MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mlinhares | 2025-04-07 03:52:19+00:00
If I knew the data i was going to need in the future i'd be in the future predicting business.

But there's an important piece there that is about data that should not have been stored in the first place. All the big data bullshit made people believe every single piece of data you could possibly store from a user is data that you should store and this is both a huge waste of resources and a huge liability, because now a data leak with useless to you PII could completely bankrupt your business.
by g00z | 2025-04-07 03:53:00+00:00
The GT people don't like boxing what it is into any specific category. Which isn't great for new users but also makes sense when you use it.

Because it's really not any one thing other than an environment that is built from the ground up for building highly explainable systems, including itself. Think about it like a "meta-tool", or a tool for building tools. Similar to how an operating system is a piece of software used for writing other pieces of software easier.

So naturally this type of workflow lends itself to data analysis. However it's no less applicable in building p2p networks, or working with codebases in other languages.

Regarding sharing code, it's actually really straight forward. Your classes aren't stuck in images, but are normally stored as normal plaintext files and committed into git. The library story is arguable better than in most other languages, because of how flexible smalltalk is.
by nradov | 2025-04-07 03:54:00+00:00
Domino had a concept of template (NTF) files. You could develop in those and apply them to a test environment. Then when development was complete you could refresh the designs of the production databases using the templates, with little or no down time.

The problem was that the NTF was a big binary file. You couldn't really do effective team development with branching and merging of source code. We worked out some manual processes for copying and pasting pieces around to prevent conflicts, but it was a huge mess. IBM never really understood or prioritized the needs of Domino developers.
by echelon | 2025-04-07 03:55:27+00:00
> we are still in a bull market (even as of tonight).

Are you so sure about that? Presumably tomorrow's > 3% crash will mean we've had more consecutive crashes of note than any other period since the Great Depression.

This is truly one of the most remarkable market downturns in all history, and by all accounts it is only just getting started.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-04-07 03:55:27+00:00
The cruelty to 'the bureaucratic class' is part of the point. The Trump admin has clearly stated so over and over both before and after the election:

Russell Vought, Trump’s pick for the director of the Office of Management and Budget (a job he held during Trump’s first term), has said: “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work, because they are increasingly viewed as the villains.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/books/review/administrati...
by abhgh | 2025-04-07 03:55:53+00:00
Note the website (ai-contest.com) that the post links to seems to have been hijacked by a gambling site.

For the use-cases where Genetic Programming was popular, I would recommend looking at Bayesian Optimization (bayesopt) as an alternative today (I know I keep recommending the area - but I hope I do when it is relevant :-)). This is mostly because IMHO it has a principled foundation that has been productively developed further in the past few years. Here's a good book on the topic [1], and I've a tutorial as well [2]. Interestingly one of the books I had encountered when reading up on Genetic Algo. years ago was by Melanie Mitchell [3]!

Bayesopt or Genetic Programming, or any search algorithm that can operate over non-differentiable objective functions are very useful in practice. For ex, when performing model selection in the space of hyperparameters, when your model is not differentiable such as a traditional Decision Tree [4]. Or exotic use-cases like molecule discovery [5].

You can try out bayesopt using the botorch or hyperopt libraries. The latter only implements a specific bayesopt algo. which was/is popular but it seems to have been bettered of late [4].

[1] https://bayesoptbook.com/

[2] Part 1 https://blog.quipu-strands.com/bayesopt_1_key_ideas_GPs

[3] Found a free copy online https://www.boente.eti.br/fuzzy/ebook-fuzzy-mitchell.pdf

[4] "... Analysis of the Black-Box Optimization Challenge 2020" https://proceedings.mlr.press/v133/turner21a.html

[5] ChemBO is an example but there are others https://proceedings.mlr.press/v108/korovina20a.html
by stepanhruda | 2025-04-07 03:56:22+00:00
The only way we can do something is if these actions become deeply unpopular - which they currently aren’t, still about 43% of the population are totally onboard.

All we can do is wait for the empire to tumble enough until people without empathy become personally affected and turn sour. My guess is it won’t take the full 4 years.
by 20k | 2025-04-07 03:56:27+00:00
Virtually all reasonable alternatives to GR have been strongly ruled out, including theories with large extra dimensions in them. In general, these theories have a some kind of parameter which measures their deviation from GR, which is being squashed to zero. There's also just generally no reason to think there are extra dimensions at all

This article brings up neutron stars being slightly larger than expected, but the reality is there's no real expected maximum mass for a neutron star - because the equation of state and physics for neutron star interiors is unknown. The spin, and magnetic field of a neutron star can also serve to increase the maximum mass of a neutron star, which are very hard to model as there are no analytic solutions to a spinning body (nor an oblate body)

There are too many approximations in the paper to even come close to saying that the brane model explains this better than standard physics, and there's no reason to think that this event isn't explainable by standard physics
by Tomte | 2025-04-07 03:56:52+00:00
I brought my MX Master 3 to a brand new Mac mini and was terribly confused. Mouse movement was janky, jumpy, unusable.

It turns out that you need third party tools for non-Apple mice, like Mac Mouse Fix.

Keyboard isn't much better, since Apple encourages you to bring your own keyboard, but doesn't even ship a keymap for PC keyboards.
by DonHopkins | 2025-04-07 03:57:18+00:00
I was quite clear that this is HISTORICAL baggage whose syntax and semantics we're still suffering from. I corrected it from TWO to THREE and wrote a step by step description of why it was three processes in the other comment. That's the whole point: it was originally a terrible design, but we're still stuck with the syntactic and semantic consequences even today, in the name of "backwards compatibility".

> they usually don't have to be fast since they're usually just used to delegate operations off to other code for performance

Even now you're bending over backwards to make ridiculous rationalizations for the bankrupt "Unix Philosophy". And you're just making my point for me. Does the Unix Philosophy say that the shell should be designed to be slow and inefficient and syntactically byzantine on purpose, or are you just making excuses? Maybe you don't think YOUR shell scripts have to be fast, or easy to write, read, and maintain, or perform simple arithmetic, or not have arsenals of pre-loaded foot guns, but speak for yourself.
by skeledrew | 2025-04-07 03:59:05+00:00
Actually it wouldn't be difficult to add similar view protocols to Python objects as well (I used GT extensively a couple years ago). Pretty much everything is possible, but the live debugger and driller would be really difficult to replicate, which is where GT really shines for me. Alas it was just too much to properly bridge it with Python, where the majority of my work lies, and GT becomes overwhelmed when passed a fraction of data Python handles with ease.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-04-07 03:59:15+00:00
The Trump admin has stated over and over it is malice.

Russell Vought, Trump’s pick for the director of the Office of Management and Budget (a job he held during Trump’s first term), has said: “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work, because they are increasingly viewed as the villains.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/books/review/administrati...
by tombert | 2025-04-07 03:59:53+00:00
Tangential, but I almost never get to tell this story.

In 2012 I was fired from a job (on my birthday!). I hated this job, I hated my coworkers, I really hated my manager, I was pretty sure that the higher-ups were alcoholics since they always smelled like beer or whiskey, and the work was mind-numbing where quite literally 3/4 of my work was designing nametags even though I was ostensibly a "Java developer".

Anyway, I got fired, and while getting fired always sucks, I was a little relieved that I didn't have to show up anymore.

The following Monday, I got a phone call from my manager demanding that I provide the password to unlock the Macbook that they had me using. I explained to him that I think it's a bad idea to share my password with people that I don't trust. He then told me that I "had" to provide it, to which I said "I really don't think I do, actually. I don't work for <company name> anymore. What are you going to do, fire me?"

This went back and forth for another thirty seconds, and eventually I said "Here's what we'll do, I'll drive over there, unlock the laptop, and drive back home, and you pay for my entire trip. I charge $200/hour."

He was clearly pissed off, eventually hung up, and I never heard back from them. A part of me likes to think that maybe they had to trash the laptop because they were too incompetent to figure out how to wipe the drive.
by FloatArtifact | 2025-04-07 04:00:02+00:00
Great, when my power strip dies, so does my TV!

Recently a friend was charging about six different items off of his PC. Not mentioning the poor charging rate. I said to him, hey, maybe you want to get a dedicated charging hub for 40 bucks instead of putting wear and tear on the $250 motherboard and power supply. Just because you can, doesn't always mean you should.
by m348e912 | 2025-04-07 04:00:19+00:00
Since no one is mentioning it I will. If the stock market crashes, dollars move to treasuries. If the demand for treasuries skyrocket, the interest rate on treasuries drops dramatically. There's 9.2 trillion dollars US debt in the form of low interest treasuries up for refinancing this year. Refinancing them at the current treasury rate will add a huge burden to government expenditures.

However, if you drop the nominal interest rate to say 2%, that saves about $460 billion a year in interest on the 9.2 trillion, or $3.58 trillion over the life of the treasuries.

It's just a dumb theory, but blow the stock market up, lower treasury rates, refinance, prop the market back up again. Seem's like a buying opportunity ahead perhaps.
by Animats | 2025-04-07 04:00:22+00:00
Company web site.[1]

The real claim is 10 minute charging of lithium-ion batteries with a process which is a minor mod to existing battery production.

There's no product yet.

Batteries with good low temp behavior have many specialized uses. Things that have a small solar panel, a battery, and no grid connection could benefit from this. Even flashlights could use this.

[1] http://arborbatteries.us/
by j_bum | 2025-04-07 04:00:47+00:00
Agreed.

You may already know them, but the “Corridor Crew” channel on YouTube has a great “VFX Artists React” series where they do deep dives into vfx scenes and the behind the scenes.

They often have industry pros come in and share scenes from their work. Great channel and series!

Example vid:

https://youtu.be/fIVUZkIvx6Q?si=pQaXhXKEWZXGXuQ0
by y1n0 | 2025-04-07 04:01:39+00:00
Well, if we're talking about radar in a moving car, it's the other vehicles moving at the same speed that appear stationary.

Non-moving vehicles are seen as approaching you at whatever speed you are moving at. Along with all the other things you mentioned.

So they all have doppler shift but the "stationary" things approaching your car at your speed actually have much higher shift than the traffic around you.
by pants2 | 2025-04-07 04:01:44+00:00
That and videos of concerts / fireworks shows.

For a fun example, every time I'm on the Las Vegas strip I see dozens of people taking videos of the Bellagio Water Show.

There are 30 shows per night, if 50 people take videos in 4K 60fps (default on new iPhones), that's around 60 GB of data per show or ~600 TB per year of just videos of the Bellagio Fountain Show!
by sk5t | 2025-04-07 04:03:22+00:00
> That's just adding a row into the 'Outbox' table

No tables and no rows in Notes. Composing an email would create a new document using the "Mail" form; clicking the "Send" button would run a shockingly confusing script that would cause the document to render in the style of a sent email; some awful LotusScript "Agent," the details of which I've long forgotten, would soon thereafter urge the Domino MTA to send mail based on its apprehension of the new document in your mailbox database.
by foobarbecue | 2025-04-07 04:04:01+00:00
I think it's worse than that. Appears to me that the methodology here is intentional sabotage of the government. When your platform is explictly anti-government (also, explictly anti-empathy, and implictly anti-expert), and someone hands you the government, you smash it, along with the lives of all those losers who dedicated themselves to public service.
by jmcgough | 2025-04-07 04:04:21+00:00
We will never recover from the damage they are doing, at least not in our lifetimes. It is so much easier to destroy than to create, and so many of the services and research performed by the NIH and CDC are truly irreplaceable.

The top cause of death among US children is drowning, and the CDC is the only national group studying and giving prevention training to at risk kids, particularly states with high drowning deaths like Florida. That entire team is gone now, along with many others.
by csense | 2025-04-07 04:04:21+00:00
> what Biden did with the CHIPS act where they invested in the factories, employees, committed to doing so long enough to make a multibillion dollar investment safe

Don't get me started on the CHIPS act.

I was a true believer in it when it passed. Finally -- finally! -- people outside MAGA were recognizing the problem and trying to do something about it.

I made a medium-sized bet on INTC when Gelsinger, an engineering prodigy, took the helm after decades of business leaders who only cared about the money let the company's technical capabilities rot. The stock had a pretty attractive dividend yield, the new CEO was energetically reversing that trend. I was extremely enthusiastic when I heard the company was building a factory right in the Rust Belt (Columbus, Ohio), with a massive infusion of capital from the CHIPS act.

We now know how things turned out.

Intel continues to erode desktop market share to AMD, completely missed the AI boom, and doesn't seem to have a chance at the mobile or Apple ecosystems.

That factory is now on pause. As a taxpayer, I'm not sure whether my tax dollars were wasted or not. As a shareholder, I just have to look up the ticker to know my bet lost a significant amount of money. In fact, /r/wallstreetbets was making fun of somebody who made a similar bet when he inherited his Grandma's life savings.

I am absolutely livid that in Intel's 2024 annual report, Intel's leadership couldn't even put the location of their multi-billion-dollar chip factory in the correct country [1].

I wanted the CHIPS Act to work. Right now, it's very much looking like it didn't. Is more such investment really going to help us, or would it just be throwing away more money chasing a bad bet?

[1] It sounds unbelievable, but it's right there on Page 14: the dot labeled "Ohio Future Sight (Wafer Fab)" is clearly in Canada. https://www.intc.com/filings-reports/annual-reports/content/...
by yanko | 2025-04-07 04:05:25+00:00
Does the fight for democracy means bombing everyone not agreeing with "our" enforced democracy?

"According to several Western European researchers, the operation involved the use of assassination, psychological warfare, and false flag operations to delegitimize left-wing parties in Western European countries, and even went so far as to support anti-communist militias and right-wing terrorism as they tortured communists and assassinated them, such as Eduardo Mondlane in 1969.[5][6][7][8] The United States Department of State rejected the view that they supported terrorists and maintains that the operation served only to resist a potential invasion of Western European countries by the Soviet Union.[9]"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
by keepamovin | 2025-04-07 04:05:42+00:00
Why would who want to? I consider each of the participants below. But first let me answer generally:

Why? Because it's right to. If you create good karma, the world will get better. If you do bad things, the world and your world (ie, your karma) will get worse. Paying for software you use extensively is good karma. Not doing so is bad karma that erodes the world (and your world), because it severs the exchange of value and erodes the justice that arises from that, which then reflects back on you inevitably.

For the participants in this archetypal case:

Apple - because it's not right to not pay the developers of software you use a lot, even if it was released under permissive licenses. Apple paying rsync producers for their software is just and right. Apple wants to be a good company, so they want to do this, too. Plus they could get a tailored custom license that works for them, and gives them standard good rsync.

The rsync developers - so they get the just reward for the value they produce, as is right and absolutely correct. They can choose to allocate that however they want, which is them expressing their good interest. What's good for them, is good for what they produce. Everything gets better. Happy cycle.

Everybody else - to participate in that just and right exchange of value, which nourishes the good of both the software, the developers, Apple, and everybody else, supporting the karma of the world, rather than participating in an exploitative abuse that erodes it.

More generally, using software extensively that is permissively licensed is not piracy, but it has the effect of piracy in that value consumed is severed from value rewarded to the producers. This is fundamentally exploitative and abusive, in the limit leads to poor software quality by eroding productive capacity.

One caveat is large well-organized ad-hocracies that maintain giant FOSS projects, like the FOSS or FOSS-like Linux distributions. These are sort of hybrid volunteer, corporate volunteer forces that are large enough to make such fossonomics work. But there's plenty of hyperuseful software built by tiny, single-person or single-company teams for whom those economies don't work as they don't have that scale nor fractional-corp-labor.

To conclude: normalize improving the world and spreading good karma by normalizing paying for the software you use. Even if a given developer team is yet to realize how to bank the value they created for you, as a savvy and responsible software consumer it's your responsibility to seek out and initiate opportunities to pay them, and not to seek out what you can take and exploit. If they make payment available, use it.

Basically, it's fairly simple. Don't be evil. And respond to and create opportunities to do good!
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-04-07 04:05:44+00:00
> The spokesperson added: “This is exactly why HHS is reorganizing its administrative functions to streamline operations and fix the broken systems left to us by the Biden administration.

On previous software teams where I've worked, we had a joke that "You get to blame the guy who left for one month." That is you can do this type of complaining, "Oh man, this codebase is spaghetti, screw Bill who just left", for a month. But after a month, you no longer got to blame the guy who left - at that point, it was on you.

We said it (somewhat) tongue in cheek, but there was a real message that, at some point, it doesn't really matter what the guy before you did - we've all dealt with legacy, shitty codebases, but at some point you need to own it.

I realize taking any sort of responsibility for something that goes wrong is anathema to the current administration, but I think the "it's Biden's fault" excuse is going to start wearing really thin, even for Trump supporters if/when the economic shit show starts to affect them.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-04-07 04:06:34+00:00
Yes Trump came up with his tariff plan in the 1980s (and explained it on Opra) because he knew it would help with interest on bonds in 2025. Just more Trump 5d chess.

Personally I can't wait for the 'defend everything' theory as to why penguins on their own islands are bad. It looks like it's going to be 'those penguins were going to arbitrage Chinese goods into the USA'.
by archagon | 2025-04-07 04:07:51+00:00
I don't have citations on hand, but as I recall, studies on rent control have shown both positive and negative effects. Proponents/opponents like to pick and choose the studies that back their existing convictions. But the whole must be considered.

I'll tell you from personal experience that not having to worry about arbitrary rent increases and evictions is a massive relief that I imagine few renters in other American cities get to experience. Frankly, it's unconscionable for people to be pushed out of their homes due to market forces outside their control. I strongly support building new housing, but not at the expense of renter security — even if it means that some new people don't get to move to the city.

> Eliminating the zoning premium would bring houses down in price by $400,000 each. I suspect you’d be able to afford to buy.

No, I can't afford a $2M home and I won't be able to afford a $1.6M home either. And it won't happen right away, if it ever does.
by mattl | 2025-04-07 04:08:07+00:00
And the rest of the industry (which is basically Logitech, let's face it) isn't in a race to the bottom to make things thinner and thinner each year.

Apple isn't doing that so much now, maybe they can make a good mouse again with a port that lets it work as both a wired and wireless device. The way the Magic Trackpad does it is very nice.
by telchior | 2025-04-07 04:10:57+00:00
Fun fact since you bring up treasuries, Marjorie Taylor Greene appears to have moved several hundred thousand dollars (probably most of her assets) into treasury bills a few days before the tariffs announcement, pretty much like she knew exactly what was coming. I noticed that tonight with a new site someone else here made: https://www.capitoltrades.com/politicians/G000596

I suspect there's real corruption to be found, anyone who knew the contents of "Liberation Day" could make millions off a very obvious bet. Too bad we don't care about corruption anymore!