MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nvarsj | 2025-04-30 16:56:33+00:00
I still don't know how to "go back" after viewing a video on the mobile app. It's so confusing. I just keep swiping stuff and eventually it works.

The google maps app has similar bizareness.

I guess somehow this all makes G more money, but it sure is painful as a consumer.

I'd pay money for a good hand-crafted (non a/b tested) experience. Competition should be the true a/b test :).
by achierius | 2025-04-30 16:56:51+00:00
Many tasks that one might want to give a model end up implicitly including search as a subtask. For example, "plan me a trip to Santiago" obviously requires the model to understand details about the real city of Santiago. Less obviously, "write me a Python script to do ..." requires they understand APIs, libraries, etc., the same things you might ask a search engine to pull up. The tasks which do not require a coherent + mostly-correct exterior-world-model are relatively few -- text processing (e.g. "proofread this") is a big one; calculation tasks fit, but LLMs are also bad at those.
by toast0 | 2025-04-30 16:56:58+00:00
I mean, if you look at commercial UNIX, well to start it all sources from AT&T at some point; they weren't permitted to sell it, so they gave it away more or less.

BSD (and others) took it and improved it.

Everyone (including Microsoft) took at least the BSD socket stack, at least for a while.

Commercial UNIX competing against free community UNIX is a hard battle to win. There's a question of UNIX vs alles, but if UNIX lives, it's going to be community UNIX (or well Linux which is community UNIX alike).

I suppose there's an angle for commercial UNIX on specialized hardware; Apple is doing fine with that model; but it stopped being compelling for Sun --- commodified x86 servers are good enough that you can't build a business to support commercial UNIX on specialized server hardware (x86 or not) alone. Oracle Solaris exists, but as a non-customer, it looks like development has slowed significantly.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-04-30 16:56:59+00:00
I'm skeptical of the idea that money and fix any problem, and that there are no inherent differences.

Setting that aside, why do you think it is even desirable to limit funding to public institutions in the first place?

Seems like you're starting from this position and moving backwards.

If Public schools are superior, why haven't they already out competed private institutions? They have a pretty huge advantage from additional tax revenue.
by princevegeta89 | 2025-04-30 16:57:03+00:00
Mobile? There's also another sneaky piece of crap Google pulls - even if you're a Premium user and set your video preferences to high quality, they only play videos for you at 480p, even though higher resolutions up to 4k are all available.

If you manually increase the quality on that video, it will only apply for that video, and whatever videos you play next, will still be limited to 480p.

All this is just to save costs..A truly fucking shady tactic to fuck over paying users. Fuck Google for what they do and how they cheat naive users.
by stego-tech | 2025-04-30 16:57:51+00:00
I’m always a fan of automated compliance and vulnerability management tooling - looking forward to giving this a spin at some point.

One bit of UX feedback: your “Offers” page isn’t rendering correctly on my iPhone (14 Pro) device. The text isn’t wrapping, graphics don’t seem to be scaling, and the columns are misaligned.

Once the current network rebuild is done, I’m looking forward to rolling this and Wazuh to try out both.
by xienze | 2025-04-30 16:58:00+00:00
> gross dollars

So, not inflation adjusted. Also doesn't capture the mix of what's being produced, i.e., a shift towards only manufacturing high value items versus being more broadly diversified and manufacturing things along a range of price points. In other words, a complete hollowing out of our manufacturing base.

Your same link shows $1.38T in 1997. Which is $2.77T today. In other words, DOWN in inflation adjusted terms from nearly 30 years ago.
by jillyboel | 2025-04-30 16:58:22+00:00
> the harm is plagiarism

How is plagiarism harmful outside of an academic setting? Is it illegal? Who is hurt by it? In what way? Does this supposed harm outweigh the benefit it brings to the rest of society? And, mostly unrelated, why are you okay with bigtech doing it, but not a mere human?

Just admit you realized that you don't actually have an argument. It's a simple question, and you're not able to answer it.

It's okay to admit you were wrong. It shows growth.
by rdtsc | 2025-04-30 16:58:27+00:00
> semi-autonomous ATC

Yeah, that one has been around as long as there have been computers. It's sort of like the flying car of the ATC world - it's always 5 years away.

> temporal normal distribution to human attention spans

Tn this case we had both the ATC and the instructor tell the pilot to do something different and they didn't listen. Not sure if that's an attention span issue, it may be, but it's not clear it's definitely what it is.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-30 16:58:28+00:00
Heh, I can definitely imagine hooking up an LLM to our task board's API and having it suggest actions (say, marking something as ready for QA) based on my Git log, then execute those if approved. Probably save me a shitload of time. Hell, if I just let it run loose and do whatever it decided to do, daily, with no intervention, it'd likely do a better job than the median developer (and better than I do). Maybe suggest next-tasks for me. I'd worry about it damaging something, but I worry about that a ton every time I have to open up any of those confusing-UI shared-workspace sorts of things anyway.

That this would be a significant time savings mostly has to do with most task tracking systems being so very miserable and slow to work in for the majority of the people expected to use them, though. If we used something lighter and closer to where the work is happening (the code) it wouldn't really be that helpful.
by dspillett | 2025-04-30 16:58:32+00:00
The original comment used imperial measures, following comments kept to that for consistency.

To put things into proper units: speed of light in vacuum is approx 1.8 terafurlongs per fortnight, and electricity in wires has a pace of similar magnitude, and sound in normal atmospheric conditions shuffles along at approx 2.1 megafurlongs per fortnight.
by silisili | 2025-04-30 16:58:49+00:00
Between shorts, search results, the ads, and the content...I treat youtube links like pinterest links these days. Basically, I'll only click it if I think I really, really need to see it.

By 'content' I mean the fact that every video has a moron talking for 10 minutes at the beginning. You can search up something as simple as how to tie a shoe, find a promising video with a lot of likes, then click it. Gotta start with 2 ads first, naturally. Then the first 2 minutes will tell you they'll teach you to tie a shoe. The next 5 minutes will be a backstory on the history of the shoe and how it's impacted the creator's life and their own shoe stories. Then a 2 minute sponsored segment for some dropshipped wallet or sock nobody needs, then another youtube ad, then hurried 10 second clip of someone poorly tying a shoe.

Maybe I'm getting old, but I don't see how anyone can stand it anymore.
by breadwinner | 2025-04-30 16:58:52+00:00
> To preserve relative margins companies need to increase prices by 145%.

Not true. If you have watched Shark Tank you have seen that products cost, as an example, $6 landed, but retail for $24. Tariffs are 145% of $6, so around $9. So they only have to increate the retail price from $24 to $33 to keep the same profit margin. In this example that's a 37% increase, not 145%.
by ainiriand | 2025-04-30 16:58:57+00:00
We are not the best species to achieve that, as we have selfishness in our mind. We need a mind capable of collective effort for greater good and we are just not able to do that, we are shaped to protect what we have and try to get more at the expense of others. Being truly generous and selfless is a conscious act that requires quite a bit of sacrifice.
by drecked | 2025-04-30 16:59:31+00:00
What is this “it” you speak of.

Is it the imposition of tariffs on Canada and Mexico? Or is it the rescinding of those tariffs a day later. Or is it the pause but when the pause was supposed to end nothing really changed?

Or is it the liberation day tariffs on everyone? Or the subsequent reduction of liberation day tariffs a few days later but an increase in tariffs against China.

Or is the “it” the fact that the administration reveals these major market moving actions a few hours before making them public to friends, family and donors?

Once anyone can figure out what “it” is supposed to be one can have a discussion about whether it’s good or not.
by marssaxman | 2025-04-30 16:59:32+00:00
Thanks - that's not a perspective which had ever occurred to me. I just assumed that learning a new language would require a long period of steady practice, and that's what Duolingo seems to be built for; but if people are often approaching it looking for something more like a glorified tourist phrasebook, I can see why they might complain about the abstract nature of the practice sentences.
by Terr_ | 2025-04-30 16:59:35+00:00
> This trade war is worse than Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal.

"Biden's"? That's comparing an 100%-Trump fiasco with an 80%-Trump fiasco.

If we're gonna blame Biden for not breaking the US/Taliban ceasefire agreement and drawing things out... Then we need to talk about how it was Trump who made the agreement abandoning the Afghan government, Trump who negotiated that aggressive May 2021 deadline to land at the beginning of the next term [0], and Trump who had to be stopped by his staff from triggering a far-worse instant "fuck y'all, we bail" just days after he lost the election in Nov 2020. [1]

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[0] https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/568154-trumps-...

[1] https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2022/10...
by card_zero | 2025-04-30 16:59:37+00:00
It's been said since the beginning, by Wikipedia, that the idea is not to cite the page itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_Wikipedia

> Normal academic usage of Wikipedia is for getting the general facts of a problem and to gather keywords, references and bibliographical pointers, but not as a source in itself.

There is always an issue about claim not in source. Often this is a matter of perception and has to be decided by an argument about what the source means, or what a conventional reading of the source is.
GhostHub hit 10K lines – now I'm burning out. What would you do?
by BleedingXiko | 2025-04-30 16:59:41+00:00
I’ve been developing GhostHub, a swipe-based media server for personal libraries. It doesn’t need accounts or setup; just run it and share instantly. It has real-time viewing sync, anonymous chat, and automatic indexing with thumbnail previews.

After recently releasing version 1.2, I planned to dive straight into more ambitious features like transcoding and a config server. But managing bandwidth optimization, Docker builds, UI/UX improvements, and backend refinements has started to become overwhelming for a solo developer.

GhostHub is already at 10K+ lines of Python and JavaScript, excluding the front-end HTML and CSS, and it’s beginning to outgrow me. Every new feature demands a ton of testing, and I’m feeling the classic burnout creeping in.

I’m curious how other solo or small-team devs manage this:

- How do you balance delivering new features with preventing burnout?

- When do you decide to ship versus taking time to polish your code?

- Do you continuously refactor, or save cleanup for later?

Would appreciate hearing any experiences or advice from others who’ve tackled similar challenges.

Github (For Context): https://github.com/BleedingXiko/GhostHub
by rbanffy | 2025-04-30 17:00:40+00:00
> We also jail the most outspoken jihadis,

I believe the question here is influence. There is no jihadist party in Europe, but there are plenty of parties (some in governments, some even with almost full control of their countries) that are nazi in everything BUT name.

> The far right has fairly high preferences in the last decade or so, so in practice, you have a lot of far right politicians in parliaments and sometimes governments.

Outrage drives engagement and makes media more profitable. This is why things like Fox News and the Murdochs exist. Now they have discovered they can influence elections as well. We can blame Russia for giving a helping hand to far-right authoritarians aiming to destabilize the EU (and the US, let's not forget that).

> Jailing people don't make them disappear,

No, but it sends a message.

> Ideologies are somewhat contagious. Unless you isolate the carriers socially, which is hard to impossible, they tend to infect new people.

Like any disease, it's hard to fight and, like any contagious and deadly disease, it's worth fighting.
Archil (YC F24) Is Hiring a Distributed Systems Engineer (In-Person, SF)
by huntaub | 2025-04-30 17:01:05+00:00
I’m Hunter, the founder of Archil (recently rebranded from Regatta Storage). We’re building the new, active data layer for the cloud, and we’re starting by transforming S3 (or compatible!) buckets into infinite, high-speed, local[1] file systems. Our early customers are using Archil’s performance to power CI/CD pipelines, build stateless Jupyter notebooks for AI researchers, run training jobs, and build out storage defaults for the new set of AI clouds. You may know us from our Hacker News launch last Fall (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42174204), and you can see a demo of our product here (https://archil.com/).

Now, we’re looking to grow the team to keep up with customer demand! We’re looking for a Distributed Systems Engineer, who will be focused on helping us build scalable, distributed systems in the cloud. Notably, you don’t need prior experience in the storage space, just experience (~2-5 years) building, scaling, and operating backend software. Ideally, you’ve worked at a high-growth startup in the past. Most importantly, you’re someone who understands how computers work from the ground up (from CPUs, to the Linux kernel, to the TCP stack, to distributed consensus). Our stack is primarily written in Rust (for the stuff that’s important), Go (for the stuff that needs to be written fast), and React/Next.js (for the small number of things that people look at).

We raised a successful round after YC, we’re here to stay, and we think that there’s immense opportunity in this space (that’s only growing with large AI models, data sets, and agents taking over). We’re a team of 4 today, with backgrounds in storage infra (at AWS) and AI. If you’re a builder who’s looking to build the next foundation of cloud computing, we’d love to have you join us. Send us a note if you’re interested here: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/archil/jobs/svfkDVv-fo...

[1] Local to your cloud instances, that is, not your laptop.
by Traubenfuchs | 2025-04-30 17:01:08+00:00
> This means you can't hover your mouse in the gaps between columns while you scroll to prevent videos autoplaying when moused over.

Nobody cares about coherent UI/UX anymore. They certainly don‘t care about your fringe usages. Do new stuff. Do good enough. Expensive designers with a clear vision and attention to detail? Sounds slow. And expensive.

The move towards forced autoplay and infinite scroll will continue in any media app. AB tests show it is what humans crave.

I tend to select some text in long textblocks to keep a point of reference while reading. Medium and other new generation slop loves to open an obtrusive menu above my selection.
Show HN: Binaural Toneboard
by oriel | 2025-04-30 17:01:14+00:00
Hi HN!

I built this Toneboard a few months ago to use in lieu of cherrypicking youtube videos.

Fully open source: https://github.com/1ps0/binaural

I've been using the binaural audio standing-wave trick for some years now, particularly the rendered 40hz (400hz/440hz) to clear my head.

This is part of taking my own path towards small-scale tooling. I built it out as part of learning how to do an AI-first project with strong discipline.

The core idea is a series of togglable tones that have practical effect, especially with headphones. The Toneboard makes them composable, with quick access and controls.

I designed it to be an offline-first, framework-less, frequency generator leveraging WebAudio. I usually run it from local file, but I recently got it working on Firefox through the published site, due to hosting under my own domain.

The page has a basic explainer and howto for best effect.

Lots of ways to expand the project still, but this is how its stabilized for now.

FYI: This is still a 95%-done project with various little quirks and issues. I've made note of what I've found so far in the ROADMAP, but feedback is welcome (see GH Issues).
by overfeed | 2025-04-30 17:01:24+00:00
> That's clearly a different question. It'd be possible for these models to be Mandarin-first while still supporting other languages

What would a hypothetical "Mandarin-first" model look like to you?

I challenge the notion that the current models are "English-first" - that is an unsubstantiated opinion not supported by fact. I bet, dollars to donuts, these models are SoTA in Mandarin as well. When framed that way, asking "Why are they marketed as English-speaking models outside of China" or "Why are they really good at English" are simply not interesting questions - they have obvious answers.
by WillPostForFood | 2025-04-30 17:01:29+00:00
That's the traditional meaning, but also commonly used to refer to politicians who are term limited, and can't run again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lame_duck_(politics)#United_St...

A president elected to a second term is sometimes seen as a lame duck from early in the second term, since term limits prevent them from contesting re-election four years later.
by sundarurfriend | 2025-04-30 17:01:29+00:00
The only explanation I can imagine is that the risk of turning someone off YouTube by showing them the "wrong" vidoes is worse than the views or attention capture lost this way.

I can imagine my mom opening YouTube (hypothetically) for the first time and seeing an anime video, or my younger cousin being shown a Top Gear video, and them deciding that YouTube is "that app with the weird videos" that's not for them. It's not a carefully thought out conclusion, but in the era of a hundred competitors, it's plausible that superficial decisions like that have a lot of impact on the app usage.

Or it could just be that someone with a forceful personality on the YouTube team decided this is how we're going to do it and nobody could oppose them, not every decision is scientifically planned and executed like it's often assumed from the outside!
by sQL_inject | 2025-04-30 17:01:39+00:00
Save this comment for the future: comparison is the thief of joy, and in our connected world, comparison is inescapable.

Young people are berated with constant comparison, whether it be beauty standards, financial success (across generations), or romance.

One day we'll study this period and affirm that globalization, hyper addictive media and pornography come with dark sides.
by wintermutestwin | 2025-04-30 17:01:47+00:00
https://kindlemodding.org/

I appreciate finding that site as well, but I thought it strange that I couldn't find a "why jailbreak" section. Does anyone here know?

I don't want Amazon's spying on me so I have just kept it in Airplane mode since I bought it 9 years ago. It seems to work fine ¯\(ツ)/¯
by LatteLazy | 2025-04-30 17:02:12+00:00
One way of counting gdp is to count everything sold and then subtract imports. This is because imports are inherently included in everything sold (if I buy a widget for 10usd from abroad and use it to make an 11usd product, that’s 1usd of gdp, not 11).

So when imports are subtracted that doesn’t mean gdp is “short” imports. It means it isn’t affected either way by imports.
Show HN: Native Immediate-Mode UI Library
by petabyt | 2025-04-30 17:02:44+00:00
For the past few months I've been working on Rim, an immediate-mode UI library that renders down to native retained-mode toolkit widgets.

I've always preferred using native desktop toolkits for my projects, but it's always such a pain to use a retained-mode approach and maintain state in two different places.

This, and my jealousy of how easy people in the ImGui world have it (it's so much easier!), led me to create a virtual DOM for desktop toolkits.

This gives me the full power of the immediate-mode paradigm, but still allows me to target native toolkits.

Feel free to ask any questions or provide suggestions.
by quantadev | 2025-04-30 17:03:03+00:00
I don't even let Youtube suggest videos to me, nor do I use their jank Subscription system. I simply maintain a markdown file with a direct link to the '/videos' page of each channel I care about.

This way I'm always in control of what I see. Sure Youtube can still slather me with ADs injected into videos every 2 minutes, and much of the content I watch has ADs right in the video, but at least I feel more in control by never giving Youtube the chance to unleash their algos on me to entice me into as much fake AI-Generated garbage recommendations as they can jam onto a page. That's no longer a problem. I no longer dig thru their dumpster fire of a home page.
by inverted_flag | 2025-04-30 17:03:16+00:00
> The U.S. appeared ready to join the rest of the world when President Gerald Ford in 1975 signed legislation designating it the country’s preferred measuring system.

> The U.S. Metric Board—which was put in place to help Americans make the switch—used I-19, which was being built at the time, as a test case for the measuring system on signs.

> However, when President Ronald Reagan took office he disbanded the metric board and the U.S. never switched over. The signs remain.

Of course.
by slau | 2025-04-30 17:03:26+00:00
I don’t think there’s a need to use Word. On iOS, I can trivially access those characters—just hold down the dash key in the symbols part of the keyboard. You can also get the en-dash that way (–) but as discussed it’s less useful in English.

I don’t know if it works on the Finnish keyboard, but when I switch to another Scandinavian language it’s still working fine.

On macOS, option-dash will give you an en-dash, and option-shift-dash will give you an em-dash.

It’s fantastic that just because some people don’t know how to use their keyboards, all of a sudden anyone else who does is considered a fraud.
by alphazard | 2025-04-30 17:03:34+00:00
Young people have most or all of their net worth in cash because they aren't worth much yet, and you need cash to pay for things. They are also more dependent on their job, which pays them in dollars, because they will run out of money quickly without one.

Given all that, it baffles me that young people don't identify the economy and inflation specifically as the most important political issue. They're always complaining about stuff that people tell them to care about, not things that materially affect their ability to sustain themselves.
by janice1999 | 2025-04-30 17:03:44+00:00
UK press and politicians were recently stoking fears of a software kill switch in US weapons, e.g. the F-35, that may or may not actually exist.

Who is going to believe Microsoft won't kill 365 for countries or organisations that earn the ire of the US regime or people who hold sway over its aging leader? Amazon just bent the knee (again). Facebook has done so very publicly. The disdain for Europe shown in the US Vice President's public speeches and private messages should scare every EU and UK leader away from US tech.