead] | parent | context | prev | next [–] | on: Peter Thiel's Rise to Wealth and Libertarian Futur...

> I've never understood why anyone gets so hung up on their "right to vote." Why should women have the right to vote? Why should anyone have the right to vote?
by edmgood | 2025-04-29 14:15:53+00:00
[Beta] - https://copilot.alkali-eng.com/

Hi all - we’re a new team of ML researchers and chemical engineers trying to predict what the future of chemical process design will look like!

We’re not talking about finding new molecules (i.e. what scientists do) - we’re talking about AI that will help speed up design and scale-up of chemical facilities (i.e. the engineering work). Of course, building things in the real world require SO much caution - but we expect one day designing things in the physical world, without AI supervision, could be seen as driving a car without lane-assist.

We think the important part here is teaching LLMs to use tools, like chemical simulation engines, rather than getting them to predict numbers out of nowhere. This way, any LLM results are verifiable by humans too.

Just as LLMs/VLMs are transforming how we do software engineering and coding, we expect slowly, this trend to propagate into more traditional engineering disciplines.

Would love any feedback! We share a mega-beta v0 in the blog post, too!
by p_ing | 2025-04-29 14:16:01+00:00
ACPI implementations have been terrible for a very long time, ASUS is no exception. This is where a good portion of sleep-related issues stem from. The other side is garbage drivers. I have a joystick from Virpil, which has it's own drivers (extensible configuration) that prevented sleep.

That said, if I remove the joystick from the picture, my ASUS-based Am4 system sleeps just fine.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-29 14:16:10+00:00
Inventory is priced and sold according to market conditions, not the cost of goods.

Everyone does this. If someone was trying to sell their old car and they saw news of upcoming tariffs on cars, they’d expect to sell their car at a higher price even though the tariffed cars haven’t arrived yet.

A second factor is that volatility and unpredictable policy raises risk, which increases prices. There will be a lot of price increases in excess of base tariff rates simply because everything is changing rapidly on the whims of this administration and businesses need more buffer for unexpected shocks.

If you’re a company who set up manufacturing in China, placed orders 4 months ago, and you’re watching the tariff rate change from 65% to 125% or more in the span of days with threats of more, you have to increase your prices a lot to have more buffer. Those parts you ordered now have an unpredictable price tags attached when they arrive at the port. It’s completely out of control.
by Clubber | 2025-04-29 14:16:38+00:00
Passing the cost to the consumer isn't a requirement. Sometimes it's impossible and stay competitive with local business.

Say local business charges $110. Imported charges $80 but a 50% tariff making it $120. If the import charges $120, they won't be competitive on price, so if that was their only differentiation, they would need eat at least $10 in tariffs.
by 9rx | 2025-04-29 14:16:44+00:00
> selling a policy is often more difficult and important than policy itself

Policy needs a villain. After all, if everyone were on the same page acting in good faith, you wouldn't need policy. The people could just start living the life they want to see.

Alcohol points to drunks, cigarettes points to those backlogging hospitals, carbon pricing points to "evil" oil companies trying to destroy the environment. Soda has tried pointing to the obese also backlogging hospitals, but, as you point out, not very successfully.

Your sweet grandmother uses social media and it makes her happy being able to see photos of her grandchildren. It is hard for the average person to find a villain in that.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-04-29 14:16:56+00:00
The usual HN solution to this problem is to just flag purely political stories and not discuss politics.

I agree any system that ranks posts purely on the ratio of upvotes to downvotes isn't well equipped to handle discussions of controversial topics. Unless there's a strong culture of respecting dissenting opinions it inevitably just turns into an echo chamber for one side or the other. There needs to be some way to filter out votes motivated by ideology rather than post quality.

X's Community Notes has the right idea I think, in that its algorithm takes into account the ideological biases of the voters and ranks notes based on the overall consensus across multiple ideological perspectives rather than just on whichever ideological perspective has the greatest total number of votes. That's a lot harder to implement though.