MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by palata | 2025-04-13 10:58:19+00:00
> All Dutch banks now advertise to install Google pay for wireless payments.

That sounds like a very big mistake to me. And a missed opportunity: in some countries, banked work together to develop their own systems. People can send money to each other and pay everywhere with a small app that is not BigTech from the US.

I think there should be such an app in every country; you don't want your payment system to fully depend on US companies.
by Retric | 2025-04-13 10:58:43+00:00
“The number of people overall who believe the election was fraudulent has hovered around 35% since November 2020, but this percentage has not increased significantly as the claim purports.” https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/02/viral-imag...

Which is different than asking if voting fraud changed the outcome and more importantly different than asking which side benefited. Someone who calls targeted overly aggressive culling of voter registrations fraud has something of a point, even if that’s a long way from stuffing ballots or meaningful changes in results.
by vayora | 2025-04-13 10:58:52+00:00
Airalo is the world’s first eSIM store that solves the pain of high roaming bills by giving travelers access to eSIMs (digital SIM cards). More than one million people are already using Airalo's eSIMs. With eSIMs from Airalo, travelers can download and install a digital data pack for over 200 countries/regions and get connected anywhere in the world as soon as they land.
by nthingtohide | 2025-04-13 10:59:54+00:00
> Back to coding: if you have a deep understanding of your codebases and dependencies, you may end up finding that you could actually extract some part of one codebase into a library and reuse it in another codebase.

I understand the point you are making. But what makes you think refactoring won't be AI's forte. Maybe you could explicitly ask for it. Maybe you could ask it to minify while being human-understandable and that will achieve the refactoring objectives you have in mind.
by jxjnskkzxxhx | 2025-04-13 11:01:21+00:00
Thank you for the answer! You see, up until now I had never appreciated that a GPU does more than matmuls... And that first reference, what a find :-)

Edit: And btw, another question that I had had before was what's the difference between a tensor core and a GPU, and based on your answer, my speculative answer to that would be that the tensor core is the part inside the GPU that actually does the matmuls.
by dynm | 2025-04-13 11:01:55+00:00
In the notation of this page, the entropy H(P) is best thought of as:

"The mean number of bits to encode a member of P, assuming an optimal code."

And the KL divergence KL(P,Q) is probably best thought of as:

"The mean number of WASTED bits if you encode members of P assuming that they had come from Q."
by n4r9 | 2025-04-13 11:04:54+00:00
Just to note; it would be really helpful if you could ease up on the ad hominem. It's not going to stop me and doesn't add to the weight of your arguments. It just drags the discussion down and makes it harder to figure out what your arguments are

> These are intentional similarities!

I said that there are "clear comparisons" to the American revolution. I didn't suggest that the comparison was accidental. If anything, I assumed it was supposed to be read that way.

> One example to shut you up

Well, you've failed there. Perhaps we should focus on the cause of your initial outrage: Heinlein's (lack of) character depth?

> For this you feel the need to be secretive?

It's privacy rather than secrecy. I don't want it to be too easy to link this account to my Goodreads.
by dfawcus | 2025-04-13 11:06:08+00:00
How about not simply summarising, but creating a broadly similar novel, with similar characters which undergo broadly similar story arcs?

I can see how it could end up as infringement, but also how one could avoid infringement. The issue would seem to be if the original author wishes to sue.

As an example, compare Brooks "The Sword of Shannara" with Tolkein's "Lord of the Rings". It is widely accepted that the former is heavily derivative for the latter; in my view essentially being an example of the above broadly similar novel.

Yet AFAIK, Tolkein's estate didn't sue Brooks. However if they had, how likely would a victory have been?

Now in the case of "Generative LLM", we may have an even closer "derivative work". However the LLM users could well get away with it if they consume a wide enough canon, and the source authors either do not learn of the derivation, or do not have the means to sue.
by ndiddy | 2025-04-13 11:07:24+00:00
Hyperion Entertainment is a company that has access to the AmigaOS source code because they were contracted over 25 years ago to port AmigaOS to PowerPC (called AmigaOS 4) as part of a failed attempt to keep the platform going. After that didn't go anywhere, they decided to start selling AmigaOS 3 updates meant to run on old Commodore Amiga hardware to retrocomputing enthusiasts. The project has very little overhead because despite being a commercial product, all development is done by unpaid volunteers.

Note that there's been ongoing lawsuits over whether Hyperion is legally allowed to sell AmigaOS 3 updates due to their contract being to develop AmigaOS 4. Here's a pretty good summary of that situation and how it's been holding up the release of an Amiga replica product: https://x.com/MuseumCommodore/status/1902705399234756786
by hnlmorg | 2025-04-13 11:09:49+00:00
You don’t actually need quotes to define a string in YAML. Eg the following syntax

User: Name: >- Bob Phone: >- 01234 56789 Description:>- This is a multi line description

That’s both readable and parses your records as strings.

Edit: This stack overflow like provides more details https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3790454/how-do-i-break-a...
by floydnoel | 2025-04-13 11:09:52+00:00
> If you really hate air pollution, move to the country and be willing to sacrifice the advantages of cities.

i really do hate air pollution! it drove me away from idaho, where 2-3 months of the year massive forest fires would choke the air and force everyone inside (gave my kids asthma).

we recently moved away from a suburb near two highways, out to a rural area where we are half a mile from the nearest paved road.

besides the lowered air pollution, the lower noise pollution is a huge benefit. hearing birds instead of traffic is amazing. and my kids don’t choke in their sleep any more!
by re-thc | 2025-04-13 11:10:19+00:00
> we need to ask what the benefit to society is

Business doesn't operate on the benefit of society. It's not a charity.

> people have already given away copyright licenses, and their work will then be sold/used to train and they can't change that.

They have? No they haven't. There are already ongoing law suits.

> If we forced the models to be public domain

How do you? Send the NSA and FBI to everyone's house? How do you know I have a model?

> enforcing it isn't trivial but that doesn't mean it can't be done

Just like stopping drugs? Good luck.
by thrance | 2025-04-13 11:10:37+00:00
2 years prior, in 1972, Andrei Tarkovsky adapted Stanisław Lem's Solaris to the big screen in the Soviet Union, which may have contributed to Dick's paranoia. Anyway, the film's a masterpiece that I highly recommend, and since it was published before 1975 it is not subject to copyright. You can find it on YouTube [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/Z8ZhQPaw4rE
by mike_hearn | 2025-04-13 11:11:28+00:00
Maybe it's changed. I'm going back a long way but part of my view on this was shaped by an internal white paper written by an engineer who analyzed the cost of building a Gmail clone using commodity tech vs Google's in house approach, this was maybe circa 2010. He didn't even look at people costs, just hardware, and the commodity tech stack smoked Gmail's on cost without much difference in features (this was focused on storage and serving, not spam filtering where there was no comparably good commodity solution).

The cost delta was massive and really quite astounding to see spelled out because it was hardly talked about internally even after the paper was written. And if you took into account the very high comp Google engineers got, even back then when it was lower than today, the delta became comic. If Gmail had been a normal business it'd have been outcompeted on price and gone broke instantly, the cost disadvantage was so huge.

The people who built Gmail were far from dumb but they just weren't being measured on cost efficiency at all. The same issues could be seen at all levels of the Google stack at that time. For instance, one reason for Gmail's cost problem was that the underlying shared storage systems like replicated BigTables were very expensive compared to more ordinary SANs. And Google's insistence on being able to take clusters offline at will with very little notice required a higher replication factor than a normal company would have used. There were certainly benefits in terms of rapid iteration on advanced datacenter tech, but did every product really need such advanced datacenters to begin with? Probably not. The products I worked on didn't seem to.

Occasionally we'd get a reality check when acquiring companies and discovering they ran competitive products on what was for Google an unimaginably thrifty budget.

So Google was certainly willing to scale things up that only made financial sense if you were in an environment totally unconstrained by normal budgets. Perhaps the hardware divisions operate differently, but it was true of the software side at least.
by stefanfis | 2025-04-13 11:11:56+00:00
I really like the aesthetic of the site and how the principles are shown. IMHO everyone building things, even the nerdiest tool, should know about these laws. One addition I'd like to see on that site: Show more examples of well-done interfaces that highlight the respective principle. There are some (I found two Google screenshots), but I'd like to see it for every law. That would be great.
by wobfan | 2025-04-13 11:12:00+00:00
> The author is essentially arguing that fewer people will be able to build software in the future.

You comment is talking about ability to build software, vs. the article (in only a single sentence that references this topic, while the other 99% circles around something else) talks about the job market situation. If what you wanted so say "The author is arguing that people will probably have a harder time getting a job in software development", that would have been correct.

> That's the opposite of what's happened over the past year or two. Now many more non-technical people can (and are) building software.

You're (based on the new comment) explicitly saying that people without technical knowledge are getting jobs in software development sector. Where did you get that info from? Would be an interesting read for sure, if it's actually true.
by wrasee | 2025-04-13 11:13:27+00:00
A folder of markdown docs in your favourite text editor, ftw!

+ It’s all within the editor you already know really well. Uses your existing tools.

+ Many editors have really good support for markdown built in. Treat H1’s like notes and along with modern fuzzy search for files/symbols you can easily get to any note and jump around.

+ If you want smarter [[liking]] there’s some good plugins out there to bring this to your editor.

+ Simple, future proof and no lock-in.

I’m currently enjoying markdown-oxide, an LSP for markdown docs. Captures all your notes as symbols so you can fuzzy search and “find references”, etc. supports #tags, too.
by throw0101d | 2025-04-13 11:13:43+00:00
> Except tarrifs rarely help any of that: there's already extensive regulations in place to require local sourcing for defence critical components, all the way down the supply chain.

This is too limited in thinking. It's not just about "defence critical components", but the know-how and having the production workflow knowledge. It's all well and good to have rules on what goes into frigate, but if you don't have the shipyards to build things then it's a bit of a moot point:

* https://www.csis.org/analysis/ship-wars-confronting-chinas-d...

> You don't get a defence manufacturing industry without actually paying for a defence manufacturing industry.

It's not just about industry but about capacity as well: if you have (in this example) only (say) 4 shipyards you're going to have a tough time beating someone who has 40.
by pjmlp | 2025-04-13 11:14:31+00:00
GUIs have keyboard shortcuts for decades, blame the developer that wasn't up to their stuff, not providing keyboard navigation.

Heck, there are even Win32 and X Windows APIs designed with the exact purpose for keyboard navigation and shortcuts.

Maybe instead of doing TUIs one should better spend their time learning the tools of their craft.

Skyscanner failure to adopt such tooling, which browser also have due to accessibility requirements, has nothing to do with technical issues, all about skill and willingness where to spend budget.
by OJFord | 2025-04-13 11:15:13+00:00
> The pure-Python version requires building from source and passing special flags, so it is not possible to specify it in requirements.txt.

You can put any flags in requirements.txt, including -r[equiring] another txt etc.

Your point may apply to modern pyproject.toml tooling though, or at least that it wouldn't be simply another entry in the dependencies array.
by t8sr | 2025-04-13 11:15:17+00:00
When I did my 20% on Go at Google, about 10 years ago, we already had a semi-formal rule that channels must not appear in exported function signatures. It turns out that using CSP in any large, complex codebase is asking for trouble, and that this is true even about projects where members of the core Go team did the CSP.

If you take enough steps back and really think about it, the only synchronization primitive that exists is a futex (and maybe atomics). Everything else is an abstraction of some kind. If you're really determined, you can build anything out of anything. That doesn't mean it's always a good idea.

Looking back, I'd say channels are far superior to condition variables as a synchronized cross-thread communication mechanism - when I use them these days, it's mostly for that. Locks (mutexes) are really performant and easy to understand and generally better for mutual exclusion. (It's in the name!)
by n1b0m | 2025-04-13 11:15:54+00:00
“Trump’s first term would probably have seen a version of this week’s debacle if he had chosen different advisers, and if he had not later been knocked off course by Covid.

For the first two years of his first term, in 2017-18, his instincts were largely kept in check by his economic adviser Gary Cohn, a former chief operating officer at Goldman Sachs, who dampened Trump’s determination to use tariffs to end trade deficits.“

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/12/did-trump-tari...
by andrekandre | 2025-04-13 11:18:16+00:00
> I'd say that I don't understand how anyone can be charmed by this con artist, but the truth is that I have simply lost a ton of faith in the "average" person.

the same could probably be said about the "average" person with regards to buttoned-up polished politicians with which trump contrasts himself to; he looks authentic to many people....
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-04-13 11:18:22+00:00
The benefits of getting more of the population to cycle are so beneficial that it's a joke to even try comparing the return on investment of cycle lanes versus car infrastructure and of course, when there's lots of cars, it pretty much pushes out other forms of transport due to the size/weight/danger/pollution of the cars.

Here's a somewhat biased look at the economics of cycling:

https://www.cyclinguk.org/briefing/case-cycling-economy
by sushibowl | 2025-04-13 11:18:53+00:00
Dutch banks did this, it is called iDeal: https://www.ideal.nl/en/

iDeal is ubiquitous in The Netherlands for individuals sending money to each other, and for online payments. However it does not support NFC payments in physical stores. Dutch banks decided to go with Google/Apple wallet for this. I believe in the longer term Wero https://wero-wallet.eu/ (and potentially the digital euro https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/html/index.en.ht...) is supposed to take over this usecase in the EU.
by petee | 2025-04-13 11:21:28+00:00
This seems to be an engineered-only solution without real world testing.

A person teetering wildly 3 feet above are still going to miss that narrow design. Or you have to hover and let your pants touch the rim, which also probably puts you closer to the inevitable splash back.

The only clear solution is to direct all splash back to the user so they can take it with them.
by sfjailbird | 2025-04-13 11:22:35+00:00
Funny how closely his own machinations resemble the (obviously comically deranged) delusions of some of his characters. He was clearly quite self-aware, as another comment noted, or could it be that the whole FBI report was a jest? It really reads exactly like a passage from his novels.

The subtext of the report to the FBI, that we must suppress artistic expression in order to protect the innocent minds from dangerous ideas, remains as relevant and intriguing today as then.
by throw0101d | 2025-04-13 11:24:26+00:00
For anyone who wants to know about ATSC 3.0 the Antenna Man channel covers over the air (OTA) stuff in the US:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw3W7MoafR4

* https://www.youtube.com/@AntennaMan/videos

ATSC 3.0 allows for DRM/encryption as the parent comment mentions.
by jeeybee | 2025-04-13 11:24:29+00:00
I've observed something interesting: my toddler can quickly and somewhat effortlessly solve a simple physical puzzle, yet when I try to prompt large language models (LLMs) to guide me clearly through the solution, they struggle.

Even with clear photographs and detailed instructions, LLMs tend to give general advice or indirect methods rather than precise, actionable steps that clearly demonstrate correctness.

Have you tried something similar? Have you successfully "prompt-engineered" an LLM into giving clear, precise, step-by-step solutions for physical puzzles? If yes, what's your approach?
by ggm | 2025-04-13 11:25:08+00:00
They can do it retrospectively. Logistics knows every single container, it's tax and import consequences. This is a shit take. Seriously, the bill of lading for every good in and out passes through somebody who can total that stuff up.

I am amused as anyone else but this doesn't even count as a glitch to me.

Booze is taxed by %alcohol. You think they ka-ching some cash register at the inter-modal depot? It's done on paperwork, monthly or quarterly.
Show HN: AEE – An Open-Source Engine That Evaluates Truth and Bias in Text
by zayndeveloper | 2025-04-13 11:26:26+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m 18 and I built an open-source engine that analyzes raw text to extract structured propositions, assign trustworthiness scores, detect contradictions, and identify circular logic or bias — all with human-readable outputs.

It’s called AEE: Automated Epistemology Engine. It’s not just an information extractor, but a reasoning assistant designed to think about how and why we trust certain information.

Main features: • Extracts subject-verb-object propositions • Scores each statement's epistemic reliability • Detects internal contradictions and circular reasoning • Flags common bias types (assumptions, generalizations, etc.) • Generates explanatory reports in plain English

I published the code and detailed documentation here: → [https://huggingface.co/NextGenC/AEE](https://huggingface.co/NextGenC/AEE)

And a research paper version on Zenodo: → [https://zenodo.org/records/15205917](https://zenodo.org/records/15205917)

Would love your feedback, criticism, ideas — or just a chat about epistemology and AI.

Thanks!
by cardanome | 2025-04-13 11:26:53+00:00
It is good that you paid attention to economics 101 but we don't live in the 19th century anymore and economic theory has progressed a bit since Ricardo.

We don't have pure free market economies. Neither in China nor in the USA nor anywhere else. The see big monopolistic companies dominating most markets. We see an closer interlink between state and private corporations.

Even just with the currency manipulation that China engages in, things get screwed a lot. Or the special status the US has with the dollar. Real world is more complicated.

But even if we assume free markets, you misunderstood what the previous poster said. The problem with Ricardo's comparative advantages is that is assumes fixed advantages. It is like optimizing for a local optimum. You might be super inefficient in producing X because you have never done it but if you actually invested in learning how to produce X you might discover that you are really good at it and the comparative advantages would go in your favor.

I do still believe that trading with each others can lead to more net wealth in most cases and obviously full autarky is not realistic these days but like anything in economics, it shouldn't be taken as a dogma.
by pbasista | 2025-04-13 11:27:01+00:00
> engaged in a trade war with ... half the EU

That is generally not possible. All EU countries share a common trade policy. Another country can either be in a trade war with the entire EU or with none of the EU.

According to the Wikipedia [0], The EU member states delegate authority to the European Commission to negotiate their external trade relations.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Commercial_Policy_(EU)
by kashunstva | 2025-04-13 11:27:30+00:00
> think positive about your country and shift with the times

You know I tried to think positively about the United States; but darned if they don't keep doing negative things. Like appointing grossly incompetent people to head Federal departments. Like unlawfully and arbitrarily abducting people from the streets. Like extorting universities - ideally centres of free thought - over non-complying ideological positions. Like appearing to wreck the economy; but in ways that might just advantage himself and others in his circle. And the list goes on...

Some of us aren't "shifting with the times" because of an ethical line we won't cross. I grew up in the United States in the 1960's and had the constant drumbeat of "We're the world's melting pot," "We're the most benevolent spreader of democracy," "We're practically the only free country on the planet," "We are a country of laws." beat into us in public school. So it's a little jarring to see the wholesale abandonment of these values at the hands of someone who can barely string together a cogent sentence of more than, say, 4-5 non-repeating words and for whom "negotiating" means "win/lose", instead of "how can we meet our needs _and_ your needs, while creating more value in the process?"

Personally, I tried having a positive outlook; but saw this coming and left the U.S. just ahead of Trump 1.0.

This rant aside, it's incredibly wishful thinking to assume that one can undo in weeks or months, the complex web of international trade that has developed over decades because of the much-vaunted invisible hand of the market.
by Caspy7 | 2025-04-13 11:27:45+00:00
I believe MacOS has full support. Windows now has support available as a free installable plugin.

Mozilla said that the current decoder state was unacceptable but if Google Research wrote them a Rust version that met their shippable criteria they'd ship it. That's planned to be done this summer. So I'm optimistic Firefox will ship support (courtesy of Google Research) within the year.

That would just leave Chrome support and Windows to ship by default. I'm hoping Firefox's support would cause pressure on the Chrome team.
by bambax | 2025-04-13 11:28:15+00:00
> A lot of older comedy aged better. Jacques Tati films for example. Or Chaplin.

As a Frenchman I should be defending Tati but by God I have never found him funny. Poetic, maybe (maybe!) but funny?? Not in the least IMHO. One can guess what he means, immediately, there is no subtext. "Modernity is dehumanizing." Yeah, well, it probably is, but we all know that now, don't we? (Same thing with Chaplin BTW.)

Monty Python is incredibly funny, and still is, because it's often absurd, and absurd stays absurd forever.