MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MPSFounder | 2025-04-09 00:02:50+00:00
Same story everywhere. Intel was founded by Andy Grove, a refugee. I recently saw a comment opposing refugees mention that refugees in the old days were Eastern Europeans, whereas nowadays it is people from backwards countries (whatever that means). Anti-refugee sentiment is often racism that just happens to be accepted. Sbux once offered 10,000 refugees jobs, and had to rescind them in favor of veterans because Americans were offended. My personal view is refugees are often the hardest working and most honest people, given they experienced extreme hardships (similar to how holocaust survivors went on to dominate business and finance in America). It is such a shame America turned its back on many (particularly from Syria and Ukraine in recent years, although many churches sponsored Ukrainian families because they are Christian. Funny enough, I believe 10% of Syria are Christians too, but suburban churches did not sponsor them, with a minister saying they do not blend in, whatever that means).
by dgfitz | 2025-04-09 00:03:32+00:00
> So, rather than sell Europe weapons that we create in the United States, part of the “intention” of this policy is to cut off the European demand for our weapons systems and cause them to manufacture their own? How is that helpful to the United States and our bottom line? How is that at all in the US interests?

Are you asking why a single point of failure is a bad thing?

To restate what you asked: “if the USA weapons manufacturing capability is compromised and cannot sell weapons to approved parties, and said parties also cannot manufacture their own weapons, how is this in the interest of the US?”

What do you think?
by dcl | 2025-04-09 00:03:36+00:00
Search engines are still required for me. LLM's still get lots of very important things wrong.

Last night, I asked Claude 3.7 Sonnet to obtain historical gold prices in AUD and the ASX200 TR index values and plot the ratio of them, it got all of the tickers wrong - I had to google (it then got a bunch of other stuff wrong in the code).

Also yesterday, I was preparing a brief summary of forecasting metrics/measures for a stakeholder and it incorrectly described the properties of SMAPE (easily validated by checking Wikipedia).

I constantly have issues with my direct reports writing code using LLM's. They constantly hallucinate things for some of the SDK's we use.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-04-09 00:04:13+00:00
> In many cases they can't work, e.g. because of the analog hole

Careful not to confuse illegal with unable.

> [can't work because] the mechanism of operation is observable to anyone who buys the product.

That was my point about increasingly invasive DRM. Without IP law, the only way for large swaths of industry to sustain themselves would be to deal exclusively on extensively secured platforms. Imagine a scenario where all paid services (software, streaming, and quite literally everything else) was only available on hardware attested devices rooted with only one or a few players.

In the hypothetical scenario where it is explicitly legal to copy any binary that you gain possession of (ie copyright doesn't exist) I think that's what we would see.

> If someone had a secret video encoding strategy today, some hobbyists would reverse engineer it and post it on the internet.

Which is why patents exist. When companies decide how much to invest in what this is taken into account.

Notably due to the lack of popularity (and thus lack of adoption) of patent encumbered video and audio standards, anyone trying to make a direct profit effectively dropped out years ago. At this point it's driven by behemoths that realize significant downstream cost savings.

> Have you read a modern patent? They're inscrutable

Yes, I'm aware. Consider how much worse things could be though. No hint, every employee who worked on it under both NDA and non-compete. Imagine how much more difficult the labor market would be to navigate if the government didn't intervene to prevent overbearing terms in such a scenario. Consider what all of this would do to market efficiency.

My point was never to disagree with your broad strokes (that the free market is perfectly capable of functioning in the absence of IP law). Rather it was to point out that despite all the downsides, IP law does clearly offer some collective benefits by significantly reducing incentives that would otherwise drive greedy individuals to act against common interests.
by mulmen | 2025-04-09 00:05:09+00:00
That’s not a cool motorcycle picture. You can argue that it’s a picture of a cool motorcycle but that’s really not the same thing.

I knew the submission would be a photo of Rollie Free on his Black Shadow before clicking the link. It is the motorcycle picture.

I have never heard of this mad max looking bike and frankly it doesn’t strike a chord with me.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-04-09 00:05:47+00:00
Yes and no.

Writing code is sitting in an office and typing stuff into a computer, all the way into production.

Making machines is a physical thing. You can do a lot of the design on a computer, but to do even that you need a handle on the physical reality of the thing that benefits from experience with the physical object. If you want a prototype it's something you build with your hands rather than something you run in a container on your commodity PC.

It's not just a matter of whether you call it white collar or blue collar. It's that the physical work is considered dirty and vulgar, even though it's something valuable and important.
by padolsey | 2025-04-09 00:06:19+00:00
This reminds me of how it's possible to decode prairie dog communication into literal 'words' that specify location of possible threats (lookup 'Slobodchikoff prarie dogs'). It's remarkable. Only made possible by the curious–albeit eccentric–human sitting in nature and listening in true analog.

And, on the topic of tapping, I imagine even the cadence of our keystrokes can be used to construct meaningful browser fingerprints. We are always emitting so many artefacts that can be used to construct rich identities. It's a bit terrifying from a surveillence perspective but also very satisfying to create order from noise.
by RachelF | 2025-04-09 00:06:27+00:00
Speaking of Cheetahs, pigeon fanciers like to compare their birds to Cheetahs.

A 200gram grain-fueled homing pigeon can maintain 60km/h for an hour. A cheetah can do that for maybe a minute.

I've always thought this is not really a fair comparison, as flying through the air probably requires way less energy than sprinting.
by hayst4ck | 2025-04-09 00:07:19+00:00
These tariffs are a radical action that rhymes with the "Four pests" campaign of Mao Zedong's China which led to one of the worst famines in human history.

Defenders of these tariffs say they might bring back manufacturing or say they are a response to some bad effect of the current state of America... They don't accept what the experts say, but what their authority says, and their authority says that these will bring manufacturing back. The current argument in the face of backlash is "let's wait and see."

Mao Zedong, another populist authoritarian who didn't like to listen to experts or acknowledge reality implemented the four pests campaign. Sparrows were eating Chinese crops, much like trade deficits eat American labor. Mao decided it would be wise to kill these pests to protect the crops, failing to predict that the death of these sparrows would cause even worse pests to damage crops.

This led to one of the worst famines the world has ever experienced.

China's cultural revolution (our project 2025) and great leap forward (liberation day) had truly disastrous effects like the four pests campaign for those who lived through them.

If there are no checks on this administrations power soon, we are likely to see even more short sighted incompetent policy that radically changes society that will damage us for generations.

In china they erase history because history gives you a foundation to judge your leaders. "Purifying" the Smithsonian is an admission that understanding history there there would make you dissent from what will happen or be dissatisfied with some of your leaders in the past who might be similar to current leaders. We should take the lesson's of history and understand that what is happening now rhymes with everything the America I grew up in, including the conservative America, stands against, like unchecked power.

It might get better... but it can also get much much much worse.
by zozbot234 | 2025-04-09 00:07:25+00:00
I don't think this is correct. The capability for drawing useful logical inferences from something like a Cyc knowledge base is far more compute limited than just doing ML on any given amount of data. We're talking exponential (or worse!) vs. pure linear scaling. This is the real-world, practical reason why the Cyc folks eventually found no value at all in their most general inference engine, and ended up exclusively relying on their custom-authored, more constrained inference generators instead.
by mrangle | 2025-04-09 00:07:27+00:00
That wasn't nostalgia on my end. I was only making an implied point. To remember that era clearly is to know that it is impossible for sentiment to be worse. My point is about the flaws of perception and memory, and regrettably immortal pabulum.

US approval varies across all populations, from inception. Some British still refer to us as Colinists, with a hint of disdain. People have always complained about the United States. Which is irrelevant, on balance, in the modern period.

What are these complaints about? DJT in general? Same record, different guy. Tariffs? Inevitable regardless of the office holder. Prepared for by both sides, for a long time now. In a complex economy that few to no people in public discussions understand.

A bottomless fall along which that particular immortal complaint is always relevant is no fall at all. Which was my implication about the relative silliness of the boilerplate comments.

This isn't even a defense of any particular issue. More like a wish for a better breed of critic, if nothing but for a change of pace and interest. Or maybe because we need actually effective critics, to maintain a healthy ecosystem.

I mean, "they aren't aware of their own interests" is truly basement tier immature rhetoric.

Perhaps it'd be better for the OP to explain how whomever they want to vote for will address opposition voter's perceived most important interests. Otherwise, one can't credibly complain about their vote.
by achierius | 2025-04-09 00:07:29+00:00
You don't need a bytecode interpreter to not have UB defined in your language. E.g. instead of unchecked addition / array access, do checked addition / bounds checked access. There are even efforts to make this the case with C: https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge/blob/delug... achieves a ~50% overhead, far far better than Python.

And even among languages that do have a full virtual machine, Python is slow. Slower than JS, slower than Lisp, slower than Haskell by far.
by ggm | 2025-04-09 00:07:39+00:00
It isn't clear to me that post sentencing, the law forbids this. I don't like it, I didn't like reading about the historical precedents in French penal law much either (Dreyfus aside, "Papillon" is only part of the story. They also exiled the communards to New Caledonia) -But it was legal in french law, and this may be legal in US law.

Deporting people before trial, during trial and legal process, sending US citizens and residents with paperwork approval offshore, rescinding their rights arbitrarily or in defiance of Judicial ruling, ignoring basic rights, thats shit too, but it's different to what happens to somebody when sentenced to incarceration.
by woodruffw | 2025-04-09 00:08:08+00:00
That's not one, but two particularities that aren't latent to the chair itself: me (the sitter), and time.

Do you really have a personal ontology that requires you to ask the tense and person acting on a thing to know what that thing is? I suspect you don't; most people don't, because it would imply that the chair wouldn't be a chair if nobody sat on it.
by k310 | 2025-04-09 00:08:52+00:00
China may not have enormous military or economic power at the present time, but they have successfully hacked U.S. infrastructure. [0] and the precautions that the Biden administration put in place are being backpedaled [1] "Trump admin fires security board investigating Chinese hack of large ISPs" and top security officials are dangerously unqualified, and are using insecure practices. Experienced people are being replaced by political sympathizers. "National Security Agency chief fired" [2]

In my opinion, a massive hack attack by likely culprits China, Russia or North Korea takes down the entire U.S. internet, water and power plants and top-level government communications. Only lower level military and state disaster personnel are operational. What about Starlink? Sloppy security means it is knocked out, and since it ousted Verizon for the White House, confusion reigns.

Key to this is the use of home phones by Hegseth and company. Home phones, despite a secure messaging app like Signal, are trivially hacked to capture the screen, cameras and microphones, making security meaningless.

No security flaw or lax practice goes unexploited. Focusing on DEI instead of defense may be disastrous.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Typhoon

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/trump-admin-fire...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2025/04/04/g-s1-58247/national-security-...
by Rendello | 2025-04-09 00:09:00+00:00
My first recursive-decent parser was for this Discord bot that let people chain these ridiculous text transformations with pipes like in Unix, so:

> What {you’re refering|uwu|mock} to as {Linux|serif}, is in fact, {GNU/Linux|redact} | clap

Became:

> What <clap> uR <clap> rEfEwiNg <clap> to <clap> as <clap> *Linux*, <clap> is <clap> in <clap> fact, <clap> [REDACTED]

(HN strips all the fun Unicode stuff, so <clap> is the emoji, Linux is in bold serif, and redacted is the black bar.)

Terrible, I know, but such is the nature of the best chat bots. We used to do a lot of CTFs so I always wanted to be able to connect it to CyberChef and be able to use those functions. Nowadays an LLM could do most of it and more, I suppose.

https://github.com/rendello/pipe_bot
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-04-09 00:09:52+00:00
A more realistic estimate would be 10X to allow for the cost of factory investment, raw material refinement and processing, and assembly by local semi-skilled workers.

Computers used to be made like this. The hardware cost the modern equivalent of tens of thousands to tens of millions, partly because the assembly workers were well-managed, well-trained, and well-paid. This was DEC's business model, and it worked well for a couple of decades.

Offshoring from the early 80s on allowed US corporates to double dip and explode their margins. Local workers were laid off and replaced with cheaper offshore workers, wages for most jobs were cut in real terms (with a few critical exceptions, like software dev), but the people who did have jobs had access to much cheaper imports.

Property became catastrophically expensive, but other sectors, including consumer goods, electronics, non-premium clothes, and domestic essentials like furniture became much cheaper in real terms - which took the sting out of the loss of the better-paying jobs.

You can't reverse that overnight without catastrophic damage, because prices will explode but wages will still be depressed.

You will be making domestic commodity products that have no market.

Reindustrialisation is a fantasy. You can't bring the factories back without reinventing the economy from the ground up and making all of the parts fit together in new ways.

That would take decades, and a level of strategic insight the US is completely unable to imagine for political reasons.
by slt2021 | 2025-04-09 00:09:55+00:00
If the goal of gathering and attributing VPC flows is to have a workload granularity flow logs, then imho gathering mesh level logs is more direct and atraight forward approach, because mesh(and workload orchestrator) are uniquely qualified to know when workload A is running on a host X and is trying to connect to workload B.

Looking at Envoy access logs for example is more straightforward and simple aplroach, than running distributed ebpf and memory intensive large spark streaming job
by alephnerd | 2025-04-09 00:10:29+00:00
Intruiging (in a great way). Do you have any recommendations of any Brazilian sources (Portuguese em Ingles) about the Brazilian and MERCOSUR FinTech and Public Tech industry? I'd love to dig even deeper, but my background is more NAM and Indo-Pac driven. I passed on NuBank eons ago and don't want to make the same mistake again.

> Brazil, installments with credit cards are also super common... Basically when you put a credit card on any website or buy on a store, you can just choose to pay in 12x

Yea that kinda makes sense. The market dynamics in Brazil reminds me a lot of India albeit better regulated (thank you OECD reforms), but tbf, there has been a lot of cross-pollination between Brazilian and Indian policymakers - Cambridge MA is that kinda melting pot, and Brazil has a very similar political dynamic.
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-04-09 00:10:49+00:00
Maybe Im missing something but can’t you run workloads in separate network namespaces and then attach a bpf probe to the veth interface in the namespace? At that point you know all flows on that veth are from a specific workload as long as you keep track of what is running in which network namespaces?

I wonder if it is possible with ipv6 to never (or you roll through the addresses so reuse is temporally distant) re use addresses which removes the problems with staleness and false attribution.
by Aloisius | 2025-04-09 00:11:09+00:00
We manufacture more today than at any time in history. We just do it with a whole lot fewer people.

Have jobs been lost to outsourcing? Sure. But far more jobs have been lost to automation and the elimination of obsolete industries. While companies might have avoided investing in automation through the use of cheap labor in other countries, there is little doubt that will change if they re-shore.
by d_t_w | 2025-04-09 00:11:30+00:00
We have been using Apache ECharts in our products[1] since 2020.

Cannot recommend it enough - absolutely fantastic library, great documentation, zero issues of any impact to us in five years.

My only wish is for the keyboard accessibility ticket[2] to get some love!

[1] https://factorhouse.io

[2] https://github.com/apache/echarts/issues/14706
by sudahtigabulan | 2025-04-09 00:11:41+00:00
No, it said just "19 members". Nobody would notice him unless they went to the group settings, or he spoke up.

https://archive.is/YmtqQ/bb4da26bd1dd20371c772ed26070f066358...

Signal just released a change that lists all the members in the chat itself. You can guess why ;-)

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/da3fc408f
by throw10920 | 2025-04-09 00:11:47+00:00
> This is a solved problem. It is simple to download content shortly before it is very likely to be needed using plain old HTML.

No, it is not. There's no way to send the incremental results of typing in a search box, for instance, to the server with HTML alone - you need to use Javascript. And then you're still paying the latency penalty, because you don't know what the user's full search term is going to be until they press enter, and any autocomplete is going to have to make a full round trip with each incremental keystroke.

> Your links mortally wounds your argument for js frameworks, because poor latency is linked strongly with poor download speeds. The second link also has screen fulls of text slamming sites who make users download 10-20MBs of data (i.e. the normal js front ends).

I never said anything about or implying "download 10-20MBs of data (i.e. the normal js front ends)" in my question. Bad assumption. So, no, there's no "mortal wound" because you just strawmanned my premises.

> Additionally, devices in the parts of the world the article mentions, devices are going to be slower and access to power less consistent, all of which are huge marks against client side processing vs. SSR.

As someone building web applications - no, they really aren't. My webapps sip power and compute and are low-latency while still being very poorly optimized.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-04-09 00:13:05+00:00
This is equivalent to suggesting (in a world without IP law) that the supporters of such a system ought to start competing firms that refuse to copy things without providing compensation in order that the competition might demonstrate the benefits of the system. Of course without the regulation neither of those systems is likely to be part of a viable business model.

That said I agree with your second paragraph. I think we will see an explosion of high quality niche products that would never have been remotely viable before this.
by 0x0203 | 2025-04-09 00:14:03+00:00
Amusingly, it wasn't until I put the feeder out (with suet and a bunch of other seed) that he started drumming. It wasn't right away; there was about a year or so where the red-bellied just came for the food. There were several different males and females back then. Now, I'm pretty sure it's just him. I've read that they can drum like this in part to mark territory, so maybe he's just trying to keep the food for himself. He still has to duke it out with all the other birds though. Can be pretty entertaining.

And fortunately, I'm usually up by 4 or 5 am anyway so he's never woken me up, but yes, he's banging away really early.
by xyzzy123 | 2025-04-09 00:14:21+00:00
Various parts of the energy sector (line maintenance in particular) seem to be hit pretty hard with cost disease & liabilities, plus there are often 2 or 3 companies, a market (being gamed), local authorities (that need a cut and have admin costs) and a regulatory structure between you and the power station.

I dunno how it will all play out but given how "overhead" costs keep rising it's possible that private solar & storage costs drop low enough that its cheaper than grid power in many places despite being much less efficient from first principles.

Physics vs beauracracy.

From my perspective, prices for full "off grid" setup dictate the maximum that utilities can charge, basically the main thing keeping them honest at this point. The other thing to price in would be the likelihood of new taxes / fees or bans on local generation if it looks like the grid will hit a death spiral.
by throwup238 | 2025-04-09 00:14:31+00:00
Yes, and the American N95+ mask manufacturers didn't want to risk another boom-bust cycle so when the government wouldn't guarantee them a long term purchase deal, they couldn't ramp up. They had gone through this same scenario during the first SARS scare and almost went bankrupt when everyone went back to buying cheaper imported masks.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/in-the-early-d...
by jeffbee | 2025-04-09 00:14:39+00:00
I stumbled across the feature a few hours ago. I had asked Gemini why there's a hole in the middle of the city of Azusa, topologically speaking. It had given me a useless tautological response: because they never annexed it. Then it offered to create a research report and I agreed. Five minutes later I got a notification on my mobile that the report was ready. It had 120 sources including assessor's maps, historical maps, court cases, and narrative articles. The text that went along with it was too verbose and still contained paragraphs of vague stuff, but it had key information linking the Mexican land grants, the founding of the city, and other events of history. Very impressive.