MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by skrtskrt | 2025-04-04 19:41:38+00:00
The problem is that if you're not already differentiably the best at hosting your service right when you launch, someone else that's better at hosting can just do it and take all your business.

And hosting while keeping your prices down is not just a whole different skill set, anyone that's already a big will have pricing deals with AWS so they will beat you even if you host in the exact same way.

It's probably less differentiable in the case of something like Gumroad which is less likely to have big scaling problems, but for things like a distributed database, you run a serious risk of someone who is paying AWS half of what you are per compute hour just deploy the Helm chart and undercut you completely.
by firefax | 2025-04-04 19:41:41+00:00
>lack of innovation drives consumer fatigue, which hurts the brand (other companies will innovate and eat your customers).

But is adding features no one wants that sometimes degrade the user experience "innovation"?

I agree if they don't think about what consumers want and make updates they could get overtaken, but I don't think anyone is gonna jump to Android because they can get a 2MM smaller chassis --- the opposite, they might want an "innovative" phone with a removable and swappable battery, multiple SIMs, FM tuner, and a few other features that aren't "shiny" but the iPhone lacks.
by system2 | 2025-04-04 19:41:43+00:00
With the help of GPT, I think the bad habit part is non-existent anymore. Learning it from GPT really helps people nowadays. Ask ChatGPT 4.0 some questions, and you will be shocked by how well it describes the code.

Just don't ask to fix indentations because it will do it line by line for hours. But it finds mistakes quickly and points you in the right direction.

And of course, it comes up with random non-existent modules once in a while which is cute to me.
by settrans | 2025-04-04 19:42:07+00:00
Given that the Jews were forcibly expelled from their homeland by the Romans, by definition, any Jewish self-determination would need to take place in a land that is at least partially[0] already inhabited. You now have two choices:

1. Deny Jews the right to self-determination altogether, continuing the dispossession of an actively persecuted people, indeed, the same one that was about to face the Holocaust in Europe, thereby punishing them for their own historical victimization, or

2. Acknowledge the legitimacy of Jewish self-determination, even if it takes root in their historical homeland and entails negotiating with and sharing the land with other peoples, thereby accepting that historical justice often requires grappling with imperfect realities, and that two national claims can coexist without one invalidating the other.

Or are you arguing that self-determination only applies to groups of people who haven't been exiled from their homeland (i.e. the people that need self determination the least)?

[0] Before Zionism, the population of Mandatory Palestine was 98% smaller than the same region today. Even the Arab population has increased 26-fold. So, yes, technically it was inhabited, but dramatically less developed. And even then, Jerusalem was 60% Jewish.
by anigbrowl | 2025-04-04 19:42:28+00:00
The problem with such reflexive absolutism, as I've pointed out many times, is that you end up advocating for the speech rights of people who are advocating for genocide. I shouldn't need to point out that killing people also terminates their speech rights and that advocacy of genocide is thus an attack on free speech.

You do not have to defend the free speech rights of people who are themselves attacking free speech (and free life). In fact, it is foolish to do so.
by gghhzzgghhzz | 2025-04-04 19:42:43+00:00
debt goes down in real terms

but "tax on savers ie the rich"

rich normally are rich enough to protect their savings from inflation. e.g. by putting it in an effective monopoly - land or housing (housing is a monopoly if you also are rich enough to have some influence on what / where houses are built / not built)
by Terr_ | 2025-04-04 19:42:56+00:00
Yeah, I've been beating this drum for a while [0]:

1. The LLM is a nameless ego-less document-extender.

2. Humans are reading a story document and seeing words/actions written for fictional characters.

3. We fall for an illusion (esp. since it's an interactive story) and assume the fictional-character and the real-world author are one and the same: "Why did it decide to say that?"

4. Someone implements "chain of thought" by tweaking the story type so that it is film noir. Now the documents have internal dialogue, in the same way they already had spoken lines or actions from before.

5. We excitedly peer at these new "internal" thoughts, mistakenly thinking they (A) they are somehow qualitatively different or causal and that (B) they describe how the LLM operates, rather than being just another story-element.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43198727
by mfeole | 2025-04-04 19:43:18+00:00
you're right, I'm just arguing that when we talk about colors we talk about the subjective perception of it, the thing that we see, which is what is usually referred to as color in any normal conversation. I didn't know there was a different definition of color which was a synonym of wavelength, in that case you're right. So as you say, the debate is arbitrary because it's about different definitions of color.

However, both measurements of wavelengths, the qualia or subjective one and the numerical wavelength or objective one, both exist only in our minds. There exists a measurement if and only if there exists someone that measures, even if it is an objective measure
by cyberax | 2025-04-04 19:43:29+00:00
> …by the Danish tourism board?

Nope. E.g.: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/28/10-most-livable-cities-in-th...

> The best city people choose not to live or have kids in. Got it.

Pretty much. The only way a dense city can work is by limiting its growth. The denser the city, the smaller the birth rate (in the developed world).

The best place for kids as evidenced by the birth rate? Suburbs.
by plusmax1 | 2025-04-04 19:43:33+00:00
I read "Atlas Shrugged" but I found it to be a frustrating read, mostly because of how simplistic its worldview is. When I read it, I felt like the complex issues it tries to tackle—capitalism, government, individualism—were reduced to black-and-white moral arguments, without much room for nuance or ambiguity.

The characters didn’t help either. They came across as one-dimensional: the so-called heroes are always right, always rational, while anyone who disagrees with them is portrayed as either stupid or evil. That kind of writing makes it hard for me to take her "philosophy" seriously.
by mckn1ght | 2025-04-04 19:43:37+00:00
You asked a bunch of specious questions about the DoE. The DoE is part of a complicated and fragile system. It isn't as simple as turning off a light switch for a part you don't like, and chances are you probably don't fully understand the thing you don't like in the first place. Chesterton's fence.

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Now, to your point about standardized testing of skills vs reasoning, I would love to hear a proposal for ensuring "correct" critical thinking is assimilating into student populations. This doesn't scale and is subject to severe bias. Standardized testing measures more objective traits that are indicators for critical thought. IMO a solution must build on top of that foundation, not throw it away. You add a compass, you don't throw out the map.
by sahilagarwal | 2025-04-04 19:43:40+00:00
The best tech stack I have ever worked on was in an adtech company. The code was beautiful and the utility functions to interface with various AWS services were really really neat. I built a near real time estimator using Theta Sketches.

While job searching, I have tried to use techs like Sketches in my filters but it mostly draws up a blank. Would love to work on genuinely interesting stuff like that again.

It honestly did leave a bad taste in my mouth whenever I thought what the end goal of it all was.
by geerlingguy | 2025-04-04 19:43:43+00:00
It targets a different audience overall.

I've been using it a bit, and I like it. However, it is a lot more like programming in Python (rather than defining configuration) when you do anything outside the normal rails.

That's not a bad thing, but it is a different thing.

Still testing it more, and my needs are different than everyone else's, but so far I wouldn't say to anyone who already uses Chef, Ansible, Salt, etc. they could switch to Pyinfra, because the 'core' tool for automation is similar, but the ecosystem is altogether different.

I am moving some of my personal projects over to Pyinfra though, but for now mostly to flesh out my own understanding of it—my main stuff is all still Ansible.
by freedomben | 2025-04-04 19:44:09+00:00
I agree completely, and I think it's disgusting and despicable. But honestly this sort of thing has been happening for many, many decades, maybe even centuries, it's just been done a lot more discreetly in the past. The big difference now is that it's so blatant.

While that might sound like an improvement (and kind of is as at least we're getting more honest), I also view it as a big regression. At least when there's perceived shame in being corrupt, people aspire to be better. When it just becomes routine, I fear it's the beginning of the end.
by Terr_ | 2025-04-04 19:44:54+00:00
I often ask people to imagine that the initial setup is tweaked so that instead of generating stories about an AcmeIntelligentAssistant, the character is named and described as Count Dracula, or Santa Claus.

Would we reach the same kinds of excited guesses about what's going on behind the screen... or would we realize we've fallen for an illusion, confusing a fictional robot character with the real-world LLM algorithm?

The fictional character named "ChatGPT" is "helpful" or "chatty" or "thinking" in exactly the same sense that a character named "Count Dracula" is "brooding" or "malevolent" or "immortal".
by Game_Ender | 2025-04-04 19:45:13+00:00
There is a bigger safety margin for humans if you need to land in a relatively large area in the water somewhere with a larger range of acceptable velocities. I believe they considered a propulsive landing over land but decided against it to simplify the initial design.

10 years later though they have added this ability as a backup [0]. Which again shows how if human lives are on the line you want to favor redundancy and simplicity over flash.

0 - https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2024/10/dragon-propulsive-la...
by firefax | 2025-04-04 19:45:16+00:00
I've seen many an art project that eventually stops being updated and is used to serve up malware -- sometimes with a bonus expired or nonexistent cert.

It should never be a requirement to enable JS to download a binary file like a PDF.

If you're concerned about scraping, put in a robots dot txt and/or give it to an entity like Internet Archive to host.
by rayiner | 2025-04-04 19:45:45+00:00
I’m not weighing in on the specific protests here—I’m actually not unsympathetic to your point about that. I’m talking about the general power of the government to decide what kinds of foreigners it wants to allow in the country.

Do you think the first amendment means the government has to allow in immigrants that are Nazi sympathizers? What about Communists?

Americans have free speech. But Americans can also decide which foreigners are allowed the privilege of being on American soil. In fact, I would say that it’s precisely because we have free speech that we must carefully guard who is allowed into the tent.
by rdtsc | 2025-04-04 19:45:58+00:00
> she’s not the kind of artist that makes your jaw drop or blows your mind with technique.

But to be displayed in MoMA she'd kind of have to be.

> Art’s all about the path you take, the experiences you collect, and the way you view the world.

I guess I see your point, the fact that she is the widow is also part of the artist and the artwork. That's fair. But, I'll also say that who she is is the 90% part and the 10% is the art. If one anonymized her work, it would never have made it to those galleries or exhibits.
by tarnith | 2025-04-04 19:46:01+00:00
To sum this up a bit: Harmonic distortion is well accepted, unless done to an extreme amount. What people seem to struggle with most is intermodulation distortion, cross modulation, etc.

If you ever want to hear a guitar sound as rich as a synth, listen to someone running full polyphonic outputs for each string into a distortion per string. You get the rich harmonic violin/synth like tones of every string but can play full chords without any of the intermodulation products!

I'm kind of surprised guitars have stayed monophonic for as long as they have, and I feel like the next advance might be a cultural shift of guitars to a true polyphonic output path. Would definitely open up some interesting DSP pedal opportunities as a bonus.

The future is distorted guitars that can play complex chords imo
by tekla | 2025-04-04 19:46:07+00:00
Capsules don't have wings so its hard to fly. SpaceX wanted to try propulsive landing on land, but NASA rejected it as unsafe. Inflatable landing balloons like Starliner was proposed, but it was rejected because it added complexity (needs a step to drop the heat shield before it inflates and also, needs a step to inflate the balloons)

It was the simplest choice
by tringuyen_cse | 2025-04-04 19:47:02+00:00
Location: OR, USA

Remote: I'm good with either

Willing to relocate: very

Technologies: Machine Learning, focusing on principled derivation (model identification, optimization, estimation) rather than just doing empirical trial and error.

Resume: https://github.com/ductri/resume_public/blob/main/tri_nguyen...

Email: ductricse@gmail.com
by DennisP | 2025-04-04 19:47:18+00:00
From the Washington Post:

> Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) said Thursday that he planned to support the Republicans’ funding bill; he needed at least seven other Democrats to overcome a filibuster and set the vote up for final passage. Nine others who caucus with Democrats joined him and nearly all Republicans voted to advance the measure....The 62-38 vote came after days of turmoil among Senate Democrats who were split on either working with President Donald Trump and Republicans to pass a continuing resolution that includes $13 billion in cuts to nondefense spending or allowing the government to shut down.

https://wapo.st/4jnGaem
by JKCalhoun | 2025-04-04 19:47:21+00:00
> Forbes first became associated with Sierra in 1991, when he agreed to join the company’s board. Ken Williams, Sierra’s co-founder and CEO, considered this a major coup...

And then:

> “Have you and Ken ever thought about selling Sierra?” <Forbes> asked her out of the blue one day in the lobby of the Paris hotel.

> “No,” Roberta answered shortly. “We’re not interested.”

> “But if you ever were, what sort of price would you be looking at?”

> “A lot,” Roberta replied, then walked away as quickly as decorum allowed.

Pretty clear which of the two was the better business person.
by bastawhiz | 2025-04-04 19:47:36+00:00
That model kind of falls apart for a few reasons:

1. The empty space between the crust and the mantle isn't going to fill up with air. If the mantle cools and shrinks, it's going to pull the crust inwards because there's nothing to expand to fill a potential void.

2. There's no hard line where the crust becomes mantle. The rock gets gooey in a gradient.

3. If there was a void filled with gas, the gas would desperately want to escape. There's a tremendous amount of pressure down there, and the gas would fart out to the surface as volcanic activity at the first chance it got. Tectonic plates move fast enough that even if such a bubble did form, the gas would escape relatively quickly.

But really, consider that if the center of the earth is liquid and cooling, that'll shift the center of gravity in the direction the mantle moves in (same mass, now more dense). That direction is... towards the opposite side of the planet, where there's uncooled liquid mantle, which in turn would just squish back around in time. Cooling the whole mantle evenly around the world enough to decrease the circumference of it such that there's an appreciable void is an unimaginable amount of cooling.

As you said, the crust would need to be extremely sturdy, and at that point tectonics would close up those voids pretty quickly.
by NoImmatureAdHom | 2025-04-04 19:47:46+00:00
I'm a scientist. I'm even a social scientist. Painting the "other" as some sort of one-dimensional malevolent retard isn't doing you or anyone else any favors. I promise.

There are real people, even smart people, on the other team. They have thoughts, kids, impressive degrees, goals unrelated to politics. They enjoy sunshine and hiking. They think they're doing what they're doing for good reasons. They believe themselves to be good people. They might even believe you to be a good person.
by Quarrelsome | 2025-04-04 19:48:03+00:00
US is well known for its questionable high scale farming practices that often have no interest in any sort of animal welfare. Its one of the primary reasons for import controls across Europe for US meat products. It comes up every time the UK or EU negotiate trade deals with the US and came up extremely often during Brexit.

If those import markets were open European producers would struggle to compete with US-agri due to its sheer volume and lack of interest in animal welfare and/or disease control. The UK specifically suffered issues in the past with such issues via "Mad Cow Disease" in the 90s and has attempted to reform its practices as a consequence.

Conversely US agri still seems to ignore these existential nightmares, as most recently seen with Bird Flu and the new administration's troubling ideas with how to deal with it (e.g. the suggestion to avoid culls in order to "find resistent birds").
by Gibbon1 | 2025-04-04 19:48:05+00:00
Seriously WTF?

The hyper inflation was in the aftermath of WWI when Germany's economy was broken by 4 years of war. An it was austerity at the beginning of the 29 financial crisis that brought on deflation and collapse. Followed by the election of Hitler. In the US the same thing resulted in the election of FDR and the end of Republican dominance for two generations.
by tmsbrg | 2025-04-04 19:48:10+00:00
Jimmy Maher is really a great history writer. The way he writes is very compelling. He made a whole history of windows which I somehow read through completely[0].

I can also recommend his other site, Analog Antiquarian[1] where he writes more about the larger history. His Magellan series that's going on now is really amazing, makes you feel like you're really experiencing the epic voyage through South America and South East Asia.

[0] https://www.filfre.net/2018/06/doing-windows-part-1-ms-dos-a...

[1] https://analog-antiquarian.net/
by acidmath | 2025-04-04 19:48:24+00:00
I haven't encountered any Chef code in almost ten years. For the stragglers not yet primarily on Kubernetes and Terraform, I see Ansible and some extra Terraform. Maybe I see some Salt here and there.

These are just my anecdotes, for sure, but (also anecdotal) I rarely hear of other "ops" type people using Chef, and most of the ones I know never got more than just their feet wet with Chef (the SaltStack beta was out early enough to avoid Chef).
by refulgentis | 2025-04-04 19:48:52+00:00
I love open source and the general vibe of good vibes you're bringing, but...this isn't SOTA, or close, even on the papers own terms. (i.e. excluding models released the last 6 months, including their own, which is a strange, yet understandable, choice given the results they report)

Quickest way to show this:

- Table 2, top of page 7

- Gemma 2 27B, 0 interventions, has 94.1/56.6/60.2

- Gemma 2 27B, with all their interventions, has 86/64/69.

- Gemma 2 27B, with all their interventions, sampled 32 times, is at 90.4/67.2/70.3.

- Gemma 2 27B came out in...June 2024. :/

Quick heuristics employed here:

- What models did they compare against? (this isn't strictly an issue, the big screaming tell is "What models did they compare against compared to their last N papers?"

- How quickly does the paper have to move towards N samples, and how big does N get before they're happy enough to conclude? (32). How much does that improve performance on their chosen metric? (1.8%)
by trompetenaccoun | 2025-04-04 19:49:03+00:00
The German love for authoritarianism did that. And WW1 Allies who bled the country dry with reparations as the article mentions. Which lead to desperation in the population and hatred for the establishment. You can see it play out in leading Nazi figures like Goebbels who was constantly broke, struggling to pay bills and ranted about financial enslavement of his people.

The excessive treatment made them see themselves as freedom fighters. Of course, that's not what people are taught in school in Britain or France, it's an inconvenient narrative.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-04-04 19:49:17+00:00
I’d be interested to see how the Republican approach to the problem of homelessness works at scale, but they control few local governments the size of SF or Seattle.

Two exceptions (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_the_50_lar... ): Dallas-Fort Worth and Oklahoma City.

Full disclosure: I don’t know much about them, and I doubt anyone in this thread cares enough to merit a deep dive. A little light googling suggests both struggle with homelessness (not surprising: both tend to have mild winters). DFW seems to take in essence the liberal approach: social services support with some encampment clearing and forced transport away from the city; OKC seems to be working on a rehousing program (how progressive of them) combined with faith-based charities and private/public partnerships.
by hinkley | 2025-04-04 19:49:29+00:00
I hope Larian gets into making sequels or remakes of all those 90’s games that people loved. Baldur’s Gate is a game my brain tries to place in the late 90’s along with the later Warcraft games but in fact it’s 00’s. Seeing them walk gaming history backward would be a treat.

Before BG3 came out I started to try to finish BG which I played but got stuck a third of the way through. I made it at least halfway, but then the betas were coming out so I just watched other people play through on YouTube. Which I suspect many people did if they even bothered exerting themselves that much.

What other games have good playthroughs?
by pvg | 2025-04-04 19:50:09+00:00
The thing is, lists of things don't make good HN submissions in general

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

And they're not Show HN's, which is for something else, take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

You should probably find something more HN-ish to post instead.
by gghhzzgghhzz | 2025-04-04 19:50:12+00:00
I admit there's something that doesn't add up.

I listened to him being asked a question on UK / US trade and his answer was very generic - something something Amazon.

To be a forex trader, you would live and breathe detail on stuff like this. To be in the top 1% of forex traders you would be far beyond that.

yes he isn't in that position now, but I expected some novel insight that you could only get from a specialist, not something that anyone could come up with.

This isn't the only example.

I don't disagree with most of what he is saying, and I'm very happy for him that he has managed to break through in a small way to get his message out.

but still something iffy.