MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by roenxi | 2025-04-10 00:30:34+00:00
It isn't completely fine and the interest payments are too large.

Sure the US can afford its debts if it avoids paying fair interest and never returns the principle. The idea that is reasonable from a lender's perspective is fantasy and we live in reality.

> The UK has never defaulted, for example.

The UK has traditionally not been in a state of running up debts; they borrowed money for things like world wars then spent most of their time paying loans down. The US isn't behaving like a creditworthy country because they borrow to consume and they aren't attempting to shrink the debt.

If the US tended to be repaying the money it borrowed then it'd be plausible that they intend to avoid a default.
by api | 2025-04-10 00:33:22+00:00
You’re ignoring its usefulness. I can summarize documents in seconds, and have a portable research assistant that has memorized all human knowledge.

What should have destroyed peoples’ faith in the tech industry is infinite scroll addictionware, algorithmic feeds that promote trash because it’s “engaging,” or vapid scams like NFTs raising billions to do nothing but open casinos.

AI is a lot more useful than that junk. It feels like a return to trying to actually empower people.

Of course it has negative uses but so does everything. Make a hammer and most will use them to build things, but a few will bash someone’s head in.
by filoleg | 2025-04-10 00:33:46+00:00
My criminal checks were on the exact same report as this one, I only ever applied for one.

It didn’t have my reported salary or debts. I know because I requested a copy of the report my employer got (which afaik is a legal requirement to provide one upon request, so it was as simple as clicking a button).

In general, I have no issues with my employer knowing my previous compensation once i am employed there. At no point in my interviews in over a decade at different companies was I ever asked what I made in terms of comp before, only what I wanted to make. And the background check only comes after the offer is already agreed upon, signed, and I already started working there. So I don’t see a problem there.
by rasz | 2025-04-10 00:34:07+00:00
Nice. Tried with Koss headphones and despite 3 entries (with custom earpads? audiophools are insane) for my model it all sounded the same to my ear when flipping EQ in player. I thought it was broken until I found Advanced and switched Target to Flat - instant difference for the worse :) Same when selecting wrong headphones resulting in bad sound with EQ enabled. Either Im deaf or my super cheap Koss KSC75 dont need additional processing to sound good.
by arn3n | 2025-04-10 00:34:29+00:00
“In other languages, it would be considered overkill to write a full parser when a simple regex can do the same thing. In Haskell, writing a parser is no big deal. We just do it and move on with our lives.”

I see a long code file filled with comments and long paragraph-level explanations. I think I’d rather just learn and use regex.
by aussieguy1234 | 2025-04-10 00:34:47+00:00
I found this project to be an interesting POC of how it all actually works.

https://github.com/p8952/bocker

Basically, it runs docker containers using chroot to prove that it's possible.

Docker uses Layered Filesystems (Multiple Filesystems mounted under the same folder on top of one another), something that used to be mostly used when you have a read only Filesystem, like a cdrom, then mount a writeable folder over the same mount point to make that folder writeable.

Bocker does a similar mounting of the layers with chroot to run docker containers.
by HideousKojima | 2025-04-10 00:35:59+00:00
>If you want to just live in such a place, then ok.

Even if you're the sort of person who will light your dorm on fire? Or stuff clothes into the toilet and flood the whole building? Or turn their dorm into a smelly orgy of sex and meth? Not even prisons have found perfect solutions to preventing issues like these, making everything out of concrete and metal helps but they still have guards 24/7 to step in when a prisoner acts up.

The visibly homeless are generally people with severe mental illness and/or hard drug addiction, and they are the ones most likely to destroy such places. This is to the detriment of the sorts of homeless that are just temporarily down on their luck and need help getting back on their feet who could actually make good use of such a thing.
by esperent | 2025-04-10 00:36:14+00:00
> You can see how the rest of the image is practically untouched to the naked human eye: https://ibb.co/zVgDbqV3

The cat's facial hair coloring is entirely different in your image, far more so than the OpenAI one. It has a half white nose instead of a half black nose, the ears are black instead of pink, the cheeks are solid colors instead of striped. Yours is the head of an entirely different cat grafted onto the original body.

The OpenAI one is like the original cat run through a beauty filter. The eyes are completely different. But it's facial hair patterning is matched much better.

Neither one of great though. They both output cats that are not recognizable as the original.
by const_cast | 2025-04-10 00:36:32+00:00
You're missing important stuff here, most notably that recommendations are also based on availability. As the vaccine became more available, more demographics were recommended to take it. Obviously, in the beginning, you want the highest risk groups to take it, then you grow the radius.

They didn't use young girls as some safety experiment. They just had the largest benefit and so, in scarcity, they're prioritized. It's not that scarce anymore.

As an aside, the HPV vaccine also prevents some male cancers, like penile cancer. It also prevents cosmetic, but relatively safe, conditions - like genital and anal warts. That's not the goal of the vaccine so it's not really taken into account. But you, someone who may take the vaccine, should consider it anyway.
by AstralStorm | 2025-04-10 00:37:00+00:00
Unfortunately your phone may get backdoored in that scenario anyway if it's known to have that feature. In graphene and most Android phones with unlocked flashing, easily achieved in a few minutes. (Special recovery. It's hard to catch if done right.)

There's no way around the wipe at least and better hope the bugger installed is not persistent in some firmware.
by nearbuy | 2025-04-10 00:37:41+00:00
This isn't what it says in the thread. It's saying Nike and retailers need to maintain their markup rate on their unit cost.

> And if Footlocker purchases Nike shoes for $75, then they retail them for $150. Everyone needs to fixed percentages to avoid losses.

The problem with your breakdown is you're mixing unit costs and net profit in a way that doesn't work. For example, say after increasing the price in accordance with your summary, the volume of sales halved (just to pick an easy number). Then the $17 marked as "Footlocker expenses" increases, likely to around $34, and Footlocker's profit becomes -$10. The absolute expenses haven't changed. They're still paying the same amount for their employees and storefronts. But with half as many shoes sold, the expense per shoe is doubled.

It's not just sales volume that affects the $17. Other costs like credit card fees or shrink scale with the unit cost as well.
by danabramov | 2025-04-10 00:38:00+00:00
Oh! I didn’t expect the reader to want anything. :) When I started writing the post, I genuinely thought it would be “a few notes”, especially since I had a writer’s block for this topic for almost two years. Then it just kept on going. I know the beginning understates what it ended up being but I thought that mismatch was funny so I kept it. Maybe our sense of humor is slightly different.

Re Live, I actually don’t know anything about it! Unfortunately I also don’t know anything about graphics programming so it might be tricky for me to evaluate. I’ll check it out though.
by samuelm2 | 2025-04-10 00:38:04+00:00
thanks! You can go to this link for a 1.2m voxel version of the pumpkin scene:

https://vid2scene.com/voxel/?url=https://huggingface.co/samu...

I'd try to go higher but I start running out of VRAM when training a scene with too many voxels. Maybe I'll spin up a runpod instance to train higher-voxel scene on a beefier GPU.
by theamk | 2025-04-10 00:41:53+00:00
Sadly, ChatGPT is like a spotter that takes over at the smallest hint of struggle. Yes, you are not going to get crushed, but you won't get any workout done either.

You really want start with a smaller weight, and increment it in steps as you progress. You know, like a class or something. And when you do those exercises, you really want to be lifting those weights yourself, and not rely on spotter for every rep.
by const_cast | 2025-04-10 00:43:16+00:00
It doesn't anger anyone, it's just dishonest. The circumstances of her being the democratic candidate are well-document, you can't just say things that aren't true.

Biden won the primary, then he stepped down. That's the actual story, and if you don't include the teensy little detail you're being dishonest. As a reminder to everyone, choosing not to tell the whole truth is dishonesty.
by popalchemist | 2025-04-10 00:45:38+00:00
Crucial reading at the time, EVEN more so for this era.

This translation is by far the best: https://www.amazon.com/Society-Spectacle-Guy-Debord/dp/09422...

Anyone who wants to understand the cultural, philosophical, political, and economic past, present, and future should read this book.

Warning: it will fuck with you.
by const_cast | 2025-04-10 00:46:21+00:00
It's not, it's just audited. If you go to the bank and give them 10,000 dollars they don't lock you up. They just have one of their people do some research and ask you for some paperwork.

Now, the police seizing money is different, but the police are the police. They can do almost anything they want, and you have next to zero recourse. Of course, they're going to abuse this and steal your money.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-04-10 00:46:52+00:00
The key thing for me in making this decision is of course predicting the future.

Parsers are more work up front but in my experience much easier to debug, maintain and extend. So if I predict something will be around for a while I'll want to do a parser and if it's just a one-off I usually go with regex.

Of course this predictably leads to me having a collection of parsers that I've never needed to touch again and a handful of monstrously complex regex grammars that I'll rewrite into a parser "the next time" I need to modify them.

I still think it's the right thing to base the decision on I just need to keep improving my prophesying.
by patrakov | 2025-04-10 00:47:25+00:00
There are a few procedures that convert an impulse response to an approximating IIR filter:

1. Hartmut Brandenstein and Rolf Unbehauen, "Weighted Least-Squares Approximation of FIR by IIR Digital Filters", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOL. 49, NO. 3, MARCH 2001

2. Hon Keung Kwan and Aimin Jiang, "Recent Advances in FIR Approximation by IIR Digital Filters", 2006 International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems

3. Ngai Wong and Chi-Un Lei, "FIR Filter Approximation by IIR Filters Based on Discrete-Time Vector Fitting", 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)

The third one is approachable by anyone who has studied linear algebra at the level usually taught for physics students and knows NumPy. No special DSP course is required. My implementation takes approximately 200 lines of Python code.

The article contains a deterministic algorithm that takes a guess on the pole positions in the complex plane and returns a better guess. The idea is to start with a random guess with the correct symmetry and apply the algorithm iteratively.

The only two tricks to be aware of are: 1) their reformulation of everything in section III.B in terms of real numbers (instead of complex numbers) is not making anything simpler and should be ignored, and 2) explicitly symmetrize matrices that are supposed to be symmetrical, it order to avoid accumulation of numerical errors.

Still, it is not something that I would be willing to fully automate: for good results, one has to add a small delay or chop off a few initial near-zero samples, and guessing the delay correctly is what separates an easy-to-approximate filter from a bad one.
instinfo: How much to predict what info and get it to you during mettings?
by pratt3000 | 2025-04-10 00:47:29+00:00
I know, clickbaity.

On a seriious note, how common is it for you to be in a meeting, and get asked a question about xyz, where you know the answer but just need to find it from some document or quickly look it up on the internet. I am talking about the classic "let me check" or "let me get back to you on this after the meeting".

I am looking to scope out how big of a problem this is during meetings.

If there was a magic button that you could press to get information about the ongoing topic in discussion, and I am not takling about just generic information on the topic but a system which could predict what information you want at that point in time and it could give it to you. Do you guys feel the need for such a system? How much would you say the need is from a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being no need and 10 being I'd pay a lot for this. Also, I am not talking about information from the web this includes information from everywhere on your laptop slack, drive, maybe a LLM generated response, etc. In theory, just imagine that you'd be given the best possible answer from all available sources.
by samuelm2 | 2025-04-10 00:47:39+00:00
I was also surprised that my iPhone didn't do too well with it. Regular Gaussian Splatting runs pretty well on my iPhone, almost as good as my laptop (of course, my phone screen is a lot smaller so its rendering a lot fewer pixels). The fragment shader for this is very heavy compared to gaussian splatting, so maybe it has to do with that.

And I agree re: constantly drawing frames vs only drawing on change, that's a good optimization to make.
by danabramov | 2025-04-10 00:48:01+00:00
Most other solutions are not composable to the same extent. It’s not enough to be able to mix client/server (although that’s a start). It’s more about it going all the way — for example, the state of the client parts is preserved on refreshes of the server parts around them, the same components can be reused on either side depending on whether you want them to be state-driven or data-driven, state changes are predictably instant, you can stay within the same paradigm while moving code between highly interactive and fully data-driven (no awkward moving stuff “between PHP and JS” when something needs to be “more dynamic” and back when it needs some server-only feature), ability to send closures over the server to the client and back (lets you essentially .bind server actions over the network), all of this is integrated end-to-end (a client button can know precisely how long to display an indicator while the server is data fetching next page and the next client code and CSS are loading), and of course all of this being fully composable (you can nest server stuff into client stuff into server stuff into client stuff and they all retain state and refresh as you would expect).

If you don’t see what’s new about this I encourage you to look deeper because this definitely isn’t what backend frameworks have been doing for years so you are missing something.
by 0manrho | 2025-04-10 00:49:10+00:00
> or host anything itself.

It does, or there would be nothing to download.

> and the system processes them on demand > Webtor is a tool, not a content provider

By assembling the chunks into content it then provides via a link to download.

Is the implication here that the data is transient (eg time-gated or single use links) or something?

We're in the age of AI and Automation. Just because you aren't publishing an index of your content doesn't mean there aren't plenty of others searching, indexing, scraping, and aggregating it, nor does it mean the content isn't provided to the internet/public.
by yen223 | 2025-04-10 00:49:12+00:00
Parser combinators are one of those ideas that is really powerful in practice, but will never be mainstream because it had the bad fortune of coming from the functional programming world. It's a shame too, because parser combinators are what made parsers click for me.

Take the hard problem of parsing a language, break it down into the much simpler problem of reading tokens, then write simple "combinators" (and, or, one_or_many, etc etc) to combine these simple parsers into larger more complex parsers.

You could almost build an entire parser combinator library from scratch from memory, because none of the individual components are complicated.
by Vaslo | 2025-04-10 00:49:41+00:00
This is a great point. It’s talked about in a book called Indistractabke. The author talks about trying to get rid of his phone during the day and even moving to a flip phone. But other nonsense just takes its place.

It’s essentially like being a dry drunk. You need something else to replace the alcohol or you just trade alcoholism for something else.
by csense | 2025-04-10 00:52:29+00:00
Hypothetically, assume for the moment Bessent is telling the truth. Now let's try to pencil in what the administration's reasoning might be. Here's my best guess at how the conversation in the White House went:

Advisor A: So we're all agreed then. 10% tariffs across the board is our strategy, except China, because Xi is a special boy.

Advisor B: If we announce that, everyone will freak out. There will be rage and panic.

Advisor A: That's where the tactics come in. We announce greater tariffs first, according to this super sketchy formula my intern cooked up with ChatGPT.

Advisor C: That's not what we agreed!

Advisor B: How will that stop the rage and panic?

Advisor A: It's tactics not strategy. We walk it back just before it hits. People will be too busy being relieved to be raged and panicked about 10%. We get the policy we want; the people / markets / etc. will only freak out for a few days and then go back to normal.

Trump: I like it. (Opens Resolute desk drawer.) Here's a signed copy of the Art of the Deal.

Advisor A: Thank you sir! I will cherish it for the rest of my days.

Again, the above is my guess as to what happened, under the (perhaps questionable) assumption that Bessent is telling the truth. ("How likely is this assumption?" is a question orthogonal to the point I'm trying to make, and therefore, out-of-scope for this post.)
by spoiler | 2025-04-10 00:52:37+00:00
I mean, they said they'd like to get your expert input on the matter. Why not give them a chance? Maybe you can help them do some much needed course correction—which is what I understood you're staying by reading a bit between the lines.

Maybe you can even negotiate a consultancy fee with them

You can stay sceptical, but try giving them a chance. You might end up surprising eachother!

Aside: I'm getting into indie game dev recently and love your site!
by mschuster91 | 2025-04-10 00:52:37+00:00
Food production is already absurdly automated. At least for grains, in theory you don't even need humans to drive the tractors on the fields any more, drones and RTK GPS systems automate all of it from seed to harvest. Cattle is fed and milked fully automated as well, with precise tracking of how much each cow ate and how much milk it yielded. Chicken also don't need much human work to lay eggs.

Most societies up to industrialization had a primary (i.e. agricultural) sector of around 50-70% of employees (numbers vary). Today, it's more like 1-2%, and the number is bound to fall - especially when lab-grown meat really takes off, because slaughtering and butchering farm animals _at the moment_ cannot be done by robots at scale and IMHO it's more likely that lab-grown meat succeeds before we entrust sharp knives to robots to actually kill animals.

> Who will fix our cars?

Modern cars - particularly electric cars - are much less maintenance intensive. That's part of why many established car brands are in serious trouble with their historically grown dealerships... "life long oil fills" and general improvements in technology already cut back on a lot of income from repair and maintenance of dealerships, and electric cars have far fewer failure points (other than crappy software) than ICE cars. We simply won't need anywhere close to the current number of service points, and we also won't need gas stations with trucks that fill up their tanks as the cars will be charged through the existing grid.

> Who will fix our potholes?

I 'member a story of some bloke holding up a sign like "I filled the potholes, pay me instead of your taxes". Local politics is on a downward slope across the Western world (with a common factor being the central government depriving local governments of revenue or loading off expenses to local levels), I think we're going to see a lot more of such incidents.

In any case, the price of trades labor will have to increase to be an effective incentive. And if you ask me, better pay the tradespeople than the vampires and vultures of Wall Street. At least the tradespeople do something to keep this society alive, the banksters do not.
by pratt3000 | 2025-04-10 00:53:52+00:00
I simplified it for the sake of this example but image an all encompassing system that doesnt necessarily ONLY bring things that you know to find but something which brings information which it knows you'd like to have.

Say you are talking about the recent tariffs with a friend and the system bring in something like 'Trump has temporarily reduced tariffs to 10% for all other countries except China recently'. This is an example of news but it could just be some random fact which is helpful in our discussion. (you can imagine a similar example for when you are sitting in a lecture and the discourse is one way)
Show HN: Web analytics excluding authenticated visits and hourly trend analysis
by ziadhussein | 2025-04-10 00:54:41+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Versatailor (https://versatailor.com), a web analytics tool designed to address two important gaps I've noticed in existing analytics solutions:

Exclude authenticated visits: Accurately measure the true conversion rate of your landing pages by excluding logged-in users and internal traffic. Hour-by-hour analysis: Gain granular insights into traffic spikes and trends throughout the day, helping you optimize your marketing and content strategies. Surprisingly, none of the current web analytics tools offer these essential features, so I decided to build my own.

I'm building Versatailor in public and sharing my progress openly on Twitter: https://x.com/ziadbeshippin I'd love your feedback and suggestions!

Thanks!