MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by profsummergig | 2025-04-09 18:48:42+00:00
> Americans need to get over their view of “Asia” as being about making shoes.

I blame Peter Zeihan for this kind of thinking. His views are immensely popular in the very powerful and influential circles. And he constantly derides China's capabilities. Since 2014 he's been saying it's going to collapse any day now. He still says it.
by cameldrv | 2025-04-09 18:48:49+00:00
It's partially an educational problem. I'm old enough to have been taught an idealized version of U.S. history in school. We learned things like how George Washington chopped down his father's cherry tree, but when his father asked him if he had done it, he "could not tell a lie." There was Honest Abe, who, as a child, walked 5 miles to return 2 cents that had been given to him as change in error.

Now, maybe this stuff wasn't all historically true, but in a sense it was better than true. It set an expectation for an ideal President. Serious dishonesty was taught as being disqualifying for the office of President, and honesty was taught as the deepest American value. Even if, in reality, prior Presidents hadn't always been honest, it created a tendency for voters to strongly prefer honest appearing candidates. Nixon's resignation was maybe the strongest affirmation of this principle that ever happened. I think it was with Clinton that this broke, and people started not to care too much about honesty and exclusively focus on their own perceived interests. Certainly the media environment, economic conditions, and the decline of mainline Protestantism had something to do with it too.
by dingnuts | 2025-04-09 18:49:38+00:00
> With LLMs instantly see "how it's done" for my exact problem case which makes me learn way faster.

No, you see a plausible set of tokens that appear similar to how it's done, and as a beginner, you're not able to tell the difference between a good example and something that is subtly wrong.

So you learn something, but it's wrong. You internalize it. Later, it comes back to bite you. But OpenAI keeps the money for the tokens. You pay whether the LLM is right or not. Sam likes that.
by CosmicShadow | 2025-04-09 18:49:38+00:00
I already had to go through so many hoops to sign up for a teams account for 5 separate accounts for myself, I wonder if this will be any better or not. At least if one account starts getting dumb or somehow runs out of context, I can just switch, but if something goes wrong and your $200 account exponentially loses context, then you are stuck waiting. Anyone have any idea of the actual differences?
by ASalazarMX | 2025-04-09 18:49:52+00:00
Counterpoint: Plex and Jellyfin free resources if you leave your video paused too long, and it will take a noticeably amount of time to resume streaming, much more if it needs transcoding.

They're not going out of their way to annoy us, they try to be efficient with the finite resources a home server has. Netflix is going out of their way to make it smooth no matter what you do, even if they have to pool a bit of their own resources for it.
by Huntsecker | 2025-04-09 18:50:07+00:00
The reality is that countries like spain have come out and said they need to move closer to China as USA is not a stable trading partner, within 24hrs of this Trump has back tracked, I'm sure MAGA will say this is all part of the mega master plan but at least to me its more the realisation this was turning into a car crash and he still has a window to somehow in trumps mind blame it all on the chinese
by ryandrake | 2025-04-09 18:50:08+00:00
Yup, people have this romanticized 1950s view of a "factory" full of tools that they last saw in high school metal shop, employing middle-to-working-class people to run those tools making widgets by hand, and that simply isn't what a factory is in 2025. It's more often than not one poorly paid dude emptying out trays from a fully-robotic line.
by logicchains | 2025-04-09 18:50:33+00:00
Regardless of naming, they don't have a model competitive with o1 Pro for coding (or with Gemini 2.5, for that matter). As someone who pays $200/month for GPT Pro I definitely wouldn't pay the same for Claude (and am considering cancelling GPT Pro if they don't deliver something better than Gemini 2.5 soon).
by anthomtb | 2025-04-09 18:51:12+00:00
We are in for this ride, at indefinite intervals, for the next 3.75 years. Well, unless congress grows a collective sack (unlikely) or President Trump comes to his senses on macro economics (past experience suggests this is impossible).

> How are businesses supposed to plan anything in this environment?

They cannot. This is how you can tell Trump was never a real businessman, but rather a TV host and a celebutante. I'd venture nearly all major American business, public and private, depend on stability in the American government. Trump's actions make it painfully clear he is not, and never was, really part of the "business" or "deal making" world.
by nineplay | 2025-04-09 18:52:09+00:00
My takeaway from what I've read and heard in the last few weeks is that his only actual motivation is to 'win'. He bragged yesterday that other countries are kissing his ass to negotiate deals on the tariffs. I think that was all he wanted, I think he now thinks that this whole tariff thing was a success and he's going to move on to the next crazy idea.

The rest of us suffer for it, except for the sad portion of the republican party who's only motivation is to own the libs and who now are congratulating themselves on how thoroughly the libs have been owned.
by js2 | 2025-04-09 18:52:25+00:00
From the conclusion:

> Results show that clogging the air filter has no significant effect on the fuel economy of the newer vehicles (all fuel injected with closed-loop control and one equipped with MDS). The engine control systems were able to maintain the desired AFR regardless of intake restrictions, and therefore fuel consumption was not increased. The carbureted engine did show a decrease in fuel economy with increasing restriction. However, the level of restriction required to cause a substantial (10–15%) decrease in fuel economy (such as that cited in the literature3,4) was so severe that the vehicle was almost undrivable. Acceleration performance on all vehicles was improved with a clean air filter.

...

> Closed-loop control in modern fuel injected vehicle applications is sophisticated enough to keep a clogged air filter from affecting the vehicle fuel economy. However for older, open-loop, carbureted vehicles, a clogged air filter can affect the fuel economy. For the vehicle tested, the fuel economy with a new air filter improved as much as 14% over that with a severely clogged filter (in which the filter was so clogged that drivability was impacted). Under a more typical state of clog, the improvement with a new filter ranged from 2 to 6%.
by const_cast | 2025-04-09 18:52:48+00:00
They didn’t “fight” copy and pasting from Google - they called it what it is, plagiarism, and they expel hundreds of students for it.

Universities aren’t here to hold your hand and give you a piece of paper. They’re here to build skills. If you cheat, you don’t build the skills, so the piece of paper is now worthless.

The only reason degrees mean anything is because the institutions behind them work very hard to make sure the people earning them know what they’re doing.

If you can’t research a write an essay and you have to “copy/paste” from google, the reality is you’re probably a shit writer and a shit researcher. So if we just give those people degrees anyway, then suddenly so-called professionals are going to flounder. And that’s not good for them, or for me, or for society as a whole.

That’s the key here that people are missing. Yeah cheating is fun and yeah it’s the future. But if you hire a programmer, and they can’t program, that’s bad!

And before I hear something about “leveling up” skills. Nuh-uh, it doesn’t work that way. Skills are built on each other. Shortcuts don’t build skills, they do the opposite.

Using chat GPT to pass your Java class isn’t going to help you become a master C++ day trading programmer. Quite the opposite! How can you expect to become that when you don’t know what the fuck a data type is?

We use calculators, sure. We use Google, sure. But we teach addition first. Using the most overpowered tool for block number 1 in the 500 foot tall jenga tower is setting yourself up for failure.
Show HN: Eventkit- a better way to work with data streams in JavaScript
by hntrl | 2025-04-09 18:53:00+00:00
Hey HN! I've spent the last few weeks working on eventkit, an open source library designed for working with data streams in TS/JS.

I had a need to track all the work associated with handling application events. If you're familiar at all with reactive systems or what that entails, having this sort of functionality is super important.

If you're familiar with observables or RxJS, this library is very similar but with better side effect management and using async generators. (I found an old HN comment that's somewhat related [1])

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36911516

I'd love to hear your feedback!
by lolinder | 2025-04-09 18:53:01+00:00
I had a pair of knockoffs that were passable for limited purposes but certainly didn't pass muster as my primary shoe. I thought that the style just wasn't my thing. Then I got a pair of real Crocs and they very quickly became my go to for most purposes.

I don't know enough about shoes to explain why, but the difference in comfort level was huge.
by sharkjacobs | 2025-04-09 18:53:38+00:00
I use the free model and API, when I look at the pricing page I see (for the extant $20 Pro plan)

- More usage - Access to Projects to organize chats and documents - Ability to use more Claude models - Extended thinking for complex work

What does "more usage" mean? It doesn't say anywhere what the free tier usage limits are. What are "more" models? It also doesn't make clear what models are available with each tier (except for "extended thinking" which is a separate bullet point)

The only thing I can reason is that they want to keep this vague so that they don't have to update their marketing copy each time they update their offerings, but that's absurd.
by rzzzt | 2025-04-09 18:54:02+00:00
On an old MBP I have a similar setup with these two tools:

- https://ju-x.com/hostingau.html

- https://existential.audio/blackhole/

Default output for applications is set to BlackHole's virtual sound device which the "Ext-In / Track D" channel can pick up in Hosting AU as an input. An "AUDynamicsProcessor" and "AUGraphicEQ" stage later (both built-in macOS units) it is sent back to the real output device.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-09 18:54:07+00:00
Imagine being able to trade, knowing what he was about to say.

On margin.

Both the ups, and the downs (short trades).

Imagine being able to make it an open secret that if someone pays you and publicly kisses your ass a little, you'll send some of those advance hints their way.

Imagine how much money you could make in a matter of weeks.
by CRConrad | 2025-04-09 18:54:11+00:00
Yeah no, I don't think that. But:

1) Back then, racists were elected everywhere else too. America didn't much stand out just because of that.

2) Back then, America a) wasn't led by a moroniac[§], and b) didn't intentionally alienate itself from the rest of the world.

And I'm afraid it's really goodbye this time. I mean, 2016-20 was weird enough, but then we thought normalcy had returned... But then you -- or they? -- went and re-elected him. There's just no way of knowing where America will go; looks like a total basket-case.

Seems quite a lot of Americans agree with me on that, BTW. Didn't they ever know America either?

___

[§]: Maniacal moron, or moronic maniac? Can't make up my mind.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-04-09 18:54:25+00:00
Apparently he's been bragging today that world leaders are "kissing his ass", which seems to be just as likely to be his motivation as anything else.

He's also planning a $100M military parade in DC, apparently on his birthday (although he denies that point).

He's a wannabe dictator - seems same motivation for Greenland, Panana, Canada (51st state), maybe also strikes on Houthi.
by smrtinsert | 2025-04-09 18:54:30+00:00
Anecdotally, most of the people I know who support his policies do so in hopes that their financial choices will work out. They are educated and financially well off individuals. Do they check all the boxes (international dev, economics, science, etc)? No, but they can be considered educated over the general US pop.

Not a great comparison obviously, but education was great in the Weimar republic as well, with a diverse and thriving press and near 100% literacy. The United States can't match those numbers.

It seems its always about something else besides educational level.
by mmooss | 2025-04-09 18:54:42+00:00
> trying to sell them to a foreign country for the greatest possible profit

First, to clear things up, I don't at all mean doing it to maximize profit. Notice that we expect a great degree of selflessness here - they should not be maximizing profit during the pandemic. We require it - we put them in jail otherwise.

It's all hands on deck.

> It would be a tough sell

There are definitely challenges here; I agree about that.

I think what sells to most people is to appeal to fairness. Democracy's foundation is fairness - rights to all, all get a vote. Fairness actually sells very well everywhere, despite the modern authoritarian's false critique. Law of the jungle is highly undesireable to most people; they like having civilization and rights.

But not universally; some will fight it. You need leaders and neighbors standing up for what's right. Also, enlightened self-interest can be convincing - help those in need, and you'll get help when you are in need.

You also need a way to determine what is fair; good leaders build consensus and navigate the politics - that is their job definition. Probably you put supplies where they do the most good. Start with hospitals and nursing homes, where contagion and vulnerable patients combine for the greatest risk. Then other vulnerable people (e.g., elderly or ill in private homes), then the first healthy recipients being front line workers like firefighters.

I think most healthy people would happily give up their medical supplies for those who need them more. There are always some malcontents, but we can't hold up society and progress for them.

> convince the person who is actually making these supplies to put the needs to an arbitrary person above the needs of their immediate community

Manufacturers provide them outside their employees, and health care professionals help strangers all the time. If we asked someone in downtown SF to provide them to someone across the Bay, would that be too far? To LA? NY? Rural Georgia? What about from Seattle to Vancouver? Belgium to the Netherlands? To Germany? To Turkey? To Japan?

My probably obvious point is, ''community' and 'us' are amorphous, changing concepts. Of course people in LA and Toronto and anywhere deserve the medical supplies as much as people next door.
by skeptrune | 2025-04-09 18:55:13+00:00
Strongly recommend using Apache Tika[1] for this. It's industry standard for ubiquitous document text extraction.

You can take the text output from Tika, chunk it with something like Chonkie[2], and embed it for your search index.

-[1]https://tika.apache.org/

-[2]https://chonkie.ai/
by linguae | 2025-04-09 18:55:18+00:00
Exactly. The damage has been done; the fact that economic policy could dramatically change day-by-day makes investing and planning very difficult. In addition, the tariffs on China are insane.

One of my biggest concerns is the value of the dollar. If foreigners are discouraged from doing business with America either due to tariffs or due to other matters, how does this affect the dollar, which is a fiat currency? The US dollar is currently the world's reserve currency, which is the result of the United States' emerging victorious from WWII while Britain, holder of the world's previous reserve currency (the pound), had to contend with rebuilding as well as dealing with the loss of its empire. Fiat currencies, by definition, are not backed by assets, but are instead backed by "faith"; not in the religious sense, but in the faith that people have in the government issuing the currency. How will the world keep the faith if the custodian of the dollar acts so recklessly?

For many years I've been concerned about deficit spending and easy-money policies from central banks. However, for the past few months I've become very concerned about Trump's policies that alienate our allies and partners. What Trump and the rest of MAGA simply do not understand is that the United States is part of an interconnected world. American strength is more than just weaponry; it's also in our economy and our reputation.

Unfortunately Trump and his cabinet have done extraordinary damage to our nation in less than three months. He's like an angry man with a baseball bat smashing up irreplaceable artifacts in a museum, and sadly there is no police to stop him, because he is the chief of police. He is by far the worst president America has ever had to endure, and if this continues our nation will end up at war, either with itself or with other nations.
by a_wild_dandan | 2025-04-09 18:55:40+00:00
I suppose Google wants us to pretend that "agents" can't be "resources." MCP is already well established (Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, etc), so Google plastering their announcement with A2A endorsements just reeks of insecurity.

I figure this A2A idea will wind up in the infamous Google graveyard within 8 months.
by pavlov | 2025-04-09 18:55:53+00:00
It now feels quaint that, not long ago, people used to speculate what Gödel's loophole was:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel%27s_Loophole

We're witnessing that there doesn't need to be any single clever actively exploited loophole. A two-party presidential system can become a dictatorship if one party holds just enough power across all branches of government to not resist what their leader wants.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-04-09 18:55:54+00:00
> I'm shocked at just how bad a lot of folks are at holding interviews, and just how misplaced their confidence in their ability seems to be.

They've all drunk the leetcode / cs question koolaid, instead of just talking about projects, and how they would solve some things, and checking their personality (this is like 70% of the weight for me for new team members) if nobody likes you because of your attitude / personality, you'll bring down the team with your personality.
by trhway | 2025-04-09 18:56:32+00:00
>He's turned the US stock market into the same model as China's - the entire up/down rests on the leaders words.

Not only stock market. The whole "Project 2025" point is to turn everything from the "rule-based" approach to "unitary-executive's-really-a-King's-whim" approach.

Just today - the export control or lack of it on specific Nvidia chips isn't really result of security needs of US, instead it is just a result of Jensen getting a dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Just like in Russia.
by whimsicalism | 2025-04-09 18:56:48+00:00
It's not a prisoners dilemna because you also lose by defecting while everyone else is cooperating.

The thing to recognize and internalize is that the world is a lot more win-win than our psychology has been evolved to recognize. Nationalism, realpolitik, xenophobia - all of these are ideologies that make you poorer and worse off, not giving you some secret insight into the truth of human nature.
by MisterTea | 2025-04-09 18:57:19+00:00
After a Psilocybin trip I found that anxiety was driving a vast majority of my desire for screen time. Post trip for the next few days my mind was perfectly calm - no thoughts were forcefully intruding, constantly causing distraction and frustration leading to seeking screen time.

During that time I could go to work, consume tasks, complete them without stress or distraction and feel a sense of accomplishment and fulfillment. Same when I went home and did chores around the house. That is a feeling that has been elusive most of my life. The big thing that stood out to me those few days: little to no desire for screen time.

If you think you have anxiety then do yourself a favor and seek professional help. Otherwise these life hacks are useless as they are ignoring the root cause of your desire for screen time.
by logifail | 2025-04-09 18:57:20+00:00
> They will start a riot and then when you don't give in, they'll be gone

If you haven't already done so, read up on TARGET2[0], things could get somewhat spicy if a Eurozone country were to leave the EU.

[0] https://data.ecb.europa.eu/publications/ecbeurosystem-policy...
by kylehotchkiss | 2025-04-09 18:57:24+00:00
> How can his supporters appreciate all this - constant - chaos

A lot of people in USA felt they were entitled to their slice of the American dream, did not achieve it because we stopped building houses therefore you can't buy one on a high school education like our parents and grandparents did. Add in what appears to be somewhat of a collapse in people starting relationships/families and you suddenly have a massive segment of the population with little to lose.

I presume many on the HN community are insulated from this reality of life in USA.
by mvdtnz | 2025-04-09 18:57:32+00:00
I have been a heavy user of Claude but cancelled my Pro subscription yesterday. The usage limits have been quietly tightened up like crazy recently and 3.7 is certainly feeling dumber lately.

But the main reason I quit is the constant downtime. Their status page[0] is like a Christmas tree but even that only tells half the story - the number of times I have input a query only to have Claude sit, think for a while then stop and return nothing as if I had never submitted at all is getting ridiculous. I refuse to pay for this kind of reliability.

[0] https://status.anthropic.com/
by Vegenoid | 2025-04-09 18:57:41+00:00
I don't mean that the primary (or only) way that it interacts with a human can't be just text. Right now, the only way it interacts with anything is by generating a stream of tokens. To make any API calls, to use any tool, to make any query for knowledge, it is predicting tokens in the same way as it does when a human asks it a question. There may need to be other subsystems that the LLM subsystem interfaces with to make a more complete intelligence that can internally represent reality and fully utilize abstraction and relations.
by Tiberium | 2025-04-09 18:57:56+00:00
It's sad that they used 4o's image generation feature for the cat example which does some diffusion or something else, results in the whole image changing. They should've instead used Gemini 2.0 Flash's image generation feature (or at least mentioned it!), which, even if far lower quality and resolution (max of 1024x1024, but Gemini will try to match the res of the original image, so you can get something like 681x1024), is much much better at leaving the untouched parts of the image actually "untouched".

Here's the best out of a few attempts for a really similar prompt, more detailed since Flash is a much smaller model "Give the cat a detective hat and a monocle over his right eye, properly integrate them into the photo.". You can see how the rest of the image is practically untouched to the naked human eye: https://ibb.co/zVgDbqV3

Honestly Google has been really good at catching up in the LLM race, and their modern models like 2.0 Flash, 2.5 Pro are one of (or the) best in their respective areas. I hope that they'll scale up their image generation feature to base it on 2.5 Pro (or maybe 3 Pro by the time they do it) for higher quality and prompt adherence.

If you want, you can give 2.0 Flash image gen a try for free (with generous limits) on https://aistudio.google.com/prompts/new_chat, just select it in the model selector on the right.