MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by scarface_74 | 2025-04-08 01:16:56+00:00
Hulu makes more money per user on its ad tier than it does on its non ad tier.

Netflix keeps increasing the price of its ad free tier partially to offset the money it’s losing per user by not showing them ads.

Amazon would much rather you use their ad tier for Prime Video than their ad free tier. That’s why they opted people in to their ad tier and kept the price the same instead of raising the price of their current plan and offering the ad free tier at the original price.
by billforsternz | 2025-04-08 01:17:17+00:00
> It's final calculation was reasonably accurate at 24,582,115 golf balls - even though 1000 ÷ 0.00004068 = 24,582,104. Maybe it was using more significant figures for the golf ball size than it showed in its answer?

1000 ÷ 0.00004068 = 25,000,000. I think this is an important point that's increasingly widely misunderstood. All those extra digits you show are just meaningless noise and should be ruthlessly eliminated. If 1000 cubic metres in this context really meant 1000.000 cubic metres, then by all means show maybe the four digits of precision you get from the golf ball (but I am more inclined to think 1000 cubic metres is actually the roughest of rough approximations, with just one digit of precision).

In other words, I don't fault the AI for mismatching one set of meaninglessly precise digits for another, but I do fault it for using meaninglessly precise digits in the first place.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-08 01:18:16+00:00
It's a real shame, and figuring out a solution to this is as simple as looking at the pioneers who are still top dog today. Ninteno does a mix of experiments and iteration on their titles. They make sure things are polished to a T. They focus on fostering IPs that show hope, even if they didn't make a billion dollars at launch. They focused on building a reputation for quality and not simply trying to make number go up. you don't get that kind of seal of quality overnight.

Capcom and Bandai Namco had their struggles, but overall had a similar trajectory. But many american companies don't want to think long-term portfolio anymore. They want pump and dumps. The only potential solace of such crashes is that those pump and dumps might stagnate as well.
by re-thc | 2025-04-08 01:18:18+00:00
> Wouldn’t it make sense then to spin up a separate final assembly within the US?

Like it can just be done?

> Or do their sales not warrant that kind of investment?

It's not so simple. That's the equivalent of other countries thinking they can just spin up a "silicon valley" outside the US. Sales or not it doesn't work like that.
by nomel | 2025-04-08 01:18:35+00:00
I naively believe that the lack of performance is one of connectivity. Animal brains don't use directed graphs, probably for the very reason that latching states, like holding a button, become unreasonable. Our brains probably use small network graphs [1][2].

[1] definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_network

[2] evidence for our brains: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Small-world-directed-n...
by rchaud | 2025-04-08 01:19:44+00:00
I remember browsing Quartz back in 2014-15 and being impressed that there was finally a current affairs focused "digital media" startup that wasn't styled like the odiously click-chasing Business Insider. The website design felt fresh, with a widescreen layout as opposed to the amateurish, single-column blog-like designs of Gawker and Buzzfeed.

But things seemed to change not long after. Paywalls appeared everywhere, so while I could "see" the topics they covered, I couldn't read them. Over time I kept coming back to the website, remembering its cool design, and was disappointed to find fewer and fewer new articles.

Just took a look at the site now, and sadly it just resembles any of those dime-a-dozen "content aggregator" sites like Forbes.com.
by jcwdev | 2025-04-08 01:20:07+00:00
I dropped out of school around the .com bubble bust, for ill-considered reasons that I won't go into, and instead spent quite a lot of time and energy continuing to develop technical chops on my own. That part is only relevant to frame the next:

In 2008, amid the downturn cited in this thread as a similar inflection point to the one we see today, I landed my first SE job, after a few months of active searching. They hired me without a degree and without any formal experience. I had a small portfolio of example work, the technical knowledge that I'd developed, and my personal philosophy. The portfolio did little to help me. The technical knowledge served to barely avoid outright disqualification. It was my outlook that earned me a chance to show mettle.

This was local startup that was a half-dozen years old. There I learned what technical collaboration was like in practice, what it meant to build as part of a team. I learned the stuff that school and individual hacking doesn't teach. In a couple of years I moved on to a Fortune 100 company on a merger mission, and from there on to greener pastures in the industry. Now I earn comfortably, somewhere north of 90th percentile by geography. Each of those steps, along with a healthy dose of reading, taught me something that I needed to learn/understand about the craft and it's challenges. I was oblivious to the need to know most of them until after I wrestled with them.

One of the most important lessons, and one very relevant today: character traits, not merely technical learning, lend power to carving a successful path.

You are not nearly as likely to differentiate yourself by degree alone as was the case in the past. Even less so if people sense entitlement. That's not a judgement, but a caution.

Hiring right now looks like an absolute swarm of posers, far noisier than I've ever seen before, fighting to convince managers to hire them into senior salaries. They are empowered by magical answer generators that whisper secret sauces into their ears just in time to be vomited back and the interviewer. Even though some of them vomit better than others, the kind of manager that you want to work for (imo) is going to see right through those people - and is getting very tired of it.

So tired in fact that I'm ready to hire low/no-experience, high-character people into my senior slots if they show that they have passion for the craft and ethics to match it. I won't pay them a fortune out the gate, but I will match salary growth to competency growth once they are in the saddle.

Time is the fabled commodity, and there's a lot of time-waste going on at the moment.

My advice, if you're having trouble on initial approach: be humble, be curious, and show an honest + direct character - be comfortable in the knowledge that the new skill is not what you already know, but how well your outlook positions you to "leaRn into" the next curve. And then, don't stop carving.
by famouswaffles | 2025-04-08 01:20:09+00:00
>No it's not. He gave you modal conditions on "understanding", he said: predicting the syntax of valid programs, and their operational semantics, ie., the behaviour of the computer as it runs.

LLMs are perfectly capable of predicting the behavior of programs. You don't have to take my word for it, you can test it yourself. So he gave modal conditions they already satisfy. Can I conclude they understand now ?

>If you find yourself hollowing-out the meaning of words to the point of making no distinctions, denying reality to reality itself, and otherwise arriving at a "philosophical abyss" be aware that it is your cherished propositions which are the maddness and nothing else.

The only people denying reality are those who insist that it is not 'real' understanding and yet cannot distinguish this 'real' from 'fake' property in any verifiable manner, the very definition of an invented property.

Your argument boils down to 'I think it's so absurd so it cannot be so'. That's the best you can do ? Do you genuinely think that's a remotely convincing argument ?
by s1artibartfast | 2025-04-08 01:20:11+00:00
Thats not how I read the ruling:

>So, the detainees are entitled to notice and opportunity to be heard “appropriate to the nature of the case.” Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co., 339 U. S. 306, 313 (1950). More specifically, in this context, AEA detainees must receive notice after the date of this order that they are subject to removal under the Act. The notice must be afforded within a reasonable time and in such a manner as will allow them to actually seek habeas relief in the proper venue before such removal occurs.
by ninjin | 2025-04-08 01:20:51+00:00
I lack references for it. But to the best of my knowledge it is not just US tariffs on the PRC that is driving the migration of manufacturing for Japanese companies away from the PRC over the last decade or so, but also the increasingly tense relations between Japan, ROC, and South Korea and the PRC. It should be emphasised that it is of course gradual given the massive investments made by Japanese companies over many decades, but it is noticeable as a Japanese consumer.
by gavmor | 2025-04-08 01:21:07+00:00
I have an intuition that the comment you're responding to has a lot of truth to it, but I am going to have to educate myself to give you an answer.

One thing I do know is that JS and Lisp both treat functions as first-class citizens, allow some degree of meta-programming, and rely heavily on hierarchical (e.g., nested objects in JavaScript vs. s-expressions in Lisp).

Passing functions by reference enables both LISP and JS to compose higher-order functions and, as suggested in another commented, both Lisp and JavaScript's "dynamic stack frames" somehow live updates to running code without requiring a complete restart of the application. The only clear example of this I can find, however, is Bun's --hot mode, which performs a "soft reload," updating its internal module cache and re-evaluates the changed code while preserving global state.

I have some vague notion that this is a favorite feature of Lisp, but it's not clear to me that it's unique to these language families.

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Edit: Lexical scoping, closures, some tail-call optimization...

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> Programming language “paradigms” are a moribund and tedious legacy of a bygone age. (Dave Herman)[0]

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> The venerable master Qc Na was walking with his student, Anton. Hoping to prompt the master into a discussion, Anton said "Master, I have heard that objects are a very good thing - is this true?" Qc Na looked pityingly at his student and replied, "Foolish pupil - objects are merely a poor man's closures."

> Chastised, Anton took his leave from his master and returned to his cell, intent on studying closures. He carefully read the entire "Lambda: The Ultimate..." series of papers and its cousins, and implemented a small Scheme interpreter with a closure-based object system. He learned much, and looked forward to informing his master of his progress.

> On his next walk with Qc Na, Anton attempted to impress his master by saying "Master, I have diligently studied the matter, and now understand that objects are truly a poor man's closures." Qc Na responded by hitting Anton with his stick, saying "When will you learn? Closures are a poor man's object." At that moment, Anton became enlightened.

-- Anton van Straaten 6/4/2003 [1]

0. https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/sk-te...

1. https://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/...
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-08 01:21:33+00:00
I don't know, maybe. The economies of scale and 40 years of iteration make it hard to compare apples to apples like that. As well as the fact that Nintendo's game team went from maybe 5-10 Japanese designers that can fit in a garage (well, not a Japanese garage) to multiple thousands of employees focusing on different sectors of the business.

The main surprise is that they can bs surprisingly lean with their core development teams to this day. Apparently Super Mario Wonder had a core team of around 20 devs.
by SubiculumCode | 2025-04-08 01:23:34+00:00
It's really hard to separate oneself from one's socioeconomic upbringing. For those whom did not grow up at the edge of a great financial cliff, that cliff is merely a metaphor for 'a relative had to bail me out, how embarrassing', while for those whom lives at it's very edge, never slept too easy lest the fall and hope that there exists a social safety net, whilst others learned to live on the cliff face itself, eeking out a small subsistence before the inevitable meth-fueled plunge.
by striking | 2025-04-08 01:24:25+00:00
I really loved the Quartz chat app. I loved how carefully curated it was, how it didn't waste my time, how it gave me an outlay of just the things I care about. It felt a little like a friend was texting me about the news rather than just a dump of news itself.

And I was a little sad when my friend stopped texting me.
by gleenn | 2025-04-08 01:24:34+00:00
I see you getting downvoted which seems a bit harsh given it seemed like a very honest question. As far as I understand, a huge amount of materials and intermediate steps and companies are over in Taiwan or Shenzen or other places in Mainland China. Even if you could do some parts in the US (like final production) all the sub-components and companies who can actually produce them are dotted over Asia. This is part of the problem in raw economic terms: there is a large vendor and/or geographic lock-in. It's hard to get manufacturing jobs and work back in the US because most of these lines if production are somewhere else and moving one or even a few parts can't overwhelm the huge cost of moving stuff over the ocean potentially multiple times. I read that a brake manufacturer was particularly screwed even within North America because steel came from Canada, partial assembly would occur in Mexico and in the US, and then the finished product might cross a border yet again. Without tariffs this wasn't so bad, but if all the products have to cross a ton of borders a lot of these supply chains are in deep trouble.
by trhway | 2025-04-08 01:25:05+00:00
>but selling outside the US would mean importing parts into the US and exporting computers outside, paying tradewar-level tariffs both ways

exactly. This is why it doesn't make much sense to setup a US shop as it will be for US market only. The product produced in a US shop would still cost even for domestic market at least like "imported plus tariff" and with no ability to export it. There is a reason Russian cars are complete crap and aren't exported. That reason is called tariffs.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-04-08 01:25:36+00:00
It's not stored. It's applied to the raw Bayer data, every time, before demosaicing. Same with noise reduction.

What you can store, is metadata that informs these "first step" filters, like lens data, and maybe other sensor readings.

One of the advantages to proprietary data storage, is that you can have company-proprietary filters, that produce a "signature" effect. Third-party filters may get close to it (and may actually get "better" results), but it won't be the same, and won't look like what you see in the viewfinder.
by runjake | 2025-04-08 01:26:25+00:00
> my cardiologist said that everyone who trains hard for a marathon has some level of heart damage from the excessive training.

This strikes me as either your cardiologist being wrong or you misinterpreting what they said.

Can you damage your heart doing endurance events? Most certainly. I’ve seen at least two cardiac arrests during events where the person did not survive.

Does everyone who does an event suffer heart damage? No.

There have been quite a number of studies mentioned in ultramarathon journals that contradict your claim.

Additionally, I have run so many marathons and ultramarathons I’ve lost count. I just recently had my own extensive (and expensive, despite insurance) cardiology work where they observed no such damage. I asked them whether endurance sports cause heart damage, because I’m old and thinking of starting up again and the summary of their answer was “as long as you’re training properly, you’re good”.

That said, certainly these events put short term (~weeks/~months, depending) stress on the heart.

The article mentions new medical technology and techniques as increasing survivability but I also wonder if better training and awareness is also a key. When I started running ultras particularly, it was just a bunch of nutcases. But now you have “hobbyists” like soccer moms running them (and I’m thrilled about that) and doing well at them because there are sets of extremely good training knowledge out there.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-08 01:26:25+00:00
if I quote it from memory without attribution, it is arguably stealng. Certainly in bad taste to pretend that was my idea. If I type it out from memory on my blog page without permission, it is 100% stealing.

These aren't novel situations. We have centuries of case studies, precedent, and cultural osmosis giving us legal and de facto means of what we feel and say is "stealing intellectual property".
by gamblor956 | 2025-04-08 01:29:11+00:00
My company jumped on the AI bandwagon last year because some executives fell for the hype.

We jumped off the bandwagon this year. AI isn't useful for what we do, and it required too much handholding and reviewing. The only thing it was good for was taking meeting notes, and even there it tripped up on names...despite having access to all the names of the attendees.

LLMs are just the Big Blues of today.
by 1659447091 | 2025-04-08 01:29:41+00:00
I may be misunderstanding, is this statement suggesting that the advice to use lawyers in Germany is simply standard op procedure, and not even remotely necessary? As it really isn't necessary in the US, especially with how easy it is to change or update later if it gets to that point.

I have incorporated (s-corp), created a couple LLC's and briefly used a sole proprietorship with a DBA filed in my county - this one was by far the most annoying, time consuming, and confusing one. The state filings took maybe 10-15 minutes of filling out straight forward online forms, $1 (at the time for a name search) and $300 to file. Soon after I was the paper owner of a legal corporation (or LLC's). The most complicated part was understanding taxes, but the application of taxes is separate from starting the company (assuming you understand the best tax structure for what you are doing). If anything, an Accountant is way more important imo.
by altcognito | 2025-04-08 01:30:42+00:00
Everything after about 60 minutes is overkill for health, and truth be told, probably 30 minutes of reasonably vigorous cardio is probably an ideal amount. I say this as a daily runner and someone who runs halves fairly regularly.

https://archive.nytimes.com/well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/1...
by evanjrowley | 2025-04-08 01:30:53+00:00
My comment here was based on the fact that the US government has been developing biometrics databases since the late 1960s. The 'agenda' for decades has always been to monitor and control the population. When protesters do things like suicide bomb buildings from inside their Tesla, torch Tesla dealerships, attack Tesla drivers, and call for the shooting of ICE agents, is it any wonder that DHS will utilize these tools against political protesters?
by elzbardico | 2025-04-08 01:31:30+00:00
“Framing issues as class warfare is often a tactic used to portray those fighting for change as the villains.” imho is a lot clearer than "Objectifying things as class war is a mechanism to cast the warrior into the bad set basically."

We should stop using the mannerisms of social sciences majors in our speech, words like objectifying, empowering just make things more hermetic.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-08 01:32:34+00:00
Comparing the way the human brain synthesizes information with their experience and how a computer does it is already a futile point. Take the following point here: humans tend to be very poor at perfectly regurgitating copies of anything. Even well trained copycats will have different muscle memory, different interpretation of theory they apply, different means of coloring and shading, etc.

As we've seen, poke an LLM enough and it may simply just spit out a near identical recreation. As of now, it definitely proves that this data isn't just "seen". they very much store it on their databases, and we should treat it as such.

>whether AI models ought to owe credit or compensation to the data used to train them is an interesting and nuanced debate

There's nothing nuanced about it in my eyes. Especially if some artists explicitly do not want their art trained upon. Not even 3 years ago Microsoft won a court case via LinkedIn regarding the scaping of their website data. How is this phenomenon any different?

Unless we want to destroy Copyright as we know it, it's pretty cut and dry copyright infringement. But we need to tear it down first and just say we don't like current laws.
by keernan | 2025-04-08 01:33:06+00:00
There is much to disassemble here, most of it of little interest to non-attorneys. The ruling was made on the Court's 'emergency docket' is quite unusual because, although they said their ruling was a procedural question of jurisdiction, they did make a substantive ruling regarding the application of habeas corpus in order to bootstrap themselves into making their jurisdictional assertion (i.e. that the detainees need to have their hearings held before a federal judge in TX).

The Court did not rule that Trump's invocation of the AEA (Alien Enemies Act) was legal, constitutional, or appropriate. Nor did they approve of his deportation of detainees without a judicial hearing - a point all of the Justices emphasized.

What is clear is the majority manufactured a way to toss Trump a bone. First, the matter arose before SCOTUS by way of Trump's appeal of a Temporary Restraining Order. A TRO is a ruling by a trial court that a party needs to wait a short while (14 days in this case) before being allowed to proceed with an intended action. Because they are temporary and of short duration, they are only appealable upon if the appealing party can demonstrate irreparable harm if forced to wait until the TRO time runs.

No such showing was made here. Indeed, the hearing on the TRO was scheduled for tomorrow. The majority didn't even pretend to address what irreparable harm the Administration would have suffered Trump by waiting until the TRO ran out.

From a personal standpoint, I am dismayed - and to his shame - that Chief Justice Roberts would toss aside any remaining self respect he may have, by tossing aside long standing legal principles for the purpose of sending Trump the message they are willing to 'tilt the tables and bend the rules in his favor' whenever they can.
by pkaeding | 2025-04-08 01:33:15+00:00
My advice is to ask to hiring manager who invites you to come in about the dress code expectation / norms, and try to be on the higher end of the range they give, without going over.

I agree no one will explicitly decide one way or another based on how you dress. But making everyone in the room feel comfortable with each other will help the whole process.
by iszomer | 2025-04-08 01:33:33+00:00
The more you know; ChatGPT and xAI have fascinating responses on clarifications; TIL what ad hominem's are.

- What DOGE (allegedly) did, the GSA's + 18F's role in DirectFile, who is Scott Bessent: https://x.com/i/grok/share/HPCbOS8C5MCC7Uvwok2bg6uIk

- It `felt` like an attack but I couldn't articulate it: https://chatgpt.com/share/67f47c39-1e98-8003-a072-2c083fbe9b...