MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vharuck | 2025-04-06 22:54:05+00:00
>People like the OP and us are mocked for moves to block billboards in space as being “alarmist” or out of touch, yet driving along any highway in the USA will bombard you with ads on billboards, on busses, on rideshares, on overly-large signs with glowing placards, in radio and television, on streaming providers who raise our rates on what used to be ad-free packages.

I lost a lot of faith in the decency of others a month ago when I heard a song on my car radio, looked at the display to see the artist and title info that comes from the radio station, and was met with "Bounty the quicker picker upper." That slogan stayed up for at least a minute. Every possible channel of communication will be sold for ad space.
by jack0813 | 2025-04-06 22:55:04+00:00
You can probably do this fairly easily already, like this:

- Fetch your emails using any of the common local mail sync tools

- Some processing to clean up the plaintext version, may not be necessary even

- Send it to an LLM to extract a link

- Open up a headless browser, trigger something like SingleFile to extract its content.

Though you'll have to keep the cookie refreshed, but if it is initially logged in, this should be fine since you can also program something to keep refreshing every once in a while.
by olejorgenb | 2025-04-06 22:56:22+00:00
"It’s worth noting that value-added taxes are a form of tariffs because they exempt exported goods but tax imported goods, and central banks usually do not respond to them, because legislated price changes are typically thought not to be indicative of underlying supply-demand imbalances."

Can someone expand on whether there is any truth to this at all? (See also a lengthy discussion thread here [1] on the same topic, where I could not get a satisfying answer)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43562834
by GianFabien | 2025-04-06 22:56:27+00:00
My naive, yet practical, view is that all LLMs produce output that reflects what was most commonly found on the internet. So if your area of interest has a lot of slop, then that is exactly what Deep Research will return.

So if you want to do "real deep research" into some topic, then you start with the various summaries and drill down. I use Google Scholar to locate papers, then I search for the cited papers. It is tedious, but the only way that I know which avoids the pitfalls of random regurgitation of easily found materials.

Currently AGI is marketing hype. Critical thinking with real understanding, i.e. knowledge building hasn't yet been automated. You need to put in the intellectual effort.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-04-06 22:57:28+00:00
You did a terrible job of summarizing my position.

> the position that European Jews should have just tried harder against the Nazis

If you think I wrote anything like that, you have a serious lack of reading comprehension.

> your real position is that Jewish survival was a problem because it confuses your personal narrative of Palestinian nationalism.

Oh gee, thanks for informing me that my "real" position is that I shouldn't survive.
by rad_gruchalski | 2025-04-06 22:57:45+00:00
There’s no such thing as „other vehicles driven on autopilot”. There’s cruise control, adaptive cruise control, and limited rollouts of level 3 autonomous driving locked to certain regions. You know why? Because everyone else except of Musk knows the tech is NOT ready. It doesn’t matter how many miles driven. What matters is Teslas don’t have radars and every other brand has.
by pmags | 2025-04-06 22:58:41+00:00
I'll draw the reader's attention to the last few paragraphs:

Liu's lab has made much of its work freely accessible, sharing DNA blueprints through a nonprofit library used by tens of thousands of labs worldwide. "The science we create—which is ultimately funded by society, through governments and donors—ultimately goes back to benefit society." This year's Breakthrough Prize awards come at a fraught moment for U.S. science, as President Donald Trump's government strips funding for institutions like the National Institutes of Health (NIH). "The NIH is a treasure, not just for this country but for the world," said Liu. "Trying to dismantle the heart of what supports science in this country is like burning your seed corn."
by OptionOfT | 2025-04-06 22:59:04+00:00
For that reason I actually have decided to get everything via snail-mail.

When BofA sends me a new statement I need to:

* click on the link in my inbox * wait for the email-provider to scan the email (and Office 365 does sometimes tell me they can't scan the link)

(either)

* Enter my username & password * Select that I want my 2FA via call or text * Wait for the call or text to arrive * Enter it (now I'm signed in)

(or)

* search my house for my YubiKey * lean over to insert YubiKey * click cancel on the Windows popup for the passkey * click cancel on the Bitwarden popup for the passkey * click Physical key on the Chrome / Edge popup for passkeys * put in YubiKey pin * lean over again to physically touch YubiKey

(end)

* Click no on the next credit card offer * Navigate to Credit Cards * Click the Credit Card * Click Documents * Click current statement

or

when I'm on my walk (which I do anyway)

* insert key in mailbox * (no delay) open mailbox * (no delay) take out letters * (no delay) close mailbox * (no delay) remove key * walk home * open statement * validate statement * trash statement

Even with passkeys there are too many where the flow can / purposefully is interrupted.
by taneq | 2025-04-06 22:59:05+00:00
> And for what?

Job security. The software industry was built on the premise that users would buy all new software and hardware every 3 years. In the mid 2000s they collectively realised that software was ‘good enough’ for most users, and that it doesn’t wear out.

SaaS, the subscription model, “the cloud”, they’re all about making the user pay more than once for the same software.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-04-06 22:59:25+00:00
A good friend of mine bought an apartment in Hayes Valley 6 or 7 years back. They’ve had their doorbell stolen, trash left in the street, and just yesterday had to call 311 because a man was in their street yelling and they couldn’t leave.

Yesterday here in Sydney it was a nice autumn day - I walked down the hill from home and took a nap on the sand of Bondi Beach with my phone and my stuff in a bag next to me. Was napping a good hour in the sun, never thought twice about my phone. Got home and my car had not been broken into. In fact I don’t know anyone in Australia who has ever had their car broken into. Not one.

I lived in SF 2013-2019. Mid-Market & Tenderloin is hard to explain but makes sense once you live there. SF has pockets that are stunning, but nowhere offers the quality of life I found by moving away. Sad to be further from the epicenter of tech, but your day to day happiness and stress levels have to take priority.

To the latest mayor promising to do better: we see you, we know you are doing your best. Thankyou for caring - unpicking this knot of social problems is going to take a long time of consistently caring.
by lerno | 2025-04-06 23:01:13+00:00
I think that one is a bit wrong, I must have written it many years ago. There are machines where pointers do have different address spaces, like the Arduino obviously, but that support isn't in the language yet, and maybe there might be issues there but comparing something like `int` and `float` pointers, that shouldn't be UB. I'll look at that text.

Debug traps can be kept in optimized builds, you can always do something like "-O3 --safe=yes". Right now it's not possible to set it per function or module, but that might be added if there is demand for it.

Because C3 also has contracts, the plan is to step by step increase static analysis to catch more of the contract violations at compile time.

For example:

<* @require a > 10 @require b < a *> fn void test(int a, int b) {}

Will error at compile time for `test(5, 2)` (first @require), or `test(5, 10)` (second @require). These will also be checked at runtime, but catching low hanging fruits a compile time will be very helpful I think.

LLVM address and thread sanitizers work. The memory sanitizer still has some issues but will be fixed.

Currently there are just cross platform threads available and some rudimentary thread pools. This needs to be expanded and we'll see if there are things the language could help with but there will not be any async built in.
by olejorgenb | 2025-04-06 23:01:23+00:00
> Despite the dollar’s role in weighing heavily on the U.S. manufacturing sector, President Trump has emphasized the value he places on its status as the global reserve currency, and threatened to punish countries that move away from the dollar.

Maybe the US should accept that it can't (or shouldn't) be allowed to have the cake an eat it too, and simply take steps to stop the USD from being the global currency reserve then? Surely there are some measures that can be made? (Or at least not actively work against it happening: "threatened to punish countries that move away from the dollar")
by fzeroracer | 2025-04-06 23:01:41+00:00
I don't disagree with you, but it's the political reality of the situation being foisted upon us with violence by the far right. That was one of the reasons why I left Texas ASAP in late 2022 when I saw the winds changing.

The systems are cracking and breaking and I think the only outcome is going to be balkanization.
by rainsford | 2025-04-06 23:02:33+00:00
The IRS cuts are the most obvious ones, since they will clearly end up losing the government far more money than they save. But it would be an interesting, if challenging, project to try to do the same kind of thing with other government agencies. And unlike the IRS, most federal agencies don't generate revenue directly for the government but likely have indirect economic benefits.

National parks generate tourism dollars, funding for science research leads to new advances with economic impact, etc. The "savings" from the cuts assumes the money is being set on fire with no economic benefits, but even if you disregard the obvious direct impacts like federal employees or recipients of federal dollars buying stuff just like everyone else, the impact of the service being provided is almost certainly non-trivial if admittedly harder to measure. Any reasonable approach to efficiency and cost cutting needs to take that into account.
by chongli | 2025-04-06 23:02:38+00:00
Sure, though there's little point in replacing executables such as rsync when you can install your own version (perhaps through a package manager and package repository / database such as Homebrew [1] or MacPorts [2]) and use the PATH environment variable to decide which version of the executable you'd like to use in which context.

[1] https://brew.sh

[2] https://www.macports.org
by epoxyhockey | 2025-04-06 23:03:32+00:00
I'll save everyone hours of headache. The only politician's disclosures that are worth anything are Pelosi's. And by Pelosi, it is actually her husband that trades but that she has to disclose those trades as a politician. You can also copy Pelosi's trades exactly if you are into speculation and you can experience first hand how many of his trades end up -30% or more, but over the course of the year they have a chance of gaining. They gain not so much because there is any meaningful insider information, but because he holds the position for 1 year and we are still in a bull market (even as of tonight).

I think it's amusing that folks think that politicians have any sort of capability to be able to consistently beat the S&P 500.
by magicalhippo | 2025-04-06 23:04:29+00:00
> You don't even need a heat pump. You can just slightly overvolt the charger

The BMW i3 had inductive heating strips underneath the coolant channels in the battery pack[1]. I know our i3 had a heat pump, I presume both were in play.

We used our i3 down to -25C (-13F) many times, didn't have any issues.

[1]: https://youtu.be/JjPIuLz5VFI?t=1124
by fuzzfactor | 2025-04-06 23:04:39+00:00
In high-stakes calculations, there's a thing called a "sanity check" which is a quick & simple analog of a complex calculation that is done perhaps repeatedly using different approaches, often manually with traditionally simple tools such as slide rules and napkins.

In addition to the full accepted calculation procedure, as a final double-check if nothing else.

Just to make sure things are not coming out in some outlying ball-park which would be bound to indicate an error in the main approach somewhere, since more complex equations having greater number of variables or conversions simply have that many more chances for a mistake to be made.

And a completely independent recalculation which is simple, quick, and more understandable by all, which comes up in decent agreement, is a very good sign that the main calculation has been carried out correctly.

But most importantly if there is excessive disagreement, that really calls for stopping and checking every single figure backwards & forwards until discrepancies can be pinpointed and corrected.

Of course somebody involved needs to not only show an interest in this kind of reliability, but also be able to do something about it in case a sanity check like this turns up a shortage to begin with :\
by dreamcompiler | 2025-04-06 23:04:50+00:00
You need a forge too. If you're a traditionalist that means coal, which produces black smoke, which your neighbors also won't like.

Or you use a gas-powered forge which is smaller and produces no smoke. But gas-powered forges don't get as hot so you can't forge-weld with them. No big deal IMHO. That's what TIG is for.
by ta1243 | 2025-04-06 23:04:58+00:00
> But someone earning $10m a year while their workers are on food stamps is unacceptable

So you get the main company with salaries from $1m-10m, they subcontract their operations to a company with salaries of $100k-1m which manage the cleaning contracts, and the people doing the work are just gig workers on less than $10 an hour.

But the main company doesn't have the CEO:worker imbalance
by afpx | 2025-04-06 23:04:58+00:00
A lot of Americans like to help (clearly we do since we funded it for so many years). But, a lot of Americans also believe it's not the government's job to do those things. It's not necessarily 'cowardice / avarice' - just principles. But, if someone set up the NGO and opened it to donations, I'm sure a lot of Americans would support it.
by refulgentis | 2025-04-06 23:05:39+00:00
Locally running, like, llama.cpp? Or Python?

Either way I guess.

I would have thought this was impossible, I contribute to llama.cpp and there's an awful lot of per-model ugliness to make things work, even just in terms of "get it the tool calls in the form it expects."

cries at the Phi-4 PR in the other window that I'm still working on, and discovering new things, 4 weeks later
by d_burfoot | 2025-04-06 23:06:49+00:00
For questions like this, you need to tell the bot to search the web.

> Hi, can you search the web and find out if Paul Newman has any alcohol problems?

> Paul Newman, the acclaimed actor and philanthropist, had a well-documented fondness for alcohol, particularly beer. He was known to consume significant quantities, with some accounts noting he would drink a case of beer in a day. This level of consumption led some to describe him as a functioning alcoholic. His drinking habits reportedly caused strain in his marriage to Joanne Woodward. In the late 1970s, an incident occurred where Woodward did not allow Newman back into their house because of his drinking. He promised to give up hard liquor as a compromise, but continued to drink beer, sometimes consuming a case during dinner.
by paulryanrogers | 2025-04-06 23:06:52+00:00
Because the US has taught its military and other branches to respect the balance and rules from the constitution and precedents. Trump, like facists before him, exploit these rule followers to gain power through populous appeals, lies, and subterfuge. Then they push the boundaries to further consolidate power and accomplish their goals, however poorly thought out they may be. Take for example Trump's talk of a third term. He's already tried to start a coup when voted out the first time. He certainly won't stop if there is any chance he'll face real accountability.
by tymscar | 2025-04-06 23:07:07+00:00
To me this post can be framed under dissonance in the dictionary.

Installing a package manager and a package from it apparently is harder than installing an OS and the installing a package from its package manager.

And lets be honest here. It’s not like homebrew is a set in stone necessity.

I use Nix, theres macports, you can build the package from source. All with less complexity than running what is in the end a whole os in a vm
by Sphax | 2025-04-06 23:07:53+00:00
This is a cool idea. I also like the website, very clean looking, congrats.

I do have some questions: can the owner of a server split it any way they want ? For example if I have a 64 GB server with 16 cores (something OVH provides IIRC) can I split it into 32 2GB/0.5CPU VM ? (assuming firecracker can handle fractions of a CPU, I don’t know). This could make for some really cheap VM compared to even OVH’s offering.

For that matter do you only support certain types of server or can the owner choose any server they want from Hetzner or OVH ?
by TMWNN | 2025-04-06 23:08:00+00:00
>As a result we had a variety of Wang minis in the house in the mid-70s when I was a toddler, which must have been fairly unusual.

Fred Wang, An Wang's son, had the most powerful computing device on campus in his dorm room at Brown University in 1968. He set up a schedule for classmates to use it for schoolwork.
by lesuorac | 2025-04-06 23:09:00+00:00
> They throw themselves into various pieces of work that don’t make money ... better screenreader support

Truth hurts lol.

This I think is where Capitalism is at odds with a lot of people's intrinsic values. Accessibility unarguable improves people's lives and many people are in software to make the world better but yeah if you want to make as much money (or maybe just more money) doesn't mean working on even a useful item; just a much demanded one.
by olejorgenb | 2025-04-06 23:09:41+00:00
I haven't read the whole thing in detail, but a central argument is that the dollar is artificially strong due to its currency reserve "status". But looking at the DXY I can't really see a strong trend over time? (https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/dxy ("all" have data back to 1986)). Yes, DXY does not cover all currencies, but doesn't this mean that the EUR, GBP, etc. also carry a similar burden as the USD?
by em-bee | 2025-04-06 23:10:01+00:00
the GDPR applies to any user in the EU using a product made by a US-based tech company

while that is true, it is questionable whether it can be enforced.

also it is a problem for EU businesses using such services because it puts them at risk of being in violation of the GDPR. and as as a EU citizen not actually living in the EU i am interested in using EU based services because there the protection applies to everyone.
by JeremyStinson | 2025-04-06 23:10:37+00:00
>"Even after treatments emerged to combat TB, their geographic availability revealed the prevalence of prejudice. Starting in the 1980s, the emergence of HIV/AIDS *allowed TB to spread more quickly through weakened immune systems*"

This is the statement that stood out to me. We've had 5 years of weakening immune systems, which has, with a high probability, contributed further to the spread of TB. History is repeating, again.
by olejorgenb | 2025-04-06 23:13:55+00:00
Some third party commentary: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-team-of-economic-y...

"I, however, don’t find Miran puzzling at all, thanks to my long experience as (among other things) an economics professor at MIT, Princeton and CUNY. You see, I recognize the genre. Most years, at least one student tries to BS his way through the term paper requirement by producing something with a bunch of learned-sounding references and some gratuitous equations, hoping that you won’t notice the absence of any coherent argument.

And when I say lack of coherence I don’t mean that I disagree; I mean that the document simply doesn’t hang together. Part 3 makes the case for tariffs by arguing that they won’t be inflationary because they’ll lead to a stronger dollar, reducing import prices. Part 4 then calls for an all-out effort to weaken the dollar, using emergency powers if necessary.

Oh, and Miran’s plan for weakening the dollar involves pressuring foreign governments to stop accumulating dollar reserves — in effect, diminishing the role of the dollar as a reserve currency. (That wouldn’t work, but never mind.) Let’s hope nobody tells Trump, who has threatened to impose punitive tariffs on any country that dares move away from the dollar."
by lurking_swe | 2025-04-06 23:14:02+00:00
if we’re going to suggest silly stuff like that, let’s also suggest that cities stop subsidizing suburbs and their expansive infrastructure. sound good?

let’s take it a step further, let’s cut spending to anything that brings people joy! let’s all be crabs in a bucket together. convert public beaches to private beaches, public parks to private parks, make every school in the country a private school.

this will surely increase the well being of our society (sarcasm).

where does this crazy fallacy end? Taxes (and life) is not about min-maxing what benefits YOU personally. It’s about min-maxing your community and society. Kind of like how there is no “I” in team…
by hamaluik | 2025-04-06 23:14:04+00:00
The book includes privates charities and governments, but looks at TB through many more lenses than just those. There is a reason it’s a whole book and not just a comment on an Internet forum. I just finished the book and highly recommend the read, if only to learn about something that I suspect most of us (myself at least, certainly), is known only as _history_, not the raging health crisis that is continues to be.
by hollerith | 2025-04-06 23:14:43+00:00
The BSD releases did not form a complete OS and were not runnable except in combination with source code from ATT Unix, which was emphatically proprietary software. The first release of BSD that was unequivocally legal for anyone to acquire and run without getting ATT's permission was 4.4BSD-Lite in June 1994. (Yes, organizations did create OSes from BSD Networking Release 2 (Net/2) released in June 1991, but legal uncertainty hung around them for years.)

In contrast, by 1984, Stallman had already formed a close working relationship with a competent lawyer (Eben Moglen) to devise a legal strategy to maximize the probability that everyone will continue to enjoy a list of freedoms (chosen by Stallman) around any software put under the GPL.