MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ty6853 | 2025-04-01 11:03:35+00:00
The federal reserve doesn't want zero risk banking where end customer is effectively 100% on their books, and will deny accounts to any bank that functions the way your service would would work ( see the denial of account to The Narrow Bank ). It's against their monetary policies as it destroys the mechanism by which credit expansion happens.

> “pose undue risk to the stability of the U.S. financial system and would adversely affect the Federal Reserve’s ability to implement monetary policy"

https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/safest-bank-fed-wont-san...
by chedabob | 2025-04-01 11:03:59+00:00
Wouldn't surprise me if they had something like this in a few cities with big production teams. There must've been pipelines in place from when 35mm was the standard for movies, and crews needed to get hours of footage developed and over to various people for review each day.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-physical-aws-data-trans...
by gronky_ | 2025-04-01 11:04:01+00:00
I just tried the demo on the homepage and I don’t know what kind of sorcery this is but it’s blowing my mind.

I input a bunch of completely made up words (Quastral Syncing, Zarnix Meshing, HIBAX, Bilxer) and used them in a sentence and the model zero-shotted perfect speech recognition!

It’s so counterintuitive for me that this would work. I would have bet that you have to provide at least one audio sample in order for the model to recognize a word it was never trained on.

Providing it to the model in text modality and it being able to recognize it in the audio modality must be an emergent property.
by iforgotpassword | 2025-04-01 11:04:27+00:00
libgd, the graphics backend of php. It's an ancient pile of shit yet the "maintainers" refuse An help, contributions and improvement as good as they can. The most popular example is emoji support on their text rendering. Questions on SO, bug reports to libgd and php go back at least 10 years, yet no interest by the devs to either fix it or accept any help in doing so.

A couple years ago I started investigating and it starts with the fact that their utf8 decoder accepts no more than 3 bytes per character, thanks to an ifdef. There's code to handle 4, so you change the ifdef and then it doesn't compile anymore because code rot. Fixing that you see the correct code points going into freetype but then something else I forgot about breaks. Then I saw there were already a couple patches on the mailing list and checking their github just now I see at least one PR with a bunch of back and forth and another couple issues with mostly no reaction or at best a few lame excuses.

If you could donate negative money to a project this would be a prime candidate. Sure, move fast and break things is bad, but this is the opposite of that, and not good either.
by lucumo | 2025-04-01 11:04:59+00:00
The problem isn't the first-time generating the code. The problem is when objects gain fields and people forget to add them to hashCode and equals (or worse, hashCode OR equals). It's the kind of thing you won't notice until months later when you have intermittent hard to debug glitches in your system.

Records have reduced the advantages of Lombok by a boatload. But there still are some things that can't be records.
by imtringued | 2025-04-01 11:06:39+00:00
The transformer architecture IS the bitter lesson. It lets you scale your way with more data and computational resources. It was only after the fact that people come up with bespoke algorithms that increase the efficiency of transformers through human ingenuity. Turns out a lot of the things transformers do is completely unnecessary, like the V cache, for example, but that doesn't matter in practice. Everyone is training their model with V caches, because they can start training their bleeding-edge LLM today, not after they did some risky engineering into a novel architecture.

The architectures before transformers were LSTM based RNNs. They suck because they don't scale. Mamba is essentially the successor to RNNs and its key benefit is that it can be trained in parallel (better compute scaling) and yet Mamba models are still losing out to transformers because the ideal architecture for Mamba based LLMs has not yet been discovered. Meanwhile the performance hit of transformers is basically just a question of how many dollars you're willing to part with.
by locopati | 2025-04-01 11:09:38+00:00
I think yd have been better off going with harbinger and no analogy here. This was a government agency acting on behalf of the government in a targeted arrest, not the government saying to citizens it's a free-for-all on targeting an entire group's businesses and homes (which is why "writ small" still fails here).

There's real levels of Naziesque behavior happening in the US and UK right now, but it's also not exactly the same and bad comparisons make it easier for many people to dismiss genuine concerns as hyperbolic (especially when one is in a targeted group, which i am, and trying to point out how bad things are getting).
by creata | 2025-04-01 11:09:53+00:00
I'm not disagreeing with "let them do it", but the comparison with computer music isn't really fair.

Computer music, as it existed a couple decades ago, still played exactly what you asked it to, and it wasn't filling areas where you underspecified the music with a statistical model of trillions of existing songs. And that's the difference, for me: the ability to underspecify, and have the details be filled in and added in a way that to the audience will be perceived as intentful, but which is not.
by ksec | 2025-04-01 11:10:02+00:00
>the 300 tracking scripts every site has to try to squeeze as much revenue as possible

Let's say tracking for revenue is required and not an argument to be made. The question I never quite understand is why cant we have ONE scripts to rule them all? I remember there was a company / services that may be called Segment? And quick google search doesn't have anything familiar, that offers something like that.
by furyofantares | 2025-04-01 11:10:25+00:00
That's true, but that is the input section of the diagram, not the output section where [specific and exact output] is labeled, so I believe there was legitimate confusion I was responding to.

To your point, which I think is separate but related, that IS a case where LLMs are good at producing specific and exact commands. The models + the right prompt are pretty reliable at tool calling by themselves, because you give them a list of specific and exact things they can do. And they can be fully specific and exact at inference time with constrained output (although you may still wish it called a different tool.)
by BoorishBears | 2025-04-01 11:10:26+00:00
Well either you can be a philosopher for yourself, or you can be one of their subjects, consuming what they throw down on you. The way I see it, you might as well understand the muck they're leading you to under the guise of utility.

But if you're never aiming for anything more than prototypes and school projects, I agree, do whatever.
by FinnLobsien | 2025-04-01 11:10:42+00:00
I've used platforms like these for copywriting in the past. I think they all have the same problems at some point:

1. The very best don't use them because it's not worth their time.

2. Even good feedback becomes useless if 5 people would take it in 5 directions and structure their feedback that way. You either take all of the advice and create a Frankenstein or you become confused and take none.
by CharlieDigital | 2025-04-01 11:10:46+00:00
For the record, author is not crazy.

Svelte team also switched to JS with JSDoc a few months back[0].

You can see the majority of their repo is JS and not TS[1]

The cited reason[2]:

> As a Svelte compiler developer, debugging without a build step greatly simplifies compiler development. Previously, debugging was complicated by the fact that we had to debug using the build step. In addition, using JSDoc does not affect compiler’s development safety because the type is almost equivalent to TS.

There was a lot of noise when this happened. Rich Harris (Svelte team) even had a comment on this on HN[3]. Dev sphere similarly thought they were crazy. But Svelte seems fine and no one seems bothered by this now.

As long as author ships type def, it should behave just like a TypeScript library for all intents and purposes.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35932617

[1] https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte

[2] https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/pull/8569

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35892250
by philipallstar | 2025-04-01 11:11:19+00:00
> 980k in 1963, off a population of 53m.

ONS[0] shows deaths of around 550k at the same time.

> 775k in 2008, off a population of 62m.

Same ONS chart shows more like 720k births, and 500k deaths as well.

> I feel like you're bending over backwards to pretend you don't understand the point.

Just as the 700k immigration figure I mentioned above I did so in good faith, making it net migration, I think you should operate in good faith as well and talk about net natural population change.

[0] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...
by metalman | 2025-04-01 11:11:57+00:00
I just dont get it.Sleep tracker? Dont you just know?, about something as personal and intimate as your own state of restedness?,energy levels? And quite honestly I worry about the cost of optimising ones life and managing everything for what?, a better performance review?, and does this kind of minute management and reliance on external sensors and data, leave a person able to make criticl descisions when facing anything outside of a habitual and specialised routine. Perhaps these could work as training and awareness devices?, which could be revealing, but I think habitual use is only going to work, for the most dedicated ...military precision types.... but for them, it will be competitive, and it's bad news for anyone outside of that group, to compete with them. And as a reminder, there is nothing quite so luxurious as well earned sleepyness, and the general feelings of well bieng and satiation that creates this, vs an off switch.
by discreteevent | 2025-04-01 11:11:57+00:00
> it is hilarious to want a conversational UI to understand something better than you.

This is true. But what if you swap "conversational UI" with something actually intelligent like a developer. Then we see this kind of thing all the time: A user has tacit, unconscious knowledge of some domain. The developer keeps asking them questions in order to get a formal understanding of the domain. At the end the developer has a formal understanding and the user keeps their tacit understanding. In theory we could do the same with an AI - If the AI was actually intelligent.
by lurk2 | 2025-04-01 11:12:18+00:00
> A kurgan is a type of tumulus (Burial mound) constructed over a grave, often characterized by containing a single human body along with grave vessels, weapons, and horses. Originally in use on the Pontic–Caspian steppe, kurgans spread into much of Central Asia and Eastern, Southeast, Western, and Northern Europe during the third millennium BC.
by cogman10 | 2025-04-01 11:13:45+00:00
There are alternatives that don't rely on jvm internals to accomplish their goals. They do like 90% of what lombok does. Immutables and AutoValue are two examples I've used that work fine.

The 10% lombok can do because it's peaking at internals isn't valuable. I don't, for example, need an annotation to create a static logger. That's dumb.
by vidarh | 2025-04-01 11:14:11+00:00
Yes, but in practice it's even rarer for people to have loads that have multiple spikes a day, to the point it's a rounding error you can mostly ignore outside of very unusual niches. Usually the day-night cycle entirely dominates in terms of traffic variations and is already long enough to make auto-scaling unviable in terms of cost.

You're right that if the longest window is short enough to make autoscaling financially beneficial over managed hosting, then you also need to make sure that you don't regularly have other spikes that can tip things back to being unprofitable.
by xiphias2 | 2025-04-01 11:14:13+00:00
There seems to be some part of the LLM capabilities being lost by hacking some benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 is a great example of a model clearly beating 3.5 in all benchmarks, but slowly destroying my code base by adding lots of extra lines or hacking around my instructions (adding ,,if'' statements when I want it to change the code to handle a case instead of understanding what change is really needed to be done for it).

I still prefer o1 pro and a lot of those leapfrogging in benchmarks don't translate to being smarter anymore.
by eitland | 2025-04-01 11:14:58+00:00
Seems to be no support for TypeScript in the frontend? I mean, it is mentioned, but only together with Rust and Go for "computation engines".

No TypeScript = No deal with me.

I wrote my first Javascript application back in the spring of 2025, and I am not aware of anyone who is willing to pay me enough money to voluntarily write Javascript again in a project of meaningful size.
by pawelduda | 2025-04-01 11:15:29+00:00
There was a time when everyone played this in Poland - because of Adam Małysz's hype. It felt like the golden age of ski jumping, at least here. The game ran very slowly on my first 100 MHz CPU, which kinda helped with timing the jump. I could get it to run a bit faster by pressing the magic "turbo" (boost to 120 MHz) button on the case for a while, until the system BSoD'd. Another popular thing alongside it was so-called "Małysz" malware, which would spread via infected version of this game. I remember getting the game on a diskette and finding out it just formatted my drive with Windows (95?) install upon reboot. Fun times.
by nodesocket | 2025-04-01 11:15:47+00:00
I recently discovered Beszel (https://github.com/henrygd/beszel) for monitoring all my homelab servers. It's quick, easy, and has a very clean and intuitive interface. Works especially well running inside of containers on hosts. I also wrote a very quick guide on getting it running inside of Kubernetes at https://github.com/henrygd/beszel/discussions/431.

While it's not nearly as powerful as say DataDog, it provides the core essentials of CPU, memory, disk, network, temperature and even GPU monitoring (via agent only).
by gerlv | 2025-04-01 11:16:18+00:00
1. Treat it as a stream - you can't catch all of it as there is so much info, just catch something interesting, read it, and don't stress out if you didn't catch something else. There will always be something else to read.

2. Most of the sources you've mentioned are push-based - i.e. someone else is pushing this new info onto you (newsletters, youtube, podcasts, news). This increases FOMO. Instead, try to implement a pull-based approach and only seek and read info that is relevant to what you want to learn, read. It's a lot harder than it seems, but my guess it's harder due to default.

Last year, I re-tried[1] the experiment of not using the internet for entertainment for a few months, only for work and life admin. To catch up with news, I subscribed to a paper-based weekly newspaper. If there is something important in the world, you will find out about it, someone will tell you. But this will help a ton with anxiety and mental health.

The other thing I realised - when I listen to podcast and go into info overload, I get burned out a lot quicker. Listening to podcasts while working is the worst. I removed all podcast subscriptions and only started adding those that I want to listen + limit when I listen to these episodes.

[1] https://oleggera.com/blog/life-with-no-internet/
by codewench | 2025-04-01 11:16:28+00:00
>Is he (a) legally (b) morally entitled to open fire on them?

Given how these "arrests" seem to be done by plainclothes individuals who don't identify themselves?

Yes. Legally (depending on state) yes, and morally always.

(Arrests in quotations because anyone arrested has rights, something that seems to be skipped over here)
by mdemare | 2025-04-01 11:16:53+00:00
> that the democrats are on the right leaning side of “centre right”

This is repeated frequently, but, no, just no.

Name one position by the Democrats that is to the right of typical center to center-right parties such as CDU/CSU, La République En Marche, PP, CDA, ÖVP.

Immigration, abortion, environmental regulations?
by maxloh | 2025-04-01 11:17:29+00:00
Thanks for your reply! The misconception might stem from the lack of clarity in the documentation regarding how islands (components) work.

- How do I declare local states (instance variables) in an island?

- How do I fetch and display data from an API?

- Where should we place data that is normally kept in contexts/stores in other frameworks?

These are common problems faced when developing an SPA, but missing in the documentation.
by hmmm-i-wonder | 2025-04-01 11:17:51+00:00
>You don't treat every possible hypothesis as potentially valid.

Wrong, you consider and reject hypothesis if we're being specific about the scientific method. In this case, this is a testable question that could be measured but from common metrics isn't accurately measured for humans to compare to. There is no valid rejection of the hypothesis without more data.

The utility of the hypothesis and the work required is one of many things considered and another discussion.

But actually considering and discussing them IS the scientific and rational method. Your knee-jerk reactions are the closest thing to ludditism in this whole conversation.

>And likewise a proper response is emphatically not to respond to an actual measurement within a commonly accepted paradigm (c.f. the linked headline above) with a response like "well this may not be measuring the right thing so I'm going to ignore it". That is pretty much the definition of ludditism.

Again wrong. In almost every case the correct first questions are "are we measuring the right thing", again if we are talking about engineering and science, that's always valid and should ALWAYS be considered. I also never said we should IGNORE crashes, I asked if its the BEST metric for success on its own.

And for your third incorrect point

>That is pretty much the definition of ludditism.

Obviously missed my point in every posts, including the one above. Whether "crashes" is the best metric is being applied to humans and technology, there is no anti-technology going on here.

Your emotional reaction to someone questioning something you obviously care about seems to have shut down your logical brain. Take a deep breath and just stop digging.
by mentalgear | 2025-04-01 11:18:14+00:00
> because in practice using a native webview loses a lot of the ostensible portability of a browser-in-a-desktop app (they claimed native webviews can differ a lot between OS's)

OS Webview fragmentation was my concern from the beginning, but got pretty much shushed away by tauri proponents. Funny how after years they also came to the same conclusion that a webview running on win8 and one on linux do not necessarily render/behave the same, and the amount of bugfixes/normalisation one would have to include is just to vast.

Still it might make sense if you exactly know the OS distribution of your user base.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-01 11:18:53+00:00
>It doesn't matter whether banning third party was good for users or not, only whether Google (or Mozilla) stood to benefit.

Well, yes. These are billion dollar companies. Always follow the money. The incentives change everything.

>This is absolutely toxic because it means objectively good changes get shouted down.

Probably because "objectively good" changes often follow before even more harmful decisions. Many have long lost their benefit of the double for these Big Tech trillionaifes. And the reputation is deserved.
by cogman10 | 2025-04-01 11:19:38+00:00
> As you can imagine, this might break at a new Java update any time.

It's not a might. If you look at the lombok changelog they have a release for nearly every new jdk version because they break constantly.

When a project can't move up jvm versions it's very frequently been because of lombok.

And if you look at the commit log, it's all a single dev running the show. He's been doing it for years which means the stability of your project is pretty dependant on this one guy keeping things up to date and finding work arounds to get at the jvm internals.
by lehen04 | 2025-04-01 11:20:05+00:00
Hey, this is really nice! One feedback: It would be nice a bit more extensive documentation for this kind of product, maybe some use cases? For example, can I use this with a product like Obsidian to classify my documents?

A section like: "Deploy your first app using Morphik", would be cool too.

I try it out and let you know my impressions =]
by FinnLobsien | 2025-04-01 11:20:13+00:00
I've come to distrust many reviews. First, it's all Goodhart's Law. I heard the average rating on Airbnb is now 4.8. If everyone in the system (guest, host, platform) is incentivized to get ratings up, ratings will go up.

Besides, reviews aren't fungible. Why would I trust a stranger's review if I have no idea of their taste.

It's the same on Google Maps. A friend of mine runs one of the best coffee shops and bakeries in the city I live in. She has a few bad reviews because she doesn't allow laptops and has no wifi.

It's precisely why I love it—people are there to be around each other, not to stare at glowing glass.

Similarly, a beloved local restaurant gets bad reviews because there's no English menu and the wait staff doesn't speak English. Again, the absence of tourists is why people love it.

Meanwhile, the tourist traps have great reviews from gullible tourits.

I've gone back to the local news/Reddit for recommendations. Online star ratings are meaningless.
by vixen99 | 2025-04-01 11:21:08+00:00
Suppose you've inherited genes which contribute in varying degrees to brains, beauty, longevity and charm. These are arguably advantages rather more significant in life than money. If there was a choice who wouldn't choose these? So should you be taxed given how you will undoubtedly profit from it? Or is it just the guy who's dumb, ugly, always ill with something and destined for a short life who's hammered if he or she happens to make some real cash?

https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/how-genes-shape-perso... https://human-intelligence.org/intelligence-is-genetic/ https://www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/news/beauty-may-... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23925498/
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-04-01 11:21:15+00:00
But wasn't the "society" paid off by all the "living taxes" before the person died?

Imagine having nothing, your parents dying, you, an eg. broke college student inheriting a 2 bedroom apartment, which is somehow worth $1mio, and you owe so much tax (that you can't pay) that you're forced to sell the apartment, the only place you've ever known.

With 100% inheritance tax, i'd literally stop working as soon as i reached enough money to retire. Why work harder if it all vanishes when I die, and my hypothetical kids gain nothig? Or, more realistically, i'd convert stuff to cash and give it to them without the government knowing.

Tax the income, close the loopholes, once the tax for something is paid, the rest should go to the person, the government has got its share, it has enough.

And i'm saying this as someone who already lives in a country without inheritance tax (in most usualy cases).